The word “conservative” gets attached to a lot of funds that don’t quite earn it. Vanguard Mega Cap Index Fund ETF Shares (NYSEARCA:MGC) holds roughly 230 of the largest US companies, charges…
Mid-cap growth stocks occupy a specific and often underappreciated position in a portfolio: large enough to have proven their business model, but still growing fast enough to reinvest aggressively rather than return…
VistaShares Target 15 Berkshire Select Income ETF (NYSEARCA:OMAH) promises something Berkshire Hathaway itself has never offered: a monthly paycheck. By mirroring Berkshire’s top equity holdings and selling covered call options against those…
SPY has spent over three decades as the default answer to “how do I invest in the stock market?” But the fund that defined passive investing now carries a concentration profile that…
Software stocks are in a quiet crisis that most investors haven’t fully reckoned with. The S&P 500 Software Index is down 22% year-to-date, a collapse that would normally drag any tech-heavy fund…
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL | AAPL Price Prediction) hasn’t been the most impressive gainer in recent months, but, at the very least, it’s avoided plunging into a bear market. After Thursday’s brutal session, much…
Joey Frenette Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) was planning to end its exclusive ChatGPT partnership and open Siri to rival AI assistants in iOS 27 ahead of WWDC 2026, according to Bloomberg. WWDC came and went on…
Rich Duprey Most investors holding Vanguard 500 Index Fund ETF Shares (NYSEARCA:VOO) don’t think of it as a bet on technology. But with 32.2% of the fund sitting in the Information Technology sector, and…
With the Federal Reserve having cut rates from 4.5% to 3.75% over the past six months, the calculus for income investors is shifting. Cash and money market yields are drifting lower, while…
Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF (NYSEARCA:QQQM) has returned nearly 94% over the past five years, making it one of the most compelling passive growth vehicles for retail investors. Launched in 2020 as a…
The S&P 500 you own through a standard index fund is not as diversified as it looks. The cap-weighted version of the index hands roughly a third of your money to a…
The Nasdaq is staging a meaningful recovery Wednesday morning, with the index up 1.1% as of the early session, driven by two catalysts: a sharp drop in oil prices tied to potential…
Shares of Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL | AAPL Price Prediction) have been steadily sinking lower since the year began, but things could have been a whole lot worse, especially given the state of the…
Joey Frenette With the 10-year Treasury yield sitting at 4.34%, income investors face a genuine choice between risk-free government bonds and dividend-paying equities. For those willing to look beyond U.S. borders, international dividend ETFs…
Three tech ETFs. Three very different portfolios. FTEC, IGV, and XNTK each carry the “technology” label, but what they actually hold — and how they’ve performed — tells three distinct stories about…
