Just opened a Roth IRA account for the 1st time thru Vanguard, and realized there‘re only index fund options to invest in and no ETFs. Does the 🐟 community deem target retirement funds a good option?

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Vanguard offers ETFs in Roth IRA. VOO, VTI, etc.

Thanks, I need to call them perhaps as for some reason I can only see mutual fund options with $1000 being the smallest minimum. I did do some more googling and you’re right

Unless you’re an investment banking savant, you can’t beat the S&P500. Just go with that index fund and call it a day until you need to start slowly reallocating to bonds starting in your 40s.

Ps investment bankers are not stock traders FYI

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Make sure you opened a brokerage Roth IRA account. If you didn’t you can only invest in mutual funds. It is easy to change it to a brokerage acct.

Thanks called Vanguard this morning and got it sorted out

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