Description: In this session 153 PD of the New York Annual Meeting panelists look at the actuarial background, financial implications, underwriting, and solvency issues posed by various newsworthy items. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: This session from the 1976 SOA Spring Meeting is about ERISA, determination of value, enrolled actuary, FSA, particular designation and applicable responsibilities.

Description: This 1981 discussion session is about public social policies and their impact on public and private retirement plans in the United States and Canada. The key issues discussed pertain to age, sex and marital status, and income level. Also discussed is the possible impact of public social policies on future trends in disability benefits, death benefits, termination benefits, and other factors in private and public retirement plans.

Description: This session from the 1976 SOA Winter Meeting is about individual retirement accounts: Product and Marketing, Taxation, Reporting and Disclosure, and Roll-overs.

Description: This is a panel discussion session focusing on national pension policy including what the United States and Canada are doing to solve the problems that face the pension industry. From Record of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 6, No. 4.

Description: From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 1 A discussion of the approaches and philosophies used by Canada and the United States: -- Purpose of solvency/current liability valuations -- Benefits and assumptions underlying solvency/current liability -- Conflicts between tax and security valuations -- Effects of these valuations upon plan sponsors (and actuaries)

Description: This session is about GICS and other insurance company products that are used by private pension plans.

Description: In light of the Executive Life insolvency, this panel discusses the current situation regarding insurance company guaranteed products and retirement plans. Also addressed is what the DOL, IRS, PBGC, Congress and the insurance industry have done. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 2.

Description: This presentation discusses Pension benefits as an asset from the plan participant's point of view: degree of risk to the participant in meeting retirement income objectives, impact of legislative changes, Financial Accounting Standards, Board FASB reporting requirements, plan termination liabilities and other factors on the relative roles of defined benefit and defined contribution plans, trends in plan design, investment choices in defined contribution plans, implications with Social Security, Employee Retirement Income Security Act ERISA, 401k plans. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 3.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. This session covered single-premium group annuities under the following topics: 1. The evolution of the product and the market. 2. The forces that lead to annuitization. 3. Various annuity design choices for a plan sponsor. 4. Distribution process. 5. Proposed Retirement Protection Act of 1993. 6. The interest environment.