Description: Retirement Symposium overview. A session by session synopsis of the wide ranging topics presented.

Description: This paper investigates the effect of select birth cohorts on pricing of mortality-based securities, such as survivor bonds, life annuities in general, or portfolios of life annuities.

Description: This section presents book reviews and summaries of recent publications. Reviews: '1975 Annual Reports of the Board of Trustees of the Federal OASDI Trust Funds...' by the US Congress, 'Providing Adequate Retirement Income' by Schulz, Carrin, Krupp, Peschke, Sclar and Steenberge, 'Ernst & Ernst GAAP - Stock Life Companies' by Posnak, 'Reports of the Quadrennial Advisory Council on Social Security' by US Government, 'Fundamentals of Private Pensions' by McGill. Digests also included.

Description: The objective of this discussion is two-fold: To provide insight into the ingredients of an investment program, performance objectives and in related goals and to sensitize actuaries to the investment process. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 1, No. 3.

Description: An update on the Capital Market Assumptions used for asset allocation maybe useful to actuaries given the parallels with the assumptions an actuary uses to measure plan obligations.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This discusses the effect on pension plans of mergers and divestitures and looks at the importance of due diligence as part of the process. The discussion also presents the reality of actuaries on trial for negligence.

Description: This session from the 1976 Winter SOA Meeting is a teaching session about the gain and loss analysis in pension actuarial and its essential part of the pension valuation process.

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Potential liability, Design techniques for controlling liability, Effect of inflation, Effect of medicare change, Financial accounting requirements, Funding vehicles and methods.

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: This paper introduces the author's globalization model of work and retirement in the 21st century. To make the model work, there is a need for a prototype social security system with many desirable features called National Provident Fund for each nation.