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Home - SimplyRich Skip to content Contact Us Today Subscribe Search for: Keeping Your Focus on Living Instead of on Your Finances Recent Posts Dollar Cost Averaging vs. Lump Sum Liability Insurance Roth IRA as Emergency Reserve? What about REITs? Taxes on Trust Accounts Categories Ask Less Blog See All Posts Tags 401(k) , 529 Plan , Alternative Indexing , Annuities , Asset Allocation , Balanced Portfolio , Bear Market , Bonds , Capital-Gains Tax , Capital Gains , Career , College , Commodities , Credit Cards , Disability Income Protection , Diversification , Dollar-cost averaging , Equities , Global Minimum Volatility , Gold , Hedges , Housing , Insurance , IRA , Job , Life Insurance , Modern Portfolio Theory , Pay-as-you-go , Peace of Mind , Permanent Portfolio , PIG , REITs , Retirement , Roth IRA , Safe Withdrawal Rate , Saving , Stock Market , Student aid , Student Loans , TIPS , Total World Fund , Treasuries , Trusts , Umbrella policy , Volatility Reduction Dollar Cost Averaging vs. Lump Sum Posted on June 10, 2016 June 9, 2016 by Updates Question: I ve been a dollar-cost averager for many years; however, I ve read recently a Vanguard study which shows lump-sum investing [has] outperform[ed] DCA [dollar-cost averaging] around two-thirds of the time throughout history. Wanted to get your thoughts on which one is better long term. Thanks. Answer: My opinion is that you should invest the money when you have it to invest: the earlier you do so the longer you can take advanta

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