John Hood Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF VTI-N TOP PICK Aug 03, 2018

A total market ETF, so you are getting every equity, small, big cap stocks. This will give you an over weighted position in the large caps. It is really, really diversified and he is not sure you need that much diversification.

ZWH-T & ZPW-T are a defensive strategy but what is the favourite go to strategy for the S&P 500. VTI-N is the ETF that echoes this strategy.

It's everything. Small, mid, large cap. Market weighted. Broadly diversified. At this stage in the economic cycle, he prefers the large cap indices such as SPY or QAL. But VTI will do fine.

For those starting with ETFs, he recommends a fully diversified portfolio. SPX is based in New York and VTI is for the total global market.

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With VUN, you get pretty much the entire US market; not too expensive at 16 bps. Keep in mind that the USD version, VTI, has a MER of 3 bps; be mindful, too, of foreign currency and US estate issues.

Over 3700 positions, market-cap weighted. Top 10 names represent about 20% of the portfolio. Lots of exposure to the tech space. Not all that different from the S&P 500.

Total stock market index. 70% made up of large caps, remaining 30% made up of 1000's of mid- to small-caps. The whole package. iShares has some offerings as well. Many ways to play.