7:30 AM – 3:15 PM

Concurrent Workshops

Workshop 1: "Executive Remuneration and Shareholder ‘Say on Pay’"

Workshop 2: “What’s the Alternative? Legal Approaches and Risks with “Alternative” Investments; ESG (Environmental Social and Governance) Factors Revisited"

Workshop 3: "Developments and Issues in Decumulation for DC plan"

Workshop 4: "Legal Issues in Plan Administration (or, have you ever had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day?)"

Refreshment Break

Workshop 5: "Issues in International Stock Compensation "

Workshop 6: "Liability Issues in Relation to Member Investment Choice"

Workshop 7:"Liability of Pension Fund Decision Makers"

Workshop 8: "Plan Fees and Charges"

Lunch break 

Concurrent Workshops

Workshop 9: "M&A - Employee Benefit Plan Liabilities and Transfer Issues; Advanced M&A: Explaining “Boilerplate” in Purchase and Sale Agreements"

Workshop 10: "Removing Obstacles to Global Mobility – The EU Portability Directive and Similar Initiatives"

Workshop 11: "Dealing with Claims Involving a Defined Benefit Pension Fund when a Financially Stressed Employer Group Seeks to Refinance/Establish a Turnaround Plan"

Workshop 12: "Regulatory Developments"

 TUESDAY, MAY 30, 2017

Guests - Private Half Day Tour with Lunch

Plenary Session

Plenary 2: “Retirement Crisis: how to deal with it?"

Concurrent Workshops

Workshop 13: "Data Privacy, Cybersecurity and Tax Compliance – What Should a Plan Fiduciary Be Doing?"

Workshop 14: "Managing Pension Fund Trustees of the Target Company on a Public M&A Transaction / Post-Takeover Leverage of Refinancing by the Bidding Company"

Workshop 15: "Persuading Employees to Save for their Retirement: Auto-enrolment and other similar arrangements which rely on employee inertia to encourage employees to save more for their retirement"

Workshop 16: "Legal Issues Surrounding Under-Funded Defined Benefit Public Sector Pension Plans in the US and Other Relevant Jurisdictions" 

Refreshment Break

Concurrent Workshops

Workshop 17: "Pension Risk Management: How pension funds in various countries address risk"

Workshop 18: "Funding Defined Benefit Plans: Recent developments in rebalancing member security with sponsor stability"

Workshop 19: "Pension Landscape in Common Law Jurisdictions in Central & South America & the Caribbean"

Workshop 20: "Restructuring Pension and Benefit Plans of Insolvent Governments"

Lunch break 

Concurrent Workshops

Workshop 21: "Health Check: Common approaches to welfare benefits in three jurisdictions"

Workshop 22: "Fit to Govern: Emerging pension plan/fund governance trends"

Workshop 23: "The Legal Fight for the Allocation of Nortel Assets"

Workshop 24: “Responses to Troubled Multi-Employer Plans"