Managing Pension Scheme Deficits: Innovative Solutions

Managing Pension Scheme Deficits: Innovative Solutions

Date: May 20,2008

Speakers: 

This Teleconference will consider topical and innovative approaches in different countries for managing defined benefit pension liabilities and removing such liabilities from company balance sheets. 

This trend has already started in Germany and the UK, and being considered in the US.  See the article "US firms seek profit from pensions" from the UK Financial Times.

The speakers will cover issues such as:

·          the emerging pensions liability buy-out market in the UK;

·          contingent funding structures;

·          country-specific solutions such as German CTAs; and

·          review of recent change in the US which makes pension funding more important than in the past.