Happy Friday, readers! This week’s news roundup features articles on investing. Active fixed-income allocations are moving into risky territory. Corporate funds posted the highest returns among institutional investors in the second quarter. While usage of Roth 401(k)s is still quite small, at 13%, the popularity of Roth 401(k)s is growing. Some plan sponsors are using both target-date funds and managed accounts as their qualified default investment alternative, moving older investors into the managed accounts. While managed accounts are customized for each participant, experts say they can be benchmarked against participant’s goals, such as when they want to retire or how much they want to save. We hope you find our coverage helpful and informative.
Experts with Charles Schwab warn that a decade of generally stable credit markets has some investors feeling a false sense of security about “stretching for yield” within near retirees’ target-date funds.
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Some industry experts believe managed account performance should not be benchmarked against an index but instead against an investor’s unique individual goals.
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When the SEC adopted the new Rule 30e-3 earlier this year, creating a new system for electronic delivery of fund information, it also established a transition disclosure period that starts in January, during which "funds that choose to implement the new delivery method for shareholder reports provide prominent disclosures in prospectuses and certain other shareholder documents that will notify investors of the upcoming change in transmission format.”
Employees expressed concerns about budgeting, health care and emergency funds, and low levels of knowledge about financial and retirement topics were reported.
The Pension Analytics Group says the act would only temporarily mask the deficits, as opposed to reducing them and that the only solution is to reduce benefits across the board.
