Most countries, if not all, encourage saving for retirement by taxing retirement savings in private pension plans more favourably than savings in alternative vehicles. The goal is to increase how many people save for retirement and how much they save and with that enable them a better life in retirement. Most countries apply a variantContinue reading “Tax incentives for retirement saving don`t work (what does?)”
Monthly Archives: July 2020
COVID-19 lessons for retirement saving
The reasons why most people, from the average Joe, to experts and politicians, initially did not take the coronavirus COVID-19 seriously are largely the same, as the reasons why most still do not take climate change seriously, exercise regularly or save for retirement. We can look for the culprits in an intertwined web of behavioralContinue reading “COVID-19 lessons for retirement saving”
Irrational Retirement 