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NGPF Speaker Series: The Retirement Beat: What Decades of Covering Saving, Investing, & Retiring Teach Us About Starting Early with Reshma Kapadia

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Thu, Oct 01, 2026

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4:00 pm PST

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FREE

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1 NGPF Academy Credit

NGPF Speaker Series: Join us for a practical and eye-opening conversation with Reshma Kapadia, Associate Editor at Barron's and a longtime voice on one of the most consequential beats in personal finance: retirement. Over her two decades at Barron's and WSJ's SmartMoney Magazine, Reshma has covered how Americans save, invest, and retire, from 401(k)s and Social Security to the market forces that shape whether nest eggs last. We'll flip her beat on its head for a younger audience: what do the retirement successes and regrets of today's 65-year-olds teach the 16-year-olds in our classrooms? Reshma will share the patterns she's seen across years of reporting, including the moves people consistently wish they'd made sooner, how global market trends quietly shape retirement outcomes, and why the most powerful retirement decision anyone makes might happen decades before retirement. We'll also discuss what's changing now, from new products entering retirement accounts to shifting assumptions about work and longevity. You'll walk away with vivid, reportable stories that make compounding and long-term thinking real for students, plus a journalist's toolkit for separating retirement wisdom from retirement hype.

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