Tag: 401ks
A longer look lowers estimates of its impact, but making saving easy remains essential. The same research team that documented the impact of auto-enrollment and auto-escalation in 401(k) plans has returned to the topic to assess how real-life events affect the longer-run effect of these automatic provisions. I think it’s really cool for researchers to…
I suspected most financial assets were in 401(k) plans and most 401(k) holdings were directed by target-date funds, but the data told a somewhat different story. When trying to figure out people’s taste for risk by looking at the share of equities in their financial portfolio, I was wondering in a world of 401(k)s about…
