Special Report: Fidelity puts 6 million savers on risky path to retirement

Reuters --------- For three years, the mutual funds in Fidelity’s flagship retirement franchise have outperformed at least 85 percent of their competitors, reversing a decade-long trend of subpar performance. And yet client money has continued to flow out of the firm’s Freedom Funds as retirement plan sponsors shift workers’ savings to rivals in the target-date fund business. While deposits in the trillion-dollar sector have surged, Fidelity has seen nearly $16 billion in net withdrawals over the past four years, according to research firm Morningstar Inc. The exodus stems in part from unease with the way Boston-based Fidelity has boosted performance - by ramping up risk. To learn more click on the picture below to read the article.