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What Is Your Emotional Threshold When Investing?

 

A recent Jim Collins post (we know, big surprise) got us thinking about what our emotional threshold is for investing in one lump sum.

In 2012 Vanguard did a study that showed lump sum investing was more profitable than dollar cost averaging 67% of the time. With results so clear, shouldn’t investing large sums of money be easy?

Jim’s Case Study:
https://goo.gl/8nJCyl

Jim’s Dollar Cost Averaging Post:
https://goo.gl/jxydjb

Vanguard Study:
https://goo.gl/VGzpFO