I'm considering various functors from the category $\text{Vect}$ of real vector spaces to itself, and would like to know that they preserve filtered colimits and possibly even sifted colimits.  The functors I'm interested in send $V$ to the power $V^k$, the tensor power $V^{\otimes k}$, the exterior power $\Lambda^k(V)$, and the free vector space $F(V)$ on the underlying set of $V$.  I have proved by hand that some of these preserve filtered colimits or sifted colimits, but I'm looking for **references** and/or **conceptual arguments**.

Of course, I'd also like to know if some of these **don't** preserve filtered and/or sifted colimits.

(I doubt it matters that I'm working over the reals.)