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Weekly Brief

A collection of 170 posts

Weekly Brief

WEEKLY BRIEF | When Safe Havens Shake—and Indexes Concentrate

Gold hits a wall | Index funds aren’t as diversified as you think | Lower fees and a pricing quirk at Vanguard

| 6 min read
Weekly Brief

Uncertainty Moves Gold, But Growth Moves Stocks

Why safe havens react—and productive assets still matter

| 4 min read
Weekly Brief

A Greenland-Sized Shock

Traders react to rising U.S-Europe tensions | One volatile day, familiar lessons

| 3 min read
Weekly Brief

Vanguard Splits, Shifts and Stumbles

Proposals in perspective | Rotenberg’s expanding role | Vanguard splits its stock indexing team | Cash Plus yield gets a teaser yield | A year-end email misfire

| 7 min read
Weekly Brief

Big News, Small Market Moves

An incursion in Venezuela grabs attention—but not the markets

| 4 min read
Weekly Brief

The Bessent Barometer and a Year of Gains

Bessent Barometer check-in | Gains across the board | Another 403(b) fee increase | Vanguard hires a marketing officer from Fidelity

| 8 min read