The fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing primarily in affiliated Schwab exchange-traded funds (ETFs). These underlying funds invest their assets directly in equity, fixed income ...

Join MarketWatch for a live talk about teen investing on Wednesday, May 6 at 1:30 p.m. Eastern time. Sign up and submit your questions for the Q&A here. To Jesse Cramer, target-date funds, which ...

The third quarter was a good one for the capital markets and for target date fund investors. Small-cap stocks led the U.S. stock market in the quarter, returning 12.4% (Russell 2000 Index), while ...

The best target-date funds dominate US retirement plans because they simplify portfolio management at scale. These strategies package asset allocation and rebalancing into a single fund tied to a ...

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Target-date retirement funds can be an easy way for “set and forget” investors to put themselves on an asset-allocation glide path. The portfolio is automatically rebalanced, generally adding bonds ...

A senior black couple leaving the tennis court after their workout. If you’re contributing to a 401(k), chances are you’ve been default invested into a retirement target-date mutual fund—and you may ...

I recently wrote about how fund investors’ stake in US equity has drifted higher over the past decade. That increase owes mostly to US stocks’ standout returns over that period, rather than investors’ ...

Your 401(k) is probably in a target-date fund. This simple hack may help you earn more. Target-date funds provide a simple, hands-off approach to investing for retirement. What people should avoid, ...

Why do target-date funds make ideal IRA investments? Here to discuss this topic is Jason Kephart, a senior principal with Morningstar’s manager research team. The interview has been edited for length ...