More seriously, Schwab has a broad stock market fund (SWTSX) with a 0.03% expense ratio and I believe Vanguard offers similar funds with 0.04-0.05% expense ratios. If you're retirement horizon is still a ways out (5+ years), I'd look at those since the expenses are significantly lower than the target funds (IIRC, these were in the 0.2-0.25% range even with Vanguard).
Even with $5500, I'd consider breaking it into 2-4 batches ($1,000-$1,500 each) and dollar cost averaging over the rest of this year assuming you won't pay substantial commissions. If you have a Vanguard IRA, I believe you can trade their funds free.
but you definitely want to minimize the expense ratios. Target date is good if you want to set it and forget it or not have to worry about periodic rebalancing (quarterly/annually). But in general you're going to pay a higher fee (though .15 is still good) than if you were to invest in the underlying funds yourself.
More seriously, Schwab has a broad stock market fund (SWTSX) with a 0.03% expense ratio and I believe Vanguard offers similar funds with 0.04-0.05% expense ratios. If you're retirement horizon is still a ways out (5+ years), I'd look at those since the expenses are significantly lower than the target funds (IIRC, these were in the 0.2-0.25% range even with Vanguard).
Even with $5500, I'd consider breaking it into 2-4 batches ($1,000-$1,500 each) and dollar cost averaging over the rest of this year assuming you won't pay substantial commissions. If you have a Vanguard IRA, I believe you can trade their funds free.
The retirement target ones are 1.3 -1.5