DOLLAR COST AVERAGE News & Analysis

It surprises me how often individual investors and even seasoned financial professionals don’t know the basics of building an investment...

This week's Investing Compass episode goes through the two strategies and the circumstances for which they suit, based on Morningstar and Vanguard...

The Morningstar community has the following questions about planning for retirement. Here are my thoughts. 

What is the meaning of life? Am I a cat person or a dog person? We try to answer an easier age-old question – dollar cost averaging vs lump sum...

Dust off your dollar cost averaging textbook

Investing a bit at a time is a bad idea, and buying the dip is an unnecessary risk, recent Morningstar research finds.

Dollar-cost averaging and lump-sum investing are two distinct approaches to buying shares or funds, and while both have a role to play, one is...