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TENTH ANNIVERSARY YEAR!
Defined Contribution Plan Summit

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2009 Sponsors:
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Fidelity Investments

Franklin Templeton Investments

Hewitt Associates

Great-West Life

Invesco Trimark

Manulife Financial

McLean Budden

Phillips, Hager & North Investment Management

Standard Life

Sun Life Financial

Benefits Canada and its partners are pleased to present the Tenth Anniversary Defined Contribution Plan Summit,
February 4-6, 2009 at the Fairmont Mont Tremblant hotel in Mont Tremblant, Quebec.

Defined contribution plans have the potential to generate great returns, but they also pose considerable challenges. DC plan sponsors and members share a common goal—ensuring benefits adequacy and sufficient retirement income—but this can be difficult to achieve, since plan members must shoulder a portion of the risk and responsibility. Sponsors continually struggle with how to get members involved and make appropriate choices to secure their retirement future. That’s why engagement—ensuring that members understand and value their plans, and helping them to make decisions—is becoming increasingly important.

This year’s DC Plan Summit will look at DC plans through the lens of plan member engagement, exploring the factors behind plan members’ behaviours and their retirement planning decisions. Topics will include effective communications, strategies for attraction and retention and the use of tools such as target date funds and auto features. This is a special conference, designed solely for senior-level personnel at DC pension plan sponsor organizations. The spirit of the DC Plan Summit is purely educational; a retreat or "think tank" forum for discussion and debate among leading thinkers in the field of DC plans. Coverage of the conference will be included in an upcoming issue of Benefits Canada.

This is a special conference, designed solely for senior-level personnel at DC pension plan sponsor organizations. The spirit of the DC Plan Summit is purely educational; a retreat or "think tank" forum for discussion and debate among leading thinkers in the field of defined contribution plans. Coverage of the conference will be included in an upcoming issue of Benefits Canada.

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This page was last updated on December 17, 2008.

For more information contact Jennifer Hughey, Assistant Editor, Conferences