Session 3 | Reading 11 | LOS c    

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LO c: Discuss the factors that may contribute to DC plan participants holding "excess" amounts of their own company’s stock in their plan.


 
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Employees tend to invest more in their company’s stock
 
than would be warranted from a diversification standpoint.
2
Sponsors will sometimes offer stock ownership plans, and this act can be seen by participants...
 
an endorsement of the stock as a good investment.
3
Another factor leading to over-investment in the plan sponsor’s stock is the behavioral characteristic...
 
familiarity.
4
Individual investors tend to invest in stocks with which they are
 
comfortable (i.e., they are familiar with).

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