Retirement Guardrails

Ian Ayres is a lawyer and economist. They are Deputy Dean and the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor at Yale Law School and a Professor at Yale's School of Management. Quinn Curtis is Professor of Law and an Economist at the University of Virginia School of Law. His work focuses on the regulation of retirement plans and investments.

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• Introduction; 1. The case for proactive fiduciaries; 2. Fees and dominated funds; 3. Of lawsuits and letters; 4. What more fiduciaries should learn: Assessing the prevalence of allocation errors; 5. What more fiduciaries should learn: Assessing whether participants portfolios perform poorly; 6. What fiduciaries can do to remedy menu misuse: Different ways to implement streamlining and guardrailing; 7. How should fiduciaries trade-off divergent participant interests?; 8. Can streamlining and guardrailing mitigate allocation error?; 9. The growing misuse of brokerage windows; Conclusion; Index.