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Vol. 73, No. 189 

Monday, September 29, 2008 

JOINT BOARD FOR THE 

ENROLLMENT OF ACTUARIES 

Advisory Committee on Actuarial 

Examinations; Invitation for 

Membership on Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: Joint Board for the Enrollment 

of Actuaries. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Joint Board for the 

Enrollment of Actuaries (Joint Board), 

established under the Employee 

Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 

(ERISA), is responsible for the 

enrollment of individuals who wish to 

perform actuarial services under ERISA. 

The Joint Board has established an 

Advisory Committee on Actuarial 

Examinations (Advisory Committee) to 

assist in its examination duties 

mandated by ERISA. The term of the 

current Advisory Committee will expire 

on February 28, 2009. This notice 

describes the Advisory Committee and 

invites applications from those 

interested in serving on it. 

1. General 

To qualify for enrollment to perform 

actuarial services under ERISA, an 

applicant must have requisite pension 

actuarial experience and satisfy 

knowledge requirements as provided in 

the Joint Board’s regulations. The 

knowledge requirements may be 

satisfied by successful completion of 

Joint Board examinations in basic 

actuarial mathematics and methodology 

and in actuarial mathematics and 

methodology relating to pension plans 

qualifying under ERISA. 

The Joint Board, the Society of 

Actuaries, and the American Society of 

Pension Professionals & Actuaries 

jointly offer examinations acceptable to 

the Joint Board for enrollment purposes 

and acceptable to those actuarial 

organizations as part of their respective 

examination programs. 

2. Programs 

The Advisory Committee plays an 

integral role in the examination program 

by assisting the Joint Board in offering 

examinations that will enable 

examination candidates to demonstrate 

the knowledge necessary to qualify for 

enrollment. The purpose of the 

Advisory Committee, as renewed, will 

remain that of assisting the Joint Board 

in fulfilling this responsibility. The 

Advisory Committee will discuss the 

philosophy of such examinations, will 

review topics appropriately covered in 

them, and will make recommendations 

relative thereto. It also will recommend 

to the Joint Board proposed examination 

questions. The Joint Board will maintain 

liaison with the Advisory Committee in 

this process to ensure that its views on 

examination content are understood. 

3. Function 

The manner in which the Advisory 

Committee functions in preparing 

examination questions is intertwined 

with the jointly administered 

examination program. Under that 

program, the participating actuarial 

organizations draft questions and 

submit them to the Advisory Committee 

for its consideration. After review of the 

draft questions, the Advisory Committee 

selects appropriate questions, modifies 

them as it deems desirable, and then 

prepares one or more drafts of actuarial 

examinations to be recommended to the 

Joint Board. (In addition to revisions of 

the draft questions, it may be necessary 

for the Advisory Committee to originate 

questions and include them in what is 

recommended.) 

4. Membership 

The Joint Board will take steps to 

ensure maximum practicable 

representation on the Advisory 

Committee of points of view regarding 

the Joint Board’s actuarial examination 

extant in the community at large and 

from nominees provided by the 

actuarial organizations. Since the 

members of the actuarial organizations 

comprise a large segment of the 

actuarial profession, this appointive 

process ensures expression of a broad 

spectrum of viewpoints. All members of 

the Advisory Committee will be 

expected to act in the public interest, 

that is, to produce examinations that 

will help ensure a level of competence 

among those who will be accorded 

enrollment to perform actuarial services 

under ERISA. 

Membership normally will be limited 

to actuaries previously enrolled by the 

Joint Board. However, individuals 

having academic or other special 

qualifications of particular value for the 

Advisory Committee’s work also will be 

considered for membership. The 

Advisory Committee will meet about 

four times a year. Advisory Committee 

members should be prepared to devote 

from 125 to 175 hours, including 

meeting time, to the work of the 

Advisory Committee over the course of 

a year. Members will be reimbursed for 

travel expenses incurred, in accordance 

with applicable government regulations. 

Actuaries interested in serving on the 

Advisory Committee should express 

their interest and fully state their 

qualifications in a letter addressed to: 

Joint Board for the Enrollment of 

Actuaries, c/o Office of Professional 

Responsibility SE:OPR, Internal 

Revenue Service, Attn: Executive 

Director IR–7238, 1111 Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20224. 

Any questions may be directed to the 

Joint Board’s Executive Director at 202– 

622–8225. 

The deadline for accepting 

applications is December 15, 2008. 

Dated: September 16, 2008. 

Patrick W. McDonough, 

Executive Director, Joint Board for the 

Enrollment of Actuaries. 

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