Jaime Magyera

Jaime Magyera is a senior managing director at BlackRock, where she leads U.S. Wealth Advisory and BlackRock’s Retirement business and serves on the firm’s Global Executive Committee. Her work focuses on wealth management relationships, retirement strategy, portfolio construction, iShares and private markets solutions, and initiatives aimed at improving retirement security.

A 30-Year Retirement Requires Income, Not Just Savings

At the Aspen Ideas Festival, Karen Andres, Allison Schrager, Jaime Magyera, Thasunda Duckett and Ida Rademacher framed longer lifespans as an affordability problem for a retirement system still built around shorter lives, uneven workplace access and account balances rather than dependable income. Their central argument was that a 100-year life requires more than urging households to save more: plans must start earlier, use automatic defaults, preserve liquidity, widen access and embed guaranteed income before retirement.

The Aspen InstituteJun 30, 202619 min read