Wisconsin Coalition of Annuitants
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
Thursday, May 11, 2023 | 9:30am - 12:00pm
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Thursday, May 18, 2023 | 9:30am - 12:00pm
Please join us for this FREE 2-day event where we will be hearing from:
J. Michael Collins | Professor and Faculty director, Center for Financial Security, School of Human Ecology at the La Follette School of Public Affairs. |
Edwin Denson | Executive Director/Chief Investment Officer, State of Wisconsin Investment Board |
John Voelker | Secretary of Wisconsin Employee Trust Funds |
Dr. Ed Weisbart | National Board Secretary and Missouri chapter Chair of Physicians for a National Health Program. |
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9:30 | Welcome - Diane Wilcenski, WCOA President |
9:35 | Edwin Denson, State of Wisconsin Investment Board Question & Answer Session with Exec. Dir./Chief Investment Officer Denson |
10:45 |
Trends in the economy, housing, health care and the Social Security Administration Professor J. Michael Collins Question & Answer Session with Professor Collins |
11:45 | Closing Remarks - Diane Wilcenski, WCOA President |
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9:30 | Welcome - Diane Wilcenski, WCOA President |
9:35 | ''Meeting Our Dependability Obligation' John Voelker, Secretary of Employee Trust Funds Question & Answer Session with Secretary Voelker |
10:45 | Medicare Advantage – What is it really and why should we care? Dr. Ed Weisbart Question & Answer Session with Dr. Weisbart |
11:45 | Blair Testin Award |
12:00 | Closing Remarks - Diane Wilcenski, WCOA President |
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J. Michael Collins is Professor of Public Affairs and Human Ecology where he is Fetzer Family Chair in Consumer and Personal Finance. Collins serves as Faculty Director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for Financial Security. He is a faculty affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty, and the Center for Demography and Ecology. Collins studies consumer decision-making in the financial marketplace, including the role of public policy in influencing credit, savings and investment choices.
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Edwin joined SWIB in 2018 as managing director, asset and risk allocation. He was appointed executive director/chief investment officer in April 2021.
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John Voelker became the Secretary of the Department of Employee Trust Funds on April 5, 2021.
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Ed Weisbart MD is the national board secretary and MO chapter chair of Physicians
for a National Health Program, a non-profit non-partisan organization of more than
25,000 physicians and other healthcare advocates in support of a publicly financed,
non-profit single-payer national health insurance program that would fully cover
medical care for all Americans.
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