The Motley Fool

MAY 27, 2024

trillion in assets under management, Vanguard stands as an indomitable force in the mutual fund and exchange-traded fund (ETF) landscape. For many long-term investors, Vanguard's ETFs and mutual funds are the go-to choices, and there's a good reason why. large-cap stocks since 2020: ^SPX data by YCharts 8.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 15, 2024

While Tesla has garnered its share of institutional support from the likes of Wood and mutual fund manager Ron Baron, the company is also a favorite among retail investors. To mitigate some of this, Tesla has undergone two stock splits in the last four years -- once in 2020 and another in 2022.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 17, 2025

Other than a handful of superstar managers (most of whose funds you cannot get into), the vast majority of these managers fail to justify their costs. Underperforming Your Own Holdings: The ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK), managed by Cathie Woods, had one of the best runs of any mutual fund or ETF managerever.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In other words, buying an index fund has a higher expected return than buying any single individual stock or actively managed mutual fund. He said that makes an S&P 500 index fund like the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust or the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF "clearly the best choice," in his 2016 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 10, 2024

From the fund's public market entrance in May 2015 to the end of 2020, the Grayscale fund averaged a 37% price premium over its holdings in pure Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC). Early Bitcoin adopters appreciated the Grayscale fund's availability in ordinary stock-exchange accounts. in the ETF era.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 25, 2024

Census finds that among workers aged 15 to 64, about 35% had access to a 401(k) or similar account, like a 403(b), in 2020. Investing in a target date fund You'll very commonly find target date funds as an investment choice in a 401(k). Target date funds, on the one hand, make investing easy.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 18, 2025

This model is more like a mutual fund than an operating company. To be fair, management has maintained the dividend at its current level since the last cut in 2020. The problem is that, after its peak, the dividend has headed lower. That trend has been going on for more than a decade.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A lot of that has been through acquisitions, with Builders FirstSource doing a massive deal in 2020 and completing 14 smaller purchases in the last two years alone to rapidly expand both its product portfolio and its geographic reach. Builders FirstSource has grown revenue at a compound annualized rate of more than 26% since 2017.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 12, 2022

RWM is a discretionary RIA, which primarily invests in stocks and bonds via ETFs, Mutual Funds, and Direct Indexing. Illiquid investments do have some appealing aspects: Start with the illiquidity premium, the return above traditional stocks or funds. Cars are for Driving, Sneakers are for Wearing (November 11, 2020).

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 13, 2023

By contrast, only 18% of Americans surveyed in 2023 believe stocks and mutual funds are the best investment, down from 24% in 2022. But the fact that so many Americans are placing gold above stocks raises the question -- is gold a better investment in 2023 than stocks and mutual funds? I don't think so. Here's why.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 22, 2023

So what Any exchange-traded funds (ETFs) or mutual funds that track the S&P SmallCap 600 will sell their positions in Emergent BioSolutions and buy shares of Advance Auto Parts. Emergent's share price has plunged 64% so far this year and is down nearly 97% below the high set in 2020.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 4, 2024

Over that time period, there have been only three years where more than half of large-cap mutual funds beat the market. Even then, it was a slim majority, with 55% the highest level of market-beating funds in 2007, right before the market crashed. Metric 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 S&P 500 return 13.7%

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Rowe Price sell various financial products, such as mutual funds , offer advisory services to clients, and operate retirement plans for employers. However, it also makes the company susceptible to market crashes because asset prices decline, and scared clients might pull their funds out of the markets.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

households once owned 95% of all stocks individually in brokerage accounts; today, ownership is is via ETFs, mutual funds, pensions, hedge funds, foreign investors, etc. aka The Hidden World of Failure ) (October 23, 2020) Stock Ownership : Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2024

For the typical non-tax deferred account that maybe consists of a dozen mutual funds and ETFs, what does tax loss harvesting look like there? Ari Rosenbaum : Tax loss harvesting in a mutual funder, an ETF would be done at the price of the, of the fund or the ETF would be selling out of the entire position of the funder, the ETF.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Most of the new ETFs didn't have a price history before that date, but the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (NYSEMKT: GBTC) converted from a traditional mutual fund to a more flexible ETF, and the fund price rose by 10.4% Bitcoin had gained 5.6% over the same span. That's just the way it is. billion of Bitcoin holdings.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

And we are seeing reports that many mutual funds and hedge funds are leaving the private markets because the values in the public markets are so compelling. And I do feel that there is more of that going on in 2022 than we saw in 2020 and 2021 and that’s a very good thing. All of this is healthy.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Exchange-traded funds (ETF) have revolutionized investing by offering investors an efficient way to build wealth through diversified portfolios. ETFs combine the best features of mutual funds and stocks, providing instant diversification, low costs, and the ability to trade throughout the day. The fund invests in large-cap U.S.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2023

While according to a survey from the US Census Bureau in 2020, 18% of working age adults had an IRA. You can buy stocks, other mutual funds, ETFs, a lot of flexibility, and I think we as Motley Fools, would wish that more plans offer this, because then we can buy stocks within our 401(k), and not just the mutual funds that are offered.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

eked out a 3% gain in 2022, as well as a 2% increase in 2020. Of course, the fine print you'll find in mutual fund prospectuses about past performance not being indicative of future results applies to Berkshire Hathaway and Eli Lilly, too. However, Warren Buffett was able to zig while most zagged during the bear market.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Even with the COVID-19 pandemic picking off retailers en masse in 2020, Realty Income's occupancy for the year held at 97.9%. This is the company behind Franklin Templeton mutual funds , although it operates several other profit centers beyond the Templeton brand. That's what this REIT's numbers say, anyway.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

He's now the sixth CEO of Red Lobster since 2020. But you're saying that in many of these districts, you have 40-50 choices, not of mutual funds, but the actual company running the plan, and then you got to choose that plan and then choose the mutual funds. Damola Adamolekun is previously the leader of PF Changs.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 21, 2024

It's the only asset on this list that was converted from a mutual fund format instead of created from scratch last week. The old mutual fund format lacks the advanced price management features of a modern ETF, so Grayscale's Bitcoin Trust didn't always reflect the true value of its underlying cryptocurrency holdings.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 24, 2023

Image source: Getty Images The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted last week to change the regulations governing money market funds. In March 2020, money market funds experienced significant outflows due to the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. What are money market funds? This led to the U.S.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 2, 2023

Its regularly updated report card on the performance of actively managed mutual funds -- funds more likely to frequently buy and sell than buy and hold -- indicates that in 2022, 51% of them underperformed the S&P 500. And that was a relatively good year for these actively managed funds. In reality, though, we don't.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

You've no doubt seen mutual fund warnings that past performance isn't necessarily indicative of future results. Moderna Keith Speights (Moderna) : Moderna skyrocketed in 2020 and early 2021 thanks to the company's rapid development and commercialization of a messenger RNA-based COVID-19 vaccine.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sea may not appeal to many investors Sea was a darling of growth stock investors back during the high-growth, loss-making years of 2020 and early 2021. However, when that happened, Sea was able to switch on profits in both its Shopee e-commerce segment and its SeaMoney fintech segment, bolstering its balance sheet -- all quite impressive.

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The Big Picture

JULY 8, 2023

Johnson joined the firm in 1988 and held leadership roles in all its major divisions before becoming CEO in February 2020. She also led the historic acquisition of Legg Mason in 2020, and Putnam in 2023, with the organization now managing more than $1.5 trillion globally.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 9, 2024

That is, rather than trying to pick individual winners, step into a fund that's consistently well exposed to large technology stocks, or that holds the names that will eventually become these market-leading tickers. Just brace for extreme volatility in the meantime. Own value stocks for 26 years Too much volatility for your taste?

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Grayscale ETF used to be the only Bitcoin-owning mutual fund before the SEC approved its ETF conversion. The ARK 21Shares fund is managed by famed growth investor Cathie Wood and her crack team of analysts. iShares is a leading ETF issuer, backed by the financial might of BlackRock. Now, the risk isn't always lower.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 29, 2024

Since 2020 we've invested $825 million of total cash on our balance sheet. Turning to our bitcoin strategy more specifically, we had one of the most successful quarters of adding more bitcoin to our balance sheet as we acquired 25,128 bitcoins in the first quarter, our second largest single quarter increase in bitcoin holdings since Q4 2020.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 29, 2023

rupees per share via bulk deals to a raft of buyers including Morgan Stanley Asia Singapore, Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund, Societe Generale, and BNP Paribas Arbitrage Fund. Tiger Global, which first invested in Zomato in 2020, previously cut its holding in the company in August last year. million shares at 91.01

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ClearMoney

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In looking at all 1,000-plus monthly closing levels between 1926 and 2020 for the S&P 500 Index, 30% of the monthly observations were new market highs. Commissions, trailing commissions, management fees, and expenses all may be associated with mutual fund investments. Please read the prospectus before investing.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Johnson joined the firm in 1988 and held leadership roles in all its major divisions before becoming CEO in February 2020. She also led the historic acquisition of Legg Mason in 2020, and Putnam in 2023, with the organization now managing more than $1.5 trillion globally.

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ClearMoney

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Investor adoption in fixed income has lagged, at least when measured by the assets under management (AUM) in mutual funds and ETFs. At the end of 2020, $1.35 trillion in equity fund AUM1 was categorized as strategic beta by Morningstar. billion of fixed income funds had the same designation. By contrast, just $14.36

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ClearMoney

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Prohibiting the sale to retail clients of investment products that reference cryptoassets,” Financial Conduct Authority, June 10, 2020. Commissions, trailing commissions, management fees, and expenses all may be associated with mutual fund investments. Gox Bitcoin Customers Could Lose Again,” Reuters, November 16, 2017.

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Sara Grillo

JUNE 24, 2024

Variable universal life (VUL=mutual funds) were/are illustrated using an 8%-12% CD-like ROR eternally. This correction was updated in 2020 with AG 49A and again in May 2023 with AG49B. Money market rates crashed to zero (0%) in 2022 due to Covid-19. That is a mathematical impossibility.

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