Description: Practitioners in the pension field have come to recognize that there are four broad sub-specialties: small plans also known as tax-shelters, larger corporate plans, governmental plans, and Taft-Hartley jointly trusteed programs. Knowledge and even expertise in one specialty is not necessarily transferable to the others.

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

Description: The abstract on the paper Extending ERM to Multi-Employer Pension Plans.

Description: Panelists examine the basic structure and current actuarial issues relating to multi-employer pension plans, including the interface of the collective bargaining environment and the operations of the plan and trust under the Taft-Hartley Act. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: Overview of the prevalence of employer withdrawals from multiemployer pension plans in the United States and their impact on the multiemployer pension plan system.

Description: This is a panel discussion session on the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendment Act of 1980. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 7, No. 1.

Description: Updated metrics for measuring financial stress among multiemployer pension plans in the United States.

Description: Attendees gain an understanding of common practices, differences between industries and the role of the actuary in the bargaining process. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 10PD

Description: From the 1960 Transactions Vol. 12 No. 32, this ‘Discussion of Subjects of Special Interest’ addresses the criteria used to judge adequacy of contributions to support benefits, for Taft-Hartley pension plans with fixed benefits and fixed contributions. The panelists also address Internal Revenue Service tests of adequacy in PS 64.

Description: In this paper, the long-term funding consequences of negotiated improvements in pension plans are examined. Particular emphasis is placed on the effects on both contribution rates and the overall funding position of the plan of such things as benefit increases to retirees, reductions in the average retirement age, economic events that affect the size of the active work force, and the interplay between the increases in pay and benefit rates and the other valuation assumptions. A simulation model is used to uncover the influence of each variable. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.