Colección: ArtículosTítulo: Spend more today safely : using behavioral economics to improve retirement expenditure decisions with SPEEDOMETER plans / David Blake, Tom BoardmanAutor: Blake, DavidNotas: Sumario: This article examines how behavioral economics can be used to improve the spending decisions of retirees, using a SPEEDOMETER (or Spending Optimally Throughout Retirement) retirement expenditure plan that employs defaults within a choice architecture. The plan involves just four key behavioral nudges: (1) first, make a planideally by being auto-enrolled into one or with the help of a financial adviser; (2) automatic phasing of annuitization, which is designed to tackle the aversion to large irreversible transactions and losing control of assets, and so allows the greatest possible degree of flexibility in managing the rundown of retirement assets; (3) capital protection in the form of money-back annuities that deals with loss aversion, that is, the fear of losing your money if you die early; and (4) the slogan spend more today safely that utilizes hyperbolic discounting to satisfy the human trait of wanting jam today, and to reinforce the idea that buying an annuity is a smart thing to do.Registros relacionados: En: Risk management & insurance review. - Malden, MA : The American Risk and Insurance Association by Blackwell Publishing, 1999- = ISSN 1098-1616. - 07/04/2014 Tomo 17 Número 1 - 2014 Otras clasificaciones: 7Derechos: In Copyright (InC)Referencias externas:
