2121 K Street, NW, Suite 860

Washington, DC 20037-2121

202-659-0670

Contact: Dallas Salisbury, President

The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) is an independent, nonprofit, public policy research organization established in 1978 to provide educational and research materials on employee benefits. Its work is intended to serve employers, employees, retired workers, public officials, news media, and academicians as they address health, welfare, and retirement issues. EBRI has a separate Education and Research Fund that performs the charitable, educational, and scientific functions of the institute.

EBRI publishes three periodicals: the monthly Employee Benefit Notes analyzes and discusses newly released employee benefits data and reviews a wide range policy issues, research, and publications. EBRI Issues Briefs summarize and analyze evolving current issues and trends; recent topics include features of employer health plans: cost containment, plan funding, and coverage continuation, and private initiatives to contain health care expenditures. The EBRI Quarterly Pension Investment Report tracks the flow and investment of private and public pensions. It provides historical data on net contributions to pension plans and the investment allocation of the contributions by plan type, examines pension plan earnings and rates of return by plan type, and looks at the portfolio allocation of pension funds.

EBRI provides other reports, seminars, and press statements, and it holds several policy forums each year on economic and social issues having impacts on health, welfare, and retirement programs. Policy studies and forum proceedings have addressed such topics as financing the elderly's health care, Medicare reform, and employer-provided health benefits coverage issues.