Talking Retirement with Mr. Retirement -- Robert Powell

Robert Powell, CFP®, one of our nation's premier financial journalists and perhaps the deepest student of retirement, joins Professor Kotlikoff to discuss financial decisions in retirement. Robert currently writes for MarketWatch.com, USA Today, TheStreet.com, The Wall Street Journal, and AARP. He also serves as editor and publisher of TheStreet’s Retirement Daily. If this weren't enough, Robert is also Editor-in-Chief of the Investments and Wealth Institute’s Retirement Management Journal, host of the Callaway Climate Insights podcast, co-founder of finStream.tv, and an instructor in Salem State University's Online Elder Planning Specialist program.

On this episode we discuss:

• 2:39 - Robert's background.
• 9:36 - There is no straight path to retirement.
• 17:11 - Assets at Retirement.
• 20:54 - The upside to investing.
• 26:04 - Economics vs conventional financial planning.
• 30:04 - Financial Advisors.
• 33:27 - Investing.
• 37:57 - Retirement Software.
• 42:37 - Behavioral Finance.
• 48:49 - Inflation.

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