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May, 2013
InvestmentNews: More than 50 advisers have been awarded the retirement management analyst designation by the RIIA.
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In the News: April 2013

  • L&H Advisor recently published this article by Francois Gadenne on the value, opportunity, and vision behind the Retirement Management Analyst Designation and how the advanced education helps retirement income businesses, institutions, advisors and their clients.

  •  RIIA's VLC webinar on dealing with declines in financial literacy & other issues of an aging client base and featuring Michael Finke of Texas Tech and Jack Tatar of GEM Research Solutions, was featured in Bank Investment Consultant.


April, 2013
Institutional Investor: Getting closer to being able to explain fragility in economic systems. Being too close to a rate of return on wealth of zero is not a good place to be. A little push in the wrong direction and there can be accelerating decline.
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April, 2013
L&H Advisor recently published this article by Francois Gadenne on the value, opportunity, and vision behind the Retirement Management Analyst Designation and how the advanced education helps retirement income businesses, institutions, advisors and their clients.
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April, 2013
The topic of RIIA's most recent Virtual Learning Center webinar was highlighted in Bank Investment Consultant: "Senior Moment" or Dementia? Advisors Should Look for Warning Signs
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In the News: March 2013

  • RIIA Spring Conference Speakers Andy and Susan Stone are featured in the Chicago Tribune and Baltimore Sun for their use of the RMA curriculum to take reins on retirement planning.

  • Francois Gadenne shares the three disruptions of retirement income planning in Life&Health Advisor magazine.

  • Jack Tatar mentions RIIA's Spring Conference and research from Larry Cohen, long-time RIIA supporter and presenter, in his recent article, "Pay College Athletes by Funding Their IRA," in MarketWatch.


March, 2013
Andy and Susan Stone, presenters at the upcoming RIIA Spring Conference, are featured in a retirement income planning column sharing tips for how retirees can better manage their retirement income security. RIIA's Francois Gadenne is also quoted on how retirees will have to "work every lever possible" to maximize income from their nest eggs.
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March, 2013
Income: The Three Disruptions, Altering the status quo of retirement & longevity planning ~ by Francois Gadenne
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December 2012
The Advisory Career: A Field of Dreams. How Boston's Wealth2K is re-educating today's financial advisors to succeed as income planners and help their clients' survive retirement
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In the News: October 2012

We had excellent Media Coverage of the RIIA Fall Conference & Awards Gala for 2012:


In the News: Summer 2012

  • Harold Evensky, noted financial planner and member of the Retirement Management Analyst designation Governance Board, jointly authored this article, Standby Reverse Mortgages: A Risk Management Tool for Retirement Distributions, which appeared in the Journal of Financial Planning.

  • RIIA Board Member and CEO of Wealth2k, David Macchia, writes about the importance of advisors to build an income floor for their retirement clients, a strategy championed by RIIA and taught in the curriculum for the RMA designation. This article, Floor-and-Upside: A New Strategy for a New Era, appeared in the RIJ Advisor, an online publication for retirement specialists.

  • Mary Beth Franklin, reporting for InvestmentNews, includes comments from Kevin McGarry, director of the Nationwide Institute, who recently was the featured presenter at RIIA’s July Webinar on Planning for Health Care Expenses in Retirement.

  • Jim Andrus, president and technical co-founder of News Patterns, is highlighted in a recent article from MarketWatch, Mining The News For Patterns Investors Can Tap. Jim will be a featured speaker at the RIIA Fall Conference, October 4-5, 2012.


July 30, 2012
RIIA Board Member and CEO of Wealth2k, David Macchia, writes about the importance of advisors to build an income floor for their retirement clients, a strategy championed by RIIA and taught in the curriculum for the RMA designation. The article appeared in the July 30, 2012 issue of the RIJAdvisor.
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June 13, 2012
Karen H. Wimbish of Wells Fargo Retirement Joins Board of Directors of the Retirement Income Industry Association
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May, 2012
New Member of RMA Governance Board Harold Evensky shares his thoughts on the value of the RMA designation to advisors and the public.
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May, 2012
Wade Pfau, PhD, CFA, Director of Curriculum for the Retirement Management Analyst Designation Program, writes about Fixed Time Horizons vs. Survival Probabilities for Retirement Planning on Advisors4Advisors.com.
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In the News April 2012

  • RIIA recently announced that Peng Chen, President of Morningstar's Investment Management Division, joined the Curriculum Advisory Board for the Retirement Management Analyst Designation. In an article appearing on AdvisorOne.com, Francois Gadenne explained: "Our mission statement is, 'the view across the silo.' Because we're not wedded to the status quo in our industry, our value proposition is to help our members see disruptions that no one else sees before they happen. There are two main advisor types; planners through the CFP and managers through the CFA. They're two different cultures, and Peng is able to bridge those cultures.' Peng Chen also commented: "My work with Morningstar and Ibbotson gives me that unique view across the silos, so I'll be spending as much time as I can on the Curriculum Advisory Board." 

  • Advisors4Advisors shares details on the RMA Designation with its subscribers. 

  • InsuranceNewsNet magazine mentions RIIA's praise of the Obama Administration for its recent initiative to broaden and support the introduction of lifetime income programs for 401(k) and defined contribution savers. RIIA and the Defined Contribution Institutional Investment Association (DCIIA) also issued a joint press release on the topic. 

  • RIIA research is mentioned in the article, "It's Friday. Do You Know Where Your Retirement Plan Is?" appearing in LifeHealthPro.com

  • New York Life proudly announces that its "Efficient Income Frontier Work" received the Retirement Income Industry Association's 2012 Practitioner Thought Leadership Award at the recent Spring Conference. 

  • RIIA members and special advisors are blogging with the most recent posts at AdvisorsforAdvisors.com. Another discussion about RIIA got started at the Bogleheads Forum. These blogs provide RIIA with a great opportunity to connect with advisors and bring the RIIA message to a wider audience. “I am finding that many people, both potential RMA certificate-holders and their clients, are quite receptive to the fundamental goal of retirement planning as advanced by RIIA to first build a floor and then expose to the upside,” commented Wade Pfau, Director of Curriculum for the RMA.


April, 2012
New York Life proudly announces that its "Efficient Income Frontier Work" received the Retirement Income Industry Association's 2012 Practitioner Thought Leadership Award at the recent Spring Conference.
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In The News March 2012

  • The Chicago Tribune and AdvisorOne.com feature key presentations from the RSC12.

  • In his blog, Wade Pfau, researcher on retirement planning strategies and RIIA's Director of Curriculum Development for the RMA designation, offers his thoughts on Dimensional Retirement's Next Generation Retirement Solution for defined contribution plans after hearing a presentation by CEO David Deming at the RSC12.

  • The announcement of Wade Pfau joining RIIA as the Director of Curriculum Development for the RMA designation is picked up nationally online including MarketWatch.com

  • The Retirement Management Analyst (RMA) Designation Expands Into a Level 1 Curriculum and a Level 2 Curriculum. See the press release for details.

  • MarketWatch.com, YahooFinance.com, and LifeHealthPro.com (among many others) posted the news about RIIA's Market Insight Initiative.

  • Life&Health Advisor publicizes the winners of the PractitionerThought Leadership Award and Francois Gadenne's Texas Tech Award for retirement income advanced education.

March 22, 2012
In Case You Missed the RIIA Conference, from the Retirement Income Journal
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2010 Articles 

June, 2010
Francois Gadenne talks about Knowledge, Power and Retirement Planning in his Research Magazine online column
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April, 2010
David Macchia, Secretary of RIIA, CEO of Wealth2k, and recent RMA graduate, talks about redefining retirement income planning and RIIA's vision for tomorrow's advisor in Life&Health Advisor magazine.
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April, 2010
In his Research Magazine article, "Growth and Funerals in Retirement," Francois Gadenne offers his views on social and financial capital, noting "Your assets are only worth what today's children will produce."
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March, 2010
Stephen Mitchell, RIIA's COO, is quoted extensively about lump sum pension distributions versus pension annuities in Bankrate.com.
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February, 2010
Francois Gadenne discusses the importance of considering clients' level of impatience when planning for retirement in his February column for Research, "The New Normal: Measuring Investors' Impatience."
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January, 2010
Francois Gadenne offers a new web exclusive column in Research magazine. The first topic of 2010 focuses on building "Funded Floors for Retirement."
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January, 2010
Francois Gadenne is featured in a new interview by Thomas Cochrane, founder of Annuity Digest. Francois comments on major issues affecting the retirement income industry including attracting new talent, engaging a mass consumer audience, innovations across the industry, and promoting stronger education through RIIA's new designation program, the Retirement Management Analyst
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2009 Articles 

December, 2009
Two RIIA members (Marcia Mantell, Mantell Retirement Consulting and Dave Freitag, Impact Technologies) as well as RIIA's COO Stephen Mitchell are quoted in this article from Bankrate.com on "Three Ways to Pay for IRA Conversions."
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December, 2009
Francois Gadenne contemplates the true nature the retirement income profession in the December issue of Research magazine.
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November, 2009
RIIA helps members "find the new normal". Francois Gadenne shares the view across the silos with Best's Review reporter, Ron Panko.
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November, 2009
Francois Gadenne discusses the challenges in implementing business models in his most current column for Research Magazine, "What Goes for Robins: In Implementing a Business Model, Failure is an Option".
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October 25, 2009
Collaborate advice drives success according to new a research report sponsored by RIIA, "Financial Advisors and Boomers," and featured in InvestmentNews.
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October 23, 2009
RIIA leadership quoted in article for entrepreneurs on "Retirement Planning for Those Who Don't Evr Want to Retire."
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September, 2009
The Harris Poll organization has a June 2009 survey showing that just one quarter of Americans say banks are honest and trustworthy. Only 13 percent of respondents say the same thing about financial planning firms. The lowest ranked of all are Wall Street and credit card companies, at 4 percent each. Building trust is has always been important, but it is an imperative in our industry today. And retirement income advice only works in a trusting relationship. To learn more, read Francois Gadenne's October 2009 column in Research magazine.
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September, 2009
What happens when the hunter confuses the shadow for the prey? Well, you miss the shot and you go hungry or worse. Our sources of investment light have become so single-threaded that it is hard to distinguish the shadow from the prey. Recent events remind us all that these shadows have become large enough to hide dragons. What we need is multiple ways to view the retirement income picture. Learn more about Perceptual Techniques in this month's Retirement Income Reporter column by Francois Gadenne in Research magazine.
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August, 2009
RIIA members have been asking questions about how to structure their companies to take advantage of the retirement income opportunities that they can now see more clearly than before. Check out Francois Gadenne's thoughts on the topic in his August column in Research magazine, Retirement Income Reporter -- Retirement: A Field in Flux. Financial advisors should be prepared to rethink their business models and practices.
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July, 2009
Retirement Income Reporter: Inflation or Deflation? Looking for signs of future prices. Francois Gadenne contemplates the question: Are retirement portfolios more at risk from inflation or from deflation? in his July column in Research magazine.
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June, 2009
Retirement Income Reporter: The New Normal. As the economy faces structural change, so does retirement. Read Francois Gadenne's latest thinking about how new normal in retirement income may be all about playing defense in his June column of Research magazine.
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May, 2009
Retirement Income Reporter: Coping with Limits. Francois Gadenne reviews how heightened uncertainty demands flexibility and resilience in retirement income planning in the May issue of Research magazine.
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April, 2009
Retirement Income Reporter: A Clock or a Garden? Francois Gadenne points out how retirement planning reflects assumptions about reality in the April issue of Research magazine.
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March, 2009
Elvin Turner and Larry Cohen share RIIA research insights in their article, "Retiring Boomers Offer Advisors New Opportunity," which appeared in the March issue of Life & Health Advisor magazine.
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March, 2009
Learning New Ways by Francois Gadenne in the March issue of Research Magazine discusses how the conventional advisory process has failed and must be replaced. Francois outlines the new RIIA Retirement Management and Retirement Income Advisory Process.
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February, 2009
The Retirement Mission by Francois Gadenne in the February issue of Research Magazine reminds retirement professionals to consider more than just financial capital with their clients.
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January, 2009
Reassessing What Works by Francois Gadenne in the January issue of Research Magazine. Retirement products must keep up with a changing, crisis-prone world. 
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2008 Articles 

December, 2008
Product Design by Francois Gadenne in the December issue of Research Magazine discusses the question: What specific features and attributes should those who design retirement income products and processes seek to emphasize? (Click on the Retirement Income Reporter section on the leftside of the Research home page.)
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November, 2008
Models and Reality by Francois Gadenne in the November issue of Research Magazine makes the case that theoretical approaches to retirement planning require empirical validation. (Click on the Retirement Income Reporter section on the leftside of the Research home page.)
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October, 2008
Balance Sheet Structure by Francois Gadenne in Research Magazine (retirement income reporter section). This article shares an analysis of assets and liabilities to provide powerful insight into retirement planning. (See the Profile section on the left hand side of the page.)
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September, 2008
Research Magazine profiles Michael Colon, COO of Deutsche Asset Management Americas and DWS Investments, who will also share his strategic perspective on retirement at RIIA's Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner, September 21 -22, 2008. (See the Profile section on the left hand side of the page.)
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September, 2008
Public Risk: Taxes by Francois Gadenne in Research Magazine (retirement income reporter section). This article focuses on how taxes are likely to be the bigger and faster growing expense catagory for the retirement investor.
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August, 2008
Investor Spending: Risk  by Francois Gadenne in ResearchMag (retirement income reporter section)
This article looks at the retirement planning process from the perspective of what investors do with their retirement income, their spending patterns and their spending risk.
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July 1, 2008
The Retirement-Management Professional's Job Description  by Francois Gadenne in ResearchMag (retirement income reporter section)
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May 2008
Academic research shows that, over our lifecycle, we can generate income from three major sources: human capital, social capital and financial capital discusses Francois Gadenne in his monthly column for Research magazine.
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April 2008
Existing products, riders and withdrawal plans are helpful. But the industry will likely see new products that combine investments, insurance, hedging and advice, according to Francois Gadenne in his Research magazine column.
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March 2008
Do your clients have an investment accumulation mindset or a retirement income mindset? Find out more in Francois Gadenne's latest column in Research magazine.
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February 2008
Francois Gadenne addresses the question: "What is your tolerance to the variance of returns to risky assets?" in Research magazine.
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January 2008
Post retirement budget in-flows and managing new income sources are outlined in Life and Health Advisor magazine.
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January 2008
Francois Gadenne, Founding Chair of RIIA, discusses the evolutionary model for change and how it applies to the retirement income industry in Research magazine.
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2007 Articles

November 2007
RIIA's founding chairman, Francois Gadenne, is interviewed by Research magazine about the organization's forward-thinking membership and the focus on retirement income solutions.
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October 1, 2007
AIM Investments(R) Joins Retirement Income Industry Association
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August, 2007
Francois Gadenne, RIIA's Founding Chair, focuses on understanding change in retirement income planning in this article from Life&Health Advisor.
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March 2007
Francois Gadenne, RIIA's Founding Chairman, considers the question: Will Our Retirement Plans Perform? in Life&Health Advisor magazine.
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December 2006
RIIA's Founding Chair, Francois Gadenne, discusses several key issues that are on the forefront of retirement planning in Life & Health Advisor magazine.
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