Description: This presentation was made at the 1975 Spring Cincinnati Joint Meeting of the Conference of Actuaries in Public Practice and Society of Actuaries. It addresses the following issues: Participation requirements, minimum vesting standards, joint and survivor annuity benefits, maximum limitations, special problems under offset plans, & impact on defined benefit vs. defined contribution plans. 1975 Record, Vol.1, No.3

Description: This report is to estimate the burden of chronic disability on the U.S. elderly population, using unisex and sex-specific measures of long-term care service use, intensity and costs. It discusses disability prevalence, incidence, duration, and long-term care intensity and cost.

Description: Panelists discuss the pros and cons of using a care manager in order to receive either benefits or enhanced benefits in long term care plans. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: An analysis of population mortality at the older ages in the United States. The analysis is based principally on data obtained for calendar years 1968-69 in the operations of the Medicare program. In addition, the author develops mortality rates by single ages at the very high ages 85 and over, using the extinct cohort method based on deaths recorded through the vital statistics system in calendar years 1951-68.

Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. Discusses issues relating to the design and funding of ESOPs, legislative proposals, and scenarios under which ESOPs are an appropriate choice.

Description: Discussion of types and amounts of benefits continued on retired employees and their dependents, the cost of continuance of pensioner benefits under the group plan and methods of financing benefits during active employment.

Description: Paper estimates the burden of chronic disability on the U.S. elderly population, using sex-specific measures of long-term care LTC service use, intensity and costs.

Description: This session discussion is about the effect of changes in medical practices and technology, effect of cost shifting, measurement and analysis and employers' perspective. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3A.

Description: Brief description of articles contained in the newsletter.

Description: Variable life insurance asset shares involve, in general, both the separate account and the general account. This paper develops, for both accounts, under the New York Life design, the annual asset share equations of equilibrium for the separate account asset share, for the general account asset share, for the basic reserve, and for the surplus and also derives the individual expressions for the interest and mortality contributions to the surplus. Followed by discussion papers submitted by several authors.