Most investors focus on VUG's tiny dividend yield and assume the tax math barely matters inside a Roth. The real exposure sits somewhere else entirely, and it compounds every year the fund…
Trey Thoelcke On a recent Animal Spirits podcast titled “Talk Your Book: How SpaceX Got Into the Nasdaq 100,” Invesco’s Paul Schroeder dropped a statistic that should stop any growth investor mid-scroll. The Nasdaq…
July is shaping up as a pivotal month for index investors. The S&P 500 has cooled a bit, with Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:VOO) down 1.36% since its year-to-date high on June…
The math feels impossible at 30 with a near empty brokerage account. But $500 a month, roughly the cost of a weekly dinner-and-drinks habit, can compound into seven figures if you give…
The Vanguard Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VUG) trades near $86 after a brutal five-day stretch that lopped 4.5% off the price. Year to date, VUG is up 6.2%, currently trailing the S&P 500’s 8.4%…
The Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:SCHG) carries a portfolio P/E around 32x while delivering only a 4% gain so far in 2026, a strange combination if you assume premium valuations are…
The pitch for Vanguard Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VUG) sits at the cheap end of a long-running debate about whether active stock pickers can beat an index dominated by mega-cap growth names. VUG charges…
The Vanguard triple split is now five weeks old, and the scoreboard tells a clear story. On April 21, 2026, Vanguard executed an 8-for-1 split on Vanguard Information Technology ETF (NYSEARCA: VGT),…
The Vanguard Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VTV) is up 11% year to date, a lead that only looks small next to the 9.4% return on the Vanguard Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VUG) over the same stretch.…
A young saver opens a Schwab account, picks the Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:SCHG) over a plain S&P 500 fund because they want a growth tilt at almost no cost, and…
The Vanguard Mega Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:MGK) has 63 holdings, which sounds diversified until you check the weights. Five names carry almost 46% of the fund. The MGK pitch is straightforward exposure…
You buy the iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:IWF) expecting broad growth exposure. The Russell 1000 Growth Index holds 391 names, and IWF tracks all of them. The catch is that roughly…
Over the past decade, Vanguard Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VUG) returned 427% while Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ:QQQ) delivered 563%. VUG’s broader CRSP index dilutes winners. QQQ concentrates them, and downturns barely separated the two.…
Passive investing’s central promise is hard to argue with: low costs, broad diversification, and returns that match the market. Vanguard built an empire on that promise, and funds like the Vanguard Growth…
Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares (NYSEARCA: VGT), Vanguard Growth Index Fund ETF Shares (NYSEARCA: VUG), and Vanguard Mega Cap Growth Index Fund ETF Shares (NYSEARCA: MGK) are among Vanguard exchange-traded…
