Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. Accruals in nonqualified retirement plans have become subject to FICA taxation. In this session, IRS rules are discussed in detail with emphasis on options available for good faith years through 1996 and final regulation years starting in 1997.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This session presents a line-by-line discussion of the re-designed 1995 Schedule B, including a brief discussion of issues related to new pension funding rules and preparation of attachments.

Description: Session from a 1992 meeting of the Society of Actuaries . Representatives of the IRS addressed current IRS regulation issues with respect to qualified pension plans, followed by a question and answer session with the audience.

Description: This panel discussion session reported on the status and content of the Actuarial Standards Board standard dealing with the selection of assumptions. The discussion covers what the effects would be on practitioners.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This session examines both the rules and practitioners' experience in implementing rules enacted with GATT: reportable events, PBGC notification of financial status, participant notification for underfunded plans.

Description: Panelists develop a framework for analyzing the diverse family of deferred recognition methods for assets under a pension plan. Using this framework, attendees learn how to assess the reasonableness of a method from both a client and a regulatory perspective – that qualify under IR Code Section 412[c][2][A] – including a case study of the evolution of smoothing methods used by a particular group of plan sponsors. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2. Session 76PD of the San Francisco Spring Meeting.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion session focusing on pension regulation and legislation. From Record of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 6, No. 4.

Description: The panel discusses some of the major effects of the Retirement Protection Act of 1994 in areas other than funding. Topics include calculation of lump sums, section 415 limits, creation of the missing participants program, changes in the variable rate premium and elimination of the excise tax for some non deductible contributions. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3a.

Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about deferred compensation arrangements: Why they are established, Funded versus unfunded programs, Supplemental Executive Retirement Plans 'SERPs'.

Description: Discusses the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and the limits taking effect in 1989 relative to Social Security integration, final- and career-average and offset plans, and defined-contribution plans. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4B.