The casino game of roulette has a slight advantage in favor of the house. However, an interesting strategy of hedging against loss involves playing several different scenarios. Dubbed the “James Bond Strategy”,…
Throughout 2025, the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSE: VOO) has performed well over the past 12 months at +29%, but Q1 2026 has been a struggle: at the time of this writing,…
A leader in mutual funds and credited for launching the Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) platform, John Bogle’s Vanguard Group has grown from its mid-70s retail market focused launch to become the second…
Most international ETFs hand you every stock in the world outside the U.S., including the dividend cutters, the yield traps, and the companies that have never grown a payout in their lives.…
Investors tracking growth oriented ETFs often cite the Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ: QQQ), which tracks the NASDAQ-100. It returned 17.37% in the past year. Growth investors seeking international exposure also track Vanguard…
For as long as most of us can remember, the conversation around international diversification went roughly the same way. Advisors would recommend it while investors nodded approval, and then everyone kept their…
For a while after COVID, the playbook felt simple. If you wanted to beat the S&P 500, you just leaned harder into what was already working. That meant piling into the Magnificent…
U.S. investors tend to have a strong home country bias. On average, portfolios are heavily tilted toward domestic stocks, often well above the U.S.’s roughly 60% share of global market capitalization. Some…
It’s hard to argue with the results of the S&P Indices Versus Active (SPIVA) study. For those unfamiliar, it compares active fund managers against their benchmark indices, and more often than…
U.S. stocks have spent years dominating global returns, which is exactly why most retirement portfolios are now dangerously lopsided toward a single country. Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares (NYSEARCA:VXUS)…
While the S&P 500 has slipped about 2% so far in 2026, international equities have quietly moved in the opposite direction. The gap is real, and the macro forces behind it are…
For most of the past decade, owning international stocks felt like a punishment. U.S. markets compounded at rates that made global diversification look like a drag on returns. Then 2025 happened. Vanguard…
If you own U.S. stocks, you’ve likely questioned whether international diversification still makes sense. American equities have dominated for years, and many investors wonder if adding ex-U.S. exposure is worth it. Vanguard…
John Bogle, who founded Vanguard Group, had a major influence on the index funds people own today. Indeed, Vanguard’s exchange traded funds (ETFs) — and less directly, all ETFs — continue to…
The JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM | JPM Price Prediction) Global Select Equity ETF (NASDAQ:JGLO) launched in September 2023 to actively select the best equity ideas globally. With $7.1 billion in assets and a 0.47%…
