Tag Archives: Target date fund

Why target date funds have been slow to catch on

Posted on May 30, 2013 by henry tapper

with all the headwinds in the favour of TDFs and against Lifestyle it’s hard to see why insurers aren’t switching to TDFs Continue reading →

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PlayPen votes for target date funds in action-packed lunch

Posted on April 8, 2013 by henry tapper

In one of the noisiest and most passionate lunches we’ve ever had the playpen voted 15-7-3 for TDFs vLifestyle with 3 spoilt votes from the “we don’t do default” gang. This was a lunch where we were pretty well split between … Continue reading →

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DC4Good; ABdc and the Pension Trust get it.

Posted on March 22, 2013 by henry tapper

  DC just took a little step forward… Here’s AllianceBernstein‘s press release (with the flim-flam deleted and my comments in blue) AllianceBernstein has launched a range of ethical target date funds for the  UK DC market.   Good news, we all know that … Continue reading →

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Big-Up for NEST’s investment strategy

Posted on November 20, 2010 by henry tapper

I’ve been growing ever more confident that NEST is going in the right direction- especially with regards investment options.
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