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Investing
4 Brilliant Vanguard ETFs to Buy in July
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…
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SPYM vs VTI: Which Trump Account ETF Actually Builds More Wealth by Age 18
The launch of federally seeded child investment accounts, informally dubbed “Trump Accounts,” has parents scrambling to pick a single ultra-low-cost equity ETF to hold for 18 years. Two names dominate the shortlist:…
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ETF
VT vs. VTI: Should You Own the Whole World or Just America?
The choice between Vanguard Total World Stock (NYSEARCA:VT) and Vanguard Total Stock Market (NYSEARCA:VTI) looks like a choice between two flavors of Vanguard indexing. It is really a bet on whether U.S.…
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ETF
You Make $200K and Still Have No Real Portfolio. These 3 ETFs Fix That in an Afternoon
You pull in $200,000 a year, your checking account looks healthy, and yet your "investments" consist of a 401(k) you barely glance at and a savings account quietly losing ground to inflation.…
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Investing
Warren Buffett Underperformed the Stock Market His Last 24 Years Investing: Don’t Make One Crucial Mistake That Crushed His Returns
Warren Buffett is the most celebrated investor alive, but a fresh analysis from the Rational Reminder Podcast delivers an uncomfortable finding: across roughly the last 24 years, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK-B | BRK-B…
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Investing
Making Six Figures but Betting Everything on U.S. Stocks? AVUV Fixes That Problem
You check your portfolio and it looks like every other portfolio in America. Apple, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, and a heaping side of S&P 500 index fund that is, when you…
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Investing
VOO vs. VTI: Should You Own the S&P 500 or the Entire Market?
The choice between Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:VOO) and Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (NYSEARCA:VTI) is the most common allocation decision in U.S. equity investing, and it looks like a coin flip…
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Investing
Vanguard’s $223 Billion Growth ETF VUG Is Quietly Beating Most Large Cap Active Funds at One Tenth the Cost
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…
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Personal Finance
Playing It Safe at 73 With $1.6 Million Could Cost This Single Retiree $340,000 Over a 20-Year Retirement
A 73-year-old single retiree has a $1.6 million portfolio invested 80% in bonds and 20% in stocks, spends $64,000 annually, and receives $34,000 per year from Social Security. At first glance, the…
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Personal Finance
How 2% Financial Advisor Fees Could Cost You $3.3 Million Over 40 Years
Brad Barrett, co-host of the ChooseFI podcast, recently laid out one of the most uncomfortable numbers in personal finance. During the show’s “FI 101: Teaching Financial Independence to Your Community” episode, Barrett…
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Personal Finance
Trump Savings Accounts to Bring 38% of Americans Into Stock Market for First Time
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made an ambitious case for the Trump Savings Account program during a May 29, 2026 appearance on Kudlow on Fox Business. In his view, the initiative could bring…
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Investing
Wall Street’s Laziest Fund Is Outperforming Against SPY – Time to Switch to VTI?
The pitch for Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF (NYSEARCA:VTI) has always been embarrassingly simple: own every public US stock that matters, charge almost nothing, and wait. That is it. The…
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Investing
If Your Advisor Said to Add Bonds at 65, They Were Right (in 1995). Here’s What That Advice Should Sound Like Today.
Hindsight is 20/20, but in 1995, going long fixed-income duration really was the correct move. Duration is essentially a measure of a bond portfolio’s sensitivity to changes in interest rates. The longer…
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Personal Finance
The Tax-Loss Harvest That Cost a 66-Year-Old Retiree $2,400 in Wash-Sale Penalties She Never Saw Coming
The retiree was 66, single, living in Pennsylvania, and relying on a $1.1 million brokerage account to supplement her Social Security income. Her goal was straightforward: generate about $55,000 a year from…
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Investing
If Your Advisor Said to Add Bonds at 65, They Were Right in 1995. Here’s What That Advice Should Sound Like in 2026.
Over the past 30 years, the investing landscape for retirees has changed radically. The fundamental bases for portfolio allocation have required revision. While those allocation ratios have shifted considerably, the ETF boom…
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