Wade D. Pfau

Wade D. Pfau, PhD, CFA, RICP® is the founder of Retirement Researcher, an educational resource for individuals and financial advisors focused on retirement income planning. He is a co-founder of the Retirement Income Style Awareness tool and a co-host of the Retire with Style podcast.

Dr. Pfau serves as a principal and the director of retirement research at McLean Asset Management, and as a Research Fellow with the LIMRA Retirement Income Institute. He is also a professor of practice at the American College of Financial Services and previously served as the director of the Retirement Income Certified Professional® (RICP®) designation program.

He holds a doctorate in economics from Princeton University and has published more than sixty peer-reviewed research articles across a wide range of academic and practitioner journals. His research and commentary have been featured in outlets including the print editions of The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Kiplinger’s, and Money Magazine.