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title: "VOO and VTI: 2 Vanguard ETFs Retirement Investors Are Turning to in 2026"
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description: "As market volatility continues, retirement investors are turning to safer options like ETFs. The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) and Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) are popular choices. VOO, with over $915 billion in assets, tracks the S&P 500 and has a low expense ratio of 0.03%. Despite early 2026 challenges, recent market sentiment has pushed VOO into positive territory year-to-date, making it an attractive option for diversifying risk in uncertain times."
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# VOO and VTI: 2 Vanguard ETFs Retirement Investors Are Turning to in 2026

As April turns to May, market volatility remains the order of the day. A tentative ceasefire in the Middle East, a changing of the guard at the Federal Reserve, and ballooning AI capex spend are causing investors to lose sleep.

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In the face of all these uncertainties, retirement investors can be forgiven for looking for safer options in the equity market and beyond. One popular way to diversify risk is through ETFs, which combine multiple investments (sometimes numbering in the thousands) into a single holding.

The Vanguard family of ETFs has some of the biggest around, including the **Vanguard S&P 500 ETF** (VOO) and the **Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF** (VTI).

VOO is hard to ignore, and with over $915 billion in assets under management it's easy to see why. The ETF is designed to track the S&P 500, which is comprised of the largest publicly-traded companies on U.S. equity markets and currently lists 507 holdings among its investments.

VOO is a passively managed, market-capitalization index fund (its expense ratio of 0.03% is as low as they come). As the tech valuations have soared, VOO has come to increasingly rely on these firms (the Magnificent 7 companies make up roughly one-third of its total portfolio).

Though that pushed VOO downward in the early months of 2026, recent risk-on sentiment throughout the market has propelled it into positive territory year-to-date.

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- [VOO.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/VOO.US.md)
- [VTI.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/VTI.US.md)
- [.SPX.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/.SPX.US.md)

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