The glide path is strategically aggressive in the early stages and minimizes sequence-of-return risks near retirement.
Retirement Advantage wins 7 Lipper Awards
Franklin Templeton’s Putnam Retirement Advantage target‑date series swept seven 2025 LSEG Lipper Fund Awards—the most of any target‑date lineup—by earning the highest Lipper Leader Consistent Return scores over 3‑, 5‑ and 10‑year periods, underscoring its reliable outperformance amid global market turbulence.1

Why Putnam Retirement Advantage?
After a lifetime of work, everyone deserves a secure and comfortable retirement.
Tailored glide path
Control and flexibility
Individual security selection seeks to provide more control and strategic risk management than typical fund-of-funds.
A choice of vehicles
We offer target-date strategies in CITs or mutual funds, each with its advantages, so you can choose the best fit for your plan.
See Franklin's retirement target-date series
| Putnam Retirement Advantage Trusts | Putnam Retirement Advantage Funds | |
|---|---|---|
| Available to qualified retirement plans | Yes | Yes |
| Level fees across vintages | Yes | Yes |
| Collective Investment Trusts (CITs) | Yes | |
| Mutual funds | Yes | |
| Available for IRAs and taxable accounts | Yes |
There can be no assurance that targets will be achieved.
Competitive performance
Morningstar Ratings measure risk-adjusted returns. The overall Morningstar Rating for a fund is derived from a weighted average of the performance figures associated with its 3-, 5- and 10-year (if applicable) rating metrics.
Past performance is not an indicator or a guarantee of future performance.
Morningstar Category: Target-Date 2065+
Share class inception date : 12/30/2020
Morningstar Category: Target-Date 2060
Share class inception date : 12/31/2019
Morningstar Category: Target-Date 2055
Share class inception date : 12/31/2019
Morningstar Category: Target-Date 2050
Share class inception date : 12/31/2019
Morningstar Category: Target-Date 2045
Share class inception date : 12/31/2019
Morningstar Category: Target-Date 2040
Share class inception date : 12/31/2019
Morningstar Category: Target-Date 2035
Share class inception date : 12/31/2019
Morningstar Category: Target-Date 2030
Share class inception date : 12/31/2019
Morningstar Category: Target-Date Retirement
Share class inception date : 12/31/2019
Source: Morningstar®, as of 8/31/25. For each mutual fund and exchange traded fund with at least a 3-year history, Morningstar calculates a Morningstar Rating™ based on how a fund ranks on a Morningstar Risk-Adjusted Return measure against other funds in the same category. This measure takes into account variations in a fund’s monthly performance, and does not take into account the effects of sales charges and loads, placing more emphasis on downward variations and rewarding consistent performance. The top 10% of funds in each category receive 5 stars, the next 22.5% receive 4 stars, the next 35% receive 3 stars, the next 22.5% receive 2 stars and the bottom 10% receive 1 star. The weights are: 100% 3-year rating for 36–59 months of total returns, 60% 5-year rating/40% 3-year rating for 60–119 months of total returns, and 50% 10-year rating/30% 5-year rating/20% 3-year rating for 120 or more months of total returns. While the 10-year overall star rating formula seems to give the most weight to the 10-year period, the most recent 3-year period actually has the greatest impact because it is included in all three rating periods. Mutual fund Morningstar Ratings™ are for Class R6 only, other classes may have different performance characteristics. Past performance is not an indicator or a guarantee of future performance.
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What makes Putnam Retirement Advantage different
Our target-date portfolios leverage the expertise of the Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions team, which has been managing multi-asset strategies since 1994 and target-date strategies since 2004. The team covers all steps of the investment process – the glide path, tactical allocations, and strategy implementation. This provides the team with the unique ability to pursue the right risk at the right time, both from a top-down and bottom-up perspective.
Get to know our team leaders.

Brett S. Goldstein, CFA
Senior Vice President
Portfolio Manager
Industry since 2010

Adrian H. Chan, CFA
Senior Vice President
Portfolio Manager
Industry since 2003

Jacqueline Hurley Kenney, CFA
Senior Vice President
Portfolio Manager
Industry since 2009

Thomas Nelson, CFA
Senior Vice President
Portfolio Manager
Industry since 1992

Jonathan M. Schreiber, CFA
Vice President
Portfolio Manager
Industry since 2010
The team has a record of achievements
20
Average years of investment experience
Created the funds’ strategic glide path
Actively research global markets to anticipate changing trends
Experience managing target-date strategies since 2004
A glide path for the right risk at the right time
Our glide path philosophy is designed to address the most prominent risk at each stage of the retirement savings process.
For younger investors, the key risk is shortfall in savings, so we favor equities for growth
For older investors, the key risk is an equity market drawdown, so we favor less volatile fixed income assets
We believe the 10 years just before retirement are crucial to success. This is when balances are large and time is too limited to recover from losses. We seek to manage this risk with equity exposure below the industry average. Our goal is better outcomes for all.
Putnam's Retirement Advantage Target Date Series Glidepath
Morningstar. Data as of December 31, 2024. A glide path is the change in a portfolio’s asset allocation as time goes by. There is no guarantee that these investment strategies will work under all market conditions, are appropriate for all investors or that any particular level of return will be achieved. AN investment does not eliminate a need for an investor to determine whether a strategy is appropriate for their specific financial situation.
Franklin equity allocations: Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions, As of June 30, 2024. Because of rounding in the calculation of allocations among underlying funds, actual allocations might be more or less than these percentages. Holdings and sectors will vary over time. This is not an offer to sell or a recommendation to buy and individual security.
Asset allocation and diversification cannot assure a profit or protect against loss.
Research & resources
Committed to helping retirement plans succeed, we offer glide path research from our long tenured Franklin Investment Solutions team as well as product information for advisors and education for participants.
For advisors: Quarterly commentary
Explore our latest commentary to understand the key factors behind our significant benchmark- and peer-relative outperformance in recent periods.
Targeting the right risk at the right time
Our target-date strategies favor equities more when there is a long horizon before retirement, then shift to reduce equity risk approaching the retirement date.
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