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Dollar-Cost Averaging with Yearly and Biyearly Installments

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  • Michele Bisceglia

    (University of Bergamo, Italy)

  • Paola Zola

    (University of Brescia, Italy)

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In this paper the authors considered Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA) strategies with yearly and biyearly installments and compared their gross returns with those of a lump-sum investment for different medium-long term investment time horizons (between 5 and 20 years). The empirical analysis is conducted on several stock indices by means of rolling observation periods. The authors found that the average annual returns of the lump-sum investment are, in general, higher than those of the two considered DCA strategies and the percentage of observations in which the lump-sum outperforms both the considered DCA is higher for longer investment time horizons.

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  • Michele Bisceglia & Paola Zola, 2018. "Dollar-Cost Averaging with Yearly and Biyearly Installments," Journal of Applied Management and Investments, Department of Business Administration and Corporate Security, International Humanitarian University, vol. 7(1), pages 1-14, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:ods:journl:v:7:y:2018:i:1:p:1-14
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    Keywords

    investment strategies; dollar-cost averaging; stock indices; rolling windows; investment time horizon; total gross returns; average gross returns;
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    JEL classification:

    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
    • O16 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
    • C22 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes

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