Michelle Richter

Annuities and Institutional Best Practices: A Good Fit

May 17, 2023 2023, Media, Michelle Richter No comments

The importance of managing longevity risk can no longer be ignored by defined contribution plans—the SECURE Act incorporates annuities into fiduciary prudent process.

Sponsors will likely want to dedicate both time and resources in the future to conduct expert-level due diligence on the complex spectrum of mortality pooled solutions. They may decide to do so for compassionate reasons. Another motivation could be their fiduciary duty to investigate.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This contributed article was co-authored by Mark Chamberlain, Michael Dayton, Michelle Richter-Gordon, and Don Trone. Full author bios appear at the end of the article.

Qualified experts are needed to help sponsors evaluate “The Why” in a way that is well thought out, easily communicated, and documented. When contemplating in-plan solutions this year and next, Trustees are unlikely to succeed initially without new education—perhaps accompanied by unbiased guidance on ways soon-to-be retiring employees can safely access annuities outside the plan.

The Pension Protection Act of 2006 codified a sea change idea for defined benefit plans: that a portfolio of stocks and bonds is a poor match for funding essential expenses. For defined contribution plans, an objective advisor should be able to explain the differences between annuity solutions as alternatives to systematic withdrawal strategies that can fail.

Financial markets uncovered risks inside balanced and target date funds in 2022 that were dormant for many years. This has created stress for all participants and especially for those closest to retirement. For older employees nearing retirement, the emphasis for plan education best practices should be on what happens in their income phase and how to safely decumulate.

Sponsors who are not yet sure they want to consider annuities inside their plans could consider supplying objective participant education this year on how to safely access immediate annuity options in the private market. Several platforms are now available for them to “comparison shop”—employees could benefit from guidance about what to look for, and why. This could help clarify what they are seeing in their statements as the lifetime income illustration.

How many sponsors currently understand the term “mortality pooling” and know why the DOL considers it prudent? How many could explain it to their participants?

The priority for the older participants—and the plan trustees who serve them—should be to distinguish between annuities that provide income-only versus those designed to support accumulation first and income second. Many trustees should not try to broach this subject on their own. Advisors are needed to provide the same kind of leadership and guidance that they would for any complex area.

A good place to start is the Department of Labor’s intended safe harbor for lifetime income illustrations on statements. How many sponsors currently understand the term “mortality pooling” and know why the DOL considers it prudent? How many could explain it to their participants?

At a minimum, a meeting should be held to make an intentional decision about whether to research annuity options, with the rationale for a “probably not,” “in the near term,” or “in the future” investigation documented. This first meeting will most likely need guidance; the array of options is complex, and achieving an institutional due diligence standard will require consideration of multiple factors. Some will be quantitative and relatively easy to do, while many more will be qualitative—and much more difficult. Given the structure of the annuity marketplace this will require an experienced and unbiased point of view.

Prudent annuity due diligence

To begin, a guide to prudent annuity due diligence is published in the new ERISA Section 404(e). It includes the words “objective, thorough and analytical.”

Objective : Where will sponsors find unbiased expertise? Insurance and mutual fund companies can provide information about their specific solutions but are not likely to meet a test for either thoroughness or objectivity (different products have different profit margins for those who issue them).

Biases may also exist in the retail advice market. Significantly different commissions are paid to insurance agents for different types of annuities, while Registered Investment Advisors are paid for assets under management but don’t yet accept annuities as part of their prudent process—especially ones in the “Fixed Immediate” category.

Thorough: Researching creditworthiness is critical, complicated to do thoroughly, and is just the beginning. There are also subtle tradeoffs between the various products to consider. What is guaranteed by contract versus subject to change in the future—either at the discretion of the insurer, the random returns of the markets, or both?

Analytical: Who owns inflation risks—the issuer or the consumer? Are the costs easy to find or are they embedded in spreads and participation rates? Where are the implicit costs inside the contracts in addition to the explicit ones?

Supplying educational resources will require an objective point of view about where annuities fit into a participant’s total portfolio. It is important to learn how mortality pooling can promise income that is both guaranteed for life and higher than the 10-year treasury rate (while mutual funds cannot). This is true for either one life or two (another fact to know for the lifetime income illustration safe harbor).

Once properly educated, some consumers may choose annuities because they prioritize their desire for financial independence ahead of the possibility that good luck in risk markets will allow them to maximize inheritances. For this kind of retiree, selecting an annuity as a hedge for longevity risk may be about managing the fear of becoming a financial burden to family.

Starting the conversation

How to begin the first meeting? We recommend against sponsors simply starting with quantitative data for costs and performance for three reasons: 1) institutional pricing for many products is already available to plans (and sometimes to individuals outside plans) so concerns about high retail costs may not apply; 2) beginning with individual product comparisons is the equivalent of doing a manager search before creating an asset allocation policy; and 3) existing institutional best practices have long differentiated between past performance and expected future returns—shouldn’t this standard also be applied to annuities? Computer tools are no solution for the qualitative research needed here.

Instead, we recommend the conversation might start as follows: “Why should we consider it?” “What life stage would we solve for—accumulation, near-retirement, decumulation—or perhaps all three? If our participants vary in their willingness and/or ability to digest the complexity of different products, should we allow a default for them inside the plan, or does this create too much for us as fiduciaries? Perhaps a menu of different solutions for various levels of participant sophistication and preferences would be best, some (or all) of which could be executed outside the plan and accompanied by unbiased educational content?”

Next comes the critical issue of counterparty risk. There are substantial differences in the use of offshore reinsurance—and the potential risks involved. Congress is currently evaluating this subject and it’s important for plan sponsors to be aware of it. Analysis of past insurer insolvency events and the history of allocated versus unallocated contracts is relevant, as is research on state guaranty association differences and past precedents for receivership situations. This will all require expertise.

Should a prudent expert apply existing standards for diversification? Participants could allocate across multiple carriers to lower their counterparty and guaranty association risks. We think the institutionally priced fixed immediate annuity platforms with multiple issuers will help make this a best practice.

Liquidity in the income phase—or perhaps lack thereof—is important to understand. How do withdrawal rights of different immediate annuities compare based on differences between issuers? How might they be evaluated relative to income riders? A “cash refund” or “period certain” option offered by many (but not all) companies may allow for immediate annuity withdrawals that are like the liquidity features of income riders after they are activated. In both cases, liquidity declines over time, and may cause a reduction in income guarantees. There is an added cost for this option that should be part of a comparison of the different types of annuity income categories.

Inflation is another part of longevity risk, and different kinds of income “ratchets” are available. Options may be guaranteed or variable—usually differ by annuity type. Graduated ratchets are available in many fixed immediate products, from 1% to 6% annually. This lowers the initial income, but academic research shows participants will often choose them when properly educated about maintaining purchasing power over a long retirement. Other COLAs may be tied to capital markets, offering possibly higher future purchasing power but also have the risk of delivering less purchasing power over time versus the guaranteed ratchet.

Should the income available to participants who wish to annuitize before a rider deferral period ends be evaluated versus an immediate annuity? What about the cost of dividend loss in some products? Some sponsors may want to consider a target date fund structure for accumulation that leads to a lifetime income guaranty. They may also want to evaluate an unbundled structure that leaves the current target date fund in place and has the lifetime income piece available only at retirement. Last but not least, costs need to be prudently benchmarked.

This article is not intended to be comprehensive and may seem complex. However, our conclusion is simple: institutional quality due diligence on annuities is important for plan sponsors to begin, and outside expertise for plan fiduciaries is much needed.

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The discussion is not meant to provide any legal, tax, or investment advice with respect to the purchase of an insurance product. A comprehensive evaluation of a consumer’s needs and financial situation should always occur in order to help determine if an insurance product may be appropriate for each unique situation.

Retirement Income Adoption…It Ain’t That Hard

March 29, 2023 2022, Media, Michelle Richter No comments

Bruce Ashton, Martha Tejera and Michelle Richter-Gordon
March 21, 2023

Last December, Nevin Adams wrote a thought-provoking article titled “6 Obstacles to Retirement Income Adoption.” Nevin makes several interesting points, but in our view the obstacles he describes can be easily addressed as employers consider lifetime income solutions for their defined contribution retirement plans.

1. There is no legal requirement to provide a lifetime income option.

While the statement is true, we believe the absence of a legal requirement is irrelevant. Until this year (with the adoption of SECURE 2.0), there was no legal requirement to implement automatic enrollment, yet many plans implemented it voluntarily because it results in a higher level of savings and was therefore the right thing to do. Adding a retirement income option is not any harder than adding any investment to the plan and is likely easier than implementing automatic enrollment.

2. The safe harbor for selecting an annuity provider doesn’t feel very “safe.”

What can be safer than the safe harbor set out in SECURE 1.0? Plan sponsors have an absolute right to rely on written representations from an insurer unless they have actual knowledge that the representations are not true.

Further, there are various retirement income solutions available, some of which include a guaranteed income feature, like an annuity, but many others do not. Providing retirement income does not require providing an annuity.

Frankly, the selection of an annuity provider (if they select an insured product for their plan) should not be a concern for plan sponsors.

3. Operational and cost concerns linger.

Nevin refers to the portability concern regarding annuities saying that the “cost and complexity” would be “daunting, at best.” He also refers to the “‘learning’ curve, and…in some cases, an UN-learning curve — for plan fiduciaries, and those who advise them.”

SECURE 1.0 resolved the portability issue by allowing a participant to take a distribution of a product no longer supported by their plan and rolling it into an IRA. The costs associated with adopting this are routine — establish the administrative process, amend the plan, and communicate the rules.

Providers are also making it easier to transfer a retirement income product so that the product can remain as an investment alternative in the plan. If this option is available, plan sponsors can weigh the complexity and expense relative to the distribution approach.

Finally, since fiduciaries must act in the interest of the participants, plan sponsors and advisors may have a fiduciary duty to learn about retirement income solutions. Using this as an excuse to avoid consideration of retirement income solutions is, in our view, inappropriate.

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New Retirement Law Paves Way for Insurers to Tap Your 401(k)

January 11, 2023 2022, Media, Michelle Richter No comments

Austin R. Ramsey
January 9, 2023

Retirement plans featuring in-plan annuity investments stand to gain traction in the wake of a new landmark spending law, connecting workplace savers with lifetime income options and drawing closer ties with insurance providers that regulators have previously kept at bay.

SECURE 2.0 (Pub.L. 117-328), which President Joe Biden signed into law Dec. 29 as part of an end-of-year government spending package, streamlines the process for investing in insurance contracts that hedge against outliving retirement savings and nixes burdensome minimum distribution requirements for late-career annuity purchases.

Those measures come on the heels of the 2019 SECURE Act (Pub.L. 116-94) that carved out a safe harbor to protect employers from absorbing too much risk when offering in-plan annuity options. Taken together, the two laws set the stage for new qualified annuities to reshape 401(k) plans in the image of defined-benefit pensions and skirt federal regulations that crack down on retail annuity rollovers.

Insurers are still the benefactors of in-plan annuities. They’re able to access retirement customers in a different way—avoiding the regulatory pitfalls the Labor Department created for some financial advisers who have been labeled sharks that take advantage of vulnerable older Americans.

Decades of unstable interest rates have forced many employers to abandon traditional pensions in favor of defined-contribution, 401(k)-style plans that shift the responsibility for saving enough money to last a lifetime off company balance sheets and onto workers. Annuity contracts, although historically unpopular, present a viable solution to the problem of workers outlasting their savings, especially when configured as investment options inside a qualified retirement plan, advocates say.

“I think you’re going to see these options everywhere,” said Andrew Stumacher, managing director of custom defined-contribution solutions at AllianceBernstein Holding LP in New York. “We are definitely going to see this movement toward more income option prevalence in plans. We will now see more default solutions in place because SECURE Acts 1.0 and 2.0 have removed some of those big concerns that plans had.”

Big Business

Both SECURE Acts 1.0 and 2.0 were geared toward addressing retirement income disparity—a problem that has fueled a growing interest in annuities. That upsurge could bolster an evolving financial service market facing renewed regulatory pressures.

Wealth management is a higher-margin business than that of planned advisory services, causing the two industries to converge, said Michelle Richter of Fiduciary Insurance Services LLC, which advises plans on in-plan annuity sales.

Third-party retirement plan service providers are operating amid a wholesale shift in recordkeeping fee structures from an assets-under-management percentages to fixed-dollar amounts per participant. It’s the industry’s response to the rise in 401(k) fees litigation that’s seen participants demanding lower, simpler charges.

“Changes in recordkeeping fee structures are causing plan sponsors to want to keep participants in their plans through retirement,” Richter said. “Keeping participants in the plan through retirement means you need to have income-oriented solutions in that plan.”

Workers have historically accessed annuities in the retail market at or near retirement age. But brokers who made their money off commissions earned a bad name in past decades preying on older Americans with complicated, fees-heavy contracts that were nearly impossible to break.

“A financial adviser may have a conflict of interest and may be invested in getting the retiree to buy into all kinds of different assets,” said Olivia Mitchell, The Wharton School International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans professor and executive director of the Pension Research Council. “Having a fiduciary in the plan take responsibility and do the research necessary for making sure the annuity provider is solid is really quite beneficial to both the insurer and participant,” she said.

Since the 2008 recession, the US Labor Department has waged an aggressive regulatory battle against those brokers by seeking to attach strict fiduciary codes of conduct on a broader array of investment advice. The Biden administration is expected to issue the latest iteration of that rule later this year.

That hurts insurance companies’ bottom lines; it’s no surprise that the industry clung to SECURE Acts 1.0 and 2.0 like lifelines, Richter said. Groups such as the American Academy of Actuaries, National Association of Insurance & Financial Advisors, and Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association supported both measures and celebrated their passage.

Rather than relying on customers from financial advisers, insurers market in-plan annuity products directly to plan providers. Institutional, in-plan options for which the SECURE laws help clear a path are a way for those companies to plug into the lucrative retirement market by cutting out the broker-dealer middlemen.

“There’s just a different structure there because they’re in an institutional product, and you don’t have the intermediary there,” said Bryan Hodgens, head of distribution and annuity research at LIMRA, the largest trade association representing insurance and related financial service industries.

Lifetime Income

Guaranteed lifetime income benefits appear attractive, but advisers face challenges in participant uptake, as they seek to overcome a deep-rooted annuity taboo. The shark-filled retail annuity market created a negative image for annuities of all shapes and sizes that could be hard to shake.

Roughly seven in 10 retirement plan participants and sponsors would consider programs that offer guaranteed income “extremely” or “very” valuable, according to a 2021 Teachers Insurance & Annuity Association of America study. Nearly 90% of plan sponsors surveyed would reportedly consider implementing an in-plan annuity.

That’s the throughline that Congress is reacting to in its latest SECURE iteration, Richter said, but the reality is that participants aren’t getting the message. Just over half of participants in that same TIAA study said they were enthusiastic about in-plan annuity products, but many still favored 401(k) plan modifications to avoid outliving their savings.

“It’s a messaging problem,” said Richter. “There’s going to have to be a massive education campaign necessary to separate institutional, in-plan annuities from retail annuities in participants’ minds.”

To date, only 14% of defined-contribution plans offer an in-plan guarantee option for participants to annuitize their plan balances, according to LIMRA. Insurers recognize that challenge, but they still face structural obstacles to participant-level product delivery. They contract with recordkeepers who contract with plan sponsors who work directly with participants.

“The insurance companies are just now realizing we don’t have the mechanism where we can go explain our story and talk about our products,” said Hodgens. “There are three or four audiences that they are actively, consciously thinking about with their sales teams and internal resources.”

Recordkeepers may be appeased by better product options that align with their fee structures, but plan sponsors need to learn that lifetime income products give them more control over whether and when a worker retires, said Stumacher. Companies who want to replace older workers with fresh talent can use guaranteed income options as an enticing benefit.

Participants, meanwhile, may find themselves enrolled in plans that already feature annuity products whether they realize it or not. SECURE 2.0 facilitates automatic enrollment in new workplace plans starting in 2025. Since most default retirement options are target-date funds, that’s the key area for growth that insurers are eyeing.

“That combination is going to automatically get more money into these annuity products,” said Hodgens.

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Episode 173: Making In-Plan Annuities a Reality with Michelle Richter and Mark Chamberlain – 2 of 2

December 9, 2022 2022, Mark Chamberlain, Michelle Richter, Podcast, Retirement No comments

Here’s the full text of her discussion:

Heads up to SOA, NAIFA, IRI, any other industry group- mark this moment as the point where contacts you have at these organizations should start listening.

Big bold assertion #1: Non-codification of verb sales in insurance means that intellectual property (inventions) can’t have value in insurance

Why is this true?

Assertion 2. The above-mentioned fact (Ip can’t have value in insurance) is true because of the intersection between how products sell and how trademark law works. I will explain further in a moment.

Assertion 3. IP having value is fundamental to the functioning of capitalism.

Assertion 4. In a demutualized world where insurance manufacturing is now entirely vertically disintegrated from distribution, IP can only come to have value by codifying insurance advisement as a scalable, oversee-able, nationally regulated discipline

So we are proving assertion 1- IP has no value in my domain- by proving assertions 2-4

So let’s start with assertion 2 part 1: how do products sell. To understand this, we need first to define both the word “product” and then the word “sell.” Products are nouns. In the context of insurance and financial services, products are issuable containers, and their distribution is highly regulated. Products are issuable legal contracts within which IP can be embedded, and in exchange for the distribution of which compensation can be paid to an FP in respect of either, but never concurrently, a or b. A is from inside the noun in direct respect to sale thereof (this refers to agency and brokerage) whereas b is charged upon the AUA/AUM there formed following a product’s intro into an advised portfolio (b refers to RIA channel).

Now that we know what product means, we move on to sell. Sell means the exchange of remuneration in direct respect to [x- x is a verb in the RIA channel and it’s a noun in the agent/broker channels]. Wholesalers are people who so routinely sell wholes that we can describe their identity by putting an r at the end of the verb that they routinely perform. (By analogy, runners routinely run, we don’t call someone a runner who once ran across the street) All wholes are nouns. The human mind cannot conceive of a whole verb. So wholesalers sell nouns, and nouns sell when they have wholesalers selling them. Wholesalers work for either a noun manufacturer, or a noun seller. An organization that sells nouns will not switch which noun it has its wholesalers focused on selling unless the new noun is more profitable than is the incumbent noun portfolio. A product concept thus cannot have value, because what is valuable about the product/noun is the seller’s prior investment in manufacturing and/or wholesaling infrastructure., not clever IP that does not have higher profit margins than does the incumbent product set.

Now we define the second half of assertion 2, which is about trademarking. Trademark (the application of which differs for IP protection relative to much easier to defend in court brand/name protection)- in this case I’m talking IP protection- requires that the IP be noun-embeddable, whereas servicemarked requires the IP to be verb embedable. If you google “trademark definition”, when applied to IP defense as opposed to brand defense, you too will become aware that the definition of this word requires the IP owner to be able to either manufacture or to sell (remember what sell means from above!) the noun.

Insurance provides for minimization of liabilities (or contra-assets). Insurance advisor is not a defined term. Financial advisor is defined, and it means person who holds the authority to sell verbs (person who has an RIA affiliation, which means they can sell verbs. RIAs sell verbs only. Agents and brokers sell nouns only.) Financial advisors provide ongoing asset maximization advising and they frequently receive their compensation by advising upon, and thus billing upon, AUM accordingly. This asset max advising is a service. IP embedded in Services, for example, the managed account services provided by Morningstar Inc, are servicemarkable, thus they have been servicemarked, not trademarkable, because they’re verbs (services), not nouns.

Absent codifying insurance advisement so that insurance professionals can also sell verbs, by which i am saying: Absent popularizing a billing approach like benefits under advisement or income under advisement, there can’t be value to intellectual property in our field, because you can’t defend it via servicemark (because there’s no framework for scalably selling services in our domain) and you can’t sell it as a noun because an organization can only monetize a trademark in insurance from previous investment in manufacturing and distribution. an incumbent will only do this if the new product has higher expected profit margins than does its existing portfolio. Not likely in today’s fee conscious environment)

So again, because my prior words are true, Not having a scalable advisement frame for liability reduction means intellectual property that is servicemarked in our field also cannot have value, because it can’t be sold (to sell again means to exchange remuneration in direct respect to x. Non-codification of insurance advisement means we can’t scalably sell verbs in insurance). So concludes my proof of assertion #2, that IP can’t have value in my field.

Assertion 3: The impossibility of IP having value in my field is an offense about which utter outrage is merited. It is a direct affront to the very principles of capitalism. Capitalism as a governing frame relies heavily upon IP being protectable and monetizable so as to encourage invention.

Thus I question: Why is mine the sole field in this country to which capitalism is not permitted to apply, and why are other members of my community not apoplectic about my potentially true words?

Consider the implications that not codifying verb sales in my domain has now that post-SECURE, annuities are permitted in plans. Plan advisors, like all other fiduciaries in America, are inherently taught that asset maximization is the only valid lens through which financial advisement can occur. Yet i believe that consumer financials occur not only on the left side of the consumer balance sheet, but also on their income statement, their statement of net worth, their cash flow statement, and the right side of balance sheet, which is where insurance plays. Plan advisors don’t know annuities and vice versa. Advisers can’t begin to imagine why we insurance people believe our solutions have value, because they are taught to see the world through the lens of asset maximization and are not taught about liability minimization as a valid entry point to a consumer finance worldview.

Annuities in DC will only take off if we band together to fight for their place. Actuaries used to have a role in asset liability matching when we as a society had DB plans. There isn’t a natural spot for an actuary in DC plans because liability consideration is not yet required so as to advise in DC, because DC, which relies on AUM as a billing base, even though ERISA includes the words “Retirement Income” in the acronym, naturally emphasizes asset maximization.

Why not IUA?

The Society of Actuaries, NAIFA and IRI must all strongly consider the possibility that my words might be true, and if they feel they might be, they need to begin acting yesterday.

Representatives of any of these industry organizations, or other industry organizations that can help change what I believe to be the true circumstances that i have just described to you are invited to email me at mrichterfis@gmail.com and request a deck that further explains my perspective and the dangers to both our industry and our society more broadly that follow logically therefrom.

Lastly for this diatribe, I hold that Insurance advisement should be a National field (since it is not about noun placement but about contextual advisement, it is not per se corollated to an individual contract the way some state insurance law allows annuity consulting to occur, thus the field would not make sense to be state regulated) it should be policed similarly to how RIAs are overseen.

To achieve this framework is my career goal.

27 years remain until I begin taking social security at age 70. It thus follows logically that I will not stop truthfully communicating my concerns on these matters for at least 27 more years (unless they’re resolved in less time than that).

Thank you for your patience both in allowing me to read that today, and in helping me along in my communicative journey towards hopefully making this point understandable to at least a few people!

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[paul_tyler]: this is paul tyler and welcome to
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[paul_tyler]: doing for a lot of good companies

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[michelle_richter]: yeah

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[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

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[michelle_richter]: we’re doing

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[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

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[michelle_richter]: annuity research and consulting

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[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

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[michelle_richter]: m so we got really clever with
the name and we

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[mark_chamberlain]: yah

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[michelle_richter]: called it annuity research

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[paul_tyler]: yeah

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[michelle_richter]: and consulting

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[ramsey_d_smith]: h m

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[michelle_richter]: but like like lame insurance people would

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[ramsey_d_smith]: ah

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[michelle_richter]: but but in all

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[michelle_richter]: seriousness you know what what we’re up
to is an intention to bridge the communities

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[michelle_richter]: between plan advisors and between those who
are expert in the insurance space so we

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[michelle_richter]: very much have an intention of education

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[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

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[michelle_richter]: of advocacy and of providing information for
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[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

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[michelle_richter]: advisors to then be able to safely

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[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

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[michelle_richter]: recommend solutions that include ensure and

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[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

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[bruno_caron]: oh

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[michelle_richter]: solutions in plan

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[mark_chamberlain]: oh

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[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

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[michelle_richter]: um and i’d love to let mark
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[mark_chamberlain]: yeah

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[michelle_richter]: along there to add to that thought
about our corporate vision

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[mark_chamberlain]: sure well good morning pleasure to be
with you and i’ve watched many episodes of

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[mark_chamberlain]: this

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[mark_chamberlain]: show by the way so i’ve enjoyed

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[paul_tyler]: oh thank

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[mark_chamberlain]: it

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[paul_tyler]: you

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[ramsey_d_smith]: welcome

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[mark_chamberlain]: thank you i got started down this
path in two thousand

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[mark_chamberlain]: alking with paul just a bit before
the show at the time i had just

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[mark_chamberlain]: joined the ice sirs business before the
launch and

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[michelle_richter]: oh

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[mark_chamberlain]: went down to san

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[bruno_caron]: m

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[mark_chamberlain]: diego to meet with

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[paul_tyler]: oh

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[mark_chamberlain]: a company called frontier analytics which is
a software

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[ramsey_d_smith]: ye

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[mark_chamberlain]: company

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[paul_tyler]: yeah

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[mark_chamberlain]: back then it was providing the asset
class optimization technology for a lot of the

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[michelle_richter]: m

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[mark_chamberlain]: and at the time

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[bruno_caron]: m

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[mark_chamberlain]: index funds in general weren’t well integrated
into those systems they were primarily selling active

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[mark_chamberlain]: ts weren’t integrated at all so that
was the challenge back then in two thousand

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[mark_chamberlain]: and on the board of that company
was harry marko wits and so i got

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[mark_chamberlain]: to meet him that day and was
invited back for a second meeting and the

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[mark_chamberlain]: topic that day was how do we
integrate annuities and mortality pooling into an acid

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[mark_chamberlain]: application optimization that was two thousand

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[bruno_caron]: yah

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[mark_chamberlain]: so

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[mark_chamberlain]: we are in twenty twenty

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[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

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[mark_chamberlain]: two in the industry still has not
figured that out and so when black rod

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[mark_chamberlain]: bought the ice sears business in in
well bought all of b in two thus

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[mark_chamberlain]: and nine and a lot of us
who had started the company or started the

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[mark_chamberlain]: business rather

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[michelle_richter]: oh

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[mark_chamberlain]: parishooted out at that point i was
looking for a similar challenge for

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[mark_chamberlain]: you know how do we

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[mark_chamberlain]: help the industry move forward and what’s
the next place to do that and so

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[mark_chamberlain]: i got started on trying to solve
the innuitization puzzle back in two thousand and

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[mark_chamberlain]: ten

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[paul_tyler]: ah

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[mark_chamberlain]: and

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[paul_tyler]: yea

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[mark_chamberlain]: michelle recruited me

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[paul_tyler]: yeah

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[mark_chamberlain]: this past summer we were both presenting
at

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[michelle_richter]: yeah

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[mark_chamberlain]: a at a conference for the new
board it’s the new center for

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[mark_chamberlain]: board certified feduciaries which is as something
that was begun by a don trone who

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[mark_chamberlain]: originally founded f i three sixty and
the class was on integrating annuities into de

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[mark_chamberlain]: plants and shell and i both taught
classes at that at that at that particular

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[paul_tyler]: yeah

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[mark_chamberlain]: three day conference and she recruited me
to come help her try to try to

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[bruno_caron]: oh

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[mark_chamberlain]: so that’s that’s the longer history of
how we got together

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[bruno_caron]: oh

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[michelle_richter]: oh

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[paul_tyler]: you know it’s fascinating this business how
many amazing people touch and and drive so

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[paul_tyler]: many different career paths so yeah mark
wits wow

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[michelle_richter]: ye

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[paul_tyler]: how cool is that so michelle tell
don’t be bashful i know you are

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[michelle_richter]: wall flower

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[paul_tyler]: well

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[paul_tyler]: yeah

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[michelle_richter]: wall flower

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[paul_tyler]: you are

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[paul_tyler]: not never

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[bruno_caron]: oh

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[paul_tyler]: said no one especially

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[michelle_richter]: right

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[paul_tyler]: no one on linked in ever

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[paul_tyler]: said that

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[michelle_richter]: right

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[paul_tyler]: so all right

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[paul_tyler]: how should we be looking at the
future of annuities okay future anuities in plan

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[paul_tyler]: futures of annuity you tell

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[michelle_richter]: yeah so so from from my point
of view what what i’m seeing you know

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[michelle_richter]: with part of my time represent the
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[mark_chamberlain]: oh

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[michelle_richter]: retirement income council which is think a
non profit think tank operating in the defined

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[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

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[michelle_richter]: and

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[michelle_richter]: and my opinions

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[michelle_richter]: that i express here today are necessarily
my own and not for say comforting with

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[michelle_richter]: those of either the iris or any
of its member companies okay but so in

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[michelle_richter]: this position i hear a lot about
what going on in space and and i

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[ramsey_d_smith]: ye

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[michelle_richter]: broad ridge f three sixty um so
so i have the opportunity to hear a

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[michelle_richter]: lot of what’s going on behind the
scenes as the industry really prepares for what

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[michelle_richter]: is expected to be massive movement towards
annuities and plan some of the attributes that

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[michelle_richter]: i see as necessary right now for
this field to take off include um annuities

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[michelle_richter]: need to be included within what in
the qualify or in the d c d

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space

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[paul_tyler]: ah

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[michelle_richter]: you know we we need for annuities
to be incorporated into qualified default investment alternatives

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[michelle_richter]: for them with offdout provisions of course
for them to

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m oh

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[bruno_caron]: oh

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[bruno_caron]: yeah

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[michelle_richter]: spark for example it is the industry
organization for record keepers and it is in

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[michelle_richter]: about

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[ramsey_d_smith]: ye

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[michelle_richter]: how to accomplish some of those jectives
where because historically you know record keepers didn’t

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[michelle_richter]: talk to annuity companies and annuity companies
didn’t talk to record keepers so

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[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

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[michelle_richter]: that to the data connactivitythat is necessary
for reporting annuity elements it benefit elements to

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[michelle_richter]: the end participant like that infrastructure

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[ramsey_d_smith]: yes

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[michelle_richter]: isn’t there yet so some of that
is needs to be addressed for there to

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[michelle_richter]: be a wide scale and then lastly
fiduciary

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[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

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[michelle_richter]: concerns need to be satisfied because plan
sponsors and those who advise them serve in

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[michelle_richter]: a fiduciary capacity and the concerns that
i’m hearing about how advisors can introduce annuities

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[michelle_richter]: plan are

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[michelle_richter]: more materially about ongoing monitoring than they
are about initial introduction where there’s there is

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[michelle_richter]: certainly a need within the plan advisory
community to get access to basic information about

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[michelle_richter]: about products but our product our industries
products but but i am hearing as i

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[michelle_richter]: said less concerned about how to get
enough information to be able to make an

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[michelle_richter]: initial

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[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

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[michelle_richter]: recommendation than i

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[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

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[michelle_richter]: am about things like how will i
know what renewal

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[michelle_richter]: rates on indexinuities

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[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

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[michelle_richter]: actually turn out to be since i’m
making this recommendation that needs to be monitored

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[michelle_richter]: on an ongoing basis so this the
kind of information that’s going to be necessary

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[michelle_richter]: within the plan advisory community for our
product lines to take off and it’s looking

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[michelle_richter]: to me like that’s going to be
the case

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[bruno_caron]: m

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[michelle_richter]: so we should all prepare accordingly um
i’d like to let mark pitch you on

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[michelle_richter]: all prepare accordingly

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[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

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[michelle_richter]: because you know my view is that
you know as it stands right now and

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[michelle_richter]: i’ll go deeper on this a couple
of

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[michelle_richter]: minutes but you know as the community
stands right now amongst

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[bruno_caron]: oh

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[michelle_richter]: plan advisors as i mentioned plan advisors
they advise plans d c plans

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[ramsey_d_smith]: ye

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[michelle_richter]: are inherently accumulation focused it’s never been
the

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[michelle_richter]: responsibility of a plan advisor to understand
decumulation because historically plant sponsors did not want

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[michelle_richter]: to retain

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[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

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[michelle_richter]: assets through participants retirement but that dynamic
has changed dramatically in the last five to

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[michelle_richter]: ten years and it’s it in large
part of function of record keeping fee structures

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[michelle_richter]: and there being economies of scale to
keeping participants in plan but it also has

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[michelle_richter]: to do with some regulatority since um
and it just is the case now that

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[michelle_richter]: plan advisors need to become more expert
and how to address the

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[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

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[michelle_richter]: decumulation phase so this whole um

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[ramsey_d_smith]: michele i’ve

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[michelle_richter]: m

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[ramsey_d_smith]: got a i’ve

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[michelle_richter]: community

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[ramsey_d_smith]: got i’ve got a quick

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[michelle_richter]: yeah

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[ramsey_d_smith]: question

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[bruno_caron]: a

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[ramsey_d_smith]: if if

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[michelle_richter]: oh

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[ramsey_d_smith]: i may because i think

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[bruno_caron]: oh

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[michelle_richter]: yes

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[ramsey_d_smith]: there’s there’s

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[michelle_richter]: please

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[ramsey_d_smith]: two interesting elements of what you’ve just
said so one is let’s talk a little

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[ramsey_d_smith]: bit about what is it plan advisor
look like right so right

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[michelle_richter]: ah

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[ramsey_d_smith]: there

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[mark_chamberlain]: yeah

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[ramsey_d_smith]: there there’s

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[michelle_richter]: ah

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[ramsey_d_smith]: a broad spectrum of four one k
plans the small ones they’re big ones so

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[ramsey_d_smith]: we talk about plan advisors we’re talking
about r a are we talking about sort

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[ramsey_d_smith]: of large consultancies

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[michelle_richter]: yeah

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[ramsey_d_smith]: like like like a milliment or

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[michelle_richter]: yeah

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[ramsey_d_smith]: what is the what is the what
is the scope

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[michelle_richter]: yes

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[ramsey_d_smith]: people that we’re talking

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[michelle_richter]: oh

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[ramsey_d_smith]: about

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[michelle_richter]: the answer is yes and yes

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[ramsey_d_smith]: a

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[michelle_richter]: right so the

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[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

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[michelle_richter]: the people who serve plans can can
be

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[michelle_richter]: typically

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[michelle_richter]: larger plans work with a

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[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

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[michelle_richter]: sultan that has

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[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

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[michelle_richter]: home

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[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

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[michelle_richter]: office support working for an organization

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[michelle_richter]: that is principally focused on plan advisement

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[michelle_richter]: whereas retirement and advisors so so you’d
call those people consultants

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[michelle_richter]: whereas you’d

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[michelle_richter]: call

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[bruno_caron]: oh

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[michelle_richter]: an advisor a person who probably works
with a smaller shop and may be on

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[michelle_richter]: their own um and that always is
performed

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[ramsey_d_smith]: right

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[michelle_richter]: through a registered investment advisor

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[ramsey_d_smith]: and what would be the

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[michelle_richter]: but but they’re not per se wealth
managers

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[ramsey_d_smith]: sure and what and what sort of
size of what size of plans would they

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[ramsey_d_smith]: be typically

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[michelle_richter]: yeah

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[ramsey_d_smith]: advising

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[michelle_richter]: yeah

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[ramsey_d_smith]: a park

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[michelle_richter]: so the consultants might be looking in
the billion dollar range

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[bruno_caron]: m

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[michelle_richter]: right and advisors

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[michelle_richter]: are you know likely addressing the market
below that i mean that certainly

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[ramsey_d_smith]: sure

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[michelle_richter]: a hard and fast rule but

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[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

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[michelle_richter]: you know ball park

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[ramsey_d_smith]: so so the next next piece is
that i think it’s very interesting following that

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[ramsey_d_smith]: is the the it’s it’s it’s an
important business for a lot of r s

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[ramsey_d_smith]: and what you’re saying is that where
before it might have been a business that

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[ramsey_d_smith]: was that was limited to sort of
the accumulation phase now there’s this retention opportunity

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[ramsey_d_smith]: all the way into retirement it’s an
important business opportunity as well for that for

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[ramsey_d_smith]: that aeneisthatis that fair statement

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[michelle_richter]: it is a fair statement and it
is half of the reason why i’m here

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[michelle_richter]: today it’s because

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[ramsey_d_smith]: okay

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[michelle_richter]: i believe that my people

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[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

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[michelle_richter]: have a place within this community

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[ramsey_d_smith]: eh

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[michelle_richter]: it the case that

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[bruno_caron]: i

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[michelle_richter]: retirement plan advisors don’t know annuities right

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[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

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[michelle_richter]: with everybody certainly knows that that’s the
case and arica does require for experts

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[bruno_caron]: ye

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[michelle_richter]: who are advising a plan if they
do not have experts in a certain arena

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[michelle_richter]: that they think is important for the
plan then an every side adviser is required

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[michelle_richter]: to contract with

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[ramsey_d_smith]: my

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[michelle_richter]: an outside expert to to give them
guidance on how to review those you know

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[michelle_richter]: those solutions so you know from my
view i think that there is a need

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[michelle_richter]: for insurance experts to get ready to
help plan advisors to evaluate insurance contract that’s

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[michelle_richter]: at the heart of what mark and
i will be doing as early as february

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m oh

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[michelle_richter]: and and i

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[michelle_richter]: feel that we will not

404
00:14:08,036 –> 00:14:08,278
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

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00:14:08,302 –> 00:14:11,347
[michelle_richter]: be able to dress all of the
demand

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[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

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[michelle_richter]: ourselves for such services because plan advisors
do not

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[paul_tyler]: oh

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[michelle_richter]: have that expertise my imagination is that
building models or that kind of expertise will

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[michelle_richter]: be hourly or project based or subscription
based and so if that is the case

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[michelle_richter]: here cannot be commissions paid in an
aria context so it seems to me

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[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

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[michelle_richter]: that the guidance that is going to
be necessary

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[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

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[michelle_richter]: is going to be livered

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[michelle_richter]: v one of the mechanisms i just
described

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[paul_tyler]: ay

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[michelle_richter]: and to me it appears that the

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[bruno_caron]: m

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[michelle_richter]: form of entity qualified to do such

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[mark_chamberlain]: oh

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[michelle_richter]: is an r a m and that’s
the reason why i have used my for

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[michelle_richter]: that purpose and and i

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[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

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[michelle_richter]: think that plan advisers

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[ramsey_d_smith]: ah

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[michelle_richter]: will desire for the counter party that
they interact with to also b fiduciary

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[paul_tyler]: yeah

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[michelle_richter]: an annuity fediciary for which i applied
for a trade mark because insurance fiduciary is

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[michelle_richter]: already trade marked by one man who
will prevent others from using that mark who

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[michelle_richter]: did in fact do so with me
which is the reason why my entity is

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[michelle_richter]: renamed

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[ramsey_d_smith]: other

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[paul_tyler]: work

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[ramsey_d_smith]: than owning the name does he actually
perform that function

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[michelle_richter]: i decline to comment

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[ramsey_d_smith]: okay

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[michelle_richter]: on the individual

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[ramsey_d_smith]: i just

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[paul_tyler]: okay

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[ramsey_d_smith]: just

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[paul_tyler]: well and let me

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[ramsey_d_smith]: go

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[paul_tyler]: just

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[ramsey_d_smith]: ahead

448
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[paul_tyler]: be even a little more specific for
a listener so

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[michelle_richter]: i hold a patent my former employer
holds a patent

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[mark_chamberlain]: oh

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[michelle_richter]: on intellectual property

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[michelle_richter]: that i invented imbedding life insurance and
annuities into holistic acid application to challenge mark

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[michelle_richter]: who said that it can be done

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[bruno_caron]: m

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[michelle_richter]: it can be done

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[michelle_richter]: it was done and yet i cannot
call myself an insurance fiduciary i can call

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[michelle_richter]: myself an annuity

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[paul_tyler]: uh

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[michelle_richter]: fiduciary

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00:16:04,174 –> 00:16:10,845
[paul_tyler]: well and i’ll say for my experience
providing financial planning

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[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

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[paul_tyler]: support inside of corporate structure is immensely
complicated only from

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[paul_tyler]: a legal perspect but a practical perspective

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[ramsey_d_smith]: m

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[paul_tyler]: of working with a

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[mark_chamberlain]: m

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[paul_tyler]: wide variety of employes so when you
talk about a plan advisor or an annuity

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[paul_tyler]: specialist is the client the and sponsor
or is the client the individuals and the

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[paul_tyler]: corporation or individuals inside the plan

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[michelle_richter]: i it’s a great question i would
argue there’s three clients there is the plan

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[michelle_richter]: advisor who makes the determination

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00:16:44,036 –> 00:16:44,379
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

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[michelle_richter]: of how to select other service providers

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00:16:46,406 –> 00:16:46,710
[ramsey_d_smith]: my

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[michelle_richter]: there the plan itself and there are
the participants in the plan and the person

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[michelle_richter]: who’s giving the guidance has to be
thinking about all of those constituencies

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[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

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[paul_tyler]: i guess is that is that like
is that possible right i think of the

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00:17:06,023 –> 00:17:11,111
[paul_tyler]: thou think of the challenge s just
to get the enrollment you mentioned i think

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[paul_tyler]: michelle you favor an din into this

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[tisa_rabun_marshall]: oh

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[paul_tyler]: into the process

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[michelle_richter]: yeah i favor

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[tisa_rabun_marshall]: yeah

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[michelle_richter]: up doubt

489
00:17:17,794 –> 00:17:21,735
[paul_tyler]: ped out lopped out perfect world

490
00:17:21,836 –> 00:17:21,856
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

491
00:17:21,875 –> 00:17:22,336
[paul_tyler]: what’s the

492
00:17:22,648 –> 00:17:24,746
[ramsey_d_smith]: hm oh

493
00:17:23,818 –> 00:17:24,539
[paul_tyler]: ramsey gives us

494
00:17:24,678 –> 00:17:25,338
[bruno_caron]: yeah

495
00:17:24,720 –> 00:17:25,421
[paul_tyler]: the tuns up on

496
00:17:25,376 –> 00:17:25,416
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

497
00:17:25,461 –> 00:17:25,782
[paul_tyler]: that one

498
00:17:26,298 –> 00:17:26,765
[bruno_caron]: uh

499
00:17:26,885 –> 00:17:26,906
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

500
00:17:27,384 –> 00:17:27,685
[paul_tyler]: perfect

501
00:17:27,537 –> 00:17:27,558
[bruno_caron]: h

502
00:17:27,785 –> 00:17:28,065
[paul_tyler]: world

503
00:17:28,076 –> 00:17:29,246
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

504
00:17:28,787 –> 00:17:30,249
[paul_tyler]: what is that number like

505
00:17:30,678 –> 00:17:31,398
[bruno_caron]: yeah

506
00:17:30,730 –> 00:17:31,531
[paul_tyler]: does everybody have

507
00:17:31,673 –> 00:17:31,693
[mark_chamberlain]: m

508
00:17:32,235 –> 00:17:32,457
[michelle_richter]: oh

509
00:17:32,513 –> 00:17:34,276
[paul_tyler]: five percent their assets between thirty

510
00:17:34,233 –> 00:17:34,395
[michelle_richter]: yeah

511
00:17:34,316 –> 00:17:37,661
[paul_tyler]: and forty in this annuity is that
then you get to fifty and sixty you’ve

512
00:17:37,681 –> 00:17:38,022
[paul_tyler]: got ten

513
00:17:38,696 –> 00:17:39,566
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

514
00:17:39,174 –> 00:17:39,595
[paul_tyler]: what’s your

515
00:17:40,095 –> 00:17:40,438
[michelle_richter]: oh

516
00:17:40,377 –> 00:17:40,538
[paul_tyler]: if you

517
00:17:40,466 –> 00:17:40,667
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

518
00:17:40,558 –> 00:17:41,280
[paul_tyler]: were righting a lot what

519
00:17:41,185 –> 00:17:41,287
[michelle_richter]: the

520
00:17:41,320 –> 00:17:41,460
[paul_tyler]: would

521
00:17:41,449 –> 00:17:41,753
[michelle_richter]: answer

522
00:17:41,500 –> 00:17:41,701
[paul_tyler]: it be

523
00:17:43,726 –> 00:17:44,787
[michelle_richter]: well i’m actually going to

524
00:17:44,808 –> 00:17:45,072
[bruno_caron]: yeah

525
00:17:44,847 –> 00:17:48,373
[michelle_richter]: have mark answer this because our organization
takes

526
00:17:48,533 –> 00:17:48,901
[mark_chamberlain]: my

527
00:17:48,554 –> 00:17:53,261
[michelle_richter]: a view point around how the stages
that we think you’re supposed to look at

528
00:17:53,742 –> 00:17:55,525
[michelle_richter]: as a plan advisor then

529
00:17:55,886 –> 00:17:56,208
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

530
00:17:56,327 –> 00:18:02,270
[michelle_richter]: it’s through that lens that you’re supposed
to then think about products all you mark

531
00:18:04,343 –> 00:18:07,807
[mark_chamberlain]: we didn’t see that one coming but
i’ll give

532
00:18:07,695 –> 00:18:07,957
[michelle_richter]: uh

533
00:18:07,867 –> 00:18:08,227
[mark_chamberlain]: it a shot

534
00:18:08,298 –> 00:18:08,579
[bruno_caron]: my

535
00:18:08,644 –> 00:18:08,685
[michelle_richter]: uh

536
00:18:08,945 –> 00:18:08,966
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

537
00:18:09,589 –> 00:18:12,945
[mark_chamberlain]: my perspective on all of this is
that

538
00:18:13,835 –> 00:18:13,856
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

539
00:18:14,913 –> 00:18:22,454
[mark_chamberlain]: open architecture approach to providing institutional quality
diligence and consulting means that

540
00:18:23,366 –> 00:18:23,547
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

541
00:18:23,395 –> 00:18:29,735
[mark_chamberlain]: there is no best solution there are
only trade offs and one of the possible

542
00:18:30,375 –> 00:18:31,497
[mark_chamberlain]: conclusions that a board

543
00:18:31,526 –> 00:18:31,726
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

544
00:18:31,597 –> 00:18:34,620
[mark_chamberlain]: can reach is that bringing an annuity
inside the

545
00:18:34,555 –> 00:18:34,655
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

546
00:18:34,660 –> 00:18:35,361
[mark_chamberlain]: plan isn’t the

547
00:18:35,366 –> 00:18:35,647
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

548
00:18:35,421 –> 00:18:38,919
[mark_chamberlain]: best decision for them it has to
be one of the options on the table

549
00:18:38,996 –> 00:18:39,241
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

550
00:18:39,401 –> 00:18:44,218
[mark_chamberlain]: and the consultant has to be ready
to support that and educated in such a

551
00:18:44,278 –> 00:18:45,645
[mark_chamberlain]: way that that’s that’s actually

552
00:18:45,447 –> 00:18:45,528
[michelle_richter]: ah

553
00:18:45,786 –> 00:18:51,448
[mark_chamberlain]: considered oh in an unbiased way so
that’s a little bit

554
00:18:51,408 –> 00:18:51,428
[bruno_caron]: m

555
00:18:51,488 –> 00:18:57,246
[mark_chamberlain]: of a constraint on who’s going to
be considered the outside expert and that gets

556
00:18:57,326 –> 00:18:59,551
[mark_chamberlain]: to the heart of michel’s point of

557
00:19:00,686 –> 00:19:01,110
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

558
00:19:00,693 –> 00:19:04,201
[mark_chamberlain]: the right way to compensate this kind
of an expert isn’t based on a product

559
00:19:04,301 –> 00:19:08,650
[mark_chamberlain]: sale the only way you’re going to
get truly objectivity is if they’re they’re paid

560
00:19:08,730 –> 00:19:10,514
[mark_chamberlain]: a consulting a hard dollar consulting fee

561
00:19:10,695 –> 00:19:10,916
[michelle_richter]: oh

562
00:19:11,476 –> 00:19:19,699
[mark_chamberlain]: so with that said no is it
optimal to try and say to a plant

563
00:19:19,655 –> 00:19:19,676
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

564
00:19:19,739 –> 00:19:26,971
[mark_chamberlain]: participant you should have ex percent defaulted
into this solution well that gets into the

565
00:19:27,051 –> 00:19:29,785
[mark_chamberlain]: triage what stage is the participant

566
00:19:29,345 –> 00:19:29,366
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

567
00:19:30,007 –> 00:19:34,636
[mark_chamberlain]: in and their financial planning are they
the accumulation

568
00:19:34,556 –> 00:19:34,818
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

569
00:19:34,716 –> 00:19:35,017
[mark_chamberlain]: phase

570
00:19:35,088 –> 00:19:36,198
[bruno_caron]: yeah

571
00:19:35,118 –> 00:19:38,491
[mark_chamberlain]: are they in the near retirement phase
or are they going to retire next year

572
00:19:39,623 –> 00:19:44,651
[mark_chamberlain]: and so that’s probably the first the
first conversation for

573
00:19:44,486 –> 00:19:45,796
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah m

574
00:19:45,893 –> 00:19:49,599
[mark_chamberlain]: the expert to have with the board
is what stage do you want to solve

575
00:19:49,679 –> 00:19:54,633
[mark_chamberlain]: for in your plan you want to
try and put something in place that will

576
00:19:54,733 –> 00:19:59,181
[mark_chamberlain]: fit those who are in the most
urgent need which are those people that are

577
00:19:59,221 –> 00:20:01,965
[mark_chamberlain]: retiring this year next year the year
after

578
00:20:02,636 –> 00:20:03,299
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

579
00:20:02,847 –> 00:20:09,201
[mark_chamberlain]: and so there are they’ve got some
educational needs about how to think about putting

580
00:20:09,261 –> 00:20:14,124
[mark_chamberlain]: together a retirement income plan that can
not only be secure for them in an

581
00:20:14,224 –> 00:20:19,293
[mark_chamberlain]: inflationary environment but in possibly a deflationary
environment also and you have to be able

582
00:20:19,373 –> 00:20:27,210
[mark_chamberlain]: to do some serious education about where
annuities fit relative systematic withdrawal and then you

583
00:20:27,250 –> 00:20:29,559
[mark_chamberlain]: have to be able to do a
deep dive from there on what kind of

584
00:20:29,639 –> 00:20:35,330
[mark_chamberlain]: ininuuity and if we focus on the
only decumulation then we need to do a

585
00:20:35,390 –> 00:20:40,619
[mark_chamberlain]: deep dive on spes versus riders versus
you know the various ways of generating lifetime

586
00:20:40,699 –> 00:20:45,549
[mark_chamberlain]: income so there is no answer to
the question of you know how do we

587
00:20:45,609 –> 00:20:50,921
[mark_chamberlain]: come up with a one size fits
all solution because it’s much too complicated for

588
00:20:50,961 –> 00:20:51,101
[mark_chamberlain]: that

589
00:20:52,189 –> 00:20:56,115
[bruno_caron]: and that makes perfect sense in terms
of trade off i love the way you

590
00:20:56,195 –> 00:21:00,743
[bruno_caron]: put it in terms of you know
there is no right solution there’s no one

591
00:21:01,825 –> 00:21:06,392
[bruno_caron]: one right answer because quite frankly if
there was we wouldn’t be talking about it

592
00:21:06,432 –> 00:21:06,773
[bruno_caron]: right now

593
00:21:07,553 –> 00:21:07,573
[mark_chamberlain]: m

594
00:21:07,554 –> 00:21:14,546
[bruno_caron]: and my question is have you looked
at or found a way to obviously there’s

595
00:21:14,606 –> 00:21:19,073
[bruno_caron]: a classical measure of you know assets
on their management x per cent of your

596
00:21:19,133 –> 00:21:24,462
[bruno_caron]: your portfolio should be you know allocated
one way one way or the other but

597
00:21:24,743 –> 00:21:30,753
[bruno_caron]: is there a way to to do
that exact same reasoning that exactly framework with

598
00:21:30,913 –> 00:21:32,776
[bruno_caron]: income and how much income

599
00:21:33,905 –> 00:21:33,926
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

600
00:21:34,219 –> 00:21:36,582
[bruno_caron]: on you know the set of all
of your

601
00:21:36,935 –> 00:21:36,956
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

602
00:21:36,963 –> 00:21:42,233
[bruno_caron]: your your assets would act or your
portfolio would would generate

603
00:21:44,132 –> 00:21:44,274
[mark_chamberlain]: what

604
00:21:44,295 –> 00:21:47,180
[michelle_richter]: i think there are lots of ways
to do that and it’s always going to

605
00:21:47,220 –> 00:21:49,564
[michelle_richter]: be a question and mark you should
disagree

606
00:21:49,166 –> 00:21:49,467
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

607
00:21:49,624 –> 00:21:54,633
[michelle_richter]: with me if this is not your
opinion but you know mark always tells me

608
00:21:54,833 –> 00:21:57,558
[michelle_richter]: fiduciary is t process right so

609
00:21:57,783 –> 00:21:57,884
[ramsey_d_smith]: ye

610
00:21:57,958 –> 00:22:00,002
[michelle_richter]: there’s a million ways that you can

611
00:22:00,128 –> 00:22:00,169
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

612
00:22:00,522 –> 00:22:01,164
[michelle_richter]: do exactly

613
00:22:01,145 –> 00:22:01,166
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

614
00:22:01,204 –> 00:22:01,985
[michelle_richter]: what you’re describing

615
00:22:01,707 –> 00:22:01,728
[bruno_caron]: m

616
00:22:01,917 –> 00:22:01,999
[mark_chamberlain]: oh

617
00:22:02,025 –> 00:22:04,068
[michelle_richter]: brune and as long as when you’re

618
00:22:03,923 –> 00:22:04,105
[mark_chamberlain]: oh

619
00:22:04,128 –> 00:22:05,651
[michelle_richter]: acting in a futiary capacity

620
00:22:05,606 –> 00:22:05,950
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

621
00:22:05,771 –> 00:22:10,242
[michelle_richter]: as long as you document how you
did it and you did it you’re in

622
00:22:10,302 –> 00:22:10,763
[michelle_richter]: good hands

623
00:22:13,285 –> 00:22:17,898
[mark_chamberlain]: i spent the last ten years working
on a think tank project that i started

624
00:22:17,955 –> 00:22:18,178
[michelle_richter]: yeah

625
00:22:17,978 –> 00:22:22,485
[mark_chamberlain]: in two thousand ten and the objective
was to try and get l d to

626
00:22:22,545 –> 00:22:26,585
[mark_chamberlain]: translate to individuals and l d i
not in the way that the u k

627
00:22:26,865 –> 00:22:30,790
[mark_chamberlain]: used leverage to try and come up
with you now meeting a funding obligation

628
00:22:30,920 –> 00:22:31,021
[bruno_caron]: oh

629
00:22:31,226 –> 00:22:31,407
[ramsey_d_smith]: mark

630
00:22:31,891 –> 00:22:31,931
[mark_chamberlain]: l

631
00:22:31,930 –> 00:22:32,010
[ramsey_d_smith]: can

632
00:22:31,971 –> 00:22:31,991
[mark_chamberlain]: d

633
00:22:32,071 –> 00:22:34,242
[ramsey_d_smith]: you define l d i for the
broader audience

634
00:22:33,948 –> 00:22:34,608
[bruno_caron]: okay

635
00:22:35,433 –> 00:22:36,896
[mark_chamberlain]: liability driven investing

636
00:22:36,425 –> 00:22:36,446
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

637
00:22:36,888 –> 00:22:37,172
[bruno_caron]: oh

638
00:22:38,158 –> 00:22:39,841
[mark_chamberlain]: is what the acronym stands for and

639
00:22:40,376 –> 00:22:40,396
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

640
00:22:40,542 –> 00:22:41,083
[mark_chamberlain]: it’s something

641
00:22:40,878 –> 00:22:41,101
[bruno_caron]: may

642
00:22:41,163 –> 00:22:42,545
[mark_chamberlain]: that the corporate

643
00:22:42,206 –> 00:22:42,408
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

644
00:22:42,585 –> 00:22:44,048
[mark_chamberlain]: defined benefit plans moved

645
00:22:44,045 –> 00:22:44,066
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

646
00:22:44,128 –> 00:22:47,293
[mark_chamberlain]: to following basically the moment and really

647
00:22:47,075 –> 00:22:47,096
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

648
00:22:47,353 –> 00:22:52,362
[mark_chamberlain]: increased after the pension protection act in
two thousand six where there was a c

649
00:22:52,582 –> 00:22:52,983
[mark_chamberlain]: change

650
00:22:53,105 –> 00:22:53,126
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

651
00:22:53,243 –> 00:22:58,231
[mark_chamberlain]: in the funding ratio calculations for d
b plants they could no longer use

652
00:22:58,565 –> 00:22:58,586
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

653
00:22:58,592 –> 00:23:06,005
[mark_chamberlain]: one discount rate to figure out what
whether they were funded or not and the

654
00:23:06,065 –> 00:23:07,287
[mark_chamberlain]: new rules said that for

655
00:23:07,488 –> 00:23:09,228
[bruno_caron]: yeah

656
00:23:07,928 –> 00:23:08,990
[mark_chamberlain]: those assets that

657
00:23:08,945 –> 00:23:08,966
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

658
00:23:09,170 –> 00:23:13,077
[mark_chamberlain]: were the essential assets of the plan
to be fully

659
00:23:13,095 –> 00:23:13,338
[michelle_richter]: yes

660
00:23:13,177 –> 00:23:19,124
[mark_chamberlain]: funded meaning for those retires that are
already in retire that part of the plan

661
00:23:19,204 –> 00:23:21,427
[mark_chamberlain]: had to be fully funded to be
secure

662
00:23:21,348 –> 00:23:22,158
[bruno_caron]: yeah

663
00:23:22,027 –> 00:23:23,429
[mark_chamberlain]: so they said those assets

664
00:23:23,465 –> 00:23:23,486
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

665
00:23:23,669 –> 00:23:24,530
[mark_chamberlain]: have to use a discount

666
00:23:24,386 –> 00:23:24,630
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

667
00:23:24,610 –> 00:23:29,267
[mark_chamberlain]: rate that’s basically a risk free rate
a short term you know investment grade bond

668
00:23:29,347 –> 00:23:33,774
[mark_chamberlain]: rate where as he for the employes
that are retiring down the road twenty thirty

669
00:23:33,794 –> 00:23:39,004
[mark_chamberlain]: years out they could use a longer
duration interest rate calculation so they can okay

670
00:23:39,647 –> 00:23:44,786
[mark_chamberlain]: we call a three bucket approach they
segmented the assets of the plan based on

671
00:23:45,026 –> 00:23:51,276
[mark_chamberlain]: how risky the retirement funding need was
and so it’s really an asset liability matching

672
00:23:51,637 –> 00:23:52,358
[mark_chamberlain]: kind of a formula

673
00:23:52,618 –> 00:23:52,638
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

674
00:23:53,179 –> 00:23:55,583
[mark_chamberlain]: so we said why couldn’t that apply
to individuals

675
00:23:56,096 –> 00:23:56,116
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

676
00:23:56,124 –> 00:24:01,758
[mark_chamberlain]: because if you try and make the
translation in terms of utility what onamous call

677
00:24:02,483 –> 00:24:03,388
[mark_chamberlain]: what’s the utility

678
00:24:03,035 –> 00:24:03,056
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

679
00:24:03,489 –> 00:24:03,549
[mark_chamberlain]: of

680
00:24:03,618 –> 00:24:03,881
[bruno_caron]: oh

681
00:24:03,871 –> 00:24:03,971
[mark_chamberlain]: the

682
00:24:03,905 –> 00:24:03,926
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

683
00:24:04,012 –> 00:24:10,317
[mark_chamberlain]: position for that individual the utility of
the essential expenses their food shelter

684
00:24:10,080 –> 00:24:10,101
[michelle_richter]: a

685
00:24:10,397 –> 00:24:16,823
[mark_chamberlain]: and health insurance is different than their
utility for travel and vacation expenses much less

686
00:24:16,903 –> 00:24:20,750
[mark_chamberlain]: essential and so lot of lot of
thinkers in the industry have come up with

687
00:24:20,850 –> 00:24:21,972
[mark_chamberlain]: you know a way of saying let’s

688
00:24:21,894 –> 00:24:21,915
[michelle_richter]: m

689
00:24:22,853 –> 00:24:26,059
[mark_chamberlain]: let’s they’ve use different terms for it
but

690
00:24:26,096 –> 00:24:26,756
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

691
00:24:27,401 –> 00:24:28,784
[mark_chamberlain]: they basically said let’s about

692
00:24:28,766 –> 00:24:30,386
[ramsey_d_smith]: yah

693
00:24:28,945 –> 00:24:30,169
[mark_chamberlain]: using annuities for

694
00:24:30,896 –> 00:24:31,161
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

695
00:24:31,614 –> 00:24:35,764
[mark_chamberlain]: most necessary part of a person’s balance
sheet in retirement

696
00:24:35,295 –> 00:24:35,315
[michelle_richter]: m

697
00:24:35,705 –> 00:24:35,726
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

698
00:24:36,385 –> 00:24:41,155
[mark_chamberlain]: and get those things funded in a
secure way and we could think about using

699
00:24:41,576 –> 00:24:46,464
[mark_chamberlain]: something that can have more variability for
the expenses that more discretionary

700
00:24:46,290 –> 00:24:46,310
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: m

701
00:24:47,145 –> 00:24:48,127
[mark_chamberlain]: and we think that applies

702
00:24:47,937 –> 00:24:47,958
[bruno_caron]: m

703
00:24:48,568 –> 00:24:49,449
[mark_chamberlain]: almost on a one to

704
00:24:49,440 –> 00:24:49,460
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: m

705
00:24:49,549 –> 00:24:56,437
[mark_chamberlain]: one basis just based on economics one
ant and so the idea that corporate pension

706
00:24:56,538 –> 00:25:02,596
[mark_chamberlain]: plans we’re forced to move down this
road in two thousand six but in the

707
00:25:02,956 –> 00:25:03,418
[mark_chamberlain]: personal

708
00:25:03,215 –> 00:25:03,236
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

709
00:25:03,538 –> 00:25:05,985
[mark_chamberlain]: financial planning world we’re still

710
00:25:06,116 –> 00:25:06,320
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

711
00:25:06,126 –> 00:25:13,029
[mark_chamberlain]: treating individuals in most software like old
defined benefit plants and we use one discount

712
00:25:13,089 –> 00:25:17,496
[mark_chamberlain]: rate which is usually based on i
didn’t expect to return from risk assets to

713
00:25:17,536 –> 00:25:22,927
[mark_chamberlain]: figure out whether somebody’s fully funded so
i record mentation is that the planning shift

714
00:25:23,288 –> 00:25:26,255
[mark_chamberlain]: to a discussion with participants about let’s
let’s

715
00:25:26,130 –> 00:25:26,150
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: m

716
00:25:26,515 –> 00:25:28,641
[mark_chamberlain]: have you sit down and figure out
with your spouse

717
00:25:28,826 –> 00:25:30,776
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

718
00:25:29,523 –> 00:25:30,889
[mark_chamberlain]: what your essential expenses

719
00:25:30,836 –> 00:25:31,946
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

720
00:25:31,010 –> 00:25:36,425
[mark_chamberlain]: are put those in the bucket number
one bucket number two could be the ones

721
00:25:36,465 –> 00:25:39,508
[mark_chamberlain]: that follow after that in terms of
need and then bucket number three could be

722
00:25:40,049 –> 00:25:43,072
[mark_chamberlain]: you know your your less essential or
your optional expenses

723
00:25:42,618 –> 00:25:42,879
[bruno_caron]: yeah

724
00:25:43,613 –> 00:25:46,341
[mark_chamberlain]: you could think about finding them differently
but for the first bucket

725
00:25:47,028 –> 00:25:47,231
[bruno_caron]: oh

726
00:25:47,134 –> 00:25:48,508
[mark_chamberlain]: should really consider an annuity

727
00:25:49,791 –> 00:25:52,736
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: m michel a mark i want to
jump in here so really interesting topic i

728
00:25:53,377 –> 00:25:57,123
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: just to pick it back i want
you just said mark so m the average

729
00:25:57,343 –> 00:26:02,933
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: plan you know participant in particular that
employ that’s maybe approaching retirement this might be

730
00:26:03,053 –> 00:26:07,160
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: like mind blowing concept re thinking how
they’re going to contribute

731
00:26:07,145 –> 00:26:07,166
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

732
00:26:07,240 –> 00:26:11,747
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: into their plan so from an education
perspective in particular bringing up the word annuity

733
00:26:13,398 –> 00:26:13,660
[bruno_caron]: oh

734
00:26:13,890 –> 00:26:16,334
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: now no verb michelle um but bringing
up

735
00:26:16,316 –> 00:26:16,583
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

736
00:26:16,374 –> 00:26:17,015
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: the word annuity

737
00:26:17,325 –> 00:26:17,668
[michelle_richter]: oh

738
00:26:17,576 –> 00:26:18,638
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: um you know

739
00:26:18,606 –> 00:26:18,808
[michelle_richter]: yeah

740
00:26:19,139 –> 00:26:23,967
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: who’s responsible for that education getting that
plan participant at the sponsor is at the

741
00:26:24,007 –> 00:26:26,815
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: provider combination of both and then i
have follow up question to that

742
00:26:29,517 –> 00:26:33,724
[michelle_richter]: i think it’s going to be everybody
you know so it’s all

743
00:26:33,686 –> 00:26:33,706
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

744
00:26:33,784 –> 00:26:36,629
[michelle_richter]: of the above and more it’s going
to take

745
00:26:36,506 –> 00:26:37,376
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

746
00:26:36,769 –> 00:26:42,258
[michelle_richter]: industry organizations like the irikis has begun
working on consumer

747
00:26:42,198 –> 00:26:42,459
[bruno_caron]: oh

748
00:26:42,318 –> 00:26:42,639
[michelle_richter]: facing

749
00:26:42,515 –> 00:26:42,536
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

750
00:26:42,719 –> 00:26:44,582
[michelle_richter]: materials there is a chance

751
00:26:44,456 –> 00:26:45,746
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

752
00:26:44,722 –> 00:26:45,924
[michelle_richter]: we may do so together

753
00:26:45,918 –> 00:26:45,938
[bruno_caron]: o

754
00:26:46,064 –> 00:26:46,725
[michelle_richter]: with the alliance

755
00:26:46,646 –> 00:26:47,636
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

756
00:26:46,805 –> 00:26:50,652
[michelle_richter]: for lifetime income so i think not
only

757
00:26:50,615 –> 00:26:51,243
[ramsey_d_smith]: m yeah

758
00:26:51,133 –> 00:26:56,542
[michelle_richter]: the categories in cluded are those responsible
for education but more broadly

759
00:26:56,598 –> 00:26:57,288
[bruno_caron]: yeah

760
00:26:56,742 –> 00:26:57,423
[michelle_richter]: the industry

761
00:26:57,162 –> 00:26:57,491
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: did you

762
00:26:58,184 –> 00:27:02,612
[michelle_richter]: needs through dispassionate third party kind of
organizations

763
00:27:01,796 –> 00:27:01,897
[ramsey_d_smith]: ye

764
00:27:03,153 –> 00:27:09,168
[michelle_richter]: as well as through the individual product
providers as well as through record keepers through

765
00:27:09,208 –> 00:27:16,112
[michelle_richter]: the employer themselves the employer is the
person that the plan participant or the entity

766
00:27:16,172 –> 00:27:19,137
[michelle_richter]: that the person the participant feels they
can trust

767
00:27:19,438 –> 00:27:19,950
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: hm

768
00:27:20,079 –> 00:27:23,645
[michelle_richter]: and rightly so so the materials have
to get you

769
00:27:24,236 –> 00:27:24,561
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

770
00:27:24,546 –> 00:27:26,610
[michelle_richter]: playin sponsors but they also have to
get

771
00:27:26,696 –> 00:27:26,917
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

772
00:27:27,251 –> 00:27:30,336
[michelle_richter]: from there to to the end participants
and that’s never

773
00:27:30,086 –> 00:27:30,308
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

774
00:27:30,436 –> 00:27:30,917
[michelle_richter]: an easy

775
00:27:32,216 –> 00:27:32,441
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

776
00:27:32,960 –> 00:27:33,461
[michelle_richter]: task to

777
00:27:33,446 –> 00:27:34,196
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

778
00:27:33,561 –> 00:27:38,069
[michelle_richter]: accomplish because most men gins choose not
to engage with their plans

779
00:27:38,556 –> 00:27:39,030
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: hm

780
00:27:38,830 –> 00:27:39,051
[michelle_richter]: um

781
00:27:39,305 –> 00:27:39,326
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

782
00:27:39,692 –> 00:27:41,134
[michelle_richter]: and that’s pretty unfortunate

783
00:27:41,298 –> 00:27:41,521
[bruno_caron]: oh

784
00:27:41,334 –> 00:27:44,800
[michelle_richter]: but they choose not to write up
until the point of retirement and then they

785
00:27:44,900 –> 00:27:51,553
[michelle_richter]: experience overwhelm or the perience shame for
not having saved enough and at that point

786
00:27:52,275 –> 00:27:53,918
[michelle_richter]: there’s you know a real challenge

787
00:27:53,816 –> 00:27:54,716
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

788
00:27:54,118 –> 00:27:54,299
[michelle_richter]: to

789
00:27:54,716 –> 00:27:54,777
[ramsey_d_smith]: ye

790
00:27:55,121 –> 00:27:56,383
[michelle_richter]: help them you know when it’s

791
00:27:56,880 –> 00:27:57,660
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: yeah

792
00:27:57,185 –> 00:27:57,807
[michelle_richter]: on that last

793
00:27:57,746 –> 00:27:58,087
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

794
00:27:57,887 –> 00:27:58,930
[michelle_richter]: day before they retire

795
00:27:58,910 –> 00:27:59,072
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: yeah

796
00:27:59,030 –> 00:28:00,413
[michelle_richter]: you know it’s much better if

797
00:28:00,671 –> 00:28:00,753
[ramsey_d_smith]: ah

798
00:28:00,895 –> 00:28:01,356
[michelle_richter]: a financial

799
00:28:01,038 –> 00:28:01,340
[bruno_caron]: oh

800
00:28:01,286 –> 00:28:01,572
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

801
00:28:01,436 –> 00:28:04,263
[michelle_richter]: professional is in front of that person
sooner than that

802
00:28:04,470 –> 00:28:06,463
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: they kind of set it on auto
pilot so

803
00:28:07,575 –> 00:28:07,818
[michelle_richter]: yeah

804
00:28:07,641 –> 00:28:13,386
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: next question is am i hearing maybe
a new career path or even a talent

805
00:28:13,446 –> 00:28:19,015
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: opportunity for agents um so the plan
provider i’m just the practicality of how an

806
00:28:19,075 –> 00:28:22,841
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: annuity is sold you know who has
to sign the apple how does this happen

807
00:28:23,002 –> 00:28:23,222
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: so i’m

808
00:28:23,225 –> 00:28:23,246
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

809
00:28:23,262 –> 00:28:28,230
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: thinking through where does the role of
the agent plan is the provider hiring agents

810
00:28:28,270 –> 00:28:28,931
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: as consultants

811
00:28:29,165 –> 00:28:29,186
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

812
00:28:29,172 –> 00:28:32,397
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: or or agents going to have employee
opportunities in within plan

813
00:28:32,285 –> 00:28:32,306
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

814
00:28:32,457 –> 00:28:35,563
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: providers going forward can you speak a
little bit about how you in vision

815
00:28:35,655 –> 00:28:36,804
[michelle_richter]: yeah

816
00:28:35,883 –> 00:28:37,647
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: i know we don’t know exactly but
how this

817
00:28:37,599 –> 00:28:37,782
[michelle_richter]: yeah

818
00:28:37,707 –> 00:28:38,148
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: all works

819
00:28:40,106 –> 00:28:40,266
[michelle_richter]: well

820
00:28:40,320 –> 00:28:41,130
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: oh

821
00:28:40,627 –> 00:28:41,248
[michelle_richter]: i’m not sure

822
00:28:41,160 –> 00:28:41,760
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: yeah

823
00:28:41,368 –> 00:28:43,652
[michelle_richter]: exactly i just know it’s going a
happen

824
00:28:43,663 –> 00:28:43,864
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: right

825
00:28:44,093 –> 00:28:47,318
[michelle_richter]: so i think people should prepare for
the fact that it’s going to

826
00:28:47,298 –> 00:28:47,539
[bruno_caron]: oh

827
00:28:47,378 –> 00:28:47,659
[michelle_richter]: happen

828
00:28:47,636 –> 00:28:47,877
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

829
00:28:48,821 –> 00:28:49,722
[michelle_richter]: and my hope is

830
00:28:49,696 –> 00:28:49,837
[bruno_caron]: yeah

831
00:28:49,822 –> 00:28:52,868
[michelle_richter]: that my hope is that other

832
00:28:52,710 –> 00:28:52,957
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: yeah

833
00:28:52,948 –> 00:28:55,312
[michelle_richter]: members of the insurance community

834
00:28:55,424 –> 00:28:56,144
[paul_tyler]: oh

835
00:28:55,452 –> 00:28:55,612
[michelle_richter]: make

836
00:28:55,518 –> 00:28:55,662
[bruno_caron]: oh

837
00:28:55,713 –> 00:28:56,554
[michelle_richter]: the decision to

838
00:28:56,628 –> 00:28:56,890
[bruno_caron]: oh

839
00:28:56,634 –> 00:29:01,242
[michelle_richter]: become insurance advisors where advisors are

840
00:29:01,196 –> 00:29:01,437
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

841
00:29:01,302 –> 00:29:04,335
[michelle_richter]: verb sellers yeah

842
00:29:04,078 –> 00:29:04,279
[paul_tyler]: verb

843
00:29:04,367 –> 00:29:04,468
[ramsey_d_smith]: but

844
00:29:04,379 –> 00:29:04,741
[paul_tyler]: sellers

845
00:29:04,508 –> 00:29:05,489
[ramsey_d_smith]: can you hang that shingle

846
00:29:05,284 –> 00:29:05,304
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: m

847
00:29:05,328 –> 00:29:05,836
[bruno_caron]: uh

848
00:29:05,569 –> 00:29:06,511
[ramsey_d_smith]: now i mean it’s it’s

849
00:29:06,427 –> 00:29:06,468
[bruno_caron]: uh

850
00:29:06,551 –> 00:29:08,494
[ramsey_d_smith]: a very so the use case

851
00:29:08,294 –> 00:29:08,559
[paul_tyler]: oh

852
00:29:08,554 –> 00:29:14,144
[ramsey_d_smith]: is very clear in a world where
by the way tis a great questions like

853
00:29:14,358 –> 00:29:14,581
[bruno_caron]: yeah

854
00:29:14,564 –> 00:29:15,626
[ramsey_d_smith]: really getting right the heart

855
00:29:15,566 –> 00:29:15,730
[michelle_richter]: yeah

856
00:29:15,646 –> 00:29:16,227
[ramsey_d_smith]: of the matter there

857
00:29:16,683 –> 00:29:17,185
[tisa_rabun_marshall]: thanks ramsey

858
00:29:17,489 –> 00:29:22,518
[ramsey_d_smith]: but so it’s a it’s a business
opportunity is a business opportunity for r as

859
00:29:22,698 –> 00:29:24,581
[ramsey_d_smith]: in this in the d c space
check

860
00:29:24,888 –> 00:29:25,089
[bruno_caron]: oh

861
00:29:25,342 –> 00:29:31,394
[ramsey_d_smith]: right there is this open knee for
open need for insurance experts in that space

862
00:29:31,795 –> 00:29:39,167
[ramsey_d_smith]: check right but it’s not clear to
me that there’s a there’s there’s a designation

863
00:29:39,728 –> 00:29:43,653
[ramsey_d_smith]: right there’s a what is the you
put up your shingle now what does that

864
00:29:43,713 –> 00:29:44,253
[ramsey_d_smith]: shingle say

865
00:29:44,488 –> 00:29:44,670
[michelle_richter]: yeah

866
00:29:44,994 –> 00:29:45,896
[ramsey_d_smith]: right

867
00:29:46,115 –> 00:29:47,277
[michelle_richter]: great question it’s

868
00:29:47,186 –> 00:29:48,155
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

869
00:29:47,337 –> 00:29:51,464
[michelle_richter]: not clear to me either i just
went and got my a if from f

870
00:29:51,565 –> 00:29:54,549
[michelle_richter]: i three sixty so that i could
be an accredited investment

871
00:29:54,326 –> 00:29:54,346
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

872
00:29:54,590 –> 00:29:55,150
[michelle_richter]: fiduciary

873
00:29:55,595 –> 00:29:55,616
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

874
00:29:56,052 –> 00:30:01,942
[michelle_richter]: even though what i focus on not
so much investments right it’s it’s de cumulation

875
00:30:01,385 –> 00:30:01,406
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

876
00:30:02,563 –> 00:30:08,773
[michelle_richter]: but but you know so so my
thinking is i went and got my insurance

877
00:30:08,873 –> 00:30:09,314
[michelle_richter]: license

878
00:30:09,386 –> 00:30:09,589
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

879
00:30:09,394 –> 00:30:14,245
[michelle_richter]: fret and i got my have my
r i a set up i have a

880
00:30:14,305 –> 00:30:21,195
[michelle_richter]: sixty five and i am now i
have the a i f so so my

881
00:30:21,275 –> 00:30:25,297
[michelle_richter]: thinking is i’m covered under the umbrella
of those

882
00:30:25,142 –> 00:30:25,163
[mark_chamberlain]: m

883
00:30:25,357 –> 00:30:25,678
[michelle_richter]: things

884
00:30:25,736 –> 00:30:25,756
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

885
00:30:25,878 –> 00:30:32,449
[michelle_richter]: but i have no clarity whatsoever as
to legally how this domain develops i know

886
00:30:32,670 –> 00:30:33,271
[michelle_richter]: only that

887
00:30:33,464 –> 00:30:33,624
[paul_tyler]: yeah

888
00:30:33,812 –> 00:30:34,593
[michelle_richter]: experts is

889
00:30:34,649 –> 00:30:34,750
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

890
00:30:34,673 –> 00:30:39,287
[michelle_richter]: needed around inuits delivered to plan advisors

891
00:30:39,566 –> 00:30:39,586
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

892
00:30:39,567 –> 00:30:42,531
[michelle_richter]: so one of those is going to
be what qualifies

893
00:30:43,066 –> 00:30:43,556
[ramsey_d_smith]: hm

894
00:30:43,132 –> 00:30:44,854
[michelle_richter]: mark and me to be able to
do that

895
00:30:44,966 –> 00:30:44,986
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

896
00:30:45,114 –> 00:30:52,306
[paul_tyler]: well interesting discussion now i think if
i come from the institutional side to say

897
00:30:52,807 –> 00:30:58,061
[paul_tyler]: know ramsey i expect this advisor to
be an r a seems like a very

898
00:30:58,182 –> 00:31:04,999
[paul_tyler]: logical response however you know michelle my
experience has been you know

899
00:31:05,156 –> 00:31:05,518
[ramsey_d_smith]: yah

900
00:31:05,800 –> 00:31:07,641
[paul_tyler]: there’s not such there’s no such thing
as

901
00:31:07,595 –> 00:31:07,616
[ramsey_d_smith]: h

902
00:31:07,701 –> 00:31:09,203
[paul_tyler]: a good compensation

903
00:31:10,235 –> 00:31:10,256
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

904
00:31:10,354 –> 00:31:13,559
[paul_tyler]: perfect compensation planet really what i do
see is that

905
00:31:13,475 –> 00:31:13,496
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

906
00:31:13,599 –> 00:31:16,083
[paul_tyler]: the compensation has got to match up
with the results

907
00:31:16,016 –> 00:31:16,036
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

908
00:31:17,205 –> 00:31:18,608
[paul_tyler]: you want um

909
00:31:19,387 –> 00:31:19,689
[michelle_richter]: yes

910
00:31:20,150 –> 00:31:20,711
[paul_tyler]: you know if you think

911
00:31:20,726 –> 00:31:20,746
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

912
00:31:20,771 –> 00:31:25,197
[paul_tyler]: of these companies as as a pyramid
you got some very high

913
00:31:25,256 –> 00:31:25,679
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

914
00:31:25,357 –> 00:31:31,423
[paul_tyler]: earners with probably very large for once
balances at the very top economically a

915
00:31:32,645 –> 00:31:32,666
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

916
00:31:32,724 –> 00:31:33,625
[paul_tyler]: a fiduciary

917
00:31:33,056 –> 00:31:33,076
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

918
00:31:33,845 –> 00:31:38,369
[paul_tyler]: like uh annual contract probably makes sense
you know it’s it’s you know i’ve got

919
00:31:38,449 –> 00:31:43,493
[paul_tyler]: high end services ramsey remember co i
think you know

920
00:31:45,436 –> 00:31:45,960
[ramsey_d_smith]: they were great

921
00:31:45,734 –> 00:31:50,318
[paul_tyler]: i’ve lost lost track of this service
great service if you happen to be have

922
00:31:50,619 –> 00:31:52,921
[paul_tyler]: an v p title now challenge s
you go

923
00:31:52,973 –> 00:31:53,196
[mark_chamberlain]: uh

924
00:31:52,981 –> 00:32:01,368
[paul_tyler]: down down the pyramid ah they mean
these people be service michelle if if

925
00:32:01,835 –> 00:32:01,856
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

926
00:32:02,449 –> 00:32:06,915
[paul_tyler]: you know they’re only earning two percent
off of a twenty five thousand dollars throwing

927
00:32:07,176 –> 00:32:07,517
[paul_tyler]: balance

928
00:32:07,406 –> 00:32:07,627
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

929
00:32:07,597 –> 00:32:08,681
[paul_tyler]: you know what’s the answer there

930
00:32:08,756 –> 00:32:08,997
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

931
00:32:09,216 –> 00:32:11,340
[michelle_richter]: well the answer is

932
00:32:11,495 –> 00:32:11,516
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

933
00:32:11,501 –> 00:32:14,850
[michelle_richter]: not a um it’s not

934
00:32:15,146 –> 00:32:15,388
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

935
00:32:15,695 –> 00:32:15,876
[michelle_richter]: um

936
00:32:16,166 –> 00:32:16,471
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

937
00:32:16,257 –> 00:32:22,135
[michelle_richter]: in my view so you know i
or at least a um is to me

938
00:32:22,436 –> 00:32:28,446
[michelle_richter]: not my preferred building methodology for the
wealth management domain i do think it’s appropriate

939
00:32:28,486 –> 00:32:32,152
[michelle_richter]: for the asset management domain but that’s
going to get us off on a whole

940
00:32:32,212 –> 00:32:32,372
[michelle_richter]: other

941
00:32:32,256 –> 00:32:32,457
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

942
00:32:32,492 –> 00:32:35,678
[michelle_richter]: track and i still have it i
a tribe to deliver so

943
00:32:35,906 –> 00:32:35,926
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

944
00:32:36,419 –> 00:32:37,160
[michelle_richter]: um you know

945
00:32:37,343 –> 00:32:38,003
[mark_chamberlain]: oh

946
00:32:37,441 –> 00:32:37,541
[michelle_richter]: but

947
00:32:37,835 –> 00:32:37,856
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

948
00:32:37,941 –> 00:32:38,282
[michelle_richter]: it does

949
00:32:38,389 –> 00:32:38,409
[ramsey_d_smith]: i

950
00:32:38,402 –> 00:32:43,170
[michelle_richter]: tie into what i want to talk
about which is the predominance of a um

951
00:32:43,330 –> 00:32:51,170
[michelle_richter]: as a building method it does cause
distortion in thinking that i’m going to elucidate

952
00:32:51,691 –> 00:32:54,741
[michelle_richter]: pretty deeply should i go for it

953
00:32:55,319 –> 00:32:55,861
[ramsey_d_smith]: rock and roll

954
00:32:57,155 –> 00:33:03,385
[michelle_richter]: okay um this you all are get
very excited right now because i’m about to

955
00:33:03,906 –> 00:33:12,404
[michelle_richter]: go bananas and i am going to
issue called arms i’m looking for members of

956
00:33:12,785 –> 00:33:13,607
[michelle_richter]: the society

957
00:33:13,145 –> 00:33:13,166
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

958
00:33:13,647 –> 00:33:21,652
[michelle_richter]: of actuaries nata i r i and
any other industry group that you can think

959
00:33:21,772 –> 00:33:28,443
[michelle_richter]: of that might find this topic of
concern i am about to make a big

960
00:33:28,543 –> 00:33:34,839
[michelle_richter]: bold assert and which i will back
up with three less big assertions so big

961
00:33:34,940 –> 00:33:43,415
[michelle_richter]: bold assertion number one is that non
codification of verb sales and insurance means that

962
00:33:43,595 –> 00:33:46,740
[michelle_richter]: intellectual property cannot have value

963
00:33:46,526 –> 00:33:47,576
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

964
00:33:46,840 –> 00:33:52,992
[michelle_richter]: and insurance i g i will defend
why this is true with the following three

965
00:33:53,092 –> 00:33:53,653
[michelle_richter]: assertions

966
00:33:53,585 –> 00:33:53,606
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

967
00:33:54,955 –> 00:34:00,785
[michelle_richter]: mark this moment in the podcast so
that you can tag the people that you

968
00:34:00,865 –> 00:34:04,271
[michelle_richter]: know from the industry organizations i just
mentioned

969
00:34:04,406 –> 00:34:04,648
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

970
00:34:04,772 –> 00:34:07,609
[michelle_richter]: and tell them when to start listening
it’s right here

971
00:34:07,463 –> 00:34:07,725
[mark_chamberlain]: oh

972
00:34:08,275 –> 00:34:14,826
[michelle_richter]: a non codification of verb sales and
insurance means i p can’t have value why

973
00:34:15,807 –> 00:34:22,221
[michelle_richter]: well the above mentioned fact is true
because of the intersection between how products

974
00:34:22,136 –> 00:34:22,378
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

975
00:34:22,642 –> 00:34:29,909
[michelle_richter]: sell and how trademark law works i
will explain further in a moment sertion number

976
00:34:29,989 –> 00:34:37,563
[michelle_richter]: three is that intellectual property having value
is fundamental to the functioning of a capitalistic

977
00:34:37,703 –> 00:34:48,360
[michelle_richter]: system assertion number four in a deutalized
world where insurance manufacturing is now entirely vertically

978
00:34:48,481 –> 00:34:57,335
[michelle_richter]: disintegrated from distribution i p can only
come to have value by codifying insurance advisement

979
00:34:57,896 –> 00:35:06,339
[michelle_richter]: as a scalable overseeable nationally regulated discipline
so now i move to proving assertion number

980
00:35:06,539 –> 00:35:08,702
[michelle_richter]: one i p has no value in
my

981
00:35:08,756 –> 00:35:09,059
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

982
00:35:08,803 –> 00:35:15,634
[michelle_richter]: domain by proving assertions to through four
starting with assertion two part one how to

983
00:35:15,674 –> 00:35:20,671
[michelle_richter]: product sell to understand this we need
first to define the word product and then

984
00:35:20,711 –> 00:35:28,095
[michelle_richter]: the word sell products are nounce in
the context of insurance and financial services products

985
00:35:28,296 –> 00:35:38,092
[michelle_richter]: are issuable containers and their distribution is
highly regulated products are issuable legale contracts within

986
00:35:38,272 –> 00:35:40,936
[michelle_richter]: which intellectual property can be imbedded

987
00:35:41,156 –> 00:35:42,146
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

988
00:35:41,678 –> 00:35:42,619
[michelle_richter]: and in exchange

989
00:35:42,146 –> 00:35:42,367
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

990
00:35:42,719 –> 00:35:50,633
[michelle_richter]: for the distribution of which compensation can
be paid to a financial professional in respect

991
00:35:50,853 –> 00:35:58,727
[michelle_richter]: of either but never concurrently a or
b a is from inside the noun in

992
00:35:58,847 –> 00:36:03,958
[michelle_richter]: direct respect to sale thereof this refers
to agency and brokerage

993
00:36:04,590 –> 00:36:04,753
[ramsey_d_smith]: her

994
00:36:04,780 –> 00:36:10,870
[michelle_richter]: where as b is charged upon the
a u a or a um there formed

995
00:36:11,411 –> 00:36:12,072
[michelle_richter]: following a

996
00:36:12,056 –> 00:36:12,276
[ramsey_d_smith]: yes

997
00:36:12,192 –> 00:36:18,313
[michelle_richter]: products introduction to an advised portfolio thus
b refers to the r i a channel

998
00:36:19,465 –> 00:36:21,789
[michelle_richter]: now that we know what product means
we move on to sell

999
00:36:21,956 –> 00:36:22,297
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1000
00:36:22,791 –> 00:36:24,494
[michelle_richter]: sell means the exchange

1001
00:36:24,065 –> 00:36:24,206
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1002
00:36:24,654 –> 00:36:30,323
[michelle_richter]: of remuneration in direct respect to x
x is a verb in the r a

1003
00:36:30,444 –> 00:36:33,070
[michelle_richter]: channel and it’s a noun in the
agent

1004
00:36:33,019 –> 00:36:33,121
[ramsey_d_smith]: ah

1005
00:36:33,431 –> 00:36:42,196
[michelle_richter]: broker channels wholesalers are people who so
routinely sell holes that we can describe

1006
00:36:41,857 –> 00:36:41,878
[ramsey_d_smith]: i

1007
00:36:42,256 –> 00:36:47,265
[michelle_richter]: their identity by adding an r to
the end of the verb that they retain

1008
00:36:47,405 –> 00:36:53,947
[michelle_richter]: we perform analogy runners routine ly run
we don’t call someone a runner who once

1009
00:36:54,027 –> 00:36:57,872
[michelle_richter]: ran across across the street so whole
sailors

1010
00:36:58,257 –> 00:36:58,418
[ramsey_d_smith]: now

1011
00:36:58,413 –> 00:37:04,720
[michelle_richter]: sell nouns holes are nouns the human
mind can’t conceive of the premise of a

1012
00:37:04,760 –> 00:37:12,125
[michelle_richter]: whole verb therefore whole sailors are people
who sell holes holes must be nouns and

1013
00:37:12,286 –> 00:37:17,717
[michelle_richter]: non sell only when they have a
whole sailor selling them whole sailors

1014
00:37:17,606 –> 00:37:17,787
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1015
00:37:17,837 –> 00:37:23,466
[michelle_richter]: work for either a non manufacturer or
a noun seller and organization that sells nouns

1016
00:37:23,907 –> 00:37:29,276
[michelle_richter]: will not switch witch now and it
has its whole sailers focused on selling unless

1017
00:37:29,376 –> 00:37:36,488
[michelle_richter]: the new non is more profitable than
is the incumbent now portfolio that’s the reason

1018
00:37:36,608 –> 00:37:43,700
[michelle_richter]: why a product concept cannot have value
because is valuable about the product the non

1019
00:37:44,381 –> 00:37:52,114
[michelle_richter]: is the sellers prior investment in manufacturing
and or wholesaling infrastructure not the clever intellectual

1020
00:37:52,194 –> 00:37:55,165
[michelle_richter]: prof property that does not deliver a
higher

1021
00:37:55,136 –> 00:37:55,460
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1022
00:37:55,225 –> 00:38:02,041
[michelle_richter]: profit margin than the incumbent so that’s
the first half of assertion to it goes

1023
00:38:02,181 –> 00:38:04,525
[michelle_richter]: way quicker from here so stick with
me okay

1024
00:38:04,805 –> 00:38:04,826
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1025
00:38:05,046 –> 00:38:06,648
[michelle_richter]: it’s like lightning from here okay

1026
00:38:07,188 –> 00:38:07,289
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1027
00:38:07,971 –> 00:38:14,582
[michelle_richter]: the second half of assertion to is
about tree marking trademark trade marking and the

1028
00:38:14,642 –> 00:38:19,991
[michelle_richter]: application of trade marking is different for
a brand name than it is for intellectual

1029
00:38:20,051 –> 00:38:25,059
[michelle_richter]: property the how you defend a brand
name in court with a trademark it’s really

1030
00:38:25,139 –> 00:38:27,483
[michelle_richter]: easy but defending intellectual property

1031
00:38:27,581 –> 00:38:27,725
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1032
00:38:27,683 –> 00:38:33,092
[michelle_richter]: the trade mark has more challenge to
it in this case i’m talking about intellectual

1033
00:38:33,173 –> 00:38:41,244
[michelle_richter]: property protection uh it requires the defense
of a trademark requires the intellectual property to

1034
00:38:41,304 –> 00:38:50,117
[michelle_richter]: be now embedable whereas intellectual property that
is service marked requires the i p to

1035
00:38:50,197 –> 00:38:55,924
[michelle_richter]: be verb impedible if you google trademark
definition

1036
00:38:55,916 –> 00:38:57,678
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah oh

1037
00:38:57,875 –> 00:39:00,419
[michelle_richter]: you see that when applied to intellectual

1038
00:39:00,326 –> 00:39:02,486
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1039
00:39:00,499 –> 00:39:03,404
[michelle_richter]: property defense as differs from brand defense

1040
00:39:03,596 –> 00:39:03,899
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1041
00:39:04,025 –> 00:39:09,013
[michelle_richter]: that the definition of this word requires
the ip owner to be

1042
00:39:08,975 –> 00:39:08,996
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1043
00:39:09,193 –> 00:39:17,085
[michelle_richter]: able to either manufacture or to sell
remember what sell means from the above the

1044
00:39:17,165 –> 00:39:18,126
[michelle_richter]: non right

1045
00:39:18,591 –> 00:39:18,692
[ramsey_d_smith]: so

1046
00:39:18,746 –> 00:39:25,412
[michelle_richter]: so product concepts can’t have value because
of the intersection between how product sells and

1047
00:39:25,753 –> 00:39:33,632
[michelle_richter]: how trade mark law is applied okay
insurance is the liability or contra asset minimization

1048
00:39:33,732 –> 00:39:34,013
[michelle_richter]: field

1049
00:39:34,523 –> 00:39:34,788
[mark_chamberlain]: oh

1050
00:39:34,745 –> 00:39:38,290
[michelle_richter]: what just stick with me on insurance

1051
00:39:38,396 –> 00:39:38,659
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1052
00:39:38,411 –> 00:39:40,434
[michelle_richter]: is about minimizing consumers

1053
00:39:40,226 –> 00:39:40,508
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1054
00:39:40,494 –> 00:39:42,758
[michelle_richter]: liabilities okay and i’m not going

1055
00:39:42,685 –> 00:39:42,806
[ramsey_d_smith]: right

1056
00:39:42,778 –> 00:39:47,326
[michelle_richter]: to bring up the contraascit thing again
super complicated so i mean shorten it by

1057
00:39:47,426 –> 00:39:56,887
[michelle_richter]: saying liability minimization insurance advisor is not
a defined term financial advisor is a defined

1058
00:39:57,027 –> 00:39:58,909
[michelle_richter]: term and it means

1059
00:39:58,954 –> 00:39:59,096
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1060
00:39:59,330 –> 00:40:06,647
[michelle_richter]: person who holds the authority to sell
verbs this means person has an r a

1061
00:40:06,768 –> 00:40:14,685
[michelle_richter]: affiliation r i s sell verbs only
agents and brokers sell nouns only financial advisers

1062
00:40:14,826 –> 00:40:17,971
[michelle_richter]: provide ongoing asset maximization advising

1063
00:40:18,176 –> 00:40:18,196
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1064
00:40:18,532 –> 00:40:19,914
[michelle_richter]: and they frequently receive

1065
00:40:19,856 –> 00:40:20,158
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1066
00:40:19,994 –> 00:40:22,671
[michelle_richter]: thee compensation v a u m

1067
00:40:24,296 –> 00:40:24,678
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1068
00:40:24,379 –> 00:40:32,051
[michelle_richter]: this asset maximization advising is a service
p imbedded in services for example managed account

1069
00:40:32,212 –> 00:40:33,594
[michelle_richter]: services provided by

1070
00:40:33,626 –> 00:40:35,126
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1071
00:40:33,754 –> 00:40:38,442
[michelle_richter]: morning star ink are service markable thus
they have been

1072
00:40:38,413 –> 00:40:38,554
[ramsey_d_smith]: sir

1073
00:40:38,602 –> 00:40:46,092
[michelle_richter]: service marked not trade markable and not
trade marked because their verbs which are services

1074
00:40:46,613 –> 00:40:57,288
[michelle_richter]: not none absent codifying insurance advisement so
that insurance professionals can also sell herbs by

1075
00:40:57,368 –> 00:40:57,849
[michelle_richter]: which i am

1076
00:40:57,987 –> 00:40:58,150
[ramsey_d_smith]: yes

1077
00:40:57,989 –> 00:41:04,100
[michelle_richter]: saying absent popularizing ability approach like benefits
under advisement

1078
00:41:04,166 –> 00:41:04,186
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1079
00:41:04,701 –> 00:41:07,926
[michelle_richter]: or income under advisement there cannot

1080
00:41:07,856 –> 00:41:08,138
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1081
00:41:08,046 –> 00:41:12,514
[michelle_richter]: be valued to intellectual property in our
field because you cannot

1082
00:41:12,536 –> 00:41:13,138
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1083
00:41:12,594 –> 00:41:17,842
[michelle_richter]: defend it v s service mark because
there is no framework for scalablyselling services

1084
00:41:17,786 –> 00:41:17,947
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1085
00:41:17,963 –> 00:41:22,871
[michelle_richter]: in our domain and you can’t sell
it as a noun because an organization can

1086
00:41:23,011 –> 00:41:29,462
[michelle_richter]: only monetize a trade mark and insure
from previous investment in manufacturing and distribution and

1087
00:41:29,542 –> 00:41:35,412
[michelle_richter]: encompant only does this if the product
is more profitable than it’s existing portfolio that’s

1088
00:41:35,512 –> 00:41:36,033
[michelle_richter]: not likely

1089
00:41:35,831 –> 00:41:36,266
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1090
00:41:36,153 –> 00:41:39,398
[michelle_richter]: in today’s feconte its environment so again
because

1091
00:41:39,386 –> 00:41:40,586
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1092
00:41:39,458 –> 00:41:40,580
[michelle_richter]: my prior words are true

1093
00:41:41,006 –> 00:41:41,288
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1094
00:41:41,201 –> 00:41:42,884
[michelle_richter]: not having a scale able advisement

1095
00:41:42,902 –> 00:41:42,922
[ramsey_d_smith]: i

1096
00:41:42,964 –> 00:41:44,647
[michelle_richter]: frame for liability reduction

1097
00:41:44,952 –> 00:41:44,972
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1098
00:41:45,088 –> 00:41:50,437
[michelle_richter]: means intellectual property that is service marked
in our field also cannot value because it

1099
00:41:50,477 –> 00:41:56,266
[michelle_richter]: cannot be sold so concludes my proof
of assertion to and i’ll move on to

1100
00:41:56,307 –> 00:42:01,316
[michelle_richter]: assertion three and less there are questions
of which i’m sure there are ready oh

1101
00:42:02,944 –> 00:42:04,346
[ramsey_d_smith]: this is a this is a complex

1102
00:42:04,127 –> 00:42:04,250
[michelle_richter]: ah

1103
00:42:04,446 –> 00:42:06,330
[ramsey_d_smith]: geometric proof you’re taking us through here

1104
00:42:07,475 –> 00:42:08,742
[michelle_richter]: it is i understand that

1105
00:42:08,714 –> 00:42:08,974
[ramsey_d_smith]: europe

1106
00:42:08,842 –> 00:42:10,129
[michelle_richter]: but i’m doing it for a reason

1107
00:42:10,430 –> 00:42:11,197
[ramsey_d_smith]: you’re a mute paul

1108
00:42:11,487 –> 00:42:11,790
[michelle_richter]: i want

1109
00:42:13,257 –> 00:42:13,946
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1110
00:42:13,325 –> 00:42:18,053
[michelle_richter]: i want the industry organizations that are
or flagged to hear this

1111
00:42:18,446 –> 00:42:18,814
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1112
00:42:18,594 –> 00:42:20,898
[michelle_richter]: re play it they’re gonna have to
play it a lot of times

1113
00:42:20,834 –> 00:42:21,914
[paul_tyler]: yeah

1114
00:42:20,986 –> 00:42:21,006
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1115
00:42:21,018 –> 00:42:21,719
[michelle_richter]: to get the logic

1116
00:42:22,595 –> 00:42:22,616
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1117
00:42:22,861 –> 00:42:23,221
[michelle_richter]: and so

1118
00:42:23,156 –> 00:42:23,458
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1119
00:42:23,522 –> 00:42:24,504
[michelle_richter]: i’m going really

1120
00:42:24,505 –> 00:42:24,626
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1121
00:42:24,604 –> 00:42:25,786
[michelle_richter]: in depth in what the logic

1122
00:42:25,870 –> 00:42:25,890
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1123
00:42:25,906 –> 00:42:29,634
[michelle_richter]: is so that it can’t be said
she just at a high level

1124
00:42:29,585 –> 00:42:29,606
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1125
00:42:29,794 –> 00:42:32,079
[michelle_richter]: said you know something crazy and she’s
always saying

1126
00:42:32,000 –> 00:42:32,546
[ramsey_d_smith]: hm

1127
00:42:32,139 –> 00:42:33,602
[michelle_richter]: something crazy so i can just

1128
00:42:33,524 –> 00:42:33,727
[paul_tyler]: yeah

1129
00:42:33,722 –> 00:42:35,807
[michelle_richter]: kind of like whip it off you

1130
00:42:35,745 –> 00:42:35,926
[paul_tyler]: yeah

1131
00:42:35,847 –> 00:42:39,055
[michelle_richter]: know like i’m going deep into it
because my words are true

1132
00:42:39,014 –> 00:42:39,277
[paul_tyler]: yeah

1133
00:42:39,296 –> 00:42:42,243
[michelle_richter]: and they have implications to society more
broadly

1134
00:42:42,334 –> 00:42:44,898
[paul_tyler]: well yeah and i just a couple

1135
00:42:45,596 –> 00:42:45,897
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1136
00:42:45,779 –> 00:42:46,260
[paul_tyler]: one question

1137
00:42:46,043 –> 00:42:46,284
[mark_chamberlain]: oh

1138
00:42:46,360 –> 00:42:46,681
[paul_tyler]: a couple of

1139
00:42:46,685 –> 00:42:46,827
[michelle_richter]: yeah

1140
00:42:46,721 –> 00:42:47,702
[paul_tyler]: observations one is

1141
00:42:47,655 –> 00:42:47,778
[michelle_richter]: yeah

1142
00:42:48,945 –> 00:42:50,728
[paul_tyler]: can we put this in our show
notes or do you have this on a

1143
00:42:50,768 –> 00:42:52,450
[paul_tyler]: website where we can put a link
to it because

1144
00:42:52,355 –> 00:42:52,376
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1145
00:42:52,490 –> 00:42:53,312
[paul_tyler]: people need to read this

1146
00:42:53,325 –> 00:42:53,468
[michelle_richter]: yeah

1147
00:42:53,773 –> 00:42:54,681
[paul_tyler]: they will have to e is

1148
00:42:54,837 –> 00:42:55,321
[michelle_richter]: i’ll give it to you

1149
00:42:55,374 –> 00:42:56,195
[paul_tyler]: okay good

1150
00:42:56,537 –> 00:42:56,658
[michelle_richter]: yeah

1151
00:42:56,675 –> 00:42:56,696
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1152
00:42:56,896 –> 00:42:59,060
[paul_tyler]: other observation is you know these words
are

1153
00:42:59,366 –> 00:42:59,528
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1154
00:43:00,021 –> 00:43:05,591
[paul_tyler]: complicated couple o things i heard in
their agents versus advisors because even more complicated

1155
00:43:05,631 –> 00:43:06,813
[paul_tyler]: michele than that like for instance

1156
00:43:07,717 –> 00:43:07,779
[michelle_richter]: ah

1157
00:43:07,894 –> 00:43:12,562
[paul_tyler]: state of connecticut does not allow us
to talk about agents is that interesting as

1158
00:43:12,662 –> 00:43:17,931
[paul_tyler]: a independent product manufacture we have to
call them independent producers does anybody

1159
00:43:17,912 –> 00:43:17,953
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1160
00:43:17,991 –> 00:43:18,131
[paul_tyler]: know

1161
00:43:18,175 –> 00:43:18,360
[michelle_richter]: huh

1162
00:43:18,192 –> 00:43:19,654
[paul_tyler]: that does anybody under and they

1163
00:43:19,685 –> 00:43:19,706
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1164
00:43:19,694 –> 00:43:20,616
[paul_tyler]: do consume now

1165
00:43:21,015 –> 00:43:21,137
[michelle_richter]: no

1166
00:43:21,677 –> 00:43:22,960
[paul_tyler]: but that you are an independent

1167
00:43:22,816 –> 00:43:22,918
[michelle_richter]: no

1168
00:43:23,220 –> 00:43:27,988
[paul_tyler]: you know ramsey is an independent producer
so just footnote that there are some very

1169
00:43:28,148 –> 00:43:28,489
[paul_tyler]: strange

1170
00:43:28,195 –> 00:43:28,663
[michelle_richter]: damn

1171
00:43:28,569 –> 00:43:30,732
[paul_tyler]: vagaries in existing

1172
00:43:30,545 –> 00:43:30,786
[michelle_richter]: yeah

1173
00:43:31,193 –> 00:43:31,982
[paul_tyler]: league structures

1174
00:43:32,378 –> 00:43:32,680
[michelle_richter]: and not

1175
00:43:33,164 –> 00:43:33,389
[paul_tyler]: yeah

1176
00:43:33,455 –> 00:43:33,795
[michelle_richter]: that’s the

1177
00:43:33,806 –> 00:43:34,026
[ramsey_d_smith]: yah

1178
00:43:33,855 –> 00:43:37,020
[michelle_richter]: whole point i mean it’s you know
our field is state regulated

1179
00:43:37,004 –> 00:43:37,347
[paul_tyler]: yeah

1180
00:43:37,101 –> 00:43:39,184
[michelle_richter]: and every state has a different impression

1181
00:43:38,904 –> 00:43:38,924
[ramsey_d_smith]: h

1182
00:43:39,324 –> 00:43:40,486
[michelle_richter]: of what our behavior

1183
00:43:40,454 –> 00:43:41,234
[paul_tyler]: yeah

1184
00:43:40,546 –> 00:43:43,972
[michelle_richter]: is supposed to look like and so
because it’s not a nationally

1185
00:43:43,685 –> 00:43:43,706
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1186
00:43:44,072 –> 00:43:44,633
[michelle_richter]: regulated

1187
00:43:44,497 –> 00:43:44,538
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1188
00:43:44,733 –> 00:43:46,307
[michelle_richter]: field you can’t get scale able

1189
00:43:46,955 –> 00:43:47,197
[paul_tyler]: right

1190
00:43:48,215 –> 00:43:48,236
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1191
00:43:48,425 –> 00:43:52,789
[michelle_richter]: but since but because of demutualization now

1192
00:43:52,856 –> 00:43:52,957
[paul_tyler]: ah

1193
00:43:53,771 –> 00:43:57,898
[michelle_richter]: it’s no longer the case that distribution
and manufacturing are in the same

1194
00:43:57,867 –> 00:43:57,968
[ramsey_d_smith]: ah

1195
00:43:57,998 –> 00:43:58,799
[michelle_richter]: organization

1196
00:43:58,946 –> 00:43:59,188
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1197
00:43:59,480 –> 00:44:02,726
[michelle_richter]: so i’m not sure that the i’m
sure

1198
00:44:02,735 –> 00:44:03,001
[ramsey_d_smith]: m oh

1199
00:44:02,866 –> 00:44:05,110
[michelle_richter]: that state regulation of products

1200
00:44:04,676 –> 00:44:05,636
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1201
00:44:05,390 –> 00:44:06,712
[michelle_richter]: is has merit

1202
00:44:06,944 –> 00:44:08,294
[paul_tyler]: yeah

1203
00:44:07,313 –> 00:44:09,337
[michelle_richter]: i’m less certain that state regulation of

1204
00:44:09,335 –> 00:44:09,356
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1205
00:44:09,374 –> 00:44:09,741
[paul_tyler]: okay

1206
00:44:09,397 –> 00:44:13,964
[michelle_richter]: distribution remains the most meritorious method of
oversight

1207
00:44:14,004 –> 00:44:14,186
[paul_tyler]: yeah

1208
00:44:14,276 –> 00:44:14,517
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1209
00:44:14,727 –> 00:44:19,767
[michelle_richter]: given that those entities no longer live
with each other no

1210
00:44:20,446 –> 00:44:22,109
[paul_tyler]: interesting ay that’s a whole nother podcast

1211
00:44:21,926 –> 00:44:21,946
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1212
00:44:23,527 –> 00:44:23,729
[michelle_richter]: yes

1213
00:44:24,112 –> 00:44:24,412
[paul_tyler]: the other

1214
00:44:24,301 –> 00:44:24,896
[ramsey_d_smith]: ah

1215
00:44:24,553 –> 00:44:25,735
[paul_tyler]: observation i love

1216
00:44:25,685 –> 00:44:25,706
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1217
00:44:25,815 –> 00:44:29,281
[paul_tyler]: your concept of income under management however

1218
00:44:29,516 –> 00:44:29,819
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1219
00:44:29,521 –> 00:44:33,307
[paul_tyler]: man my head starts to spend because
think of any one of our products g

1220
00:44:33,488 –> 00:44:33,688
[paul_tyler]: is that

1221
00:44:33,656 –> 00:44:34,796
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1222
00:44:33,708 –> 00:44:38,196
[paul_tyler]: the you know i’m not expecting is
that the guaranteed income off of the product

1223
00:44:38,376 –> 00:44:39,818
[paul_tyler]: is this the potential

1224
00:44:39,875 –> 00:44:40,019
[michelle_richter]: yeah

1225
00:44:39,899 –> 00:44:41,942
[paul_tyler]: income based on you mark you know

1226
00:44:41,985 –> 00:44:43,427
[michelle_richter]: it’s the max of

1227
00:44:43,484 –> 00:44:43,747
[paul_tyler]: yea

1228
00:44:44,008 –> 00:44:52,682
[michelle_richter]: the guaranteed benefit made available through the
product structure or dolls translation metric that was

1229
00:44:53,003 –> 00:44:53,784
[michelle_richter]: interim final

1230
00:44:53,756 –> 00:44:54,536
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1231
00:44:54,065 –> 00:44:54,185
[michelle_richter]: dan

1232
00:44:54,224 –> 00:44:54,508
[paul_tyler]: yeah

1233
00:44:54,425 –> 00:44:57,891
[michelle_richter]: i think became final guidance on second
quarter twenty twenty

1234
00:44:57,725 –> 00:44:57,746
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1235
00:44:57,951 –> 00:44:58,692
[michelle_richter]: two statements

1236
00:44:58,346 –> 00:44:58,879
[ramsey_d_smith]: ye

1237
00:44:59,253 –> 00:44:59,414
[michelle_richter]: that

1238
00:44:59,426 –> 00:44:59,749
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1239
00:44:59,554 –> 00:45:01,337
[michelle_richter]: translated assets to income

1240
00:45:01,706 –> 00:45:02,813
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1241
00:45:01,838 –> 00:45:04,402
[michelle_richter]: that would be the appropriate method by
which to

1242
00:45:04,405 –> 00:45:04,526
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1243
00:45:04,502 –> 00:45:05,023
[michelle_richter]: accomplish

1244
00:45:04,826 –> 00:45:05,212
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1245
00:45:05,564 –> 00:45:06,206
[michelle_richter]: a building base

1246
00:45:06,146 –> 00:45:06,711
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1247
00:45:06,306 –> 00:45:07,492
[michelle_richter]: where income under management

1248
00:45:09,566 –> 00:45:09,892
[paul_tyler]: thank you

1249
00:45:12,490 –> 00:45:12,591
[michelle_richter]: so

1250
00:45:12,566 –> 00:45:12,707
[ramsey_d_smith]: ye

1251
00:45:13,415 –> 00:45:17,582
[michelle_richter]: it should be considered in my view
and in particular it should be considered because

1252
00:45:17,822 –> 00:45:21,909
[michelle_richter]: aria has retirement income in the name
is

1253
00:45:21,837 –> 00:45:21,857
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1254
00:45:22,009 –> 00:45:23,431
[michelle_richter]: not about maximization

1255
00:45:23,045 –> 00:45:23,066
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1256
00:45:23,491 –> 00:45:24,092
[michelle_richter]: of assets

1257
00:45:23,734 –> 00:45:24,326
[ramsey_d_smith]: hm

1258
00:45:24,373 –> 00:45:25,535
[michelle_richter]: everybody complain is

1259
00:45:25,616 –> 00:45:25,778
[ramsey_d_smith]: ye

1260
00:45:25,635 –> 00:45:29,842
[michelle_richter]: that d c is focused exclusively on
acid accumulation

1261
00:45:29,987 –> 00:45:30,027
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1262
00:45:30,343 –> 00:45:35,351
[michelle_richter]: and you want to know why it’s
because of the method by which compensation occurs

1263
00:45:35,852 –> 00:45:36,092
[michelle_richter]: right

1264
00:45:35,936 –> 00:45:36,716
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1265
00:45:36,934 –> 00:45:41,274
[michelle_richter]: like it always is right everywhere in
humanity

1266
00:45:41,285 –> 00:45:41,306
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1267
00:45:41,536 –> 00:45:42,261
[michelle_richter]: that’s the truth

1268
00:45:43,085 –> 00:45:43,106
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1269
00:45:43,425 –> 00:45:47,270
[michelle_richter]: so you know if we want something
different and we continue to do the same

1270
00:45:47,350 –> 00:45:52,367
[michelle_richter]: thing we experience the definition of crazy
so

1271
00:45:52,376 –> 00:45:52,597
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1272
00:45:52,567 –> 00:45:55,519
[michelle_richter]: in order to do to accomplish something
different we must do

1273
00:45:55,526 –> 00:45:56,216
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1274
00:45:55,639 –> 00:45:56,322
[michelle_richter]: something different

1275
00:45:57,575 –> 00:45:57,596
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1276
00:45:59,065 –> 00:46:03,672
[michelle_richter]: my third assertion is that the impossibility
of intellectual property

1277
00:46:03,716 –> 00:46:03,978
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1278
00:46:03,772 –> 00:46:10,504
[michelle_richter]: having value in my field is an
offense about which utter outrage is merited it

1279
00:46:10,564 –> 00:46:10,624
[michelle_richter]: is

1280
00:46:10,646 –> 00:46:10,907
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1281
00:46:10,844 –> 00:46:18,457
[michelle_richter]: i direct affront to the very principles
of capitalism capitalism as a governing frame relies

1282
00:46:18,637 –> 00:46:25,589
[michelle_richter]: heavily upon intellectual property being protectable and
mont is able so as to encourage invention

1283
00:46:26,186 –> 00:46:26,206
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1284
00:46:26,390 –> 00:46:30,898
[michelle_richter]: thus i question why is mine the
soul field in this

1285
00:46:30,785 –> 00:46:30,806
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1286
00:46:30,998 –> 00:46:36,487
[michelle_richter]: country to which capitalism is not permitted
to apply on why are other members of

1287
00:46:36,587 –> 00:46:41,856
[michelle_richter]: my community not apoplectic about my true
words consider the

1288
00:46:41,825 –> 00:46:42,060
[ramsey_d_smith]: m ye

1289
00:46:41,936 –> 00:46:49,088
[michelle_richter]: implications that not codifying verb sales in
our domain has now that post secure annuities

1290
00:46:49,268 –> 00:46:56,480
[michelle_richter]: are permissible in plans plan advisors like
all other faduciaries in america are inherently taught

1291
00:46:56,580 –> 00:47:04,213
[michelle_richter]: that asset maximization is the only valid
lens through which financial advisement can occur yet

1292
00:47:04,494 –> 00:47:09,843
[michelle_richter]: i believe that financials occur not only
on the left side of the consumer balance

1293
00:47:09,923 –> 00:47:16,173
[michelle_richter]: sheet but all so on their income
statement their statement of net worth their cash

1294
00:47:16,253 –> 00:47:16,434
[michelle_richter]: flow

1295
00:47:16,376 –> 00:47:16,617
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1296
00:47:16,574 –> 00:47:18,918
[michelle_richter]: statement and the right side

1297
00:47:18,686 –> 00:47:18,948
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1298
00:47:19,018 –> 00:47:20,681
[michelle_richter]: of their balance sheet which

1299
00:47:20,524 –> 00:47:20,685
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1300
00:47:20,741 –> 00:47:23,225
[michelle_richter]: is where insurance plays plan

1301
00:47:23,156 –> 00:47:24,176
[ramsey_d_smith]: my

1302
00:47:23,366 –> 00:47:25,818
[michelle_richter]: advisors don’t know annuities and vice

1303
00:47:25,676 –> 00:47:26,020
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1304
00:47:25,919 –> 00:47:31,211
[michelle_richter]: versa advisors can’t even begin to imagine
why we insurance

1305
00:47:30,795 –> 00:47:30,956
[ramsey_d_smith]: right

1306
00:47:31,271 –> 00:47:36,400
[michelle_richter]: people believe our solutions have value because
they are taught to see the world through

1307
00:47:36,440 –> 00:47:38,343
[michelle_richter]: the lens of asset maximization

1308
00:47:37,916 –> 00:47:38,696
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1309
00:47:38,844 –> 00:47:44,373
[michelle_richter]: in there not taught about liability minimization
as a valid entry point to a consumer

1310
00:47:44,473 –> 00:47:45,395
[michelle_richter]: finance world view

1311
00:47:45,695 –> 00:47:45,716
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1312
00:47:46,517 –> 00:47:47,959
[michelle_richter]: annuities in d c will

1313
00:47:47,906 –> 00:47:48,152
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1314
00:47:48,140 –> 00:47:51,385
[michelle_richter]: only take off if we band together
to fight for their ace

1315
00:47:51,905 –> 00:47:51,926
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1316
00:47:52,407 –> 00:47:53,088
[michelle_richter]: actuaries

1317
00:47:52,611 –> 00:47:52,632
[ramsey_d_smith]: i

1318
00:47:53,208 –> 00:47:56,053
[michelle_richter]: for example used to have a role
in asset

1319
00:47:56,126 –> 00:47:57,236
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1320
00:47:56,133 –> 00:47:57,956
[michelle_richter]: liability matching when we

1321
00:47:57,905 –> 00:47:57,926
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1322
00:47:58,196 –> 00:48:00,941
[michelle_richter]: as a society had defined benefit pension
plans

1323
00:48:00,845 –> 00:48:00,866
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1324
00:48:01,902 –> 00:48:06,408
[michelle_richter]: but now in d c there isn’t
a natural spot for an actuary in d

1325
00:48:06,628 –> 00:48:06,648
[michelle_richter]: c

1326
00:48:06,905 –> 00:48:06,926
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1327
00:48:06,968 –> 00:48:07,348
[michelle_richter]: because

1328
00:48:07,556 –> 00:48:07,798
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1329
00:48:07,809 –> 00:48:14,235
[michelle_richter]: liability consideration is not yet required so
as to advise in d c s d

1330
00:48:14,455 –> 00:48:23,951
[michelle_richter]: c again naturally emphasizes asset maximization so
the society of actuaries nata and iri must

1331
00:48:24,192 –> 00:48:28,879
[michelle_richter]: all strongly consider the possibly ity that
my words might be true and if they

1332
00:48:28,979 –> 00:48:31,723
[michelle_richter]: feel they might be they need to
begin acting

1333
00:48:31,525 –> 00:48:31,646
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1334
00:48:31,983 –> 00:48:34,056
[michelle_richter]: yesterday representatives

1335
00:48:33,866 –> 00:48:34,049
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1336
00:48:34,196 –> 00:48:36,320
[michelle_richter]: of any of these industry organizations

1337
00:48:36,446 –> 00:48:38,385
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1338
00:48:36,560 –> 00:48:40,507
[michelle_richter]: or other organizations that can help change
the circumstances

1339
00:48:40,316 –> 00:48:40,336
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1340
00:48:40,627 –> 00:48:43,912
[michelle_richter]: i have just described are invited to
email me at

1341
00:48:44,195 –> 00:48:44,216
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1342
00:48:44,213 –> 00:48:48,300
[michelle_richter]: m rector f s at g mail
dot com and request a

1343
00:48:48,296 –> 00:48:48,660
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1344
00:48:48,380 –> 00:48:50,844
[michelle_richter]: death that further explains this perspective

1345
00:48:50,906 –> 00:48:51,213
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1346
00:48:51,245 –> 00:48:53,689
[michelle_richter]: and the dangers that follow logically therefrom

1347
00:48:54,418 –> 00:48:54,479
[ramsey_d_smith]: no

1348
00:48:54,590 –> 00:48:59,799
[michelle_richter]: lastly for this diatribe i hold and
and advisement should be a national field again

1349
00:48:59,979 –> 00:49:05,268
[michelle_richter]: it is not about the non placement
it is about contextual advisement it is not

1350
00:49:05,348 –> 00:49:11,478
[michelle_richter]: persacorrelated to an individual contract the way
some state insurance law allows annuity consulting to

1351
00:49:11,558 –> 00:49:13,862
[michelle_richter]: a car that does not make sense
to be

1352
00:49:13,886 –> 00:49:14,606
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1353
00:49:13,942 –> 00:49:20,133
[michelle_richter]: state regulated should be policed similarly to
how r s are overseen achieving this framework

1354
00:49:20,273 –> 00:49:25,822
[michelle_richter]: is my career goal twenty seven years
remain until i begin taking social security at

1355
00:49:25,902 –> 00:49:31,932
[michelle_richter]: age seventy it thus follows logically that
i will not stop truthfully communicating my concerns

1356
00:49:32,013 –> 00:49:34,429
[michelle_richter]: on these matters for at least twenty
seven more years

1357
00:49:34,586 –> 00:49:34,606
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1358
00:49:35,616 –> 00:49:37,915
[michelle_richter]: or until it’s solved so

1359
00:49:38,036 –> 00:49:38,359
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1360
00:49:38,436 –> 00:49:41,000
[michelle_richter]: i thank you so much for your
patients and listening to me

1361
00:49:40,955 –> 00:49:40,976
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1362
00:49:41,080 –> 00:49:41,761
[michelle_richter]: through all of that

1363
00:49:41,748 –> 00:49:43,090
[bruno_caron]: oh

1364
00:49:41,841 –> 00:49:44,586
[michelle_richter]: i know it was a lot and
i know

1365
00:49:44,576 –> 00:49:44,897
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1366
00:49:44,866 –> 00:49:47,751
[michelle_richter]: you suffered but but i think

1367
00:49:47,726 –> 00:49:48,007
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1368
00:49:48,092 –> 00:49:49,274
[michelle_richter]: i think my words are true

1369
00:49:49,458 –> 00:49:50,268
[bruno_caron]: oh

1370
00:49:49,534 –> 00:49:50,908
[michelle_richter]: right time scared they might be

1371
00:49:51,318 –> 00:49:51,543
[bruno_caron]: oh

1372
00:49:51,716 –> 00:49:52,020
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1373
00:49:51,965 –> 00:49:52,911
[michelle_richter]: so i feel that

1374
00:49:53,088 –> 00:49:54,018
[bruno_caron]: yeah

1375
00:49:53,234 –> 00:49:54,261
[michelle_richter]: they should be considered

1376
00:49:54,686 –> 00:49:55,946
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1377
00:49:55,475 –> 00:49:56,398
[michelle_richter]: thank you for giving me

1378
00:49:56,456 –> 00:49:56,798
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1379
00:49:56,779 –> 00:49:57,501
[michelle_richter]: the audience to

1380
00:49:57,498 –> 00:49:57,699
[bruno_caron]: oh

1381
00:49:57,541 –> 00:49:58,103
[michelle_richter]: share that with

1382
00:49:59,818 –> 00:50:01,500
[ramsey_d_smith]: well thank you for sharing your thoughts

1383
00:50:01,236 –> 00:50:01,617
[michelle_richter]: esto

1384
00:50:01,538 –> 00:50:01,698
[bruno_caron]: thank

1385
00:50:01,560 –> 00:50:01,940
[ramsey_d_smith]: michelle

1386
00:50:01,778 –> 00:50:01,938
[bruno_caron]: you

1387
00:50:04,966 –> 00:50:05,127
[michelle_richter]: yes

1388
00:50:05,961 –> 00:50:06,082
[bruno_caron]: it’s

1389
00:50:06,086 –> 00:50:07,406
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1390
00:50:08,624 –> 00:50:08,684
[bruno_caron]: we

1391
00:50:08,685 –> 00:50:08,926
[michelle_richter]: oh

1392
00:50:09,044 –> 00:50:11,326
[bruno_caron]: already knew that there was never a
dull moment with

1393
00:50:11,266 –> 00:50:11,406
[ramsey_d_smith]: uh

1394
00:50:11,295 –> 00:50:14,565
[michelle_richter]: oh

1395
00:50:11,386 –> 00:50:11,486
[bruno_caron]: you

1396
00:50:14,600 –> 00:50:16,683
[bruno_caron]: but you prove that once more one
more time

1397
00:50:17,115 –> 00:50:18,348
[michelle_richter]: uh

1398
00:50:17,344 –> 00:50:17,605
[bruno_caron]: uh

1399
00:50:18,035 –> 00:50:18,986
[ramsey_d_smith]: h right

1400
00:50:18,874 –> 00:50:18,915
[michelle_richter]: uh

1401
00:50:19,127 –> 00:50:20,450
[bruno_caron]: i have a feeling we just went

1402
00:50:20,456 –> 00:50:20,738
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1403
00:50:20,510 –> 00:50:22,894
[bruno_caron]: back to basically college to logic

1404
00:50:22,706 –> 00:50:22,726
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1405
00:50:22,954 –> 00:50:23,354
[bruno_caron]: classes

1406
00:50:23,415 –> 00:50:25,605
[michelle_richter]: oh

1407
00:50:23,455 –> 00:50:25,618
[bruno_caron]: philosophy cal classes low

1408
00:50:25,445 –> 00:50:25,466
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1409
00:50:25,738 –> 00:50:26,620
[bruno_caron]: classes math

1410
00:50:26,715 –> 00:50:26,977
[michelle_richter]: oh

1411
00:50:26,720 –> 00:50:29,685
[bruno_caron]: classes accounting classes um

1412
00:50:30,126 –> 00:50:30,247
[michelle_richter]: es

1413
00:50:31,076 –> 00:50:31,583
[mark_chamberlain]: hm

1414
00:50:31,308 –> 00:50:31,388
[bruno_caron]: and

1415
00:50:31,435 –> 00:50:31,803
[michelle_richter]: that’s right

1416
00:50:33,146 –> 00:50:34,256
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1417
00:50:33,612 –> 00:50:34,012
[bruno_caron]: i always

1418
00:50:34,496 –> 00:50:35,276
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1419
00:50:34,834 –> 00:50:35,915
[bruno_caron]: i always like the analogy

1420
00:50:35,576 –> 00:50:35,777
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1421
00:50:35,935 –> 00:50:37,137
[bruno_caron]: between the balance sheet in the end

1422
00:50:37,076 –> 00:50:37,096
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1423
00:50:37,378 –> 00:50:40,323
[bruno_caron]: statement but you bring it a step
forward

1424
00:50:40,106 –> 00:50:40,409
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1425
00:50:40,423 –> 00:50:44,550
[bruno_caron]: you know a step further with with
the right hand side of the balance sheet

1426
00:50:44,630 –> 00:50:45,251
[bruno_caron]: the net worth

1427
00:50:45,266 –> 00:50:45,286
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1428
00:50:45,612 –> 00:50:46,233
[bruno_caron]: the cash little

1429
00:50:46,256 –> 00:50:46,419
[ramsey_d_smith]: ye

1430
00:50:46,273 –> 00:50:46,673
[bruno_caron]: statement

1431
00:50:47,246 –> 00:50:47,488
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1432
00:50:47,915 –> 00:50:53,905
[bruno_caron]: and you know and in such an
eloquent way so i hope the the stake

1433
00:50:53,946 –> 00:50:54,326
[bruno_caron]: holders

1434
00:50:54,729 –> 00:50:54,893
[ramsey_d_smith]: kay

1435
00:50:54,767 –> 00:50:56,690
[bruno_caron]: will make it to the right stake
holders

1436
00:50:56,486 –> 00:50:56,711
[ramsey_d_smith]: ye

1437
00:50:57,091 –> 00:50:57,251
[bruno_caron]: and

1438
00:50:57,356 –> 00:50:58,196
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1439
00:50:58,413 –> 00:50:59,335
[bruno_caron]: we’ll definitely push for that

1440
00:51:00,815 –> 00:51:02,216
[michelle_richter]: thank you thank you

1441
00:51:02,195 –> 00:51:02,216
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1442
00:51:02,396 –> 00:51:08,683
[michelle_richter]: so much you guys really elevate the
dialogue in our industry i appreciate the work

1443
00:51:08,763 –> 00:51:09,824
[michelle_richter]: that you do so much

1444
00:51:11,336 –> 00:51:13,602
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah all you’re on mute

1445
00:51:13,455 –> 00:51:13,864
[michelle_richter]: oh

1446
00:51:15,509 –> 00:51:15,529
[bruno_caron]: m

1447
00:51:15,836 –> 00:51:16,016
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1448
00:51:16,676 –> 00:51:16,837
[michelle_richter]: yeah

1449
00:51:17,614 –> 00:51:19,938
[paul_tyler]: you know i’m telling it’s two thousand
twenty two is

1450
00:51:19,946 –> 00:51:20,906
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1451
00:51:20,018 –> 00:51:21,541
[paul_tyler]: almost okay two thousand twenty three

1452
00:51:21,545 –> 00:51:21,566
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1453
00:51:21,621 –> 00:51:22,262
[paul_tyler]: that will not be

1454
00:51:22,196 –> 00:51:22,946
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1455
00:51:22,322 –> 00:51:24,666
[paul_tyler]: a word but yeah michell

1456
00:51:24,555 –> 00:51:24,797
[michelle_richter]: uh

1457
00:51:24,846 –> 00:51:24,926
[paul_tyler]: no

1458
00:51:25,343 –> 00:51:25,363
[mark_chamberlain]: m

1459
00:51:25,467 –> 00:51:25,888
[paul_tyler]: no no

1460
00:51:25,865 –> 00:51:25,886
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1461
00:51:26,008 –> 00:51:26,309
[paul_tyler]: thank you

1462
00:51:26,276 –> 00:51:27,000
[ramsey_d_smith]: uh

1463
00:51:26,349 –> 00:51:26,389
[paul_tyler]: i

1464
00:51:26,434 –> 00:51:26,475
[michelle_richter]: uh

1465
00:51:26,449 –> 00:51:27,290
[paul_tyler]: think look

1466
00:51:27,785 –> 00:51:27,806
[ramsey_d_smith]: h

1467
00:51:28,292 –> 00:51:28,632
[paul_tyler]: it takes

1468
00:51:28,433 –> 00:51:28,715
[mark_chamberlain]: oh

1469
00:51:28,693 –> 00:51:29,474
[paul_tyler]: a lot to to

1470
00:51:29,541 –> 00:51:29,723
[mark_chamberlain]: yeah

1471
00:51:29,634 –> 00:51:30,194
[paul_tyler]: change this

1472
00:51:30,095 –> 00:51:30,116
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1473
00:51:30,295 –> 00:51:31,716
[paul_tyler]: world and you know your your

1474
00:51:32,546 –> 00:51:32,831
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1475
00:51:32,997 –> 00:51:33,758
[paul_tyler]: wow to

1476
00:51:34,046 –> 00:51:34,066
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1477
00:51:34,639 –> 00:51:37,662
[paul_tyler]: provide more retirement security for people especially
the war

1478
00:51:37,646 –> 00:51:37,666
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1479
00:51:37,762 –> 00:51:38,482
[paul_tyler]: place is

1480
00:51:40,579 –> 00:51:41,539
[ramsey_d_smith]: ah yeah

1481
00:51:42,709 –> 00:51:42,789
[paul_tyler]: it

1482
00:51:43,526 –> 00:51:43,831
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1483
00:51:44,471 –> 00:51:47,496
[paul_tyler]: requires a lot of different organizations

1484
00:51:47,186 –> 00:51:47,550
[ramsey_d_smith]: my

1485
00:51:47,577 –> 00:51:48,638
[paul_tyler]: and legal structures

1486
00:51:48,206 –> 00:51:48,470
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1487
00:51:48,739 –> 00:51:50,341
[paul_tyler]: to change to make sense

1488
00:51:51,755 –> 00:51:51,899
[michelle_richter]: yeah

1489
00:51:51,924 –> 00:51:56,912
[paul_tyler]: especially when you think of a typical
company may have employes in all fifty states

1490
00:51:58,014 –> 00:51:59,977
[paul_tyler]: fifty different state laws may apply

1491
00:52:01,565 –> 00:52:01,586
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1492
00:52:01,969 –> 00:52:02,535
[michelle_richter]: hm

1493
00:52:02,161 –> 00:52:03,563
[paul_tyler]: securities and exchange

1494
00:52:03,239 –> 00:52:04,890
[michelle_richter]: there is no commissions in arica

1495
00:52:04,994 –> 00:52:05,760
[paul_tyler]: uh

1496
00:52:05,216 –> 00:52:05,236
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1497
00:52:05,815 –> 00:52:07,743
[michelle_richter]: so how are you going to pay
the insurance expert

1498
00:52:07,955 –> 00:52:07,976
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1499
00:52:08,496 –> 00:52:09,780
[paul_tyler]: yeah it’s this is a challenge

1500
00:52:09,515 –> 00:52:09,536
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1501
00:52:09,800 –> 00:52:09,860
[paul_tyler]: so

1502
00:52:10,256 –> 00:52:10,461
[ramsey_d_smith]: ye

1503
00:52:11,216 –> 00:52:11,898
[paul_tyler]: question for you is

1504
00:52:12,185 –> 00:52:12,206
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1505
00:52:13,284 –> 00:52:17,110
[paul_tyler]: yes we untangle you know the gordian
not here

1506
00:52:17,254 –> 00:52:17,295
[michelle_richter]: uh

1507
00:52:18,392 –> 00:52:23,661
[paul_tyler]: if i’m a typical employe five years
ten years from now how is the experience

1508
00:52:23,741 –> 00:52:26,711
[paul_tyler]: different then it is today

1509
00:52:29,276 –> 00:52:32,441
[michelle_richter]: i think it’s much more likely that
more plans

1510
00:52:32,213 –> 00:52:32,233
[mark_chamberlain]: m

1511
00:52:32,622 –> 00:52:40,615
[michelle_richter]: provide access to a financial professional like
through the employer preveded and financial professional think

1512
00:52:40,695 –> 00:52:40,815
[michelle_richter]: it’s

1513
00:52:41,105 –> 00:52:41,126
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1514
00:52:41,497 –> 00:52:46,285
[michelle_richter]: that’s already becoming a thing and i
think there’ll be more of that

1515
00:52:46,934 –> 00:52:47,318
[paul_tyler]: oh

1516
00:52:47,707 –> 00:52:52,595
[michelle_richter]: and frankly there a lot of plan
advisors who are interested in entering into wealth

1517
00:52:52,695 –> 00:52:53,937
[michelle_richter]: management domain

1518
00:52:53,876 –> 00:52:53,978
[ramsey_d_smith]: ye

1519
00:52:54,098 –> 00:52:55,119
[michelle_richter]: so they’re going to gladly

1520
00:52:54,986 –> 00:52:55,006
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1521
00:52:55,219 –> 00:52:59,647
[michelle_richter]: provide it and that’s going to be
a threat to my people unless my people

1522
00:53:00,027 –> 00:53:00,268
[michelle_richter]: start

1523
00:53:00,146 –> 00:53:00,449
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1524
00:53:00,648 –> 00:53:01,891
[michelle_richter]: moving towards the d c

1525
00:53:02,015 –> 00:53:02,036
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1526
00:53:02,111 –> 00:53:06,728
[michelle_richter]: space right and how do they how
to you know have our place set the

1527
00:53:06,768 –> 00:53:07,030
[michelle_richter]: table

1528
00:53:07,354 –> 00:53:07,554
[paul_tyler]: yeah

1529
00:53:07,371 –> 00:53:07,552
[michelle_richter]: right

1530
00:53:08,015 –> 00:53:11,100
[paul_tyler]: well bruno we literally are at the
top of the hour

1531
00:53:12,285 –> 00:53:12,506
[michelle_richter]: uh

1532
00:53:12,703 –> 00:53:12,823
[paul_tyler]: what

1533
00:53:13,414 –> 00:53:13,455
[michelle_richter]: uh

1534
00:53:13,445 –> 00:53:13,466
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1535
00:53:14,065 –> 00:53:17,290
[paul_tyler]: last final words observations

1536
00:53:19,259 –> 00:53:19,360
[bruno_caron]: oh

1537
00:53:19,274 –> 00:53:20,264
[paul_tyler]: yeah

1538
00:53:19,860 –> 00:53:20,001
[bruno_caron]: boy

1539
00:53:20,546 –> 00:53:21,416
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1540
00:53:20,822 –> 00:53:23,627
[bruno_caron]: i have a list of questions i
don’t even go through my notes and some

1541
00:53:23,667 –> 00:53:23,967
[bruno_caron]: of the things

1542
00:53:24,015 –> 00:53:27,034
[michelle_richter]: yea

1543
00:53:24,248 –> 00:53:26,832
[bruno_caron]: i wanted to talk about and i
wrote more

1544
00:53:27,005 –> 00:53:27,026
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1545
00:53:27,173 –> 00:53:30,097
[bruno_caron]: it’s usually the other way around so
i don’t even know where to start

1546
00:53:29,986 –> 00:53:30,474
[michelle_richter]: yeah

1547
00:53:30,238 –> 00:53:32,321
[bruno_caron]: to even to

1548
00:53:32,295 –> 00:53:32,477
[michelle_richter]: yeah

1549
00:53:32,421 –> 00:53:33,223
[bruno_caron]: even to even

1550
00:53:33,304 –> 00:53:33,446
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1551
00:53:33,423 –> 00:53:34,966
[bruno_caron]: end this but

1552
00:53:34,995 –> 00:53:35,217
[michelle_richter]: yeah

1553
00:53:35,346 –> 00:53:36,047
[bruno_caron]: i’ll simply say

1554
00:53:36,005 –> 00:53:36,026
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1555
00:53:36,148 –> 00:53:37,971
[bruno_caron]: thank you and we also

1556
00:53:37,895 –> 00:53:37,916
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1557
00:53:38,071 –> 00:53:38,712
[bruno_caron]: very very

1558
00:53:38,615 –> 00:53:38,636
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1559
00:53:38,752 –> 00:53:39,373
[bruno_caron]: much appreciate

1560
00:53:39,476 –> 00:53:39,824
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1561
00:53:39,513 –> 00:53:44,682
[bruno_caron]: all all you do for the industry
and such uh passionate and eloquent

1562
00:53:44,595 –> 00:53:44,796
[michelle_richter]: oh

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00:53:45,063 –> 00:53:46,906
[bruno_caron]: and rigorous would the

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00:53:46,871 –> 00:53:47,015
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

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00:53:47,247 –> 00:53:47,347
[bruno_caron]: you

1566
00:53:47,276 –> 00:53:47,498
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1567
00:53:47,367 –> 00:53:50,874
[bruno_caron]: know kind of a word to you
so thank you

1568
00:53:51,998 –> 00:53:53,019
[ramsey_d_smith]: so i’ll just i’ll just

1569
00:53:53,145 –> 00:53:53,955
[michelle_richter]: yeah

1570
00:53:53,160 –> 00:53:58,428
[ramsey_d_smith]: echo that you know thank you michelle
look you you’re you’re willing to break some

1571
00:53:58,488 –> 00:54:00,672
[ramsey_d_smith]: glass which i think is always important

1572
00:54:01,005 –> 00:54:01,085
[paul_tyler]: ah

1573
00:54:01,512 –> 00:54:02,058
[bruno_caron]: hm

1574
00:54:01,553 –> 00:54:03,437
[ramsey_d_smith]: right and

1575
00:54:03,285 –> 00:54:04,245
[michelle_richter]: yeah

1576
00:54:04,198 –> 00:54:06,682
[ramsey_d_smith]: right and i’ll tell the audience like

1577
00:54:06,978 –> 00:54:07,222
[bruno_caron]: oh

1578
00:54:07,503 –> 00:54:12,311
[ramsey_d_smith]: well two things one is a huge
believer i’m a huge believer in the potential

1579
00:54:12,372 –> 00:54:16,759
[ramsey_d_smith]: for implantanuities and in the d the
importance of annuities in the d c space

1580
00:54:16,799 –> 00:54:19,864
[ramsey_d_smith]: to solve the retirement problem and you
know

1581
00:54:20,088 –> 00:54:20,375
[bruno_caron]: yeah

1582
00:54:20,205 –> 00:54:21,046
[ramsey_d_smith]: basically putting my money

1583
00:54:20,958 –> 00:54:21,220
[bruno_caron]: oh

1584
00:54:21,066 –> 00:54:25,393
[ramsey_d_smith]: where my mouth is and you know
as i as i take this journey a

1585
00:54:25,493 –> 00:54:29,440
[ramsey_d_smith]: lot of times when when want to
find out what’s going on one of my

1586
00:54:29,540 –> 00:54:31,884
[ramsey_d_smith]: very first calls is to michelle rector
so

1587
00:54:32,358 –> 00:54:32,559
[bruno_caron]: oh

1588
00:54:32,425 –> 00:54:35,170
[ramsey_d_smith]: i would say that to anybody in
the audience you would you would do well

1589
00:54:35,931 –> 00:54:39,758
[ramsey_d_smith]: to to reach out to michelle if
you if you want to become

1590
00:54:39,854 –> 00:54:41,084
[paul_tyler]: oh

1591
00:54:40,019 –> 00:54:43,609
[ramsey_d_smith]: more up to speed on on really
what is a very sort of complex space

1592
00:54:43,689 –> 00:54:45,314
[ramsey_d_smith]: so thank you for playing that role
michele

1593
00:54:47,125 –> 00:54:47,246
[michelle_richter]: oh

1594
00:54:47,416 –> 00:54:47,556
[paul_tyler]: yeah

1595
00:54:47,969 –> 00:54:48,712
[michelle_richter]: thank you so much

1596
00:54:49,119 –> 00:54:50,180
[paul_tyler]: michelle thank you mark

1597
00:54:50,006 –> 00:54:50,936
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1598
00:54:50,281 –> 00:54:50,741
[paul_tyler]: thank you

1599
00:54:51,236 –> 00:54:51,866
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

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00:54:51,563 –> 00:54:52,745
[paul_tyler]: hey bruno what i would suggest

1601
00:54:52,766 –> 00:54:52,927
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1602
00:54:52,825 –> 00:54:56,571
[paul_tyler]: doing is let’s put your questions in
the linkedon post once this thing goes alive

1603
00:54:56,730 –> 00:54:56,915
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1604
00:54:56,932 –> 00:54:57,252
[paul_tyler]: michelle

1605
00:54:57,198 –> 00:54:57,622
[bruno_caron]: oh

1606
00:54:57,412 –> 00:54:57,993
[paul_tyler]: let’s let’s conti

1607
00:54:58,106 –> 00:54:58,347
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1608
00:54:58,414 –> 00:55:00,057
[paul_tyler]: mark let’s continue the discussion there

1609
00:55:00,106 –> 00:55:00,675
[michelle_richter]: absolutely

1610
00:55:00,568 –> 00:55:01,739
[ramsey_d_smith]: m ye

1611
00:55:01,700 –> 00:55:05,646
[paul_tyler]: lot of threads to pull here a
lot of dimensions i think

1612
00:55:05,576 –> 00:55:05,720
[michelle_richter]: yeah

1613
00:55:05,706 –> 00:55:06,207
[paul_tyler]: that we could

1614
00:55:06,605 –> 00:55:06,626
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1615
00:55:07,021 –> 00:55:07,142
[michelle_richter]: yep

1616
00:55:07,850 –> 00:55:09,993
[paul_tyler]: explore please

1617
00:55:10,446 –> 00:55:14,192
[michelle_richter]: i am an interesting follow on link
down so

1618
00:55:14,155 –> 00:55:17,564
[paul_tyler]: yeah

1619
00:55:14,433 –> 00:55:14,914
[michelle_richter]: consider

1620
00:55:14,716 –> 00:55:15,228
[bruno_caron]: hm

1621
00:55:14,974 –> 00:55:15,054
[michelle_richter]: it

1622
00:55:15,348 –> 00:55:15,671
[bruno_caron]: yeah

1623
00:55:15,716 –> 00:55:15,737
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1624
00:55:16,985 –> 00:55:17,167
[bruno_caron]: yeah

1625
00:55:17,462 –> 00:55:17,482
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1626
00:55:17,478 –> 00:55:18,500
[michelle_richter]: if any part of this

1627
00:55:18,438 –> 00:55:18,639
[bruno_caron]: oh

1628
00:55:18,605 –> 00:55:18,626
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1629
00:55:18,620 –> 00:55:19,261
[michelle_richter]: was appealing

1630
00:55:19,286 –> 00:55:19,306
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1631
00:55:19,321 –> 00:55:19,641
[michelle_richter]: to you

1632
00:55:19,754 –> 00:55:21,014
[paul_tyler]: yeah

1633
00:55:20,403 –> 00:55:20,783
[michelle_richter]: you should

1634
00:55:20,817 –> 00:55:20,838
[bruno_caron]: m

1635
00:55:20,863 –> 00:55:21,324
[michelle_richter]: consider

1636
00:55:20,966 –> 00:55:21,187
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1637
00:55:21,464 –> 00:55:21,864
[paul_tyler]: i agree

1638
00:55:21,726 –> 00:55:22,087
[michelle_richter]: allowing

1639
00:55:21,778 –> 00:55:21,980
[bruno_caron]: yeah

1640
00:55:22,127 –> 00:55:22,489
[michelle_richter]: in linked

1641
00:55:22,405 –> 00:55:22,485
[paul_tyler]: no

1642
00:55:22,529 –> 00:55:22,589
[michelle_richter]: in

1643
00:55:22,626 –> 00:55:23,587
[paul_tyler]: i agree so okay

1644
00:55:23,486 –> 00:55:24,446
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1645
00:55:23,727 –> 00:55:25,010
[paul_tyler]: continue it there we’ll move this

1646
00:55:24,926 –> 00:55:24,946
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1647
00:55:25,070 –> 00:55:26,712
[paul_tyler]: from audio to text

1648
00:55:26,516 –> 00:55:26,838
[ramsey_d_smith]: yeah

1649
00:55:26,833 –> 00:55:27,393
[paul_tyler]: on linked in

1650
00:55:28,128 –> 00:55:28,496
[bruno_caron]: oh

1651
00:55:28,395 –> 00:55:31,420
[paul_tyler]: mark michelle thank you ramsey bruno thank
you michelle

1652
00:55:31,796 –> 00:55:31,816
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

1653
00:55:31,821 –> 00:55:34,265
[paul_tyler]: either sent us a link to what
you just read or send us the text

1654
00:55:34,305 –> 00:55:35,166
[paul_tyler]: and we’ll pop it in the

1655
00:55:35,105 –> 00:55:35,266
[michelle_richter]: yes

1656
00:55:35,227 –> 00:55:35,487
[paul_tyler]: notes

1657
00:55:35,428 –> 00:55:35,650
[michelle_richter]: i will

1658
00:55:36,268 –> 00:55:41,537
[paul_tyler]: uh give us feedback you’re listening thank
you for sticking with us give us feedback

1659
00:55:41,818 –> 00:55:46,486
[paul_tyler]: give us questions give us guess suggestions
we definitely listen and

1660
00:55:47,156 –> 00:55:47,478
[ramsey_d_smith]: oh

1661
00:55:47,208 –> 00:55:52,302
[paul_tyler]: gettin next week for another great episode
of that annuity show thanks thanks everybody

1662
00:55:53,738 –> 00:55:54,024
[bruno_caron]: thank you

1663
00:55:53,936 –> 00:55:53,956
[ramsey_d_smith]: m

Episode 172: Making In-Plan Annuities a Reality with Michelle Richter and Mark Chamberlain – 1 of 2

December 2, 2022 2022, Mark Chamberlain, Michelle Richter, Podcast, Retirement No comments

The SECURE Act reinvigorated interest in expanding the market for in-plan annuities. However, we need to make many more changes to really drive adoption. In part one of a two part series, Michelle Richter and Mark Chamberlain of the newly renamed firm, Annuity Research & Consulting, share their roadmap for future success.

Links mentioned in the show:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-richter/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-chamberlain-33349a14/

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