Ep. 240 - Anxiety in Retirement: How Analysis Paralysis and Loss Aversion Impact Your Finances

Ep. 240 - Anxiety in Retirement: How Analysis Paralysis and Loss Aversion Impact Your Finances

January 21, 2026 · 49 min · Episode 240

About this episode

This episode explores how anxiety, analysis paralysis, and loss aversion affect retirement financial decisions.

Anxiety can quietly undermine retirement decisions. In this episode, Kirk Cassidy and Dr. Paul Metler examine how analysis paralysis and loss aversion influence spending, investing, and retirement timing, and how understanding these behaviors can support more confident financial decision-making. Retirement Education Foundation is a Fiscally Sponsored Program of United Charitable, a registered 501(c)(3) public charity. This information is for educational purposes only and is not to be considered tax, legal or investment advice. Kirk Cassidy and Paul Metler are financial advisors in the private sector. Both serve as volunteers for the Retirement Education Foundation. Retirement Education Foundation does not offer financial services.

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