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Wade Pfau

Wade Pfau

Formal First Name
Wade
Dates
1977 - present
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Wade Pfau, PhD, CFA, RICP®, is the Founder of Retirement Researcher, an educational resource for retirement income planning, Co-Founder of the Retirement Income Style Awareness® profile and Co-Host of the Retire with Style podcast. Pfau is also the Professor of Practice in the PhD in Financial and Retirement Planning program at the American College of Financial Services, and serves as a Principal and Director of Retirement Research for McLean Asset Management and inStream, helping to build retirement income solutions for clients. Pfau is widely published in leading peer-reviewed, practitioner-based financial planning research journals in the fields of financial and retirement planning. He hosts the Retirement Researcher blog, and is a monthly columnist for Advisor Perspectives, a RetireMentor for MarketWatch, a contributor to Forbes, and an Expert Panelist for The Wall Street Journal. In addition, he serves as Co-Director of the American College Center for Retirement Income, and RICP® program director at The American College of Financial Services.

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HONORS & RECOGNITIONS

  • Pfau was a selectee for the InvestmentNews “Power 20” in 2013, “40 Under 40” in 2014, and the Investment Advisor 35 list for 2015.

  • He was also selected for the IA 25 list for 2014 and Financial Planning magazine’s Influencer Awards.

  • In 2016, he was named as one of the Innovators in the 2016 InvestmentNews' Icons and Innovators list of titans in the financial advice industry.

  • He is a 2-time winner of the Journal of Financial Planning Montgomery-Warschauer Award and a 2-time winner of the Academic Thought Leadership Award from the Retirement Income Industry Association.


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