Tag: target-date funds (TDFs)

While passive target-date funds (TDFs) dominate the defined contribution (DC) retirement plan market, Cerulli suggests that touting advantages of active TDFs could make plan sponsors reconsider.

A Vanguard analysis still finds both “pure TDF investors,” or those who hold only a single TDF, and “mixed investors”—investing in a TDF in combination with other investments...

Employers are offering this assistance in a variety of ways, including managed accounts, target-date funds and investment advice, according to PSCA.

CIT-based solutions grew, while mutual fund-based solutions declined in 2018, according to Sway Research.

It was the slowest start to the year in the 20-plus years of the Alight Solutions 401(k) Index. 

With participants not panicking in Q4 2018 and the longer term trends resulting from automatic plan features, Fidelity Investments finds an overall improvement in average participant savings and...

ProShares unveils ETF suite; TRPC adds Stadion StoryLine to retirement solutions platform, T. Rowe Price creates Dynamic Credit Fund. 

While automatic enrollment gets participants into plans, a sizable segment are starting their average contributions at a minimum 3.3% rate and failing to take any additional action to...

There were only three days of above-normal trading, according to the Alight Solutions 401(k) Index

In addition, a person invested in a stable value fund versus someone invested in a target-date fund could end up with a balance as much as 59% lower,...

The checklist is included in a guide that offers questions to ask and items to consider.

The retirement plan sponsor’s choice of a default investment should not reflect the full distribution of employee investor types, but rather those who would select it, a research...

Nearly half of workers feel confident about their retirement prospects, an AllianceBernstein survey found.