Vanguard fund recommendations? - Mr. Money Mustache Currently, I have my Roth IRA invested in two Vanguard funds (VGSTX and VDIGX) and one American Fund (CWGFX) Now that I've maxed that out for the year, I'd like to start investing in taxed accounts with the extra funds I have about $3000 to invest and I was thinking about putting it in VDIGX, but I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for other Vanguard funds I could invest in
Is it safe to keep all your money in Vanguard (in only one place)? Vanguard is a good company, and JLCollins has some great points The odds of your money in a Vanguard account just disappearing are very low, but if there's ever an issue (even something as simple as someone stealing your online password) it may take a little time to sort out
So I transferred all my mutual funds to Vanguard, but now fees to sell? I recently rolled a Fidelity IRA over to Vanguard using the "like for like" method Only one of my funds incurred a fee but my primary concern was that the funds I was liquidating where not similar in their contents to what I was going to be buying with Vanguard So I wanted to be able to control the exact date I liquidated because a 1-2% difference in when I sold Fidelity bought Vanguard
What the heck did I do? Confusion on Vanguard IRA What the heck did I do? Confusion on Vanguard IRA I'm finding your question somewhat confusing But generally speaking, contributing to a Vanguard IRA is a two step process Once the IRA is established, you send in money and it sits in the money market settlement fund until you officially contribute, which is another separate step It sounds like you didn't take the second step (which can be
T Rowe Price vs. Vanguard? - forum. mrmoneymustache. com T Rowe Price vs Vanguard? Good for you for noticing that high expense ratio! But from the rest of what you say, you would benefit from doing some reading on the difference between actively managed funds vs index funds Despite having only four funds, the Vanguard Target Retirement funds are actually much more diversified than the T Rowe Price Target Date funds That's because the four
Moving from Wells Fargo to Vanguard? - Mr. Money Mustache Moving from Wells Fargo to Vanguard? You have about $113k in taxable accounts Selling these all at once and moving the cash may cause you to pay substantial capital gains tax Figure out what the capital gains are and estimate the tax before you do anything Fidelity offers equally attractive index funds and no-commission ETFs However, they have bricks and mortar offices and people to help
Vanguard Mutual Funds Recommendation - Mr. Money Mustache Vanguard Mutual Funds Recommendation My recommendations: 1 Keep it simple at first Start with a total stock market (90%) and a international (10%) The Fidelity ones you have listed are great 2 You can add the alternatives in as your portfolio grows 3 If you have a long time horizon, stay away from bonds for now As interest rates rise in future, bonds are going to underperform 4
Any issues with using Merrill Edge for purchasing Vanguard ETFs? Does anyone see issues with purchasing and holding Vanguard ETFs using Merrill Edge (while still holding comparable index funds directly with Vanguard)? Merrill Edge has a program where if you keep a certain amount of dollars in combined accounts, you receive higher cashback rewards on your credit card purchases (100K)
Vanguard? American Funds? or Fidelity? - Mr. Money Mustache Vanguard was founded by John C Bogle, the guy that came up with index funds and the company is founded on the principles of low cost, market tracking funds you really can't do better than them insofar as a trust-worthy, solid investment group that isn't out to make themselves huge profits off of your money