Opening Vangaurd Roth IRA? What to put 4k into?

[britdevine]

Im 26, planning long term here. Will contribute max allowed every year. Looking for some good suggestions?

Anyone have a couple good links about the Vangaurd options.

[dp13368]

For your first $4k I suggest the 2050 fund to diversify yourself automatically.

www.diehards.org

[mtgordon]

The retirement fund is pretty good if it's your only investments. If you have other money I would suggest checking out fundadvice.com and looking at their ultimate buy and hold strategies.

[Dazarath]

Some people here will suggest an S&P 500 index fund or the total stock market index fund.