Tag: auto-enrollment
Who knew doing nothing could be so effective? Most people probably know the portion of Issac Newton’s First Law of Motion that describes inertia: “objects at rest tend to stay at rest unless acted upon.” What most people don’t know is that when Sir Newton wrote this, he turned to his assistant and commented: “this…
Forty percent of U.S. private-sector workers in a 401(k) retirement plan are in plans with automatic enrollment, and the widely agreed-upon story is that these plans work well. Now comes a more nuanced assessment, which finds they aren’t working quite as well as everyone had hoped. The study, conducted by some of the pioneers in…
