Description: Panelists examine the basic structure and current actuarial issues relating to multi-employer pension plans, including the interface of the collective bargaining environment and the operations of the plan and trust under the Taft-Hartley Act. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: This paper looks at using an age adjustment to provide for anticipated future mortality improvements based on Ga-1951 Male Table. The use of a simple setback in age to provide for improving mortality has proven to be quite satisfactory and eliminates the expense of calculation and maintenance of voluminous projected tables. Followed by several discussion papers submitted

Description: Panelists discuss: [1] latest trends in mortality and regulatory environment applicable to mortality tables, [2] turnover assumptions, and [3] Actuarial Standards of Practice [ASOPs] that apply to the choosing and setting of demographic assumptions. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2. Session 63PD of the San Francisco Spring Meeting.