Description: Article The 1979 Annual Report of the Trustees Of the U.S. Social Security Programs by Bartlett in The Actuary, June 1979, Volume 13, Number 6

Description: This article announces a new accidental death experience report and the development of the 1996 AD mortality table, the first new table since 1959.

Description: Article The U.S. Government Cost Disclosure Report by Moorhead in The Actuary, June 1979, Volume 13, Number 6

Description: This is a list Of U.S. And Canadian Schools Offering Actuarial Science Courses in 1974. From The Actuary Vol. 8, No. 5.

Description: The U.S. Internal Revenue Code prohibits qualified pension and profit sharing plans from discriminating in favor of highly compensated employees. It states that a plan is not discriminatory merely because contributions or benefits are a uniform percentage of pay. In addition, the code allows some disparity between highly compensated employees and other employees with respect to their contributions or benefits as a percentage of pay.

Description: Highlights from a 2014 Living to 100 Symposium panel presentation of leading social security actuaries from Canada, the U.K. and the United States with panel members Jean-Claude Ménard, chief actuary of the Canada Pension Plan; Adrian Gallop, of the insurance and social security area of the Government Actuary’s Department in the U.K.; and Steve Goss, chief actuary of the U.S. Social Security Administration.

Description: In the early 1990s, when several large U.S. and Canadian life insurers teetered on the brink of insolvency and finally collapsed, the U.S. Department of Labor issued its 'safest annuity' provision [DOL Interpretive Bulletin 95-1] ruling that private pension plans buying annuities had the fiduciary obligation to choose the 'safest available' provider. This article examines the effect this ruling has had on the annuity market.

Description: This is an example of male life expectancy at age 65 from the United States.

Description: Final regulations imposing Continuing Professional Education CPE requirements for enrolled actuaries in the United States were promulgated recently by the Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries. The Joint Board was established by federal law ERISA in 1974 to regulate pension actuaries. Certain pension actuarial certifications required by ERISA must be performed by an enrolled actuary As described below, the CPE requirements will cause some administrative inconvenience for enrolled actuaries but - with certain notable exceptions - will not affect our behavior.

Description: Webster's editorial column from Volume 1, Issue 2 of The Actuary.