Description: In session 14 MM of the Washington Annual Meeting the instructor summarizes the research topics presented at the actuarial research conference held at the University of Calgary during August 1997. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Presented at June 2002 Spring Meeting. This symposium provides new insights and dialogue between diverse disciplines as professionals discuss the ways the aging population and changing family structures are changing retirement.

Description: This discussion on multiple lines looks at problems facing a small company on expanding its operations into one or more of the following fields: Group Life Insurance, Individual accident and health insurance, Group accident and health insurance, and pension trust business.

Description: The presenters will provide an update on discount rates developed from the expected return on assets used in going concern pension funding. They will include recent research on discount rates being used for U.S. public sector plans, U.S. Multiple Employer Pension Plans, and Ontario and British Columbia plans. A discussion of the emerging regulatory framework in Canada and the U.S. and changes to ASOP 4 and 27 will also be covered. Components of discount rates such as expenses and margins (PfADs) will also be covered.

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 discussion on pensions raises the following questions: For employers with less than 25 employees, what pension arrangements have been found to be efficient from marketing, actuarial, and administrative standpoints? What are the different problems involved in investing for an insurance company and for a private pension fund? From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 34.

Description: The following topics were discussed at concurrent sessions: 1. Independence of the actuary, 2. Problems posed by United States pension legislation, 3. Registered equity products, including variable life insurance, variable annuities, and mutual funds, 4. Limits to growth, and 5. Maintenance of high standards in a profession. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1974 Vol. 26, Pt. 2D, No. 76.

Description: Digests of following discussions: 1. Mutual life insurance companies - their objectives and operating philosophy 2. State, provincial, and municipal employee pension plans - financing and other problems 3. Mortality and underwriting of individual policies for large amounts 4. Investing during the 1970's 5. Long-range viability and regulation of corporate pension plans 6. Forecasting the environment for business 7. Liabilities and surplus in the 1970's 8. Changing modes of family life - work and income over the life cycle 9. The role of the actuary in collective bargaining 10. Health insurance in the United States 11. Adjusted earnings

Description: This is a short story on the retirement income calculator.

Description: This session presented creative approaches to plan design.