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3252: Why You Shouldn't Buy Target Date Funds by Wanderer of Millennial Revolution on Investment Advice

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🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3252: Wanderer breaks down why Target Date Funds may not be the smart, set-it-and-forget-it solution they're marketed as. Hidden fees, unnecessary complexity, and poor cost-to-value ratios make them easy to beat with a DIY ETF strategy, saving you money and boosting returns with just a little more effort. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.millennial-revolution.com/invest/target-date-funds/ Quotes to ponder: "You're employing a team of dozens of people to do a job that a spreadsheet can do." "I have another name for Convenience Shoppers: Incredibly Stupid and Lazy People." Episode references: The Simple Path to Wealth: https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Path-Wealth-financial-independence/dp/1533667926 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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millennial-revolution.com. For some reason lately, I've been getting a bunch of emails asking me what

1:22.1

I think of a particular target date fund, so I thought this would make a good article but before we get

1:28.8

into what I think of these things hint it's in the title of the article let's

1:33.7

first talk about what these things are what is a target date fund target date

1:40.5

funds are also known as life cycle funds, age-based funds, or dynamic risk funds.

1:47.9

That last one makes it sound pretty cool,

1:50.4

but basically what target date funds do

1:53.0

is adjust your asset allocation as you get older

1:56.0

and closer to retirement.

1:58.2

These funds typically have a year or target date in its name. The idea is that based

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