August 16, 2010
Schiff Hardin LLP's Bradford P. Campbell, Of Counsel in the firm's Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation group, and Allan Horwich, Partner in the Securities and Futures Regulation group, will speak at the Federated Investors Retirement Symposium in Chicago on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010.
Mr. Campbell's speech, "ERISA in Flux: Where We Are, and Where We Might Be Going," will discuss an intermediary's status as a fiduciary, how intermediaries may provide investment advice to plan participants, the significance of fee disclosure in the new Form 5500, as well as provide an update from Washington on new and pending regulatory initiatives. Mr. Horwich will present, "Ethical Issues Facing the Financial Services Industry."
The symposium, titled "The Retirement Riddle and the Role of the Financial Adviser — What Should You Know?" will focus on addressing current issues in the retirement market and practical issues that financial advisors face on a daily basis.
About Bradford P. Campbell
Bradford P. Campbell concentrates his practice in employee benefits and ERISA litigation, specializing in ERISA Title I issues, including fiduciary conduct and prohibited transactions.
A nationally recognized figure on employer-sponsored retirement, health and other welfare benefit plans, he is the former Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employee Benefits and head of the Employee Benefits Security Administration. As ERISA's former "top cop" and primary federal regulator, he provides his clients with insight and knowledge across a broad range of ERISA-plan related issues. While in public service, Mr. Campbell played a key role in every significant ERISA retirement and health reform effort for nearly a decade, and his regulatory and policy decisions had a fundamental impact on the structure and operation of ERISA plans.
About Allan Horwich
Allan Horwich has practiced more than 40 years in corporate counseling and litigation. He has advised corporations, financial institutions, investors, securities professionals and boards of directors on a wide range of questions, including disclosure, corporate governance, corporate compliance, fiduciary duty and insider trading. During his career he has litigated cases, including individual, class actions and derivative claims, throughout the country under all federal securities laws and represented clients in Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigations and proceedings. Mr. Horwich is also a Senior Lecturer on the residential faculty at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, where he teaches securities law and other subjects. His articles on the securities laws have appeared in a number of scholarly and practitioner publications.