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Published: 2025-05-09

Bank Individual Retirement Accounts - the safest way to save for retirement

Dawid Banaś Logo ORCID

Abstract

Individual Retirement Accounts (in Polish - IKE) are one of the voluntary forms of additional saving for retirement. They are offered by five types of financial institutions, including banks. Although, regardless of the kind of institution, savers are guaranteed a return of capital, this is provided by three different entities. This results, for example, in differences in the maximum return. Other aspects that affect the attractiveness of the accumulation of funds, including security, may include the guarantee of return of the paid-up capital or the issue of fees related to saving. The publication aims to answer the research question: why IKE maintained by banks can be considered the safest method of individual saving for retirement. A critical analysis of the literature on the subject, an economic analysis of the law, and methods of inference and deduction were used to achieve it. The research shows that bank IKEs have the highest deposit return guarantees, are characterized by positive nominal interest rates, and are distinguished by various privileges, such as the enforcement privilege. It is also worth noting that the products analysed do not have handling fees associated with saving individual deposits.

JEL Codes

J32, G21, D14, G51

Citation rules

Banaś, D. (2025). Bank Individual Retirement Accounts - the safest way to save for retirement. Safe Bank, 98(1), 126–143. https://doi.org/10.26354/bb.7.1.98.2025

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Vol. 98 No. 1 (2025)
Published: 2025-05-09


ISSN: 1429-2939
eISSN: 2544-7068
Ikona DOI 10.26354

Publisher
Bankowy Fundusz Gwarancyjny

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