Description: The author presents an overview of the Conference and highlights the controversy and discussion about the appropriate ways to measure assets and Liabilities for public sector pension plans. From the Pension Section News, September 2008, Issue No. 68.

Description: Marcus highlights the council’s activities during the 2009-2010 council year, and gives a well deserved thanks to the SOA staff and the members of the council and its teams for their support and hard work toward a very productive year.

Description: R. Evan Inglis, the new chairperson of the SOA/AAA Joint Pension Finance Task Force, shares with us his view of the important pension finance issues facing actuaries and the task force’s vision of how pension finance can strengthen the actuarial profession.

Description: Musings over the evolution of the Editor role “paperless” correspondence recent changes in the Pension Section Council and its Teams SOA support of the Pension Section and a sneak peek at possible action steps in response to the survey of Pension Section members and other retirement practitioners.

Description: In this article the editor previews the issue.

Description: Is the New CPI Different? Implications for Pension Plans by Todd Rutley from Pension Section News, June 1999, Issue No. 40.

Description: Excerpts from the PBGC Actuarial Valuation Report - 1998 Fiscal Year—Correction of Table from June 1999 Issue from Pension Section News, October 1999, Issue No. 41.

Description: The 1999 Technical Panel on Assumptions and Methods by Edward W. Frees from Pension Section News, March 2000, Issue No. 42.

Description: This article presents an overview of the PBGC Actuarial Valuation Report from 2003. From Pension Section News, June 2004, Issue No. 55.

Description: This article is an excerpt taken from, Status of the Social Security and Medicare Programs: A Summary of the 2004 Annual Reports - A Message to the Public. From the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees. From Pension Section News, September 2004, Issue No. 56.