Is Dollar-Cost Averaging Irrational? Compared to What? (Episode 30

Is Dollar-Cost Averaging Irrational? Compared to What? (Episode 30 Rebroadcast)

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Terry Hawkins, sales manager at Morningstar Investment Management and Paul Kaplan, research director for Morningstar Canada, discuss dollar-cost averaging, or the practice of investing slowly over time instead of in one lump sum. Research by Kaplan and others show that dollar-cost averaging might be expected to underperform a lump-sum approach. But what if it's what gets an investor into the markets?

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