'Safe' Target-Date Retirement Funds Have Hidden Risks

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Nickols of KY @ Sep 11, 2008 16:07:47 PM

Target Date

The target date funds are great for specifiic people. I run into employees all the time that do not know much about investing and don't even know where to begin when it comes to allocating their company retirement plan assets. Rather than choosing some arbitrary allocation (or defaulting to stable value or equivalent), these people have the option to put their money into a fund that will become more conservative as retirement approaches.

I still recommend that these funds are watched over time and changed to another target date fund if the previous fund was too conservative or aggressive. An important thing to remember is a huge chunk of qualified retirement assets out there will not change or be rebalanced until distribution. That being said, those particular investors are usually much better off in a target date fund (even if the proper stock/bond allocation is off by 5-15%) than they are in the stable value for 30 years or a 100% equity portfolio through retirement.

If you are an experienced and somewhat active investor, I believe you will always be able to more closely match your personal risk tolerance to your investments if you choose the funds yourself.

of VA @ Jun 09, 2008 11:18:20 AM

target date defaults

The absurd conclusions of these bull market geniuses is fertile ground for breach of fiduciary duty lawsuits when their "stocks always do best" mantra fails like it did last Friday as the venerable Dow shed 400 points. Timing is everything. Those that can't do it well rely on the pretense they should always buy stocks and hold.

As stated by the great John Maynard Keynes 'in the long run were all dead'.

As a matter of safety; the default "investmnet" should be riskless [i.e. neither stocks or bonds], as bonds can be equally erratic.

buck of TX @ Jun 09, 2008 00:42:59 AM

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