Description: This panel discussion session focuses on approaches to investing pension assets including real estate, foreign investment, gold, and allocation of assets to various investment categories. From Record of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 6, No. 4.

Description: 10 Considerations for DB Pension Plans in Light of the Coronavirus Crisis of 2020. The article discusses the following topics: ERISA funded status & benefit restrictions; cash contributions & tax deductibility; PBGC premiums; Pension Accounting Expense; Commencing Benefits After Normal Retirement Age; Bringing Back Former Participants; Actuarial Assumptions; Asset Allocation and Re-Risking; De-Risking Expectations and Future Funding Relief

Description: Many pension funds have recently established dedicated or 'matched' portfolios. These are portfolios of fixed-income securities whose cash flows from interest and maturities match the expected benefit payment stream on a block of liabilities. With particular reference to ERISA, this paper explores the actuarial mechanics of pension funding under dedication, including the selection of assumptions, the valuing of assets, funding of the initial change in unfunded liability, and funding of subsequent gains and losses. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1983, Vol. 35.