Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This session presents a summary of pension plan qualification/registration requirements for the U.S., Canada, and other countries and the means that some sponsors have used to comply with them.

Description: A new mortality valuation standard, the 1994 Group Annuity Reserve Table, is being proposed for new group pension business. This article discusses the industry concerns with the change from a static table to a generational table based upon mortality improvement factors.

Description: This paper is a review of H R 10 establishing tax deferred retirement plans - Keogh Plans- for the self employed.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. Now that plan sponsors are required to purchase only the “safest available” annuities, companies encounter a number of difficulties when they attempt to terminate a defined-benefit plan. This session addresses the lack of available insurers and the resulting effect on competition, a situation in which the plan sponsor may have difficulty finding any insurer to take plan benefits, the effect on prevalence of lump-sum distributions, and the role of the PBGC as insurer of last resort.