Description: This article looks at the present dilemma on the priorities of an insurance company's obligations to policyholders and how the history of Separate Accounts can bring this issue into understanding within the context of its historical development. From Society of Actuaries Financial Reporting Monograph, M-AS99-1.

Description: This article is an extract from a revision to the Universal Life Study Note. From Product Development Section Monograph, M-AS99-3.

Description: Chapter 3 presents a very general overview of the data from public employee retirement systems in California, Mississippi, New York, Ohio, and Texaseach in respect to demographic and economic assumptions. From A Study of Public Employees Retirement Systems, M-RS96-1.

Description: Chapter 4 offers a summary of the assumptions and methods used in the various actuarial valuation reports that were collected, giving a general understanding for the continuum of actuarial bases. No attempt is made to draw any strong statistical conclusions. From A Study of Public Employees Retirement Systems, M-RS96-1.

Description: This paper demonstrates that cash balance plans should invest all of their assets in taxable fixed-income securities and credit employee account balances with the total return on an equity index. From Cash Balance Symposium Monograph, M-RS02-3.

Description: Chapter 4 discusses a range of actuarial issues associated with DROPs. From Design and Actuarial Aspects of Deferred Retirement Option Programs, M-RS03-2.

Description: Glossary. From Design and Actuarial Aspects of Deferred Retirement Option Programs, M-RS03-2.

Description: Chapter 3 describes the current situation in Mexico by which new workers must be a part of the mandated defined contribution plan. Older workers may opt to stay with the former defined benefit system. From Retrospective and Perspective Analysis of the Privatized Mandatory Pension System in Mexico, M-RS02-1.

Description: Chapter 9 reviews some of the challenges still facing the Mexican system including retirement age, portfolio risk, INFONAVIT, and the informal market that includes a majority of Mexican workers. From Retrospective and Perspective Analysis of the Privatized Mandatory Pension System in Mexico, M-RS02-1.

Description: The is the informal discussion transcript from Session 2B: Older Age Mortality Trends from the January 4-6, 2017 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando.