2016 PLANADVISER National Conference
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DAY 3
Monday, September 12
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-Registration and Opening Buffet Lunch (Mediterranean Ballroom foyer)
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-Welcome and Opening Remarks – Alison Cooke Mintzer, Editor-in-Chief, PLANADVISER (Coquina Ballroom South)
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Painting by Numbers (sponsored by J.P. Morgan Funds Management)
This session will shed light the state of the global economy and implications for investors. Dr. Kelly will discuss a number of key topics, including the job market and economic growth, consumer confidence, and the implications of monetary and fiscal stimulus.
Presenter:
Dr. David Kelly, Managing Director, Chief Global Market Strategist, Head of the Global Market Insights Strategy Team, J.P. Morgan Funds Management
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Overcoming Plan Sponsor Hurdles: For fear of being paternalistic or, possibly, incurring higher matching costs, plan sponsors may be resistant to improving plan design with automatic enrollment, automatic escalation and company matches. This session will discuss how advisers have successfully worked with sponsors to make marked improvements to their plans. What successful advisers are doing to get plan sponsors on board with best practice plan design.
Moderator
Alison Cooke Mintzer, Editor-in-Chief, PLANADVISERPanelists
Judi Leccess, Retirement & NQ Plans Manager, Cabot Corporation
Kimber Dills, Vice President, Human Resources, Mental Health Cooperative, Inc. -
-Coffee Break sponsored by Hartford Funds (Mediterranean Ballroom foyer)
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Washington Insights (Legislative, Regulatory and Judicial): Leading experts explain retirement-related developments in Washington, D.C., and across the U.S. We’ll dive deep into the latest legislation and judicial action influencing the retirement industry.
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John Manganaro, Deputy Editor, PLANADVISERPanelists
David N. Levine, Principal, Groom Law Group, Chartered -
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The New Fiduciary Rules: what do you need to know and do right now?
Presenter:
Thomas E. Clark Jr., of counsel, The Wagner Law Group
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Top Trends: Two industry leaders take a 30,000 foot level view of employer-sponsored benefit programs, participant trends, and what is likely to stay and change in the short- and long-term.
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Alison Cooke Mintzer, Global Editor-in-Chief, PLANADVISERPanelists
Tina Wilson, Senior Vice President, Head of Investment Solutions Innovation, MassMutual Retirement Services
Charles Nelson, Chief Executive Officer, Retirement, Voya Financial -
-Cocktail Reception (Exhibit Hall)
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-Celebrating Ten Years of Excellence Dinner(Coquina Ballroom North)
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-After-Dinner Celebration (Mediterranean Porte-Cochere)
Tuesday, September 13
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-Breakfast Exhibit Hall (sponsored by MFS Investment Management)
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Opening Remarks – Alison Cooke Mintzer, Editor-in-Chief, PLANADVISER (Coquina Ballroom South)
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-Industry Leaders In Conversation
Retirement plan thought leaders address the challenges facing retirement plan sponsors and the industry and discuss practical solutions.
MODERATOR: Alison Cooke Mintzer, Editor-in-Chief, PLANADVISER
PANELISTS:
Sean Murray, Managing Director, Head of Advisor Sold and Platform Distribution for the U.S. Defined Contribution Group, BlackRock
Mike Miller, Head of Retirement Distribution for U.S. Funds Management, J.P. Morgan Asset Management
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Session 1
Advice and Robo Advisers: Robo advisers are likely here to stay. But as they proliferate, how will traditional advisers stay competitive? Are there ways to leverage the technology and can it help advisers meet consumer demands more effectively and gain a competitive advantage?
Moderator
Jeb Graham, Retirement Plan Consulting, Partner, CapTrust Advisors, LLCPanelists
Jeffrey Hemker, National Sales Manager, Retirement Division, Invesco
David E. Canter, Executive Vice President, Practice Management and Consulting, Fidelity InvestmentsSession 2
How 3(38) Investment Management Fits Into Your Practice: There has been an increase in the number of advisers and providers offering 3(38) fiduciary services. There are opportunities to add this to your practice or to partner with providers to offer such services to plan sponsor clients. Learn about some of the options and benefits.
Moderator
Christopher G. Venuti, SVP, Institutional Consulting Director, Sr. Portfolio Manager, Graystone Consulting, a business of Morgan StanleyPanelists
Jonathan Blaze, Head of the DCIO Specialist Team, New York Life / MainStay Investments
Jonathon Schultheiss, Retirement Plan Advisor, Partner, Gate City AdvisorsSession 3
The Importance of Succession Planning: Every business plan needs to weigh succession planning and how best to determine firm value— yet fewer than a third of firms have defined a formal plan in case of an unexpected death or disability.
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Lee Barney, Managing Editor, PLANADVISERPanelists
Troy Hammond, President / CEO, Pensionmark
Jason K. Chepenik, Managing Partner, Chepenik Financial -
-Coffee Break sponsored by Hartford Funds
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Session 1
The Fiduciary Rule Aftermath – Best Practices for RIAs: What the fiduciary rule means for your business–across retirement plans and rollovers.
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Todd Kading, Managing Director, LeafHouse Financial Advisors, LLCPanelists
Michael Vincent, Director of Sales Operations, Financial Engines
Gerald Lins, General Counsel, Voya Investment Management
Leah Singleton, Counsel, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group, Alston & Bird LLPSession 2
The Fiduciary Rule Aftermath – Best Practices for Advisers (non-RIAs): What the fiduciary rule means for your business–across retirement plans and rollovers.
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James F. Marshall, President, Spectrum Investment Advisors, Inc.Panelists
John Moody, President, Matrix Financial Solutions
David C. Kaleda, Principal, Groom Law Group, Chartered
Irene Scalfani, Managing Director-Firm Relations, PrincipalSession 3
Income Options in Retirement: How annuities, laddered bonds, dividend-paying funds and systematic investment withdrawals can equip retirees with guaranteed income in retirement. Understand the various retirement income options and get a product-by-product explanation of available solutions.
Moderator
Bruce G. Lanser, Senior Retirement Plan Consultant, UBS Institutional ConsultingPanelists
Glenn Dial, Head of US Retirement Strategy, Allianz Global Investors
Timothy J. Pitney, Senior Director, Institutional Investment Strategist, TIAA
Donald Stone, Director, DC Strategy and Product Development & Senior Consultant, Pavilion Advisory Group -
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Lunch
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Financial Stress Survey Result
For our third year, we will provide an overview of our annual Financial Stress Survey results. The survey results will serve as a backdrop to introduce some new next generation plan design features geared toward participant financial wellness.PRESENTER:
Patrick Murphy, President, John Hancock Retirement Plan Services
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Workshop 1 (sponsored by American Funds)
Is Passive Truly the Safer Fiduciary Choice for Target Date Funds?
Fiduciaries sometimes view passive strategies as “safer” choices out of concern over fees. While fees are important, what ultimately matters are retirement outcomes for participants. This presentation discusses how passive management may not provide inherent fiduciary protection, and how active management may lead to better participant outcomes.
Presenter:
John Doyle, Senior Vice President, Defined Contribution, American Funds
Click for audioWorkshop 2(sponsored by Franklin Templeton Investments)
Refocusing Perspectives on Plan Participants: Transition into Retirement
There’s a lot more to feel good about the state of U.S. retirement than we might expect—it’s simply a matter of perspective. As an industry, we have chosen a narrow focus on supporting accumulation (and perhaps rightfully so). However, as our focal point shifts to achieving better overall retirement outcomes, it makes sense to consider easy, inexpensive and effective solutions to help participants transition into retirement. This session will focus on allowing more flexible plan withdrawals, careful examination of Social Security benefit filing strategies and evaluation of flexible post-retirement investment solutions that preserve participant choice.
Presenter:
Kevin Murphy,Vice President – Senior DCIO Specialist, Franklin Templeton Investments
Click for audioWorkshop 3(sponsored by TIAA Global Asset Management – Nuveen)
Partner to Prosper: Ideas for Growing Your Practice through Effective Partnering
Sales are about making connections, though not just with employers. Expanding your business by partnering with other advisors or building an alliance with local professionals, such as CPAs or benefits specialists, can yield immeasurable rewards. However, the failure rate can be high for those who dive into such opportunities in an unstructured way. Don’t allow yourself to get caught in the partnership pitfalls.
Moderator: Anders Smith, SVP, TIAA Global Asset Management – Nuveen
Panelists:
Sam Valeo, Corporate Retirement Director, Morgan Stanley
Matthew Asher, National Account Specialist, One America
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Session 1
Technology – Practical Solutions and Usage: Hear about the ways in which retirement plan advisers are using technology to improve their practices and client engagement.
Moderator
James F. Sampson, Managing Principal, Cornerstone Retirement Advisors, LLCPanelists
Peter Kapinos, Vice President, Head of Client Engagement, Empower Retirement
Steven Glasgow, Senior Vice President / Financial Advisor , Avondale PartnersSession 2
Defined Benefit Plans: It can be tempting to write off defined benefit plans as a dying form of retirement benefit. But skilled advisers already know of the thirst of remaining corporate pensions for guidance on how to boost investment performance, reduce costs, plan for a risk transfer and other recurring and one-time tasks. Do you have what it takes to serve DBs?
Moderator
Rodger Metzger, President and Chief Investment Officer, Hooker & Holcombe Investment Advisors, Inc.Panelists
Jay T. Slusher, Vice President, External Advisor Consultant, PIMCO
Cathy Berg, Vice President, Practice Leader – Defined Benefit, Transamerica Retirement Solutions, LLCSession 3
Inside America’s savings plans (sponsored by Ascensus) We’re living longer and doing more than we’re ever done before. In today’s fast-paced world, what are most Americans saving for? The Ascensus trends report reveals interesting information from 7 million savers across retirement, health savings, and college savings plans.
Panelists
Arijit Banerjee, Director, Marketing & Communications, Ascensus
Ted Samsel, Vice President, Relationship Management – Key Accounts, Ascensus -
-Coffee Break sponsored by Hartford Funds
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Session 1
Lessons Learned from Litigation: From investment policy statements to rigorous documentation, retirement plan advisers have a range of tools and practices to ensure they run a compliant plan. Recent retirement plan lawsuits about investments, fees, administration and conflicts of interest create a vibrant curriculum of warnings for advisers to heed.
Moderator
L. Rita Fiumara, Senior Vice President – Investments, Senior Retirement Plan Consultant, UBS Institutional Retirement GroupPanelists
Christine Cushman, Director Advanced Consulting Group, Nationwide Retirement Plans
Alison Douglas, Partner, Goodwin Procter LLP
Doug Hinson, Partner and Lead ERISA Litigation Group, Alston & Bird LLPSession 2
Refining the Fund Lineup Amid a New Normal: A core tenant of many advisers’ value proposition is to gird plan assets from poor decision making in tough markets—both by educating participants and building the right options into the lineup to match their risk tolerance and return needs. Hear the latest provider insights on building custom target-date funds, blending the best of active and passive, and getting the best pricing possible from skilled institutional money managers.
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Jeffrey S. Kowalczyk, Investment Consultant, Lowery Asset ConsultingPanelists
Tim McCabe, Sr. Vice President and National Sales Director, Retirement, Stadion Money Management
Ryan Mullen, Senior Managing Director, National Sales, MFS Fund Distributors, Inc.
Clint Barker, Senior Vice President, Product Strategy and National Accounts, Retirement Investment Solutions , Prudential Investments LLCSession 3
HSAs and DC Health Care: Few investors grasp the powerful, “triple-tax advantaged” savings potential of health savings accounts, known as HSAs. But given the fact that a couple retiring at age 65 today will need nearly $300,000 to cover their health care costs in retirement, plan advisers should be pushing hard for wider use of HSAs. We’ll show you how.
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Chad J. Wilson, Investment Director, Co-Founder, HighTower Fiduciary Plan AdvisorsPanelists
Dan Steele, SVP – Head of Retirement Field Distribution, BNY Mellon Retirement
Chad Metzger, Regional Vice President, DCIO Mutual Fund Sales, Nationwide Funds
Christopher Auda , Senior Director, Marketing and Strategy, ADP Retirement Services -
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Session 1
Employee Education and Financial Wellness: It’s safe to say that holistic financial wellness is one of the employee benefit industry’s next great frontiers. Learn about the latest and greatest ways plans are delivering advice about all aspects of budgeting, income planning and spending. Just as important, we’ll talk about how to get paid for advice given.
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Rich Eagar, Senior Adviser & Co-CIO, Ascende Wealth Advisers, Inc.Panelists
Christen L. Marsenison, Chief Strategy & Development Officer, Envisage Information Systems
Patrick Delaney, Vice President, T. Rowe Price
Robin Green, Vice President and Head of Research, Ann Schleck & Co. Brought to you by Hartford FundsSession 2
Working with TPAs: Retirement specialist advisers are increasingly being called upon to help plan sponsor clients find, investigate and ultimately choose a third-party administrator to assist in various plan reporting and communication requirements. We’ll review helpful tips and strategies for judging, picking and eventually working with the client’s current or new TPA.
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Todd Hughes, Director of ERISA and Vendor Services, Pension Consultants Inc.Panelists
Eileen Greenspan, Senior Vice President, Retirement Plan Advisory Services, Sentinel Benefits & Financial Group
Jason Johnson, Senior Vice President-Wealth Management Retirement Plan Consultant, UBS Financial Services, Inc.
Keith J. Gredys, JD, Chairman and CEO, Kidder Benefits ConsultantsSession 3
Leveraging Provider Resources and Relationships: Recordkeepers and investment managers have many value added pieces of research, tools and services that advisers can get access to. What are the best ways to integrate these into your practice?
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Rebecca Moore, Managing Editor, PLANSPONSOR.comPanelists
Ron Cohen, National Sales Manager Defined Contribution, Wells Fargo
Kathleen Roche, Vice President, Retirement Consulting Services, Commonwealth Financial Network
Tim Seifert, Vice President, National Sales Manager, Lincoln Financial Group -
-Cocktail Reception (Exhibit Hall)
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-Late Night Lounge Sponsored by Prudential
(Whisper Creek Farm: The Kitchen)
Wednesday, September 14
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-Breakfast (sponsored by TIAA)
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-Opening Remarks – Alison Cooke Mintzer, Editor-in-Chief, PLANADVISER
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Presidential Politics:
What the election may mean for employee retirement plans and benefits.
Presenter:
Bruce L. Ashton, Partner, Drinker Biddle
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-KEYNOTE (sponsored by Prudential)
Change is Constant, Velocity is Not: How Disruption is Impacting the Financial Wellness Conversation
Financial wellness programs are at the forefront of your clients’ benefit strategies, but the industry lacks a common definition and formula for implementation. In order to drive tangible results for your clients, we must first understand how disruption is shaping the world of financial services as we know it. Mike Domingos, National Corporate Markets Strategy and Distribution for Prudential Retirement, will share compelling market trends that are changing the conversation about financial wellness.
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-Coffee Break sponsored by Hartford Funds
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Value Propositions of Home Offices The world of home office continues to change and in light of the fiduciary rule, is poised to change more. Hear what is driving decisions from leaders across the spectrum.
Moderator
Alison Cooke Mintzer, Editor-in-Chief, PLANADVISERPanelists
Jason Benham, Director, Retirement Services, Independent Financial Group, LLC
Jillian White, Sr. Manager, Retirement Plan Solutions, Cetera Financial Group
Jimmy Owen, Managing Partner, GRP Advisor Alliance -
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Next Generation Plan Design: What successful advisers are doing to get plan sponsors thinking beyond auto enroll, auto increase and re-enrollment.
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John Manganaro, Deputy Editor, PLANADVISERPanelists
Brian A. Catanella, Institutional Consultant, Senior Retirement Plan Consultant, UBS Institutional Consulting Group -
To-Go-Lunch
