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The Milliman 2025 Retiree Health Cost Index reveals that a 65-year-old couple may need up to $388,000 for medical expenses in retirement.

Holly Sraeel is Founder of The Most Powerful Women in Banking and SVP of Strategy and Content, American Banker Live Media, leading content creation and innovation for the events and live media portfolio and introducing new multimedia and invitation-only experiences for senior executives that drive critical conversations and action around corporate strategy, innovation and financial performance. She is part of the company's operational leadership team and is focused on developing cross-platform programming that creates higher levels of engagement for subscribers, community participants and partners across the company's brands, including American Banker, The Bond Buyer, National Mortgage News, Accounting Today, Digital Insurance, Financial Planning and Employee Benefits News.

Sraeel is an award-winning editorial director, media executive and content strategist with expertise in developing influential content, communities, and events for C-level executives in the banking and financial services, insurance, and technology industries. Prior to joining Arizent, she held several content leadership and strategist roles, including for B2B media consultancy New York Ventures, capital markets management consultancy Opimas, Oxford University-incubated startup Wise Responder, and as cofounder of Genesys Partners' Agility First Forum.

This new role marks a return to the company for Sraeel. In her previous 12-year run, she was a member of the executive team and was pivotal in driving new cross-platform editorial, events and business innovation as SVP of Brand Management; Group Editorial Director of Banking and Technology magazines; and Founder, President and Editorial Director of The Most Powerful Women in Banking,™ the company's first-ever, community-based media platform, now part of Arizent's flagship American Banker.

Sraeel is an early honors graduate of Marist College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications and a concentration in journalism.

Ten financial advisors are offering fresh ideas, making bold career moves and creating deep ties to their communities. Discover how they earned their spot in this year's cohort.

After struggling to find work as a transient Army spouse, Monique Street built a career helping military families with their finances, taking their causes to lawmakers across the country.

Laurence Whittam is the founder of Impact Global Solutions, an independent outsourcing consultancy serving CPA firms across the United States. A nationally recognized strategist, speaker, and author, he has been named named a Top 20 Under 40 Influencer by CPA Practice Advisor, and is the co-author of the AICPA Outsourcing Toolkit. He is also the host of the Business Beyond Borders Podcast.

Joe Toledano, head of insured solutions for Morgan Stanley's wealth division and E-Trade, tells how insurance has gone from almost an afterthought for many financial planners to something that's central to what they do.

Cerulli's research based on a survey of wealth and asset management firms suggest that firms have only just begun to address clients' comprehensive planning needs.

Al Rogers is a seasoned healthcare executive with over 20 years of experience in consumer-driven health and benefits innovation. At ECHO, Al leads the growth and strategy for Premium Payment Manager—an automated payment solution purpose-built to help brokers, TPAs, and carriers deliver ICHRAs that feel and function like traditional group plans.

Joel Campbell leads TreviPay's financial and treasury operations, financial controls, statutory accounting, financial planning and analysis, and process improvement initiatives to optimize order-to-cash with TreviPay's fully managed B2B payments platform. He has more than two decades of domestic and international financial expertise. He joined TreviPay in 2020.

With retirement pressures mounting, Gen Xers and baby boomers are increasing IRA contributions in a bid to catch up, according to a new Fidelity study.