Financial Knowledge and 401(k) Investment Performance /
Clark, Robert L.
Financial Knowledge and 401(k) Investment Performance / Robert L. Clark, Annamaria Lusardi, Olivia S. Mitchell. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2014. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w20137 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w20137. .
May 2014.
Using a unique new dataset linking administrative data on investment performance and financial knowledge, we examine whether investors who are more financially knowledgeable earn more on their retirement plan investments, compared to their less sophisticated counterparts. We find that risk-adjusted annual expected returns are 130 basis points higher for the most financially knowledgeable employees, and those scoring higher on our Financial Knowledge Index have slightly more volatile portfolios while they do no better diversifying their portfolios than their peers. Overall, financial knowledge does appear to help people invest more profitably; this may provide a rationale for efforts to enhance financial knowledge in the population at large.
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Financial Knowledge and 401(k) Investment Performance / Robert L. Clark, Annamaria Lusardi, Olivia S. Mitchell. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2014. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w20137 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w20137. .
May 2014.
Using a unique new dataset linking administrative data on investment performance and financial knowledge, we examine whether investors who are more financially knowledgeable earn more on their retirement plan investments, compared to their less sophisticated counterparts. We find that risk-adjusted annual expected returns are 130 basis points higher for the most financially knowledgeable employees, and those scoring higher on our Financial Knowledge Index have slightly more volatile portfolios while they do no better diversifying their portfolios than their peers. Overall, financial knowledge does appear to help people invest more profitably; this may provide a rationale for efforts to enhance financial knowledge in the population at large.
System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.