Noted Authors Will Share Retirement Income Insights and Trends at RIIA Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner

BOSTON, MA, Sep 05 (MARKET WIRE) --
Several noted authors will be sharing their insights and participating in
a book signing at the upcoming Retirement Income Industry Association's
(RIIA) Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner.

David Warsh, author of "Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations: A Story of
Economic Discovery," will be a featured speaker. Warsh is the editor of
EconomicPrincipals.com and covered economics for The Boston Globe for 20
years. He also reported on business for Forbes Magazine and The Wall
Street Journal.

Warsh will be joined for a book signing by:

Boston University Professor Zvi Bodie, a co-author with Robert Merton and
David Cleeton of the book, "Financial Economics."

Executive Director of The IFID Centre and associate professor at York
University Moshe Milevsky, author of "Are You a Stock or a Bond?"

In addition, copies of "Shaping Things" by Hugo Award-winning science
fiction author and futurist Bruce Sterling will be available. Sterling
will be the keynote speaker at the February 2009 Managing Retirement
Income Conference which is sponsored by RIIA.

"It's with great excitement that we bring together these incredibly
talented and insightful authors at this unique event," comments Francois
Gadenne, Executive Director and Chair of RIIA.

The RIIA Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner gathering is designed to bring
to light the newest thinking, the freshest views and the broadest range of
perspectives in the retirement income industry today. Gold Sponsors of the
event are Bank of America and DWS Investments. Wealth2k, Inc. is the
Silver Sponsor.

The event will be held on September 21 - 22, 2008 at the Hyatt Harborside
in Boston, MA and registration is still open for RIIA members and
non-members. For complete details go to:
www.riia-usa.org/conferences/default.asp. Members of the media are also
welcome to attend.

About the Retirement Income Industry Association

RIIA (www.riia-usa.org) is a national, not-for-profit organization whose
members are defining the future of retirement security in the United
States. RIIA provides the "view across silos" as a forum for sharing
information, strategies and research which involve the leading companies
in the industry, academia, researchers and professional services firms.
The organization offers unprecedented opportunities for networking and
accessing the best minds in addressing the challenges in creating a secure
retirement for millions of Americans.

Media Contact:
Susan Bumstead Chanley
781-587-0115
sbumsteadchanley@comcast.net

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