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Likelihood the JB releases the exam before results (again)?

Quote: Originally Posted by student_actuary I believe WRERA says that the applicable percentage to be used to calculate the funding shortfall for 2009 is 94% irrespective of whether there is an unpaid minimum in 2008 or how bad the plan’s funded status in 2008 is (my particular plan has a funding deficiency for 2008 of about $500K). Is...

Cost methods determine how the reserve or assets backing the pension obligation will develop over time to be enough to meet the final obligation. Each of them will take a different path to get to the same ending point. The so-called benefit allocation methods ([Traditional] Unit Credit and Projected Unit Credit) have the required assets backing the liability (or theoretical cost in the case...

i will send you a s/s that is already created - you will just have to host via google docs and update yourself to avoid people messing up the s/s

i will reserve all my comments until we are "officially" able to talk but man - that was unfair

I thought that was the number of lives at the end of the year. It was strange because after 63 it was 0, so to me it looked like there was zero probability of surviving to 65. So you only had one year of discounting with probability and discounting...i think.

yes

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I believe it is the second way you said it. You can add includible contributions to this year's MRC *if* they were necessary to satisfy the MRC last year and were contributed after the tax date and no extension was filed. That amount is then compared to the NC + LA. I think it is the MRC, rather than the "smallest amount" that is used, but I don't know if I've practiced a problem like this...