Warren S. Hersch

About the Author

Warren S. Hersch

Warren S. Hersch is Senior Editor, Advanced Markets & Sales, for National Underwriter Life & Health magazine, which he joined in 2004. He covers practice management and life insurance-funded advanced planning techniques and trends in such areas as executive benefits, wealth transfer/estate planning, retirement planning and business planning. In addition, he serves as the Annuities & Wealth Management News Editor of LifeHealthPro.com.  Previously, Mr. Hersch served in various editorial capacities at Call Center Magazine, Teleconnect and Computer Reseller News (CRN), all publications of the information technology publisher United Business Media. He also was an editor and analyst at Probe Research. Mr. Hersch has a B.A. in economics and history from the University of Colorado at Boulder and can be reached at whersch@sbmedia.com. 

• Discrepancy in actual, anticipated health-care expenses

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  May 13, 2013

  People should be prepared to spend approximately 30 percent of their income on health care expenses in retirement, 10 percent more than most people polled in a new survey anticipate spending.

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  Fewer than half of Americans saving enough for retirement

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  February 27, 2013

  Only 49 percent of the non-retired say they are “saving enough in retirement” to achieve a desirable standard of living.

• Retirement confidence varies by age, survey finds

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  February 20, 2013

  Confidence to maintain their lifestyle in retirement varies by nearly 10 percent among 20- to 30-year-olds and 30- to 40-year-olds.

• Younger generations favor online retirement calculators

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  February 8, 2013

  More than six in 10 retirement plan participants under age 40 say they find online retirement calculators most helpful, new research shows.

• Study details advisors’ sources of retirement income

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  February 8, 2013

  Employer-sponsored retirement plans account for 27 percent of advisors’ income in retirement.

• Most pension assets vulnerable to conflicts of interest

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  February 1, 2013

  Consulting firms that have one or more conflicts of interest oversee more than half of pension assets reported to be under the care of pension investment consultants, according to new research.

• Report names fastest growing active fund manager in 2012

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  January 22, 2013

  For the second year in a row, DoubleLine Capital was the fastest growing manager of actively managed stock and bond funds, according to a new report.

• IRA assets total $5.3 trillion in Q1 2012

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  December 13, 2012

  Individual retirement account assets reached an estimated $5.3 trillion in the first quarter of 2012, a nearly 9 percent rise over the $4.8 trillion in estimated assets for 2011, according to a new report.

• American College blasts FPA's designation 'monopoly'

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  August 27, 2012

  Larry Barton takes issue with incoming FPA leader's stance on a single designation for financial profession, emphasizing choice for consumers.

• Job satisfaction linked with benefits offerings

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  August 21, 2012

  More than one-third of all employees are prepared to bolt from their current employer unless there's an improvement in their benefits package.