Shlomo Benartzi

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  Benartzi on Retirement Income Challenge: ‘Airplanes Without Landing Gear’

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  March 29, 2012

  Professor Shlomo Benartzi's new book laments inability to ‘land’ retirement plans with income streams.

• The Annuity Puzzle

  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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  Benartzi Says 401(k) Success Hinges on Improving Access, Removing 3 Obstacles: CFDD 2011

  By Danielle Andrus, AdvisorOne  |  October 21, 2011

  It’s not enough to think about improving outcomes.

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  Benartzi, Thaler and Previtero Attack the ‘Annuity Puzzle’

  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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  How a Freethinking Economist Saved Your Retirement Portfolio

  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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  What Behavioral Finance Teaches on How to Discuss Risk With Clients

  By Mike Henkel, Envestnet/PMC  |  July 18, 2011

  The lessons of behavioral finance: avoid focusing on short-term volatility when the objective is long-term growth.

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  Emotion, Intuition Key to Advisor Use of Behavioral Finance

  By Savita Iyer-Ahrestani, AdvisorOne  |  June 20, 2011

  Advisors are looking to apply the principles of behavioral finance, but coming up with options to implement is not that simple.

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  Future Imperfect

  By Olivia Mellan  |  December 1, 2010

  Tarot cards, the flight of crows, Ouija boards, horoscopes, animal viscera: The past is a hodgepodge of attempts to read the future.

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  Ariely and Benartzi, Wagner and Buie Debate the Future of Advice in Investment Advisor's December 2010 Issue

  By John Sullivan, Advisorone  |  November 23, 2010

  Top advisors and related experts open up about the future of advice in Investment Advisor's December issue cover story.

• Man on a Mission

  By Ellen Uzelac  |  September 1, 2010

  Brian Gaffney CEO, Allianz Global Investors Distributors; New York City What he's about: "I have a passion for seeing people who have been working their tails off...