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Active at retirement: trading and performance of retirees
Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå School of Business and Economics (USBE), Business Administration.
Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå School of Business and Economics (USBE), Business Administration.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3476-8635
2026 (English)In: Applied Economics Letters, ISSN 1350-4851, E-ISSN 1466-4291Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

We study how trading behaviour and portfolio performance change around retirement among individual investors who remain active in the stock market. Using comprehensive administrative wealth data from the Swedish Tax Agency, we follow investors from two years before retirement through two years after retirement. While leverage declines following retirement, retirees who remain active in equity markets increase both trading frequency and portfolio breadth. Despite this increase in activity, retirees experience a decline in risk-adjusted performance. These findings highlight heterogeneity in post-retirement investment behaviour and underscore the importance of trading behaviour for portfolio outcomes later in life.

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Routledge, 2026.
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Individual investors, retirement, life-cycle portfolio choice, trading activity, portfolio performance
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Business Administration Economics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-251653DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2026.2654784ISI: 001732504800001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105034897677OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-251653DiVA, id: diva2:2050488
Available from: 2026-04-02 Created: 2026-04-02 Last updated: 2026-05-04

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