Applying behavioural science to pensions risk settlement

James Phillips
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Tendencies to prefer the status quo and familiar names can result in slower or more irrational decisions, Aon says. James Phillips explores the impediments to risk settlement.

Pension scheme trustees are guilty of letting their own biases influence their rationality in decision-making, but they may not know it. These biases can impact any stage of a risk settlement pr...

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James Phillips

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