Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about status of new mortality table developments in the pension arena, impact of new mortality tables on annuity valuations, and the effect of new mortality tables on defined-benefit plan minimum funding and pension expensing.

Description: This 1977 panel discussion focused on the implications of proposed revisions of the standard valuation and nonforfeiture laws. Areas discussed included: 1. A regulator's perspective 2. Applications to Life and Annuities 3. applications to Pensions

Description: This session of the 1976 SOA Spring Meeting in Houston presented a panel discussion on issues related to Individual Retirement Accounts IRA in the U.S. and RRSPs in Canada. Topics included: 1. which products have proved successful, 2. regulation problems that have developed, 3. Taxation problems, 4. Rollover problems, 5. Problems with increases, 6. Competition from other financial institutions, 7. Applicability of new money rates, and 8. Long- term interest guarantees.

Description: This panel discussion looks at individual tax qualified products. The areas addressed include regulatory developments, products being used, the effect of volatile money markets on product design, variations in assumptions by market, variations in results by market, defined benefit HR10, spousal IRAs, and Canadian RRSP's.

Description: This teaching session focuses on the valuation of ancillary benefits for pension plans.

Description: This session from the 1976 Spring SOA Meeting is about current IRA and RRSP developments, products that proved successful, regulation problems that have developed, taxation problems, rollover problems, commissions on increases and competition from other financial institutions.

Description: This is a teaching session on PBGC calculations.

Description: In session 14 MM of the Washington Annual Meeting the instructor summarizes the research topics presented at the actuarial research conference held at the University of Calgary during August 1997. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: This panel discussion from the 1977 SOA Meeting focuses on the practical considerations, design and administration of individual policy pension trusts.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1990 Dallas Spring Meeting is about small pension plans and issues unique to them including plan design, funding and IRS audits.