Retail Financial Advice: Does One Size Fit All?

We thank Shlomo Benartzi, Antonio Bernardo, Chuck Grace, Tal Gross (discussant), Luigi Guiso, Michael Haliassos (discussant), Markku Kaustia (discussant), Roger Loh (discussant), Jonathan Parker, Jonathan Reuter (discussant), Antoinette Schoar (discussant), Barry Scholnick, and Dick Thaler for valuable comments. We are also grateful for feedback given by seminar and conference participants at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Management University, National University of Singapore, University of Windsor, McMaster University, Rice University, Yale University, University of Washington, SUNY-Buffalo, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, University of Chicago, University of Alberta, University of Southern California, University of California-San Diego, University of Colorado-Boulder, American Economic Association 2014 meetings, NBER Behavioral Economics Spring 2014 meetings, Rothschild Caesarea Center 11th Annual Conference, 2014 Helsinki Finance Summit, 2014 Napa Conference on Financial Markets Research, Oxford-Harvard-Sloan conference "Household Behavior in Risky Asset Markets: An International Perspective," and 2014 European Household Finance Conference. We are especially grateful to Univeris, Fundata, Ipsos-Reid, and four anonymous financial firms for donating data and giving generously of their time. Zhou Chen and Brian Held provided helpful research assistance. Stephen Foerster and Alessandro Previtero received financial support from Canadian financial firms for conducting this research. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.