Description: This presentation, session number 10PD, took place at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 16-18 in Seattle. Panelists discuss the implications of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, ‘GATT,’ requirement of the use of a specified mortality table for the calculation of current liabilities. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. This session gave Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department an opportunity to address specific issues of their choice. Topics included: 1. Nondiscrimination regulations under 401a17. 2. Separate line of business regulations. 3. IRS determination letter. 4. Examination program. 5. Modifications recently made to help plan sponsors cope with the myriad of rules and regulations for which they have to amend their plans.

Description: This 1980 panel discussion is about the IRS, Department of Labor, and PBGC rulings and regulations which have been issued in the last six months. It includes a status report on what's out and what's due, and also discusses how practitioners are handling the new guidance. From the Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 4B

Description: This presentation discusses the ways actuaries have dealt with regulations under Internal Revenue Code 401a4 which prescribes tests that are required to be completed by qualified retirement plans to ensure that plan benefits/contributions do not discriminate in favor of officers, shareholders, or highly compensated employees. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 3.

Description: This session discussion is about the national retirement income policy. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 1.

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: In this 1981 discussion session, the panelists express their views on the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980.

Description: This session discussion is about issues facing small plans today, do small plans still exist, do defined-benefit plans still serve the objectives of small plan sponsors, target-benefit plans versus age-related and profit-sharing plans.

Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Chicago. In this panel discussion the speakers addressed nondiscrimination and good-faith compliance in the 401 a4, 401I, 401 a26, 401 b markets and then moved to a discussion format.

Description: This was an address presented by John N. Erlenborn at the 1975 Spring Cincinnati Joint Meeting of the Conference of Actuaries in Public Practice and Society of Actuaries on the next step of pension reform.