Solving the Retirement Income Puzzle: T. Rowe Price's 5-Dimensional Approach w/ Jessica Sclafani | Tao of Chao 28

The Tao of Chao Podcast

Retirement income planning requires balancing competing priorities and understanding crucial trade-offs. In this episode, Jessica Sclafani, Global Retirement Strategist at T. Rowe Price, introduces their innovative five-dimensional framework for evaluating retirement income solutions.
Traditional retirement planning often focuses solely on accumulation, but converting savings into sustainable income presents unique challenges. Jessica explains how plan sponsors and financial advisors can use this holistic framework to evaluate retirement income options based on five critical dimensions: longevity risk hedge, level of payments, volatility of payments, unexpected balance depletion, and liquidity of balance.
Key Topics:

• How to balance guaranteed income with flexibility needs
• Why one-size-fits-all retirement solutions rarely work
• Using visualization tools to understand product trade-offs
• Considerations for fiduciaries when selecting retirement solutions
• Strategies for participants with existing defined benefit plans

This conversation provides plan fiduciaries, advisors, and individual investors with a powerful framework to make more informed retirement income decisions.
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Jessica Sclafani, CAIA
Global Retirement Strategist
T. Rowe Price
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👓 Learn more about our HOST
Philip Chao
Website: https://philipchao.us
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Chapters

1. Coming up... (00:00:00)

2. Introducing Jessica Sclafani of T Rowe Price (00:00:32)

3. Sustaining retirement income (00:02:22)

4. Introducing the Five Dimensional Framework (00:03:46)

5. Attribute: Longevity Risk Hedge (00:06:48)

6. Attribute: Level of Payments (00:07:31)

7. Attribute: Volatility of Payments (00:07:52)

8. Longevity hedge / Fear of outliving savings (00:08:13)

9. Attribute: Unexpected balance depletion (00:10:06)

10. Attribute: Liquidity of payments (00:12:07)

11. Is this too complicated for fiduciaries to use? (00:12:55)

12. How to visualize the five dimensions (00:14:23)

13. Uses with plan sponsors (00:15:33)

14. Liquidity and annuities (00:19:24)

15. How to measure plan's five dimensional coverage (00:21:17)

16. Advanced use cases for individual investors (00:24:50)

17. Wrapping up (00:25:58)

18. Legal Disclaimer (00:27:50)