The allocation process for a target-date fund may be more than shifting from equities to fixed income over time. Instead, to maintain an appropriate balance at different lifecycle stages, there may be ...

While glide paths are an institutionalized process in target date funds, most investors follow some sort of glide path process – ad hoc or not – that reduces their risk profile over their investment ...

“There is no such thing as a passive glide path design, and this, as well as the many other active decisions that go into the creation and management of a TDF, can translate into meaningful ...

Morningstar recently released its annual study of target-date funds. The Process section highlighted here delved into how examining target-date series' sub-asset-class glide paths helps investors ...

Target date funds that have reached the end of their glide path and have a 30% stocks, 70% bonds allocation may produce essentially no return on an inflation-adjusted basis over the next ten years.

Academic simulations prove that the distribution of wealth is greater with glide paths that increase in equity allocation rather than decrease. No safe landing. Savings impact the distribution of ...

For many workplace retirement plan participants, the market’s recent volatility and losses have been worrisome. But most plan participants don’t do much in response. Fewer than one in 10 participants ...

Most years I read several white papers produced by investment management firms that describe how they develop their target-date funds’ glide paths. The papers address the same set of challenges and ...

The debate about target date funds revolves around the nature of the glide path and how aggressive it should be with respect to the equity allocation near the retirement date. It's not a black or ...

If there's one generally accepted principle in the realm of asset allocation, it's that young people with a long runway to retirement should start out with equity-heavy portfolios and only gradually ...