Index Funds: Not So Bad Of a Decade For Vanguard Funds

These last two weeks I have read many articles and blogs that reference the last decade as being disastrous for most investors, yet was pleased to read how owners of Vanguard Funds, particularly Vanguard Index Funds, fared quite well. Rick Ferri of Portfolio Solutions recently showed in a Forbes article “A Decent Decade for Index Investors” the 10-year results from different Vanguard index funds that have been around the entire decade. Pretty impressive. . Vanguard, the pioneer of index funds and provider of Vanguard Mutual Funds and ETFs provides funds with a relatively low cost structure, which compounded over time can positively impact one’s bottom line. You pick the best Vanguard fund for your asset allocation and hopefully you too will find financial reward; research indicates that “Index fund investors who remained disciplined and stuck to a simple strategy of diversification and rebalancing fared pretty well.”