Description: This panel from the 1977 SOA Meeting focuses on pension services to clients including pension plan investments, funding methods, plan administration, and new services that may be provided in the future.

Description: View the complete issue for the August 2014 Reinsurance News newsletter.

Description: This article discusses that over the past five years, an increasing number of actuaries have become concerned with the asset side of the balance sheet.

Description: The objective of this discussion is two-fold: To provide insight into the ingredients of an investment program, performance objectives and in related goals and to sensitize actuaries to the investment process. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 1, No. 3.

Description: An update on the Capital Market Assumptions used for asset allocation maybe useful to actuaries given the parallels with the assumptions an actuary uses to measure plan obligations.

Description: This article summarizes the focus of the inaugural The Pension Conference which is the difficult investment environment for pension plans and the increased choice and competition that accompany that environment.

Description: Paper examines the asset allocation behavior of state and local pension plans.

Description: This article describes a simplified problem in pension plan financing and presents two questions about how it can be modeled. Answers to these questions will be discussed and their implications for traditional actuarial models will be presented in Part 2 of the article in the following issue of the newsletter.

Description: This paper will describe why self-insurance is less attractive with transparent-accounting rules, and the will examine two strategies an employer can execute to reduce the plan's and the plan participant's risks.

Description: This articles focuses on real economics versus GAAP accounting and concludes that equities are an inferior investment for corporate pension funds.