2016 Employee Benefits Summit - Southern California

Today, issues affecting retirement plans, welfare benefits and executive compensation arrangements have greater significance to employers and employees than at any other time in recent memory. The Affordable Care Act continues to affect employers in ways that would have been hard to predict when the statute was enacted. The Act has altered hiring patterns, changed the rules of the game vis-à-vis contingent workers and has played havoc with the collective bargaining process.

In addition to the front page significance of the ACA, hardly a day goes by when we do not hear about either a class action or significant government inquiry which involves benefit plans. These issues may touch on plan investments and fees, plan governance and fiduciary issues, eligibility rules, company stock holdings, severance entitlements and executive compensation. And for the first time, the government has expended significant resources on reviewing health and welfare plan compliance.

Topics:

• Healthcare reform, with a focus on cost-saving approaches and also offer plan design and governance strategies for retirement plan sponsors and fiduciaries
• Proactive steps which offer the best insulation from the threats posed by government agencies and plan participants
• Exploring tax traps which can be imbedded in executive compensation arrangements

Time:
Registration and Breakfast: 7:30 - 8:30 am
Program: 8:30 am - 2:30 pm

Breakfast and lunch will be served.