Thoughts on a vanguard mutual fund?

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Mutual funds are for financial illiterates, just get an ETF

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C1 - there are legit reasons to go MF over ETF. If you are dollar cost averaging and need to purchase partial shares, for instance. Don't throw blanket statements around if you don't know what you're talking about.

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Dollar cost averaging is also dumb: https://personal.vanguard.com/pdf/s315.pdf

Anyways I’m pretty sure OP isn’t looking at mutual funds to purchase partial shares, or else the question would not be posted here

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Smart Beta ETFs if you’re fun

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That article is based on the assumption that one starts with a large sum of cash, vs. the more likely scenario that someone that is receiving periodic income (like a paycheck). Dollar cost averaging is not dumb under the more common circumstance of not have $20M appear in your bank account overnight.

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C1 - can you explain why mutual funds are for “financial illiterates”? (Ignorant here, sorry.)

S&P500 ETF OP

^ this. DCA is about waiting for most of us. It’s about keeping the allocation consistent relative to real cash constraints

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