Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session focuses on the new types of defined-benefit plans: cash balance, pension equity, life cycled, etc. The issues covered include the regulatory environment, funding and accounting issues, and benefit adequacy.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This panel reviews asset valuation methods in use for retirement plans, pros and cons of each method, how to relate with actuarial assumption and solvency position, tracking with market value, and dealing with new asset categories.

Description: This presentation was made at the 1975 Spring Cincinnati Joint Meeting of the Conference of Actuaries in Public Practice and Society of Actuaries. It addresses the following issues: Participation requirements, minimum vesting standards, joint and survivor annuity benefits, maximum limitations, special problems under offset plans, & impact on defined benefit vs. defined contribution plans. 1975 Record, Vol.1, No.3

Description: This presentation session at the SOA's 1976 Houston Spring Meeting covered pension funding vehicles. The discussion included choice of vehicle Individual Policy, Deposit Administration, IPG, Self-Funding and Split-Funding, Investment Mix, Insurance Company versus Corporate Trustees and Outside Investment Advisers, Approaches to Plan Termination, and Small Plan considerations.