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Wave Strength PodcastHow do Employees Feel About Retirement? Pacific Life’s Kristin Brooks ExplainsWhat are empathy interviews and how do they help plan sponsors and employers understand participants’ retirement-planning needs? Pacific Life’s Kristin Brooks stops by The Wave Strength and unpacks how empathy interviews can help reveal how plan participants feel about retirement, and what they need to make informed decisions to become retirement ready.

Wave Strength PodcastHow Does the Secure Act 2.0 Impact Retirement Security? Pacific Life’s Seaver Sowers ExplainsSeaver Sowers, Pacific Life’s vice president and head of global government & policy affairs joins Host Jim Breen, Institutional director of marketing, for a conversation about the Secure Act 2.0. Seaver reveals that the Act contains approximately 70 provisions that address a myriad of financial issues, many specifically designed to benefit retirees.

Wave Strength PodcastFrom Groceries to Gas: A Conversation about Inflation with Pacific Life’s Dr. Qi SunIn this episode of The Wave Strength, Pacific Life’s Dr. Qi Sun sits down with Digital Media Strategist Shea Frates to discuss Qi’s latest newsletter article which tackles the question: What’s up with inflation? Listen in as Qi and Shea discuss interesting data from the consumer price index, explore inflation’s impact on a household’s wealth and retirement plans, and reveal the winners and losers in a high-inflation economy.

Lifetime Income

TrendsWomen Win At Work as a Result of the New SECURE Act

InterviewLonger Lives, Larger Financial Needs

Wave Strength PodcastThe SECURE Act

TrendsHow to Achieve Financial Wellbeing in Retirement

Wave Strength PodcastThe Need for Lifetime Income

VideoSolutions for Lifetime Income

Wave Strength PodcastTop 5 Ways Planning & Goal Setting Lead to a Safe Landing in Retirement

Wave Strength PodcastTalking Retirement: Innovating Defined Contribution Lifetime Income Solutions

Wave Strength PodcastHow Former Thunderbird Michelle Curran Takes Aim at Achieving Goals

Wave Strength PodcastWhat’s Your Financial iQ? Find out with Dr. Qi Sun

Wave Strength PodcastRetirement Security and the Need for Guaranteed Lifetime Income, Pacific Life’s Paul Hance Explains

VideoPacific Life: Protecting Tomorrows for a Life Well Lived

Wave Strength PodcastInnovative Strategies for Customer-Centric Solutions: A Conversation with Pacific Life’s Paul Hance

Wave Strength PodcastPacific Life’s Customer Solutions Group is Helping America Retire Securely, Paul Hance Explains

Wave Strength PodcastHow to Plan for Retirement? Pacific Life’s Michael Oler Says, Do This First

InterviewRetirement and the Need for Lifetime Income Solutions

Pensions, SERPs and more

InterviewEasing the Pain of Increasing Variable PBGC Premiums

InterviewIn or Out?

InterviewNew Economic Policies – Opportunities for Defined Benefit Plans?

InterviewEconomic Cost vs. Accounting Cost

InterviewInvest or Contribute to Solve a Retirement Funding Shortfall?

InterviewNew Financing Solution for Frozen Nonqualified Defined Benefit SERPs

TrendsA History of Strength and Innovation

TrendsYour DB Plan Is Finally Fully Funded! Don't Let It Slip Away.

VideoWhat Is Your Pension Risk Strategy?

VideoPlan Sponsors are De-Risking their Pension Plans... You Can, Too

Wave Strength PodcastHow a CEO Got His CFO Back

Wave Strength PodcastStabilizing Pensions During M&A

InterviewThe High Economic Cost Of Small Pension Benefits

Wave Strength PodcastInnovation in the Financial Industy

Wave Strength PodcastThe Alternate Universe: Non-Qualified Plans versus Qualified Plans

Wave Strength PodcastCustomer Experience and Lifetime Income

Wave Strength PodcastEffective Communication in a Hybrid Work Environment

VideoEffective Communication in a Hybrid Work Environment — Webinar Series

Wave Strength PodcastBrian Woolfolk & the Institutional Division Celebrate Two Years of Growth and Innovation

Insured LDI

TrendsReduce the Impact of Pension Volatility on the Balance Sheet

TrendsPension Stability in Volatile Markets

InterviewAsset/Liability Match, Set, Product

VideoThe Right Path is a Flexible Path

VideoInsured LDI Helps Keep Your Pension Plan On Course