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by bricestacey 5955 days ago
No single fund is truly diversified. For example, the Vanguard Total Stock Market Fund offers stocks across all industries and includes growth and value companies from domestic and international, large, mid, and small-cap companies. That's pretty darn diverse, but it only covers stock. To really diversify, you may want to purchase a bond index as well.

I use Vanguard. Vanguard has some of the lowest cost index funds. The only downside is they all have $3000 (or more) initial limits. Oh and there are generally no transaction costs with Vanguard, so you could do $100 a month via direct deposit and personally incur no fees.
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jbellis 5955 days ago
> The only downside is they all have $3000 (or more) initial limits

That's what ETFs are for, among other things.

> there are generally no transaction costs with Vanguard

(but you do lose that part w/ any ETF)

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