Why Women Are the $30T Future of Retirement Planning
October 22, 2025 by Judy Faust Hartnett
For women, retirement planning comes with built-in challenges—longer life expectancies, lower lifetime earnings and time out of the workforce for caregiving—which all erode long-term financial security.
Jean Chatzky, founder of the digital media company HerMoney, which focuses on improving female financial literacy and wellness, noted on a recent LIMRA and LOMA podcast, “Insider Insights,” that many women have an advantage of potentially inheriting wealth twice: first from parents and then from husbands, who are statistically more likely to die first.
Originally Posted at PlanSponsor on Oct 21, 2025 by Judy Faust Hartnett.
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