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Published on 23 May 2024 on Motley Fool via Yahoo Finance

5 Reasons to Buy the Vanguard S&P 600 Value ETF Like There's No Tomorrow


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Investing doesn't have to be complicated. A simple portfolio of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) may be all you need to produce excellent returns over the long run.

Many people will allocate their entire stock portfolio to an S&P 500 or total stock market index fund. And while that can be a great foundation for any portfolio, history suggests investors will do well by tilting their holdings toward small-cap value stocks. That means putting more money in smaller companies trading at cheap valuations than you'd get by investing in a total stock market index fund.

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