PLANSPONSOR Awards Fred Reish the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award Each year the editors of PLANSPONSOR magazine acknowledge significant individual career contributions to the field of employee benefit plans with its Lifetime Achievement Award. Lifetime Achievement Award recipients will have demonstrated a commitment that both sustains and expands the ability of employee benefit plans to serve the national interest in providing employee benefit plans in the workplace through: thought leadership, a demonstrable expertise in both the technical nuances and practical application of that knowledge, and a willingness to share those ideas and expertise with the employee benefits community at large. In bestowing this year’s award to Fred Reish, managing director and partner of the Los Angeles-based law firm of Reish Luftman Reicher & Cohen, PLANSPONSOR Editor-in-Chief Nevin Adams noted, "Fred has been teaching me--and the industry--about ERISA for longer than any of us probably want to admit. Fred is, of course, a prodigious writer--four books and a conservatively estimated 250 articles, and he generously shares his thoughtful expertise with the industry at large on a regular basis." "In fact," Adams noted, "I am persuaded that he is the most-quoted ERISA expert of our time." Also acknowledged this year with PLANSPONSOR’s Lifetime Achievement Award was GM Asset Management Corp.’s President and CEO Allen Reed. Previous award recipients include Dallas Salisbury, President and CEO of the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) and Bob Reynolds, Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of Fidelity.