About
Older adults risk outliving their money and not having enough care in place as they age. Join MarketWatch reporter Jessica Hall and Anne Ackerley, managing director, head of BlackRock's Retirement Group for a discussion.Jessica joined MarketWatch last year to cover retirement after working for a business publication in Maine. She freelanced for Barron's and other publications while raising her two kids.
Having led the defined contribution business for the past eight years, Ackerley oversees the development and distribution of strategies and services for institutional and retail clients and consultants - reaching over 80,000 plans, including over 60% of the Fortune 100, and ultimately reaching more than 40 million Americans.
Ackerley has written and spoken extensively on retirement readiness and women's leadership – and has won awards for her leadership in the industry and her work advancing gender equity. She has been named to Barron’s “100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance” list four years in a row, since 2020. In 2022, she made Forbes’ 50 over 50 list and she made Yahoo Finance’s list of “HERoes Women Role Model Executives” in 2019.
Ackerley earned a BA degree, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, in economics from Harvard College in 1984, and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School in 1988.