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Investors now pick twice as many funds for retirement: Millionaire Corner

With a wider choice of investment options in their retirement plans, participants are picking twice as many mutual funds to include in their plan portfolios, said the Spectrem Group in a report issued Wednesday.

By Staff Writer | Updated on May 20, 2011

With a wider choice of investment options in their retirement plans, participants are picking twice as many mutual funds to include in their plan portfolios, said the Spectrem Group in a report issued Wednesday.

Plan participants cited 37% of the time that diversification was the reason for choosing so many more funds: 5.3 on average in 2011, nearly double the 2.7 that participants included in their plans in 1996, according to “Asset Allocation Decisions of Plan Participants” on Spectrem’s Millionaire Corner website.

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