Description: This is a discussion about retirement plans and the treasury regulations involved. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol. 15 Pt. 2

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Atlanta Meeting is about the FASB's preliminary views on pension accounting issues and the shortcomings of the views from the actuarial perspective.

Description: Panelists examine the basic structure and current actuarial issues relating to multi-employer pension plans, including the interface of the collective bargaining environment and the operations of the plan and trust under the Taft-Hartley Act. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: The following topics were discussed at concurrent sessions: 1. Pension benefit security bill, 2. Variable insurance products, 3. Trends in hospital and medical care utilization, 4. Insurance distribution and marketing systems, 5. Deferred and incentive compensation, 6. Annual Statement accounting, 7. Social Security and employee benefits in western Europe, 8. Individual medical expense insurance, 9. Reserves and related problems for variable annuities and cost-of-living benefits, 10. Topics for consulting actuaries, 11. Profit and other objectives in group operations, and 12. Life insurance operations overseas- problems and opportunities. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries, 1969 Vol. 21 Pt. 1 No. 61.

Description: This presentation discusses Pension benefits as an asset from the plan participant's point of view: degree of risk to the participant in meeting retirement income objectives, impact of legislative changes, Financial Accounting Standards, Board FASB reporting requirements, plan termination liabilities and other factors on the relative roles of defined benefit and defined contribution plans, trends in plan design, investment choices in defined contribution plans, implications with Social Security, Employee Retirement Income Security Act ERISA, 401k plans. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 3.

Description: This discussion is about retirement plans and interest assumptions in valuation of pension plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962 Vol. 14 pt 2

Description: This is a panel discussion about H.R. 10 pension plans, i.e., tax deferred retirement savings plans for the owners of an unincorporated business and its employees. The following questions are addressed: To what extent is coverage under H.R. 10 being provided under individual policies and under group contracts? What problems are presented in each approach? If special plans are used, what provisions must be included? If normal contracts are used, what modifications or endorsements must be made? What plans are generally used? If split-funding is not used with normal contracts, how are increases in contributions handled? To what extent are trust or custodial accounts being used? From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16 Pt. 2.

Description: This is a discussion about employee benefit plans after retirement. The following questions are addressed: 1. To what extent are death benefits and medical benefits for employees and dependents kept in force after the employee retires?, 2. Where there is a continuation of such benefits for a retired employee or his dependent, what special problems can result from remarriage or reemployment, or in the event of the enactment of a federal plan?, 3. What methods of paying for or funding such costs are used?, and 4. What are the tax implications to both the employee and employer of the various approaches? Also discussed are insured vs. non-insured plans and valuation standards for pension plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16 Pt. 2