Mutual Funds Tailoring Your Allocation to the Stage You're In
With Life Cycle Funds Life cycle mutual funds are designed to make the asset allocation decision easy - one fund for one individual based on their stage in life.
Not exact matches
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fund more companies,
with younger founders, ever earlier in their
life cycle.
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funding, including relevant tax reliefs, and disposing of a business.
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with a goal of saving
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cycle of violence.
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Asset - allocation mutual
funds, also known as
life -
cycle, or target - date,
funds, are an attempt to provide investors
with portfolio structures that address an investor's age, risk appetite and investment objectives
with an appropriate apportionment of asset classes.
Also known as a
life cycle or age based
fund, it uses several
funds to build an asset allocation
with a specific time frame or target date in mind.
Once you select the
life cycle approach
with which you are most comfortable, including the choice of active management versus index
fund, then the next decision you must make is the individual
fund or
fund family choice.
In Table 1, the performance statistics of
life cycle funds are given
with the
funds grouped in categories by
fund asset allocation approach — active, fixed allocation, and transition.
There are two crucial decisions for investors in
fund groups that have a continuum of growth - to - income and aggressive - to - conservative
funds: First, you have to decide which
fund to start out
with; and second, you have to decide when to jump to another as you move through your
cycle of
life.