Warren Buffett has never been shy about admitting when he got something wrong. But his latest admission carries a particular sting: when pressed on his decision to trim Berkshire Hathaway’s Apple position,…
Most index investors own the S&P 500 and think they own “the market.” They don’t. The S&P 500 covers roughly 500 of the largest U.S. companies, leaving out several thousand mid-, small-,…
Fidelity Blue Chip Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:FBCG) is down 11.67% year to date as of late March 2026, a sharper pullback than the 8.42% decline in the Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) over the same…
The markets are in no mood for risk. The CNN Fear & Greed Index sits at 13 — firmly in Extreme Fear — after previously closing at 8, its lowest level since…
Rich Duprey Berkshire Hathaway shares had fallen for eight consecutive sessions, their longest losing streak since eight straight down days in December 2018. While that streak was broken on Monday, Berkshire Hathaway Class B…
Most broad U.S. equity ETFs just buy the market. Avantis U.S. Equity ETF (NYSEARCA:AVUS) does something subtler: it buys most of the market, then tilts the portfolio toward stocks that are cheaper…
iShares Top 20 U.S. Stocks ETF (NYSEARCA:TOPT) is down 11.06% year-to-date, and that slide traces directly back to the fund’s defining feature: a portfolio so concentrated in a handful of mega-cap technology…
The VIX has climbed 41% in a single month, sitting at 26.95 and in the 93rd percentile of the past year’s readings. For retirement investors who felt last April’s volatility spike to…
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL | AAPL Price Prediction) went public on December 12, 1980, selling shares at what would become a split-adjusted fraction of a penny. The company that Steve Jobs built around…
Trey Thoelcke Most investors who want global equity exposure end up holding two or three separate funds: one for the U.S., one for international developed markets, and sometimes a third for emerging markets. iShares…
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…
