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Out of Sight No More? The Effect of Fee Disclosures on 401(k) Investment Allocations / Mathias Kronlund, Veronika K. Pool, Clemens Sialm, Irina Stefanescu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kronlund, Mathias.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w27573.
- NBER working paper series no. w27573
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Out of Sight No More? The Effect of Fee Disclosures on 401
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2020.
- Summary:
- We examine the effects of a 2012 regulatory reform that mandated fee and performance disclosures for the investment options in 401(k) plans. We show that participants became significantly more attentive to expense ratios and short-term performance after the reform. The disclosure effects are stronger among plans with large average contributions per participant and weaker for plans with many investment options. Additionally, these results are not driven by secular changes in investor behavior or sponsor-initiated changes to the investment menus. Our findings suggest that providing salient fee and performance information can mitigate participants' inertia in retirement plans.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 2020.
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