Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

To get the diversification benefit from holding the bond fund, you'd need to rebalance (every few months to every few years).



If you are lazy you can just put your money into one of the 10+ Vanguard Target Retirement funds [1] which are just varying mixes of their stock/bond funds + automatic rebalancing. It goes from 90%/10% stock/bond mix (VTTSX) at the high end to 30%/70% at the low end (VTINX).

1: https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/target-retirement...


If you are investing new money every month and attempting to maintain the same allocation over time, you are in a sense automatically rebalancing. Of course, this assumes your total investment over a given time period is roughly in line with the relative delta in performance.




Join us for AI Startup School this June 16-17 in San Francisco!

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: