The article recommends five ETFs for long-term investors, noting that the S&P 500 returned an average of 15.7% a year over the past decade and about 11.2% over 20 years, a period that began just before the financial crisis, which caused a drawdown of nearly 60%. The picks are VTI, covering the entire U.S. stock market with roughly 3,500 stocks; XMHQ, focused on higher-quality U.S. mid caps with high return on equity and lower leverage; and IJR, which tracks small caps that pass a profitability screen. It also cites VXUS, with roughly 8,800 non-U.S. stocks at a 0.05% expense ratio, and VIG, which holds large U.S. companies with at least 10 consecutive years of dividend growth.
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