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The International Foundation for Retirement Education^® (InFRE) is a 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1997 in response to America's impending retirement crisis: An ever-increasing number of baby boomers entering their post-working years financially unprepared for retirement.

Since its inception, about 2,000 retirement professionals have earned InFRE certifications, having demonstrated an essentially understanding of the concepts, products and services necessary to help the American worker become retirement ready and manage their income to last their lifetime.

InFRE certificants come from organizations throughout the United States, ranging from small private groups to municipalities and public organizations to some of the leading financial planning firms in the world.

InFRE certifications were developed with input from organizations representing more 100 million employees who participate in employer-sponsored retirement savings plans, including professionals from over 75 public and private employers as well as key employer-sponsored retirement plan associations - such as the National Association of Government Defined Contribution Administrators and the National Pension Education Association.

In 2005, InFRE developed the Retirement Readiness Profile^TM to enable the U.S. Office of Personnel Management to gauge the retirement preparedness of thousands of federal employees. That survey has since been refined and developed further, and is now available to employers, plan sponsors, and retirement professionals everywhere as the InFRE Retirement Knowledge Questionnaire^®.

InFRE retirement professionals regularly are featured at conferences throughout the United States.

InFRE's innovative Managing Retirement Income (MRI) course is fast becoming one of the most sought after workshops on the industry conference circuit. For more information on MRI, see Managing Retirement Income.