dollar cost averaging Archives | Wealthfront Blog Personal Finance & Investing Insights Thu, 09 May 2024 20:11:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-wave-logo-transparent-hi-res-500x500.png dollar cost averaging Archives | Wealthfront Blog 32 32 How and Why to Diversify Your Portfolio https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/what-is-diversification/ Thu, 09 May 2024 17:58:54 +0000 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=13542 Diversification is the practice of buying a variety of different investments with the goal of balancing risk and reward in your portfolio. A well-diversified portfolio can help you maximize your expected returns without taking on unnecessary or unwanted risk. This is known as improving your “risk-adjusted returns.” You can think of diversification as a way […]

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]]> What You Should Do in Volatile and Uncertain Markets https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/volatile-uncertain-markets/ Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:54:10 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=5214 World stock markets have been extremely volatile in 2015. Returns since the start of the year have been negative and the markets have recently experienced a major correction. Returns from fixed income investments have also been unusually low. The reaction of many investors to these market conditions has been to run to the sidelines and […]

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]]> Dollar Cost Averaging: A Behavioral View https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/dollar-cost-averaging-behavioral-view/ Thu, 18 Jun 2015 16:47:23 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=5168 This is a guest post by Meir Statman. Meir Statman, PhD, is the Glenn Klimek Professor of Finance at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University. He is also an advisor to the Wealthfront Investment Team and the author of “What Investors Really Want: Know What Drives Investor Behavior and Make Smarter Financial Decisions”. Investors with […]

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]]> Burt Malkiel’s Rule for Young Investors: Save Regularly https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/young-investors-timing-market/ Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:39:21 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=3870 Wealthfront CIO and Princeton emeritus economics professor Burt Malkiel sat down with us a few weeks ago to talk about two of his favorite topics: perseverance and patience. In other words, invest regularly, and stay invested. Burt cites a famous essay by Warren Buffett. Buffett uses it in part to explain his practice of placing […]

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]]> Over What Time Period Should I Sell My LinkedIn Shares? https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/how-to-sell-concentrated-stock-position/ Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:36:10 +0000 /blog/?p=1672 The lock-up at my company (LinkedIn) has come off, and I’m thinking about how to invest the proceeds from selling some of my shares. Is there an optimal strategy for investing my money into an asset allocation?  Should I suddenly buy all at once or over a period of time? Psychologically, dollar cost averaging might […]

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