Tag: retirement

Confidence can be dangerous. It has led investors into fraudulent deals and businessmen into over-borrowing. But new research finds one circumstance in which confidence may be beneficial: retirement planning. Saving and investing can be so overwhelming that workers, judging by the low balances in most 401(k)s, often avoid it. So Andrew Parker, a behavioral scientist…
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