Retirement Planning: Most People don’t Know How Nor Even Think About It

Worldwide, individuals are being asked to make more of their own savings and investment decisions, especially for retirement. In the US and Europe, for example, company-managed pension plans are giving way to those where employees are in charge of their own retirement money. In Singapore too, the go...

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spelling sg-smu-ink.ksmu-11922018-07-06T04:03:51Z Retirement Planning: Most People don’t Know How Nor Even Think About It Knowledge@SMU Worldwide, individuals are being asked to make more of their own savings and investment decisions, especially for retirement. In the US and Europe, for example, company-managed pension plans are giving way to those where employees are in charge of their own retirement money. In Singapore too, the government is encouraging individuals to take a more active role in their own retirement planning. Research by Wharton insurance and risk management professor Olivia Mitchell and Singapore Management University finance professor Benedict Koh shows, however, that people are not well-equipped to handle such investment decisions. 2008-04-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/ksmu/193 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1192&context=ksmu http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Knowledge@SMU eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Retirement Aging population income retirement planning investment skills Finance and Financial Management
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topic Retirement
Aging population
income
retirement planning
investment skills
Finance and Financial Management
spellingShingle Retirement
Aging population
income
retirement planning
investment skills
Finance and Financial Management
Knowledge@SMU
Retirement Planning: Most People don’t Know How Nor Even Think About It
description Worldwide, individuals are being asked to make more of their own savings and investment decisions, especially for retirement. In the US and Europe, for example, company-managed pension plans are giving way to those where employees are in charge of their own retirement money. In Singapore too, the government is encouraging individuals to take a more active role in their own retirement planning. Research by Wharton insurance and risk management professor Olivia Mitchell and Singapore Management University finance professor Benedict Koh shows, however, that people are not well-equipped to handle such investment decisions.
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title Retirement Planning: Most People don’t Know How Nor Even Think About It
title_short Retirement Planning: Most People don’t Know How Nor Even Think About It
title_full Retirement Planning: Most People don’t Know How Nor Even Think About It
title_fullStr Retirement Planning: Most People don’t Know How Nor Even Think About It
title_full_unstemmed Retirement Planning: Most People don’t Know How Nor Even Think About It
title_sort retirement planning: most people don’t know how nor even think about it
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
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