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Market corrections are normal for the S&P 500 and should be expected. How you handle them can improve your returns over time.

Many S&P 500 investors don't pay much attention to the number of letters in their stocks' symbols. But maybe they should.

Three decades of compounding can turn a modest monthly habit into a seven-figure retirement, but the funds you choose and how you split the money between them changes everything about where you land.

A Roth IRA shields every dividend and capital gain from federal tax forever, but only if you put the right funds inside it. Three low-cost ETFs cover the ground most investors overlook, and the combination matters more than most people realize.

The Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF is more value-oriented and diversified than the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF.

The 4% rule hands every retiree the same $40,000 answer and calls it planning, but a different approach lets your shares stay intact while your portfolio generates income that outpaces that ceiling by a wide margin.

<p>Are the days numbered for 351 exchanges, box spread, and dividend-avoiding ETFs? Tune into this episode of <em>ETF Zoo</em> to find out, plus learn why markets seem to care less and less about the struggling consumer, and what the recent NEOS acquisition could indicate for the future of the options income category. </p>

After years of disappointing performance, small-caps are roaring back to life.

The best stocks to give your grandchildren have certain qualities in common. Here, we let you know what those are.

Investors who extend their time horizons increase their chances of success.

S&P 500 investors can't decide if they should be bullish or playing it safe. But corporate profit guidance for next year can provide a clue.

One of the biggest S&P 500 funds on the planet holds hundreds of billions in retirement savings, yet most of the people who own it have never seen its ticker and cannot buy a single share on their own.

Simpler isn't just easier, it's also almost always better.

The right investment can build life-changing wealth over time.

One Vanguard fund has quietly outpaced both VOO and VTI this year without leverage or gimmicks, simply by pointing capital where most US investors refuse to look. The catch buried in the ten-year record complicates the story considerably.

Vanguard's own 10-year forecast for U.S. stocks is 4.2% to 6.2% a year. The record behind numbers like that is worth seeing whole.

Here’s how CEO Salim Ramji plans to bring Vanguard’s low-cost, high-return formula to cash savings, financial advice, and active fixed income.

<p>Exchange-traded funds hold more than $14 trillion in assets and have become the default way millions of people invest. But if you're just getting started, one question comes first: how do ETFs actually work? This complete beginner's guide breaks it down in plain English — what an ETF is, the clever mechanism that lets it trade like a stock while holding hundreds of them, what it costs, how it compares to stocks and mutual funds, and how to buy your first one.</p>

The government seeds your newborn's investment account with what looks like a nearly free S&P 500 ETF, but the fund fee is the smallest number on the bill. The real costs are buried in decisions the account made for you before your child took a first breath.

Both funds charge 0.03% annually and delivered identical 22.8% returns over the past year, but one holds significantly more assets.

This ETF offers investors a rare balance of growth, value, and income stocks.

JPMorgan sees the S&P 500 reaching 8,000 as AI spending and earnings strengthen. Explore ETFs to capitalize on the potential upside.

Investors might be unsure where to place their money this year. But some S&P 500 companies are churning out profit.

Fidelity built a large-cap index fund that charges absolutely nothing, and the case against owning it has nothing to do with the fee.

A retiree who chose VYM for its reliable quarterly deposits may have traded away a surprising fortune without realizing it, and the expense ratio has almost nothing to do with it.

<p>US-listed ETFs took in $37 billion last week, led by $10.2 billion into QQQ. But investors booked profits in semiconductor funds.</p>

Dividends have become a smaller component of the S&P 500's total return, but that hasn't always been the case.

Investors have braced for the second-quarter earnings for months — hoping for signs of how the S&P 500 is absorbing inflation. So far the answer is — very well.

VFIAX is one of the most popular ways Americans own the S&P 500, but two hidden costs quietly make it the wrong choice for millions of investors, and Vanguard already sells the fix.

Do as he says, not as he does. Here's why.