Retirement Income Industry Association® (RIIA®) to Mark 10th Anniversary at Annual Conference

BOSTON, June 8, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The Retirement Income Industry Association® (RIIA®) will mark its 10^th anniversary at its annual conference and a gala dinner in September. RIIA was established in 2005 by 29 founding members to provide a view across product and business silos to better meet the needs of the millions of Americans facing retirement income security challenges. 

The conference, "Mapping the New Realities of Retirement" and anniversary dinner will bring together leading retirement income industry business and thought leaders, academics, and high profile speakers. The conference will discuss the rapidly changing realities of retirement income and offer solutions and strategies to achieve better outcomes for clients. The events will take place on September 16-18 in Indianapolis. As an extension of the conference, RIIA's Research Committee is organizing a half-day program for retirement industry researchers and thought leaders on "Mega Trends That Will Shape Retirement in 2025" on September 18.        

"Ten years ago, companies and advisors from the insurance, investment management and advisory industries recognized the importance of developing retirement income planning solutions that started with client needs rather than products," said Francois Gadenne, Co-founder, Chairman and Executive Director of RIIA. "From RIIA's establishment, we have worked with industry leaders on an approach to retirement income planning inclusive of all client needs and industry solutions."

Over the last decade, RIIA and its members have developed and championed concepts including Measures of Fundedness^(SM), the Household Balance Sheet View (HHBS)^(SM) and Retirement Allocations. These concepts are the basis of RIIA's assets and liabilities matching and risk management-based approach to retirement income planning. 

"RIIA's complete retirement income planning process goes beyond simply providing investment advice," added Gadenne. "Our holistic approach, used by advisors with RIIA's Retirement Management Analyst® (RMA®) designation, and new planning tools based on RIIA's Household Balance Sheet view, have kept the organization at the cutting edge of retirement income planning."        

Companies and advisors interested in attending and supporting RIIA's 10^th anniversary events should contact Deborah Burkholder at [email protected] or visit RIIA's website.

About RIIA:

The Retirement Income Industry Association® (RIIA®) is a not-for-profit industry association that was started in 2005 and launched publicly in February 2006 to discover, validate and teach the new realities of retirement and to do so from the perspective of "The View Across the Silos^(SM),", with the goal of achieving better retirement outcomes. RIIA has developed the retirement body of knowledge that supports its professional designation: the Retirement Management Analyst® (RMA®). RIIA organizes conferences and events, professional education for RMAs, publishes a peer-reviewed journal (Retirement Management Journal®), offers twice-monthly retirement-focused webinars through its Virtual Learning Center, manages a 7,600 person strong LinkedIn discussion group, provides research and other services to the industry and its clients. More information about RIIA can be found at http://riia-usa.org.       

SOURCE The Retirement Income Industry Association

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