Re-Imagining Pensions
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Re-Imagining Pensions: Using Innovative Pension Plan Design to Reduce Risk and Increase Retirement IncomeIn an unusual alliance, Covington & Burling, the Pension Rights Center, and the Urban Institute sponsored a conference on February 22, 2012, to discuss new pension plan designs to improve retirement security. Re-Imagining Pensions: Using Innovative Pension Plan Design to Reduce Risk and Increase Retirement Income featured three panel discussions, each addressing different aspects of the problem: risk-sharing, coverage and adequacy, and annuitization. Panelists included Phyllis Borzi of the Labor Department, Mark Iwry of the Treasury Department, Josh Gotbaum of the P.B.G.C., and experts from government, the business community, labor groups, academia, and advocacy organizations. The standing-room-only event was held in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Hearing Room in Washington, D.C. Read the press release. For more information on the event and to watch videos of all the presentations and discussions, click on the links in the program below. There is also a YouTube playlist of all of the videos in chronological order. News articles about the conference are listed at the bottom of this page.
(All photos by Liz Lynch)
Program
Examples of specific proposals Panel discussion (introductory video) Audience discussion (video)
Examples of specific proposals Panel discussion Audience discussion (video)
Examples of specific proposals Panel discussion Audience discussion (video)
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