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Hello, nice to meet you

Hello, nice to meet you! My name is Wade Pfau, and I wear multiple hats in the retirement income world. First and foremost, I’m a researcher focused on creating data-driven, and research-based information about retirement income planning. This has led me to publish over sixty peer-reviewed research articles and four books, including the Retirement Planning Guidebook. As well, I’ve been a curriculum and program director for two of the leading retirement professional designations available to financial advisors: the RICP® and the RMA. Today, I’m the director of retirement research for McLean Assessment Management, founder of Retirement Researcher, and co-founder of the Retirement Income Style Awareness® (RISA®) tool.

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Prepare for your
best retirement

Retirement Researcher exists to help guide you along the path to a successful and sustainable retirement by providing modern, sound academic research, in the manner that helps you learn best.

Retirement.
The best plan, is yours.

With almost forty years of history, McLean has clients well into their third decade of working with us to navigate the complexities of their retirement income plan. We don’t take that lightly and strive for excellence in all that we do.

Learn your
Retirement Income Style

While you’ve known yourself your whole life, putting your retirement goals into words can feel like a foreign language. We’ve developed an easy-to-use tool to help you translate your retirement goals into easy-to-understand retirement speak.

Retirement
Planning
Guidebook

Listen to Retire with Style

Retire with Style is a weekly podcast hosted by Alex Murguia and myself. You can find it through most every podcast listening tool. We provide an accessible and engaging discussion about all things retirement.

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