Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting discusses how investment policies and strategies for pension funds are often developed independently of liability considerations. This session looks at the probable mismatch of asset and liability cash flows, the extent of problem, the actuarial concern with certification of assets and structuring the fund to recognize the relationship between assets and liabilities.

Description: This panel discussion which was presented at the 1976 SOA Spring Meeting in Houston focused on pension funding vehicles. Topics included: choice of vehicle, investment mix, fund management by insurance companies vs. corporate trustee and outside investment advisers, plan terminations.

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed changes in: Demographics and workforce composition, Lifestyles and attitudes, Cafeteria benefit programs, Defined contribution retirement plans, Health care.

Description: This is a panel discussion session on the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendment Act of 1980. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 7, No. 1.

Description: This discussion session is about the current developments in the integration of private pension plans with U.S. Social Security benefits.

Description: This panel discussion, which occurred at the May 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Colorado Springs, presented a discussion on retirement age issues, trends, and assumptions related to pension plans. Also a discussion of factors that affect early retirement elections. Includes discussion of: I. Trends in experience, especially as they may be influenced by: a. Changes in Social Security b. Government regulation, such as Age Discrimination in Employment Act c. Early retirement incentives, such as bonuses or subsidized early retirement factors and d. Cost-of-living supplements to retirees. 2. Plan design for early and postponed retirement. 3. Effects of deferred retirement on actuarial costs. 4. Trends in actuarial assumptions Detailed historical data on UAW, teachers, and Bell company employees' retirement trends is presented.