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International developed market stocks have beaten the S&P 500 by a wide margin year to date, and one Fidelity ETF…
The VIX spiked above 52 in early April 2026 before pulling back to roughly 19 by mid-April, and by mid-July…
With the VIX sitting near 19 after a sharp pullback from a March spike above 31, and the Fed holding…
The casino game of roulette has a slight advantage in favor of the house. However, an interesting strategy of hedging…
Throughout 2025, the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSE: VOO) has performed well over the past 12 months at +29%, but…
A leader in mutual funds and credited for launching the Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) platform, John Bogle’s Vanguard Group has…
Most international ETFs hand you every stock in the world outside the U.S., including the dividend cutters, the yield traps,…
Investors tracking growth oriented ETFs often cite the Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ: QQQ), which tracks the NASDAQ-100. It returned 17.37%…
For as long as most of us can remember, the conversation around international diversification went roughly the same way. Advisors…
For a while after COVID, the playbook felt simple. If you wanted to beat the S&P 500, you just leaned…
U.S. investors tend to have a strong home country bias. On average, portfolios are heavily tilted toward domestic stocks, often…
It’s hard to argue with the results of the S&P Indices Versus Active (SPIVA) study. For those unfamiliar, it…
U.S. stocks have spent years dominating global returns, which is exactly why most retirement portfolios are now dangerously lopsided toward…
While the S&P 500 has slipped about 2% so far in 2026, international equities have quietly moved in the opposite…
For most of the past decade, owning international stocks felt like a punishment. U.S. markets compounded at rates that made…
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