Individual retirement accounts (IRAs) hold more than 25 percent of all retirement assets in the United States. A substantial portion of these assets originated in other tax-qualified retirement plans, such as defined benefit (pension) and 401(k) plans, and were moved to IRAs through rollovers....

This paper is the second examination of asset allocation from the EBRI IRA Database. The EBRI IRA Database is an ongoing project of the Employee Benefit Research Institute that currently contains information on 14.85 million accounts of 11.1 million unique individuals with total assets of $1.002...

Individual retirement accounts (IRAs) are a vital component of U.S. retirement savings, representing more than 25 percent of all retirement assets in the nation. A substantial portion of these IRA assets originated in other tax-qualified retirement plans, such as defined benefit (pension) and...

This paper is the fifth examination of asset allocation from the EBRI IRA Database, an ongoing project that collects data from IRA plan administrators. For 2013, it contained information on 25.8 million accounts with total assets of $2.46 trillion. The number of IRAs in the database with...

This paper is the sixth annual cross-sectional analysis update of the EBRI IRA Database. It includes results on the distribution of individual retirement account (IRA) types and account balances, contributions, rollovers, withdrawals, and asset allocation in IRAs for 2014, the latest data...

This paper is the fourth examination of asset allocation from the EBRI IRA Database, an ongoing project that collects data from IRA plan administrators. For 2012, it contains information on 25.3 million accounts with total assets of $2.09 trillion. The number of IRAs in the database with...

On crowdinvesting-platforms, non-publicly traded companies can offer equity to private investors. Currently, platforms like Crowdcube.com in Great Britain or Seedmatch.de in Germany are using a mechanism for the allocation of available shares best described by the phrase "first come, first...

In this paper we attempt to study Art as a new asset class for alternative investment for Indians. The author first reviews different popular forms of art internationally and have an outline of select Indian Artist and their work. Since this is the first time an attempt is being made to...