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Better Buy: Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF or Vanguard Growth Index Fund ETF?

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Speaking to this fact, the fund family has grown to around $7.5 trillion in assets under management across its mutual fund and exchange-traded fund (ETF) offerings. However, VUG's yield is a modest 0.47%, reflecting its primary emphasis on capital growth over immediate income generation.

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Motley Fool Stories, Vol. 6: Sports, Family & Finance

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Bill Barker: It might hold for a couple of days a week, but it's not going to hold up to an investment horizon. We didn't have to have venture capital. David Gardner: Being raised with a father who is a businessman, what feelings and thoughts did you have, as let's say, an 18-year-old, about capitalism? Yet many do.

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Are Alternative Investments the Key to Diversifying Your Portfolio?

Fortune Financial

Private Equity Private equity is a form of alternative investment that involves investing in privately-held companies. It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. trillion in buyouts, highlighting its resilience and impressive growth.

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Are Alternative Investments the Key to Diversifying Your Portfolio?

Fortune Financial

Private Equity Private equity is a form of alternative investment that involves investing in privately-held companies. It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. trillion in buyouts, highlighting its resilience and impressive growth.

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An introduction to Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT)

Quiet Growth

MPT suggests including negatively correlated investments in a portfolio to reduce overall portfolio risk. Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM): Building upon MPT, this model defines the relationship between expected return and risk for a security. Assets can be positively correlated, negatively correlated, or uncorrelated.

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BlackRock (BLK) Q4 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

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Growing public deficits, a modernizing digital world, advancing energy independence, and the energy transition are driving the mobilization of private capital to fund critical infrastructure. Infrastructure investment is a fast-growing market. Our capital management strategy remains consistent.

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Transcript: Aswath Damodaran

The Big Picture

DAMODARAN: Capital gains then were taxed with 28 percent. Since 2004, the tax rate on dividends and capital gains is 15 percent, 18 percent, 21 percent. The original research actually, the Fama-French paper argued that market capitalization was standing in as a proxy for us, that small companies were riskier than larger companies.

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