Description: This session looked at techniques suitable, practical or useful in recognizing future improvement in mortality, the projected mortality vs. Actuary's Opinion and should valuation mortality tables be updated frequently.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting discusses Unisex legislation in the U.S. Congress on new and existing policies that eliminates gender in life insurance, pensions, health insurance and automobile insurance.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about status of new mortality table developments in the pension arena, impact of new mortality tables on annuity valuations, and the effect of new mortality tables on defined-benefit plan minimum funding and pension expensing.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting looks at the outlook over the next 10 years of employee benefits. The effect on the role of the actuary is discussed.

Description: This 1977 panel discussion focused on the implications of proposed revisions of the standard valuation and nonforfeiture laws. Areas discussed included: 1. A regulator's perspective 2. Applications to Life and Annuities 3. applications to Pensions

Description: Panelists discuss the evolution of U.S. pension benefits, funding, and payment conditions from 1940 to the present. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: This session discussion is about review of recent and pending legislation affecting pensions in Canada and the United States, restructuring of Canadian and U.S. pension plans as a consequence of tax reform and other pension legislation. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 13, No. 4A.

Description: At this presentation, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor discusses the following topics of current interest: 1. Recently issued 404c regulations affecting defined contribution plan investments, and 2. Annuities and Guaranteed Investment Contracts 'GIC's' in light of the Executive Life insolvency. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 4B.

Description: Panelists provide: [1] a summary of legal issues and recent federal court cases regarding employee and retiree benefit plans, and [2] discussion of three research papers providing new thought and insight involving the perspective of many disciplines about the aging population and changing family structures in the U.S. and around the world. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2. Session 143TS of the San Francisco Spring Meeting.

Description: This session of the 1976 SOA Spring Meeting in Houston presented a panel discussion on issues related to Individual Retirement Accounts IRA in the U.S. and RRSPs in Canada. Topics included: 1. which products have proved successful, 2. regulation problems that have developed, 3. Taxation problems, 4. Rollover problems, 5. Problems with increases, 6. Competition from other financial institutions, 7. Applicability of new money rates, and 8. Long- term interest guarantees.