Robert Powell

Robert Powell, CFP®, RMA®, is an award-winning financial journalist, renowned for his contributions in esteemed publications such as MarketWatch.com, USA Today, TheStreet.com, The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily and AARP. With a comprehensive understanding of retirement planning and investment management, he serves as the editor and publisher of TheStreet's Retirement Daily and the host of Decoding Retirement on Yahoo Finance!.

Most recently Powell was named a 2022 Robert N. Butler–Jack Rosenthal Age Boom Academy Journalist Fellow for the Columbia Journalism/Columbia Aging Center signature press training, "Caregiving and Our Longer Lives: The $500B Question" and he won the 2021 Radio Television Digital News Association and the National Endowment for Financial Education Excellence in Personal Finance Reporting Award.

In addition to his editorial role, Powell holds several prominent positions within the financial industry. He serves as the editor-in-chief of the Investments and Wealth Institute's (IWI) Retirement Management Journal, the world's first peer-reviewed journal solely dedicated to retirement income. He also hosts the Exceptional Advisor podcast by IWI.

As a co-founder of finStream.tv, a streaming channel focused on short-form personal financial education videos, he has been instrumental in its establishment. Furthermore, Powell contributes his expertise as an instructor in the Financial Planning Association’s Online Elder Planning Specialist program and is a co-owner of Plan for Life Now.

Powell is also a partner in Plan4Life as well as the cofounder of Parting Glass Productions, currently involved in co-producing a film in Ireland based on "Fiche Blian ag Fás by Muiris Ó Súileabháin," demonstrating his passion for storytelling through diverse mediums.