Description: The panel looks at the shortage of actuaries and determines if the solution is the responsibility of the Society, insurance companies and consultants or a joint responsibility. This discussion also examines steps taken to develop actuarial courses in colleges and universities. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 30 AB.

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: 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: This session is about annuity approximations. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1968, Vol. 20 Pt. 1, No. 57

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on the national commission on social security reform. Topics included: 1. Current financial status of the OASDI and HI programs short range and long range? 2. Options for solving the financing problems. 3. Goals of the NCSSR in solving these problems and recommendations determined to date. 4. General public understanding of the issues?

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, Actuarial Note: On Average Age at Death Problems by Walter Grace and Cecil Nesbitt. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 4.