BlackRock LifePath Index Retirement Fund
Data updated: 2026-08-25
C000101134 — BlackRock LifePath Index Retirement Fund. Target Date / Glide Path Allocation · $12.61B AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000101134 Fund Overview
BlackRock LifePath Index Retirement Fund is a US mutual fund managed by BlackRock Funds III, categorised as Target Date / Glide Path Allocation. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: BlackRock Funds III
- Category: Target Date / Glide Path Allocation
- Assets under management: $12.61B
- 1-year return: 11.3%
- SEC CIK: 0000893818
- SEC series ID: S000032775
- Share class ID: C000101134
C000101134 Investment Objective and Strategy
BlackRock LifePath Index Retirement Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by BlackRock Funds III.
Investment objective
The investment objective of BlackRock LifePath Index Retirement Fund (LifePath Index Retirement Fund or the Fund), a series of BlackRock Funds III (the Trust), is to seek to provide for retirement outcomes based on quantitatively measured risk. In pursuit of this objective, LifePath Index Retirement Fund will be broadly diversified across global asset classes.
Principal investment strategy
LifePath Index Retirement Fund allocates and reallocates its assets among a combination of equity and bond index funds and money market funds (the Underlying Funds) in proportions based on its own comprehensive investment strategy. LifePath Index Retirement Fund seeks to provide for retirement outcomes based on quantitatively measured risk. BFA employs a multi-dimensional approach to assess risk for LifePath Index Retirement Fund and to determine LifePath Index Retirement Funds allocation across asset classes. As part of this multi-dimensional approach, BFA aims to quantify risk using proprietary risk measurement tools that, among other things, analyze historical and forward-looking securities market data, including risk, asset class correlations, and expected returns. Under normal circumstances, the Fund intends to invest primarily in affiliated open-end index funds and affiliated exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
LifePath Index Retirement Fund will invest, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its assets in securities or other financial instruments that are components of or have economic characteristics similar to the securities included in its custom benchmark index, the LifePath Index Retirement Fund Custom Benchmark. LifePath Index Retirement Fund is designed for investors expecting to retire or to begin withdrawing assets now or in the near future. The Fund employs a passive management approach, attempting to invest in a portfolio of assets whose performance is expected to match approximately the performance of the Funds custom benchmark index. Certain Underlying Funds may invest in real estate investment trusts (REITs), foreign securities, emerging market securities, below investment-grade bonds, infrastructure, commodities and derivative securities or instruments, such as options and futures, the value of which is derived from another security, a currency or an index, when seeking to match the performance of a particular market index.
The Fund and certain Underlying Funds may also lend securities with a value up to 33 1 / 3 % of their respective total assets to financial institutions that provide cash or securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government as collateral. Factors such as fund classifications, historical risk and performance, and the relationship to other Underlying Funds in the Fund are considered when selecting Underlying Funds. The specific Underlying Funds selected for the Fund are determined at BFAs discretion and may change as deemed appropriate to allow the Fund to meet its investment objective. See the Details About the Funds Information About the Underlying Funds section of the prospectus for a list of the Underlying Funds, their classification into equity, fixed income or money market funds and a brief description of their investment objectives and primary investment strategies.
The Funds selection of Underlying Funds that track equity indexes may be further diversified by style (including both value and growth), market capitalization (including large cap, mid cap, small cap and emerging growth), region (including domestic and international (including emerging markets)) or other factors. The Funds selection of Underlying Funds that track fixed-income indexes may be further diversified by sector (including government, corporate, agency, and other sectors), duration (a calculation of the average life of a bond which measures its price risk), credit quality (including non-investment grade debt or junk bonds), geographic location (including U.S. and foreign-issued securities), or other factors. Though BFA seeks to diversify the Fund, certain Underlying Funds may concentrate their investments in specific sectors or geographic regions or countries.
The percentage allocation to the various styles of equity and fixed-income Underlying Funds is determined at the discretion of the investment team and can be changed to reflect the current market environment. Because the Fund is in its most conservative phase, its allocation generally does not become more conservative over time, although its allocation may change to maintain the Funds risk profile.
C000101134 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of BlackRock LifePath Index Retirement Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Russel 1000 Lifepath | 22.86% |
| iShares US Intermediate Government Bond Index Fund/BlackRock | 21.00% |
| iShares US Securitized Bond Index Fund/BlackRock | 12.82% |
| iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF | 12.50% |
| iShares 0-5 Year TIPS Bond ETF | 10.01% |
| iShares US Long Government Bond Index Fund/BlackRock | 7.29% |
| iShares US Intermediate Credit Bond Index Fund/BlackRock | 6.36% |
| iShares US Long Credit Bond Index Fund/BlackRock | 2.25% |
| iShares Enhanced Roll Yield Index Fund | 1.97% |
| iShares Global Infrastructure ETF | 1.54% |
C000101134 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of BlackRock LifePath Index Retirement Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 99.7% |
C000101134 Performance
Total returns for C000101134 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 5.2% |
| 1 year | 11.3% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 9.6% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 3.9% |
C000101134 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000101134, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 5.4%
C000101134 Costs and Fees
C000101134 costs about $39 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.39%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.41%
- Portfolio turnover: 17%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.15 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000101134 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, BlackRock LifePath Index Retirement Fund had net outflows of $1.79B, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$159.59M |
| 2026-05 | −$175.74M |
| 2026-04 | −$224.77M |
| 2026-03 | −$281.95M |
| 2026-02 | −$252.91M |
| 2026-01 | −$191.76M |
C000101134 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in BlackRock LifePath Index Retirement Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000101134 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official BlackRock LifePath Index Retirement Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-04-30
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2025-05-13
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2025-05-05
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-25
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-24
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-03-16
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-03-17
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Data Sources
ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.