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.

Description: A company considering the acquisition of, or merger with, another company or the divestiture of an operation may find that issues related to employee benefit programs have a profound effect on the viability ofthe transaction. This paper lists literature for the actuary to broaden his/her knowledge on the subject: both on mergers and acquisitions and on handling of employee benefits.

Description: This discussion is about how plan sponsors and actuaries deal with the newly permitted disparity regulations and Section 401a4. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 1.

Description: Presented at June 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about corporate benefit function in a multinational corporation, design considerations in overseas programs, financing of non-North American benefit programs, special problems, recent significant legislative developments outside North America.

Description: The aim of this paper is to examine relationships, analogous to that of premiums and reserves, for the case of a general insurance with benefits payable in respect to several forms of decrement. Specifically, this paper presents a system of splitting the total premiums and reserves into components related to the different benefits, with formulas distinguished between dependent and independent relationships between premium and reserve components. Discussions of this paper are included.