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Prior to joining Fiduciary Counselors in 1999, from 1993 to 1998, Ms. Hennessy served as Deputy Executive Director and Chief Negotiator of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), the federal agency that guarantees private defined benefit pensions.
She represented PBGC in negotiations with major corporate pension plan sponsors and unions in a wide range of industries, including auto, steel, chemical, textile and airlines.
Before joining PBGC, Ms. Hennessy was a partner in the law firm of Willkie Farr & Gallagher.
In her twelve years of private law practice, she advised clients on a wide range of benefit, investment and corporate governance issues.
She began her legal career as an attorney in two of the three federal agencies that regulate employee benefits, first in the Office of the Chief Counsel at the Internal Revenue Service (1978-80) and then at the PBGC (1980-81).
Ms. Hennessy has chaired the ABA Joint Committee on Employee Benefits and the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Committee in the ABA Section of Business Law.
Since 1985, Ms. Hennessy has been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where she helped develop the graduate certificate program in employee benefits.
She currently teaches a graduate law seminar on Employee Benefits in Corporate Transactions.
She was a founding Board member of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel and she is also a founding member and past President of the Worldwide Employee Benefits Network (WEB).
Ms. Hennessy received her B.A. from James Madison College at Michigan State University in 1971, her J.D.
from the Catholic University of America in 1978 and her L.L.M.
in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center in 1984.
Her publications include ERISA—Fiduciary Responsibility and Prohibited Transactions (BNA Tax Management Portfolio No.
365) and the HR and Benefits Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions (Thompson Publishing 2001).
Anciens postes connus de Nell Anne Hennessy
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Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. Investment ManagersFinance PBGC's investment policy is established by the agency’s Board of Directors, composed of the US Secretaries of Labor, Treasury, and Commerce. The Board has established an investment policy that, for the Single-Employer Program, uses a Liability Driven Investment (LDI) approach. Under that approach, the firm employs an asset allocation glidepath under which the investment portfolio risk is reduced as funded status improves. The agency’s Multiemployer Program assets are invested solely in US government securities. PBGC established the Smaller Asset Managers Pilot (SAMP) Program to provide opportunities for smaller investment management firms to manage some of the agency’s fixed income assets. The Pilot Program has been successful in achieving its objectives and PBGC has established the Smaller Asset Managers Program as an ongoing program. | Corporate Officer/Principal | 31/12/2008 |
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Provides legal services | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
Fiduciary Counselors, Inc.
Fiduciary Counselors, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Fiduciary Counselors performs their services as an independent fiduciary, they act in accordance with the terms of each plan, including each plan’s provisions relating to investment in company stock, unless doing so would be inconsistent with Title I of ERISA. The firm monitors the financial position of the company by reviewing their periodic and other filings with the SEC, reviewing credit rating reports, reviewing key analyst reports on the company, participating in company calls with analysts, and monitoring significant business developments and litigation. Their investment committee meets weekly to review developments with respect to each company whose stock they monitor. | President | - |
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Michigan State University
Michigan State University Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University | Consumer Services |
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. Investment ManagersFinance PBGC's investment policy is established by the agency’s Board of Directors, composed of the US Secretaries of Labor, Treasury, and Commerce. The Board has established an investment policy that, for the Single-Employer Program, uses a Liability Driven Investment (LDI) approach. Under that approach, the firm employs an asset allocation glidepath under which the investment portfolio risk is reduced as funded status improves. The agency’s Multiemployer Program assets are invested solely in US government securities. PBGC established the Smaller Asset Managers Pilot (SAMP) Program to provide opportunities for smaller investment management firms to manage some of the agency’s fixed income assets. The Pilot Program has been successful in achieving its objectives and PBGC has established the Smaller Asset Managers Program as an ongoing program. | Finance |
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Provides legal services | Commercial Services |
Université Catholique de Louvain
Université Catholique de Louvain Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University | Consumer Services |
Fiduciary Counselors, Inc.
Fiduciary Counselors, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Fiduciary Counselors performs their services as an independent fiduciary, they act in accordance with the terms of each plan, including each plan’s provisions relating to investment in company stock, unless doing so would be inconsistent with Title I of ERISA. The firm monitors the financial position of the company by reviewing their periodic and other filings with the SEC, reviewing credit rating reports, reviewing key analyst reports on the company, participating in company calls with analysts, and monitoring significant business developments and litigation. Their investment committee meets weekly to review developments with respect to each company whose stock they monitor. | Finance |
















