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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
  • Postretirement Health Benefit Funding
    benefit funding, corporate-owned life insurance COLI, trust-owned life insurance TOLl, settlement contracts ... contribution plans=DC plans=401k plans;Funding policy;Life insurance;Taxes=Taxation; 16564 4/1/1992 12:00:00 ...

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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
  • Work Of The SFAS No. 106 Implementation Task Force
    expertise and data to Congress. They conducted a survey of premiums charged to small groups for the Congressional ... They are working on such topics as state small group health reform initiatives and transition issues ...

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    • Authors: Ethan Kra, Jean M Wodarczyk
    • Date: Jun 1993
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Pension accounting; Pensions & Retirement>Retiree medical
  • Late-Breaking Regulatory Developments
    tables or hardwired descriptions of all the mortality tables, interest rates, etc., for determining ... If the factors are based on an out-of-date mortality table and interest rate calculation, and the ...

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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
  • Retiree Health Issues
    at Coopers & Lybrand's Human Resource Advisory Group in Boston. Fred oversees and files FAS 106 valuations ... C. LINDGREN: Bob Barry and I will be sharing a group of topics on FAS 106 and my half of the program ...

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    • Authors: Robert J Barry, Ethan Kra, Fred C Lindgren, Dave Bond
    • Date: Oct 1995
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Pension accounting; Pensions & Retirement>Retiree medical
  • The Pension Forum, December 2004, Volume 15, Issue No. 1
    yield curve, interest rate volatility, industry group, rating of issuer, callable period or Table 1 ... bonds. As these figures are rather low, we do not report them in more detail. The main reason for this ...

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    • Authors: Stephen A Alpert, Ronald Iverson, Kenneth Kent, Ethan Kra, Richard Wendt
    • Date: Dec 2004
    • Publication Name: The Pension Forum
  • Plan Qualification/Registration Issues for Multinational Sponsors
    is a privilege, as a lawyer, to be speaking to a group of actuaries. Fortunately, I don’t have to mention ... qualification out of the U.S. and why it matters to a group of U.S. actuaries and companies. I want to start ...

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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
    applicable mortality rate and a new applicable interest rate. The mortality table is the 1983 Group Annuity ... Annuity Mortality Table (GAM), 50/50 male and female. The applicable interest rate is the annual interest ...

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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
  • Message From the IRS
    folks brought forth solid data and pertinent real-life situations. Prior to a detailed review, I can only ... for reporting separately but has chosen not to report. Another major topic area involved the rules on ...

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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
  • Pension Simplification: Defined-Benefit Plans
    investment earnings and you don't decrease it for any mortality, which you wouldn't do any way. On the defined-benefit ... with factors? Remember, the IRS has issued many mortality tables and interest rates for various purposes ...

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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