From nest egg to seed investment - retirement security and new business formation among older workers - 6 April 2020
About the seminar:
"It is empirically challenging to get the full picture of the extent to which retirement savings are being used to start businesses, with one exception: rollovers as business start-ups (ROBS). A ROBS transaction allows entrepreneurs to take their 401(k) savings from their previous employer and make a tax-free rollover into a new business that they start. This practice raises a broad range of questions about the relationship between retirement security and entrepreneurial finance, e.g. concentrating a once well-diversified retirement portfolio into a single business, allowing access to capital for certain types of individuals who might otherwise be unable to start a business and postponing retirement by enabling 鈥渓ifestyle entrepreneurship". Our project aims at taking a first look at ROBS transactions: study the prevalence, growth, business survival, and the motivations of the entrepreneurs who launch them鈥.
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