Description: This panel discussion examines the valuation problems, funding methods, valuing ancillary benefits, and fluctuations in experience of small pension plans.

Description: This meeting session, which occurred at the April 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Orlando, presented a panel discussion that focused on retirement age issues, trends and assumptions related to pension plans. Also a discussion of factors that affect early retirement elections

Description: This meeting session, which occurred at the June 1980 SOA meeting in San Deigo, covered economic assumptions for pension plans. Topics included: 1. How should an Inflation Assumption be chosen? 2. Who should and can be involved in the process? 3. What Economic Assumptions are used for Social Security Canadian and U. S. projections? 4. What is the future of productivity and general wage increases? 5. How are Turnover and Retirement Age Assumptions related to Economic assumptions? 6. Are actuaries using variable or indexed Economic Assumptions? How are they doing it? 7. Should Economic Assumptions vary by plan size? By Benefit design? By valuation method? By investment strategy?, and 8. How should the assumptions be communicated to the plan sponsor? From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 6, No. 3.

Description: This is a panel discussion session focusing on the pension plan sponsor's funding policy including examining alternate uses of cash selection of actuarial cost method selection of actuarial assumptions use of projections and effect of investment strategy on funding policy. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 7, No. 1.

Description: This discussion explores actuarial assumptions for interest, mortality and disability. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13, Pt. 2.

Description: This presentation discusses current trends in pension demographics, focusing on mortality and turnover rates. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 4A.

Description: This report is a summary of a panel discussion which occurred at the 1980 SOA Spring Meeting in Minneapolis. The panel discussed economic assumptions for pension plans. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 6, No. 2.

Description: This discussion at a 1967 Regional Meeting is about methods of allocating investment income using the investment year method, the treatment of unrealized capital gains, considerations in choosing interest assumptions, and challenges presented when comparing investment yields among companies.

Description: This presentation shows results obtained from a mortality study based on Canadian pensioners data available from records of the Canada Pension Plan and Quebec Pension Plan as of December 31st, 2008. From Actuarial Research Clearing House

Description: PowerPoint slides from Adam's presentation on the tri-model model of Canadian inflation. The cost of indexation protection is reviewed.