VWO News and Press, Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets From 09/02/22

Summary The contribution of emerging and frontier markets to global trade in clean-energy metals has steadily grown in recent years. In 2020, EMs were the source of 44.3% of exports of big-five transition metals. China is an important source and destination of the metals of th...

Summary Bridgewater Associates’ 13F portfolio value decreased from ~$24.81B to ~$23.60B this quarter. They increased Walmart and CVS Health while dropping Alibaba and JD.com. The top three individual stock positions are Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, and C...

Summary It is hard to determine sometimes what causes markets to move as they do. Take last Friday’s stock market selloff. The widely cited “reason” for the selloff was Jerome Powell’s speech at the Fed’s Jackson Hole Symposium. Of the major ...

Summary Many investors may be assuming that ETFs will typically be better performers than managed mutual funds of a similar category. But some recent research by Morningstar.com may suggest that investors should take a look at Vanguard's managed funds. I examined relatively sh...

The decade of the 2020s is likely to be another lost decade for the S&P 500. U.S. value stocks are likely to outperform U.S. growth stocks during the 2020s. Many international stock markets are likely to outperform U.S. stock markets in the 2020s. Both the decade fro...

Stocks have been full of zeal over the past month. Is the rally sustainable? Or is a pullback imminent? Fundamental, technical, and mechanical headwinds. An important caveat. Full of zeal The U.S. stock market has had a phenomenal past month. After bottoming on J...

Money managers are no longer "apocalyptically" bearish, but still very negative, according to the latest BofA Securities survey out Tuesday. Hope is rising that inflation and rate shocks are over, strategist Michael Hartnett wrote in the August Fund Manager Survey. Of the 284 paneli...

The two largest emerging market ETFs each have over 80% allocated to Asian markets, with over half of that 80% in Greater China alone. The biggest difference between these two ETFs is Korea, which the Vanguard Emerging Markets ETF excludes, and the iShares Emerging Markets ETF include...

Coming together for an extraordinary experience. Five key takeaways for the second half of 2022 and beyond. Thoughts on fishing in Maine and current portfolio allocation. Remember this age-old question? If you could pick three people to invite to dinner, who would ...

With inflation at multi-decade highs in many countries and pressures broadening beyond food and energy prices, policymakers have pivoted toward tighter policy. Stable prices are a crucial prerequisite for sustained economic growth. The high uncertainty clouding the economic and in...