Keith Ambachtsheer

The Employee Benefit Research Institute has selected Keith Ambachtsheer, director of the Rotman International Centre for Pension Management (ICPM) at the University of Toronto, as recipient of the 2010 EBRI Lillywhite Award. The honor recognizes outstanding lifetime contributions to Americans’ economic security. The award is named for Ray Lillywhite, a pioneer in the pension field who for decades guided state employee pension plans, and who retired from Alliance Capital in 1992 after a 55-year career in the pension and investment field. “Over the decades, [Ambachtsheer] has benefited millions of future retirees by helping fiduciaries enhance benefit security and hold plan expenses to the lowest possible level, since every dollar of expense is ultimately one less dollar available for the payment of retirement benefits,” said Dallas Salisbury, president and CEO of EBRI.