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  • Pension Plan Mortality
    Pension Plan Mortality Presenters examine the current draft of the SOA Retirement Plans Experience Committee's ... Committee's work on a new mortality table and study based only on uninsured pension plan experience ...

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    • Authors: Edwin Hustead, Ethan Kra
    • Date: Oct 1999
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods
  • Plan Qualification/Registration Issues for Multinational Sponsors
    Plan Qualification/Registration Issues for Multinational Sponsors Presented at June 1996 Spring ... qualification/registration requirements for the U.S., Canada, and other countries and the means that ...

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    • Authors: Gregory Glashan, Ethan Kra, Michael S Sirkin
    • Date: Jun 1996
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Global Perspectives>Multinational companies; Pensions & Retirement>Pension legislation and regulation
  • Technical Concerns: Late-Breaking Pension Developments
    Technical Concerns: Late-Breaking Pension Developments ... Presenters discuss recent developments, especially in the U.S., that are not being covered at other pension sessions ...

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    • Authors: Ethan Kra, Donald Segal, Mark Wintner
    • Date: Jun 1998
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Pension legislation and regulation
  • Pension Simplification: Defined-Benefit Plans
    Minneapolis. Ethan Kra is the chief actuary for U.S. retirement plans for William M. Mercer in their ... investment earnings and you don't decrease it for any mortality, which you wouldn't do any way. On the defined-benefit ...

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    • Authors: Ethan Kra, James A Hughes
    • Date: May 1997
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Pension legislation and regulation
  • The Pension Forum, December 2004, Volume 15, Issue No. 1
    Pension Forum Volume 15, Number 1 December 2004 Table of Contents PAGE Introduction to Yield Curve Forum ... purposes. 1.1 Government Bond Yield Curve The U.S. government bond market is very liquid, resulting ...

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    • Authors: Stephen A Alpert, Ronald Iverson, Kenneth Kent, Ethan Kra, Richard Wendt
    • Date: Dec 2004
    • Publication Name: The Pension Forum
  • Late-Breaking Regulatory Developments
    Late-Breaking Regulatory Developments 2004 SOA Spring Meeting, Anaheim, CA. This session ... understanding of the current retirement system's regulatory environment and how it has changed. Employee ...

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    • Authors: Ethan Kra, Donald Segal, DWAYNE CHESLEY JACOBSON
    • Date: May 2004
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Defined benefit plans; Pensions & Retirement>Pension legislation and regulation
  • Does An Actuarial Bias Lead To Equity Investment?
    Internal Revenue Code Imply that, in the future, U.S.-defined benefit plans will be invested entirely ... Investment by Defined Benefit Pension Plans (Gold, 2000), which you may download at the Pension Research ...

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    • Authors: Jeremy Gold, Ethan Kra, Zvi Bodie
    • Date: May 2001
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments; Pensions & Retirement
  • Addressing the Financial Risks from Retirement Systems Seminar: Changing Our Focus: Consulting About Risk
    DANIEL P. CASSIDY WILLIAM B. GULLIVER THOMAS S. TERRY Summary: Before ERISA and SFAS 87, various ... Consulting Actuaries. I am chief actuary of the U.S. Retirement Practice, Mercer Human Resource Consulting ...

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    • Authors: William Gulliver, Ethan Kra, Thomas Terry, Daniel Cassidy
    • Date: Jun 2005
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Management skills; Pensions & Retirement>Risk management
  • Postretirement Health Benefit Funding
    funds out as an annuity. In that case he is going to have a portion of that annuity taxed; but the after-tax ... benefits left at age 85 will be converted into an annuity. However, if somebody's exhausted his individual ...

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    • Authors: Ethan Kra, Adam J Reese
    • Date: Apr 1992
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Retiree medical
  • Message From the IRS
    the sponsoring organizations, is Director, Employee s, Technical and Actuarial Division at the Internal ... as a way for taxpayers to put their facts on the table and because we are talking facts and circumstances ...

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    • Authors: James E Holland, Ethan Kra, Martin Slate
    • Date: Jun 1991
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement; Public Policy