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Comparison between VOO and VTI: Analyzing the S&P 500 Index and Total Stock Market Index Fund

VOO vs. VTI--S&P 500 Index versus Total Stock Market Index Fund⛱ [ATF Text]: [ATF URL] Click "Show More" to see Ad Disclosure Morningstar Series: 3-Fund Portfolio: Tools & Resources 📚 My Book (of course): 💰 Personal Capital: ✅ Free Investment Tracking Spreadsheet: 0:00 Introduction 1:20 VOO vs VTI 8:40 S&P 500 vs Total Stock Market Returns 13:43 How to Choose I've been investing for over 30 years and writing about investing for the past over 15 years. One of the questions I get quite a lot is in a portfolio, should you invest in an s&p 500 index fund, or a total stock market index fund? And it's a good question. And it's one that sort of torments folks. I don't think it needs to; actually I think the answer is really, really simple. But the explanation takes a little time. We're going to walk through that today. And what we're going to do is we're going to compare two Vanguard ETFs, we're gonna first com