VYMI News and Press, Vanguard International High Dividend Yield ETF From 03/02/22

While Covid remains a powerful force in the world economy and our lives, it does appear that the situation is improving in 2022. So, how did the stock funds react to the better news? By declining! Even if market timers could have predicted Covid and the economic effects, they were pro...

Vanguard Reports Expense Ratio Changes Across Equity and Bond Funds PR Newswire VALLEY FORGE, Pa. , Feb. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vanguard today reported expense ratio changes for 18 funds across multiple ETF and mutual fund share classes, including a wide range ...

Investors want to know how the new Schwab International Dividend Equity ETF scores on yield, growth, risk, valuation, and performance. I'll answer these questions and more in this in-depth piece. I've calculated several metrics for this defensive 100-stock portfolio, and found that co...

Russia supplies natural gas to Europe, and in the event of US sanctions, this could impact Europe. But there are so many LNG ships in the Atlantic right now that lease rates have collapsed, so Russian threats to cut off Europe’s gas may not be much of a threat. The other big th...

In the comments section of my recent article on VYMI, a reader asked "What about SCHY?" Never having reviewed this ETF, I thought it was high time I did so. In this article, I start with a deep dive into SCHY, including its selection methodology, country profile, sector weightings, an...

For investors who want to earn a reasonable return without taking excessive risks, diversification still works, and we think you’re going to need more of it this year. The weighing of the high-flyers is not over. Commodities had another good week, and the 1-year return is getti...

For those investors who like the idea of buying and holding for the long term, international stocks are likely to dramatically outperform over the coming years. The SPDR Developed World ex-US ETF offers a well-diversified portfolio of international stocks, with much stronger long-term...

For several years, I have written favorably about VYM, Vanguard's Domestic High-Yield ETF. Recently, I also wrote that superior growth opportunities might now come from outside the U.S. Combining those two concepts, it might appear that VYMI is a most intriguing vehicle to take advant...

In investing, the big five could more aptly refer to the connected categories of growth, inflation, interest rates, valuations, and style. 2022 is shaping up to be one of slowing toward more normal, healthy rates of economic growth and inflation, thereby paving the way to a sustainabl...

Despite ongoing inflation hype, the U.S. prices paid trend indicator peaked in June 2021 and turned down - this typically leads ISM Manufacturing prices by 2-3 months and suggests inflationary pressures will continue to reverse. Commodities are signalling a similar story, with the Gol...