Description: Full version of The Actuary Newsletter Special Edition - November 1974: Review of ERISA provisions

Description: This article presents a summary of ideas discussed in a 1999 symposium on the subject of the pros and cons of privatization as an element of the U.S. Social Security system. The four main topics addressed were: 1. Overview of Social Security reform. 2. Pros and cons of privatization. 3. Impact of privatization. 4. Practical issues of privatization. From: The Actuary, September 1999 – volume 33 - Issue 7.

Description: This overview of the pros and cons of individual accounts and the paygo system was offered by two speakers at the 1999 symposium, “Impact of Social Security Privatization on Retirement Income. From: The Actuary, September 1999 – volume 33 - Issue 7.

Description: We are pleased to have received, in response to our June editorial, What Say We?, the views of eight actuaries on the doubts about the private pension system that were expressed by Karen W. Arenson in the New York Times.

Description: The subject of this brief article is “Individual Retirement Accounts, Actuarial Note No. 1-77, U.S. Railroad Retirement Board,” which summarizes the principal eligibility conditions for individual retirement accounts under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 including the liberalizations under the Tax Reform Act of 1976.

Description: This article reports on a discussion between Frederick P. Sloat, FSA and Ernest Hicks, CPA regarding a form which is being prepared to comply with Opinion No. 8 of the AICPA. The form is for auditors to use when requesting necessary information from actuaries with respect to pension plans.

Description: Highlights of recent media contributions by actuaries.

Description: This article discusses the agenda of the Retirement Needs Framework Conference to be held on Dec. 10-11, 1998 in Orlando, FL. The conference is intended for employee benefit managers and consultants, policy analysts, financial planners, product designers at insurers, mutual funds and banks offering products to help finance retirement, academics, and any professional interested in the issues surrounding retirement costs.

Description: This article from The Actuary, May 1972 – Volume 6, provides references to three notes: 1. Benefit Loads in Relation to Coverage and Reserves for Railroad Retirement and Other Major Retirement and Social Insurance Plans. 2. Two Decades oj Employee Benefit Plans, 1950- 70. 3. Social Security Programs throughout the World.

Description: The article notes that the “Terminology Report of the Committee on Pensions of the Society of Actuaries was initially undertaken to assist the Academy’s Principles and Practices Committee with recommendations it had been preparing. As indicated in the exposure draft of the Terminology Report distributed in March 1975, the scope of the project was subsequently broadened.” It then summarizes recent developments and recommendations.