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Retirement Plan Investment Committee

General Description

Responsibility

The Committee’s primary responsibility is to choose and monitor plan funding options in a prudent manner ensuring that the Society fulfills its Plan Sponsor responsibilities. The Committee will make reports to the Board concerning its activities at least annually.

Principal Activities

The principal activities of the Committee include:

Other Activities

The Committee may choose to hire an outside Independent Investment Advisor/Manager to:

Miscellaneous Information

The Committee will meet at least annually, not necessarily in person, but may meet at other times as needed to carry out fiduciary responsibilities.

Staff support for the Committee is provided by the Director of Human Resources and the Chief Financial Officer.

The Society will maintain a website with information relevant to the Investment Committee. Such information will include minutes, investment performance information, and other information relating to the Society’s retirement plan investments.

Note to the Chair

For the purpose of archiving the committee activities, the Secretary maintains a central file system for archiving committee records. Committee Chairs are asked to submit committee records on yearly basis. Chairs can submit material at their discretion, and some materials that they may wish to provide are meeting minutes, agenda, and emails. Confidential material should be noted, so that it can be handled in a confidential manner.

Authorization

Past Members

A list of current and past members is available here:
http://www.ams.org/about-us/governance/committees/retireplan-past.html