In the first podcast installment, Personal Finance with Vanguard Part One, Dickson covers:

• Health savings accounts: They have attractive features that people can use not just as way to save for health care expenses, but also potentially as a long-term retirement savings vehicle.
• Roth retirement accounts: They are underused, with only about 10% of eligible retirement plan participants adopting them. 
• Social Security: When thinking about retirement, you can’t think of your Social Security benefits as separate from your investment portfolio, pension at work, or even any home equity you may have. These all have a potential role in contributing to retirement income.

In the second podcast installment, Personal Finance with Vanguard Part Two, Dickson discusses:

• The origins of the 4% spending rule and why it may no longer be a good spending rule of thumb for retirees.
• An alternative spending approach: Focus on the amount of income needed in retirement, not a percentage of your financial assets, and then figure out how to tap your assets at the right time and in the in the right way to generate that income.
• The importance of taxes when planning retirement income withdrawals.

• Retirement readiness: Seeking solutions that benefit all Americans (article, issued October 2023)
• Increasing retirement readiness through higher savings rates and TDFs (article, issued October 2023)
• The state of retirement in five figures (infographic, issued October 2023)