Preliminary Agenda for Telephonic Meeting of the Variable Insurance Products Advisory Committee on December 14
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November 16, 2017
TO: Variable Insurance Products Advisory Committee RE: Preliminary Agenda for Telephonic Meeting of the Variable Insurance Products Advisory Committee on December 14
Attached to this memorandum is a preliminary agenda for the telephonic meeting of the Variable Insurance Products Advisory Committee on Thursday, December 14, 2017. The meeting will begin at 10:30 a.m. Eastern time and will end no later than 1:00 p.m. Eastern time.
We are pleased to have two sets of guest speakers at our meeting. Bill Kotapish, Assistant Director, and Harry Eisenstein, Senior Special Counsel, in the SEC’s Division of Investment Management, will join us to discuss recent SEC initiatives in the insurance products area. Ruth Epstein, Partner at Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP, will join us to discuss Treasury’s recent Asset Management and Insurance Report.
We also will provide updates from ICI staff on timely issues of interest to the Committee, followed by 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 linda.french@ici.org and sarah.bessin@ici.org, you include questions or topics you would like to raise with your colleagues at the meeting, as well as questions you would like to raise, or have us raise, with the SEC staff. We have a great agenda and hope you will be able to join us!
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 Jennifer Odom at (202) 326-5833 or jodom@ici.org.
Although this will be a telephonic meeting of the committee, if your firm is in the Washington, DC 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, NW, 12th Floor, Washington, DC.
We look forward to your participation on December 14th!
Sarah A. Bessin
Associate General Counsel
Linda M. French
Assistant General Counsel