Conference hosts

J.P. Morgan is part of JPMorgan Chase & Co, a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.2 trillion. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management, and private equity. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase serves millions of clients and consumers under its J.P. Morgan and Chase, and WaMu brands. J.P. Morgan's Global Pension Advisory Group addresses the needs of pension plan sponsors, trustees and fiduciaries as they confront the complex issues associated with the management of their employee retirement plans. The group is an acknowledged leader in the provision of longevity risk transfer solutions for pension plans and insurers. It has actively promoted the development of this market through initiatives that include LifeMetrics, an open-source and publicly available toolkit for measuring and managing longevity risk, designed for pension plans, sponsors, insurers, reinsurers and investors.

St. John's University School of Risk Management
The School of Risk Management, a division of The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, evolved from the 2001 merger of the 100-year-old College of Insurance and St. John's University.

The Academic Programs of the School of Risk Management, which include an M.S. and M.B.A. in Risk Management and Insurance, are located in a self-contained, 10-story campus in Manhattan's financial district at 101 Murray Street (between Greenwich Street and West Street). All of the degree programs offered by the Tobin College of Business are fully accredited by AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. In addition to being one of only 25% of business schools internationally to hold this prestigious accreditation, the School of Risk Management is a global leader in risk and insurance education. Additionally, the School of Risk Management's Center for Professional Education offers workshops, certificate programs and professional designation examination preparation courses, as well as consulting services to industry, governments and regulators worldwide. For more than 30 years, the Center has served the educational needs of more than 10,000 professionals in the insurance, risk management and financial services industries.

Pensions Institute
The objectives of the Pensions Institute are:

to undertake high quality research in all fields related to pensions
to communicate the results of that research to the academic and practitioner community
to establish an international network of pensions researchers from a variety of disciplines
to provide expert independent advice to the pensions industry and government.

We take a fully multidisciplinary approach. For the first time disciplines such as economics, finance, insurance, and actuarial science through to accounting, corporate governance, law and regulation have been brought together in order to enhance strategic thinking, research and teaching in pensions. As the first and only UK academic research centre focused entirely on pensions, the Pensions Institute unites some of the world’s leading experts in these fields in order to offer an integrated approach to the complex problems that arise in this field. The Pensions Institute undertakes research in a wide range of fields, including:

Pension microeconomics
The economics of individual and corporate pension planning, long term savings and retirement decisions.
Pension fund management and performance
The investment management and investment performance of occupational and personal pension schemes.
Pension funding and valuations
The actuarial and insurance issues related to pension schemes, including risk management, asset liability management, funding, scheme design, annuities, and guarantees.
Pension law and regulation
The legal aspects of pension schemes and pension fund management.
Pension accounting, taxation and administration
The operational aspects of running pension schemes.
Marketing
The practice and ethics of selling group and individual pension products.
Macroeconomics of pensions
The implications of aggregate pension savings and the impact of the size and maturity of pension funds on other sectors of the economy (e.g. corporate, public and international sectors).
Public policy
Domestic and EU social policy towards pension provision and other employee benefits in the light of factors such as the Social Chapter of the Maastricht Treaty and the demographic developments in Europe and other countries. Research disseminated by the Pensions Institute may include views on policy but the Pensions Institute itself takes no institutional policy positions.