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Is your target-date fund increasing your retirement risk?

As financial crisis recedes, companies say investors have an increased risk tolerance and more need for stocks' higher returns.

Several target-date fund providers raised the equity components of their glidepaths, saying their research shows participants have a slightly higher risk tolerance than in the years immediately after the economic crisis.
Although executives at the firms acknowledge they're not counting on equities t

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