Comments on: Mutual funds portfolio for Aggressive investment with 3 year time horizon? http://www.horizonfunding.com/blog/2010/08/10/mutual-funds-portfolio-for-aggressive-investment-with-3-year-time-horizon/ Read About Taxes, Types of Taxes and Finance Management Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:18:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: El Guapo http://www.horizonfunding.com/blog/2010/08/10/mutual-funds-portfolio-for-aggressive-investment-with-3-year-time-horizon/#comment-2 El Guapo Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:20:32 +0000 http://www.horizonfunding.com/?p=6#comment-2 I'm with the previous answerer - 3 years is too short of a time horizon. There's too much risk in the short term. If you still want to gamble, then any diversified stock fund will do. Yes, Vanguard has some great funds, and you can't beat their expenses. I like the Total Stock Market Index fund, as well as the Index 500. One way to hedge your bet - you may want to consider dollar-cost averaging into the fund, so you can spread your risk out a bit. For example, invest the hypothetical $20K over 10 months ($2K at a time), or at least over 5 months ($4K at a time). That way, if the market drops more during that period, you'll be buying more shares with the same amount of money. I hope that helps. Good luck! I’m with the previous answerer – 3 years is too short of a time horizon. There’s too much risk in the short term.

If you still want to gamble, then any diversified stock fund will do. Yes, Vanguard has some great funds, and you can’t beat their expenses. I like the Total Stock Market Index fund, as well as the Index 500.

One way to hedge your bet – you may want to consider dollar-cost averaging into the fund, so you can spread your risk out a bit. For example, invest the hypothetical $20K over 10 months ($2K at a time), or at least over 5 months ($4K at a time). That way, if the market drops more during that period, you’ll be buying more shares with the same amount of money.

I hope that helps. Good luck!

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