Meeting - Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans

The Working Groups assigned by the Advisory Council to study the issues of (1) The ``spend down'' of retirement assets, (2), phased retirement, and (3) hard to value assets/target date funds will hold a public meeting on November 5, 2008. The meeting will take place in C5515, Room 3, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210. The purpose of the open meeting on November 5, which will start at 1 p.m., is for Working Group members to discuss their recommendations for the reports to be presented by the Advisory Council to the Secretary. The 144th open meeting of the full Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans will be held on November 6, 2008. The meeting will run from 9:30 a.m. to approximately 4:30 p.m., with a break for lunch. The purpose of the open meeting is for the chairpersons of the three Advisory Council Working Groups to submit their findings and recommendations on their individual study topics for the full Advisory Council's review, acceptance, and presentation to the Secretary of Labor.