Robert Reynolds

Putnam Investments President and CEO Robert Reynolds has been a consistently vocal advocate of retirement reform. Reynolds believes that the retirement planning landscape requires revamping so that annuities and other sources of guaranteed retirement income play a more prominent role. During a recent industry conference, Reynolds discussed the notion of a "product allocation" in the context of retirement finances: A crucial part of the reform effort is helping to protect workers` savings as...

Putnam Investments CEO Robert Reynolds spoke about the notion of "lifetime financial product allocation" at a recent industry conference. Reynolds supports the notion of a range of products over the course of one's lifetime that include: Lifetime income options to hedge against longevity risk . Relative return strategies to hedge inflation risk . Absolute return strategies to deal with both inflation and volatility risk ( sequence of returns risk ). Reynolds offered comments on the over-...