In addition to creating the Retirement Education Hour podcast, instructors from the Retirement Education Foundation also produce The Rundown, a educational video series featuring timely information for making informed decisions in and approaching retirement.

In this clip, Kirk and Michael describe behavioral finance, which is a study of economics. They explain four types of biases that consumers face when thinking about their finances:

Who are you getting advice from when planning for retirement? In this episode of the Retirement Education Hour, Kirk and Dr. Paul explain that not all advisors are created equal. You've got to choose the right one for your situation and your stage in life.

In this special edition of the Retirement Education Hour, Kirk and Dr. Paul answer questions about retirement planning from people like you! We've pulled questions from people who have attended our courses—questions you might have asked yourself.

There's a difference between information and knowledge. A lot of people have information, but most in the financial services industry who provide advice and services around retirement—well, they have a lot of information, and they love to share it—but few of them have the real knowledge to provide the help based around the information that they're sharing.

In this episode of the Retirement Education Hour, Kirk and Dr. Paul discuss the bad, the worst, and the ugly of actively managed mutual funds. So many people out there own them, but most don't really know what they are, or how they can put their retirements at risk.

In this episode of the Retirement Education Hour, Kirk and Dr. Paul lift the curtain behind perceptions the financial industry tries to create. Everyone is really saying the same things. How do you translate what they're saying and understand what they're actually doing? Here are some of the things they say—and the things they don't say—and the motivating factors behind what they're telling you to do.

In this episode of the Retirement Education Hour, financial instructors Kirk and Dr. Paul answer the following questions about our economy:

People often think, "If I make a mistake, there's always a chance to go back and fix it." But when it comes to retirement planning, it may be too late to fix these mistakes. In this episode of the Retirement Education Hour, Kirk and Dr. Paul highlight which mistakes to avoid and how to fix mistakes you've already made, before it's too late.

In this episode of the Retirement Education Hour, Financial Instructors Kirk Cassidy and Michael Masserant stress that there are ways to gain control, but there are also mistakes we can make on our road to retirement.

In the episode of the Retirement Education Hour, Kirk and Dr. Paul define what it means to be a conservative investor, moderate-conservative investor, moderate investor, moderate-aggressive investor, and an aggressive investor.

People don't really understand what the risk label they've given themselves really means in terms of how much your portfolio could lose--and whether you need less risk, or more risk, to accomplish your goals.