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Compliance February 1, 2011
HELP Panel Schedules Retirement Savings Hearing
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP)
Committee scheduled a hearing for Thursday to discuss “what
can be done to help Americans save more for retirement.”
Reported by Fred Schneyer
The 2 p.m. session is entitled “Simplifying Security: Encouraging Better Retirement Decisions.”
Scheduled witnesses include:
- Jean Chatzky, financial journalist, author, and financial editor for NBC’s Today Show
- Lori Lucas, Executive Member of the Defined Contribution Institutional Investment Association
- Julie Agnew, Associate Professor of Economics and Finance at William and Mary Mason School of Business
- Jeffrey R. Brown, William G. Karnes Professor of Finance at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Business
All hearings and markups are webcast live at: http://help.senate.gov. Testimony and archived videos will be posted at: http://help.senate.gov/hearings/.
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