Description: A pension actuary and a life actuary collaborate to express public pension liability and asset issues in terms and figures that an insurer would use

Description: This discussion at a 1967 Regional Meeting is about methods of allocating investment income using the investment year method, the treatment of unrealized capital gains, considerations in choosing interest assumptions, and challenges presented when comparing investment yields among companies.

Description: This paper takes the position that a truly transparent pension accounting expense could be developed to produce superior reporting that reflects experience as it occurs. Contributions could also be based on some asset and liability information about the pension plan, but with flexibility to allow for more controllable and stable contributions. From Current Pension Actuarial Practice in Light of Financial Economics Symposium, M-RS04-1.

Description: Digests of following discussions: 1. Mutual life insurance companies - their objectives and operating philosophy 2. State, provincial, and municipal employee pension plans - financing and other problems 3. Mortality and underwriting of individual policies for large amounts 4. Investing during the 1970's 5. Long-range viability and regulation of corporate pension plans 6. Forecasting the environment for business 7. Liabilities and surplus in the 1970's 8. Changing modes of family life - work and income over the life cycle 9. The role of the actuary in collective bargaining 10. Health insurance in the United States 11. Adjusted earnings

Description: This 1978 session discussed actuarial certifications and opinions rendered with emphasis on i. The who, what, how and by whom, and 2. Underlying methods, principles, practices and so forth and the disclosure thereof. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 4, No. 1.

Description: This section contains book reviews and summaries of recently published works on subjects including demography, savings in the U.S., life company state examinations, private pensions, Industrial insurance, medical care, and union welfare plans.

Description: A summary of the October 31 meeting of the Board of Governors, where topics included education and examination requirements, SOA organization, pension terminology, publications, didivend philosophy, subcommittee operations, financial statement certifications, the Executive Director position, and consolidation of North American actuarial organizations.

Description: This panel discussion, presented at the SOA's May 1976 Meeting in Houston, presented information related to the philosophy and practice of investment income allocation. Topics inlcluded: investment income allocation for individual and group products, subdivision of investment income by line of business, new money rates applicability for individual and group products, investment considerations for pension, annuity and life insurance, and regulatory restraints. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1976, Volume 2, No. 2.

Description: Disclosure of pension information to employees, stockholders and government has been a major public issue in the United States in recent years with enactment of the disclosure and reporting provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and, more recently, publication of the new accounting and disclosure requirements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board. This 1981 discussion session focuses on public disclosure of retirement plans in the United States and lessons that can be learned from experience with Canadian disclosure and reporting requirements.