{"id":660,"date":"2004-10-26T07:21:08","date_gmt":"2004-10-26T07:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=660"},"modified":"2004-10-26T07:21:08","modified_gmt":"2004-10-26T07:21:08","slug":"investing_a_cha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=660","title":{"rendered":"Investing: A chat with Vanguard&#8217;s Gus Sauter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2004\/10\/24\/BUG539ENLT1.DTL\">Kathleen Pender<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><b>Q: What is your favorite part of the stock market today?<\/b><br \/>\nSauter: I think you should have some international investments. I think we are going to see foreign economies start to pick up. International funds have risks that U.S. investments don&#8217;t have. I wouldn&#8217;t throw caution to the wind. I would use them as a diversifier. I would include emerging markets.<br \/>\n<b>Q: If you could buy only one fund, what would it be?<\/b><br \/>\nSauter: Vanguard Total Stock Market Index.<br \/>\nFor first-time investors who want one complete investment, we&#8217;ve got our Balanced Index fund, which is 60 percent Total Stock Market Index and 40 percent Total Bond Market Index. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathleen Pender: Q: What is your favorite part of the stock market today? Sauter: I think you should have some international investments. I think we are going to see foreign economies start to pick up. International funds have risks that U.S. investments don&#8217;t have. I wouldn&#8217;t throw caution to the wind. I would use them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}