Target-Date Funds Reset Their Sights

Fund companies are tinkering with these one-stop retirement plans after their bear-market beating.

From Kiplinger’s Personal Finance:

From U.S. senators to government regulators to shell-shocked investors, everyone, it seems, is drawing a bead on target-date funds for producing such rotten results during the 2007-09 bear market. These funds were supposed to be simple solutions for retirement saving: You picked a fund with a date close to your anticipated retirement. As the date approached, the fund would adjust the bond portion of its portfolio to become more conservative and protect returns.

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