I am wondering how to invest my 401K. My company offers different options, what the best way to research?

Oldman answered 2 months ago …

CuWu's advice is good. I'd like to add a couple of other sites:

http://firecalc.com/index.php

and

http://fundadvice.com

and

http://retireplan.about.com

And finally...put your , and your company's match into money market, and once in a while buy whatever is currently below its 3 or 5 yr trend. In most company plans you get divs and CGs reinvested, automatically, when the funds have done well...and that's buying in at an increasing NAV...which is idiotic.

Learn to do asset allocation...because the type of invetment (small vs large, domestic vs foreign, value vs growth, commodity vs REIT, etc) will have more of an effect on your performance than the kind f company you keep ... over the long-term.

The only problem I have with M* is their limited view of holdings and their weighting of past performance, but certainly for company comparisons, they have a decent ranking system.

For a schema of whether to put any funds in at the moment, sign up for the free weekly e-mail from Ulli, who uses a trend-following system and shows the max drawdowns for many 401K and 403b funds at his web site, each Friday, based upon Thursdays close:

http://www.successful-invstment.com/index.html

Good luck