Description: This is a panel discussion session on pension products focusing on markets, distribution systems and differing viewpoints on products. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 1

Description: This discussion examines non-traditional pension plan terminations, particularly those plans which have a reversion of assets. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 4.

Description: This presentation is about the different forces in the public versus private sectors influencing the design of retirement income plans. How these differ in Canada versus the United States is also explored. Several aspects of the issues will be discussed including changing patterns in the work force, the impact of legislation and regulation and the role of social security. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 10, No. 2.

Description: This presentation is about recent developments in federal regulation of pension investments including, the Department of Labor Enforcement Program, legislative initiatives to tax pension funds, social initiatives for pension assets and other late developments. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1A.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session is about nonqualified plan issues including funding, Secular Trusts, Rabbi Trusts, trends in plan design, and ERISA excess plans.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about status of new mortality table developments in the pension arena, impact of new mortality tables on annuity valuations, and the effect of new mortality tables on defined-benefit plan minimum funding and pension expensing.

Description: In defined-benefit plans, a portability problem arises, especially in an inflationary economy. Final salary plans were designed to cope with inflation. However, transfer of employment during a career can result in long service at a prior employer with outdated final compensation and short service at a current employer with appropriate final compensation. Thus the problem. This presentation discusses possible solutions. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 3A.

Description: At this presentation, the Executive Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation talks about some recent pension plan terminations what can be done to protect pensions without upsetting the delicate balance of some companies with underfunded pension plans. The answer is not to allow the underfunding to go unchecked. Nor is the answer to let the PBGC absorb all the losses. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 2.

Description: This presentation discusses pension plans provided by U.S. multinational companies, and focuses on issues such as nondiscrimination rules, how the plan benefits compare to those of other countries, benefit indexing and what happens when an employee transfers to another country. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 4B.

Description: This presentation starts with a panelist discussing three frameworks that exist in the asset allocation area: The asset only framework, the asset-liability framework, and the asset-liability-sponsor framework. The panelist then explains why he believes that the asset-liability-sponsor is the only correct framework. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 4B.