Description: This study explores whether public pension plans have contributed enough to reduce unfunded liabilities, absent other influences such as investment returns.

Description: Updated metrics for measuring financial stress among multiemployer pension plans in the United States.

Description: Highlights of recent media contributions by actuaries.

Description: Describes recent call for essays that was issued by the Committee on Post Retirement Needs and Risks focused on securing future retirements.

Description: Updated longitudinal study of metrics for measuring contribution adequacy at paying down unfunded liabilities in corporate DB pension plans in the U.S.

Description: This is the Reformatted Actuarial Standard of Practice No. 4: Measuring Pension Obligations. This standard is effective for measurements made as of December 3,1993 or later.

Description: Updated study of metrics for measuring stress imposed on US multiemployer pension plans by unfunded liabilities and declining numbers of active participants

Description: This discussion focuses on group retirement plans and takes a look at the possibility of future problems as a result of offering group annuity plans permitting the employer to choose method of funding. The discussion further seeks to discover what considerations are involved in determining minimum size for group annuity contract of the deposit administration type and if insurance company proposals include cost estimates involving labor turnover rates. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1951, Vol. 3, No. 5.

Description: This research report, based on Ontario pension plan data, examines differences between going concern and solvency valuations.

Description: Introduction of a symposium of papers that arose out of the discussions of the Committee on Retirement Systems Practice Education regarding the adequacy of defined benefit pension plan funding.