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Talk Your Book: The Case For Investing in Emerging Market Bonds

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By Ben Carlson
| A Wealth of Common Sense
Talk Your Book: The Case For Investing in Emerging Market Bonds Posted June 15, 2026 by Ben Carlson Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by VanEck: On today’s show, we discuss: Why emerging market bonds now have lower volatility and higher carry than Treasuries How the absence of fiscal dominance has made emerging market debt less risky Why central banks are quietly buying Asian local currency bonds as reserve assets The case for not hedging currency risk in emerging market bonds Why...
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Smart Investors vs. Dumb Investors

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By Ben Carlson
| A Wealth of Common Sense
Every year I do some back-of-the-envelope investment planning to set some goalposts. It’s a useful process to take stock of where you are, where you’ve been and where you’re going. I take our current net worth and savings rate. Then I make some assumptions about future savings rates, income and return expectations. Those return expectations exist in a range because it’s impossible to predict the future. Then I model all of these numbers going out 5, 10, 15 and 20 years.
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$1 Trillion ETFs, Wealth Inequality and the Shrinking Middle Class

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By Ben Carlson
| A Wealth of Common Sense
Bloomberg noted last week that the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) is now the first ETF in history with $1 trillion in assets. The flows for this index fund have been absolutely massive and show no signs of slowing down: This obviously isn’t the only S&P 500 ETF either. SPY is closing in on $800 billion. IVV already has more than $800 billion. VTI is a total stock market index fund — which is not exactly the S&P 500 but close enough — with more than $660 billion.
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