Deb Dupont 10/28/2020
Advisors are the gateway to most defined contribution plans and business. This research explores and profiles this critical audience for recordkeepers and asset managers.
This series offers detailed profiles of advisors based on their focus on DC business — offering insights about their propositions, approaches to wellness and income, and expectations of partners such as asset managers and recordkeepers.
Deb Dupont is responsible for LIMRA’s institutional (retirement plans) retirement research program. She conducts and supervises research, benchmark reporting, and study groups focused on the issues and trends faced by constituents of the defined contribution industry. She also provides guidance and thought leadership in helping LIMRA's member firms better understand the opportunities available for improving delivery of institutional retirement solutions.
Prior to joining LIMRA in 2014, Deb was the Director of ING's Retirement Research Institute (the Institute), where she created, managed, and published a research platform that included work focusing on multi-cultural, generational, and gender-based analyses of retirement behaviors, and also published insights and analyses of ING's own cross-defined contribution (i.e., across employment sectors) participant base. Deb's work has been recognized for effectiveness and quality by some of the most prestigious awards in the financial services and communications industries, including the Insurance and Financial Communicators' Association and the International Association of Business Communicators. She is a graduate of the University of Connecticut.
Assistant Vice President Workplace Benefits Research, Institutional Retirement
LIMRA and LOMA
ddupont@limra.com