Hi Jan,

One of my favorite parts of hosting the Retirement Income Challenge each year is hearing from participants afterward.

Over the years, we’ve received a lot of thoughtful feedback about what worked well and where we could improve.

A few themes came up again and again.

Participants wanted more time to understand their
Funded Ratio results.

They wanted more opportunities to ask questions.

And they wanted less time spent on logistics so we could focus on the retirement planning concepts themselves.

So that’s exactly what we’ve changed.

This year, after you register, our team will reach out with everything you need to prepare, including access to the
Retirement Income Style Awareness® (RISA®) assessment. We’ll guide you through completing it before Day 1 so that when we meet live, we can immediately begin discussing your results instead of spending valuable session time taking the assessment together.

It also gives our team an opportunity to help with account access or login questions before the Challenge begins, so everyone can start on the same page.

We’ve also continued improving our Funded Ratio planning tool.
Since our last Challenge, we’ve added:

  • Scenario Analysis so you can compare different retirement decisions
  • The ability to duplicate reports without starting from scratch
  • An AI-powered Help Bot that can answer questions while you’re building your plan
  • Numerous improvements throughout the application to make the experience smoother and easier to follow
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We’ll kick off Day 1 with an expanded walkthrough of the Funded Ratio tool, answering many of the questions we hear most often before participants begin using it themselves.

Our goal is simple: spend less time navigating technology and more time helping you build a better understanding of your retirement income plan.
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If that sounds worthwhile, we’d love to have you join us.

We're looking forward to it,
Wade Pfau Ph.D, CFA®, RICP®
Retirement Researcher

 

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