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Winter System Roundtable and Joint Legislative Conference

Start Date: 2/28/2026 7:00 AM EST
End Date: 3/2/2026 5:45 PM EST

Venue Name: Park Hyatt Washington, D.C.

Location:

1201 24th Street NW
Washington, DC United States 20037

Event Website: http://www.nasra.org

Organization Name: NASRA

Contact:

Rachel Tillman
Email: rtillman@coolrivermarketing.com
Phone: (202) 251-3625

Sponsor: NASRA

Email: dana@nasra.org

Website: http://www.nasra.org

We are looking forward to connecting with you in person at this year's meeting! Please review the agenda information listed below.

Preliminary Agenda

February 28, 2026

NASRA Winter Meeting

3:00 pm – 5:30 pm Conference Registration Open

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Reception for All Early Arrivals

March 1, 2026

NASRA System Roundtable

9:30 am – 5:30 pm Conference Registration Open

11:00 am –12:00 pm Member Connections

This session is for all NASRA members and associates to make introductions, learn about association resources, and network with colleagues.

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch (open to all registered attendees)

1:00 pm – 5:00 pm NASRA Systems' Roundtable

This closed-door session is for Retirement System CEOs and Senior Staff to have interactive discussions of leading issues facing public plans in states around the country.

5:30 pm Reception and Dinner, Chef Geoff's

Open to all registered attendees

March 2, 2026

Joint Legislative Conference

8:00 am – 12:00 pm Conference Registration Open

8:00 am – 9:00 am Networking Breakfast (Open to all registered attendees)

9:00 am – 4:30 pm Joint NASRA/NCTR Federal Legislative & Regulatory Forum

All registered attendees are invited to this day’s networking activities and sessions full of analysis and forecasts of current federal activities affecting the industry.

9:00 am Welcome

9:10 am Stage Setting: NASRA/NCTR Federal Relations

9:45 am Bipartisan Political & Policy Keynote: Bruce Mehlman
10:45 am Networking Break

11:00 am Economic Keynote: Daleep Singh

12:00 pm Networking Lunch

1:00 pm Panel Discussion: Federal Regulatory & Legislative Proposals Affecting Plan Investments

2:00 pm Panel Discussion: Anticipated Tax & Retirement Legislation/Regulations

3:00 pm Networking Break

3:15 pm Panel Discussion: Social Security Reform and Possible Impacts

4:15 pm CPRS Meeting

-Joint legislative conference ends-

5:30 pm. NIRS Reception

For those attending the NIRS Policy Conference, separate registration is required through your NIRS membership.

Economic Keynote,

Daleep Singh, PGIM

?Daleep Singh is Vice Chair and Chief Global Economist at PGIM Fixed Income. In this capacity, Mr. Singh oversees the firm’s Global Macroeconomic Research team, leading the formulation of the outlook across developed and emerging economies, analyzing key structural shifts, and synthesizing the implications for financial markets. He is also a member of the senior investment team and provides thought leadership on global policy and macroeconomic trends.

Bipartisan Political Keynote, Bruce Mehlman

?Bruce Mehlman is a leading bipartisan political analyst and founder of Mehlman Consulting, advising organizations on how policy and political trends may affect their strategy and the broader marketplace. A former Senate-confirmed Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Mehlman’s widely read “Age of Disruption” political updates reach tens of thousands of readers across business, government, and investment and have been featured by major outlets including the Washington Post, Axios, Politico, CNN, and Fortune.

5:30 pm. NIRS Reception

-For those attending the NIRS Policy Conference, separate registration is required through your NIRS membership-

Online Registration

Registration is Closed
Closed: 3/2/2026 5:45 PM

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NASRA’s March 2026 update on government spending makes a basic but important point: public pension benefits are not paid out of a government’s day-to-day operating budget. They are paid from trust funds that employees and employers contribute to during an employee’s working years. Those trusts distribute more than $400 billion each year to retirees and beneficiaries in communities across the country. On a national basis, employer contributions to pension trusts in FY 2023 equaled 5.16 percent of direct general spending by state and local governments, which shows that pension contributions remain a limited share of overall public spending even though the level varies from one state to another.

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