Description: Describes changes to the detailed funding rules for defined benefit pension plans found in the regulations of the various federal and provincial acts in Canada.

Description: Excellent big picture view for planning a social insurance system with pay-as-you-go, required self-funded, and voluntary plans.

Description: This session discussion is about what constitutes the proper level of financing of retirement plans, objective of proper financing, different measures of funding status, risk related to inadequate financing, recent U.S. developments. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 13, No. 4A.

Description: The author presents his views on the funding of the French rail workers’ pension system.

Description: This articles describes the multi-pillar system of 1 pay as you go and 2 individual capital accounts to fund public pension plans which exists in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. Discusses fifty years of Social Security and the role of actuaries, recruitment sources and problems, remuneration, functions of actuarial staff, problems of staff retention, political pressures, opportunities to influence national legislation.