Description: In this article the author responds the current defined benefit pension plan concepts that are being challenged and presents his proposal for revised plan design, funding and investment concepts. From Pension Section News, March 2004, Issue No. 54.

Description: All we need is … a §401k - redesigned to • Leverage the fungibility of money • Consolidate to a lifetime, all-in-one plan • Create liquidity without leakage

Description: This panel discussion is about public pension plans including nondiscrimination issues, plan design issues, funding, political considerations, public plans as a source of budget revenue and other current topics. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.

Description: This presentation reviews the maximum contribution and benefit limitations, coping with top-heavy rules, comparability under Revenue Ruling 81-202 and design techniques to maximize tax deferrals. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 11, No. 1.

Description: This instructional session occurred at the 1980 SOA Spring Meeting in Minneapolis. The topic was pension plan design for small U.S. pension plans 1-49 lives. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 6, No. 2.

Description: This 1981 discussion session focuses on current U.S. pension topics. Among the current topics are inflation protection for pensioners, converting final pay plans to dollars per month and career pay plans, the funding of negotiated pension plans and Social Security integration.

Description: This paper was the results of an invitation by the SOA’s Pension Section Research Team to explore the current state of defined benefit plans in Canada and future visions of them.

Description: In this article, the author talks about the pension environment and pension plans in Germany.

Description: This paper develops a pension product that can be offered in a defined contribution pension scheme as a deferred or immediate life annuity.

Description: Recently completed research projects from the Society of Actuaries.