Question

How has VINFX performed over the last few decades and should we manage this investment passively or actively? Also, where is VFINX common stock listed?

Answer 1

Vanguard 500 index fund investor(VINFX) share is an index fund of top 500 companies in United States of America and it will be managed passively as this is based upon the index investment of diversification of the portfolio and this will be trying to compare the index of the standard and poor 500 and they will be trying to replicate the rate of return of standard and poor 500.

Vanguard 500 index fund have performed in line with the standard and poor 500, and it has majority of its holding in United States large capitalised companies and it can be seen that it has performed exceedingly well and in the last decade itself it has multiplied itself three times so this fund has performed exceedingly well being a passive fund.

The common stock of this mutual fund can be exchange traded and it is listed upon the standard and poor 500 index.