To be honest, they are both great choices, and aren’t vastly different. iShares will give you a slightly lower MER and Vanguard beats iShares in the number of all-in-one ETFs you can choose from as well as offers a bit more exposure to US bonds and emerging markets. In this Vanguard...
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What is VEQT ETF – The Vanguard All Equity Fund? The Vanguard All Equity ETF (VEQT) was created by Vanguard Canada in order to be a one-stop shop for an entire investing portfolio. Several MDJ authors own VEQT and Robb Engen over at Boomer at Echo has evenstatedthat it is now the...
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Michael Perre and Jeffrey Miller share responsibility for this fund. Perre is a principal at Vanguard, while Miller is a portfolio manager and trader. Both have more than a decade of experience at Vanguard and help captain some of the firm’s largest index-tracking funds listed in North Americ...
Vanguard FTSE All-Wld UCITS ETF earns an Above Average Process Pillar rating. The main driver of the rating is that this fund tracks an index. Historical data, like Morningstar's Active/Passive Barometer, finds that passively managed funds have generally outperformed their active counterparts, espe...
In addition, the mutual fund company is thrilled to have a captive audience with only their funds available to be invested in – which translates into new deposits for the company for nearly zero marketing cost. Of course the agent who sold the plan is ecstatic: for virtually no ongoing effo...
Mutual Fund and ETF Availability.Not all mutual funds and ETFs are available at all brokerages. Many major mutual fund and ETF families are widely available but check with your brokerage before assuming you have access to everything. Someone likeVanguard, for example, has some of the bestmutual...
Mutual funds Hedge funds Each method has their advantages and disadvantages and will depend on how much control you want over your investments, how passive you want to be, what your risk profile is (what return are you looking for and what drawdown will you tolerate?), and how much in fee...
Banking regulators are scrutinizing whether index-fund giants BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street are sticking to passive roles when it comes to their investments in U.S. banks. The three firms manage more than $23 trillion in total, with much of it in funds that passively mimic indexes such...