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  • Chapter 4: Actuarial Issues
    software should be coded require extra attention. Care needs to be taken when employee contributions stop ... employee contributions are discontinued). · One direct way of handling this under a spread gain funding ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Jun 2003
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Defined benefit plans; Pensions & Retirement>Plan design; Pensions & Retirement>Public sector plans
  • Full Funding Whiplash
    plan funding was pretty specific: it really did not care about the actuarial soundness of plans. The extent ... amortization and deficit reduction contribution is a direct result of the asset loss. Also note that $8 million ...

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    • Authors: Kathleen A FitzPatrick, Donald S Grubbs, Matthew Sloan, Helen I Mildenhall, David Jakes, David E Ready
    • Date: May 1992
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Defined benefit plans; Pensions & Retirement>Pension finance; Pensions & Retirement>Pension legislation and regulation; Public Policy; Public Policy
  • Mortality Improvement Scale MP-2018
    actuaries, who have a rigorous formal education and direct experience as practitioners as they perform applied ... techniques as well as individual reports on health care, retirement and other topics. The SOA’s research ...

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    • Date: Oct 2018
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Pensions & Retirement>Defined benefit plans
  • Financial Management Of Defined Benefits Plans
    pension plans as well as managing corporations. The primary theme of the article is in these sentences: "The ... am talking of multinationals) will say, "I don't care where the plan is--I want a trust fund." Well, that's ...

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    • Authors: Thomas P Bleakney, J Bruce MacDonald, Virginia W Richter, Charles Barry H. Watson
    • Date: Oct 1984
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Global Perspectives; Pensions & Retirement>Defined benefit plans
  • Selection of Economic Assumptions For Funding and Accounting Valuations
    below the general market. There are also three primary components of salary scale. Again, we have the ... of them, out of the salary assumption. The most direct relationship between the discount rate and the ...

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    • Authors: Carolyn Abelanet Schrader, Margaret M McDaniel, Tamara Shelton
    • Date: Jun 1994
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods; Pensions & Retirement>Defined benefit plans; Pensions & Retirement>Funding
  • Managing Retirement Assets Symposium: Securitization of Mortality Risks in Life Annuities
    frequently may pose higher transaction costs on the primary annuity insurer than those of securitization. The ... payments (immediate participation guarantee contract direct payment benefits). The reports summarize calendar ...

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    • Authors: Samuel Cox, Yijia Lin
    • Date: Apr 2004
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Topics: Annuities>Individual annuities; Pensions & Retirement>Defined benefit plans
  • Unisex - An Update
    be of primary benefit to the employee, but not necessarily so, e.g., where there may be a primary advantage ... state level on issues, such as unisex, which have a direct and major impact on how you do your work. I thank ...

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    • Authors: Anthony Amodeo, James R Beauchamp, Linda M Kahn, Joann G Sher, Claire Wolkoff, Gary D Simms
    • Date: Apr 1984
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Pensions & Retirement>Defined benefit plans; Public Policy
  • Use Of Variable Economic Assumptions For Pension Plans
    number of years from the valuation date and has no direct relationship to individually determined annuity ... requirements in that the $100,000 obligation is taken care of in the required time and it was accomplished ...

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    • Authors: E Allen Arnold, Neela Ranade, A Frederick Rohlfs, Roderick R Sproule
    • Date: May 1983
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Defined benefit plans
  • Discipline Involved in Managing a Pension Plan Can Lead to a Better 401k Plan
    Discipline Involved in Managing a Pension Plan Can Lead to a Better 401k Plan This article ... Employees direct the invest- ment of their own contributions in all of the plans. They direct the investment ...

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    • Authors: Mario Blanchet, Laurel Ludden
    • Date: Feb 2002
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Pension Section News
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Defined benefit plans
  • Salary Scales
    more refined which might, for example, give more direct recognition to the length of service of an employee ... equal to 40% of "final" salary, inclusive of the primary Social Security benefit. "Final" salary is taken ...

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    • Authors: Kenneth Altman, Samuel Eckler, Ralph E Edwards, Raymond B Krieger, Robert J Myers, Walter Riese, Conrad Siegel, John B Stearns, Geoffrey N Calvert, William F Marples
    • Date: Apr 1962
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data; Modeling & Statistical Methods; Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods; Pensions & Retirement>Corporate plans; Pensions & Retirement>Defined benefit plans; Pensions & Retirement>Multi-employer plans; Pensions & Retirement>Public sector plans