Description: The purpose of this report is to develop information that may be useful to the Pennsylvania legislature in its efforts to regulate the funding of pre-need contracts. What we have done is to develop a theoretical basis for regulation and then to suggest some practical approaches to initial implementation.

Description: These are discussions of the paper, 'Group Annuity Ill-Health Terminations' by Conrad M. Siegel. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.

Description: From the 1960 Transactions Vol. 12 No. 32, this ‘Discussion of Subjects of Special Interest’ addresses the criteria used to judge adequacy of contributions to support benefits, for Taft-Hartley pension plans with fixed benefits and fixed contributions. The panelists also address Internal Revenue Service tests of adequacy in PS 64.

Description: Recollections of life in the actuarial profession, in Canada and the U.S., during the 1950s.

Description: The author's purpose is to attain a greater insight into the nature and significance of the social security financing method and to examine the image in the public mind of the social security financing method and its significance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.

Description: In this a forum for consulting actuaries, the participants discuss: 1. Accounting principles, especially as a result of APB Opinion No. 8, 2. Liaison- What can be done to improve liaison between consulting firms and the IRS, government committees, hearings, and insurance industry committees? 3. Life insurance company development, 4. The relation of the consultant with company actuaries, reinsurers, and accountants, and 5. Personnel- What programs are being followed by consulting firms to maintain staff by the internal development of actuaries? From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1967, Vol. 19 Pt. 2, No. 55.

Description: The complete Expanding Horizons newsletter for May 2002.

Description: This discussion of the Forum for Consulting Actuaries is about issues facing consulting actuaries including how well the SOA meets their needs, the future of consulting, problems that consultants face in practice, and guides to professional conduct.

Description: This is a discussion about the Opinion No. 8 Bulletin on accounting for the cost of pension plans that was recently issued by the Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Bulletin No. 21 recently issued by the Committee on Accounting and Auditing Research of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, and the effect these bulletins will have on the preparation of actuarial valuations of pension plans. Also discussed is the use of level-premium life insurance in connection with employee benefit plans and the underwriting, actuarial and other problems encountered in the design and marketing of such plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1967, Vol. 19 Pt. 2, No. 54.