Description: This presentation made at the SOA 1975 New York meeting highlights the passage of ERISA and points up the desirability of formulating principles and practices for pension plan construction and valuation. A committee of the American Academy of Actuaries is in the process of developing principles and practices.

Description: This article contains a review of the book 'Fundamentals of Private Pensions' by Dan M. McGill, published in 1984. Notices of Social Security notes and actuarial notes and studies are also included. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1983, Vol. 35.