Anonymous

19 Feb 2020

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Is investing a small sum monthly or a large sum at one go a better choice?

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Frankie Rappaport

19 Feb 2020

This depends on total relative fees for these transactions, both is possible. cost averaging with 4 investment time points over 1 - 2 years seems prudent

more on my thinking:

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Victor Chng

20 Feb 2019

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Hi,

If you google "dollar cost averaging (DCA) vs lump sum (LS)", you can find many research showing that lump sum investing outperform DCA. You can find one of the articles below.

https://dollarsandsense.sg/monthly-investment-p...

Do note that DCA take off the market timing factor where as LS required to time the market.

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Zann Chua

19 Feb 2019

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