One Minute Economics: Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA) and Lump Sum Investing Defined, Explained & Compared in One Minute
A lot of people believe dollar cost averaging is safer than investing everything at once, so safer than lump sum investing. In other words, dollar cost averaging gives people peace of mind.
Unfortunately however, the increasing popularity of dollar cost averaging isn't research-backed. On the contrary, there's actually plenty of research which shows that lump sum investing is the superior option.
The two papers which have been mentioned in this video can be found below:
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-1090%28197906%2914%3A2%3C443%3AANOTSO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0
https://gersteinfisher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/GF_Research_Dollar-Cost-Averaging.pdf
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