This popular ETF offers an attractive blend of income, growth, and stability.Investing in individual stocks is a great way to build wealth, but it's not for everyone. It takes a lot of time to do your due diligence, and it can be difficult to stick with your original thesis during market downturns.It's also tempting to prematurely pick your flowers before they bloom. So if you don't want to do too much homework and want instant exposure to a well-diversified portfolio, it might be smart to invest in an exch ...

Don't let anyone tell you dividend stocks are incapable of healthy growth. Growth stocks such as Nvidia and Broadcom may have dominated headlines in recent years due to their huge artificial intelligence (AI)-driven gains. It's not like dividend stocks completely faltered during that stretch, though. Many performed pretty well during that period, too, as evidenced by the performance of the Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF (VIG -0.28%) over the course of the past five years. Then and now The graphic below ...