Campus Tour

The Retirement Researcher Academy’s virtual campus is your launchpad to everything the academy has to offer!

Workshops

Monthly deep dive Workshop and dedicated Q&A Session with more than 40 workshops including:
  • Creating Tax Efficiency For Retirement
  • Managing Inflation in Your Retirement Income Plan
  • How to Create Your retirement Income Plan
  • Developing a Social Security Claiming Strategy
  • Designing Your Asset Allocation
  • Medicare Decisions and Health Expenses for Retirees
  • Finding the Right Balance on Retiring

Office Hours

Monthly Group Office Hour to answer your questions

  • Includes our Portfolio Hot Seat where we anonymously review a member’s investment portfolio to talk through the decisions that they are making and lessons for your situation

Quarterly Investment Review

Designed to help you understand the process of effectively evaluating the investments you are using in your own portfolio.

Your Syllabus

Your syllabus guides you on your path and makes sure you have the information that you need.

Downloadable Tools

Our wealth of Downloadable Tools for your retirement Planning

  • Including the RISA, Funded Ratio Analysis, PAY Rule Calculator, and Tax Efficient Retirement Investing Resource Pack
  • 10 other downloadable calculators
  • 33 Flowcharts
  • 24 Checklists
  • 12 Worksheets

Video Library

Video Library with recordings of all of our Academy sessions (including slides) as well all of our public webinars

Forums

Forums / community of like minded retirement researchers

Access to instructors to ask your questions!

Bob French CFA

Wade Pfau Ph.D., CFA, RICP®
Alex Murguia Ph.D.

Frequently Asked Questions

Step 1. You will receive an email invoice, and a confirmation email with a link to log in.

Step 2. Log in and explore the site, webinar replays, downloadable content, previous workshops, and upcoming workshops.

Step 3. This is a subscription product, so you will be automatically billed at your next billing interval.

If you choose an Annual subscription: Your initial fee will be charged at the end of your 7 day trial and your renewal date will be charged annually after that. If you would like to avoid being automatically charged, please reach out to us to cancel before the end of your trial.

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You may cancel your subscription at any time before your next bill date from within your account settings, or by emailing us at community@retirementresearcher.com.

Well, really this is for anyone who is planning their own retirement. It’s focused on people who are saying 5 to 10 years on either side, but this same information is important to anyone who is planning for their own retirement.
Yes, Retirement Researcher Academy member, you will keep your membership price, as long as you do not cancel.
What you learn as a member of the Retirement Researcher Academy can help you act as your own second opinion to ensure that your advisor is providing sound recommendations and implementing those recommendations appropriately. This will give you even more Peace of Mind that you are on the right path.

No, we are not offering refunds for membership subscriptions.

Sadly, the membership site is only available for purchase by individuals in the United States.

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Total Return

How to Create Your Retirement Income Plan

Designing Your Asset Allocation

Sustainable Spending from Investments Main Page

Ongoing Investment Management Main Page

Why The Markets Work Main Page

Risk Wrap

How to Create Your Retirement Income Plan

Understanding and Interpreting Annuities and Annuity Contracts Main Page

Annuities and Risk Pooling

Designing Your Asset Allocation

Sustainable Spending from Investments Main Page

Time Segmentation

How to Create Your Retirement Income Plan

Designing and Implementing Your Bond Ladder Main Page

Understanding and Using Time Segmentation Strategies Main Page

How Do Bonds Work? Making Sense Of Bond Returns

Managing Inflation In Your Retirement Income Plan

Income Protection

How to Create Your Retirement Income Plan

Understanding and Interpreting Annuities and Annuity Contracts Main Page

Annuities and Risk Pooling

Developing a Social Security Claiming Strategy Main Page

Managing Inflation In Your Retirement Income Plan

Creating Your Retirement Plan

How to Create Your Retirement Income Plan

Making the Most of Your Charitable Donations: Understanding Charitable Giving Strategies and Your Retirement Plan

Medicare Decisions and Health Expenses for Retirees 2024

Long-Term Care Planning Main Page

Developing a Social Security Claiming Strategy Main Page

Understanding Retirement Expense Dynamics: Expense Categories and Risks

Living in Retirement

The Vanishing Work – Retirement Threshold

On Your Own in Retirement: Special Considerations for Singles, Divorcees and Widows

Family Dynamics and Your Retirement Plan – At the Intersection of Love and Money

Optimizing Your Other Portfolio: Maximizing Returns from Your New Time Affluence in Retirement

Housing Decisions for Retirement Main Page

Non Financial Side of Retirement Main Page

Health in Retirement

Long-Term Care Planning Main Page

How to Manage the Physical, Behavioral, and Mental Health Risks to Your Retirement

Medicare Decisions and Health Expenses for Retirees 2024

Health Risk in Retirement: How to Think About It and What to Do About It

Investment Deep Dive

Why The Markets Work Main Page

Taming the Factor Zoo – Making Sense of Investment Risk Factors

Designing Your Asset Allocation

Sustainable Spending from Investments Main Page

How Do Bonds Work? Making Sense Of Bond Returns

Understanding and Using ESG Investments

Factor Investing: Research and Practice Main Page

Ongoing Investment Management Main Page

Finding the Right Balance on Rebalancing

Retirement Income Challenge

RIC – DAY 1

RIC – DAY 2

RIC – DAY 3

RIC – DAY 4