Tag: investment choice
Introduction Pension coverage in the private sector has shifted from defined benefit plans where professionals manage the money to 401(k) plans where participants invest their own accounts. The supposition is that individuals are not very good at investing their own money. The question is whether the supposition is borne out by the facts. That is,…
Abstract In 1998, Sweden passed a pension reform that introduced a second tier of mandatory individual accounts, the Premium Pension, in the public system. Of the total contribution rate of 18.5 percent, 2.5 percentage points go to the accounts. The first investment selections in the Premium Pension plan took place in the fall of 2000 when…