 And welcome back to the Independent Investor Channel. These are some of the most enjoyable videos for me where I kick you into the M1 finance opportunity and I show you different styles of investing along the passive investing discipline as well as the dividend growth investing discipline. And finally, the bond portfolio in this video, I'm going to kick you in and I'm going to provide you some transparency on the Vanguard sector ETF portfolio. This is one that I built a few years back and it is performed off the charts. I take you into the portfolio, show you some of the features of M1 finance, show you how M1 finance has taken my dollars and allowed me access and the capacity that I have built. This portfolio is available in its entirety in the description below. I would invite you to kick over, use the portfolio at your discretion either directly or indirectly for information. Please be advised, I am affiliated with M1 finance. I can receive compensation if you do click on the links for providing information such as this. So with that, we will kick in to the Vanguard sector specialty ETF portfolio. Please enjoy and love to welcome everybody into the Vanguard sector specialty ETF portfolio. It's been quite a long time since I've covered this portfolio as appropriate. This is a long portfolio. This is one that I fund fairly frequently with a smaller amount. So set up on a true dollar cost average schedule using the compliments of M1 finance. I'm able to buy and own each of the 11 sectors in the S&P 500 for you guys that are new to the channel and don't understand what a sector is. You will after this video and you'll understand that there are 11 in the S&P 500 not to be ignored by the subsets and micro sectors within the S&P and each of the respective niches. But there are 11 main sectors. I own each of the sectors using the Vanguard's product that allows me to buy the exclusive ETF, the exchange traded fund for each of the segments in the S&P 500. This allows me to allocate the specific percentage of dollars to each of the sectors to my liking. And this is how this portfolio is performed. If you noticed here on the charts, this is what everybody's been complaining about over the last couple of years. The stock market has been pretty rough, but passive investing is held in quite nicely. This is one where the capital inflow to the account continues. I'm staring down a major threshold in this portfolio. And I just want to put this in a context for you guys as a lot of you guys may be looking to get involved with investing for the first time. Think about getting involved back in 2019. This was right below the pandemic. And I have incurred the pandemic and more in this account, but I want you to pay particular attention to the performance, yes, which has done quite well. The effort that goes into this portfolio, which is zero, once it's established, I just fund it. And I very rarely visit this portfolio. I may check in on it from time to time to monitor the progress. And I'm pleasantly surprised every time that I do staring down that $25,000 threshold. And where I challenge a lot of investors to get up to that first $10,000 mark to start. This is staring down that mark in just over four years. I'm very, very proud of the progress in this. It fits a strategic passive niche in my total overall comprehensive portfolio. But I cannot scoff at the performance here. And where there's a lot of pockets in the market that are down right now. I'm earning dividends to the tune of over $1,000. I've made a milestone there of dividends rendered over the portfolio, as well as a nice market gain or capital appreciation in the portfolio of $4,400 and $47 for a total aggregate gain of $5,500 in the portfolio. Am I getting rich overnight? No. Do I profess that that is a strategy that the masses should deploy? Absolutely not. I think the masses should adhere and at least take note of the strategy that I'm sharing to you through this tutorial. Wealth is better made over the long term. And the vast majority of my wealth is devoted to that very craft. So if we scroll down here over on the left-hand side, it actually shows the distribution in the portfolio. There should be 11 slices here. And the slices here denoted at the bottom by each of the respective sectors. And I think last time I did this sector review, there was a couple of these sectors that were down. And I'm seeing here that we're 100% in the green. So that's a cool thing. That's a good feeling, little bit of solace to understand that what we're doing is actually working. But you can kind of see here a quick tutorial on the top end being technology. We're up $950 in this. So very cool. The technology sector is healthcare sectors next. Financials, consumer discretionary industrials, staples, real estate, utilities, energy communications, and then finally materials on the bottom. I've allocated 6% of the total overall devoted capital to this portfolio at 6%. We're a little bit underweight here at 5.7. That could be a number of things there that could affect that and render this a little bit underweight in materials. Now keep in mind, M1 Finance will flow new capital to these underweighted sectors here. Okay. And I'm just here noticing that communications, which has been down for a couple of years, has just turned positive. And I don't think I've ever been so happy to see $4.44. This was down massively. As the communication sector went through some restructuring, and it really got hit hard, companies like Verizon, AT&T really took it on the chin. And that sector really did digress. And we're actually a little overweight based on that recovery in telecom. And it may be some of the inflows to telecom to actually go for a little bit more of a safety play. You can see here, energy has just absolutely crushed or in line with energy, which is great. The Utilities ETF, which actually was one of the few that I own in two different spots. One strategically here in this portfolio and the other being in my Roth IRA, it's a wonderful augment as far as sectors to render that bottom line dividend income a little bit more robust. And I do that in the capacity of the Roth IRA, the complementary to that is in the other Roth IRA. And that is held in the ENQ, which is the real estate sector ETF. We are a little underweight in real estate, real estate's kind of come off a little bit, we're in line with staples, we're a little underweight with industrials, we are in line with consumer discretionary, we're a little underweight financials, as appropriate, that's taken a real knock on the chin here as of late, a little underweight with healthcare and finally a little bit overweight with technology, which is the largest percentage of holding in the portfolio to date. So super glad to be rolling out this update to the Vanguard's portfolio, I have no doubt that will reach that 25,000 milestone. But when it happens, I'm not here in the forecasting business, I'm just here to tell you that this is a plan that is a very, very low cost way of entering into the stock market. I am in charge of this, I have no money manager looking at this, I am a self-directed investor and this is the renderings from the Vanguard sector specialty ETF. And with that guys, we'll kick you back and we'll conclude the video. And so we've come out of the sector ETF portfolio, hope you've enjoyed the real takeaways from these videos is to understand that I'm staring down a $25,000 threshold in the portfolio, it's a big milestone for the little amount of work required. Once this is built, there's actually no requirement whatsoever, just a maintenance requirement, I guess, by funding the account, keeping it happy, keep it growing over time in the capacity that I've demonstrated to you. These numbers are, as they are, they are not fabricated, they are representative of when I filmed this video. And I hope you guys appreciated that level of transparency. If you enjoy content like this, I'd invite you to subscribe to the Independent Investor channel. We do all kinds of cool stuff, tutorials, portfolio tutorials, live streaming on Friday, it's a really cool experience. 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