ASB Approves Second Exposure Draft of ASOP No. 4

http://www.actuarialstandardsboard.org/email/2020/ActuarialStandardsBoard-jan-27-2020.html

The Actuarial Standards Board (ASB) approved a second exposure draft of a proposed revision of Actuarial Standard of Practice (ASOP) No. 4, Measuring Pension Obligations and Determining Pension Plan Costs or Contributions .

The ASOP provides guidance to actuaries when performing actuarial services with respect to measuring obligations under a defined benefit pension plan also referred to as “plan” or “pension plan” throughout this standard and determining periodic costs or actuarially determined contributions for such plans. Notable changes since the first exposure draft include expanding the ASOP’s scope to clarify the guidance when an assumption or method is not selected by the actuary; renaming the Investment Risk Defeasement Measure section to Low-Default-Risk Obligation Measure and substantially modifying its guidance for calculating such a measure; and modifying the Output Smoothing Method section to clarify how to determine whether a reasonable relationship exists with the actuarially determined contribution without regard to the output smoothing method.

Comment period ends April 30.

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Still waiting for the new ASOP 4 to be adopted…

The comment period was extended to July 31, and I’m fairly certain many were pretty involved still so likely to be a while.