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  • Incidence of Disability for U.S. Government Employees: 1988–1993
    Incidence of Disability for U.S. Government Employees: 1988–1993 This paper describes rates of disability ... recent experience under public retirement plans for U.S. Government Employees: 1988–1993. From Pension Section ...

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    • Authors: Steve A Lemanski
    • Date: Apr 1998
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Pension Section News
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods
  • Turning the Tables - Mortality Tables Should Reflect Improving Mortality
    Tables - Mortality Tables Should Reflect Improving Mortality This article discusses that mortality tables ... improving mortality. The Group Annuity Mortality table GAM-83 is probably the most common table used by ...

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    • Authors: Emily Kessler
    • Date: Jan 2006
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Pension Section News
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods
  • Other Assumptions in the Pension Funding Debate
    assumptions used to calculate pension liabilities—mortality, early retirement and expense. From Pension Section ... Assumptions;Defined benefit plans=DB plans;Mortality assumption;Pension valuation; 10348 4/1/2006 ...

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    • Authors: Victor Modugno
    • Date: Apr 2006
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Pension Section News
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods
  • Capital Market Assumptions—The Past Performance Future Returns Debate
    . . . 1 Continuing Education Update by Barbara S. Choyke . . . . . . . . . . 22 The Critic’s Corner ... of numbers combined in lots of different ways. Table 1 on page 12 shows several cuts at lots of data ...

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    • Authors: Jane Arnold
    • Date: Nov 1998
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Pension Section News
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods
  • SOA Asset Valuation Method Survey Results
    Frequency U.S. Small Plans Large Plans Canada Small Plans Large Plans ¹ Excludes 59 U.S. plan responses ... the study. This total included 9,026 U.S. plans (about 13% of all U.S. plans), 612 Canadian plans (about ...

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    • Authors: James G Paterson, Laurence Pinzur
    • Date: Jun 1999
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Pension Section News
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods
  • Valuation of Pension Benefits for Disabled Participants Course P–461U Study Note
    NEWS APRIL 1998 Comparison of IAS 19 Provisions U.S. GAAP as per FAS 87, 88, 106, and 112 (Actuarial ... Method: Projected Unit Credit Method) International U.S. GAAP Standard IAS 19 FAS 87, 88, 106, and 112 Business ...

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    • Authors: Edward Sypher
    • Date: Apr 1998
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Pension Section News
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods
  • 2003 SOA Pension Plan Turnover Study
    pulled from the full study: • The Basic Age Table – This table is based on all the data that were not rejected ... Note that while retirement rates are shown in this table, they may be more difficult to apply directly as ...

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    • Authors: Emily Kessler
    • Date: Jun 2004
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Pension Section News
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods
  • Measuring the Rate of Retirementin an Interval Beginningwith an Eligibility Change Point
    a esti- interval. Table 2 on page 15 shows the retire- mate of the rate of mortality and the ratio For ... calendar year of ob- verted to an estimate of the mortality rate. have entered except for the fact that they ...

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    • Authors: William H Blake
    • Date: Jan 1998
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Pension Section News
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods
  • A View From the SOA Staff Fellow for Retirement
    savings: Do employees prefer a lump sum or an annuity? Not surprisingly, most participants prefer a ... has an exhaustive summary of available types of annuity products. It discusses the advantages of annuities ...

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    • Authors: Andrew Peterson
    • Date: Oct 2011
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Pension Section News
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement; Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods