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      <title>Mountains and Moguls: Emerging Retirement Plan Trends in the Wake of GASB (2/9/2012 - Denver, Colorado)</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Join Clifton Gunderson, Innovest and GRS for an informative seminar on Thursday, February 9th as our complimentary team of presenters will give an overview of the proposed statement of&amp;nbsp; GASB on financial reporting and accounting for pension plans. They will discuss how current reporting trends may be affected, and what the impacts will be for both accounting and investments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Specific topics to be covered include the following:&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;p&gt;Changes in the proposed statement of GASB on Financial Reporting and Accounting for Pension Plans.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Accounting impacts may be with this change and how this might affect your plan including:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&amp;nbsp;Net pension liability and the use of the blended discount rate&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&amp;nbsp;Size and volatility of the net pension liability&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&amp;nbsp;New method to determine the annual pension expense&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;How funding and accounting have related to each other in the past, and how they will relate to each other going forward. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Differences in the new pension funding policy with the elimination of the ARC.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ways in which the new accounting rules could impact benefit policy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Possible impacts to your plan's investments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Benefits and risks of ways to mitigate volatility in pension plans.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We also invite you to submit questions relating to this topic that you would like answered during the presentation at &lt;a href="mailto:stephanie.fortner@cliftoncpa.com"&gt;stephanie.fortner@cliftoncpa.com&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Agenda&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Registration/Breakfast at 7:30 am&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Program begins at 8:00 am&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Texas Credit Union League Annual Meeting and Expo (4/17/2012 - Galveston, Texas)</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;2012 Texas Credit Union Annual Meeting and Expo&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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