DRiP Investing: One Of The Best Long Term Investment Vehicles

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. - Sept. 23, 2015 - PRLog -- One of the biggest risks of attempting to time the markets isn’t bear markets, but rather missing bull markets. An investor following a buy and hold strategy can expect to do quite well because the gains from being invested in all the bull markets more than outweigh the losses associated with holding investments through bear markets.

According to Vita Nelson of Weiss Education Services, and online investor education website, no-fee DRiPs is an investment worth considering. "It has been my experience that the successful investors are the ones who haven’t changed their portfolios over the years, except for occasional rebalancing to achieve their desired asset allocation. It’s the younger, short-term oriented traders who either get out of the market or are forced out by margin call and quit."

Nelson added, "I heard from financial writer say, 'The DRIP is probably the greatest investment bargain you’ll ever find as a long-term investor—short of inheriting the money from a providential great-aunt'...I tend to agree."

Nelson concludes, "This is a fact I never fully realized until I started researching our book on cutting down on investment expenses.  But even so-called no-load funds are actually loaded with expenses that, in extreme cases, can amount to more than 4% a year. These expenses include: administrative costs, investment advisory fees, commissions on purchases and sales, and, if your fund has a 12b-1 plan, it will even charge you for it’s own advertising and promotional expenses.  The end result, an accumulation of costs".

If you'd like to see a list of recommended no-fee DRiPs as well as learn more about no-fee DRiPs and why some call it one of the greatest investment bargains you'll find anywhere, read the full article here: http://www.weisseducation.com/turn-bad-times-into-good-ti...

Vita Nelson is an editorial contributor for Weiss Education Services http://www.weisseducation.com/ and an acknowledged authority on the operations of company-sponsored direct investment plans (DRIPs).