Vanguard 500 Index Fund

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Vanguard 500 Index Fund

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Vanguard Group
Founding and early vision
…Index Investment Trust, now the Vanguard 500 Index Fund (VOO), the first index mutual fund available to individual investors. The fund was inspired in part by a 1974 column by economist Paul Samuelson, who questioned whether investors could consistently outperform the market. Because it tracked a market index, it required…
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…Index Investment Trust, now the Vanguard 500 Index Fund (VOO), the first index mutual fund available to individual investors. The fund was inspired in part by a 1974 column by economist Paul Samuelson, who questioned whether investors could consistently outperform the market. Because it tracked a market index, it required…
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