The retirement landscape for Americans
Our holistic approach
Investment strategies
Provide strategic asset allocation choices using our range of options to support participants’ spending goals.
- Vanguard Target Retirement strategies
- Core fixed income
- Stable value and money market funds
Financial wellness and guidance
Help participants translate their retirement assets into income with our financial wellness offer, including the Live Well in Retirement guide, and spending guidance tools. Plan sponsors can help their participants transition from an employment paycheck to a retirement plan paycheck.
- Live Well in Retirement
- Retirement Withdrawal Coach
- Retirement plan paychecks
Access to annuities
Support participants who want guaranteed income with access to out-of-plan annuities through the Hueler Income Solutions® platform. This enables individuals to obtain institutionally priced, competitive income annuity quotes from multiple insurance companies without conflict and bias.
To learn more about Income Solutions and access through Vanguard’s participant experience, contact your representative.
Advice
Consider expert advice options that encompass all stages of the financial journey, up to and through retirement. Whether to use advice is not a onetime or irrevocable decision. We recognize that a participant’s needs will likely vary over time as their circumstances change.
Help give participants the best chance for retirement income success
At Vanguard, we believe retirement success is about more than just saving enough. It’s also about living confidently and within your means once you get there.
Using our retirement income platform, plan sponsors empower their participants to transition from saving to spending, offering flexible options that reflect their unique goals, financial situations, and retirement timelines.
Whether through investment strategies, financial wellness and guidance, access to guaranteed income, or expert advice, we give plan sponsors the tools to help their retirees build income they can count on—without sacrificing control or clarity.
Expert perspectives on retirement income
Get ready for How America Retires
You've heard of How America Saves, Vanguard's flagship research. Soon you'll have access to How America Retires, a new report that uses comprehensive data-based research to offer a complete view of the retirement landscape through the lens of defined contribution retirement plans.
How America Retires offers behavioral trends and insights, along with plan design best practices, to help retirees make the life-changing transition from saving to spending with confidence.
Want to talk about retirement income solutions for your plan?
Sources:
1 Welcome to the Peak 65 Zone—A New Chapter in America's Retirement Landscape. Alliance for Lifetime Income, 2024. https://www.protectedincome.org/the-peak65/.
2 Retirement Insecurity 2024: Americans’ Views of Retirement. National Institute on Retirement Security, 2024.
3 Data from Invesco's 2021 DC language study, Watch Your Language, which included 997 U.S. large plan participants.
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Investments in Target Retirement Funds and Trusts are subject to the risks of their underlying funds. The year in the fund or trust name refers to the approximate year (the target date) when an investor in the fund or trust would retire and leave the workforce. The fund/trust will gradually shift its emphasis from more aggressive investments to more conservative ones based on its target date. The Income Trust/Fund and Income and Growth Trust have fixed investment allocations and are designed for investors who are already retired. An investment in a Target Retirement Fund or Trust is not guaranteed at any time, including on or after the target date.
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Hueler Investment Services, Inc., is a non-affiliated third party and does not compensate Vanguard. Access to annuities is offered through the Income Solutions platform and provided on a rollover (out-of-plan) basis. All views expressed by Hueler Investment Services, Inc., are their own. Product guarantees are subject to the claims-paying ability of the issuing company. Income Solutions® is a registered trademark of Hueler Investment Services, Inc., and used under license. United States Patent No. 7,653,560.