The Retirement Income Industry Association (RIIA) announced that Peng Chen, CEO of Asia (ex-Japan), has been named academic director of the RIIA's Retirement Management Analyst (RMA) advanced education program. AdvisorOne reports that in this role, Peng Chen "will oversee and review the academic and scholarly direction of the evolving RMA curriculum, as well as edit and review submissions of annual updates to the RMA textbook and Retirement Income Body of Knowledge, which are the foundations of the RMA program of study."