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| Publications for Professionals 
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| Still River publishes, eight times a year, a research report relating to the municipal pension plans market. This page also lists some older analyses on other retirement-related subjects from prior years.
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| Municipal Retirement Plans Analytical Reports | 
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| How Defined Benefit Plans Have Changed for Municipal Employees over the Past Generation or So (September 2022) | 
| 2021 Teacher Pension Bills: What They Were, What Became of Them (February 2022) | 
| COLAs for Local Government Employees (October 2021) | 
| Plan Features of Existing Local Government Cash Balance Plans (August 2021) | 
| Municipal 457(b) Plans: Who Has Them, Who Administers Them (July 2021) | 
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| Older Topics | Download | Read Online | 
|   Rethinking Retirement "Gap" Analysis  June, 2014 |    |    | 
|   How We Sell - and Why We Fail to Sell - Annuities  February, 2012 |    |    | 
|   The Roth Conversion Gamble  January, 2010 |    |    | 
|   The New Wild West: Integrating Financial and Life Planning in the Second Half of Life  August, 2009 |    |    | 
|   Retirement Income Planning Lessons from the Economic Meltdown  February, 2009 |    |    | 
|   Piercing the Monte Carlo Mystique in Retirement Income Planning   April, 2008 |    |    | 
|   Whither Goes the 403(b) Market in 2008?   December, 2007 |    |    | 
|   The Greatest (and Unrecognized) Financial Risk for Retirees October, 2007 |    |    | 
|   Half-Baked Investment Concepts for Retirees June, 2007 |    |    | 
|   Retirement Income Planning, Part 15: Can the Retiree Market Be Profitable for Advisors? April, 2007 |    |    | 
|   Retirement Income Planning, Part 14: Are We Missing the Boat on Retiree Expenses? December, 2006 |    |    | 
|   Providing Personalized Financial Advice to Your Retiring and Retired Employees. November, 2006 |    |    | 
|   Retirement Income Planning, Part 12: The Fallacy of the One Best Solution. October, 2006 |    |    | 
|   Retirement Income Planning, Part 11: Early Retirement Offers as a Special Case and a Special Opportunity. August, 2006 |    |    | 
|   Retirement Income Planning, Part 10: Risk Analysis and Calculation Methods May, 2006 |    |    | 
|   Retirement Income Planning, Part 9: Are New Products a Solution or a Stopgap? April, 2006 |    |    | 
|   Retirement Income Planning, Part 8: What Income Planning Will Look Like in 2010. October, 2005 |    |    | 
|   Retirement Income Planning, Part 7: Toward Truly "Holistic" Planning.  May, 2005. |    |    | 
|   Retirement Income Planning, Part 6: Providing the Information That People Need.  January, 2005. |    |    | 
|   Retirement Income Planning, Part 5: The Right Time to Annuitize. November, 2004. |    |    | 
|   Retirement Income Planning, Part 4: Beyond Monte Carlo. September, 2004. |    |    | 
|   Retirement Income Planning, Part 3: Risk and Investment Strategy for Retirees. May, 2004. |    |    | 
|   Retirement Income Planning, Part 2:  A Realistic Comprehensive Planning Model. February, 2004. |    |    | 
|   Retirement Income Planning, Part 1: What People Want.  November, 2003. |    |    | 
|   Asset Allocation - A New Approach.  July, 2003. |    |    | 
|   Strategies for Liquidating Assets at Retirement.  February, 2003. |    |    | 
|   A Needs-Based Approach to Decisions to Annuitize at Retirement.  December, 2002. |    |    | 
|   A Needs-Based Approach to Post-retirement Withdrawals from Savings.  September, 2002. |    |    | 
|   Asset Allocation for a New Decade.  April, 2002. |    |    |