ETFs and Index Funds Articles

ETFs that Track the Market

Here are some of the ETFs that we will discuss at our meeting on Wednesday. The question is whether we should park our cash in an ETF, and if so, which of these ETFs, or combination of two ETFs, should we use. The Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) tracks the...

ETFs and Index Funds

Generally, index funds are mutual finds that try to replicate the movements of an index of a specific financial market.  For our purposes, we are most interested in index funds that reflect the market movement of different equity asset classes, such as large cap, mid...

Rebalancing Value Holdings

Last week there was an interesting article on value stocks on the Seeking Alpha blog.  The author concludes that value stocks have higher returns than growth stocks because they are more risky.  He goes on to state that the under performance of value stocks this...

More on ETFs

Recent discussions of ETFs on the CompuServe BetterInvesting forum has raised a number of interesting questions. Here are some thoughts on those questions. 1. Including Mid-Cap ETFs in a Portfolio Equally weighting large-cap, mid-cap, and small-cap ETFs in a portfolio...