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Meet the High-Yield Vanguard ETF That's Already Up Nearly 10% in 2025

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Many oil and gas companies used the period of outsize earnings from 2021 and 2022 to pay down debt and improve their balance sheets. A plug-and-play investment vehicle for passive investors The Vanguard Energy ETF is a simple, low-cost way to invest in U.S. Demand for U.S. energy stocks.

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1 Little-Known Vanguard Index Fund to Buy Before It Soars 50%, According to a Wall Street Analyst

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As a result, the Russell 2000 has advanced just 5% since April 2022, but the S&P 500 has returned 22%. The S&P 500 more than doubled the performance of the Russell 2000 over the last decade, so I would encourage passive investors to prioritize an S&P 500 index fund.

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This Vanguard ETF Just Hit an All-Time High as It Continues to Outperform the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite Over the Last 5 Years

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Investors often take on the challenge of picking individual stocks to beat the market or simply invest in a way that suits their risk tolerance and helps accomplish their financial goals. But finding a quality, low-cost, exchange-traded fund (ETF) that achieves diversification and can beat the market is a passive investors' dream come true.

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2 Artificial Intelligence ETFs to Buy Before the Stock Market Makes a New All-Time High

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The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) hit a record high earlier this year, certifying the bull market that began when the index bottomed out in October 2022. But it's currently in the midst of a modest sell-off, which started at the end of March, as investors navigate headwinds relating to inflation and interest rates.

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1 Small Cloud Stock Gearing Up for a New Round of Innovation -- Time to Buy?

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Nevertheless, the bear market took a toll on many cloud businesses in 2022 and 2023 and finally caught up with DigitalOcean. I'm more than content to wait and see as a passive investor in this promising company. Should you invest $1,000 in DigitalOcean right now?

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2 Magnificent Ark Invest ETFs to Buy for the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Boom

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The fund is actively managed, so Wood and her team of experts adjust the portfolio as necessary, which is convenient for passive investors. The Ark Innovation ETF is still trading down by 69% from the all-time high it touched in early 2021, which was followed by a tech crash in 2022.

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Do You Know It All When It Comes to Nvidia?

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Bill Mann: I would like to speak on behalf of the passive investors out there and just remind people that if you do own an S&P 500 index fund, you already have a very, very large stake in Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft, so congratulations on participating. It is the burgeoning. it is the Internet back in the year 2000.