Investments Overview
Selecting funds to help you reach your retirement planning goals
The funds in RPB’s Plan are grouped into three tiers—target date funds, self-directed funds, and socially responsible funds—to make it easier for you to navigate your investment choices. Your level of interest in and knowledge about investing will help determine which investment or combination of investments is right for you.
Remember, the best way to make sure you’re prepared for retirement, which will likely last many decades after you stop working, is to start planning as early as possible and to maximize your savings while you’re working.
We recommend that you maintain a diversified portfolio, which may help limit the effect of a single market event on your entire portfolio. We also suggest that you make your investment decisions with expected long-term performance in mind. While short-term market volatility can impact your portfolio, changing your investments based on these temporary situations is often ineffective, and may have unforeseen consequences. Talk to your financial advisor or tax professional before making decisions about your asset allocation.
Not sure where to start?
Our Investment Choice Guide provides basic investing principles and fund information.
Fund tiers
RPB’s three tiers of funds offer participants varying levels of involvement and effort in their retirement investment decisions.
Tier 1: Target Date Funds
- RPB’s Tier 1 funds are generally best for people who don’t have the experience or desire to make regular investment decisions, or who want a simpler approach to reaching an investment objective.
- The Tier 1 target date funds consist of a series of T. Rowe Price Retirement Blend Trusts. The trusts are periodically adjusted to reduce risk over time with a specific target retirement date in mind.
- Each Retirement Blend Trust is a fully diversified, pre-assembled portfolio that uses both actively managed and passive investment strategies to seek its objective.
Tier 2: Self-Directed Funds
- Our Tier 2 funds allow you or your financial advisor to build a customized portfolio across asset classes and investment risk to meet your unique retirement goals and financial needs.
- The Tier 2 funds are a mix of actively managed and passively managed index funds that span a range of asset classes and risk levels.
- Some of our Tier 2 choices are mutual funds and others are collective investment trusts. Trusts typically offer lower fees than mutual funds for qualified retirement plans.
Tier 3: Socially Responsible Funds
- The Reform Jewish Values (RJV) Stock Fund invests in global stocks and enables plan participants to strongly align their retirement investments with their Jewish values. It’s the only socially responsible fund of its kind.
Fund Fact Sheets & Fees
Tier 1: Target Date Funds
Participants typically invest in a fund with a target date closest to the year they turn 65, based on their birth year.
The fees listed for RPB's Tier 1 funds are as of May 1, 2025.
Birth Year | Fund | Objective | Fee |
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1942 or earlier | Asset growth and income | 0.18% | |
1943-1947 | Asset growth and income | 0.18% | |
1948 - 1952 | Asset growth and income | 0.18% | |
1953 - 1957 | Asset growth and income | 0.18% | |
1958 - 1962 | Asset growth and income | 0.18% | |
1963 - 1967 | Asset growth and income | 0.18% | |
1968 - 1972 | Asset growth and income | 0.18% | |
1973 - 1977 | Asset growth and income | 0.18% | |
1978 - 1982 | Asset growth and income | 0.18% | |
1983 - 1987 | Asset growth and income | 0.18% | |
1988 - 1992 | Asset growth and income | 0.18% | |
1993 - 1997 | Asset growth and income | 0.18% | |
1998 or after | Asset growth and income | 0.18% |
Birth Year | Fund | Objective | Fee |
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1942 or earlier | Asset growth and income | 0.19% | |
1943-1947 | Asset growth and income | 0.19% | |
1948 - 1952 | Asset growth and income | 0.20% | |
1953 - 1957 | Asset growth and income | 0.21% | |
1958 - 1962 | Asset growth and income | 0.22% | |
1963 - 1967 | Asset growth and income | 0.23% | |
1968 - 1972 | Asset growth and income | 0.24% | |
1973 - 1977 | Asset growth and income | 0.24% | |
1978 - 1982 | Asset growth and income | 0.25% | |
1983 - 1987 | Asset growth and income | 0.25% | |
1988 - 1992 | Asset growth and income | 0.26% | |
1993 - 1997 | Asset growth and income | 0.26% | |
1998 or after | Asset growth and income | 0.26% |
Tier 2: Self-Directed Funds
The fees listed for RPB's Tier 2 funds are as of May 1, 2025.
Fund | Objective | Fee |
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Stability of principal | 0.29% | |
Generate income and moderate asset growth | 0.024% | |
Generate income and moderate asset growth | 0.30% | |
Asset growth | 0.51% | |
Asset growth | 0.014% | |
Asset growth | 0.47% | |
Asset growth | 0.81% | |
Asset growth | 0.04% | |
Asset growth | 0.04% | |
Asset growth | 0.69% | |
Asset growth | 0.10% | |
Generate income and moderate asset growth | 0.11% |
Fund | Objective | Fee |
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Stability of principal | 0.11 % | |
Generate income and moderate asset growth | 0.035% | |
Generate income and moderate asset growth | 0.30% | |
Asset growth | 0.51% | |
Asset growth | 0.02% | |
Asset growth | 0.47% | |
Asset growth | 0.81% | |
Asset growth | 0.04% | |
Asset growth | 0.06% | |
Asset growth | 0.69% | |
Asset growth | 0.10% | |
Generate income and moderate asset growth | 0.11% |
Tier 3: Socially Responsible Funds
The fees listed for RPB's Tier 3 funds are as of May 1, 2025.
Fund | Objective | Fee |
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Asset growth | 0.11%* |
- *Check the RJV Stock Fund fact sheet for the most recent fee. The investment management fee is a blended rate based on the fund’s total pool of assets: 0.15% for the first $10 million in assets and 0.10% for assets over $10 million. For example, if the fund value is $20 million, the annualized fee is 0.125%. Participants also pay an RPB Administration Fee (0.16%) as well as a Custody, Recordkeeping, and Investment Consulting Fee (approximately 0.04%) which fluctuates slightly over time and is passed onto participants at cost.
RPB’s administrative fees include (1) the costs to operate RPB, and (2) the costs to provide recordkeeping, custody, and investment consulting services. The annual administrative fees are approximately 0.18% of a participant’s account balance and are assessed quarterly regardless of the fund(s) that the participant is invested in.
The administrative fees consist of the following:
RPB Operations | 0.16% |
Recordkeeping, Custody, and Investment Consulting | 0.02%* |
Example: The annual administrative fees for a $10,000 account balance would be $18.00, or $4.50 per quarter.
- *These fees are passed on to participants at cost. They will fluctuate slightly based on the total assets under management of the Plan and as these costs change over time.
Do you want to learn more about our funds?
Talk to a Fidelity retirement planner at 800.328.6608 (English) or 800.587.5282 (Spanish). It’s free to all RPB participants. Or call Robert Perry, RPB's Director of Participant & Employer Services.
Managing your allocations
It’s a good practice to review your asset allocation annually to ensure you’re on track with your goals.
Changing Your Investments
If you’re still contributing to your retirement account and would like to change where your new contributions are invested:
- Log in to your account at rpb.org.
- Select Manage Investments. Then on the Investments tab, select Change investments.
- Next, select Change Investment Elections.
- Follow the step-by-step instructions to make your changes.
If you’d like to adjust how your existing account balance is invested:
- Log in to your account at rpb.org.
- Select Manage Investments. Then on the Investments tab, select Change investments.
- Next, select Exchange One Investment or Exchange Multiple Investments.
- Follow the step-by-step instructions to make your changes.
TRADING RULES AND TIMING LIMITATIONS
Fidelity Investments, the plan's recordkeeping services provider, has excessive trading rules, as detailed below.
Fidelity has an excessive trading policy which is designed to protect fund shareholders by limiting short-term trading. The excessive trading policy imposes restrictions on shareholders who engage in multiple “round trips”. A round trip is a purchase and subsequent redemption of fund shares within 30 days. Within defined contribution plans that are recordkept by Fidelity, only participant-initiated exchanges of $1,000 or more are taken into consideration in monitoring plan accounts for round trips.
If a participant completes two round trips involving the same fund in a rolling 90 day period, an 85 day, fund specific exchange restriction is imposed on the participant’s account. While a restriction is in place, the participant may not exchange into the impacted fund. The exchange restriction does not impact either the participant’s right to redeem shares, or the processing of other types of purchases, such as ongoing contributions and loan repayments.
If a participant completes 4 round trips involving any funds that are subject to the policy in a 12 month period, a 12 month exchange restriction will be imposed. During this 12 month period, the participant will only be allowed to exchange into any of the funds that are subject to the policy one day per calendar quarter. Again, the 12-month exchange restriction does not impact the processing of redemptions or other types of purchases, including ongoing contributions and loan repayments.
Ready to go deeper?
Dive into our Tier 1 target allocation funds in detail.