Your Target-Date Fund Charges 6x More Than the Two-ETF Version of Itself
Reported by Yahoo Finance · finance.yahoo.com · August 1, 2026
Most investors assume their target-date fund is the simple, low-cost option, but a two-ETF combination quietly does the same job at a fraction of the price, and the gap compounds into real money over a career.
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