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Hi, and welcome to the Longview.

I'm Christine Ben's Director of Personal Finance and Retirement Planning for Morningstar.

And I'm Dan Lefkowitz, strategist for Morning Star Indexes. Our guest this week is our colleague John Reckentaller.

John is retiring from Morning Star after 36 years. He was one of Morningstar's early hires.

Joe Mansuado and Don Phillips brought John on as a mutual fund analyst in 1988, and he

rose to become the company's vice president of research. He worked on many of Morningstar's

foundational methodologies, including the star rating and style box, and helped launch the retirement

business. But he's best known as author of the Recontala Report, an investment column

on Morningstar.com that has become one of the most popular and widely cited in investing in personal finance.

John holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

John, welcome back to the Longview. Good to be here, Christine. It's good to have you here.

So you have announced your retirement. You've officially retired. Your last column was called

Farewell for now. So it's not your last column. Maybe talk about your thoughts about

transitioning into retirement. Yeah, I'm, I will be writing future columns for Morningstar and keeping my Morningstar email address.

So if anybody wants to reach me, John.rockintaller at Morningstar.com, have that email address a long time since when the Internet was invented just about.

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