Mumbai: India’s leading business news destination, ET NOW and Hindi business news channel ET NOW Swadesh will run a special ‘Retirement Mahakumbh, ’ programming on Saturday, August 29, 2026 from 11 am to 3:30 pm.
Built around the promise “Retire Rich, Retire Confident, Retire Stress-Free,” the initiative aims to simplify retirement and pension planning for Indians across age groups and income brackets. The marathon will bring together leading policymakers, pension experts, financial professionals, wealth managers and industry leaders to decode the evolving retirement landscape and help viewers make more informed financial decisions.
The initiative comes against the backdrop of limited pension coverage in India, with a significant proportion of the workforce outside formal pension systems. Informal employment, irregular incomes and low awareness around retirement products continue to make long-term retirement planning a challenge, particularly for younger Indians. The sessions will decode NPS, pension planning and health insurance for retirement, bust common myths, explore ways to build a retirement corpus, create the right portfolio, and achieve FIRE – Financial Independence, Retire Early before concluding with an interactive ‘Ask the Experts’ segment addressing key questions on retirement, investments and taxation.
The expert line-up features eminent voices from across the retirement and financial ecosystem, including Sivasubramanian Ramann, Chairperson, PFRDA; R. Doraiswamy, CEO & MD, LIC; Anuj Kumar, Managing Director, CAMS; Ajay Rajan, MD & CEO, Protean eGov Technologies; Sumit Shukla, MD & CEO, Axis Pension Fund; Feroze Azeez, Joint CEO, Anand Rathi Wealth; Dhirendra Kumar, Founder & Chief Executive, Value Research; Kailash Kulkarni, CEO, HSBC Mutual Fund; Pankaj Gupta, MD & CEO, Pramerica Life Insurance; Sandeep Jethwani, Co-Founder, Dezerv; R.K. Jha, MD, LIC Mutual Fund; Rishi Dhaddha, Country Head, InCred Premier; Anant Ladha, financial influencer; Ashvin Ghai, former Executive Director, LIC; K. Sivakumar, CIO, ICICI Pension Fund; Kurian Jose, CEO, Tata Pension Fund; Pranay Ranjan Dwivedi, MD & CEO, SBI Pension Funds; Sheela Ananth, Whole Time Director & CEO, Narayana Health Insurance; Girish Sehgal, Chief – Health UW, Claims and Customer Service, ICICI Lombard; Hemant Rustogi; Gajendra Kothari, Independent Financial Planner; and Alok Agarwal, Partner, Deloitte India, among others.
Retirement Mahakumbh will air on ET NOW and ET NOW Swadesh on Saturday, August 29, 2026.
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