Retirement education resources for public sector retirement systems
Public sector plan designs have evolved rapidly over the last decade with the shift from a defined benefit to a defined contribution world. This means previous defined benefit-only systems might now have a defined contribution component where members share in the risk of accumulating enough assets for a secure retirement.
We have over 20 years’ experience working with public sector retirement systems either at the national level helping to plan conference content and speakers or at a state or county and even city level. We’ve been designing and providing retirement education programs in live workshop and webinar formats for consumers and advisors for 30 years. We can help your retirement field educators, counselors, call center, operations staff, boards, trustees, etc. understand how to help your members become prepared to retire securely, as well as create a member retirement education webinar series from our library of on-demand courses from over 40 leading retirement experts. We can also make it easy for you to reach employees in different locations, shifts, and levels of knowledge cost-effectively.
1. The Certified Retirement Counselor® (CRC®) Certification by InFRE
Our retirement counselor professional development program is from the non-profit International Foundation for Retirement Education (InFRE), which is affiliated with Texas Tech University’s financial planning program. InFRE awards the accredited Certified Retirement Counselor® (CRC®) certification.
Because of today’s rapidly changing legislative environment, this certification program is used by over 60 public sector defined benefit, hybrid, and defined contribution public sector retirement systems as their training program for new and existing retirement counselors, field reps, call center and other retirement plan staff. It was created in 1997 with the help of and is endorsed by the National Association of Government Defined Contribution Administrators (NAGDCA) and the National Pension Education Association (NPEA).
2. Continuing education memberships for individuals
Our continuing education memberships are the easiest and most cost-effective way for your retirement professionals to become and stay up to date with today’s thinking in retirement. Weekly conference-quality presentations are broadcast for use by individuals or for group professional development meetings like lunch-n-learns. Here are a few of the benefits:
- Convenient weekly CE opportunities accessible in a conference room, at your desk, or on your tablet or phone
- Unlimited access to no-quiz live webinars, no-quiz weekly rebroadcast webinars, on-demand webinars, audio downloads, with CFP®, CRC®, ASPPA, and PACE CE credit available.
- Meet CFP®, CRC®, ASPPA, & PACE CE requirements while increasing your knowledge on a variety of retirement-related topics presented by leading industry experts, from overview to advanced difficulty.
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3. A retirement conference on demand for up to 25 individuals.
Access this customizable, one-stop group learning package for the cost of registration and travel of one person attending a national conference! These insightful, one-hour on-demand webinars and recommended learning plans allow attendees to share a common base of understanding and have access to the current thinking in decumulation, retirement risks, retirement happiness, and retirement income.
4. Retirement education resources for professionals that help your staff “Delve Deeper”
Most of the Retirement Resource Center’s programs build awareness about retirement decisions to be made (Level 1) or help advisors and consumers begin to learn a skill (Level 2). Because some subjects require advisors and consumers to learn more than addressed in our one-hour courses, we have developed relationships with the following high-quality providers of more in-depth, education-only firms where we encourage you to “delve deeper.”
5. Smart retirement education programs for employees
Retirement plan designs have evolved rapidly with the shift from a defined benefit to a defined contribution world. Employees now assume all the risk of a secure retirement. THe topics public sector educators need to address have changed. Many public sector education programs need help providing education for employees to make informed decisions in today’s retirement environment.
We’ve been designing and providing retirement education programs in live workshop and webinar formats for consumers and advisors for 30 years. We will help you design a webinar series from our library of on-demand courses from over 40 leading retirement experts and make it easy for you to reach employees in different locations, shifts, and levels of knowledge cost-effectively.
Group learning sessions can be scheduled as lunch-n-learns or access provided to employees to watch with spouses or significant others after work hours.
