Timing is everything. If you are planning to retire in 2020 and invested in a target-date fund, then your timing last year was impeccable.
The Nasdaq returned 36.89 percent, and the S&P 500 32.83 percent.
And every Morningstar bond fund category booked positive returns, with long-term bond funds averaging a 19.3 percent return. The Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index returned 8.7 percent, its strongest performance since the financial crisis.
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