Retirement Security in a DC World: Using Behavioral Finance to Bridge the Expertise Gap
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Wharton Pension Research Council Working Papers
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Scott, Jason
Stein, Gregory
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This chapter evaluates models of participant choice in retirement plans, in the context of advisory services offered by their employers. We find that small barriers to accessing online advisory services seem to have significant impact on the likelihood of their use. We also find that by reducing the number of choices offered to participants from five to two greatly changes behavior. Depending on the decision, curtailing the number of choices changed participant investment choices by 40 to 100 percent.
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2003-01-01
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The published version of this Working Paper may be found in the 2004 publication: Pension Design and Structure: New Lessons from Behavioral Finance (https://pensionresearchcouncil.wharton.upenn.edu/publications/books/pension-design-and-structure-new-lessons-from-behavioral-finance/).