Dollar Cost Averaging Explained!
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Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors
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🗓️ 6 September 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You know, you talked about dollar cost averaging. |
| 0:09.5 | So how often do you recommend doing that? |
| 0:12.7 | And can you explain what that means? |
| 0:13.9 | Should it be monthly, weekly, daily, what do you think? |
| 0:17.6 | So dollar cost averaging, Webster's Dictionary, which I don't have in front of me, someone |
| 0:22.3 | to butcher this, is just the process and concept of buying a fixed dollar amount on a fixed |
| 0:28.8 | schedule through time, right? |
| 0:32.6 | So allow me to realize, with your 401k contributions, it's one of the most natural ways that we automatically |
| 0:37.2 | dollar cost average anyways. |
| 0:38.4 | We put 5% of our pay or whatever the number is, into our 401k every pay cycle, where your |
| 0:43.6 | dollar cost averaging over a weekly basis, or if it's two weeks or if it's a month month, |
| 0:47.5 | you're already dollar cost averaging. |
| 0:49.3 | That's really what it means. |
| 0:50.3 | It just means instead of investing all of my money at once, I'm going to ease it in over |
| 0:55.7 | time. |
| 0:56.7 | So most of us, the dollar cost averaging that we implement is dictated by the employer |
| 1:02.1 | for whom we work. |
| 1:03.1 | If we have a monthly payroll cycle here to bound, monthly payroll cycle, Ruby, you don't |
| 1:07.9 | get a choice. |
| 1:08.9 | You dollar cost averaging your 401k and a monthly basis. |
| 1:10.9 | I don't even have that. |
| 1:11.9 | Great. |
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