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What’s a mutual fund?
A mutual fund is a pooled collection of assets that invests in stocks, bonds, and other securities.
Vanguard mutual fund strategies
A strategy is the general or specific approach to investing based on your goals, risk tolerance, and time horizon. See what’s best for you.
Vanguard Target Retirement Funds
Our Target Retirement Funds make investing about as easy as it gets. You make just one decision, and the fund’s managers maintain the target risk and rebalancing for you.
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Create a side-by-side comparison of up to 5 mutual funds and ETFs (exchange-traded funds) to find 1 that best matches what you're looking for.
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*Vanguard average expense ratio: 0.06%. Industry average expense ratio: 0.20%. All averages are for index mutual funds and ETFs and are asset-weighted. Industry average excludes Vanguard. Sources: Vanguard and Morningstar, Inc., as of December 31, 2021.
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