Description: 2004 SOA Spring Meeting, Anaheim, CA. This session presented expert views on emerging issues that have technical and practical ramifications for plan sponsors, participants and/or advisers. It offered attendees an opportunity to gain a better understanding of the current retirement system's regulatory environment and how it has changed.

Description: Presenters discuss recent developments, especially in the U.S., that are not being covered at other pension sessions. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: This panel discusses the major effects of the Small Business Job Protection Act SBJPA of 1996 on defined-benefit plans emphasizing: -415 limit changes -nondiscrimination issues, and -taxation of distributions. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 1.