Investments Overview
Selecting funds to help you reach your retirement planning goals
Retirees of today and tomorrow can expect to live for decades after they stop working. While this means you can enjoy a fulfilling retirement for longer than previous generations, you’ll also need to plan ahead to meet your retirement goals and make your nest egg last.
With this future in mind, RPB offers a spectrum of investment choices so you can customize your retirement portfolio to meet your specific goals based on your investing experience, time horizon, and risk tolerance.
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 Allocation 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.
- Our target allocation funds invest in a diverse mix of asset classes. They are designed to keep pace with their benchmarks over a full market cycle, with lower volatility than the market as a whole.
- Each of the five funds uses both active investments and passive investments to meet the goals of growth, growth and income, or income. As they get closer to retirement, many participants typically invest less aggressively and take on less risk in their investments.
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 consists of eight index funds offered by Vanguard (one of the world’s largest investment management companies) and an RPB stable value fund.
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.
Investment Fact Sheets & Fees
Tier 1: Target Allocation Funds
If you don’t want to make regular investment decisions, you might choose one or more of the managed funds in Tier 1, which are designed to meet various retirement savings goals.
| Fund | Objective | Fee |
|---|---|---|
| <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> RPB Focused Growth Fund | Asset growth | 0.45% |
| RPB Moderate Growth Fund | Asset growth | |
| RPB Growth & Income Fund | Asset growth & income | 0.36% |
| RPB Moderate Income Fund | Generate income | |
| RPB Focused Income Fund | Generate income | 0.25% |
| Summary of Holdings by Fund |
Tier 2: Self-Directed Funds
If you have the knowledge and interest to make your own asset allocation decisions—or if you work with a professional financial advisor—you might choose to put your savings into the Tier 2 funds which represent four asset classes: stocks, bonds, real estate, and stable value.
| Fund | Objective | Fee |
|---|---|---|
| Vanguard Institutional Index Fund (S&P 500) | Asset growth | 0.02% |
| Vanguard Developed Markets Index Fund (International) | Asset growth | 0.06% |
| Vanguard Small-Cap Index Fund | Asset growth | 0.04% |
| Vanguard Emerging Markets Index Fund | Asset growth | 0.10% |
| Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund | Generate income | 0.05% |
| Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund | Generate income and guard against inflation | 0.04% |
| Vanguard Total Bond-Market Index Fund | Generate income and moderate asset growth | 0.04% |
| Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund | Generate income and asset growth | 0.10% |
| RPB Capital Preservation Fund | Stability of principal | 0.35% |
| Capital Preservation Fund - Rabbi Trust | Stability of principal | 0.11% |
Tier 3: Socially Responsible Funds
This fund is for those who want to make a social impact with their investments and have the ability to tolerate short- to medium-term fluctuations in principal due to adverse economic conditions.
| Fund | Objective | Fee |
|---|---|---|
| RPB Reform Jewish Values Stock Fund | Asset growth | 0.13% |
All plan participants pay the following administrative fee for both Tier 1 and Tier 2 funds:
| RPB Administration Fee | 0.20% |
|---|---|
| Custody, Record Keeping, and Investment Consulting Fee | 0.07%* |
* These fees are passed onto participants at cost. As a result, they will fluctuate slightly based on the total assets under management of the Plan and as those costs change over time.
Do you want to learn more about our funds?
Talk to a Fidelity retirement planner at 800.642.7131. It’s free to all RPB Participants.
Or call Robert Perry, RPB's Director of Participant & Employer Services.
Alignment with Jewish values
While all of RPB’s Tier 1 fund options integrate our Jewish Values Investing (JVI) policy when possible, the Reform Jewish Values Stock Fund was built specifically as a vehicle for socially responsible investing.
Managing your allocations
It’s a good practice to review your asset allocation annually to ensure you’re on track with your goals. To do this, log in to Fidelity’s NetBenefits system.
Vanguard and Fidelity Investments, the plan's recordkeeping services provider, have excessive trading and equity wash rules, as detailed below.
Timing limitations and rules
Money coming from the RPB Capital Preservation Fund must first be moved to another plan investment option for 90 days before it can be transferred to the Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund or Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund.
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.