Description: Panelists provide: [1] a summary of legal issues and recent federal court cases regarding employee and retiree benefit plans, and [2] discussion of three research papers providing new thought and insight involving the perspective of many disciplines about the aging population and changing family structures in the U.S. and around the world. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2. Session 143TS of the San Francisco Spring Meeting.

Description: A review of the address of Rajendra P. Sharma F.S.A. 1979 of Philadelphia in July 1980 to the Actuarial Society of India in Bombay on the topic of the history of private pension plans in the United States.