BlackRock's iShares LifePath Target-Date ETFs are a set of retirement tools that are unique to the ETF industry. Target-date funds, which have been around for decades, help investors smoothly and ...

You open your 401(k) statement and there it sits: a fund with a year somewhere in the title. Maybe it's 2050 or 2040. Simple enough, right? Pick the year closest to when you plan to retire and let the ...

A senior black couple leaving the tennis court after their workout. If you’re contributing to a 401(k), chances are you’ve been default invested into a retirement target-date mutual fund—and you may ...

PGIM Target Date Funds reported Q4 2025 returns ranging from 1.3% to 3.2% amid a positive quarter for capital markets. Read ...

The best target-date funds dominate US retirement plans because they simplify portfolio management at scale. These strategies package asset allocation and rebalancing into a single fund tied to a ...

I recently wrote about how fund investors’ stake in US equity has drifted higher over the past decade. That increase owes mostly to US stocks’ standout returns over that period, rather than investors’ ...

Why do target-date funds make ideal IRA investments? Here to discuss this topic is Jason Kephart, a senior principal with Morningstar’s manager research team. The interview has been edited for length ...

The market has thrown a lot at investors in recent years. There was the dual stocks-and-bonds downturn in 2022, a tech-led equity resurgence in 2023 and 2024, and then this year’s tariff tantrum. But ...

These three ETFs can help you construct a solid retirement portfolio instead of relying on target-date funds for your ...

The third quarter was a good one for the capital markets and for target date fund investors. Small-cap stocks led the U.S. stock market in the quarter, returning 12.4% (Russell 2000 Index), while ...

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