John Mitchem is a Non-Resident Scholar with the Center for Retirement Initiatives and the Owner of JM3 Projects. John also is the Co-Founder of the Jasper Forum along with Jorik Van Zanden, and they bring together retirement policy practitioners and experts from around the world to discuss retirement system challenges, best practices, and lessons learned. In this episode, John explores the $65 trillion international retirement finance market and shares his observations about the global retirement ecosystem, some of the more important trends we see today, and why retirement really is much more than pensions with the long-term potential to significantly shape global economic investments and growth.