Sunday, September 30, 2012

On October 16, 2012, thousands of CFOs,Treasurers, Vice Presidents of Finance and other corporate leaders will meet in Miami, Florida for a chance to attend timely and informative sessions as part of this year's annual conference of the Association for Financial Professionals ("AFP"). Dr. Susan Mangiero is proud to have been selected to speak at the Association for Financial Professionals' big event. She will be joined by senior ERISA litigation attorney Howard Shapiro with Proskauer Rose LLP to address the topic of CFO liability and pension plan governance and risk management. Click to access information about the Pension & Benefits educational session track that includes this important session and many others.

According to Dr. Susan Mangiero, a managing director with FTI Consulting's Forensic and Litigation Consulting practice and based in New York, financial professionals, board members and their advisors can learn numerous lessons by examining what went wrong elsewhere and, by extension, what to avoid. Mangiero emphasizes that "Litigation is a reality. Mitigating enforcement, regulatory, litigation and reputation risk is hugely important because of the expensive consequences of inaction. For enlightened companies both large and small, employee benefit plan governance is high on the priority list for officers and directors. When retirement plan problems exist, it could compromise a firm's ability to raise capital, finalize corporate finance transactions and/or add to enterprise value. Most importantly, it could mean that a company is unable to keep its promises to plan participants."

Dr. Mangiero is also the author of "Pension risk, governance and CFO liability" (Journal of Corporate Treasury Management, Henry Stewart Publications, Vol. 4, 4, 2012, pages 311 to 323). Click to read "Pension risk, governance and CFO liability."

Click to read "The Risk Manager" by Elliot A. Fuhr and Christine Wu McDonagh (FTI Journal, April 1, 2012) for a current discussion about the importance of having chief financial officers embrace and support enterprise risk mitigation.