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Rebuilding Household Balance Sheets JULY 10-13, 2012: ASPEN, COLORADO REBUILDING HOUSEHOLD BALANCE SHEETS Rapporteur’s Report By Colby Farber The Aspen Institute Initiative on Financial Security is a leading policy program dedicated to helping bring about the policies and financial products that enable all Americans to save, invest, and own. The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, DC. Its mission is to foster leadership based on enduring values and to provide a nonpartisan venue for dealing with critical issues. FEATURED PARTICIPANTS Ryan Alfred Janice Gregory Michelle Miller Co-Founder & President Former President & Founding Member Correspondent BrightScope National Academy of Social Insurance CBS News John Hope Bryant Douglas Holtz-Eakin Marc Morial Founder, Chairman, & CEO President President & CEO Operation HOPE American Action Forum National Urban League William Bynum J. Mark Iwry Celie Niehaus CEO Senior Advisor to the Secretary & Deputy Assistant Vice President Hope Enterprise Corporation Secretary for Retirement & Health Policy E*TRADE U.S. Department of Treasury John Carey Michael Noetzel Managing Director, Governance, David C. John Managing Director, Institutional Relationships Regulatory, & External Affairs Senior Research Fellow TIAA-CREF Citigroup, Global Consumer Banking The Heritage Foundation Kim Polese David Certner John Kalamarides Chairman Legislative Counsel & Policy Director Senior Vice President, Institutional Investment ClearStreet Inc. AARP Solutions Prudential Retirement Sri Reddy José Cisneros Senior Vice President, Institutional Income Treasurer Kilolo Kijakazi Prudential Retirement City & County of San Francisco Program Officer, Financial Assets & Economic Security Ford Foundation Jared Sandberg Krissy Clark Editor Senior Reporter, Marketplace Andrea Levere Bloomberg.com American Public Media President CFED Kabir Sehgal Robert Doyle Emerging Market Equity Sales Vice President, External Affairs Edward Luce J.P. Morgan Prudential Financial Chief U.S. Columnist Financial Times Damon Silvers Karen Elinski Special Counsel & Policy Director General Counsel, Government Relations Wynne Lum AFL-CIO TIAA-CREF Philanthropy Manager, Global Corporate Social Responsibility Team John Tippets Philip English Bank of America President & CEO Co-Chairman, Government Relations Practice North Island Credit Union Arent Fox Maya MacGuineas President David Walker Timothy Flacke Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Founder & CEO Executive Director & Co-Founder Comeback America Initiative D2D Fund Ben Mangan President, CEO, & Co-Founder Ambassador Andrew Young Leonard Glynn EARN Founding Principal & Co-Chairman Managing Director, Policy GoodWorks International Putnam Investments Christine Marcks President Joshua Gotbaum Prudential Retirement Director Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation ASPEN IFS STAFF Lisa Mensah Colby Farber Claire Diamonstein Executive Director Associate Intern Susan Ochs Pamela Hall Senior Fellow Finance & Administrative Manager TABLE OF CONTENTS: OvErvIEW.............................................................................................................................5 OPENING KEYNOTE ......................................................................................................................6 SESSION 1: SHIFTING GEARS .....................................................................................................7 SESSION 2: BEYOND PAYDAY LOANS ...................................................................................... 10 SESSION 3: HOW CAN WE RAISE A NATION OF SAVERS? ........ ......................................12 SESSION 4: MOVING UP...............................................................................................................15 SESSION 5: SOCIAL SECURITY, PENSIONS, SAVINGS, AND INSURANCE.......................18 KEYNOTE....................................................................................................................................24 SESSION 6: FINDING COmmON CAUSE..................................................................................26 SESSION 7: A MEMO TO THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION..........................................................29 REFERENCES.....................................................................................................................32 OVERVIEW: Financial Security: An Issue That Unifies and Inspires In the wake of the Great Recession, there is new urgency in America to address a pressing need for greater household financial security. From 2007 to 2010, Americans’ median net worth fell 38.8%, and mean net worth fell 14.7%. Americans currently face a $6.6 trillion retirement savings deficit.1 A bipartisan consensus is within political reach on the need to rebuild household balance sheets with policies that expand private savings and thus enhance middle-class opportunity and security. The decline in wealth from the housing and financial crises, the stagnation in wages, and the inadequacy of retirement savings attract new interest from industry leaders, advocates, and policy leaders on both the left and right. The urgency to enact policies now that improve financial security does not just apply to lower-income Americans; these are policies that have the potential to impact most Americans. Smart savings policies belong in a pro-growth agenda and can be pursued through modest investments or targeted reforms that policymakers should champion and implement. The 2012 Aspen Institute Financial Security Summit was an exclusive gathering of top business leaders, experts, advocates, and media. The Summit advanced the dialogue on the public and private solutions that build more savings and wealth in American households, strengthen middle-class opportunity, and improve the economic future of the country. In an election year with a budgetary showdown looming, the Aspen Institute Initiative on Financial Security (Aspen IFS) chose to host its first Financial Security Summit in Aspen, Colorado to bring thoughtful leaders together to wrestle with the contours of a new strong and politically feasible financial security vision. With the American economy at crossroads, Summit participants revealed compelling consensus around savings policies that have the power to enhance economic mobility and financial security while directing Americans away from a culture of unaffordable consumption. From acclaimed civil rights leaders such as Andrew Young and activists such as Marc Morial to leading conservative scholars such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin and prominent independents such as David Walker, the headlines emerge: financial security is the key to America’s promise to its middle class, and achieving a much greater measure of financial security is a goal that financial industry leaders and consumer advocates believe in and can advance. 1 REBUILDING HOUSEHOLD BALANCE SHEETS 5 OPENING RECEPTION & KEYNOTE: What Has Happened To The National Agenda To Rebuild Household Balance Sheets? Featuring: Marc Morial, President & CEO, National Urban League The Financial Security Summit opened with Marc Morial, President and CEO of National Urban League, framing a history of Americans’ household financial security to influence what the nation’s agenda to rebuild household balance sheets must incorporate moving forward. Over the twentieth century, American policymakers planted seeds for long-term investments in America’s future. Americans rebounded from the Great Depression, built a strong and stable middle class, and enjoyed higher educational attainment rates and higher homeownership rates. Americans created a bedrock social insurance system, which added key federal supports for disadvantaged Americans and quashed elderly poverty rates. Americans enjoyed unprecedented advancements in civil rights and race relationships, the status of women, and technology gains. Policymakers advanced the needle for the nation and its communities. Marc Morial, President & CEO, National Urban League In order to grow out of this crisis instead of repeat it, policies that supplement wages with benefits and encourage savings are needed to continue to move the needle toward a stronger, more “ prosperous America. Now, we find ourselves with the pen to draft a vision and strategy for 21st century America. The recent economic crisis has erased almost two decades of accumulated prosperity and has caused disproportionately devastating implications for minority populations.2 When evaluating today’s challenges, policymakers cannot respond with a patchwork of policies that treat the recession as a routine, cyclical downturn” in a business cycle. Instead, policymakers must match today’s solutions with today’s challenges and context. For so many Americans, their earnings over the last thirty years have not kept pace with the rate of inflation. With diminishing earnings, Americans have borrowed at unsustainable and sometimes exorbitant rates. It is in this context that policymakers must rethink how to invest in America’s future. In order to grow out of this crisis instead of repeat it, policies that supplement wages with benefits and encourage savings are needed to continue to move the needle toward a stronger, more prosperous America. 6 2012 FINANCIAL SECURITY SUMMIT SESSION 1: SHIFTING GEARS: Moving From a ‘Borrow and Spend’ to a ‘Save and Invest’ Economy Featuring: Philip English, Co-Chairman, Government Relations Practice, Arent Fox ; J. Mark Iwry, Senior Advisor to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Treasury; Andrea Levere, President, CFED;
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