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How many funds?

Post by Jeffreyalan » Sun Mar 05, 2017 7:01 pm

What does everyone go with as far as the number of stock funds in the PP? Right now i just have 1 fund, EQAL a Russell 1000 Equal Weight ETF. Do most of you just do one fund or do you add in Emerging Markets, Small Cap Intl etc?
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Re: How many funds?

Post by Kriegsspiel » Sun Mar 05, 2017 7:26 pm

Total Stock Market.
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Re: How many funds?

Post by farjean2 » Tue Mar 07, 2017 10:11 pm

I went exclusively with VTI where available when I got into the PP because I think that was the recommendation in the book. If you have to start thinking about small cap/mid-cap,whatever cap and international allocations, etc, it's getting too complicated which goes against the philosophy. When I went with the Golden Butterfly I had to pick out one SCV fund and I'm sticking with that too.
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Re: How many funds?

Post by Dieter » Thu Mar 09, 2017 2:21 pm

For my PPish (Golden Butterfly ish?), three stock funds:

TSM
SCV
International Small / Mid
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Re: How many funds?

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Re: How many funds?

Post by grapesofwrath » Thu Mar 09, 2017 3:56 pm

stock allocation = 25% vtsax (total US), 25% vtmsx (small blend US), 25% vfwax (ex-UX), 15% vfsvx (ex-US small), 10% vemax (emerging)
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Re: How many funds?

Post by Cortopassi » Fri Mar 10, 2017 7:52 am

VTI, mainly. VBR for small caps.

Also VINEX for Int'l and VFIAX (limited in 401k choice)

Totals 35% so I go heavier on stocks and lower on cash.
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Re: How many funds?

Post by sophie » Fri Mar 10, 2017 8:43 am

One or two stock funds per account: total market and (in two cases) small cap value.
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Re: How many funds?

Post by Tyler » Fri Mar 10, 2017 3:06 pm

Personally, I pair VTI with VB to spread my stock money evenly across large/mid/small and value/blend/growth. You can think of my overall portfolio as a Golden Butterfly variant, or you could also think of it as 80% PP with a 20% small cap VP. For a core PP you really only need VTI, SPY, or something else along that line.
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Re: How many funds?

Post by Jack Jones » Fri Mar 10, 2017 3:08 pm

I go 12.5% SP500, 12.5% Vanguard Small Cap (not to be confused with SCV).

Edited to say: Oh it seems like you and I are doing the same thing, Tyler.

Edited again to say: But I have to give credit to MachineGhost for the idea.
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Re: How many funds?

Post by eufo » Wed Mar 22, 2017 10:12 pm

When I started PP I used VTI.

25% VTI (Total Stock Market)
25% TLT (Long Term Treasuries)
25% SHY (Short Term Treasuries)
25% IAU (Gold)
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