Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Spring Meeting discusses the PBGC's current financial status and its outlook for the future. Issues discussed include shutdown benefits, 4010 filings, floor-offset plans and PBGC variable premiums that have been impacted by current economic conditions. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 34pd.

Description: This is an article from The Actuary that discusses the need to reform defined benefit plans. The number of defined benefit plans in the United States has declined significantly over the past 20 years. If Congress overlooks the interests of plan sponsors in its reform, we're likely to witness further erosion of an already weakened defined benefit system, and America's workers would be the ultimate losers.

Description: This Eugene Strum article is about what changes happened in the contributions to employer-sponsored benefit plans after The Arizona Government Committee vs. Norris.

Description: Six appendices, all but the first detailing the AFOREs. From Retrospective and Perspective Analysis of the Privatized Mandatory Pension System in Mexico, M-RS02-1.

Description: Read the September 2017 issue of Pension Section News published by the The Pension Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Book Review: Pension Plans and Public Policy. The authors bring a wealth of experience from their years at TIAA-Cref to this most lucid discussion of the relationship between public policy,social security, and private and public pension plans.

Description: This article provides a summary of the Pension and Employee Benefit Act of 1967 bill S.1103 introduced by Senator Javits of New York. If enacted, it would have far reaching implications.

Description: This is a digest of reports on topics of current interest including: 1. Future Outlook Study, 2. Mortality Investigation on Individual Lives, and 3. Legislative Matters of Interest to Actuaries. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1968, Vol. 20 Pt. 2, No. 56.

Description: Hear from the staff fellow on themes in the October Retirement Section News published by the Retirement Section.

Description: Read the June 2017 issue of Pension Section News published by the Pension Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.