Variable Insurance Products Advisory Committee Meeting on December 18, 2013 - Please Note Change In Time and Updated Agenda
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December 9, 2013
TO: VARIABLE INSURANCE PRODUCTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE No. 20-13 RE: VARIABLE INSURANCE PRODUCTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING ON DECEMBER 18, 2013 - PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN TIME AND UPDATED AGENDA
Please note that the time of the next meeting of the Variable Insurance Products Advisory Committee on Wednesday, December 18, 2013, has been changed slightly. The meeting will now take place from 11:15 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. (Eastern) time to accommodate our guest speakers. The attached agenda reflects the change in schedule.
Please note that this is the first telephonic meeting of the Committee, although if your firm is in the Washington, D.C. area, or you otherwise plan to be in the area that day, you are welcome to join us in person at the offices of the Investment Company Institute, 1401 H Street, N.W., 12th Floor, Washington, DC. As discussed at prior meetings, beginning with this meeting, our December meetings will be telephonic (with the option to attend in person), and our June meetings will be held in person.
We will be introducing a new format at this December 18th telephonic meeting. We will provide an opportunity for members to lead a series of short discussions on issues on which you would like to solicit your colleagues’ feedback (i.e., “shop talk”). We therefore request that, either on the online form or in an email to sarah.bessin@ici.org, you include questions or topics you would like to raise with your colleagues at the meeting. Following the shop talk discussion, Susan Nash, Associate Director, and Bill Kotapish, Assistant Director, of the SEC’s Division of Investment Management, will be joining us at the meeting to discuss recent SEC initiatives in the insurance products area. We also plan to discuss other timely issues of interest to the Committee.
Registration can be accomplished online at www.ici.org/reg/vipac. After you have registered for the meeting, you will be provided with dial-in information. If you have questions about registration, please contact Kiera Robinson at (202) 326-5818 or kiera.robinson@ici.org. In addition, please include any topics you would like to discuss at the meeting on the online form. We look forward to seeing you on December 18th!
Sarah A. Bessin
Senior Counsel