[quote=UCGal][quote=flu][quote=NicMM]Why don’t we just buy BKR-B? Isn’t it simpler than tracking Dow and adjusting portfolio very year?

NicMM[/quote]

I don’t want to add to that position.[/quote]

What about any of the total market indexes.
I’m sure it includes dogs and diamonds… since it includes everything.[/quote]

I have VTSAX, which is a vanguard total stock market.

I guess I was just wondering, if given an amount X that you want to allocate it into the stock market, do you distribute it among different benchmarks, or do you just pick 1 like the total stock index and call it a day?

It just seems like there is a variability in each of the benchmarks, but is it worth being in all of them…Or if you do that over a long period of time, it ends up being noise and no difference than just picking a “total stock market index”?