Even though TDFs have been gaining some impressive traction in the DC plan space, many participants are not using these investment vehicles in the way they were designed. Target-date funds (TDFs) are ...

One of the most important decisions retirement plan sponsors and advisers have to make is which qualified default investment alternative makes sense for a plan’s participants. Authorized by the ...

Since their creation in the mid-1990s, target date funds (TDFs) have become a retirement investing staple. These gained popularity in 2006 after the passage of the Pension Protection Act, which ...

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