Description: In this paper, the author presents the statutory and regulatory rationale for the Internal Revenue Service, ‘IRS,” position on integration. The author discusses the integration requirements under IRC Section 401a which must be met for a private pension plan to receive favorable tax treatment, including the prohibited discrimination requirement. From the 1982 Transactions Vol. 34.

Description: Panelists discuss the PBGC audit program, the experiences of companies that have undergone the audit, and alternatives proposed by the PBGC. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: The following topics were discussed at concurrent sessions: 1. Personal Security in the 1970's- United States and Canada, 2. Adjusted earnings for life companies, 3. Pension funding, 4. What about these younger actuaries?, 5. Sources of statistical information for actuaries, 6. Variable life insurance, 7. Models and decision techniques, and 8. Role of the actuary in expense control. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1970, Vol 22, Pt. 2, No. 63.

Description: This report, by the Committee on Nonforfeiture and Valuation Mortality Problems, resulted from a request by the NAIC to develop non sex distinct mortality rates in light of a recent court decision prohibiting sex distinct mortality in determining benefits derived from defined contribution pension plans. Also included is the ‘February 7, 1984, Report of the Society of Actuaries Committee on Nonforfeiture and Valuation Mortality Problems - Individual Life Insurance and Annuities Blended Selection Factors for Blended 1980 CSO Tables,’ which describes the subsequent determination of select factors, and discussion of two letters the Committee received. From the 1985 Transactions Vol. 37.

Description: Discusses extension of the current favorable tax treatment of employer-sponsored pension plans to additional groups and to employee contributions.

Description: Article Book Review by Ray in The Actuary, January 1979, Volume 13, Number 1

Description: Article from The Actuary, October 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 8 is a review of report prepared by Frank M. Kleiler for the United States Department of Labor on the European regulation of public and private pension plans.

Description: In this article the author identifies and delimit 's the public's interest in defined benefit plan funding as a practical response to the chaotic deluge of of overlapping measurements and restrictions designed to regulate the funding of pensions plans in the US.

Description: A new occupational, or corporate, pension law the, Employee Retirement Security Act or “ERSA”, was passed by the Republic of Korea National Assembly on Dec. 29, 2004. It will allow for private sector defined benefit and defined contribution pension plans for the first time in the world’s 10th largest economy.

Description: This is a group of reports on a future outlook study, mortality investigation on individual lives, and legislative matters of interest to actuaries.