Description: Panel discussion on inflation's impact on business procedures, contingency plans, long-term benefit levels, and determination of financial reporting items such as future reserves, surplus levels, operating expenses, and net gains. Presented at the Spring 1975 Meeting in Los Angeles.

Description: Discussion of the ways the volatility of the full funding limitation can be used as a consulting opportunity. Discussion of smoothing cash flow in the current regulatory environment and cash-flow forecasting in a volatile market.

Description: This presentation from Session 69 of the SOA May 2004 Anaheim Spring Meeting discusses the application of financial economics on smaller pension plans, in particular, those of private and nonprofit organizations. Panelists address agency cost, closely held corporation issues, impact of bundled service arrangements and investment constraints From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 1.

Description: This session explores current practices and techniques that plan sponsors use to address the risks associated with the exercise of fiduciary responsibility. Attendees gain a better understanding of some of the issues that plan sponsors face and discuss the tools that can be used to monitor and manage exposure to risks and uncertainty. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2: Spring Meeting, Vancouver, B.C., June 23–25, 2003, Session 108PD.