However, what is perhaps more concerning is how
target date funds performed during the big equity bear markets.
Not exact matches
Traditionally, most elect the
target -
date investment
fund, which is a mutual
fund that will return your various assets (stocks, bonds, and cash) at a fixed retirement
date — depending on how well the market
performs over time.
Investors should pay close attention to the composition of a
target -
date fund, as the whole will
perform no better than the weighted average of the parts (i.e., the equity «sleeve» and the fixed income «sleeve»).
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Based on a study of Vanguard 401K plan participants, those who invested in a professionally managed option such as a balanced
fund or
target -
date fund saw their portfolios
perform better, on average, than those who picked their own mix of investments.
And
funds with the same
target date will
perform better in some years and worse in others compared with their peers, based on how their underlying investments
perform.
In fact, Morningstar found that
target -
date fund investors are
performing about 0.74 % better than the
funds themselves, owing to smart decisions about when to buy and sell.