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Trends in Retirement Saving and Spending
Dr. Derek Tharp, Ph.D., CFP, CLU
Derek Tharp is the lead researcher at Kitces.com, an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Southern Maine, and the founder of Conscious Capital, a financial planning firm located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
In addition to writing at Kitces.com, Derek regularly contributes to the wealth management section of the Wall Street Journal’s Experts Blog.
His research has been published in academic journals such as the Journal of Retirement and Journal of Personal Finance, and he co-authored a chapter in the textbook Financial Therapy: Theory, Research, and Practice.