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Stay on top of the latest product, marketing, distribution, sales, platform, and regulatory trends in the U.S. retirement marketplace. Focused on the public and private defined benefit and defined contribution markets, IRAs, and rollovers, each Edge issue addresses topics critical to firms—asset managers, distributors, plan providers, and third-party vendors—competing for retirement dollars.
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Q3 2023 — The 401(k) Participants Issue
Featuring:
- Supply and Demand for In-Plan Financial Advice Across Generations
- Generational Differences in 401(k) Investment Solutions

Q2 2023 — The Participant Engagement and Retirement Readiness Issue
Featuring:
- Workplace Financial Wellness, Then and Now
- Longer Retirements— Is There Enough Money to Go Around?

Q1 2023 — The SECURE 2.0 Legislation Issue
Featuring:
- SECURE 2.0: Closing Retirement Plan Coverage and Savings Gaps
- SECURE 2.0 Improves Tax Diversification and Distribution Flexibility for DC Plan Participants

Q4 2022 — The Plan Sponsor Trends Issue
Featuring:
- Are State-Sponsored Retirement Savings Plans Delivering on their Promised Benefits?
- The State of ERISA Litigation

Q3 2022 — Product Development and Distribution Issue
Featuring:
- CIT Providers Leverage Discounted Fee Arrangements to Successfully Appeal to Retirement Aggregators
- Illiquid Alternatives: A Place in Retirement Savings

Q2 2022 — Plan Participants Issue
Featuring:
- Emergency Savings: An Important Component of Financial Well-Being
- Technology Investments Aim to Enhance, Not Replace, the Human Touch
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Through granular data analysis and interviews with industry executives, they define retirement industry trends, test market assumptions, and deliver novel insights. Gain the clarity you need to chart your strategic course with our retirement experts.

Shawn O'Brien, CFA
Director
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Shawn O'Brien, CFA
Director
Shawn leads the U.S. Retirement research practice, which focuses on the defined contribution (DC) and individual retirement account (IRA) markets. He also leads and supports strategic consulting projects for asset managers on their DC-related market entry and product distribution strategies.
Prior to joining Cerulli Associates, Shawn worked as a Research Associate at Harvard Business School, where he co-authored case studies on investment management for professional and personal investors and managing and innovating in financial services. Prior to that, he worked in the Currency Management group at State Street Global Markets, employing currency overlay strategies for large asset managers and asset owners.
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Idin Eftekhari
Senior Analyst
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Idin Eftekhari
Senior Analyst
Idin is a member of Cerulli’s Retirement research practice, which specializes in the defined contribution (DC) and individual retirement account (IRA) markets.
Prior to joining Cerulli, Idin was a senior member of the Portfolio Evaluation Group at Fisher Investments, where he was responsible for providing asset allocation and benchmark recommendations for high-net-worth clients in the US, Canada and the UK. During his 15+ year tenure at Fisher Investments, Idin served in multiple roles supporting the firm’s Private Client Group and Institutional Group.
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Elizabeth Chiffer
Analyst
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Elizabeth Chiffer
Analyst
As an analyst on the Retirement team, Elizabeth supports research on defined contribution and individual account markets and provides quantitative support to the annual reports and Cerulli Edge series.
Prior to joining Cerulli, Elizabeth was a research assistant at the Boston University School of Hospitality Administration, where she worked on papers pertaining to hospitality finance and technology.
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