MGC News and Press, Vanguard Mega Cap From 05/31/23

2023-05-31 21:03:00 ET Summary Large-cap U.S. equities have rallied year-to-date by approximately nine percent (as of May 29th) and appear to show resiliency in the face of a potential recession. The outperformance of the ‘Big 8’ group has seen its market cap weight ...

2023-05-22 18:05:48 ET Summary USMC selects stocks from the top 50th percentile by market value of the S&P 500, re-weighting the vast majority by a proprietary measure of financial strength. Fees are just 0.12%. Despite suggestions otherwise, USMC is not a low-volatility ETF b...

2023-05-20 06:00:00 ET Summary While virtually no global market segment escaped the turmoil of the past year, US large cap equities were dealt a particularly sharp blow. As defensive industries have cycled into favor, the market turmoil has led many investors to seek a defensive s...

2023-05-16 23:35:00 ET Summary 2023 is now continuing that past pattern of growth and large-cap growth relative performance. If you look at the 10 and 15-year annualized returns across all the US equity asset classes, even straight value vs. growth, the returns are not all that ap...

2023-05-04 02:44:00 ET Summary 2023 has smashed all previous U.S. large-cap stock-market extremes including those of 2021 and 2022. Regardless of whether there is a soft landing or not, current valuations especially for the largest U.S. stocks aren't compatible with contracting ec...

2023-04-29 09:29:21 ET Summary This ETF trading model uses the Conference Board Leading Economic Index to determine “Risk-On” periods for equities. A universe is defined from the SPDR, Vanguard, and PowerShares ETF providers for the sectors healthcare, energy, commun...

2023-04-26 22:55:00 ET Summary After taking a back seat to various flavors of small-cap and value factors earlier in 2023, the large-company growth risk factor is again leading the horse race, based on year-to-date returns for a set of ETF proxies through yesterday’s close (Apr...

2023-04-23 07:41:00 ET Summary The sudden collapse of two US regional banks and the forced acquisition of Credit Suisse in Europe introduced a third dimension to the existing policy dilemma of balancing inflation and growth objectives: financial stability. In the weeks since banki...

2023-03-29 03:30:00 ET Summary While US large cap equity indexes have generally fared well over the past five years, the Russell 1000 Invesco Dynamic Multifactor Index [RB1] has posted standout returns. The Russell 1000 Index — an unbiased barometer for the broad US large c...

2023-03-22 16:43:33 ET Vanguard Mega Cap ETF ( NYSEARCA: MGC ) - $0.5010 . 30-Day SEC Yield of 1.56% as of Feb. 28. Payable Mar 28; for shareholders of record Mar 24; ex-div Mar 23. For further details see: Vanguard Mega Cap ETF declares quarterly distributio...