Ida Rademacher's guest appearances

Ida Rademacher

So Money with Farnoosh Torabi

Barefoot Innovation Podcast

Tim Chen

Ethan Bloch

Rachel Schneider

Jon Stein

Al Ko

Steven Wallace

Sally Taylor

Lisa Rice

Vivian Lou

Erin Clark

Mark Moody

Christina Blacken

Nicole Garner

Ross Buhrdorf

Todd Baker

OwlTail

Jamie Kalamarides

Today’s show is amazing on two levels. First, my guests, Ida Rademacher and Jamie Kalamarides, explain new frontiers of thinking about how financial services, including insurance and retirement funds, can promote real financial health and inclusion. And second, the whole conversation is permeated by a critical theme, an insight that needs to be elevated from the background to the foreground in every discussion of how to do better for financial consumers. That second theme is that we are going to have to break down the walls -- dismantle the siloes, get rid of the boxes, make connections, graft together hybrids -- across the ecosystem of both finance, technology and regulation.  Listening to these experts talk, you can almost see our current world -- labor markets, financial markets, the economy, consumer behaviors -- transforming out from under the rigid structures we now use to organize our industries and regulatory regimes. For decades, we’ve had slow-changing financial products that we regulate through a slow-changing (and ever-growing) set of laws and regulations. We have distinct legal and regulatory frameworks for banking and investment and insurance. We have old definitions of products, each subject to specific rules on how they should be designed and offered. Suddenly, today, many of these old structures are becoming obsolete. And, increasingly, we can see that many of them are actually standing in the way of better solutions for consumers.

Today’s show is amazing on two levels. First, my guests, Ida Rademacher and Jamie Kalamarides, explain new frontiers of thinking about how financial services, including insurance and retirement funds, can promote real financial health and inclusion. And second, the whole conversation is permeated by a critical theme, an insight that needs to be elevated from the background to the foreground in every discussion of how to do better for financial consumers. That second theme is that we are going to have to break down the walls -- dismantle the siloes, get rid of the boxes, make connections, graft together hybrids -- across the ecosystem of both finance, technology and regulation.  Listening to these experts talk, you can almost see our current world -- labor markets, financial markets, the economy, consumer behaviors -- transforming out from under the rigid structures we now use to organize our industries and regulatory regimes. For decades, we’ve had slow-changing financial products that we regulate through a slow-changing (and ever-growing) set of laws and regulations. We have distinct legal and regulatory frameworks for banking and investment and insurance. We have old definitions of products, each subject to specific rules on how they should be designed and offered. Suddenly, today, many of these old structures are becoming obsolete. And, increasingly, we can see that many of them are actually standing in the way of better solutions for consumers.

Crossing Lines: Aspen’s Ida Rademacher and Prudential’s Jamie Kalamarides

Ida Rademacher is the Vice President at the Aspen Institute, as well as the Executive Director of the Aspen Financial Security Program. The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington DC, Through Ida's work she tries to create nonpartisan solutions to improve financial challenges that are facing households in America. Ida is also in charge of shaping policy about ways to improve financial security and financial wellbeing. We discuss the current state of student loans, how her programs are actually moving the needle when it comes to promoting financial wellness, and the financial lessons Ida learned riding horses. Learn more about The Aspen Institute here  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ida Rademacher is the Vice President at the Aspen Institute, as well as the Executive Director of the Aspen Financial Security Program. The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington DC, Through Ida's work she tries to create nonpartisan solutions to improve financial challenges that are facing households in America. Ida is also in charge of shaping policy about ways to improve financial security and financial wellbeing. We discuss the current state of student loans, how her programs are actually moving the needle when it comes to promoting financial wellness, and the financial lessons Ida learned riding horses. Learn more about The Aspen Institute <a href="https://www.aspeninstitute.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

867: Ida Rademacher, Vice President at The Aspen Institute