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ASPPA Honors Simoneaux with 2020 Eidson Founders Award

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The American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries honored Sarah Simoneaux with the prestigious Harry T. Eidson Founders Award during the Oct. 26 opening session of the 2020 ASPPA Annual Conference.

Simoneaux is a founding partner of Simoneaux & Stroud Consulting Services. She earned her Certified Pension Consultant designation with ASPPA in 1988, and served as President of ASPPA in 2005-2006. She was the Technical Education Consultant for the Enrolled Retirement Plan Agent (ERPA) education program and was an ASPPA Educational Programs Advocate. She is the author of the textbook Retirement Plan Consulting for Financial Professionals. She also worked with the NAPA Certified Plan Fiduciary Advisor (CPFA) task force and NAPA staff to create the content for the CPFA credential. She also co-authors a quarterly column in The Journal of Pension Benefits on retirement organizations’ best practices.

“We are bound by more than the job that we do,” said Simoneaux in accepting the award. “We are connected by something deeper. I know that our love and respect for each other thrives in this space. The impact we’re going to make is lifelong,” she continued. 

ASPPA established the Eidson Award in 1995 to honor the memory of its founder, Harry T. Eidson. His belief in the importance of the employer-sponsored retirement system in the United States and in having an organization dedicated to preserving and enhancing such a system was the inspiration for the formation of ASPPA in 1966. Each year, ASPPA honors one or two individuals for their contributions to the industry. Recipients can be members of ASPPA or from outside the association’s membership.