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Automatic Enrolment: A New Application in Savings Automatic Enrolment: A New Application in Savings

One of the most cited applications of behavioural science in practice is the powerful effect of automatically enrolling people into schemes like pension plans. With a simple change in the sign-up process, these interventions show that we can move from a world in which the minority of people save for retirement to one in which...

Jan 8 2024 • 3 min read

New Year, Same Old Predictions New Year, Same Old Predictions

At the beginning of a New Year, financial journalists churn out articles about how the markets are likely to perform over the next 12 months. Their sources are often the forecasts published by industry analysts. According to one report published in December 2023, for example, analysts have on average predicted that the value of the...

Jan 3 2024 • 3 min read