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From the Air

Short segments on lost retirement money, missing participants, and what should change. Written and voiced by our founder.

Airs April, National Financial Literacy Month.

  1. 1

    The Question Nobody Could Answer

    95 seconds

    A participant listed as nearly 100 years old, and a question nobody had ever asked.

  2. 2

    The Record That Never Caught Up

    100 seconds

    How a default birth date or an unreported death leaves a person on the books for years.

  3. 3

    Why Nobody Looks

    105 seconds

    The work of finding people pays nothing, so it goes undone. That is a structural problem.

  4. 4

    The Size of the Silence

    105 seconds

    Millions of forgotten accounts and trillions of dollars, and the difference between the two estimates.

  5. 5

    Before the Money Moves

    110 seconds

    Every path that moves a balance, and none that requires a documented search for the person.

  6. 6

    Pay for the Work

    120 seconds

    Why participant location should be a payable plan expense rather than an advisor's unpaid hours.

  7. 7

    The Registry That Only Covers Part of the Story

    115 seconds

    The federal Lost and Found, what it covers, and why seven in ten people who search find nothing.

  8. 8

    Seventy Billion Dollars, Waiting

    110 seconds

    What reaches state unclaimed property, and why escheatment is a last resort rather than the outcome.