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Want Decades of Passive Income? Buy This Index Fund and Hold It Forever

The Motley Fool

The following exchange-traded fund (ETF) is arguably the best building block around. The fund replicates and follows the Dow Jones U.S. The remaining industries represent less than 10% of the fund, including technology at just 8.8%. The remaining industries represent less than 10% of the fund, including technology at just 8.8%.

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Building Long-Term Wealth: Why I Chose This Vanguard Growth Fund for My Roth IRA

The Motley Fool

Let me explain why this fund deserves consideration as a Roth IRA anchor holding, and how it compares to Warren Buffett's preferred S&P 500 index fund. The fund achieves this stellar performance by focusing on 234 growth-focused companies from within the S&P 500, selected based on factors like earnings expansion and momentum.

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You Can Outperform 98% of Professional Fund Managers by Using This Simple Investment Strategy

The Motley Fool

Professional fund managers are extremely smart, highly educated, hard-working, and ultra-competitive. If you can perform in the top 2% of all professional fund managers on Wall Street, you're sure to find yourself with a very handsome payday at some point. All you have to do is buy a broad-based index fund and hold it for years.

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2 Vanguard Funds That Both Growth and Dividend Investors Can Buy and Hold Forever

The Motley Fool

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) can provide you with many excellent options for the long term, and you don't have to feel locked in and focus strictly on growth stocks or just dividend stocks. The fund includes stocks that have excellent track records of increasing their dividend payments over the years.

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A Once-in-a-Decade Investment Opportunity: 1 Little-Known Vanguard Index Fund to Buy for the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Boom

The Motley Fool

The index fund is most heavily invested in electricity distributors (62%) and companies that provide multiple utility services (25%), though it also includes water and gas utilities, and independent power producers. That means the index fund moved 72 basis points (i.e., companies that come from the utilities sector.

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1 Supercharged Vanguard Fund That Can Turn $275 Per Month Into More Than $1 Million

The Motley Fool

A safer option than investing in individual stocks is to hold an exchange-traded fund ( ETF ) in your portfolio. Here's how investing $275 per month in that fund can set you up for some massive gains in the long run. There are 71 stocks in total in the fund, and it won't be as diverse as many other ETFs.

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This Vanguard Index Fund Is a Once-in-a-Decade Buying Opportunity for the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Boom

The Motley Fool

Artificial intelligence should be the biggest catalyst in over a decade for electric utilities, and the index fund is an easy way to capitalize on that opportunity. The index fund is heavily invested in electric utilities , though it also provides exposure to water and gas distributors, and independent power producers.

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