The International Foundation for Retirement Education^® (InFRE) is a non-profit
501(c)(3) organization founded in 1997 to address the tremendous retirement challenge facing all Americans. It exists solely to help retirement counselors and administrators increase the retirement preparedness of the American worker. With InFRE, professionals from multiple industries have access to quality education and tools so they can assist employees and clients with retirement preparedness. This way, everyone can face a more secure future.

Our mission:

Emphasize the need for individual and family personal responsibility in retirement planning and saving

Contribute to both national and family economic security by increasing awareness of the need for personal responsibility in retirement planning on the part of individuals and families

Provide an ongoing forum for industry, government and educators to be the voice and identifier of retirement risks and realities for the benefit of the general public

Protect the general public by advancing recognition among retirement planning professionals of the need for continuing education, a code of ethics, and professional certification for retirement plan counselors.

We accomplish our mission by:

Providing the most effective and credible retirement-specific curriculum, certification and certificate training courses in the industry

Being the leading identifier and voice for professional and employee retirement education issues that need to be addressed

Being the "go to" industry resource for retirement income management professional continuing education, methodology and tools

Being the leading preparer of qualified higher education retirement planning graduates  

Creating educational products that apply research-based methods for retirement professionals to use when teaching and counseling the American worker to achieve retirement security.

Our curriculum includes research-based planning models and methods to objectively prepare:

Retirement professionals/advisors

Plan sponsors, plan trustees, benefits counselors, human resource professionals

Representatives of retirement product and service providers

University personal financial planning program students

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