Fund Overview
Fortify purchasing power for retirement
A suite of target-date funds created specifically with retirees’ future sustainable spending needs in mind, PIMCO RealRetirement Funds offer the potential to preserve and enhance purchasing power over time, by emphasizing real, or inflation-adjusted, returns and by aiming to generate more reliable results across different market cycles.
Why Invest In This Fund
Build purchasing power
Whether upward movements in consumer prices are slow and steady, or they spike suddenly, inflation is a major threat to long-term savings, eroding the purchasing power needed for one’s retirement. The fund seeks to defend investors against the impact of inflation during their investment years in order to sustain spending later on.
Manage risk over time
Unlike target-date funds with high equity concentrations that may expose investors to unacceptable levels of risk, PIMCO’s glide path, or allocation strategy, is designed to target risk exposures that do not exceed an investor’s capacity for loss. The fund is managed to aggressively reduce its exposure to equities and other high risk/return assets as the target date approaches.
Guard against market shocks
Major market shocks, or “tail risk events,” may cause asset class values to drop broadly. For a person close to, or in, retirement, this type of dramatic setback can devastate career-long savings. To help protect against market shocks, the fund employs investment tools or strategies designed to offset risks to the portfolio, should those events occur.