Description: This article was presented at the 1975 Spring Cincinnati Joint Meeting of the Conference of Actuaries in Public Practice and Society of Actuaries and addresses the impact of the following changes on future needs for pension coverage, future amounts of pension benefits, and costs of funding.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. Discusses minimum pension funding rules under GATT, aka the Retirement Protection Act.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session debated the merits of the PBGC concept. Topics discussed: 1. The administration's proposal to reform the PBGC and how the PBGC plans to go about it. 2. Is the PBGC in trouble?

Description: This panel from the 1977 SOA Meeting focuses on pension services to clients including pension plan investments, funding methods, plan administration, and new services that may be provided in the future.

Description: The general theme of discussion was pension plan funding and cost. The specific topics discussed included: impact of ERISA on corporate funding strategies, ethical considerations involved in deciding how to address inflation in pension plan costs, actuarial cash flow projections, actuarial role in evaluating alternative investment strategies, effect of ERISA's imposed Funding Standard Account, and discussion of the paper titled Introduction to Dynamics of Pension Funding. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, 1976 Vol.2 No. 1

Description: This 1978 session focused on valuation techniques for pension plans. Topics covered: 1. Asset Valuation Methods 2. Use of projections and forecasts 3. Has application of forecasts allowed the actuary to determine short range best estimate of future costs different from traditional methods? 4. Treatment of salary scales, turnover assumptions, retirement decrements

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about concerns of the IRS and of the actuarial profession.

Description: This panel discussion session reported on the status and content of the Actuarial Standards Board standard dealing with the selection of assumptions. The discussion covers what the effects would be on practitioners.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to provide an introduction to mathematical principles applicable to pension funding under dynamic conditions of population growth, inflation, and automatic adjustment of benefits. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1976, Vol. 28.

Description: Discussion on problems encountered in filling out the Schedule B and how to solve them. The session will cover reconciliation account, current liability calculations and suggestions for improvement. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries 1992, Vol.18, No. 1A.