Description: This presentation is a Pension Section meeting from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 3-5 in Colorado Springs. The speaker discusses insurer solvency issues for pension actuaries, focusing on the failure of Executive Life and the implications for its significant amount of pension business. Topics include the tax claims of the Internal Revenue Service, and role and potential liability of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation [PBGC], state guaranty funds, and reinsurers. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 3B.

Description: Enhanced or impaired annuities are life annuities underwritten to reflect annuitants' actual mortality. They are not currently prevalent in the U.S. or Canada, where life annuities assume low mortality and are thus unfair for impaired lives. This paper looks at the present annuity marketplace in the United States and Canada. It also reviews the underwriting and marketing of life annuities in the United Kingdom where “enhanced” life annuities are available for a broader cross section of the marketplace. It also reviews the use of P&C risk classification techniques and how they might apply to the annuity marketplace as well as potential legal constraints on broader risk classification for life annuities.

Description: This article highlighs the activities of the SOA Retirement Systems Practice Area including research projects, demographic retirement models, Social Security, and professional development.

Description: This article is about how the new Flexible Education System - FES -will better meet the basic education needs of pension actuaries, particularly consultants.

Description: This paper discusses the reasons for the trend toward phased retirement and looks at the legal and actuarial aspects of phased retirement as they apply to a simple defined-benefit plan.

Description: This paper discusses the reasons for the trend toward phased retirement and looks at the legal and actuarial aspects of phased retirement as they apply to a simple defined-benefit plan. It is important for US pension law to be modified to facilitate phased retirement and include safeguards to protect workers as they make these lifetime decisions. From the Retirement Implications of Demographic and Family Change Symposium, June 2002.

Description: This 1980 panel discussion is about the IRS, Department of Labor, and PBGC rulings and regulations which have been issued in the last six months. It includes a status report on what's out and what's due, and also discusses how practitioners are handling the new guidance. From the Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 4B

Description: This is the introductory parts of a textbook with this title: Table of Contents, Preface, Acknowledgments, and bios of editor and authors. This text is for the use of students preparing for the Fundamentals of Actuarial Practice Course requirement for achieving the ASA designation.

Description: This is the introductory parts of a textbook with this title: Table of Contents, Preface, Acknowledgments, and bios of editor and authors. This text is for the use of students preparing for the Fundamentals of Actuarial Practice Course requirement for achieving the ASA designation.

Description: Discusses the new Flexible Education System [FES] and how it will apply to pension actuaries. Also discusses how a company with pension actuarial students can structure its training programs in light of the syllabus changes due to the FES. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 1.