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This paper investigates individuals' investment behaviour in their retirement savings surrounding milestone birthday … to make investment changes. We utilise a large Australia retirement savings fund which provides the history of investment …
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from three Australian retirement savings funds. Available US and UK evidence is somewhat mixed on both the measures that …
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In this paper, we develop an expected utility model for the retirement behavior in the decumulation phase of Australian … decreasing level of consumption for older retirees. Then we find optimal housing at retirement, and optimal consumption and … Pension early in retirement but this sensitivity fades with age. Secondly, the allocation to risky assets shows a complex …
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Many pension plan participants are inactive. They do not look up information on their retirement income and discover … acquire retirement income information. First, we show that classical loss frames (vs. gain) are an effective intervention, but …
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This paper shows that uninsured risk and borrowing constraints can make an individual's marginal propensity to consume negatively dependent on his/her permanent income. Therefore, higher income growth can lead to higher saving rates without requiring (or causing) high interest rates – in sharp...
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How much should a family save for retirement and for the kids’ college education? How much insurance should they buy … allocation for a mandatory retirement saving plan? We believe that the life-cycle model developed by economists over the last …
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In this paper, I find (1) that Japan showed massive and persistent current account surpluses from at least 1981 and until at least 2011, (2) that Professor Ronald McKinnon was correct, at least in the case of Japan, and that these large and persistent current account surpluses were due primarily...
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We examine the investment performance of over 160 thousand U.S. private pension plans. We find significant economies of scale in performance and administrative expenses, which are more prominent for defined benefit (DB) plans than for defined contribution (DC) plans. DC plans outperform...
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