iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF

Taking IRA Withdrawals Before RMDs? These ETFs Can Help Keep Your Benefits Tax-Light

Before required minimum distributions kick in, retirees have a rare window to control exactly how much income lands on their tax return and how much of their Social Security gets taxed. One popular fund that looks like a solution actually makes the problem worse.

70 Million Kids Just Got Trump Accounts. The Bigger Winner Could Be State Street

The biggest number in the Trump Accounts rollout isn't the $1,000 government contribution. It is the nearly 70 million children now sitting inside a new investment system — one that initially directs contributions into a single State Street ETF.

iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF $ITOT Stock Position Increased by MJT & Associates Financial Advisory Group Inc.

Ferguson Wellman Capital Management Inc. Sells 6,711 Shares of iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF $ITOT

Ferguson Wellman Capital Management Inc. lowered its position in iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF (NYSEARCA:ITOT) by 13.0% in the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 45,077 shares of the ETF's stock after selling

Retirees Who Check Their Balance Every Day Sell at the Worst Times. These 3 ETFs Are Built to Be Ignored for a Decade

Checking your brokerage app every morning feels responsible, but Morningstar's research suggests it costs retirees far more than any fee ever could. Three iShares ETFs are specifically engineered to make you stop looking, and that boredom is exactly the point.

VTI's 3,000 Extra Stocks Cost Holders $393,400 Per $500,000 Over the Past Decade

The Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF promises broader diversification than the S&P 500, but a decade of returns tells a different story about what those extra 3,000 tickers actually deliver to your portfolio.

Fire the Adviser at Retirement or Keep Paying 1% on Money You Are Now Spending? These 3 ETFs Do the Job for Almost Nothing

The fee that made sense while your portfolio grew now runs against a balance you are actively spending down, and the math shifts in ways most retirees never stop to calculate.

VTI’s 0.03% Fee Hides the Real Cost: 3,600 Stocks and Still a Third of Your Money in Ten Companies

VTI's rock-bottom fee gets all the attention, but there's a second cost buried in the fund's structure that most investors never think to check before they buy.