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Employers have learned over the years that understanding employee psychology is critical to getting them to save for retirement. Researchers have landed on a novel idea along those lines: explain to employees that they have an opportunity to save in a 401(k) or increase their 401(k) saving on a future date that represents a fres…
The brief’s key findings are: IRAs were intended to give those without an employer plan access to a tax-deferred savings vehicle. Today, IRAs hold nearly half of all private retirement assets, but most of these funds are rollovers from 401(k)s, rather than contributions. The 14 percent of households who do contribute to IRAs include: higher-incom…