My plan only charges me a one time $ 4.95 fee to sell / buy if I wanted to
sell the Target Date fund and buy the ETF VTI.
Should
I sell the Target Date Fund and purchase VTI?
Not exact matches
I hate
target date funds, because it's like, all right, well, if I'm going to
sell a share of that mutual
fund, I'm
selling stocks and bonds.
Target -
date funds are
sold as offering great benefits for investors, but we don't think you should accept the sales pitch.
While the
target -
date fund itself makes distributions that affect the shareholder's tax situation, an individual's buying and
selling of
funds also creates taxable events.
Target -
date funds become progressively more conservative over time, so they'll need to
sell stocks and purchase bonds periodically.
Another alternative is to just
sell all or part of your position in the
target date fund.
Investors are then less likely to recoup their losses than if they held the same investments outside of a
target -
date fund and waited to
sell until the market improved.
In fact, Morningstar found that
target -
date fund investors are performing about 0.74 % better than the
funds themselves, owing to smart decisions about when to buy and
sell.