Description: Presenter discusses some techniques for minimizing and controlling the damage to defined-benefit pension surpluses caused by market forces. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: Drivers of Health Care Affordability. Issue No. 45.

Description: This panel discussion examines the future of private pension plans.

Description: This article is a summary of a November 1981 actuarial club presentation by Robert D. Shapiro. It begins with the rise of Universal Life in 1981 with the climate of high interest rates and minimization of company federal income tax and then discusses the year 1982 with declining interest rates and the changes made to UL.

Description: The abstract for the paper The Impact of The Equity Risk Premium and Population Aging on The Canadian Retirement Savings System.

Description: This document is an an address presented by the Honorable Dr. Henry Wallich at the April 1976 Washington D.C. meeting on the topic of how to protect savings during a time of inflation.

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on the impact of double-digit inflation on pension plans including the impact on assumptions, design, prefunding of post-retirement indexing and prefunding of flat benefit plans. From Record of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 6, No. 4.

Description: Panelists of session 159OF of the New York Annual Meeting discuss the challenges of making money in a good economy. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: Feature article discussing the high cost of prescription medicines in Canada.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting describes the expansion and consolidation of the U.S., Canadian and Mexican life insurance industries and the discusses the top players in the insurance industry in the world and their market share. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.