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Re:Ask HN: How do you find funds to invest in? by dannyw on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @09:32AM (#29162217)
No one knows when the market is going to crash; that's the point of indexing.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you find funds to invest in? by KerryJones on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @11:59AM (#29164193)
Agreed to a degree

Indexing does not remove systematic risk as another commenter mentioned, but there are things one can do to help deal with timing, such as dollar-cost-averaging.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you find funds to invest in? by huhtenberg on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @11:42AM (#29163969)
Point of indexing is to remove unsystematic risk.
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