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New Evidence on the Demand for Advice within Retirement Plans / Jonathan Reuter, David P. Richardson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reuter, Jonathan.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w30261.
- NBER working paper series no. w30261
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2022.
- Summary:
- We study demand for advice within defined contribution retirement plans offered by 23 institutions where TIAA is sole recordkeeper. Advice seeking increases with age, account balance, annual contribution level, web access, and changes in marital status. More provocatively, participants who invest solely through target date funds--the dominant default investment option--are significantly less likely to seek any form of advice throughout the age distribution, raising the possibility that reliance upon defaults crowds out advice seeking. Advice seeking increases significantly following the introduction of online tools, but is only weakly correlated with market returns and investment menu changes.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 2022.
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