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By John Sullivan, Advisorone |
May 25, 2012
Is there a better way? Can the divide between Eugene Fama and Richard Thaler be bridged?
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By John Sullivan, Advisorone |
April 23, 2012
If so many advisors saw 2008 coming, why hadn’t more investors avoided the aftermath?
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By James J. Green, AdvisorOne |
March 29, 2012
Professor Shlomo Benartzi's new book laments inability to ‘land’ retirement plans with income streams.
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By Bob Seawright, Madison Avenue Securities |
February 1, 2012
Since at least 1965 and the seminal research of Menachem Yaari, economists have recognized that retirees should convert far more of their assets into an income annuity at retirement than they do
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By John Sullivan, Advisorone |
November 28, 2011
Reading the December issue of Vanity Fair, I came across a curious find.
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By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne |
November 21, 2011
Thanks to a just launched website produced by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, you can follow your favorite economist, or get a sense of what the consensus of leading economists think about a variety of current public policy questions.
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By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne |
October 20, 2011
Financial industry professionals have long grappled with the so-called 'annuity puzzle'–-the quandary as to why savers who would seem to rationally benefit from annuitizing a portion of their savings do not avail themselves of the opportunity.
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By Kenneth Silber |
September 29, 2011
Research’s October cover story reports that the fast-changing field of ETFs is heading for a new watershed: the rise of actively managed funds. Also in the issue, Gerald Burstyn examines the work of economist Richard Thaler, who is using the insights of behavorial psychology to aid retirement income decision-making.
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By Gerald Burstyn |
September 29, 2011
Research by economist Richard Thaler, a professor at the University of Chicago, has “nudged” vast numbers of Americans to a higher savings rate.
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By Olivia Mellan |
May 1, 2010
The originators of the Save More Tomorrow (SMarT) system--Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago and Shlomo Benartzi of UCLA--describe SMarT as a "choice architecture...
