He announced his retirement in 2017 [1] In August 2006, Burns co-founded AssetBuilder, a registered investment advisory firm, with former Microsoft executive Kennon Grose.
The firm offers investors a means to employ an advanced version of Burns's "Couch Potato Portfolio" investment methodology through a Web-based service platform.
In December 2001 the National Center for Policy Analysis published a paper Burns co-authored with benefits attorney Brooks Hamilton titled, "Reinventing Retirement Income in America."
[citation needed] Burns's book The Coming Generational Storm was co-authored with Boston University economist Laurence J. Kotlikoff.
Kotlikoff and Burns recently wrote a second book, Spend 'Til the End, presenting new ideas in financial planning based on consumption smoothing.