EBRI May 2004 Policy Forum #55

ERISA AT 30: The Decline of Private-Sector Defined Benefit Promises and Annuity Payments? What Will It Mean?

Policy Forum Agenda

Speaker Biographies

Background Materials:

• ERISA at 30: Where Is the Employer Sponsored System Going? - Dallas L. Salisbury
• ERISA At 30: The Decline of Private-Sector Defined Benefit Promises and Annuity Payments? What Will It Mean? - May 2004 EBRI Issue Brief
• Historical Benefit Statistics
• Retirement Income Statistics
• Pension Crisis Survey 2004 - Deloitte Consulting LLP
• Pension Missiles: Is the Cure Worse than the Disease? - Morgan Stanley

Policy Forum Presentations:

• Pension Missiles: Is the Cure Worse than the Disease? - Richard Berner, Morgan Stanley
• Steven Kandarian, former Executive Director, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
• The Death of Private-Sector Defined Benefit Promises? How Policymakers May React - James Klien, President, American Benefits Council
• What Individuals Should Plan For: Retirement Risk Management - Anna Rappaport, F.S.A., Mercer Human Resource Consulting
• ERISA AT 30: The Decline of Private-Sector Defined Benefit Promises and Annuity Payments. What Will it Mean? - Dallas Salisbury, President and CEO, Employee Benefit Research Institute
• The Decline of Private-Sector Defined Benefit Promises and Annuity Payments. What Will it Mean? - Charles Tharp, Ph.D., Professor Human Resource Management, Rutgers University