Individual Financial Planning for Retirement Empirical Insights from the Affluent Segment in Germany

Over time, the responsibility for providing for a financially secure retirement has shifted more towards the individual. A number of implicit assumptions about perspectives, behavior, and individual choices underlie this shift. These assumptions presume that individuals are well-informed and reason...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brunhart, Nicole
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg Physica 2008, 2008
Edition:1st ed. 2008
Series:Contributions to Economics
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Frame of reference and conceptual approach for the analysis of individual retirement-specific financial planning behavior
  • Fundamentals of the retirement system in Germany
  • Retirement-specific behavioral finance and derivation of benchmark behavior for FP actions
  • Investor retirement survey and outlook on empirical analyses about individual retirement-specific FPB
  • Empirical analyses of individual retirement-specific FPB
  • Review of empirical research and identification of suggestions for policy-makers, financial planners and the individual
  • Conclusion