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View our complete list of web briefings

Mercer holds regular live web briefings on a wide range of HR topics. You can enroll to attend the upcoming live briefings and view recorded versions of all of the sessions.

Web briefing: Are you (and your employees) paying too much for your 401(k) plan?

In this 14 December web briefing, we will provide an overview of the recent class action lawsuits, background on the various fees and investment expenses typically found in defined contribution plans, a discussion of plan sponsors’ governance responsibilities and a suggested course of action for plan sponsors. After 14 December, you can view a recording.

Web briefing: Changes to US pension liabilities (FAS87)

On 19 October, we are holding a web briefing for finance professionals on the implications of FAS 87 for European companies listed on US stock exchanges or with a US parent. After 19 October, you can view a recording.

Web briefing: The final word from FASB

In March of this year, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued an exposure draft on the first phase of accounting overhaul for pension, retiree medical and other postretirement benefit plans. Learn more from our 12 October briefing.

Web briefing: Pension plans in China

China’s economic ascendancy is capturing the world’s imagination and continues to attract billions of dollars of direct foreign investment. But what impact has this had on its pension market? 

Mercer's Global HR Conference

If you attend only one HR conference in 2006, make it the Mercer Global HR Conference... it is an unrivaled opportunity to network with peers and thought leaders, and offers the most practical and actionable ideas for engaging your work force. YOu can register now for the event on 5-7 December in Washington DC.

2006 UK pension forums

In this series of free two hour forums, we will examine the immediate and the practical ‘must dos’ arising from the 2004 Pension and Finance Acts, as well as exploring new opportunities, offering solutions, and presenting new ideas.

Web briefing: Financial management of a frozen pension plan: How to do it right 

Many high profile companies have either frozen their pension plans or are about to do so, and your organization may be in the same situation. When a plan is frozen, immediate cost savings are usually realized, but there is still the potential for significant ongoing cost and financial volatility for the sponsor of a frozen plan. In this recorded web briefing, Mercer's experts describe how Frozen Plan Solutions help clients integrate frozen plan management, administration and asset management and maximize the benefits of freezing a pension plan.

Web briefing: Pension reform update

The New Year is expected to bring new requirements and new challenges for pension plan sponsors, with impending pension funding and accounting reforms likely to have a dramatic financial and administrative impact on plan sponsors. Please join us to to learn more in a one-hour, recorded web briefing. 

Web briefing: US pension reform update 2006

New requirements and new challenges are coming in 2006 for US pension plan sponsors, with impending pension funding and accounting reforms likely to have a dramatic impact on plan sponsors. Join our web briefing on 31 January 2006 to learn more.

UK Pensions Knowledge courses 2006

Trustees now have a new statutory duty to have knowledge and
understanding of the law relating to pensions and trusts, general funding and investment principles; and to become conversant with their scheme documentation. No grace period will be granted for existing trustees – they must have attained the required standard from day one.

Our new course programme is designed to help provide answers to the challenges faced by trustees as a result of the Act as they prepare themselves for the new requirements.

Web briefing: US pension reform update 2005

Mercer's experts - Ethan Kra, Geof Manville and Heidi Rackley - are featured in this free one-hour recorded web briefing covering the Boehner bills, including the likely impact of the bills on defined benefit plan sponsors, and where we think pension funding reform and cash balance legislation are headed from here in the US.

Web briefing: Countdown to IFRS (Europe)

Watch this free recorded web briefing on the transition to the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)

Web briefing: Global funding strategies and policies: Direction and implementation

Funding pension liabilities has become a greater issue recently due to the “perfect storm” of stock market losses and declining interest rates driving up pension liabilities. Many multinational employers are wrestling with how to govern funding decisions, how to divide their limited cash among different geographies, and how to implement pension funding decisions effectively. Watch a free one-hour recording of this session. The presenters were Yves McGale and David Newman.