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Re:The Best Investment Advice You'll Never Get (2008) by p0ckets on Friday November 07, 2014 @07:10PM (#8575364)
To get the diversification benefit from holding the bond fund, you'd need to rebalance (every few months to every few years).
Re:The Best Investment Advice You'll Never Get (2008) by birken on Friday November 07, 2014 @07:59PM (#8575565)
If you are lazy you can just put your money into one of the 10+ Vanguard Target Retirement funds [1] which are just varying mixes of their stock/bond funds + automatic rebalancing. It goes from 90%/10% stock/bond mix (VTTSX) at the high end to 30%/70% at the low end (VTINX).

1: https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/target-retirement...

Re:The Best Investment Advice You'll Never Get (2008) by guyrt on Friday November 07, 2014 @08:05PM (#8575584)
If you are investing new money every month and attempting to maintain the same allocation over time, you are in a sense automatically rebalancing. Of course, this assumes your total investment over a given time period is roughly in line with the relative delta in performance.