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108-Getting Your DB Plan Out of Neutral 
Many defined benefit plans have made little progress toward improving their funded status over the past decade. Even if rates spike and markets improve, many companies are not prepared to act accordingly and are unlikely to understand the compliance hurdles of the termination process. This session introduces the best practices from an actuarial, asset allocation and legal standpoint that companies can use to move their plans toward ongoing sufficiency with certainty - and eventual termination.
Learning Objectives:
Understand what economic trends or events from recent history contributed to the funded status dilemma most defined benefit plans face today and learn how to take advantage of future events if prepared accordingly.
Change your perspective of how you view your defined benefit plan liabilities - as a collateralized debt obligation of the corporation which needs to be managed within an enterprise risk framework. 
Start your way toward developing a game plan for greater certainty on the road toward eventual plan termination while knowing what to look out for along the way.
Steve Gould, FSA, P-Solve Cassidy
Steve is a consulting actuary with P-Solve Cassidy, supporting their efforts in pension finance and enterprise risk management. Steve brings his vast experience after a 30-year career at Towers Watson as a global consulting actuary. Within the Global Consulting Group, he was the lead expert on pension risk management and advised multinational companies and plan trustees in numerous countries including the U.S., Canada, U.K., Netherlands and Switzerland. In prior roles he worked with many colleges and universities assisting in the design and implementation of their defined benefit and 403(b) retirement programs. Steve is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Steve’s professional designations include Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA), Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder, and Enrolled Actuary (EA). 

Ryan McGlothlin, P-Solve Cassidy
Ryan manages the US pension advisory and global insurance advisory businesses for P-Solve. In this capacity he helps develop investment and financial risk management strategies that are based on the unique risks and investment objectives of each client. Ryan joined P-Solve in 2007 from Barclays Capital where he developed financial risk management strategies for European institutional investors. He has over 15 years in the finance industry having begun his career as an investment banker working with natural resources companies. 

Ryan holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a B.A. (Plan II Honors) from the University of Texas at Austin.