( November 21, 2024, 11:40 AM EST) -- CINCINNATI — A split Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Nov. 20 revived a challenge to a retirement plan’s retention of the passively managed Northern Trust Focus Funds suite of target date funds (TDFs) and choice of share classes, with the majority saying in part that the dissent sets “an inappropriately exacting standard” and the dissenter opining that “my colleagues open the door to ‘speculative’” lawsuits....