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: Small pension plans, are using Cost of Living Allowances 'COLA' in calculating benefits. This paper examines ways to handle COLA in valuations.

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: Acquiring a U.S. Operation—A Primer by Valerie Lopez-Zinzer from International Section News, October 2004

Description: Article from Pension Section News, May 2007, No. 64, discusses the Pension Protection Act PPA and the related misconceptions. The PPA has removed significant legislative uncertainty around pension funding rules. But there are lots of details. This article discusses the many unresolved issues related to near-term funding decisions.

Description: This is a discussion about the issues surrounding retirement at age 70. What redesigns of group life, disability, and health plans is necessary as a result of raising the minimum mandatory retirement age to 70? What is the cost effect of these changes? How do you handle benefit design in states with no mandatory retirement age? How should pension and profit-sharing plans be changed to conform to the new law? From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1979, Volume 5, No. 1.

Description: This instructional session occurred at the 1980 SOA Spring Meeting in Minneapolis. The topic was pension plan design for small U.S. pension plans 1-49 lives. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 6, No. 2.

Description: This presentation is about the general considerations in planning compensation, the role of government in compensation and benefit planning, the relationship between immediate and deferred compensation and estimating the cost of the compensation program. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, 1977, Vol.3, No. 1.

Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. Addresses costs, cost measurement and control, how target cost levels are established, and the cost/benefit perceptions of employers.

Description: This session discussion is about minimum required contributions, section 412, deficit reduction contributions, maximum deductible contributions, section 404, current liability limitations and explicit assumptions. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, 1990 Vol.16 No. 1.