Description: This session is about the measurement and management of the risk of transfers by plan participants to and from alternative investment options within GICs sold to 401 k plans. Includes a discussion of the various types of GICs marketed.

Description: This report presents the 1999 and 2000 calendar year experience of retired individuals in the United States and Canada who are covered under group pension contracts issued in the United States and Canada.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to outline some of the points to be considered in arriving at a method of making cost estimates and funding calculations and their practical application.

Description: This is a discussion of the title paper by Raymond F. Houseman, which provides some practical aspects of various funding methods. The paper is critiqued, and some alternative methods are discussed.

Description: The failure of a few large life insurers in the early 1990's led to public concern about the safety of annuities purchased by qualified retirement plans. As a result, the Department of Labor issued guidelines, known as the 'Safest Annuity Rule,' for selecting annuity providers. This study examines whether the Safest Annuity Rule is significantly changing the market for insured annuities issued to tax-qualified pension plans, particularly upon the termination of defined benefit plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1997-98 Reports.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This panel discussed the latest trends in mortality including: 1. The new 1994 Group Annuity Mortality and1994 Uninsured Pension tables. 2. Should future improvements be built into the table? If so, how?

Description: This report presents the formal recommendation for a new mortality basis for individual annuity valuations. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.

Description: This experience is predominantly based on retired lives, which includes benefit payments made under ongoing pension plans, terminated plans pension closeouts, partially guaranteed arrangements, such as certain Immediate Participation Guarantee contracts and non-guaranteed arrangements.

Description: This is the 1975 report of mortality on group annuity lives broken down by time of retirement as measured against the normal retirement date.

Description: This paper aims to present a systematic procedure for valuing group self annuitization GSA payouts in the presence of changing mortality. Presented at Managing Retirement Assets Symposium