2018年5月3日 · I'm curious if anyone supplements their VTSAX holdings with small amounts of VSMAX (Small Cap Index) or VSIAX (Small Cap Value Index). I know many folks like sticking with just VTSAX for the simplicity, but if I am willing to add a little complexity it seems that adding a higher proportion of small cap stocks to the total market index could ...

2018年1月7日 · Whoops - I looked a little more closely at how the Russel indexes are broken down. It would probably be better to find the market capitalization numbers for the underlying indexes for VIMAX and VSMAX and use those instead, if you want to …

2016年1月15日 · VSMAX = just small cap. VIMAX is more aggressive & volatile since it is smaller companies, and you could say the same for VSMAX and VEXAX. Over the long term it does have the possibility of outperforming, but that is only because you are taking on more risk.

2015年11月20日 · Looking into VTSAX, VSMAX, VEXAX as well. Main goal - to have a headache free portfolio that follows strategy "shoot and forget", i.e. set it up once and let it be for another X years. So, I am very open to good suggestions in terms of 100% VIMAX vs X/Y/Z% of other funds.

2016年6月6日 · Vanguard Small-Cap Index Fund - Admiral Shares, VSMAX, 0.09% ER I'm currently only in VINIX for my US equities. According to the linked article, I should go 81% VINIX and 19% VIEIX to approximate the total stock market. I could also go 82% VINIX / 18% VSMAX, but VSMAX is less diversified and has a higher ER than VIEIX.

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2016年11月11日 · VSMAX: Small Cap- 0.08% VEMIX: Diversified Emerging Markets- 0.12% The rest of the funds are pretty much all actively managed and have standard active fees, which I am not interested in. What do you think would be the best …

2016年4月29日 · I use the vanguard small cap value admiral shares from vanguard. It has the lowest fees and also comes in a ETF version if you prefer ETFs over the mutual fund version.

2017年10月12日 · What that means from a practical standpoint is that ~80% of the share price of VITSX is a reflection of those companies in the SP500. Small-cap companies make up something like 3%. If you want more small and mid-cap exposure, consider buying a fund which exclusively holds those companies (e.g. VSMAX) and adjusting your assett allocation that way.

2019年1月13日 · What is your reason to change from small value to small blend? Overweighting small caps or small caps value is ok, but you need to have a strong enough opinion to keep it when it can under perform for a decade or more otherwise you will sell after it has under performed making sure you earn less than if you simply did not overweight it in the first place.