Welcome to the online legacy edition of the former monthly fax newsletter of Lohmann International Associates, which provided information and issues of about retirement systems, employee benefits and expatriate pay packages in Japan.

Lohmann International Associates provided the only independent, fully actuarially credentialed North American retirement consulting within Japan. Mr. Leslie John Lohmann, FSA, FCIA, was its President. He provided actuarial consulting services to organizations in Japan since 1990, and his clients included some of the world's largest organizations, both public and private, across four continents.

• September 1999
  • Email Security - Not!
• October 1998
  • Savings Rates - Does Saving More Produce More?
• September 1998
  • Retirement Plan Design Decisions
  • The Right Book Reserve
• August 1998
  • DB vs. DC - Plan Costs
• July 1998
  • Macro vs. Micro
  • ENDAKA
• June 1998
  • What is "Tax-Advantaged"
  • Time To Do It Write! Time To Do It Over
• May 1998
  • Security
• April 1998
  • Your House Back Home
  • The Discount Rate
• March 1998
  • Confidence in the Report
  • Disability in Your Retirement Plan
• February 1998
  • Projecting Your Own
• January 1998
  • Settlements & Curtailments
• December 1997
  • Independence -- Who Cares?
  • Season's Greetings
• November 1997
  • Gain & Loss Analysis -- Who Cares?
  • Salary Scale Example ... What's Wrong with Geometric?
  • The Vesting Normal Cost
• October 1997
  • Mergers and Acquisitions: What Do The Numbers Mean?
• September 1997
  • Avoiding The Tax
  • Other Expatriate Support Issues
• August 1997
  • So, You Forgot to Do the Valuation for FAS 87... What Now?
• July 1997
  • The Financial Impact of Your Book Reserve Plan
• June 1997
  • Retirement Plan Gain & Loss
• May 1997
  • Some Questions
  • ACCJ Considering the Formation of an Accounting Issues Sub-Committee
• April 1997
  • What is a Pension Plan?
  • Is my Tax Qualified Pension Plan Tax-free?
• March 1997
  • Japanese Retirement Plan Vehicles
  • Prescription Without Diagnosis Is Malpractice
• February 1997
  • Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
• January 1997
  • The LIA TOC