Description: This session from the 1976 SOA Spring Meeting is about ERISA, determination of value, enrolled actuary, FSA, particular designation and applicable responsibilities.

Description: This panel discussion looks at what a pension plan valuation report should contain and the valuation report as a consulting tool with the client/plan sponsor.

Description: This 1981 discussion session is about public social policies and their impact on public and private retirement plans in the United States and Canada. The key issues discussed pertain to age, sex and marital status, and income level. Also discussed is the possible impact of public social policies on future trends in disability benefits, death benefits, termination benefits, and other factors in private and public retirement plans.

Description: From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 1 A discussion of the approaches and philosophies used by Canada and the United States: -- Purpose of solvency/current liability valuations -- Benefits and assumptions underlying solvency/current liability -- Conflicts between tax and security valuations -- Effects of these valuations upon plan sponsors (and actuaries)

Description: This session is about GICS and other insurance company products that are used by private pension plans.

Description: In light of the Executive Life insolvency, this panel discusses the current situation regarding insurance company guaranteed products and retirement plans. Also addressed is what the DOL, IRS, PBGC, Congress and the insurance industry have done. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 2.

Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Chicago. This session covered cash-balance plans and age-weighted profit-sharing plans, which were the hottest products in 1992 in the pension arena. Areas covered included their primary attractions, legal concerns, and funding issues.

Description: Panel discussion session examining individual retirement account competition including products offered by banks, stock brokerage firms,mutual fund companies, and insurers. Discussion of market share of each type of financial institution in the IRA market.

Description: This presentation discusses Pension benefits as an asset from the plan participant's point of view: degree of risk to the participant in meeting retirement income objectives, impact of legislative changes, Financial Accounting Standards, Board FASB reporting requirements, plan termination liabilities and other factors on the relative roles of defined benefit and defined contribution plans, trends in plan design, investment choices in defined contribution plans, implications with Social Security, Employee Retirement Income Security Act ERISA, 401k plans. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 3.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. This session covered single-premium group annuities under the following topics: 1. The evolution of the product and the market. 2. The forces that lead to annuitization. 3. Various annuity design choices for a plan sponsor. 4. Distribution process. 5. Proposed Retirement Protection Act of 1993. 6. The interest environment.