Description: This presentation covers Coping with the Federal Deficit related legislation, Unisex and Pension Equity and Surplus Plan Terminations. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 2.

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed changes in: Demographics and workforce composition, Lifestyles and attitudes, Cafeteria benefit programs, Defined contribution retirement plans, Health care.

Description: This session discussion is about an actuary's ethical and professional issues and role in pension plans, particularly to the plan participant. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 11, No. 4A.

Description: This panel discussion, which occurred at the October 1982 Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting in Washington D.C., presented a discussion on the integration of pension plans with Social Security. The discussion included: Current integration requirements - what is and what might be, problems with the current rules - need for change, or not the recent proposal by Congress to redesign integration rules, practitioners' proposals to revise integration rules - in light of recent activity in Congress, and the next steps - better or worse?

Description: This is a panel discussion on immunized and dedicated portfolios for pension funds.

Description: This teaching session focuses on the valuation of ancillary benefits for pension plans.

Description: This presentation relates to determining the next standards applicable for pension plan valuation in Canada, depending upon further decisions to be made by the Actuarial Standard Board-Conseil des norms actuarielles.

Description: This discussion focuses on pension and retirement plans, particularly the effect of tax law changes on the competitive position of insured vs trusteed plans, the advantages and disadvantages of recognizing interest rate credits by year of investment on distributing surplus or retroactive credits on group annuity contracts, and how can optional pension benefits be offered so as to protect the plan against adverse selection. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 33.

Description: This is a summary of 1972 discussions about: 1. the past and future dynamics of North American retirement systems, 2. alternatives for pension legislation, and 3. actuarial principles and practices for pension plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1972, Vol. 24, Pt. 2D, No. 68.

Description: At this presentation, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor discusses the following topics of current interest: 1. Recently issued 404c regulations affecting defined contribution plan investments, and 2. Annuities and Guaranteed Investment Contracts 'GIC's' in light of the Executive Life insolvency. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 4B.