Effective tax-saving strategies for investors | Vanguard (2024)

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Diversification. Diversification means your portfolio consists of a wide variety of investments. Diversifying your investments limits your exposure to a single asset class and helps protect your portfolio from risk. The easiest way to start is by diversifying your portfolio across different asset classes.

Diversification. Diversification means your portfolio consists of a wide variety of investments. Diversifying your investments limits your exposure to a single asset class and helps protect your portfolio from risk. The easiest way to start is by diversifying your portfolio across different asset classes.

Since both VGT and QQQ are ETFs, they offer the same tax advantages and efficiencies. It's important to consider that VGT generates a higher dividend yield. This means that VGT will generate higher annual distributions and the accompanying higher tax burden as well.

This includes saving money for retirement, taking part in employer-sponsored retirement plans, and using tax-loss harvesting as a strategy. You can also use the deduction for charitable donations to lower your tax bill if you itemize your deductions.

The U.S. stock market is considered to offer the highest investment returns over time. Higher returns, however, come with higher risk. Stock prices typically are more volatile than bond prices.

VGT has more assets under management than VOO by $275,692,984,564. Higher AUM can be associated with better liquidity and lower slippage in trading. VGT and VOO use the same leverage ratio. Inverse and leveraged ETFs can be used to either take an opposite position or amplify returns of a given index.

VGT is less expensive with a Total Expense Ratio (TER) of 0.1%, versus 0.2% for QQQ. VGT is up 24.1% year-to-date (YTD) with +$4.44B in YTD flows. QQQ performs worse with 23.69% YTD performance, and +$20.74B in YTD flows.

While the two ETFs follow the same strategy, they earn different ratings. VOO earns a top rating of Gold, while SPY earns the next best rating of Silver. Almahasneh says the reason is fees and inefficiencies of the unit investment trust structure.

How do high-income earners reduce taxes? ›

Certain high-income individuals may reduce taxes on their investments by using a Roth investment account, such as a Roth IRA or Roth 401K. Roths can help high-income earners in a few ways: Tax-free growth: Money in a Roth grows tax-free, so high earners don't pay taxes on withdrawals in retirement.

Choosing investments with built-in tax efficiencies, such as index funds—including certain mutual funds and ETFs (exchange-traded funds)—is one way to minimize the tax drag on your returns. ETFs may offer an additional tax advantage. The way their transactions settle allows them to avoid triggering some capital gains.

Index mutual funds & ETFs

Index funds—whether mutual funds or ETFs (exchange-traded funds)—are naturally tax-efficient for a couple of reasons: Because index funds simply replicate the holdings of an index, they don't trade in and out of securities as often as an active fund would.