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

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.