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Vanguard’s Official Capital Gain Estimates: 2025
What you need to know to navigate 2025’s year-end cap gain distributions.
Capital Gains Sneak Peek: 2025
Capital gains season is shaping up to be costly for many Vanguard investors. Plan ahead with this early read.
IVA TRADE ALERT | Time to Change Defensive Horses
Same playbook, new player: Dividend Appreciation Index steps in where Dividend Growth leaves off—delivering predictable defense at a lower cost.
Gold Glitters, But Stocks Compound
Gold in perspective | Crash Ahead? | Trade tensions flare
When a Great Fund Stumbles: Stay the Course or Move on?
Every active fund faces moments of doubt from shareholders. For Dividend Growth, that moment is now. I weigh the fund’s legacy, leadership transition and the case for staying or moving on.
Lock it Down
Stocks gain as the government shuts down | Vanguard launches Emerging Markets ex-China ETF | Cash Plus Account yield drops | Vanishing Vanguard IRA accounts
PRIMECAP at 40: Has This Outperformer Lost Its Edge?
Celebrating 40 years at PRIMECAP while asking if it’s still a buy.
Vanguard: ”Don’t call us, we’ll …”
Vanguard has threatened to terminate accounts of investors they feel call too often. Is this any way to run an investment company?
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Hi, I’m Jeff DeMaso.
Welcome to the Independent Vanguard Adviser.
I’ve been a Vanguard investor for over a decade, co-editing the leading newsletter on Vanguard funds and ETFs. I’m a big Vanguard fan, but they are not perfect (nobody is). I’ll tell you the good and the bad when it comes to Vanguard.
Over two decades while working at a multi-billion-dollar investment firm, I held titles of intern to CIO (and everything in between). I’ve seen investors make avoidable mistakes time and time again. I aim to share the investment insights and advice I want my family and friends to have so that you can make meaningful investments for yours.
When investing, I believe in simplicity, diversification and spending time in the market. A simple promise: My family and I will invest in the same funds I recommend to you!
When I’m not poring over Vanguard’s most recent prospectus, you can find me chasing my toddler around the playground or trying to avoid an injury while reliving the glory days on the soccer pitch.