Description: Summary of the non-routine business transacted at meetings of the Executive Committee of the Society of Actuaries on September 18, 1979 and the Board of Governors on October 18-19, 1979

Description: This brief article notes that in a recent decision the U.S. Supreme Court touched on a fundamental issue of employee benefits philosophy, in holding that defined benefit pension plans must grant benefit accrual credit for periods of military service. The author argues that this seems contrary to current attitudes.

Description: Full version of The Actuary Newsletter Special Edition - November 1974: Review of ERISA provisions

Description: This article is the presentation given by David Blitzstein at the Future of Pensions track at the 2005 CCA/SOA Employee Benefits Spring Meeting. It discusses the unraveling of the defined benefit pension system and what must be done to save it. From Pension Section News, September 2006, No. 62.

Description: This paper first discusses the history of the legislation of the joint and survivor benefits for the uniformed service personnel. It then goes on to address the specific actuarial assumptions made and the formulas developed for applying these assumptions for adaptability to the UNIVAC. This paper closes with specific programming procedures involved in using the UNIVAC.

Description: In this 1981 discussion session, the panelists express their views on the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980.

Description: This session is about the enrolled actuary status, valuation and certification problems, compliance procedures and practices and relationship with other professionals. From the Spring 1976 SOA Meeting.

Description: This is an Excel spreadsheet, provided by the Society of Actuaries Pension Section, containing the interest rates and Consumer Price Index figures needed for calculating Canadian pension plan Transfer Values.

Description: This session discussion is about issues facing small plans today, do small plans still exist, do defined-benefit plans still serve the objectives of small plan sponsors, target-benefit plans versus age-related and profit-sharing plans.

Description: Session from a 1992 meeting of the Society of Actuaries . Representatives of the IRS addressed current IRS regulation issues with respect to qualified pension plans, followed by a question and answer session with the audience.