Wave Strength Blog

Wave Strength Podcast: How Pacific Life's University Relations Program Attracts Top Intern Talent On this episode of The Wave Strength, Pacific Life’s Nicci Leibold joins host Jim Breen to discuss Pacific Life’s University Relations program and the importance of attracting the country’s best interns. Listen as Nicci explains how outreach, building networks, and fostering relationships are key tools for recruiting today’s top talent.
Wave Strength Podcast: What does Innovative Customer Service Look Like? Pacific Life’s Jamie Finkral Explains Jamie Finkral is part of Pacific Life’s Institutional Division’s exceptional customer service team; she joins The Wave Strength’s Jim Breen to share her passion for providing the best customer service in the industry. Listen in as Jamie shares how an innovative, proactive, people-focused philosophy is ensuring a world-class customer experience.
Wave Strength Podcast: How is Pacific Life’s KEAP Team Helping High Earners Save Pre-tax Dollars?Pacific Life’s Institutional Division and members of Pacific Life’s Key Executive Advantage Program (KEAP), traveled to San Diego to attend the 2023 NAPA 401(k) Summit. During the conference, the Institutional team filmed several interviews for upcoming episodes of our innovative podcast, The Wave Strength. In this first episode of the series, host Jim Breen talks with Pacific Life’s Kim Coggin and Joanne Gagnon about KEAP’s turnkey solutions, and how they help advisors design non-qualified deferred compensation plans to meet the needs of their executives and senior leaders.

Lifetime Income

Trends: Women Win At Work as a Result of the New SECURE Act
Interview: Longer Lives, Larger Financial Needs
Wave Strength Podcast: The SECURE Act
Trends: How to Achieve Financial Wellbeing in Retirement
Wave Strength Podcast: The Need for Lifetime Income
Video: Solutions for Lifetime Income
Wave Strength Podcast: Top 5 Ways Planning & Goal Setting Lead to a Safe Landing in Retirement
Wave Strength Podcast: Talking Retirement: Innovating Defined Contribution Lifetime Income Solutions
Wave Strength Podcast: How Former Thunderbird Michelle Curran Takes Aim at Achieving Goals
Wave Strength Podcast: What’s Your Financial iQ? Find out with Dr. Qi Sun
Wave Strength Podcast: Retirement Security and the Need for Guaranteed Lifetime Income, Pacific Life’s Paul Hance Explains
Video: Pacific Life: Protecting Tomorrows for a Life Well Lived
Wave Strength Podcast: Innovative Strategies for Customer-Centric Solutions: A Conversation with Pacific Life’s Paul Hance
Wave Strength Podcast: Pacific Life’s Customer Solutions Group is Helping America Retire Securely, Paul Hance Explains
Wave Strength Podcast: How to Plan for Retirement? Pacific Life’s Michael Oler Says, Do This First
Wave Strength Podcast: How Does the Secure Act 2.0 Impact Retirement Security? Pacific Life’s Seaver Sowers Explains
Video: Retirement and the Need for Lifetime Income Solutions
Wave Strength Podcast: From Groceries to Gas: A Conversation about Inflation with Pacific Life’s Dr. Qi Sun
Wave Strength Podcast: How do Employees Feel About Retirement? Pacific Life’s Kristin Brooks Explains
Wave Strength Podcast: Pacific Life’s Paul Hance on Defined Contribution Lifetime Income
Wave Strength Podcast: What’s in the Secure Act 2.0? Pacific Life’s Seaver Sowers Explains
Interview: How can we Improve Retirement Outcomes for Women?
Wave Strength Podcast: I Didn’t Sign Up for This: Don’t Let High Expectations Ruin a Perfectly Good Retirement 

Pensions, SERPs and more

Interview: Easing the Pain of Increasing Variable PBGC Premiums
Interview: In or Out?
Interview: New Economic Policies – Opportunities for Defined Benefit Plans?
Interview: Economic Cost vs. Accounting Cost
Interview: Invest or Contribute to Solve a Retirement Funding Shortfall?
Interview: New Financing Solution for Frozen Nonqualified Defined Benefit SERPs
Trends: A History of Strength and Innovation
Trends: Your DB Plan Is Finally Fully Funded! Don't Let It Slip Away.
Video: What Is Your Pension Risk Strategy?
Video: Plan Sponsors are De-Risking their Pension Plans... You Can, Too
Wave Strength Podcast: How a CEO Got His CFO Back
Wave Strength Podcast: Stabilizing Pensions During M&A
Interview: The High Economic Cost Of Small Pension Benefits
Wave Strength Podcast: Innovation in the Financial Industy
Wave Strength Podcast: The Alternate Universe: Non-Qualified Plans versus Qualified Plans
Wave Strength Podcast: Customer Experience and Lifetime Income
Wave Strength Podcast: Effective Communication in a Hybrid Work Environment
Video: Effective Communication in a Hybrid Work Environment — Webinar Series
Wave Strength Podcast: Brian Woolfolk & the Institutional Division Celebrate Two Years of Growth and Innovation

Insured LDI

Trends: Reduce the Impact of Pension Volatility on the Balance Sheet
Trends: Pension Stability in Volatile Markets
Interview: Asset/Liability Match, Set, Product
Video: The Right Path is a Flexible Path
Video: Insured LDI Helps Keep Your Pension Plan On Course

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