Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Chicago. This session covered cash-balance plans and age-weighted profit-sharing plans, which were the hottest products in 1992 in the pension arena. Areas covered included their primary attractions, legal concerns, and funding issues.

Description: This section contains multiple book reviews and notices concerning the actuarial profession. Reviews: 'Medical Risks: Patterns of Mortality and Survival' by Singer and Levinson, 'The Theory and Practice of Pension Funding' by Trowbridge and Farr, 'Two Stochastic Processes' by Beekman, 'Disability Income Insurance - Cost Differentials between Men and Women' by New York Insurance Department, 'Social Security and Private Pension Plans: Competitive or Complementary' by McGill, 'A New Look at Accounting for Pension Costs' by Hall and Landsittel, '1977 Annual Reports of the Board of Trustees of the Federal OASDI Trust Funds...,' 'Investigation of Sickness Statistics - Individual Policies, 1971 and 1973' by the Institute of Actuaries and the Faculty of Actuaries, 'The Graduation of Pensioners and of Annuitants Mortality Experience 1967-70' by the Institute of Actuaries and the Faculty of Actuaries, 'Pensions and Survival - the Coming Crisis of Money and Retirement' by Calvert, 'Group Benefits in a Changing Society' by Spencer, 'Experience of Disabled Work Benefits under OASDI 1965-74' by Bayo and Wilkin. Digests also included.

Description: This meeting session presentation and discussion occurred at the 1980 SOA Spring Meeting in Minneapolis. The topic was retirement income security in Canada. Specific discussions included: the role of government plans, efforts to improve portability, indexing of private and government plans, funding requirements and how they have developed, disclosure regulations, mandatory retirement ages and mandatory plans, Saskatchewan legislation, human rights regulations, and recommendations of the Lazar Report. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 6, No. 2.