Improving 401(k) investment performance

Gale, William G., J. Mark Iwry, Alicia Haydock Munnell, and Richard W. Thaler. “Improving 401(k) investment performance”. Issue in Brief 26, Chestnut Hill, Mass.: Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, December 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104507.
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Abstract

Public policies toward private pensions reflect a fundamental tension between free choice and paternalism. When people act in their own best interest without harming others, government intervention is unwarranted. But a key motivation for public policies to subsidize retirement saving in the first place is the belief that, without such subsidies, people would fail to act in their own best interest in making saving and investment choices...

Title
Improving 401(k) investment performance
Author
Gale, William G.
Iwry, J. Mark
Munnell, Alicia Haydock
Thaler, Richard W.
School
Carroll School of Management
Discipline
Finance
Center
Center for Retirement Research
Genre
report
Date Issued
December 2004
Publisher
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
Series Title
Issue in Brief
Series Number
26
Version Identification
Version of record.
Persistent Link
http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104507
Use Restrictions
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Subject
Financing Retirement

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