Description: Panelists will discuss and stimulate audience discussion on the potential roles and opportunities for actuaries during and after health care reform. Included is a perspective from Cananda's experience. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3B.

Description: The purpose of this delightful and stimulating book is the identification of new products for the marketplace. Anyone interested in predicting the future should read it. The book surveys the batting average of futurists, which IS amazingly low. About 20 years ago, Herman Kahn predicted 100 changes that would occur by the end of the century.

Description: This article looks at changes with the Canada Pension Plan in 1998, the creation of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, their policy, investment targets and returns. From Pension Section News, June 2004, Issue No. 55.

Description: This article talks about the future of Canada/Québec Pension Plans C/QPP and summarizes the Report of the Task Force on Social Security Financing. This reports compares the Canadian system to seven other social insurance systems and suggest four possible changes to the C/QPP that would reduce costs.

Description: This discussion examines problems arising in complying with the provisions of the Federal Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act and problems in connection with underwriting and administration of small groups. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 33.

Description: This article discusses what pensions will be like in Canada in the year 2031 under both the Canadian social security system and with private pension plans. The author concludes that coverage under private plans should be expanded if mandatory plans are to be avoided and there will need to be a cutback in certain features of the C/QPP.

Description: This is a 4 part discussion about issues affecting small companies: 1. Marketing, 2. Electronic Data Processing, 3. Forecasting and control of operating results, and 4. Income and Expense Allocation. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16 Pt. 2

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses defined benefit issues including flexible funding methods, plan design, ad hoc arrangements and formal funding objectives. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4A

Description: This discussion looks at the compared experience under groups covering less than 25 lives and with that for the larger cases with respect to persistency. Practices followed upon termination of the master policy with respect to the settlement of existing claims and the payment of terminal dividends are also explored. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13, Pt. 2.

Description: This discussion focuses on the effect the introduction of provincial hospital plans in Canada has had on the trend of loss ratios on associated major medical expense plans. The discussion further looks at deductible amounts, coinsurance provisions, and maximum limits used under major medical expense plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13, Pt. 2.