For those participants who don't make an investment election, their money may be invested
in the target date fund closest to their normal retirement date under the QDIA.
Not exact matches
Justwealth also offers RESP
target date portfolios that become more conservative as the beneficiary gets
closer to needing the
funds in university.
The
target date fund naturally adjusts your investment allocation between stocks and bonds as you get
closer to retirement so you don't have to do much (except keep putting money
in!).
For example, if you are
in your twenties and select «
target date 2045»
fund, your mutual
fund allocation will start out more heavily weighted toward aggressive types of mutual
funds at first, and then scale to more conservative types of mutual
funds as you get
closer to 2045.
In the case of a
target date fund, if you're saving for retirement, consider selecting a
fund with a retirement
date closest to your planned retirement age (somewhere around age 65 — 67 for most people).
These «glidepaths» can work
in many ways; for the most part, the
fund will invest heavily
in stocks at the outset (the further you are from your «
target -
date») and gradually move towards a more conservative allocation the
closer you get retirement (the «
target -
date»).
A common investment option
in 529 accounts is a
target date fund, whose investment allocation changes as the
date you or your child goes to college comes
closer.
A well - managed
target date fund can offer two benefits — one, they are automatically diversified across several asset classes, and two, you can invest
in one that correlates to your planned retirement
date — so it automatically becomes more conservative the
closer you get to retirement.
If you are not using a
Target date Fund, then you need to actively monitor and manage the risk
in your portfolio as you move
closer to retirement.
NEW YORK --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (Deutsche AWM) today announced that its Deutsche X-trackers US ETF platform, with approximately $ 16.7 billion
in assets, will
close and liquidate the following five
target -
date exchange traded
funds (ETFs), representing less than 1 % of the platform's assets:
The allocation to asset classes
in each
fund rebalances every quarter and becomes more conservative over time as investors move
closer to the
target retirement
date.
In fact, you could simply mimic the glide path of such funds or, for that matter, invest your retirement savings in a target - date fund with a date that matches or comes close to the year you plan to retir
In fact, you could simply mimic the glide path of such
funds or, for that matter, invest your retirement savings
in a target - date fund with a date that matches or comes close to the year you plan to retir
in a
target -
date fund with a
date that matches or comes
close to the year you plan to retire.
Warren Mackenzie and Ken Hawkins: The MacKenzie Destinations + 2015 is a
target date fund that is designed so the risk of the
fund will decrease (i.e. the proportion of fixed income will increase), the
closer to the
target date and
in this case it is 2015.
When I had an employer - sponsored plan, I invested solely
in a
target -
date fund because it was the
closest thing to an index
fund that was available.