ASPPA College of Pension Actuaries

All credentialed actuarial members of ASPPA are members of the ASPPA College of Pension Actuaries (ACOPA).  ACOPA is responsible for identifying and addressing the professional development needs of the actuarial membership of ASPPA, including maintaining the actuaries-only list serve, and offering conferences focused primarily on the needs of actuarial members. ACOPA members serve as representatives on other ASPPA committees and subcommittees to enhance the actuarial content of ASPPA’s current programs and to provide an actuarial perspective to ASPPA’s future planning. ACOPA has primary responsibility for the content of comment letters that involve actuarial issues, accomplished through appointing members of the Defined Benefit Subcommittee of ASPPA’s Government Affairs Committee, and preparing formal comments, position papers, or other relevant pronouncements that involve regulating authorities outside of Treasury, IRS, DOL, PBGC or SEC (such as FASB).  ACOPA recommends ASPPA and ACOPA representatives to various intersocietal groups, and oversees the activities of the various intersocietal committees in which ASPPA has representation.

On August 16, 2012, IRS issued Notice 2012-55 providing the MAP-21 adjusted segment rates for 2012 plan years are 5.54%, 6.85% and 7.52
[Notice]

“COPA” designation not supported after 2012
Last summer, members were notified that the COPA designation will not be supported after 2012. If you have been using the COPA designation, your business cards and letterhead should be changed to reflect only MSPA/FSPA, as appropriate, after December 31, 2012. [Notice]

Judy Miller Gives Washington Update to ASPPA College of Pension Actuaries
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Modifications to the ACOPA Interim Operating Procedures (IOPs)
ACOPA membership has approved changes to the ACOPA Interim Operating Principles [Here]

In April, 2012, JBEA issued [Q&As] on the 2011 final regulations