Think that DC plan participant education is dead? Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Joshua Rauh thinks otherwise. He’s teaching an eight-week online course about the fundamentals of retirement plan investing for private as well as public pension plans. Rauh’s course is intended to help students make informed decisions about their portfolios with strategies to improve asset allocation. It will also include guest lecturers addressing public policy issues affecting the retirement industry.
The course will culminate in January 2014 with a presentation to a panel of experts of the most promising ideas on pension reform from one of five student teams. All expenses will be paid by Stanford.
The industry can use more academics like Prof. Rauh leveraging the growing world of online education to help better prepare participants for retirement. Perhaps efforts like this can move participant education a bit further along.
