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Target Date Solutions

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Every retirement investor is different. Our target date solutions are designed to help your participants reach their retirement goals—whatever they happen to be.

Strong performance over the long term

A solution for every path

Evolving strategies with new insights

Celebrating 20 Years of Target Date Leadership

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Strong performance over the long term

For many participants, total return and their balance at retirement matter most. Others are more concerned about managing volatility along the way. Our target date solutions seek competitive returns and aim to deliver value while keeping participants' goals at the forefront.

Whether at retirement or with many years to go until retirement, T. Rowe Price Retirement Fund investors have historically experienced stronger performance after fees, even accounting for periods of volatility.

Here's how the hypothetical growth of $100,000 invested in the T. Rowe Price Retirement 2020 and 2040 Funds (after fees) compares to S&P 2020 and 2040 Target Date Index since fund inception.

(Investor Class, as of 12/31/2023)

An investor at retirement

Retirement Funds Hypothetical Growth 2020

An investor with many years until retirement

Retirement Funds Hypothetical Growth 2040

Performance data quoted represents past performance and is not a reliable indicator of future performance. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data quoted. To obtain the most recent month‐end performance, visit troweprice.com.

Chart shows growth of $100,000 hypothetical investment since fund inceptions on September 30, 2002 through the date above. Investors cannot invest directly in an index. Figures include changes in principal value with dividends reinvested. Source: S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC.

View standardized returns, expense ratios, and other information about the full suite of Retirement Funds.

T. Rowe Price Target Funds have helped manage volatility for investors at retirement (Target 2020 Fund) and near retirement (Target 2025 Fund).

Here’s how the upside/downside capture of the T. Rowe Price Target 2020 and 2025 Funds (after fees) compares to the S&P Target Date Index.

(Investor Class, as of 12/31/2023)

T. Rowe Price Target 2020 Fund
T. Rowe Price Target 2025 Fund

What is upside/downside capture?

Upside and downside capture are measures, by percentage, of how well a fund performed compared with an index during times of market growth or market downturns, respectively. A higher upside capture and lower downside capture can result in better returns for investors. 

Performance data quoted represents past performance and is not a reliable indicator of future performance. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data quoted. To obtain the most recent month‐end performance, visit troweprice.com.

View standardized returns, expense ratios, and other information about the full suite of Target Funds.

Source: Morningstar Direct. 

High rankings based on long-term results

With some of the highest Morningstar rankings over 10- and 15-year periods, our longest-running Retirement Funds (Investor Class) have delivered strong results.

T. Rowe Price Retirement Funds (Investor Class) Morningstar Rankings

10-Year

Morningstar rankings over 10-year period

15-Year

Morningstar rankings over 15-year period

Past performance cannot guarantee future results. Data as of December 31, 2023. The Morningstar percentile ranking is based on a fund's total return relative to all funds in the respective Morningstar US Fund Target Date category for the period. The highest (or most favorable) percentile rank is 1%, and the lowest (or least favorable) percentile rank is 100%. The top-performing funds in a category will always receive a rank of 1. Results will vary for other periods, and all funds are subject to market risk.

A solution for every path

There's no typical retirement journey. Varying goals, income needs, risk tolerances, saving patterns, fee sensitivity, and more need to be considered. Our solutions pursue their objectives through gradual adjustments to the allocation mix of equity and fixed income investments. These adjustments are known as the glide path.

This video explains why we offer choice in target date solutions:

 

 


Retirement and Target Glide Paths

Retirement and Target Date Glide Paths Comparison

Evolving strategies with new insights

Our approach to target date solutions goes beyond simple averages. This video explains how.

Resources and research

News, insights, and information about our target date solutions

NEWS


Christine Benz from Morningstar praises target date funds for delivering what participants need.

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INSIGHTS


A Little Could Go a Long Way: Better Returns and the Impact on Retirement Savings

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How Our Active Management Approach Stacks Up Against Passive Portfolios

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The Benefits of T. Rowe Price's Active Management Approach

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INFORMATION TO KNOW


In a World of Uncertainty, Reliable Retirement Outcomes Matter

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More details about our target date solutions:

Retirement Funds

Target Funds

We're as passionate about retirement as your participants are about retiring.

For nearly two decades, target date investing has been central to what we do. We are devoted to helping your participants close the gap between what they need and what they save for retirement.

$400+ Billion

Target date assets under management

40+

Professionals dedicated to the research and development of our target date solutions

Data shown as of 12/31/2023. The combined target date portfolios managed by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., and its investment advisory affiliates.

A recognized leader

T. Rowe Price Retirement Funds—I Class
T. Rowe Price Retirement Blend Funds
T. Rowe Price Retirement Trusts
T. Rowe Price Retirement Blend Trusts

Morningstar Medalist Rating

Gold Morningstar Medalist Ratings for the T. Rowe Price Retirement Funds—I Class, and all classes of the Retirement Trusts as of February 5, 2024; all classes of the T. Rowe Price Retirement Blend Funds and Retirement Blend Trusts as of March 24, 2023. The T. Rowe Price Retirement Funds, Investor Class received a Silver Morningstar Medalist Rating as of February 5, 2024.


T. Rowe Price Target Funds—I Class

Morningstar Medalist Rating

Gold Morningstar Medalist Rating for the T. Rowe Price Target Funds—I Class as of December 31, 2023. The T. Rowe Price Target Funds, Investor Class received a Silver Morningstar Medalist Rating.

I Class shares may not be available to all participants. Trusts are available only to certain types of retirement plans and may not be available to all participants.

Morningstar Medalist Rating™ Analyst-Driven % for Retirement, Retirement Blend, and Target are 100%, 100%, and 55%, respectively. Data Coverage % for Retirement, Retirement Blend, and Target are 100%, 100%, and 100% respectively. Ratings for other share classes may differ. The Morningstar category for all vintages is US Fund Target Date for mutual funds and Morningstar US SA Target Date for trusts.

Key target date history

The driving forces behind successful retirements are countless and always changing.

Our commitment to research gives us a deep understanding of evolving markets, demographics, and investor actions. And our strategic design means we build solutions that take this data into account.

We continually refine our thinking—and our solutions—with investors' best outcomes in mind. Our latest evolution seeks to deliver even better results and overall value.

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Past performance cannot guarantee future results. All investments are subject to market risk, including the possible loss of principal. Diversification cannot assure a profit or protect against loss in a declining market. 

Important Information

The principal value of target date strategies is not guaranteed at any time, including at or after the target date, which is the approximate date when investors plan to retire (assumed to be age 65) and likely stop making new investments in the strategy. If an investor plans to retire significantly earlier or later than age 65, the target date strategies may not be an appropriate investment even if the investor is retiring on or near the target date. These target date strategies invest in a diversified portfolio of other T. Rowe Price stock and bond strategies that represent various asset classes and sectors and are therefore subject to the risks of different areas of the market. The allocations among a broad range of underlying T. Rowe Price stock and bond strategies will change over time. The strategies emphasize potential capital appreciation during the early phases of retirement asset accumulation, balance the need for appreciation with the need for income as retirement approaches, and focus on supporting an income stream over a long-term postretirement withdrawal horizon. The target date strategies are not designed for a lump-sum redemption at the target date and do not guarantee a particular level of income. Diversification cannot assure a profit or protect against loss in a declining market. The key difference between the Retirement Funds and the Target Funds is the overall allocation to equity; although they each maintain significant allocations to equities both prior to and after the target date, the Retirement Funds maintain a higher allocation, which can result in greater volatility over shorter time horizons.

Important information about performance

The S&P Target Date Indexes are designed to represent asset class exposure for glide path products with target dates of a select year. Investors cannot invest directly in an index.

The fund may have other share classes available that offer different investment minimums and fees. See the prospectus for details. The fund’s total return figures reflect the reinvestment of dividends and capital gains, if any.

The S&P Target Date Indexes are products of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC, a division of S&P Global, or its affiliates (“SPDJI”) and has been licensed for use by T. Rowe Price. Standard & Poor's® and S&P® are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC, a division of S&P Global (“S&P”); Dow Jones® is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC (“Dow Jones”) and these trademarks have been licensed for use by SPDJI and sublicensed for certain purposes by T. Rowe Price. The fund is not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by SPDJI, Dow Jones, S&P, their respective affiliates, and none of such parties make any representation regarding the advisability of investing in such product(s) nor do they have any liability for any errors, omissions, or interruptions of the Index.

Additional Morningstar percentile and rankings data for the T. Rowe Price Retirement Funds as of 12/31/2023:

T. Rowe Price Retirement 2005 was in the 19th percentile and ranked 13 out of 114 funds for the 1-year period and 14th percentile and ranked 14 out of 102 funds for the 5-year period.
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2010 was in the 8th percentile and ranked 5 out of 114 funds for the 1-year period and 3rd percentile and ranked 3 out of 102 funds for the 5-year period.
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2015 was in the 8th percentile and ranked 5 out of 112 funds for the 1-year period and 3rd percentile and ranked 3 out of 97 funds for the 5-year period.
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2020 was in the 11th percentile and ranked 8 out of 144 funds for the 1-year period and 5th percentile and ranked 4 out of 128 funds for the 5-year period.
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2025 was in the 6th percentile and ranked 7 out of 208 funds for the 1-year period and 2nd percentile and ranked 3 out of 177 funds for the 5-year period.
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2030 was in the 7th percentile and ranked 6 out of 211 funds for the 1-year period and 2nd percentile and ranked 3 out of 175 funds for the 5-year period.
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2035 was in the 8th percentile and ranked 10 out of 207 funds for the 1-year period and 14th percentile and ranked 20 out of 174 funds for the 5-year period.
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2040 was in the 14th percentile and ranked 25 out of 205 funds for the 1-year period and 17th percentile and ranked 30 out of 175 funds for the 5-year period.
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2045 was in the 17th percentile and ranked 26 out of 201 funds for the 1-year period and 16th percentile and ranked 24 out of 174 funds for the 5-year period.
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2050 was in the 23rd percentile and ranked 36 out of 202 funds for the 1-year period and 18th percentile and ranked 25 out of 175 funds for the 5-year period.
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2055 was in the 26th percentile and ranked 49 out of 201 funds for the 1-year period and 23rd percentile and ranked 34 out of 174 funds for the 5-year period.
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2060 was in the 32nd percentile and ranked 52 out of 200 funds for the 1-year period and 32nd percentile and ranked 39 out of 162 funds for the 5-year period.
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2065 was in the 38th percentile and ranked 55 out of 175 funds for the 1-year period. The fund was launched in 2020 and is not yet ranked for the 5-year period.

Additional Morningstar percentile and rankings data for the T. Rowe Price Target Funds as of 12/31/2023:

T. Rowe Price Target 2005 was in the 45th percentile and ranked 35 out of 114 funds for the 1-year period and 37th percentile and ranked 41 out of 102 funds for the 5-year period.
T. Rowe Price Target 2010 was in the 41st percentile and ranked 31 out of 114 funds for the 1-year period and 27th percentile and ranked 30 out of 102 funds for the 5-year period.
T. Rowe Price Target 2015 was in the 57th percentile and ranked 49 out of 112 funds for the 1-year period and 39th percentile and ranked 40 out of 97 funds for the 5-year period.
T. Rowe Price Target 2020 was in the 67th percentile and ranked 83 out of 144 funds for the 1-year period and 48th percentile and ranked 59 out of 128 funds for the 5-year period.
T. Rowe Price Target 2025 was in the 64th percentile and ranked 114 out of 208 funds for the 1-year period and 42nd percentile and ranked 63 out of 177 funds for the 5-year period.
T. Rowe Price Target 2030 was in the 70th percentile and ranked 135 out of 211 funds for the 1-year period and 57th percentile and ranked 92 out of 175 funds for the 5-year period.
T. Rowe Price Target 2035 was in the 69th percentile and ranked 132 out of 207 funds for the 1-year period and 72nd percentile and ranked 124 out of 174 funds for the 5-year period.
T. Rowe Price Target 2040 was in the 65th percentile and ranked 135 out of 205 funds for the 1-year period and 76th percentile and ranked 136 out of 175 funds for the 5-year period.
T. Rowe Price Target 2045 was in the 64th percentile and ranked 117 out of 201 funds for the 1-year period and 72nd percentile and ranked 126 out of 174 funds for the 5-year period.
T. Rowe Price Target 2050 was in the 49th percentile and ranked 87 out of 202 funds for the 1-year period and 57th percentile and ranked 91 out of 175 funds for the 5-year period.
T. Rowe Price Target 2055 was in the 35th percentile and ranked 63 out of 201 funds for the 1-year period and 37th percentile and ranked 55 out of 174 funds for the 5-year period.
T. Rowe Price Target 2060 was in the 33rd percentile and ranked 53 out of 200 funds for the 1-year period and 36th percentile and ranked 45 out of 162 funds for the 5-year period.
T. Rowe Price Target 2065 was in the 37th percentile and ranked 53 out of 175 funds for the 1-year period. The fund was launched in 2020 and is not yet ranked for the 5-year period.

Important information about the Morningstar Ratings

The Morningstar Medalist RatingTM is the summary expression of Morningstar’s forward-looking analysis of investment strategies as offered via specific vehicles using a rating scale of Gold, Silver, Bronze, Neutral, and Negative. The Medalist Ratings indicate which investments Morningstar believes are likely to outperform a relevant index or peer group average on a risk-adjusted basis over time. Investment products are evaluated on three key pillars (People, Parent, and Process) which, when coupled with a fee assessment, forms the basis for Morningstar’s conviction in those products’ investment merits and determines the Medalist Rating they’re assigned. Pillar ratings take the form of Low, Below Average, Average, Above Average, and High. Pillars may be evaluated via an analyst’s qualitative assessment (either directly to a vehicle the analyst covers or indirectly when the pillar ratings of a covered vehicle are mapped to a related uncovered vehicle) or using algorithmic techniques. Vehicles are sorted by their expected performance into rating groups defined by their Morningstar Category and their active or passive status. When analysts directly cover a vehicle, they assign the three pillar ratings based on their qualitative assessment, subject to the oversight of the Analyst Rating Committee, and monitor and reevaluate them at least every 14 months. When the vehicles are covered either indirectly by analysts or by algorithm, the ratings are assigned monthly. For more detailed information about these ratings, including their methodology, please go to https://global.morningstar.com/managerdisclosures/.

The Morningstar Medalist Ratings are not statements of fact, nor are they credit or risk ratings. The Morningstar Medalist Rating (i) should not be used as the sole basis in evaluating an investment product, (ii) involves unknown risks and uncertainties which may cause expectations not to occur or to differ significantly from what was expected, (iii) are not guaranteed to be based on complete or accurate assumptions or models when determined algorithmically, (iv) involve the risk that the return target will not be met due to such things as unforeseen changes in management, technology, economic development, interest rate development, operating and/or material costs, competitive pressure, supervisory law, exchange rate, tax rates, exchange rate changes, and/or changes in political and social conditions, and (v) should not be considered an offer or solicitation to buy or sell the investment product. A change in the fundamental factors underlying the Morningstar Medalist Rating can mean that the rating is subsequently no longer accurate.

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The T. Rowe Price common trust funds (Trusts) are not mutual funds; rather, the Trusts are operated and maintained so as to qualify for exemption from registration as mutual funds pursuant to Section 3(c)(11) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The Trusts are established by T. Rowe Price Trust Company under Maryland banking law, and their units are exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933. Investments in the Trusts are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed by, the U.S. government or its agencies or T. Rowe Price Trust Company and are subject to investment risks, including possible loss of principal. For additional information on the common trust funds being offered, including a trust fact sheet, please call T. Rowe Price.

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