Investing for Retirement: the Moderating Effect of Fund Assortment Size on the 1/n Heuristic
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by a Rutgers University Research Council grant and a generous grant from the FINRA (formerly NASD) Investor Education Foundation (#2005-08).
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