Michael Finke

Areas of Expertise: Personal finance, behavioral economic, financial advice

 

Website: www.michaelfinke.com

 

Twitter Feed: @finkeonfinance

 

Topics Presented in Speeches: Planning for a life in retirement, creating a retirement income plan, behavioral personal finance

 

Email: michael.finke@theamericancollege.edu

 

Biography: 

Michael Finke, Ph.D., CFP, is the dean and chief academic officer at The American College of Financial Services. Finke completed his doctorate in consumer economics at The Ohio State University in 1998, and in finance from the University of Missouri in 2011. Before serving as the dean and chief academic officer, he was the director of the Retirement Planning and Living Center program and the director of graduate studies at Texas Tech and at the University of Missouri.  

 

His research includes studies of retirement savings and investment behavior, optimal retirement income and annuitization strategies, regulation of financial advice, financial literacy in old age and most recently of life satisfaction among retirees. He received the award for the most influential paper published in the Journal of Financial Planning in 2013 and 2014.  

 

Finke also writes monthly articles translating academic topics for practitioners in his role as contributing editor for Research Magazine. He is a frequent speaker at academic and financial services conferences on retirement topics and is considered one of the leading experts on income strategies and planning issues related to aging.