If you're an owner of an exchange-traded fund (ETF) or index fund, chances are they are from either Vanguard or Blackrock. These two companies are the powerhouses in the industry. Vanguard has $7.9 trillion in assets under management, and Blackrock has $
Enter VIOV, an index fund from Vanguard created in 2010 that seeks to track the S&P Small-Cap 600 Value Index. Conveniently, this index also employs some earnings screens to make sure constituent stocks are profitable, so we get some naive exposure to the Profitability factor as well. As su...