2006 Pension
Symposium:
Retirement
Security in Transition
Wednesday, March
29, 2:00 - 6:00 PM & Thursday, March 30,
8:00 AM – Noon
EA Core 2.1 / EA Noncore
6.3,
PD 7.0 Credits
This year, we again
provide panelists and participants an opportunity for in-depth discussion of
some of the most urgent retirement security issues in the US. The 2006
Pension Symposium is designed to challenge conventional thinking, provoke
new insights, and inspire all of us to embrace new challenges.
The symposium focuses on
four topics:
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Pension
Investments. Actuaries in the US are rapidly being drawn into the evolving debate on the
future of pension investing. Hear from some of the leading thinkers in this
area and have a chance to listen, learn, challenge, and most importantly,
contribute to the debate.
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Annuitization.
The pooling of
longevity risks is well understood by actuaries, but little appreciated by
the general public. A panel of actuaries explores new strategies for pooling
these risks, and everyone has an opportunity to discuss creative ways of
addressing these risks in a more lump sum or account-balance oriented world.
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Uncertainty.
Pension risks are
rapidly gaining attention in the overall context of enterprise risk
management of plan sponsors. A panel of actuaries examines ways of
positioning pension finance in this ERM context. Symposium participants are
encouraged to respond, react, and contribute their thoughts as to how
actuaries can best serve our clients in an environment of significant
uncertainty.
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Pension actuaries
in transition. Retirement security in the US is
on the decline, so naturally, pension
actuaries are in transition as well. Various actuaries who have their
fingers on the pulse of this change explain their ideas, and then the
audience has an opportunity to discuss and debate the individual and
collective strategies presented for influencing positive change.
This year’s Pension
Symposium is a continuing discussion to both the 2004 Symposium (the
evolving role of defined benefit pensions in the US) and the 2005 Symposium
(funding reform in the broader context of retirement security in the US).
For those of you who attended either or both of these previous symposiums,
you will be happy to hear that we are holding to these three rules:
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A strict limit on
attendance (100 – first come, first served);
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Open dialogue among all
participants; and
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Panelists are leaders
in their fields
