Press Release

Finnegan Honored With ASPPA’s Harry T. Eidson Founders Award

Issued by ASPPA [American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries]

Oct. 27, 2022

National Harbor, MD — The American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries (ASPPA) has honored Thomas (Tom) Finnegan with the prestigious Harry T. Eidson Founders Award during the association’s 2022 ASPPA Annual Conference.  The award recognizes retirement professionals that have made a lasting impact on the industry.

Finnegan’s career spans over 30 years in the employee benefits field. He currently provides actuarial, design and consulting services to a broad spectrum of plan sponsors in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. Throughout his career, Finnegan has served as president of the American Retirement Association (ARA), the ASPPA College of Pension Actuaries (ACOPA) and the American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries (ASPPA). He is also a former board member of the American Academy of Actuaries (AAA).

“I’m incredibly honored to join the previous distinguished recipients of The Eidson Award,” said Finnegan. “It is humbling to be recognized by my industry colleagues and by an organization which has led the retirement industry in both advocacy and education such as ASPPA.”

ASPPA established the Eidson Award in 1995 to honor the memory of its founder, Harry T. Eidson. His belief in the importance of the employer-sponsored retirement system in the United States and in having an organization dedicated to preserving and enhancing such a system was the inspiration for the formation of ASPPA in 1966.  A list of previous winners is available at https://www.asppa-net.org/member/eidson-award.  

About ASPPA

ASPPA and its four sister organizations — ASEA, NTSA, NAPA, and PSCA — comprise the American Retirement Association, the premier organization for more than 26,000 retirement plan professionals nationwide. Based in the Washington, DC area, ASPPA is a non-profit professional organization established to educate all types of retirement plan professionals, and to preserve and enhance the employer-based retirement plan system as part of the development of a cohesive and coherent national retirement income policy. For more information please visit www.ASPPA.org.

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