The purpose of Retire With Style is to help you discover the retirement income plan that is right for you. The first step is to discover your retirement income personality. Your hosts Wade Pfau, PhD, CFA, RICP and Alex Murguia, PhD walk you through creating and implementing a retirement plan that will help you reach your goals, and that you’ll be able to stick with.
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Latest episodes
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Episode 250: Do Annuities Actually Improve Retirement Outcomes? What the Math Says
In this episode of Retire With Style, Wade Pfau and Alex Murguia continue answering listener questions from their recent YouTube Live Q&A, tackling several important cons
Oct 13 39 min
Episode 249: Why Your Tax Bracket Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story
In this tax-focused episode of Retire With Style, Wade and Alex tackle listener questions about how taxes should influence retirement decisions, with a particular emphasi
Oct 6 40 min
Episode 248: Are You Doing Roth Conversions the Wrong Way?
In the final part of the Retire With Style Live Q&A, Wade and Alex tackle listener questions on tax-efficient retirement withdrawals, Roth conversions, Social Security, s
Sep 29 31 min
Episode 247: Is the 4% Rule Still Relevant? What the Retirement Math Says
In this episode of Retire with Style, Wade and Alex tackle listener questions spanning some of the most important decisions retirees and pre-retirees face, including tax
Sep 22 32 min
Episode 246: Why 100% Bonds May Not Be the Safest Retirement Portfolio
In this live Retire With Style Q&A, Wade Pfau and Alex Murguia tackle a wide range of retirement planning questions, including Social Security survivor benefits for divor
Sep 15 33 min
Episode 245: Retirement Withdrawals: When to Use Your Portfolio, When to Use a Buffer
In this episode of 'Retire with Style', hosts Alex Murguia and Wade Pfau discuss various aspects of retirement planning, including the importance of finding purpose in re
Sep 8 34 min
Episode 244: Why Being Safety-First Doesn’t Mean You Need an Annuity
In this episode of 'Retire with Style', hosts Alex Murguia and Wade Pfau discuss various aspects of retirement planning, including the importance of tax planning, the rol
In this episode of Retire with Style, Wade Pfau and Alex Murguia delve into various retirement income strategies, focusing on hybrid approaches that combine time segmenta
Aug 25 30 min
Episode 242: Why Playing It Safe in Retirement Can Actually Be Risky
In this episode of 'Retire with Style', Alex Murguia and Wade Pfau dive into various aspects of retirement planning, focusing on Social Security benefits, military surviv
Aug 18 39 min
Episode 241:Can AI Build Your Retirement Withdrawal Strategy?
In this Q&A episode of Retire With Style, Alex and Wade tackle several questions about building and managing a retirement income strategy, beginning with whether AI is re
Aug 11 31 min
Episode 240: Does Sequence Risk Last Longer Than You Think?
In this episode of Retire with Style, Alex Murguia and Wade Pfau explore how to manage retirement portfolios through the lens of sequence of returns risk. They discuss wh
Aug 4 33 min
Episode 239: Are You Overinvested in Bonds? The Retirement Math May Surprise You
In this episode of 'Retire with Style', hosts Alex Murguia and Wade Pfau delve into various aspects of retirement planning, focusing on asset allocation, risk capacity, a
Jul 28 38 min
Episode 238: SpaceX, Mega-IPOs, and Indexing: When to Buy, When to Wait
In this episode of 'Retire with Style', Wade Pfau and Alex Murguia dive into the implications of the SpaceX IPO, exploring its unique characteristics, the risks associate
Jul 21 32 min
Clarification on Ep. 237 HSA Rules for Beneficiaries
In this episode, Alex and Wade clarify important aspects of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), particularly focusing on the rules surrounding beneficiaries. They address com
Jul 17 7 min
Episode 237: Should You Spend Your HSA or Let It Grow?
In this episode of 'Retire with Style', Alex Murguia and Wade Pfau dive into tax planning strategies, focusing on Roth conversions, effective marginal tax rates, and with
Jul 14 45 min
Episode 236: Are Annuities Better than Bonds in Retirement?
In this episode of Retire with Style, hosts Alex Murguia and Wade Pfau address various listener questions regarding retirement planning. They discuss the implications of
Jul 7 32 min
Episode 235: Are Stocks Enough to Protect You From Inflation?
In this episode of Retire with Style, Wade Pfau and Alex Murguia continue to answer listener questions, including how stocks perform during inflationary periods, whether
Jun 30 33 min
Episode 234: Cash in Retirement: When to Hold It, When to Invest It
In this final part of the Retire With Style Live Q&A, Wade Pfau and Alex Murguia answer a wide range of retirement planning questions covering annuities and life insuranc
Jun 23 34 min
Episode 233: Should You Worry About Social Security Running Out?
In Part 2 of this Live listener Q&A episode, Wade Pfau and Alex Murguia tackle several retirement planning topics, including Social Security claiming strategies for spous
Jun 16 30 min
Episode 232: Is 4.7% the New Safe Withdrawal Rate?
In Part 1 of this live Q&A episode of Retire With Style, Wade Pfau and Alex Murguia answer listener questions covering reverse mortgages, retirement withdrawal rates, Rot
Jun 9 34 min
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I’ve been listening to the podcast for about a year, and it’s providing lots of useful information. Wade gives excellent, detailed explanations. My one concern is that Alex sometimes goes off on tangents that detract from the explanations. He’s clearly trying to keep the mood of the show a bit lighter, but he can come across as goofy.
Rieslingfans · Apr 2026
If Einstein and a stand-up comic teamed up to talk retirement, you’d get Wade Pfau. The man’s a walking encyclopedia of retirement strategies who somehow makes annuities sound like an adventure.
Then there’s Alex Murguia — equally sharp, hilarious, and apparently a certified Pickleball Jedi. Together they turn topics like safe withdrawal rates and sequence-of-returns risk into something I actually look forward to each week.
The show is informative, digestible, entertaining, and downright insightful — like a financial smoothie that somehow tastes good and makes you smarter. I love the banter, appreciate the brainpower, and honestly… screw the naysayers.
Retire with Style? More like Retire with a smile.
ChefRichO · Nov 2025
I look forward to this podcast as it presents very interesting insights on multiple retirement topics
JasSohi · Mar 2026
This episode was absolutely hilarious! The reading of the reviews might have been my favorite part. Wade, you’re a class act. Alex, you’re very insightful and (I must admit) HILARIOUS! Keep it up!
Dimmy89037 · Oct 2025
This podcast is 20% outstanding content and 80% Alex loudly rambling about things that are unrelated and distracting. If you could get that down below 50/50 it would be much easier to make it to the end. Case in point was the response to the REITS question in the last episode - just answer the question that was asked and allow Wade to share his knowledge. Wade is so knowledgeable and knows this stuff at a level that few others do - it’s a shame that listening to the rest of the podcast is so painful. Some banter is fine, but don’t let it overwhelm and distract from the content.
agrooters · Jan 2025
The content and guests are great and very useful. It is clear Wade has an enormous amount of subject matter expertise and can talk about almost any retirement topic. Alex used to prompt Wade to explain in practical terms the content and pushed to provide examples. The past few months Alex’s only role seems to be to try and tell jokes or share inside comments that are distracting at best. He interrupts the flow of conventions to try and interject, but he was better off and added much more value when he tried to keep the conversation moving. I hope they take this feedback as I enjoy the podcast material but am finding listening to them so much more challenging of late
Great insights but… · Dec 2024
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