"Money Attitudes" and Retirement Plan Design: One Size Does Not Fit All

Pension Design and Structure: New Lessons from Behavioral Finance

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  MacFarland, Donna M ^a   Marconi, Carolyn D ^b   Utkus, Stephen P ^c  

^a Institutional Marketing Research Department Vanguard   (United States)

^b Vanguard's Marketing Research Group   (United States)

^c Vanguard Center for Retirement Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Defined contribution pension plans; Money attitudes; Plan design; Retirement savings plans; Savings

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920106950     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199273391.003.0006     Document Type: Chapter

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