Description: Discusses a report prepared by Frank Kleiler for the US Department of Labor on a survey he conducted of the Canadian pension situation. Includes both the private and public pension systems.

Description: Replacement ratios first gained wide prominence in the United States when the Interim Report of the President's Commission on Pension Policy was published in 1980. The replacement ratios from that report were widely used as a guideline in the design of retirement programs.

Description: The first in a series of articles exploring the improvement in retiree life expectancies and ways the improvement can be incorporated into actuarial estimates of annuity and pension plan reserves.

Description: Actuaries may soon be required to select assumptions that are individually reasonable when measuring pension obligations. This is the core meaning of a proposed amendment to the Actuarial Standard of Practice #4 in addition to the proposed ASOP on economic assumptions.

Description: Discusses changes made to the Canadian pension system over time, recent actions and actuaries' role in this.

Description: A report on the findings a committee established by the government of Quebec to evaluate the respective roles of public and private pension plans in providing financial security for the elderly.

Description: Article E&E Development by Lauer in The Actuary, September 1978, Volume 12, Number 7

Description: Article The Manhart Case by Webster, September 1978, Volume 12, Number 7

Description: The SOA Research Committees have selected a research team for the Actuarial Aspects of Continuing-Care Retirement Communities CCRC Research Project. The team is directed by William E Bluhm and Stanley A. Roberts of Milhman & Robertson, Inc.

Description: This article summarizes the speech by Lloyd A. Woolridge on pension vs. profit sharing, insured vs. uninsured and individual vs. group in regards to retirement income plans.