Description: This session from the 1976 Spring SOA Meeting is about current IRA and RRSP developments, products that proved successful, regulation problems that have developed, taxation problems, rollover problems, commissions on increases and competition from other financial institutions.

Description: The importance of financial wellness has been increasingly recognized in the last few years. More organizations are sponsoring programs to assist people in different stages of their life.

Description: This discussion looks at Employee Welfare Plans, the implications as to the funding of pensions arising out of union demands, terms of total permanent disability benefits, funding methods used, experience as to rates of disability and mortality among disabled, special administrative problems and contractual benefits. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1949, Vol. 1, No. 1.

Description: This is a teaching session on PBGC calculations.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 3-5 in Colorado Springs. The panelists discuss the status of rules and regulations on nondiscrimination for pension plans, including the relevant subsections of the Internal Revenue Code, ‘IRC,’ sections 401 and 410, and proposed regulations. In general, to be nondiscriminatory, a plan may not unduly favor highly compensated employees. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 3A.

Description: This session discusses current trends in retirement decision making, retirement incentives, the impact of conditions in the local and national economy on a person's decision to retire. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session

Description: This 1981 discussion session is about public social policies and their impact on public and private retirement plans in the United States and Canada. The key issues discussed pertain to age, sex and marital status, and income level. Also discussed is the possible impact of public social policies on future trends in disability benefits, death benefits, termination benefits, and other factors in private and public retirement plans.

Description: The objective of this forum was to bring together basic factual material and to discover a good cross section of actuarial thinking in this field. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 2.

Description: This is a panel discussion session on the future of defined benefit pension plans, including trends in termination, attitudes of sponsors, legislative changes, impact of economic factors, and FASB reporting requirements. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 3.

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on the impact of a changing environment on personal security programs. Some of the issues addressed include regulations, taxes, consumerism, Social Security, inflation, and age/sex composition of work force.