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These two S&P 500 ETFs seem interchangeable. They're not.

A single ETF purchase made before most investors had ever heard the term changed what passive investing looks like today, but the original is no longer the obvious choice for everyone holding it.

We may not be in for a repeat of the last decade, but the odds of further gains are good.

<p>Our first full day of content and activities at the ETF Oasis at Future Proof was a jam-packed one. Check out some of the moments we managed to capture in the mix of things!</p>

Splitting a half-million dollars between two popular ETFs feels like textbook diversification, but a quiet look under the hood reveals something most investors never bother to check before their next contribution.

Retirees chasing a simple $500 monthly check from VYM run straight into a gap between how yields are calculated and how cash actually lands in your account, and the math gets uncomfortable fast.

VOO has delivered strong returns since its inception.

Three ETFs and a custodial account you can open this afternoon might be all it takes to hand each grandchild a serious financial head start, but the trade-offs hiding inside this simple strategy are exactly what most grandparents overlook.

Three new names are entering the S&P 500, swapping out brewers and homebuilders for fuel-cell technology and genomics, but whether that trade actually benefits VOO holders depends on a math problem most investors overlook.

Buying two broad Vanguard index funds feels like spreading your risk across the market, but the holdings inside each fund tell a very different story about where your money actually ends up.

<p>Table below reflects daily flows on September 14, 2026 and asset totals as of that date.</p>

Two neighbors hold the same S&P 500 index in the same brokerage, and one walks away with an unexpected tax bill every December while the other pays nothing. The difference has nothing to do with performance or fees.

The Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF is a great fund for investors who want megacap growth exposure, but it doesn't need to be paired with its S&P 500 counterpart.

VONG and VOOG offer similar structures, but they diverge in diversification and recent performance.

$1 million is achievable with a few simple steps -- and a lot of time.

The top 10 components recently made up a whopping 38% of the fund's value -- and the top three made up about 20%.

Four Vanguard funds promise a hands-off portfolio for nearly zero cost, but owning the wrong combination quietly turns diversification into expensive redundancy. Knowing which one or two to pick changes everything.

Trump's midterm push, election uncertainty and AI's political scrutiny could shape markets. Explore ETFs positioned for potential sector and post-election gains.

Your name doesn't have to be Jen-Hsun Huang to make a fortune on an S&P 500 stock this year. Michael Dell's stock holdings made even more.

<p>The ETF industry appears to be partially shifting gears, from expansive growth to a greater focus on scale if recent acquisitions are any indicator. The ETF Zoo crew talks this emerging trend, as well as the ongoing innovation happening from leveraged funds to new filings for farmland, and what the AI chokepoints really mean for ETFs and investors in an episode you don't want to miss.</p>

Gold investors celebrating a decade of gains may not realize the IRS treats their ETF shares like coins and jewelry, triggering a tax rule that quietly separates gold holders from equity investors at the worst possible moment.

<p>Today is the day. At its "Surprise and Shine" event on September 9, 2026, Apple is expected to unveil its first-ever foldable iPhone — a roughly $2,000 device that could be the company's most important product launch in years — alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max. For the millions of investors who own Apple through ETFs, the bigger question isn't the phone. It's what happens to the funds that hold Apple as a top position. Here's what history says about Apple on launch day, and the ETFs th

<p>Before you buy any ETF, there's one page you should visit first: its ETF.com fund page. Type any ticker after etf.com — like <a href="/QQQ">etf.com/QQQ</a> — and you land on a single, comprehensive dashboard that tells you everything you need to know about the fund, from its live price to what it holds to how efficiently it trades. Here's a guided tour of what an ETF.com fund page offers, and how to use it to make smarter decisions.</p>

<p>They're two of the most popular ETFs on the planet, held by tens of millions of investors and they're often pitched as alternatives to each other. But <a href="https://www.etf.com/VOO">VOO</a> and <a href="https://www.etf.com/QQQ">QQQ</a> are built for different jobs. One gives you the broad U.S. market at rock-bottom cost; the other concentrates your money in the biggest growth and tech names for higher potential returns and higher risk. Here's a complete <a href="https://www.etf.com/VOO">VO</a>

The S&P 500 has become overexposed to the AI industry.

Invesco offers two funds tracking the exact same Nasdaq-100 stocks with the same management team, yet one of them quietly drains thousands of dollars from a long-term investor's portfolio. Knowing which ticker belongs in your account depends entirely on how you plan to use it.

Why choose between double-digit percentage gains on stocks and insane 5.2%-plus yields on long-term Treasurys? You can have both.

<p>US-listed ETFs took in $21.3 billion last week, most of it into bonds. The standout, though, was UCBG.</p>

A $1.2 million position in Vanguard's most popular S&P 500 fund looks like broad diversification until you open the shareholder report and see where most of that money actually sits. For a 64-year-old counting on this portfolio for the next 30 years, the sector breakdown changes the risk calculation entirely.