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Title
Life-cycle asset accumulation and allocation in Canada
Type
Text
Monograph
Subject
Asset allocation--Canada (LCSH)
Portfolio management--Canada (LCSH)
Saving and investment--Canada (LCSH)
Language
English
Geographic Coverage
Classification
LCC: HB1 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
Supplementary Content
bibliography
Content
text
Summary
"This paper documents the life-cycle patterns of household portfolios in Canada, and investigates several hypotheses about asset accumulation and allocation. Inferences are drawn from the 1999 Survey of financial security, with some comparisons to earlier wealth surveys from 1977 and 1984. I find cross-sectional evidence for asset decumulation at older ages when annuitized assets like pension wealth are included in the analysis. I also find that the portfolio share of financial assets increases sharply with age, while indicators of risk tolerance appear to decrease. This is consistent with families desiring more liquid and less risky assets as they age"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Authorized Access Point
Milligan, Kevin Life-cycle asset accumulation and allocation in Canada