Ms. Hueler is CEO and founder of Hueler Companies, an independent data and research firm providing reporting and systems designed for the annuity and stable value marketplace. The firm was founded in 1987. After building an exceptional reputation for stable value analytics and reporting over several decades, the acquisition of Hueler Analytics’ Stable Value Comparative Universe Data and Stable Value Index was recently announced by Morningstar, Inc.
In 2004, the company launched Income Solutions®, a groundbreaking best practice annuity purchasing platform. Today Hueler’s Income Solutions® platform is utilized by a variety of service providers, plan sponsors, and fiduciary advisors throughout the Defined Contribution market.
Ms. Hueler is nationally recognized as a thought leader and key contributor on the topic of lifetime income and is actively engaged in related public policy matters. She has presented at the Wharton Pension Research Council, was tapped to participate in the National Endowment of Financial Education’s think tank on income sufficiency, presented at the Employee Benefit Research Institutes’ National Forum on retirement income sufficiency, and provided testimony before the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging on “Making Savings Last a Lifetime”. She has also testified on multiple occasions before the DOL ERISA Advisory Council on annuitization at retirement, in 2018 on Lifetime Income Solutions as a Qualified Default Investment Alternative (QDIA) Focus on Decumulation and Rollovers.
Most recently in 2019, she spoke as a panelist on “Reducing key regulatory barriers to annuities in DC plans” at the Brookings Institution event entitled “Can retirement plans provide safe income?”.
Additionally, Ms. Hueler is a founding member of DCIIA (Defined Contribution Institutional Investment Association) and participates on the Retirement Income Committee as well as on the Society of Actuaries Committee on Post-Retirement Needs and Risks. Along with being recognized as a thought leader in the retirement income arena, she is also an industry expert in the field of stable value investments. She has authored and contributed to numerous articles, spoken internationally and provided testimony before the DOL ERISA Advisory Council regarding Stable Value Funds and Retirement Security in the Current Economic Conditions. She also served on the Board of Directors for the Stable Value Investment Association (SVIA) for six years and chaired the SVIA Executive Committee Communication and Education Committee.
Prior to founding Hueler Companies, Ms. Hueler held the position of a Financial Planning Professional for IDS Life and was a Registered Representative for Kidder Peabody & Company, where she was responsible for institutional and retail clients. She received her B.A. from St. Olaf College in 1981.