Annual Meeting International

Global supply chains are on the move. Highlighting changing demographic trends. Speakers at this session explore how actuaries in HR can influence corporate decisions. They discuss changing population, education, future of work and impact on labor costs.

Our financial future is undeniably linked to the health of our planet, making the integration of climate change into the management of pension plan a critical need. Speakers from outside the USA who have studied and reacted to these needs speak of the urgency and their experiences with both private and public plans.

After years of consolidation, there has been a trend among large global multinationals to divest its non-core businesses and focus their efforts on their core business. It is customary for the divested businesses to inherit the retirement programs that are not aligned with the spinoff company’s business model. In this session we will first discuss what companies need to do to prepare for the spinoff from a pension accounting perspective. Then we will address how divested companies have dealt with the challenge of inheriting global programs that may not necessarily align with the company’s business objective.

There are numerous topics being addressed in Europe (particularly in the Netherlands) and Latin America. During this session, panelists discuss some of the current topics within these geographic areas, how local teams are addressing them, and their points of view.