Markets will remain volatile until the Iran situation cools.

Unfortunately, no one knows when that will happen.  In this situation, you can either sit in cash, go short the market, or put your money to work in safe, yielding funds – especially those that invest like billionaire Warren Buffett. 

Look at the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO), For Example

“Over the years, I’ve often been asked for investment advice,” Buffett wrote in a 2016 shareholder letter. “My regular recommendation has been a low-cost S&P 500 index fund.”

With that, Buffett has named the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) as one way to invest.

What makes the VOO ETF the most attractive is that it measures the performance of the S&P 500 and includes value stocks and growth stocks from multiple market sectors. In fact, it holds Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, and Berkshire, to name a few.

It offers a low-cost way to safely diversify by tracking the biggest companies, making it an ideal set it and forget it trade. In addition, with an expense ratio of 0.03%, the ETF also pays a quarterly yield. On December 24, it paid a dividend of just over $1.771. Before that, it paid a dividend of $1.74 on October 1. Before that, it paid a dividend of just over $1.7447 on July 2.

Sincerely,

Ian Cooper