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Working Towards a Secure Retirement: Strengthening our Nation’s Savings System

March 6, 2014

Retirement savings are a key to building wealth, strengthening the middle class, and building a greater measure of financial security for all Americans. Current policy rewards employers, financial institutions, and workers for saving, but millions still remain outside of the savings system and a crisis of retirement insecurity looms. The briefing “Working Towards a Secure Retirement: Strengthening our Nation’s Savings System” will examine the policies that can be advanced to enable all Americans to achieve lifelong financial security.

Keynote Remarks:

Representative Joseph Crowley (D-NY)

Representative Thomas E. Petri (R-WI)

J. Mark Iwry, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury & Deputy Assistant Secretary for Retirement and Health Policy

Featured Discussants:

Judy A. Miller
Director of Retirement Policy
American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries (ASPPA)

Jeremie Greer
Director of Government Affairs
Corporation for Enterprise Development

Eric Stevenson
Senior Vice President & Chief Sales Officer
Nationwide Retirement Solutions 

Lisa Mensah
Founder & Director
Aspen Institute Initiative on Financial Security