With target-date funds falling short on income certainty, retirement plans should integrate guaranteed income solutions. Here ...

Are you on the hunt for a Target Date fund? You should think about starting with Vanguard Target Retirement 2035 Fund (VTTHX). The fund does not have a Zacks Mutual Fund Rank, though we have been able ...

Learn about mutual funds. Discover how they work, including NAV, types (index, bond, target-date), pros and cons, and how to choose the best option for your goals.

Target-date strategies continue to be the go-to retirement savings vehicle for US workers, with over $4 trillion in assets invested in these investments at the end of 2024. That’s larger than all but ...

The fund has returned 16.82 percent over the past year, 16.56 percent over the past three years, 10.36 percent over the past five years and 10.91 percent over the past decade.

For years, I ran my own business, and right around this time of year, I would get whipped up trying to pick mutual funds for my Individual Retirement Account (IRA). As the April 15 tax filing deadline ...

The investment seeks a balance between growth and conservation of capital. The fund pursues its objective by investing in a diversified portfolio of other mutual funds within the PGIM fund family ...

For those investing for retirement, target-date funds sound like a great idea. Say you want to retire in 2030. Simply purchase a 2030 target-date fund, the wisdom holds, and the fund will do a lot of ...

Target-date mutual funds are supposed to simplify investment planning by automatically dialing down risk as you approach the day when you can finally call yourself retired. Yet the recent market ...

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’ ...

What’s better than a set-it-and-forget-it retirement savings strategy? Since 2006, 401(k) plan sponsors have been able to effortlessly encourage their employees to save. Moreover, the preferred ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Many investors achieve their investment goals using just mutual funds because of their breadth of options, relatively low costs ...