Buck Bond Group
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About Buck

Buck is an integrated HR, pensions, and employee benefits consulting, technology, and administration services firm. Founded more than 100 years ago as an actuarial consultancy committed to establishing sound retirement plans, we’ve evolved to serve HR departments and trustees across the health, wealth, and career spectrum. Our areas of focus range from health and wellbeing to retirement and investment to pension and benefits administration.

With the ultimate goal of securing the futures of our clients’ employees and members, we develop tech-enabled programmes that engage and drive individual and organisational growth. Committed to the needs of today’s dynamic workforce, our people-first approach empowers the world’s most forward-thinking organisations to protect the physical and financial wellbeing of their employees and members and improve how their people work and live.

Expertise

For trustees and plan sponsors

Learn more : Consulting

We work with you to understand your actuarial, governance and secretarial, investment, and engagement needs, informing and consulting with industry leading knowledge and innovation.

Learn more : Administration

We work with you to implement defined benefit and defined contribution pension administration services, while recognising your budget, strategy, and communications needs.

Expertise

For HR and reward professionals

Learn more : Consulting

We look across the health, wealth, and career spectrum to ensure your plans and programmes help your business succeed and your people thrive at work and in life.

Learn more : Technology

Our integrated technology solutions equip organisations with the tools you need to manage reward programmes, promote employee wellbeing, and drive business growth.

Learn more : Administration

We work with you to implement benefits and employee equity administration services, while recognising your budget, strategy, and communications needs.

Events

Conference: 2023 Art & Science of Health Promotion

Conference: 2023 Art & Science of Health Promotion

Location: The Broadmoor, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Dates | Times: March 30 | 3:15 - 4:20 pm MT and March 31 | 1:45 - 2:50 pm MT

Topic: Rethinking gender: How benefit plans, sponsors, and trustees can – and must – adapt

Speakers: Karen DeBortoli, B.A., LL.B., Principal, Knowledge Resource Centre

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Webinar: Leading through a world of uncertainty

Webinar: Leading through a world of uncertainty

This webinar is hosted by Leading Figures

4 PM GMT / 11 AM EDT

Topic: Join a panel of leaders who will discuss these turbulent times and will share the skills they have developed and drawn on along the way.

Speakers: Dean Aloise, U.S. Managing Director at Buck, Bill McCall, Corporate Financier and Board Chair, Past President of the Chartered Banker Institute, and Marjorie Ngwenya, Past President of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, External Member of the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Committee, Associate Coach with Leading Figures

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Conference: Council on Employee Benefits 77th Annual Conference

Conference: Council on Employee Benefits 77th Annual Conference

The Council on Employee Benefits (CEB) is a trusted place where benefits professionals from leading companies and global brands gather to learn from each other.

Location: Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables/Miami, FL

April 25, 2023 | 3:00 - 5:00 PM ET
Session topic: Peers and poker chips: Strategic planning using conference learnings
Workshop topic: Health equity: Pursuing equity in an inequitable landscape
Speaker: Leah Reynolds, Principal and U.S. Engagement Growth Leader (Buck)

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Virtual conference: CCA Enrolled Actuaries

Virtual conference: CCA Enrolled Actuaries

May 1, 2023

1:35 - 2:45 PM CT
Session topic: 1-C-1 - Late breaking developments
Buck speaker: Tonya Manning, Principal, Wealth Practice Leader and Chief Actuary

3:15 - 2:30 PM CT
Session topic: 1-D-3 - Funding method changes - Where's the fun in that?
Buck speaker: Mike Antoine, Director, Retirement Actuary

May 3, 2023

11:15 AM - 12:55 PM CT
Session topic: 2-B-1 - Ethics
Buck speakers: Audrey Cervas, Director, Retirement Actuary and David Scharf, Principal, Retirement Actuary

1:30 - 2:45 PM CT
Session topic: 2-C-2 - Rules of thumb and estimation techniques
Buck speakers: James Berbarian, Principal, Retirement Actuary and Stuart Schulman, Principal, Retirement Actuary

3:15 - 4:30 PM CT
Session topic: 2-D-2 - Plan termination consulting and considerations
Buck speaker: Hilja Viidemann, Director, Retirement Actuary

3:15 - 4:30 PM CT
Session topic: 2-D-3 - Effect of ASOP 4 on public plans
Buck speaker: Kelly Adams, Principal, Public Sector Retirement Leader

May 5, 2023

9:30 - 10:45 AM CT
Session topic: 3-A-3 - Experience studies for medium-sized plans
Buck speakers: James Berbarian, Principal, Retirement Actuary and Maria Simmers, Senior Consultant, Retirement Actuary

1:00 - 2:15 PM CT
Session topic: 3-C-1 - Single employer regulator update: IRS, PBGC, and Treasury
Buck speaker: Tonya Manning, Principal, Wealth Practice Leader and Chief Actuary

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