​Want $1 Million in Retirement? 1 Simple ETF to Buy Today and Hold For Decades 

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compensation for actions taken through them.24/7 Wall Street Key PointsMany investors, including Warren Buffett, are big fans of investing in the S&P 500 via the various ETFs available.
BlackRock is the largest asset manager in the world, and has a presence in every asset class that is publicly trading.
iShares Core S&P 500 ETF is BlackRock’s S&P 500 ETF, and it has performed comparably to rivals SPY (State Street) and VOO (Vanguard), but BlackRock’s deeper resources may give it additional advantages, such as with accelerated return and hedging components.
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The Ubiquity of the S&P 500 IndexMark Wilson / Getty ImagesWarren Buffett is one of the most famous large army of S&P 500 Index ETF investors.The S&P 500 Index has endured for decades as a solidly reliable barometer of US corporate and industrial strength and economic health. Millions of investors have passively built wealth simply by deploying a “buy and hold” strategy with an S&P 500 ETF. In fact, Warren Buffett, a longtime champion of S&P 500 Index investing, claimed that when he passed away, 90% of his personal account left to his wife will be holding S&P 500 ETF stakes. F.I.R.E. (Financial Independence, Retire Early) is an ethos that has gone virally popular, especially among Millennials and Gen-Zers. F.I.R.E. adherents engage in aggressive retirement savings and focused thrift habits that are meant to establish and grow sizable retirement nest eggs years, and in some cases, over a decade before average retirement age. The F.I.R.E. Concept origination is credited to a blog by quantitative analyst/investor Jacob Lund Fisker in 2007, who espoused the lost benefits and virtues of a frugal lifestyle. It later gained further traction and crystallization from finance executive Sam Dogen’s Financial Samurai blog in 2009, which codified certain principles of F.I.R.E., such as the need to amass sufficient savings and investments in order to live off the portfolio’s passive income generation. The ethos became popular among self-owned business owners and highly compensated freelancers.While people who work in all industrial sectors engage in F.I.R.E. practice, those who work in the tech industry are disproportionately represented of late. This is primarily due to many tech companies’ high flying, publicly traded IPOs, for which stock options, and warrants have become ubiquitous as part of W-2 employee compensation. With stock prices appreciating at abnormally fast rates, thousands of these employees are in a positio