Target Date Funds

Risks

All securities investments risk the loss of capital. Each Target Date Fund invests in U.S. Stocks, International Stocks, U.S. Nominal Bonds, International Nominal Bonds, and Short-term TIPS in different proportions. There is a chance of losing a percentage of your original investment. An investment in the fund could lose money over short or even long periods.

Stock Risk

The stock market can be volatile. Over long periods of time investors with exposure to stocks may enjoy higher returns than other options. However, investors with exposure to stocks can also lose more money than in some other options. Sharp and unpredictable changes in value, either positive or negative, can be especially acute over shorter periods of time.

Bond Risk

One of the main risks with bonds is interest rate risk, resulting in the chance that bond prices overall will decline because of rising interest rates. Because the bond portion of the Target Date Funds are passively managed index funds, returns will reflect the returns of the respective broad bond market. When the bond market rises, the bond portion will rise in tandem. Likewise, when the bond market declines (due to rising interest rates or other factors) the bond portion will decline as well. Investors can expect to receive returns of the respective general bond market, less applicable expenses. Although the bond market is perceived by many to be a more conservative type of investment—and historically, it has been less volatile—that does not mean that one cannot lose value in this fund.

Although all bonds in the bond portion of the Target Date Funds are considered to be “investment grade,” there is associated credit risk—the chance that a bond issuer will fail to pay interest and principal in a timely manner, or that negative perceptions of the issuer’s ability to make such payments will cause the price of that bond to decline.

In addition, the bond portion of the Target Date Funds carries some “call” risk. This refers to the chance that during periods of falling interest rates, issuers of callable bonds may call (repay) securities with higher interest rates before their maturity dates. The bond portion of the Target Date Funds would then lose any price appreciation above the bond’s call price and would be forced to reinvest the unanticipated proceeds at lower interest rates, resulting in a decline in the fund’s income. For mortgage-backed securities, this risk is known as “prepayment risk.” Call/prepayment risk should be low for the fund because it invests mainly in securities that are not callable.

Because the underlying funds in the Target Date Funds are index funds, they have index sampling risk, which is the chance that the securities selected for the respective underlying fund, in the aggregate, will not provide investment performance matching that of the underlying fund’s target index. Index sampling risk for the fund should be low.

If you are uncomfortable with the risks associated with the Target Date Funds, you may want to consider another MMBB investment option.

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Below is the performance of the Target Date Funds for varying lengths of time. The longer the time period, the more likely it encompasses varying economic and market conditions.

1. The Target Retirement Funds inception date was January 2, 2020.

Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Performance is for the stated time period only; performance through the current date may be lower or higher than displayed above due to market fluctuations, manager performance or other reasons.

Total Estimated Annual Expenses

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