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bucolic_frolic

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10. There are those who don't subscribe to indexing.

Reply to IronLionZion (Reply #9)

Sun Apr 12, 2026, 08:24 PM

Apr 12

And there are great fund managers who beat indexing in their day. Peter Lynch, John Neff. If avoiding index funds, it's all about the quality of the fund management. I've never dollar cost averaged. I might invest only when the market is down though.

When Putin invaded Ukraine, some funds invested in the region had to value their Russian assets at zero, either by fund rules or government rules. The price of such funds were dirt cheap. That was an entry point.

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