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Three ETFs and a custodial account you can open this afternoon might be all it takes to hand each grandchild a serious financial head start, but the trade-offs hiding inside this simple strategy are exactly what most grandparents overlook.
Paying the IRS on purpose sounds like financial malpractice, but under the right conditions it unlocks a compounding shelter that ordinary accounts can never touch. Three ETFs turn that counterintuitive move into a serious long-term advantage.
SCHG is my preferred Buy for new core-growth allocations, offering broader exposure and a lower cost than QQQM. SCHG trades at a slight valuation discount to QQQM and employs growth screening across a wider universe, but is more concentrated in its top holdings. QQQM remains a buy for those seeking pure Nasdaq-100 exposure; recent outperformance is driven by AI and semiconductor rallies, not the new IPO rule.
If you're interested in broad exposure to the Large Cap Growth segment of the US equity market, look no further than the Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF (SCHG), a passively managed exchange traded fund launched on December 11, 2009.
One account legally strips taxes from contributions, growth, and withdrawals all at once, and most people who have it are leaving the compounding power almost entirely on the table. Three ETFs can fix that problem for good.
SCHG markets itself as a diversified large-cap growth fund, but a closer look at its holdings reveals a much narrower bet, and that structural quirk may explain why growth investors keep watching SPY and QQQ pull ahead.
Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF remains a high-quality, resilient large-cap growth fund but is rated 'hold' due to a superior alternative in GARP. GARP offers strong earnings growth rates, a cheaper forward P/E, and even higher quality fundamentals, outperforming SCHG by 7.33% since my last review. Both ETFs have high allocation to tech stocks, and with decelerating earnings growth rates forecast for next year, investors should expect some P/E compression to offset roughly 20% EPS growth.
The Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF (SCHG) has outperformed the S&P 500 since December 2009, and has done even better in the past 10 years. If SCHG delivers the same 18.2% average annual return for the next 10 years, it could skyrocket your investment growth.