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Here's How Billionaires Buy Stocks

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A self-directed brokerage account is the same kind you or I might use and has the same types of stock investing options, including individual stocks, exchange-traded funds, options trading, mutual funds, bonds, and real estate investment trusts (REITs).

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Meet the Best-Performing Low-Cost Vanguard ETF in 2024. Here's Why It May Still Be a Buy for 2025 and Beyond.

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Mutual fund giant Vanguard Group offers over 60 equity-focused exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Some ETFs invest in momentum and others are more balanced. The following table shows the P/E ratios of top payment processors and investment banks -- which are all top 10 holdings in the Vanguard Financials ETF.

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1 Vanguard ETF to Buy Now, 1 to Avoid

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One of the best innovations in investing has been the exchange-traded fund (ETF), an investment vehicle that lets anyone easily buy shares of a fund that holds a group of related stocks, often in an index. The Vanguard Financials ETF is also much more than bank stocks.

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MSCI (MSCI) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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Roughly $7 million worth of cancels came from a single client event, a historic merger of two major global banks in Europe that affected us across index, ESG, and analytics. Just last week, we closed our acquisition of the London-based index provider, Foxberry. Turning to our other recent acquisitions.

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What Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley Told Investors

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Jason Moser: I think it's with Goldman Sachs, Goldman is not the first bank I think that comes to people's minds when we think about consumer banking. Goldman, it's an investment bank. Jason Moser: Well, like I said, Goldman is an investment bank. IPOs are at a standstill.

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Transcript: Peter Mallouk, Creative Planning

The Big Picture

Peter is the guy I look to when I wanna learn things about how to build a firm, how to grow organically, how to think about acquisitions, how to structure your company, really to become an enterprise as opposed to merely being a business. You did no acquisitions. This is the right investment approach. And, and now it’s up.

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Transcript: Brian Hamburger

The Big Picture

I mean, at first, I got out of undergrad, and a degree in finance coming out of a small college at the time, Quinnipiac College, the gigs I was offered were essentially customer service jobs at mutual funds, call service, manning the phones, which I was no stranger to. It doesn’t help you with client acquisition.

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