Invests in stocks in the S&P 500 Index, representing 500 of the largest U.S. companies.Goal is to closely track the index’s return, which is considered a gauge of overall U.S. stock returns.Offers high potential for investment growth; share value rises and falls more sharply than that of funds holding bonds.More appropriate for long-term goals where your money’s growth is essential.With respect to 75% of its total assets, the fund may not: (1) purchase more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of any one issuer or (2) purchase securities of any issuer if, as a result, more than 5% of the fund’s total assets would be invested in that issuer’s securities; except as may be necessary to approximate the composition of its target index. This limitation does not apply to obligations of the U.S. government or its agencies or instrumentalities.
Vanguard S&P 500 ETF · Issued by Vanguard
| NVDA | NVIDIA Corp | 8.08% |
| AAPL | Apple Inc | 7.03% |
| MSFT | Microsoft Corp | 5.70% |
| AMZN | Amazon.com Inc | 3.84% |
| GOOGL | Alphabet Inc Class A | 3.01% |
| AVGO | Broadcom Inc | 2.65% |
| GOOG | Alphabet Inc Class C | 2.40% |
| META | Meta Platforms Inc Class A | 1.90% |
| MU | Micron Technology Inc | 1.63% |
| TSLA | Tesla Inc | 1.57% |

Brent Schutte, Chief Investment Officer at Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management, says today's S&P 500 is the second-most concentrated market he's seen in 33 years. He explains why diversification is more critical than ever — and exactly where he's finding opportunity instead, from small and mid-cap stocks to high-quality bonds and REITs.

AI names lifted the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Friday as most sectors fell, while lower oil eased pressure but Treasury yields stayed near cycle highs.
For the first time in years, investors might be better off taking the certain yield from long-term Treasuries over the uncertainty with equities. Long-term investors could still prefer the higher return potential of equities, but there's no guarantee they'll outperform bonds.

Meta's Muse has accelerated the shift from conversational AI toward consumer-facing agents that can search, browse, transact and act on users' behalf. I believe the biggest opportunity sits below the interface: edge infrastructure, CPUs, observability and memory should all benefit as agentic workloads multiply machine-to-machine activity.
One fund, one automatic decision, and four decades of doing absolutely nothing sounds too simple to be serious investing advice. But the math behind this particular combination has a way of changing minds.
Not every S&P 500 dividend stock is built the same, and the gap between names that merely pay and names that can keep paying through any cycle comes down to one number hiding in plain sight on the cash flow
The State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Growth ETF encompasses about 140 of the fastest-growing companies in the S&P 500. The iShares Semiconductor ETF has averaged annual gains of nearly 33% over the past decade.
Reaching 9,000 from the Sept. 22 close of 7,764.64 would take a gain of about 16%, or about 12% annualized through the end of 2027.