How many funds?

[Jeffreyalan]

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?

[Kriegsspiel]

Total Stock Market.

[farjean2]

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.

[Dieter]

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

TSM
SCV
International Small / Mid

[mathjak107]

shy
tlt
gld
slyv
ivv

[grapesofwrath]

stock allocation = 25% vtsax (total US), 25% vtmsx (small blend US), 25% vfwax (ex-UX), 15% vfsvx (ex-US small), 10% vemax (emerging)

[Cortopassi]

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.

[sophie]

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

[Tyler]

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.

[Jack Jones]

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.

[eufo]

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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