Vanguard's Principles for Investing Success
A Vanguard paper shows how focusing on goals, balance, cost, and discipline can help investors.
Our annual How America Saves research provides comprehensive analysis of retirement saving behavior that can help you optimize your plan and improve participant outcomes. A strong plan design can serve participants well in all markets—even those defined by heightened uncertainty and increased volatility.
Dividend-focused investing: An all-weather investment strategy
The global pandemic has left no corner of the financial markets untouched, leading to negative growth and interest rates that have been cut to nearly zero. Today's investment environment is a challenge. Add to that a global economy most likely in a recession and that challenge is amplified.
Our deep experience translates into wisdom and strong investment strategies that we can apply in the form of risk-controlled decisions each day for our investors.
Here is a concise summary of the year-to-year actions of the companies that sponsor the largest corporate pension plans, from 2008 to the end of 2019. And, given the unusual circumstances unfolding early this year, we expanded aspects of this analysis to include the first quarter of 2020.
Fallen angels: The new high-yield bonds
A confluence of factors over the decade since the global financial crisis has steadily nudged the corporate bond market down the investment-grade quality scale. The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to knock some issuers off the scale completely.
Active Fixed Income Perspectives
We see three phases to the crisis. Markets are largely past the liquidity crunch, and now face the economic fallout from the global shutdown. Then investors will need to assess the shutdown’s long-term global impact.
Give your clients a confidence boost in today's environment
Vanguard Senior Advice Strategist Mike DiJoseph explains how to help clients manage their emotions and avoid costly investing mistakes.
From assets to income: A goals-based approach to retirement spending
Although the population and life expectancies of U.S. retirees are increasing, portfolio yields remain at historically low levels. As defined benefit income becomes less commonly available, the need for informed retirement portfolio spending strategies is more critical, and yet more complex, than ever.
What U.S. elections mean for investors
More than 150 years of history reveal that U.S. presidential elections matter little to balanced portfolios.