Harry Smorenberg, CEO of Smorenberg Consultancy, discusses the aging of the global population and how it will inevitably transform how we work, how long we work, and require new approaches to creating and building the sustainable retirement systems of the future.

Professor Annamaria Lusardi, Founder and Academic Director of the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center at George Washington University, explains the severity of financial fragility among Americans today, the lack of financial literacy, and the role financial education can play in helping improve both short-term and long-term financial and retirement security.

Keith Ambachtsheer, President of KPA Advisory Services, is one of the world's most original thinkers on pension design, governance and investing issues. He explains how Peter Drucker's concept of the "power of three" helps shape his thinking about what's most important in the design of the sustainable retirement income system of the future.

John launched Ariel Investments in the early 1980s and has been very successful for the past 36 years managing funds for investors. He shares some of the secrets of his investing success and how it can help us prepare for retirement. We also learn how his leadership and determination to improve financial literacy and advocate for greater diversity and inclusion are transforming lives, communities, businesses and boardrooms across the nation.

Han Yik, Head of Institutional Investors, the World Economic Forum (WEF), explains the objectives of the WEF's Retirement Investment Systems Reform Project and its series of reports that seek to ask and answer the question - "We'll Live to 100 - How Can We Afford It?"

Oregon Treasurer Tobias Read and Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs each share program updates, insights, and lessons learned for their state-facilitated retirement savings programs -OregonSaves and Illinois Secure Choice- as these pioneering states lead the way to expand access and strengthen retirement security for millions of Americans.

Will Sandbrook, Executive Director, UK Nest Insight Unit, reviews the genesis of the UK's NEST program and the next generation of challenges facing DC plans today, including increasing participant engagement, optimizing retirement income, improving the overall financial wellbeing of savers, and reaching workers who lack the traditional employer relationship.

In this inaugural episode, Michael Kreps, Principal of the Groom Law Group, discusses the legislative outlook and priorities for 2019.