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’ ...

We’ve been talking about how to build a do-it-yourself retirement plan — one that doesn’t take a finance degree or endless screen time to manage. So far, the plan has been simple: most of your ...

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 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 ...

Your clients may have never heard of them, but collective investment trusts (sometimes called “CITs”) are increasingly dominating 401(k)s. Whether this is good news or bad news is practically a moot ...

A target-date fund is a long-term investment built around a specific retirement year. It combines multiple asset classes inside a single structure and automatically adjusts its asset allocation over ...

Target-date funds, the set-it-and-forget-it investment, are about to get a little riskier for one group of workers, BlackRock said. People are living longer and earning steady income for longer ...

Did someone say free money? Wall Street may be the only place in America where strangers will come up to you out of the blue and try to hand you free money. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen ...

The last time Vanguard made a change to the investment strategy of its flagship target-date series, Barack Obama was in his final term as president. In the decade since, the landscape has exploded.

Your 401(k) is probably in a target-date fund. This simple hack may help you earn more.