Christine Benz
The Steward
Legacy, values and the long now, leadership as care and continuity.
Christine Benz is The Steward because she reframes what custody of wealth actually means. Retirement assets, in her telling, are not hoards to protect but resources to deploy with intention across generations. Her advocacy for lifetime giving and permission-based spending treats wealth as something held in trust for living relationships rather than abstract inheritance events.
“This is from 30,000 feet. Now we can see these colors, and I don't want you to try to make out the numbers. I'm going to show them to you in a second.”
“And so they do better. And we saw that, for example, in 2008, there were bond funds, good quality bond funds that lost over 10%. And in some cases, high yield bond funds that lost as much as 40%. On the other hand, the short term combination of short-term and intermediate was up of, I think, about 7% for the year. So it did its job.”
“Just tidying But his name is Tim Ranzetta. He is of all the people in the United States responsible for more good work, meaningful, important work regarding financial literacy for young people than anybody else I know.”
“Here is the first, the cover of the first study that they did at NGPF, Next Generation Personal Finance. And I went back and looked at it to see where they were when they first started. And of course, what they wanted to do, the mission, was to have every high school student by 2030 have a guaranteed education in financial literacy.”
Masters in Business: “At The Money: The Right Way to Spend Your Money in Retirement”
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