The Role of Age in Determining Stock-Bond Investment Mix

Guillaume Vandenbroucke

The Regional Economist, 2018, vol. 26, issue 4

Abstract: Economic reasoning suggests that people should invest heavily in stocks when young and then shift to less-risky bonds as they grow older. Yet U.S. households don?t appear to be following this investment pattern.

Date: 2018
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