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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

The glide path is strategically aggressive in the early stages and minimizes sequence-of-return risks near retirement.

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 Overall Rating ™ 
5 Stars
3-yr Rating 
5 Stars
5-yr Rating 
10-yr Rating 

Morningstar Category: Target-Date 2060

Share class inception date : 12/31/2019

Morningstar Overall Rating ™ 
5 Stars
3-yr Rating 
5 Stars
5-yr Rating 
5 Stars
10-yr Rating 

Morningstar Category: Target-Date 2055

Share class inception date : 12/31/2019

Morningstar Overall Rating ™ 
5 Stars
3-yr Rating 
5 Stars
5-yr Rating 
5 Stars
10-yr Rating 

Morningstar Category: Target-Date 2050

Share class inception date : 12/31/2019

Morningstar Overall Rating ™ 
5 Stars
3-yr Rating 
5 Stars
5-yr Rating 
5 Stars
10-yr Rating 

Morningstar Category: Target-Date 2045

Share class inception date : 12/31/2019

Morningstar Overall Rating ™ 
5 Stars
3-yr Rating 
5 Stars
5-yr Rating 
5 Stars
10-yr Rating 

Morningstar Category: Target-Date 2040

Share class inception date : 12/31/2019

Morningstar Overall Rating ™ 
5 Stars
3-yr Rating 
5 Stars
5-yr Rating 
5 Stars
10-yr Rating 

Morningstar Category: Target-Date 2035

Share class inception date : 12/31/2019

Morningstar Overall Rating ™ 
5 Stars
3-yr Rating 
5 Stars
5-yr Rating 
5 Stars
10-yr Rating 

Morningstar Category: Target-Date 2030

Share class inception date : 12/31/2019

Morningstar Overall Rating ™ 
4 Stars
3-yr Rating 
3 Stars
5-yr Rating 
4 Stars
10-yr Rating 

Morningstar Category: Target-Date Retirement

Morningstar Overall Rating ™ 
4 Stars
3-yr Rating 
4 Stars
5-yr Rating 
4 Stars
10-yr Rating 

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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The share class for which mutual fund ratings are shown are only offered to certain eligible investors as stated in the prospectus. Mutual funds offer multiple share classes, which are subject to different fees and expenses that will affect their performance. Please see a mutual fund prospectus for details.

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.

Contact us

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