RIA Academy

Retirement blind spots

Tuesday, August 19, 2025
4:00 p.m. ET / 1:00 p.m. PT

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Planning for retirement requires logical, rational, and conscious thinking. However, many investors take shortcuts in their thinking and decision making. The field of behavioral finance teaches us how financial decision making is critical to retirement planning.

This webinar will cover various planning errors that clients may make when thinking about retirement and ways to overcome those errors.

CFP® CE will be offered and topics to be covered include:

  • What is Behavioral Finance?
  • Behavioral Finance’s influence on retirement planning
  • The Planning Fallacy
  • Anchoring Bias
  • Mental Accounting

This webinar is for financial professionals only.


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Derek Dickinson, JD 

Director, Advanced Planning at Jackson National Life Distributors, LLC

Joining Jackson in 2021, Derek brings with him a wealth of knowledge and a desire to provide financial professionals with clarification of their complex situations. His background in estate planning, tax planning, and other investment-related topics allows Derek to do what he loves most: uncovering products and strategies that provide support for financial professionals that can help their clients and families.

Before joining the financial industry, Derek was an attorney with a private- practice law firm. After that, he joined Country Financial, working the majority of his eight years there in the Advanced Planning department.

Derek graduated from Valparaiso University School of Law with a Juris Doctor degree after receiving bachelor’s degrees in political science and business administration from Augustana College. He also holds FINRA Series 6, 26, and 63 registrations, Illinois Life and Variable Products Insurance licenses, and is a licensed Illinois attorney. Derek is on the board of Midtown, a nonprofit in St. Louis, serving underprivileged children and the community, and is a member of the Society of Financial Service Professionals. He enjoys golfing, traveling, sports and spending time with friends and his wife, Lizet, and daughter, Olivia.


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Jackson® is the marketing name for Jackson Financial Inc., Jackson National Life Insurance Company® (Home Office: Lansing, Michigan), and Jackson National Life Insurance Company of New York® (Home Office: Purchase, New York). Jackson National Life Distributors LLC, member FINRA.