Defined Benefit Plan CLE

The ABA Joint Committee on Employee Benefits and the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel are sponsoring a 90-minute teleConference/live audio webcast on Thursday, September 14, 2006 from 1:00-2:30 p.m. ET entitled What Pension Reform Does for Pensions and Their Sponsors: Defined Benefit Plan Issues in the Pension Protection Act of 2006.

Here is the description of the program:

Hear from those who practice in the area, discussion topics include:

• The New Challenge of Plan Funding
• How Plan Funding Levels Will Affect Employees’ Benefit Rights
• How Has the Environment Changed for Cash Balance and Other Hybrid Plans?
• Multiemployer Pension Plans Dodge a Bullet
• More Transparency: What Will Participants Know and When Will They Know It?
• What Else Is in There? EGTRRA Permanence; QJSA, QDRO Changes, Using Pension Surplus for Retiree Health, etc.
• Treasury Guidance Plans and Priorities

Moderator:

Judy Mazo, Segal Company, Washington, DC

Panelists:

• Bill Bortz, Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC
• Nell Hennessy, Fiduciary Counselors, Inc., Washington, DC
• Kent Mason, Davis & Harman, Washington, DC