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Savings, Portfolio Choice, and Retirement Expectations
by Arthur van Soest and Arie Kapteyn
WP 2006-119

In general, people’s expectations about their Social Security benefits have little effect on portfolio investment decisions.
There is some evidence that people who expect to have higher Social Security benefits will tend to make riskier financial investments, especially in IRAs.