ITOT News and Press, iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market From 05/03/19

Vanguard’s Total Stock Market ETF ( VTI ) is the ETF version of the largest equity mutual fund in terms of assets under management, VTSAX, and VTI is the third largest equity ETF. The fund uses an index investment approach that is designed to track the performance of the CRSP U.S. Tota...

By now, everyone is well aware of economic inequality. What might be somewhat obscured is the difference between income inequality and wealth inequality. The two terms are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same. Income inequality measures the differences in annual inflows ...

Scottish Enlightenment-era philosopher David Hume penned a prescient and incisive essay about public debt in 1752, long before our current age of fiat currencies and staggering federal deficits. He would have been horrified at how public finance has evolved — or devolved , from his p...

Background The Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF ( VTI ) is the ETF version of the world's largest mutual fund, VTSAX. The fund, as of March 31, 2019 has an astounding $772.7 billion under management and holds 3,615 individual companies. Vanguard is one of the largest investment management com...

Background The Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund Admiral Shares ( VTSAX ) is the world's largest mutual fund. The fund, as of February 28, 2019 has an astounding $757 billion under management and holds 3,573 individual companies. Vanguard is one of the largest investment management comp...

Co-produced with Samuel Smith for High Yield Landlord Building a portfolio full of safe and passive income vehicles that not only covers your cost of living today but grows at a rate equal to or exceeding the rate of inflation is the retiree's dream. However, it is not as easy as it ma...

The Theory "Modern Monetary Theory," despite the arcane ring to the term, is a hot topic being bandied about in media these days. Newcomers to the theory might assume that the whole idea is a contrived excuse to spend more federal dollars despite an already sizable deficit and debt load. I...

Fidelity made waves in the fund space last year when it launched the Fidelity ZERO Total Market Index Fund ( FZROX ) . It became the first fund to operate with not just a 0% expense ratio, there's also no minimum to invest and no fee to trade. It essentially becomes the first completely fee-f...

By Patrick Keon Lipper's fund asset groups (including both mutual funds and ETFs) took in more than $15.9 billion in net new money for the fund-flows trading week ended Wednesday, February 27. All four asset groups recorded net positive flows for the week, led by money market funds (+$7.6 ...

What is the most important price in the economy? In my estimation, it can only be the price of money itself . The price of borrowed money affects everyone in some way or another. At the current point in history, a handful of actors (the central banks) wield control over this price, either d...