Thasunda Brown Duckett is managing $1.5 trillion at TIAA and she is trying to fix America's broken retirement system
Billionaires Africa | 18.06.2026 17:31
Thasunda Brown Duckett's father worked for three decades and never once contributed to his 401(k), even though the option was available to him. He had a small pension. Combined with Social Security, it was not going to be enough. "That was a hard conversation, and it's one American families are having every day," Duckett wrote in a 2025 New York Times op-ed.
