Welcome!

Welcome to the website for the 2010 IRI Marketing Conference being held February 21-23, 2010 in New York, NY.

The Insured Retirement Institute will be holding its first Marketing Conference as IRI in February, following our incredibly successful September Annual Meeting in Boston. 

Building on that success, the Marketing Conference will offer motivating and engaging keynote speakers, new approaches for the financial services industry, and the latest trends in marketing insured retirement strategies. Attendees include heads of distribution, marketing, sales, investments, and product and business development in the financial services industry.  

Click here to register for the IRI 2010 Marketing Conference.

Click here to make your hotel reservations at the Hilton New York.

Click here to view the final program.

IRI is the only association that brings together the entire insured retirement strategies industry for the good of consumers.

Thanks for visiting and I look forward to seeing you in New York this February.

Cathy Weatherford
Insured Retirement Institute
CEO and President

Featured Keynote Speakers

• James Glassman, former Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Economic Expert and CNN talk show moderator – “What’s ahead for the Economy?”  
• Dan Gilbert, Bestselling Author, Researcher, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University – “Stumbling into Happiness”
• J.D. Kleinke, Chairman and CEO, Omnimedix Institute and Medical Economist – “Healthcare and its Impact on Retirement”
• Marci Rossell, Former Chief Economist for CNBC – “Nexus of Economics, Politics, Culture & the Media”  
• Jeff Skiles, Co-Pilot of Flight 1549 – “Lessons from the Miracle on the Hudson”

Session Topics

• The Next Wave of Insured Retirement Products
• Financial Advisor Perspective
• Retirement Income – Service or Product?
• What Messages Resonate with Consumers
• Simple Annuity and other New Products Design
• Non-Traditional Income Benefits
• How the Annuity Industry Can Support the IRA
• Merits of Passive vs. Active Management
• How Can we Grow Market Share?
• Why our Industry Should Care about Social Media
• Income Strategy for Advisors