istockphotoThree-year annualized return: 28.1%Annual expense ratio: 0.35%Minimum initial investment: $3,000Biggest holdings: Actavis, Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, UnitedHealth Group, AstraZenecaVanguard Health Care (VGHCX) is the Grand Pooh-Bah of health care sector funds. Not only is it the biggest, it also charges the least of any health care mutual fund (exchange-traded funds tend to cost less). What’s more, even as Vanguard Health outpaced […]
Benchmarks finished mixed yesterday following merger and acquisition news, disappointing corporate results and dismal economic data. While news about a business acquisition boosted investors’ confidence in markets, dismal economic data was overlooked as an outcome of the bitter winter season. However, while S&P 500 and Nasdaq settled in the green, Dow closed in negative territory following Coca Cola’s dismal results. […]
It’s a funny old world when the home address of capitalism takes its orders from 1.3 billion communists who are even cheaper than IKEA, but dodgy manufacturing data in China did indeed set the tone for a terrible session on Wall Street. US stock markets thus continued their difficult start to 2014, with a triple-digit drop in the Dow (INDEXDJX:.DJI) […]
