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dollar-cost averaging: a standalone construct

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dollar-costaveraging1 CONSTRUCTDollar-cost averagingCONSTANTINIDES · FINANCE

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investing a fixed amount at regular intervals rather than all at once, shown to be inferior in theory though widely used in practice.

In finance, dollar-cost averaging refers to investing a fixed amount at regular intervals rather than all at once, shown to be inferior in theory though widely used in practice. This meaning comes from Constantinides (1979) in The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.[1]

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  1. Constantinides, G. M. (1979). A Note on the Suboptimality of Dollar-Cost Averaging as an Investment Policy. The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 14(2), 443. https://doi.org/10.2307/2330513

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