Description: This session from the 1976 Fall SOA meeting is about pension plan problems of state, provincial and local governments included topics are differences between public and private plans, in particular the funding difficulties of the New York City pension plan.

Description: This is a discussion of the Committe on the Future Course of the Society of Actuaries focused on the SOA's ability to express public statements of opinion.

Description: This paper surveys the actuarial techniques connected with salary scale mathematics for the valuation of defined benefit pension plans. Followed by several discussion papers submitted

Description: The following topics were discussed at concurrent sessions: 1. Pension benefit security bill, 2. Variable insurance products, 3. Trends in hospital and medical care utilization, 4. Insurance distribution and marketing systems, 5. Deferred and incentive compensation, 6. Annual Statement accounting, 7. Social Security and employee benefits in western Europe, 8. Individual medical expense insurance, 9. Reserves and related problems for variable annuities and cost-of-living benefits, 10. Topics for consulting actuaries, 11. Profit and other objectives in group operations, and 12. Life insurance operations overseas- problems and opportunities. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries, 1969 Vol. 21 Pt. 1 No. 61.

Description: This was a panel discussion session on the economy. Thorough discussion of the unwise supply side economic theories which won't work to steer the economy to a more stable course in the 1980s relative to the 1970s.

Description: State hospital insurance has been operating in two Canadian provinces - British Columbia and Saskatchewan - for a number of years. This study of the provisions and experience of these two provincial plans is intended to shed some light on the question of publicly funded health insurance.

Description: This panel discussion adresses the responsibility of the actuary as he or she serves various publics such as the actuary's employer, government bodies, labor unions, industry and the professional groups of which the actuary is a member. From Transactions of Society of Society of Actuaries 1971, Vol. 23, Pt. 2D, No. 65.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper by Samuel Eckler titled, 'State Hospital Insurance in Canada'. The comments refer to the cost of providing the public healthcare and the level of cost sharing.

Description: Discussion of inflation, the real rates of interest and the forecasting of both.

Description: This discussion at the 1968 Philadephia and Los Angeles Regional Meetings is about currency devaluation in other countries and the effects it has on life insurance, pension funds and company operations in the U.S.