Tag: automatic provisions

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…

Given the large gap between retirement needs and resources, we should ensure that the retirement programs we have work as well as possible. In the private sector, the main retirement program is 401(k) plans. These plans are not working as well as they could – a problem that could be remedied with more extensive us…