Smith, Sarah (2004) Stopping short?: evidence on contributions to long-term savings from aggregate and micro data. Financial Markets Group Discussion Papers (485). Financial Markets Group, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
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Abstract
With a move away from up-front charges following the introduction of stakeholder pensions, consumers are no longer penalised for lapsing on many long-term savings policies. Nevertheless, persistency rates may still provide an (imperfect) indicator of sales quality and provide some information on how consumers are building up savings for the longer-term. Furthermore, persistency is an increasingly important issue for financial providers and the profitability of stakeholder-friendly products. This paper uses aggregate persistency data and survey data from the British Household Panel Survey to address three key questions: What drives persistency rates among different groups in the population? To what extent does non-persistency appear to reflect poor sales and advice, rather than events in consumers’ lives that were not predictable at the time of sale? Are there any messages that could be given to the industry or to consumers to help raise levels of persistency?
| Item Type: | Monograph (Discussion Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://fmg.ac.uk |
| Additional Information: | © 2004 The Author |
| Divisions: | Financial Markets Group |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HG Finance H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| JEL classification: | D - Microeconomics > D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics > D10 - General |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Aug 2009 08:58 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 22:57 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/24697 |
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