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T. Rowe Price takes on the risk of its target date fund retirees outliving their savings -- by jacking up equity exposure even on the glide path

The Baltimore patriarch is using both actuarial and behavioral science as the basis for the contrarian move whose downside is accentuated as coronavirus gives the approach a rough start

Author By Lisa Shidler March 2, 2020 at 6:13 PM
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Joseph Martel: We think they can afford to take more equity risk.

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