On October 21, 2016, the TIAA Institute and the Wharton School’s Pension Research Council co-hosted a Fellows Symposium focused on retirement security.

The symposium featured innovative research on retirement plan design, financial literacy, and other topics designed to increase financial well-being for U.S. workers and employers. Research presentations included:

• Removing the Legal Impediments to Offering Lifetime Annuities in Pension Plans
  Jonathan B. Forman
• Responsiveness of Retirement Distributions to Early Withdrawal Penalties
  Gopi Shah Goda, Damon Jones
• Comprehending Financial Communications and Asset Mix Decisions
  John Wesley Hutchinson
• Women and Retirement Security
  Annamaria Lusardi, Olivia S. Mitchell
• Older People’s Willingness to Delay Social Security Claiming
  Olivia S. Mitchell, Raimond Maurer
• Target Funds, Annuitization, and Retirement Investing
  Chester Spatt