People work, and plan, and save because they know that life doesn’t stop in retirement. Yet even with the best preparation, many are still at risk of outliving their savings. Longer lives and economic headwinds have made the path to a secure retirement ever more challenging. And people are looking for help answering the question, how do I make my money last?
Introducing LifePath Paycheck™ funds, the next evolution of Target Date solutions. Providing participants with the option to purchase lifetime income from insurance companies selected by BlackRock, complete with an accompanying digital experience.
Like a traditional target date fund, LifePath Paycheck™ becomes more conservative over time, but it doesn’t stop at just stocks and bonds. It starts allocating to a new asset class called “lifetime income” beginning in the year a participant turns age 55 – which, at retirement, can then be used to purchase the annuities from the selected insurers.
That means, in retirement, participants receive a paycheck they can count on every month, every year, for life.
And with the MyLifePath™ digital experience, participants get a clear picture of how today’s contributions can translate to tomorrow’s retirement income, shifting mindsets and encouraging positive savings behaviors to help participants reach their retirement goals.
Managed by BlackRock, LifePath Paycheck™ funds and the MyLifePath™ digital experience.
Driving towards a simpler, more secure path to retirement by providing participants with the option to purchase a lifetime income stream so that you can retire from work, but not a paycheck.
People are living longer – and that should be a great thing. But most workers today can’t count on the kind of guaranteed retirement income that previous generations had. We’re changing that with LifePath Paycheck, a solution designed to give workers access to income streams they can rely on in retirement – for life.
When it comes to retirement income, neither plans nor participants want to be “locked in.” There’s no “have to” with LifePath Paycheck − participants can choose to annuitize beginning at 59 ½.1
Complexity can often be a barrier to adoption. LifePath Paycheck is an income solution that’s offered through something familiar - the target date strategy.
LifePath Paycheck is designed to be priced in line with institutional-quality target date index solutions and features, all in service of eliminating many of the common fees that accompany traditional insurance solutions in market today.
Introducing LifePath Paycheck: the next generation of target date solutions that include an option to purchase a lifetime income stream from insurers selected by BlackRock. In other words, participants can get a paycheck for life.
Here’s how it works:
This breaks down as 99% Equity and 1% Fixed Income.
This breaks down as 52% Equity, 9% Inflation, 24% Fixed Income and 15% Lifetime Income.6
Get a paycheck for life by opting to purchase a lifetime income stream for retirement – payable by insurers selected by BlackRock.
The remaining retirement plan savings can either be invested in a target date solution designed to complement the lifetime income stream,7 in another retirement plan investment option, or redeemed for cash.
This breaks down as 37% Equity, 9% Inflation, 24% Fixed Income and 30% Lifetime Income.
For illustrative purposes only and subject to change.
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Incorporates a deliberate process to seek outperformance and additional return to help participants generate more return without taking on unnecessary risk.
Invested in a diversified mix of cost-effective, indexed building blocks and built with low cost, efficient index implementations.
1 But no later than mid-December in the calendar year that you will turn age 71 years old
6 Grows to approximately 30% of the LifePath Paycheck investment at age 65.
7 This solution is a diversified portfolio that has an asset allocation of approximately 50% stocks and 50% bonds, and provides daily liquidity so that participants can make withdrawals whenever they’d like, subject to their retirement plan’s rules.
The LifePath Paycheck® (“LPP”) solution is subject to, among other things plan sponsor adoption and implementation considerations. The LPP solution is currently available to U.S. employer-sponsored defined contribution plans qualified under Sections 401(a), 403(b)(9), and governmental plans qualified under Section 457(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, that have each entered into an investment management agreement with BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. Puerto Rico qualified, or U.S. and Puerto Rico dual-qualified defined contribution plans, are not eligible to participate in LPP.
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The LifePath Paycheck® funds and MyLifePath® digital platform use patented technology covered by US Patent No. 11,605,131 and 12,056,770.
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