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Multiemployer Plans
- Health care reform
- Retirement security and financial literacy
- Pension and welfare plan mergers
- Health care and prescription drug cost containment and quality initiatives
- Trustees meetings (locations, frequency, voting, minutes, etc.)
- Trustee selection
- Trustee expenses
- Defined contribution plan designs
- Pension plan funding improvement/rehabilitation plans and MPRA
- Basic investment topics
- Wellness
- Basic information for new trustees
- Investment portfolio design and management
- Health care contracts and plan design
Public Employee Plans
- Retirement health
- Retirement security and financial education
- Hybrid pension plans
- Communication of benefits
- Wellness
- 403(b) plans
- Public plan funding challenges
- 457 plans
- Health care cost-containment techniques
- Composition and responsibilities of the board of trustees
- Investment of plan assets
- Health care reform and plan design
Corporate Plans
- Health care reform
- Retirement security and financial education
- Coordination of different types of paid and unpaid leave
- Communication of benefits
- Global benefits
- Health quality initiatives
- Health care and prescription drug cost-containment techniques, including wellness
- 401(k) plans
- Design of dental, vision, hearing benefits
- Educational assistance/tuition reimbursement plans
- Mental health and well-being
- Self-funding of health care benefits
Canadian Plans
- Retirement security
- Health care and prescription drug cost-containment techniques, including wellness
- U.S./Canada cross-border benefit issues
- Trustee expenses
- Trustee selection
- Disability management
- Investment of plan assets
- Parental/compassionate care leave
- Flexible benefit plans
- Benefits communication (general overview)
- Pension reform
- Design of dental, vision, hearing benefits
- Composition and responsibilities of the multiemployer board of trustees