The market for retirement financial advice

This volume explores the market for retirement financial advice, to explain what financial advisors do, and how to measure performance and impact. Who are these professionals and what standards must they abide by? How do they make money and what are their incentives? How can one protect clients from...

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Bibliographic Details
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2014, 2014
Series:Pension Research Council publications / Pension Research Council publications
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This volume explores the market for retirement financial advice, to explain what financial advisors do, and how to measure performance and impact. Who are these professionals and what standards must they abide by? How do they make money and what are their incentives? How can one protect clients from bad advice, and what is good advice? Does advice alone effect changes in personal habits? Answering these questions, along with new technology that will decrease the delivery costs of advice, will play a transformative role in helping more households receive the quality financial advice that they need
Physical Description:1 online resource illustrations (black and white)
ISBN:9780191763359