Stocks
A collection of 26 posts
Slow Start, A Glimmer of Potential
FUNDS FOCUS — FACTOR ETFs | None of Vanguard's factor ETFs have outperformed the market. But one has caught my eye.
Praise For the Middle Ground
FUNDS FOCUS — MID-CAP GROWTH FUNDS | Searching for growth potential in an overlooked part of the market.
Big Index Fund Fails?
The Morningstar headline grabbed me. “Why Are These Big Index Funds Underperforming?” By definition index funds, if they’re doing their jobs properly, don’t outperform or underperform. They simply match their benchmarks less a bit for their expenses. Generally, when talking about outperformance or underperformance it’s active funds
Heating Up?
Newton’s first law says that an object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. [Emphasis added.] This is the idea behind momentum investing and our Hot Hands
Vanguard Shuffles the Deck … Again
When I reviewed MidCap Growth (VMGRX) at the start of the month, I said that “Vanguard continues to shuffle the managers at MidCap Growth in search of a winning hand.” Well, I had no idea that Vanguard was about to take a card out of the deck so quickly. Today