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Vanguard
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Youngest Workers Eyed in Vanguard Expansion of Target Retirement Lineup
Company announces plans to launch Vanguard Target Retirement 2070 Fund and Vanguard Target Retirement 2070 Trusts
January 10, 2022
Vanguard Enhances its Target Retirement Series
Moves announced today to merge funds and launch new trust with higher equity allocation for retirees expected to lower investor costs by $190 million
September 28, 2021
401k Auto-Portability Takes ‘Giant Leap Forward’ with Vanguard, RCH Deal
Service providing plan sponsors with a new portability solution to simplify small-balance 401k rollovers expected to launch in mid-2022
September 21, 2021
How 401k Plan Design Outperformed During the Pandemic
As expected, target-date funds and smart plan design features—including automatic enrollment, automatic escalation, and others—helped 401k participants stay…
June 11, 2021
Does ESG-Based Proxy Voting Matter? Just Ask ExxonMobil
Whether they realize it or not, retirement plan participants invested with BlackRock (and possibly Vanguard, State Street and…
May 27, 2021
New Data Further Showcases Power of Auto Enrollment
If anyone needed another example of the effectiveness of automatic enrollment, here you go… Automatic enrollment triples—yes, triples—the…
March 18, 2021
Fidelity Matches Vanguard Move to Lower Investment Minimum for Institutional TDFs
Fidelity Investments this week mirrored a recent move by Vanguard in announcing that effective January 19, 2021, it…
January 21, 2021
Top 401(k) Product Story of 2020: Vanguard Recordkeeping Outsourced
Hardly surprising that the top investment product story of 2020 would involve Vanguard. The low-cost provider shocked the…
December 29, 2020
What We Learned About 401(k) Participant Behavior Amid COVID-19 and the CARES Act
Vanguard’s latest analysis of defined contribution (DC) recordkeeping data from January through September 2020 suggests that, while there…
November 10, 2020
How Millennials Plan to Buck Traditional Retirement Norms
New research from Vanguard explores how Millennials are planning to redefine and challenge traditional retirement norms like retiring…
September 21, 2020