Half of US stock fund assets are now invested in index funds

Re:Half of US stock fund assets are now invested in index funds by twblalock on Monday May 27, 2019 @07:21PM (#20025986)

There are some ETFs that focus on "ethical" and "socially responsible" companies. I don't think Vanguard has any. DSI seems to be the biggest one.

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Re:Half of US stock fund assets are now invested in index funds by awithrow on Monday May 27, 2019 @10:42PM (#20026805)

Vanguard just launched VEIGX https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/overview/... as their environmental, social, and governance index fund.

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Re:Half of US stock fund assets are now invested in index funds by twblalock on Monday May 27, 2019 @11:29PM (#20026992)

Thanks, I didn't know that.

It's interesting that this is an actively managed fund. There are actually a few indices for this kind of thing but apparently Vanguard is not using them: https://www.msci.com/esg-indexes

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Re:Half of US stock fund assets are now invested in index funds by webninja on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @09:05AM (#20039624)

ESGV as an ETF of this.

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Re:Half of US stock fund assets are now invested in index funds by dmoy on Monday May 27, 2019 @09:44PM (#20026550)

> I don't think Vanguard has any.

VFTSX

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Re:Half of US stock fund assets are now invested in index funds by eppp on Monday May 27, 2019 @10:20PM (#20026708)

Closed to new investors.

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Re:Half of US stock fund assets are now invested in index funds by dmoy on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @08:06PM (#20035681)

"Closed" like all their investor funds which were replaced by the cheaper admiral funds. You wouldn't say vtsmx is closed, it's just replaced by vtsax. Same deal here.

It's not actually closed. Just buy the admiral version instead, same thing but cheaper.

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