Description: Six appendices, all but the first detailing the AFOREs. From Retrospective and Perspective Analysis of the Privatized Mandatory Pension System in Mexico, M-RS02-1.

Description: This paper takes the position that a truly transparent pension accounting expense could be developed to produce superior reporting that reflects experience as it occurs. Contributions could also be based on some asset and liability information about the pension plan, but with flexibility to allow for more controllable and stable contributions. From Current Pension Actuarial Practice in Light of Financial Economics Symposium, M-RS04-1.

Description: This paper examines the use of alternative investments for pension funds in the Netherlands facing the three requirements of minimum funding, solvency, and continuity. From Current Pension Actuarial Practice in Light of Financial Economics Symposium, M-RS04-1.

Description: This paper uses economic principles to evaluate methods that may be used to assign the cost of employee benefits to accounting periods. From Current Pension Actuarial Practice in Light of Financial Economics Symposium, M-RS04-1.

Description: This paper takes the position that a retirement plan should not be evaluated differently than other financial arrangements, and, therefore, its value should be measured through a utility function. The paper then suggests a method of incorporating utility theory into the retirement plan design model. From Current Pension Actuarial Practice in Light of Financial Economics Symposium, M-RS04-1.

Description: Robert Morris University's Department of Mathematics invites applications for a permanent/full–time position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor of Mathematics (and/or) Actuarial Science beginning fall 2007.

Description: The University of Calgary invites applications for a tenure track position at the Assistant Professor level in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. From Expanding Horizons, November 2006.

Description: Information on The Current Issues in Actuarial Science Education session at the Joint Math Meeting

Description: Everyone is encouraged to submit papers to The Actuarial Practice Forum, a new online journal designed to deliver practical and applicable information to SOA members in the form of useful papers that are of educative value to the general actuarial readership.

Description: Overview of the papers presented at the Retirement Implications of Demographic and Family Change Symposium