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ASPPA will kick off the new year with its first-ever Business Executives and Managers Conference, to be held in the Lone Star State on Jan. 26-27 at the Sheraton North Houston Hotel. It will offer great opportunities to establish new connections and strengthen those you already have, exchange ideas...
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ASPPA is now seeking nominations for the Harry T. Eidson Founders Award. The award, established to honor the memory of ASPPA’s founder, Harry T. Eidson, FSPA, CPC, acknowledges individuals who have made significant contributions to ASPPA and/or the private pension system.Eidson was the initial...
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The three-week voting period by credentialed members on the ASPPA Board of Directors’ restructuring proposal is now about halfway through. Have you cast your vote yet?The Board has decided that the best way to serve the society’s traditional members going forward is to create a new sister...
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The conference brochure for the 2014 ASPPA Annual Conference is now available on the Annual Conference website. Just click on the “Raising the Bar” artwork in the right margin to download the 30-page pdf. The brochure provides the latest updates to the conference program, as well as all the need-to...
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Just added to this year’s Western Benefits Conference, July 27-30 at the Bellagio in Las Vegas: an update on ERISA-related litigation and the U.S. Supreme Court, which has been very active recently in the employee benefits area. This session, led by Charles D. Lockwood, J.D., LL.M, Principal, ASC...
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In honor of Ed Burrows’ contribution to the advancement of the general understanding of pension knowledge, an annual honorary payment of $2,000 is awarded for the best paper submitted on a topic selected by the Ed Burrows Award Committee. The winning submission will be the paper that in the...
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Growing professionally, making new connections and strengthening existing ones, exchanging ideas on actions you can take to build your business — there’s never a bad time for any of these. But the start of a new year is an especially good time, and ASPPA will be offering an ideal opportunity in the...
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It will be a good deal more congenial than testifying before the Treasury Department — but just as informative. Maybe moreso! Robert M. Kaplan, who has more than 30 years’ worth of experience and is the recipient of the Pension Administrator’s Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Institute...
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Do you know of an ASPPA member who has made a significant contribution to pension education, especially in the last 12 months? You can help make it possible for him or her to receive recognition! Nominations are now being accepted by the ASPPA Retirement Plan Academy Advisory Group for ASPPA’s...
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The ASPPA Annual Conference — an ideal opportunity to share quality time with representatives from every aspect of the retirement plan industry — will be held Oct. 26-29. Registration for the 2014 conference is now open.With the dynamics of the workforce changing and many converging disruptors to...
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The funding ratio of DB benefit plans sponsored by employers in the S&P 1500 offer fell slightly in March. Mercer found that the funding ratios of those companies’ DB plans slipped to 85 percent; it had been 87 percent in February. Mercer attributes the drop not to a dip in the U.S. economy,...
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