Mathew Greenwald is the Founder and Managing Director of Strategic Initiatives of Greenwald Research, a market research firm founded in 1985 that specializes in retirement, life insurance, employee benefits and other financial
services issues. He has a Ph.D. in sociology from Rutgers
University. Dr. Greenwald was a Congress-appointed
delegate to the 1998 and 2002 National Summits on Retirement Savings. He has published numerous articles on
retirement issues. He is an elected member of the Market Research Council, a group of the country's leading market
researchers. He is the only market researcher in the Insured Retirement Institute’s Annuity Hall of Fame.
His firm has worked with the Employee Benefit Research Institute to conduct the Retirement Confidence Survey, which has annually monitored American’s attitudes toward
retirement since 1991. Greenwald Research was a member of a Financial Literacy Center funded by the Social Security Administration and worked with researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth College, RAND, the University of Illinois and others to conduct research on how to help Americans make better decisions on retirement related issues.
Prior to founding Greenwald Research, Matt spent 12 years at the American Council of Life Insurers. From 1977 to 1985, he was ACLI's Director of Social Research and was responsible for programs monitoring public attitudes toward financial services issues, demographic research and futures research.
Greenwald Research has conducted research for many of the nation’s most prominent financial services companies, including Fidelity Investments, J. P. Morgan, Lincoln
Financial Group, MetLife, Morgan Stanley, New York Life, Northern Trust, Principal Financial Group and Prudential. He has directed numerous studies for the Society of Actuaries.
