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Commentary: Recently, it has become popular for large corporations to adopt customized target-date fund approaches for their 401(k) plans. Before jumping into why this approach has never made much sense to me, it might be good to start out with a couple definitions.
What are target-date funds?
Robert C. Lawton, AIF, CRPS is the founder and president of Lawton Retirement Plan Consultants, LLC. Mr. Lawton has over 30 years of retirement plan consulting and administration experience and has … Read full bio
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