Originally Posted by
fishforfun
I was surprised to see that the managed funds on average are being out performed by index funds. The target retirement or life cycle funds don't have the lengthy track record of the index funds so I'm curious in 20 years how they will compare.
Yea, even the far out target date funds are a mix of stocks and bonds so are going to be more conservative than a straight index fund of an all stock group. We've had a bull market overall since 2009 or so, so stock index funds will likely have outperformed target date funds.