Fidelity maintains target-date volume; Vanguard comes out on top

Fidelity is still the second-largest TDF provider even though it has seen $20 billion in outflows since the start of 2012.
MAR 22, 2018

Fidelity Investments remains the second-largest target-date fund provider, despite experiencing a total of $20 billion in outflows between the start of 2012 and the end of February. The company did have net inflows of $3.1 billion in 2017 after net outflows in each of the previous five years. The equity-heavy fund families (both active and passive) make up about one-fifth of all invested target-date assets. According to Pensions & Investments' latest survey data, Fidelity serves 19.7 million participants across 29,255 plan sponsors. Vanguard took in about $189 billion over the same period, a net $51.4 billion in 2017, more than double the next-highest competitor, American Funds, which took in about $24 billion. Vanguard serves about 4.6 million participants. The five largest target-date fund providers have increasingly gained market share on their competitors, raking in 48% of all target-date fund flows in 2017, up from 43% in 2016 and 25% in 2014. So far in 2017, the top five managers have pulled in just under 60% of all client flows in target-date mutual funds.
Target-date fund flows
Cumulative 2012 through Feb. 28
Source: Morningstar Direc
Largest target-date fund managers
As of Feb. 28
Source: Morningstar Direc

(More: Passive target-date funds? No such thing) Charles McGrath is data editor at InvestmentNews' sister publication, Pensions&Investments.

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