Description: Covers the 1981 - 1982 calendar year mortality experience of retired individuals who are covered under insured pension plans in the United States and Canada.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. This session focused on issues and regulations that were breaking at the time of the meeting. The panelists analyzed the most recent announcements from the IRS, Department of Labor, and PBGC. Both retirement and nonretirement developments were presented, with retirement-related issues emphasized.

Description: Presents the 1985 and 1986 calendar year mortality experience of retired individuals who are covered under insured pension plans in the U.S. and Canada.

Description: This report presents the 1999 and 2000 calendar year experience of retired individuals in the United States and Canada who are covered under group pension contracts issued in the United States and Canada.

Description: In March this year a charter for the new corporation, the College Retirement Equities Fund, was granted by the State of New York and it is expected that within a few months the Fund will begin operations as a supplement to TIAA annuities. The purpose of this paper is to describe this rather novel type of corporation, which presents some unusual and interesting actuarial problems. Comparisons of the performance of fixed annuities vs. variable annuities are provided.

Description: This paper presents a new group annuity mortality table which is being proposed as a new Statutory valuation table.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, 'Group Annuity Mortality' by Ray M. Peterson, which presents the Group Annuity Table for 1951 with projection factors. The paper is reviewed, an additional projection method is suggested with illustrations, discussion of the difficulties of using projected rates for premiums and reserves, and critiques are provided.