VFIAX – Vanguard 500 Index Admiral Investment Strategy | Morningstar

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Strategy

The investment seeks to track the performance of the Standard & Poor‘s 500 Index that measures the investment return of large-capitalization stocks. The fund manager employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, a widely recognized benchmark of U.S. stock market performance that is dominated by the stocks of large U.S. companies. The advisor attempts to replicate the target index by investing all, or substantially all, of its assets in the stocks that make up the index, holding each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index. The fund is non-diversified.

Ticker	Name	Share Class Type	Investment Status	Morningstar Rating for Funds Overall	Medalist Rating Overall	Inception Date	Total Net Assets for Share Class	Adjusted Expense Ratio	Fee Level Distribution	Minimum Initial Investment	1-Year Net Flow
0LO6	Vanguard S&P 500 ETF	ETF	Open	—		Sep 7, 2010	—	0.030%	—	—	—
VOO	Vanguard S&P 500 ETF	ETF	Open	—		Sep 7, 2010	—	0.030%	—	—	—
VOO	Vanguard S&P 500 ETF	ETF	Open			Sep 7, 2010	$1.03T	0.030%	—	—	$136.58B
VFINX	Vanguard 500 Index Fund Investor Shares	No Load	Limited			Aug 31, 1976	$2.82B	0.140%	Low	$0	−$689.05M
VFIAX	Vanguard 500 Index Fund Admiral Shares	Institutional	Open			Nov 13, 2000	$692.96B	0.040%	Low	$3,000	−$33.63B
VFFSX	Vanguard 500 Index Institutional Select Shares	Institutional	Open			Jun 24, 2016	$13.03B	0.010%	Low	$5B	−$15.08B

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