

Vanguard's cheapest growth ETF carries a nearly perfect long-term track record and a three-cent price tag, but crack open the holdings and a very different story starts to take shape.

In professional sports, certain teams have a proclivity for trading with one another. It could be due to front office familiarity, complementary trade dynamics that address the needs of both teams, or other reasons.

Investors have increasingly focused on the potential implications of large private companies—such as SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic—eventually entering public equity indexes and, by extension, passive exchange-traded funds. Given the scale, visibility, and thematic relevance of these companies across artificial intelligence, space, and next-generation technology, this attention is warranted.

Markets rally on ceasefire hopes, but should investors chase the headlines? ETFs can offer a balanced approach in a headline-driven market.

SpaceX IPO fever is lifting space ETFs, but history warns against chasing debut-day hype. Here's how investors can gain diversified exposure.

Launched on May 22, 2000, the iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF (IWF) is a passively managed exchange traded fund designed to provide a broad exposure to the Large Cap Growth segment of the US equity market.

You buy the iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:IWF) expecting broad growth exposure. The Russell 1000 Growth Index holds 391 names, and IWF tracks all of them. The catch is that roughly a third of every dollar in IWF now moves with three stocks, which means the fund's results get decided by NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), and... IWF Tracks the Russell 1000 Growth Index, But Three Names Now Drive a Third of Its Performance

Every bull market since 2016 has been a mega cap story. The S&P 500's gains over the past decade have been driven by a handful of growth giants whose weight in the index keeps expanding.