This High-Yield Vanguard ETF Has 15% of Its Portfolio Invested in Just 3 Dividend Stocks. Here's Why That's a Good Thing.

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Vanguard Information Technology ETF has material exposure to just three tech giants, but the portfolio is much bigger than ...

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Today, we explore portfolio quality, applying the ideas of The Real Estate Chair. The four legs of the real estate chair include tenant credit quality, unit level performance, location, and ...

The U.S. bond market is about to enjoy the proverbial best of both worlds. Bond yields, an approximation for annualized bond returns, are high — the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond index yields 4.6%; ...

Although mutual funds can't be hedged directly, you can still hedge a portfolio of mutual funds against market risk by buying optimal puts* on a suitable exchange-traded fund, or ETF. The first ...

What's your investment portfolio's performance? Do you know? Just 57% of U.S. adults are "financially literate," according to a study from Standard & Poor's titled the "2015 Global Financial Literacy ...

Investors are generally good about selecting an asset allocation based on their goals, resources and risk tolerance. Unfortunately, when it comes to implementation, many investors react emotionally to ...

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