planadviser* ponderings

this blog is about topics of interest to plan advisers (or advisors) and the employer-sponsored benefit plans they support. *It doesn't have a thing to do (any more) with PLANADVISER magazine.

Saturday, May 16, 2026

Strange Bedfellows

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It’s been said that politics makes strange bedfellows — but it doesn’t get much stranger than President Trump and Teresa Ghilarducci. At l...

Saturday, May 09, 2026

A Retirement 'Journey'

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Mother’s Day tends to come packaged in the usual ways — cards, flowers, reservations, and a few familiar phrases about gratitude. There’s...

Saturday, May 02, 2026

Retirement Realities Better Than Pre-Retirement Perspectives

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If you read only the headlines from the latest Employee Benefit Research Institute Retirement Confidence Survey, the takeaway feels famili...

Saturday, April 11, 2026

The ‘New’ 401(k) Retirement Savings ‘Problem’

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For years, the retirement industry has been obsessed with one key problem: people aren’t saving enough. Now, “suddenly,” we have another. ...

Wednesday, April 08, 2026

Things I Wish I’d Known (and Done) Before I Retired

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It’s hard to believe that I’ve now been “retired” for three years. That said, there are some things that, in hindsight, I wish I had know...

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About Me

Nevin E. Adams, JD: Nevin, now "retired", was Chief Content Officer for the American Retirement Association from 2014-23. Previously he was Director, Education and External Relations at the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI), and Co-Director, EBRI Center for Research on Retirement Income (CRI), and before joining EBRI in late 2011, he spent 12 years as Editor-in-Chief of PLANSPONSOR magazine and its Web counterpart, PLANSPONSOR.com, at that time the nation’s leading authority on pension and retirement issues. He was also the creator, writer and publisher of PLANSPONSOR.com’s NewsDash, which had become the industry’s leading daily source for information focused on the critical issues impacting benefits industry professionals.

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