NCB Insurance Company Limited (NCBIC) will be hosting a pensions seminar tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. at the Half Moon Hotel in Montego Bay and Thursday, March 13, 2008, at 8:30 a.m. at the Knutsford Court Hotel in Kingston. The theme of this year's seminar will be 'Strategic Manage-ment of Pension Assets to Deliver Maximum Plan Benefits".

The main presenter at this year's seminar will be Robin Ellison, pensions attorney and head of strategic development at Pinsent Mason, a United Kingdom law firm which specialises in the development of pensions and related financial products and services for insurers and other providers. Ellison also specialises in European and international pensions, pensions trustee law and pensions in matrimonial matters.

Author

Ellison is the author of numerous books on pensions, including Pensions Law and Practice (Sweet & Maxwell), The Pension Trustees Handbook (Thorogood), Family Breakdown and Pensions (Butter-woods 2001, second edition) and Pensions Fund Investment Law (Tottel) 2008. He is also the editor of Pensions Benefits Law Reports.

George Roper, acting executive director at the Financial Services Commission, and Peter Goldson, attorney-at-law, will be the other presenters at the Montego Bay seminar. The Kingston presenters and panellists in Kingston will be Senator Don Wehby, minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service; Astor Duggan, actuary, and Angela Fowler, attorney-at-law.

Topics to be explored include:

Trustees' role in the management of pension assets to deliver maximum benefits.

Amendments to the Income Tax Act.

Proposed amendments to the pensions regulations - Phase II.