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The investment returns you accumulate on the savings in your account.
Mutual fund
A type of investment that pools shareholder money and invests it in a variety of securities. Each investor owns shares of the fund and can buy or sell these shares at any time. Mutual funds are typically more diversified, low-cost, and convenient than investing in individual securities, and they're professionally managed.
ETF (exchange-traded fund)
A type of investment with characteristics of both mutual funds and individual stocks. ETFs are professionally managed and typically diversified, like mutual funds, but they can be bought and sold at any point during the trading day using straightforward or sophisticated strategies.
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Talk with one of our investment specialists.
Call 800-891-5355
Monday through Friday
*Vanguard average expense ratio: 0.09%. Industry average expense ratio: 0.49%. All averages are asset-weighted. Industry averages exclude Vanguard. Sources: Vanguard and Morningstar, Inc., as of December 31, 2021.
**For the 10-year period ended December 31, 2021, 7 of 7 Vanguard money market funds, 67 of 86 Vanguard bond funds, 21 of 24 Vanguard balanced funds, and 128 of 183 Vanguard stock funds—for a total of 223 of 300 Vanguard funds—outperformed their Lipper peer-group average. Results will vary for other time periods. Only mutual funds and ETFs (exchange-traded funds) with a minimum 10-year history were included in the comparison. Source: Lipper, a Thomson Reuters Company. The competitive performance data shown represent past performance, which is not a guarantee of future results. View fund performance
†Vanguard managed more than $8.0 trillion as of February 28, 2022.
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