In The Quadrillion Dollar Bridge: Closing the Retirement Funding Gap by Understanding How Humans Make Decisions, pension and retirement expert and author Josef Pilger guides you through the complex landscape of retirement, including its systems, decisions, planning, behaviours, and outcome expectations, providing vital guidance for policymakers, individuals, and retirement and financial services providers. This book tackles the complicated challenges awaiting consumers, policymakers, and service providers as they seek to navigate an increasingly complex and volatile retirement landscape. It walks you through how to navigate investment decisions and how to make informed decisions that have the potential to affect the retirement lifestyle of millions of people. Pilger draws on his extensive experience in the global retirement and financial services sector as he provides practical solutions designed to empower readers deserving of a more secure financial future. The Quadrillion Dollar Bridge is packed with research-based insights and actionable strategies that dissect the evolving retirement landscape. It highlights how you can better navigate the shift from the defined benefit plans that characterized the retirements of previous generations to what the author calls Retirement 2.0 a landscape characterized by defined contribution plans and self-serve, bespoke retirement options. You'll learn how to make informed choices that improve your retirement systems, delivery, and outcomes as you achieve peace of mind knowing that your future is soundly planned. You'll also discover how behavioural psychology can - and should - reshape your approach to investment strategy, and how to implement best practices to maximize your retirement savings, systems, and outcomes. An essential resource for anyone wishing to explore the intersection of health, wealth, longevity, and career decision-making as they plan for their golden years, The Quadrillion Dollar Bridge is also an invaluable book for policymakers, financial services providers, pension fund professionals, and financial advisors.