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Robert Powell is the president of Unison, LLC, a communications and consulting firm, and editor of Retirement Weekly. He is also the Executive Producer of PBS' More Than Money, a personal finance television series.

Robert Powell has more than 20 years of financial services industry and media experience. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, MarketWatch, and Your Money. Robert Powell has also served as host or co-host of several television, radio, and Internet chat programs. He was formerly managing director of Acadient, Inc., where he managed programs for personal finance educational institutions. Robert Powel was managing director and editor-in-chief of DALBAR, Inc., where he headed the firm's publishing company. He was a personal finance and mutual funds columnist for The Boston Herald, as well as a business reporter for the Berkshire Eagle and Boston Business Journal.

Robert Powell has a bachelor's degree from Marquette University and a master's degree in journalism from Boston University.

Retirement Weekly (available at MarketWatch.com), is a weekly, online newsletter that specializes exclusively in the financial, lifestyle, and health care issues of retirement. Subscribers receive guidance on:

• Techniques for saving for retirement without changing their lifestyle today.

• How to build the best portfolio for long-term income.

• How to make sure they don't outlive their income.

• Ways to get the most from tax laws.

• Which asset classes will best meet their retirement goals.

• How to prepare for predicable, and unpredictable, life events.

• Advantageous mutual funds, REITs, and variable annuities.

• Estate-planning strategies.

Each issue contains financial news, commentary, and advice on topics like Medicare, tax planning and tax shelters, health care, retirement homes, idividual stock tips and picks, 401K and IRA options, insurance issues, vacation tips and other lifestyle features.

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