Description: The author offers his proof that an annuity for the life expectancy exceeds a life annuity.

Description: Summary of 2000 IRC, PBGC, Federal Income Tax, Social Security, and Medicare Amounts by Heidi R. Dexter from Pension Section News, June 2000, Issue No. 43.

Description: The recent Forecast 2000 forum on the environment held in Toronto dealt with such issues as increased taxes and higher insurance premiums to cover costs of natural disasters.

Description: In this paper the authors discuss the official decennial Unites States Life Tables for 1979-81, presenting age-specific mortality rates and expectations of life. Mortality trends are examined going back to the first decennial tables published at the beginning of the century, and brief comparisons with mortality in other industrialized countries are made. The paper includes written discussion. From the 1985 Transactions Vol. 37.

Description: A Message from the President-Elect...Think NAAJ by Rob Brown from The Financial Reporter, February 2000, Issue No. 41.

Description: A Message from the President-Elect...Think NAAJ by Rob Brown from The Stepping Stone Newsletter, March 2000, Issue No. 3.

Description: RBC Developments Include New C-3 Approach by Bob Brown from The Financial Reporter, February 2000, Issue No. 41.

Description: The authors present a ‘theoretical basis for a computerized methodology for estimating biological age - a measure of time to death.’ The authors discuss how they reproduce the human underwriting of a life insurance company using a computerized methodology. Includes discussion and author’s review of discussion. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1983 Volume 35.

Description: This paper analyzes the two tax advantages of qualified retirement savings plans: the tax deductibility of contributions and the nontaxation of investment income until it has been distributed. The author concludes that there is both a deferral of taxation and a waiver of taxation. From Pension Section News, June 2000, Issue No. 42.

Description: The paper presents arguments to show that a fully funded social security scheme is no more secure economically than a pay as you go scheme....that is, for real retirement income security the funding mechanism is irrelevant. From Actuarial Research Clearing House, January 1996, VOL. 1.