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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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Q1 2022 — Environmental, Social, and Governance Investments and Inflation Issue
Featuring:
- DC Investing with Both ESG Considerations and Inflation in Mind
- ESG Investing Under a New Department of Labor Regime
- Helping Retirement Investors Tackle Inflation

Q4 2021 — Plan Design Issue
Featuring:
- The Effect of Automatic Plan Features Within the Defined Contribution Market
- The Yin and Yang of Self-Directed Brokerage Accounts

Q3 2021 — Participant Focus Issue
Featuring:
- Safeguarding Participant Data
- Growing Opportunities for Nonretirement Accounts

Q2 2021 — Small Retirement Plans Issue
Featuring:
- Assessing the Competitive Landscape in the Micro 401(k) Market
- New Options Aim to Expand the Small Retirement Plan Market

Q1 2021 — Professionally Managed Solutions Issue
Featuring:
- Key Developments in Defined Contribution Managed Account Programs
- Target-Date Market Sees Increased Intermediation from Consultants and Advisors

Q4 2020 — 2021 Trends Issue
Featuring:
- Pooled Employer Plans—the Next Big Thing?
- Advantageous Timing for Roth IRA Market Growth
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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.

Anna Fang
Senior Analyst
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Anna Fang
Senior Analyst
Anna specializes in U.S. retirement market trends with a focus on defined contribution (DC) plans and individual retirement accounts (IRAs), including coverage of 401(k) plan sponsors and plan participants. She is a member of the Retirement practice, where she leads development of Cerulli’s Retirement Lodestar, a web-based interactive business development platform; and quantitative models to forecast market growth. She also contributes to The Cerulli Edge series and provides qualitative and quantitative analysis to support strategic consulting engagements.
Prior to joining Cerulli Associates, Anna was at Wellesley Investment Advisors. In her role, she complied and organized client reports and marketing materials for financial advisors.
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Shawn O'Brien, CFA
Associate Director
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Shawn O'Brien, CFA
Associate 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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