Department of Financial Management, School of Business and Leadership, University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, United States
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On Benefits of Augmented Dollar Cost Averaging
Author(s): Anna Kapalczynski*
Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA) is a popular investment approach, where one invests funds in increments, at periodic intervals, rather than allocate funds all at once, in a lump
sum. The idea behind averaging into the market is that it not only lowers average price of an asset, but also lessens volatility of that assets’ performance. Despite theoretical
criticisms, it is a widely prevalent investment technique. Kapalczynski and Lien (2021) augmented the traditional DCA approach by using conditional information to adjust
aggressiveness of DCA. The Augmented Dollar Cost Averaging (ADCA) calls for allocating larger portion of funds into the market over shorter period of time, when economy is
expanding, and allocating smaller amounts into the marker, when economy is receding. To determine expansions or recessions, Kapalczynski and Lien (2021) used changes
in market volati.. Read More»
DOI:
10.37421/2151-6219.2021.12.367
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