Annual Conference & Exhibition Archives
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2024: The 2024 Annual Conference and Exhibition was held in Seattle, WA, May 19–22.
Final Agenda
2024 Presentation Slides:
- Economic Overview: A Look at What's Ahead
- The Intersection of Public and Private Credit
- Are We There Yet? Has the Recovery in Real Estate Values Begun? And What Comes Next?
- What Do You Get When You Cross an Actuary and An Investment Officer?
- Express Talk: Asset Allocation: Building Resilient Portfolios
- Express Talk: Private Equity Investing in Infrastructure 2.0
- US Energy Transition
- Implementing Private Credit for Plan Diversification
- Express Talk: Diversifying Your Portfolio with Emerging Managers
- Express Talk: The Important Role of Venture Capital in Public Employee Retirement Systems
- Money Matters: Empowering Your Team Through Financial Wellness Benefits
- The Other Side of Passive: Negative Consequences and Limitations of Passive Investment
- What's New in the World of Securities Litigation? Examining the Most Underutilized Corporate Governance Tools in the Shareholder Toolbox
- Express Talk: Riding the Curve: Bond Investors Worldwide can Use Three Basic Principles to Manage Risk in Portfolios
- Express Talk: Healthcare in Your Investment Portfolio: Terms and Investment Themes
- Index Investing: Not Such a Passive Decision
- Ahead of the Curve: Identifying Opportunities Where Others See Adversity
- How Does My Plan Stack Up? Meaningful Metrics for Comparing Public Plans
- Express Talk: Insights for Increasing Operational Alpha & Reducing Fiduciary Risk from your Securities Fraud Class Action Exposures (hint: It's not all about seeking to be lead plaintiff)
- Express Talk: The Secret Language of Share Price Movements
- ESG Trends in Investment Considerations and Securities Litigation
- Express Talk: Benchmarking In Hedge Funds
- Express Talk: Uncover Active Returns in Passive Management: Earn More by Capturing the Missed Opportunities of Standard Passive Investing
- Artificial Intelligence and Plan Governance Considerations
- What Makes a Good Securities Case: Essentials for Public Funds
- It's Time to Move Out the Curve: The Case for Adding Duration in High Quality Fixed Income
- High Inflation and Post Retirement Benefit Increases -- Approaches and Pros and Cons
- Leveraging Technology and Business Process Improvement (BPI) for Enhanced Pension System Implementation
- What do you get when you cross an actuary and an investment officer? Around the board table - Questions, Observations, and Challenges Facing Trustees
- Uncovering Opportunities in Emerging Markets: The Investment Case, India, and Small-Caps
- Building Organizational Health in a Public Retirement System - Guidance on Best Practices in Fiduciary Governance and Leadership Development for Boards and Staff
- Express Talk: Engaging Your Employers: The ROI of a Dedicated Communications Specialist
- Express Talk: Private Credit Opportunities in Maritime and Offshore Energy
2023: The 2023 Annual Conference and Exhibition was held in New Orleans, LA, May 21–24.
Final Agenda
2023 Presentation Slides
- A Year of Two Halves: Macro and Market Outlook for the Remainder of 2023 and into 2024
- Measuring Member Engagement for Your Web Application
- Assessing the Sustainability of Your Public Pension Plan
- Risk Management: A Key Reason for the Wisconsin Retirement System’s Success
- Real Estate Investments: The New Reality
- Performance Measurement – Understanding your Board’s Role in Performance Monitoring
- Elevate the Conversation with Your Actuary
- International Small Cap and Emerging Markets: How Best to Access Opportunities
- Private Credit: Identifying Opportunities for Attractive Returns
- Six Key Drivers of Unintended Portfolio Outcomes
- ESG Investing: Opportunities, Challenges and External Events
- Legislative and Regulatory Update
- Enterprise Governance for Public Retirement Systems: Exercising the Powers of the Board
- A Scenario Approach to Pension Risk Management: What Is It and Why Is It Useful?
- The US Workforce is Changing – Evolving Pension Offerings to Serve the Future Membership
- Strategy for Managing Cybersecurity Resource Challenges
- What Drives Long-Term Real Estate Value?
- National Litigation Trends Against Public Retirement Systems, and How Fiduciaries Can Effectively Mitigate that Risk
- Pensions Aren’t the Only Thing to Think About – Other State and Federal Legislative Issues Affecting Retirement Security
- Bonding Over Bonds – A Fireside Chat on the Current Bond Market Environment
- Improving Financial Wellness for Americans in a Post-Pandemic Economy
- Macro-Economic and Market Update
- Asset Allocation in a New and Evolving Rate Regime
- The Who, What, and Why of Investing with Diverse & Emerging Managers
- Recoveries and Remedies: Protecting Your Portfolio Through Securities Litigation
- REITs ‘Complete’ Real Estate Portfolios
- Shifting Market Dynamics Create the Potential for Vintage Era for Private Credit Investors
- New Actuarial Standards are Coming: What You Need to Know
- Crisis Communications: What Your Comms Team Wants You to Know Before, During and After a Crisis
2022: The 2022 Annual Conference and Exhibition was held in Washington, DC, May 22–25.
Final Agenda
2022 Presentation Slides
- 2022 Economic Outlook
- Enhancing Financial Well-Being as Part of a Recruiting & Retention Strategy
- Finding Opportunity in Private Equity After Record Flows
- COVID, Ukraine and Inflation: Near-Term Implications and a Longer-Term Perspective
- Net Zero: Investing in Transition Opportunities
- Texas ERS Success Story: From Depletion to Sustainability in 2021
- Debunking the Myths on the Performance of Diverse Managers in Institutional Investor Portfolios
- Inflation Considerations: Preparing Your Portfolio
- From “Start Up” to “Scale Up”
- The Role of Venture Capital in Public Employee Retirement Systems
- The Importance of a Strong Performance Management Plan to Drive Performance
- Best Governance and Risk Management Practices for Public Retirement Systems
- Cybersecurity: Governance Best Practices
- US Inflation: Structural or Cyclical?
- How to Maximize Investment Returns with Private Real Estate
- Pension Communications in a Changing Landscape
- Assessing the Sustainability of Your Public Pension Plan
- The Future of Pensions during the Great Resignation
- The Five Biggest Pension Administration Workflow Design Mistakes to Avoid
- Corporate Governance: Managing a Plan During Increased Turnover
- Tired of FAANG? The Search for Alpha – A Case for Micro Cap Stocks
- Risk and the Need for Transparent Data as You Grow Alternative Assets in Your Portfolio
- Foreign Tax Landscape: How Much Tax is Being Left on the Table
- Exploring ESG Strategies for Affordable Housing Investment
- My DROP is Cost Neutral…Isn’t It?
- Personalizing Member Experiences for the Millennial Generation
- The Case for and Against Shareholders Litigating ESG Issues
- The Digital Asset Industry: Challenges, Trends and Future Directions
2019: The 2019 Annual Conference and Exhibition was held in Austin, Texas May 19 - 22.
Final Agenda
2019 Presentation Slides
- Five-Year Outlook: Strategic Themes & Tactical Opportunities
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) Made Easy
- Understanding Your Board’s Effectiveness and Where Improvements Will Help
- Why and How to Invest in Real Estate
- Adverse Scenarios and Pension Plan Health
- Why Private Equity Secondaries Make Sense for Public Pension Plans
- Why Costs Matter
- Investing Beyond Borders & Tax Recovery: Are You Leaving Money on the Table?
- Investing in a Low Growth World
- Core Fixed Income with an Impact
- Demographics and Real Estate – Redefining Core Strategies to Stay Ahead of the Curve
- It’s Much More Than Money
- Informed Opportunities with Multi-Asset Strategies
- Corporate Disclosure in the Age of Twitter – Is this a positive step forward?
- How a Medicare Marketplace Can Help Future-Proof Retiree Health Care Benefits
- Social Security and Retirement Planning App
- The Case for New Pension Accounting Standards
- ESG Integration: Expanding the Toolkit for Investment Research and Portfolio Management
- A Guide to Alternatives
- Use of Private Market Investments in Portfolios: Opportunities and Risks
- Pension Valuation Forecasts
- How U.S. Public Pension Investors Can Harness China’s Fast-Growing “New Economy.”
- Public Retirement Systems and Capital Market Developments
- Combatting Elder Financial Exploitation
2019 Conference Videos
- Five‐Year Outlook: Strategic Themes & Tactical Opportunities
- Legal Panel: Securities Litigation
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) Made Easy
- Legal Panel: Benefits, Tax & Regulations
- Investing in a Low Growth World
- The Future of Public Plans in Post‐Janus Decision
- The Case for New Pension Accounting Standards
- ESG Integration: Expanding the Toolkit for Investment Research and Portfolio Management
- A Guide to Alternatives
- A Conversation with Plan CEOs
*this video had a technical difficulty during recording and skips
2018: The 2018 Annual Conference and Exhibition was held in New York, New York May 13 - 16.
Final Agenda
2018 Presentation Slides
- Managing Costs and Optimizing Performance
- Actuarial Hot Spots in 2018
- Key Issues Impacting Real Estate Investing Strategies
- ESG Investing: Buzzwords or Better Investing?
- Dual-Approaches to Improving Portfolio Outcomes
- Harnessing the Future in Emerging Markets
- Tax Recovery: Are You Leaving Money on the Table?
- The Rise of Corporate Governance Cases to Effect Social Change
- Advancing Secure Savings and Investment for Pension Funds through Innovation
- Public Plan Funding Standards
- You’ve had a Cyber Breach…What’s Next?
- Meaningful Retiree Healthcare Benefit Strategies for the Public Sector
- The Case for International Smaller-Cap Equities
- How to Protect YOU in Today’s Data Breach World
- ESG Investing and Fiduciary Duty
- Plan Sustainability versus Plan Solvency
- The Deadly Dance of Drugs & Deception: Insights from National Litigation Leadership
- Secure Choice: What Is the Current State of Small Business Retirement Savings?
- Change for the Greater Good: Why Change is in the Best Interest of Your Members
- Negative Net Cash Flow: Red Flag or Red Herring?
- Finding Value in the High Yield Bond Market
- Disruptive Trends in Emerging Markets Private Equity
- Mining for Gems – What are Secondaries and How Do They Add Value?
- Can I Successfully Reduce My Equity Risk Without Reducing Long-Term Return Potential?
- Global Economic and Market Update: Can Strong Run Continue or is This as Good as it Gets
- Can Absolute Return Strategies Protect Against a Comeback in Volatility?
2018 Conference Videos
- Unintended Consequences: How Scaling Back Public Pensions Puts Government Revenues at Risk
- Secure Choice: What is the Current State of Small Business Retirement Savings?
- Infrastucture Investing in the US from a Canadian Institutional Investor Perspective
- Closing Address with Tom DiNapoli
- You've had a Cyber Breach... What's Next?
- Public Plan Funding Standards
- Advancing Secure Savings and Investment for Pension Funds through Innovation
- The Outlook for Public Plan Investments: A Conversation with Chief Investment Officers
- Welcome to New York from Scott Stringer
- Legal Panel: Securities Litigation
- ACE18: 2018 Economic Outlook