Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund

Symbol: VITSX

The Vanguard Total StockMarket Index Fund is managed by The Vanguard Group of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania which is among the world’s largest equity and fixed income managers.

Investment Objective

Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of the overall stock market. More details

Investment Strategy

The fund employs a “passive management” — or indexing — investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US Broad Market Index, which represents 99.5% or more of the total market capitalization of all of the U.S. common stocks regularly traded on the New York and American Stock Exchanges, and the Nasdaq over-the-counter market. The fund typically holds the largest 1,200 -1,300 stocks in its target index (covering nearly 95% of the index’s total market capitalization) and a representative sample of the remaining stocks. The fund holds a range of securities that, in the aggregate, approximates the full index in terms of key characteristics. These key characteristics include industry weightings and market capitalization, as well as certain financial measures, such as price/earnings ratio and dividend yield. More details