Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about the various FASB statements with which the retirement benefit actuary must deal. Emphasis was on current developments. Topics included: 1. What the FASB is all about and what its objectives have been in issuing accounting standards that deal with various employee benefit plans. 2. The practical realities of dealing with clients and some of the problems that exist in dealing with these FASB statements. 3. The utilization and implementation of these FASB statements.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This session will review these pension standards and discuss how they apply to the work of the practicing actuary.

Description: This paper builds on the analysis of Berin and Lofgren of 'Financial Accounting Standard No. 87', with regards to pension plans. The relationships between the quantities defined in FAS 87 are further explored, and the analysis is extended to cover FAS 88, 'Employers Accounting for Settlements and Curtailments of Defined-Benefit Pension Plans and for Termination Benefits'.

Description: 1973 SOA Annual Meeting. This paper provided summaries of several concurrent sessions from the referenced meeting including: 1. NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN GROUP LIFE AND HEALTH PROGRAMS. 2. MARKETING INDIVIDUAL ORDINARY INSURANCE. 3. ACTUARIAL LITERATURE. 4. INDIVIDUAL DISABILITY INCOME INSURANCE. 5. GROUP SURVIVOR INCOME BENEFITS. 6. GROUP LIFE AND HEALTH - EXTERNAL DEVELOPMENTS. 7. PENSION PLAN FINANCIAL REPORTING.

Description: This article reviews the proposed new accounting standards for pensions for governmental plans. From the Pension Section News, October 2011, Issue No. 75.

Description: This article explores reasons for plan sponsors to consider lump-sum payouts. The author suggests for plan sponsors looking to reduce risk, the factors outlined in the article suggest that sponsors may benefit from considering risk-transfer opportunities much sooner than they may have anticipated.

Description: This is the Reformatted Actuarial Standard of Practice No. 4: Measuring Pension Obligations. This standard is effective for measurements made as of December 3,1993 or later.

Description: Discussion of competing theories for valuing public pension liabilities. Emphasis on revised Actuarial Standards of Practice that focus on the purpose of the measurement.

Description: This paper focuses on two aspects of SFAS 87. The first is the availability of the discount rate, and its consequences. The second is the corridor approach to gains and losses amortization. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1993, VOL. 2.

Description: This paper assesses the extent to which equity investors were fooled by pension accounting. Simulations show that a failure to differentiate between core and pension earnings induces large valuation errors for many firms, although this pension effect did not materially contribute to aggregate overvaluation before 2000. From Current Pension Actuarial Practice in Light of Financial Economics Symposium, M-RS04-1.