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Vanguard's target date retirement funds furthest from retirement do not have a 100% stock allocation simply because studies have established that a 90/10 stock/bond portfolio outperforms a 100% stock allocation.

This sounds reasonable and I’m with you, but compelled to ask, which studies, can you provide links?

Knowing those sources could help us find more recent ones citing them, and see how this strategy has held up over time.

Here’s one:

[1] https://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/14/9/409

If my memory serves me correctly, it was part of the results of the CAPM study by Sharpe and Markowitz for which they won the a Nobel.

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