The investment lessons from the Vanguard 500 Index fund’s 50-year history

If you had shifted your entire equity portfolio into the Vanguard 500 Index Fund, and then did nothing else for the next few decades, your performance rank would almost certainly be above the 80th percentile. Where else in life can you perform that well by sitting on your hands?

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