What's your favorite fund/ETF ?

[trixs]

My favorites are VTI, VEU, VBR, VSS, and BND.

I will extend this list a tad bit: VV, VTV, VNQ, VWO, VPL, VGK

I asked a very similar question when I first joined this forum. Wanted everything dividend and received similar answers. Eventually I did see the light

 

[Fedup]

What's the difference between VSS and VXUS.


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[Markola]

I like simple. Our core holding is fund of index funds that owns the whole world's publicly traded economy, Vanguard LifeStrategy Growth Fund (VASGX). It self-rebalances to 80/20 and expenses are .12 or so. At FIRE my ideal would be to have everything in it or the Moderate 60/40 version. Fidelity has a similar Four-In-One-Fund.

 

[HF63]

I like simple. Our core holding is fund of index funds that owns the whole world's publicly traded economy, Vanguard LifeStrategy Growth Fund (VASGX). It self-rebalances to 80/20 and expenses are .12 or so. At FIRE my ideal would be to have everything in it or the Moderate 60/40 version. Fidelity has a similar Four-In-One-Fund.

Just like the above quote, I am using VASIX which is the opposite 20/80 a more conservative fund but works for me!

 

[eytonxav]

For funds, VWIAX, for etfs it would be VTI.

 

[Dawg52]

SCHD

Same here.

 

[jim584672]

My legacy 401k just added the Vanguard Institutional Total Stock Market Index Fund Institutional Plus Shares (VITPX), expense ratio 0.02%! Looks like my new favorite now.

 

[PapaBear67]

A big THANKS to all who replied. It led to so much research and it really opened my eyes. Vanguard is very popular among those here, and I used the performance and expenses of those funds as a guide. In the end I built a roughly 60/40 portfolio and looking between Schwab and Fidelity, I have decided that Fidelity is the best place for me. Using several of their Spartan funds and some iShares ETFs I was able to put together a portfolio that nets out to an average expense ratio of 0.157%. performance is very similar to many of the funds posted here. My funds that I'll use to start are....

• (57%) Mutual Funds/ETFs - IVV IVW DVY FUSEX FIKFX
• (38%) BONDS - FUBFX FLBAX Bond ladder TBD
• ( 4%) Cash
• ( 1%) Exploratory Stock Fund (a place to tinker)

Thanks all !!! I'll be saving the 0.9% advisory fee each year and have reduced my expense ratio by over 400%


( I chose between Fidelity and Schwab because I do want to opportunity for some face to face time on occasion. Both Schwab and Fidelity charge fees to purchase Vanguard funds, so that's why I steered away from them. I could just split accounts and open a Vanguard account too, but I'm just not there yet.)

 

[mrfeh]

Any total US equities fund that has an expense ratio of <= 5 basis points.

I'm at Fidelity, so in my case: FSTVX.