Description: Argues that defined benefit plans do a much better job than 401ks in providing lifetime retirement income and points out other drawbacks of corporations switching plan types.

Description: This article covers a round table discussion about the most significant housing issues affecting retirees.

Description: This article discusses the risks of retirement and how those risks impact attaining a secure retirement in a defined contribution world.

Description: This article provides an update on various legislative and regulatory activities including, allowing individual variable annuities, federal standard for fiductiary responsibitlity with respect to pensions, policy loan interest rate and credit insurance issues.

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: Article The Pensions Scene In Canada by Ezra in The Actuary, September 1978, Volume 12, Number 7

Description: Review of Fifty-Second Annual Report of the Board of Actuaries of the Civil Service Retirement System. The authors found it to be a concise well written report discussing a number of issues facing all pensions in an inflationary economy. Both the title and the dull format in the usual Government Printing Office style would seem to insure this document's instantaneous consignment to dead storage. However, behind the cover of this small pamphlet is a concise, well written report discussing-a-number of the issues facing not only federal pension programs at the present time, but all pensions in an inflationary economy. For example, several of the 11 pages devoted to the main report discuss the implications of static assumptions ignoring inflation as opposed to dynamic assumptions including inflation.

Description: This article discusses funding flat-benefit pensions and suggests steps to address what will likely be a future underfunded plan.

Description: On the eve of dissemination of an interim report by the President’s Commission on Pension Policy, The New York Times has printed four articles May 18-21 entitled “The Pension Tangle.” This addresses the first of this quartet, regarding the threat of inflation to the private pension system.

Description: Describes changes to the detailed funding rules for defined benefit pension plans found in the regulations of the various federal and provincial acts in Canada.