ITOT News and Press, iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market From 02/06/20

Folks thought things were bad for value stocks during the Dot.com mania, and they were: At the peak of the bubble, the 10-year annualized underperformance of low P/E names vs. high P/E names was -2.7% More news on: Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF, iShares S&P 500 Value ETF, Cornerstone...

The following data is derived from trading activity on the Tradeweb Markets institutional European- and U.S.-listed ETF platforms. European-Listed ETFs Total traded volume More than EUR 31.1 billion was executed on the Tradeweb European-listed ETF marketplace in November. The proporti...

The 2010s have been somewhat unusual in that a simple passive investment in the S&P 500 index delivered higher risk-adjusted returns than almost any other asset class. Traditionally, the risk of stock drawdowns from all-time high levels has been mitigated by rebalancing some of the stock g...

For the eighth week in a row, investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs), injecting $21.6 billion for Lipper's fund flows week ended October 23, 2019. Once again, fund investors were net purchasers of money market funds (+$17.7 billion...

"Don't feed the animals." Signs bearing this exhortation can often be found in national and state parks or large city parks, in which a variety of wildlife reside with minimal human contact. Image Source The reason for this injunction is simple: There is a natural order that exists...

The Underestimated Growth Engine In a previous post (see here ), I wrote about the often-ignored engine of organic economic growth that is private savings . To quote myself: Saving leads to investment. Investment leads to increased productivity and output capacity. These lead to more ...

Originally Published August 15, 2019 The following data is derived from trading activity on the Tradeweb Markets institutional European- and U.S.-listed ETF platforms. European-Listed ETFs Total traded volume Trading activity on the Tradeweb European-listed ETF marketplace reache...

If there was any pushback against the notion that the Fed is going to ease while the S&P 500 (SPX) sits near record highs those doubts died at precisely 2pm ET on Wednesday as the June FOMC meeting came across unambiguously dovish. The dovish tide swept across bond markets Thursday, driv...

There is a saying in business that between good, fast, and cheap, you must choose two and can not have all three. When it comes to investing, I must thank competition between Vanguard and Blackrock Inc. ( BLK ) for giving us a very good mix of all three in our ETF choices that can be very hard...

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...