Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This session presents a summary of pension plan qualification/registration requirements for the U.S., Canada, and other countries and the means that some sponsors have used to comply with them.

Description: Table of contents for Volume 1, Issue No. 2 of The Record of the Society of Actuaries. These records were taken from the New York meeting, April 17-18, 1975.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. Discusses minimum pension funding rules under GATT, aka the Retirement Protection Act.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. The panel will discuss retirement benefit-related legal developments of recent months, including statutes, court cases and guidance provided by the IRS, PBGC and DOL.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. Now that plan sponsors are required to purchase only the “safest available” annuities, companies encounter a number of difficulties when they attempt to terminate a defined-benefit plan. This session addresses the lack of available insurers and the resulting effect on competition, a situation in which the plan sponsor may have difficulty finding any insurer to take plan benefits, the effect on prevalence of lump-sum distributions, and the role of the PBGC as insurer of last resort.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. Accruals in nonqualified retirement plans have become subject to FICA taxation. In this session, IRS rules are discussed in detail with emphasis on options available for good faith years through 1996 and final regulation years starting in 1997.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. The panelists review current pension issues and recently published or expected regulations. Topics include funding issues, nondiscrimination rules, and small plan audits by the Internal Revenue Service. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4A.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This session addresses current issues pertaining to employers who sponsor Internal Revenue Code 'IRC' 403b and 457 plans for nonprofits, including: participation, contributions, nondiscriminatory testing, distributions, and maximum exclusion allowance.

Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about the reaction of plan sponsors, how the requirements will affect pension expense and balance sheet liabilities, and how the disclosure requirements are being handled.

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. Reviews the major pension legislation in Canada and the United States in 1986, and its effect upon plans.