Download or read book Target Date Funds and Portfolio Choice in 401 k Plans written by Olivia S. Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Target date funds in corporate retirement plans grew from $5B in 2000 to $734B in 2018, partly because federal regulation sanctioned these as default investments in automatic enrollment plans. We show that adopters delegated pension investment decisions to fund managers selected by plan sponsors. Including these funds in retirement saving menus raised equity shares, boosted bond exposures, curtailed cash/company stock holdings, and reduced idiosyncratic risk. The adoption of low-cost target date funds may enhance retirement wealth by as much as 50 percent over a 30-year horizon.
Download or read book Target date funds in 401 k retirement plans written by Olivia S. Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Individual responsibility for portfolio construction is a central theme for defined contribution pensions, yet the rise of target-date funds is shifting investment decisions from workers back to employers. A complex choice architecture including automatic enrollment, reenrollment, and fund mapping, is increasing the number of participants defaulting into employer-selected target-date funds. At the same time, portfolios of non-defaulted participants undergo sizeable changes, with equity share ratios widening by over 40 percent points between younger/older participants. Among active decision-makers, these funds act as a form of implicit employer-provided lifecycle investment advice. More broadly, our findings highlight malleable preferences among retirement investors and a demand for default-based guidance or simplified advice for households facing complex choices.
Download or read book What People Know About Target Date Funds written by Julie R. Agnew and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making portfolio allocation decisions can be difficult for American households who lack interest or experience in financial matters. Service providers and 401(k) plan sponsors have introduced new plan design approaches and investment products, such as target-date funds, that can simplify savings and investment choices for defined contribution (DC) plan participants. Some participants invest in the funds on their own; some are defaulted into the fund by plan sponsors through mechanisms such as automatic enrollment, so it is important to understand how knowledge and awareness may differ between active and passive investment decisions. Also, DC plan participants often invest in other assets within their retirement accounts, a phenomenon known as “mixed” target-date investing. This paper seeks to better understand the determinants of participant portfolio allocations to target-date funds. The authors use focus group discussions and survey evidence linked to 401(k) administrative data. They explore rational motivations for portfolio decisions, psychological elements such as trust, and the relationship between financial knowledge and portfolio choice. The current version of this paper presents a preliminary analysis of the survey data and the authors' focus group findings.
Download or read book Use of Target Date Funds in 401 k Plans 2007 written by Craig Copeland and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Target-date funds (also called quot;life-cycle fundsquot;) are a type of mutual fund that automatically rebalances its asset allocation following a predetermined pattern over time. They typically rebalance to more conservative and income-producing assets as the participant's target date of retirement approaches. Of the 401(k) plan participants in the EBRI/ICI 401(k) database who were found to be in plans that offered target-date funds, 37 percent had at least some fraction of their account in target-date funds in 2007. Target-date funds held about 7 percent of total assets in 401(k) plans and the use of these funds is expected to increase in the future. The Pension Protection Act of 2006 made it easier for plan sponsors to automatically enroll new workers in a 401(k) plan, and target-date funds were one of the types of approved funds specified for a quot;defaultquot; investment if the participant does not elect a choice.This paper investigates the percentage of participants investing in target-date funds in 2007 across various demographic characteristics. Furthermore, it determines whether the entire account balance is allocated to target-date funds for those who invest in them. To control for the potential differences that are likely to result from those defaulted into the funds by automatic enrollment versus those actively choosing the funds, those who can be proxied as being auto-enrolled are compared with those who are not proxied as being auto-enrolled. Moreover, equity allocations outside of the target-date funds are studied both at the aggregate level of the target-date year and at the individual target-date fund level. Overall asset allocation to equities is also investigated, by comparing the equity for those who did not use target dates, those who have only some of their assets in target-date funds, and those who have all of their assets in target-date funds.
Download or read book Default Nation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 401K Tune up Do you really want to work til 80 written by Hugh W. Connelly and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugh W. Connelly is the managing member of Independent Retirement Advisers, LLC (“IR Advisers”), a NJ-based investment adviser. Hugh became very frustrated with the performance in his own 401K plan. He founded IR Advisers to help people better manage their 401K retirement plans. Hugh is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). There are only about 100,000 CFAs in the world. He is also a Certified Fund Specialist (CFS). Hugh is an adjunct professor of fi nance at Strayer University in Philadelphia. Married with three children, Hugh is a British car enthusiast and an avid runner. He has completed over 24 marathons including the marathons in Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Reykjavik, Dublin, Rome and the Athens Marathon in Greece.
Download or read book Essays on target date funds as a retirement portfolio choice written by Helen Saar and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Investment Choices as Simple as Possible written by Zvi Bodie and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many participants in self-directed retirement plans (401k, IRA, etc.) do not know enough about investing to choose rationally among alternatives. Others may know enough, but find it unpleasant or too time-consuming. Target-date funds (TDFs), also known as life-cycle funds, are being offered as a simple solution to their dilemma. A TDF is a quot;fund of fundsquot; diversified across stocks, bonds, and cash with the feature that the proportion invested in stocks is automatically reduced as time passes. Empirical evidence suggests that a simple TDF strategy would be an improvement over the choices currently made by many uninformed plan participants. This paper explores one way to achieve an even greater improvement. Using a compact continuous-time optimization model, we characterize a person for whom a TDF strategy would be optimal: a quot;natural TDF holder.quot; We then show that the TDF strategy may be far from optimal for people who ő although of the same age ő differ from the natural TDF holder in their risk aversion or exposure to human-capital risk. To bring such plan participants much closer to their optimal strategy it is enough to add a second simple investment alternative ő a safe fund matched to their time horizon. Participants with the same time horizon could then choose (or be advised to choose) either the TDF or the safe target-date fund depending on their risk aversion and human-capital risk. We find that people who are very risk averse and who have a high exposure to market risk through their labor income would experience a substantial gain in welfare from being offered a safe target-date fund rather than a risky one. Recent empirical research suggests that human-capital betas change over one's working career. They are typically quite high during the early years when human capital represents the largest part of total wealth for most people, and they decline with age. To reflect gradual changes in human capital risk over the life-cycle from predominantly quot;stock-likequot; to mostly quot;bond-like,quot; TDFs should switch from a quot;linearquot; strategy to a quot;hump-shapedquot; strategy with respect to age.
Download or read book Successful Defined Contribution Investment Design written by Stacy L. Schaus and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Start-to-finish guidance toward building and implementing a robust DC plan Successful Defined Contribution Investment Design offers a comprehensive guidebook for fiduciaries tasked with structuring and implementing a 401(k) or other defined contribution (DC) pension plan. More than a collection of the usual piecemeal information, this book seeks to offer a complete, contemporary framework for plan design, together with tested methodologies and analytic techniques to help streamline plan monitoring, management and improve participant outcomes. Examples from plan sponsors provide on-the-ground insight while suggestions from DC consultants add expert perspective. Views from ERISA expert counsel provide additional understanding—along with input from academic thought leaders. Finally, investment evaluation and analysis is joined with participant savings and asset allocation data to look prospectively at potential outcomes, and case studies illustrate real-world implementation of objective-aligned asset allocation such as custom target-date strategies. Though the focus is primarily on U.S. plan design, author perspectives from countries including Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada provide relevant and helpful viewpoints for both new and experienced plan fiduciaries. For the vast majority of workers, DC plans have replaced traditional defined benefit pension plans as the primary source of employer-provided retirement income. This book provides comprehensive guidance to help you construct a plan to help workers to retire with confidence. Adopt a framework for DC evaluation and structure Learn new methodologies for investment choice evaluation Use the innovative PIMCO Retirement Income Cost Estimate—or PRICE—to help quantify the amount of money a worker needs to create and stay on track to building a real income stream in retirement Examine methodologies used at major companies in the U.S. and globally DC plans are the most rapidly growing retirement market in the world, yet sources of consolidated structural and analytical guidance are lacking. Successful Defined Contribution Investment Design fills the gap with a comprehensive handbook that covers the bases to help you develop an objective-aligned defined contribution plan.
Download or read book Coming Up Short written by Alicia Haydock Munnell and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, two experts on retirement policy analyze 401(k) plans, the fastest-growing type of employer-sponsored pensions and a vital source of retirement income for the American middle class.
Download or read book 401 K Plans written by Charles Jeszeck and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 401(k) plan sponsors offer an array of appropriate investment options; participants direct their investments among those options. While participants expect to be able to switch investment options or withdraw money from their accounts, during the recent economic downturn, some 401(k) plan sponsors and participants found that they were restricted from doing so. This report: (1) identifies some of the specific investments and practices that prevented plan sponsors and participants from accessing their 401(k) plan assets; and (2) determines any changes the Dept. of Labor could make to assist sponsors in understanding the challenges posed by the investments and practices that restricted withdrawals. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book The 401 K Owner S Manual written by Scott Everhart and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employees have entrusted their retirement assets to your care. Are you making the right decisions? Whether you are a business owner or corporate manager responsible for establishing and maintaining a 401(k) program or an engaged participant interested in plan design, this manual provides practical recommendations on creating and maintaining a best-in-class plan. Three retirement plan professionals help you: Understand how 401(k) plans work and the features that drive successful employee retirement outcomes. Make prudent decisions concerning costs, vendor selection, investments, plan design and operations. Govern your plan to limit liability and protect fiduciaries, while enhancing investment opportunities and helping employees achieve financial security. Moreover, if your organization is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit agency, foundation, or private school, this manual is applicable in almost all respects to ERISA 403(b) plans. While maintaining a best-in-class 401(k) plan may seem daunting, you can lower costs and provide personalized retirement planning and investment advice to employees all with minimal fiduciary risk. Find out how with The 401(k) Owners Manual.
Download or read book RetireSMART written by Mark Anthony Grimaldi and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his acclaimed first book, The Money Compass, practicing economist Mark Anthony Grimaldi enlightened his readers by showing them how their 401(k) plans benefited no one but Uncle Sam. In this follow-up, he dives deeper into the subject and proves once and for all that a 401(k) plan might be the single biggest hindrance to a secure Tax Free retirement. This accomplished economist will give you a guide on how you can improve your retirement with 3 simple steps. So if you would rather "spend" your retirement savings as opposed to "spend" your retirement savings paying taxes, buy this book and follow his 3 simple steps and RetireSMART!
Download or read book Individual Account Investment Options and Portfolio Choice written by Jeffrey Robert Brown and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This paper examines how the menu of investment options made available to workers in defined contribution plans influences portfolio choice. Using unique panel data of 401(k) plans in the U.S., we present three principle findings. First, we show that the share of investment options in a particular asset class (i.e., company stock, equities, fixed income, and balanced funds) has a significant effect on aggregate participant portfolio allocations across these asset classes. Second, we document that the vast majority of the new funds added to 401(k) plans are high-cost actively managed equity funds, as opposed to lower-cost equity index funds. Third, because the average share of assets invested in low-cost equity index funds declines with an increase in the number of options, average portfolio expenses increase and average portfolio performance is thus depressed. All of these findings are obtained from a panel data set, enabling us to control for heterogeneity in the investment preferences of workers across firms and across time."--abstract.
Download or read book Retire Before Mom and Dad The Simple Numbers Behind A Lifetime of Financial Freedom written by Rob Berger and published by Glenbrook Press. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Retire Before Mom and Dad, you'll learn how to unlock the superpower inside of you that is capable of transforming almost any income into lasting financial freedom. And, you'll discover that it's not about scrimping and sacrificing to get there.
Download or read book Investing for Retirement written by Virginia B. Morris and published by Lightbulb Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-01-10 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide explains the challenges, and some suggestedapproaches, for investing and planning to have enough money to fund acomfortable retirement.
Download or read book Individual Account Investment Options and Portfolio Choice written by Jeffrey R. Brown and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines how the menu of investment options made available to workers in defined contribution plans influences portfolio choice. Using unique panel data of 401(k) plans in the U.S., we present three principle findings. First, we show that the share of investment options in a particular asset class (i.e., company stock, equities, fixed income, and balanced funds) has a significant effect on aggregate participant portfolio allocations across these asset classes. Second, we document that the vast majority of the new funds added to 401(k) plans are high-cost actively managed equity funds, as opposed to lower-cost equity index funds. Third, because the average share of assets invested in low-cost equity index funds declines with an increase in the number of options, average portfolio expenses increase and average portfolio performance is thus depressed. All of these findings are obtained from a panel data set, enabling us to control for heterogeneity in the investment preferences of workers across firms and across time.
