These 2 Index ETFs Are a Retiree's Best Friend

When you are working, the big retirement push is to save up as large a nest egg as you can. That's great, but everything changes when you actually retire. At that point, you have to live off of your savings while you, hopefully, enjoy not having to be in the full-time rat race anymore. If you don't want monitoring your investment portfolio to become your new full-time job, the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index ETF (NYSEMKT: VTI) and Vanguard Total Bond Market Index ETF (NASDAQ: BND) are two exchange-traded funds (ETFs) you'll want to get to know very well.

Both the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index ETF and Vanguard Total Bond Market Index ETF are index-based exchange-traded funds. That means that they follow an index without any human intervention. This helps to keep costs low, with each offering ultra-low expense ratios of 0.03%. And since neither one strays from the index, the real question for investors is, what indexes are they following?

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