To diversify our ETF investments further, lets look at the VPL – Vanguard Pacific Stock Index Fund.  As the name implies, investing in the VPL is investing in the stocks of the Asia-Pacific region.  It has 2497 stocks, so buying VPL is buying a large part of all of the Asia-Pacific stocks. People invest in [...]

Okay, so in prior posts we’ve just looked at US stocks.  But there’s a whole world out there, and it has many profitable businesses, and stocks, as well. And we know that diversification within our US stocks can lower risk.  Because it kind of evens out the ride, i.e. when some stocks go down, others [...]

After looking at large companies stocks ETFs in recent posts, we have started looking into small company stock ETFs.  So why would we do that?  After all, large companies typically have well established products and a well-established financial history. However, their big growth days may be behind them.  So investing in them is less risk, [...]

Here’s another sample chapter from my latest book Exchange-Traded Funds Investing For Beginners.  The book has been well received, so I’ll, post a number of excerpts for your review in future posts. And if it interest you, you can review the book for free right here. We’ve been previewing the chapter entitled Different Types Of [...]

Here’s our last large stock ETF sample chapter from my latest book Exchange-Traded Funds Investing For Beginners.  The book has been well received, so I’ll post a number of other excerpts for your review in future posts. And if they interest you, you can review the book for free right here. That said, here’s an excerpt from [...]

Here’s a continuation of a sample chapter from my latest book Exchange-Traded Funds Investing For Beginners.  The book has been well received, so I’ll post a number of other excerpts for your review in future posts. And if they interest you, you can review the book for free right here. That said, here’s an excerpt from the [...]

Here’s a continuation of a sample chapter from my latest book Exchange-Traded Funds Investing For Beginners.  The book has been well received, so I’ll post a number of other excerpts for your review in future posts. And if they interest you, you can review the book for free right here. That said, here’s an excerpt [...]

Here’s a sample chapter from my latest book Exchange-Traded Funds Investing For Beginners.  The book has been well received, so I’ll, post a number of other excerpts for your review in future posts. And if it interest you, you can review the book for free right here. That said, here’s an excerpt from the chapter [...]

My new book Exchange-Traded Funds For Beginners has just been released and In it you’ll learn why millions of investors are building their wealth every day with these stock-like funds, or ETFs. Once only available to the big institutions on Wall Street, these special funds were created as a tool just for themselves.  But since [...]

When you own an individual stock, your focus is simply on that one company. That is to say, the company you own the stock in. Your interest is in how it is performing, the quality of the management team, financial standing and performance, etc. But when you are invested in an exchange traded stock fund [...]