Vanguard Mutual Funds for Retirement Savings
The advantage of investing with Vanguard Mutual Funds for Retirement Savings is a simple one. They charge their clients with these funds what it cost then to run them without any mark up. These are tax deferred investments that allow investors to supplement their 401k investments with up to $5000 additional investment amounts per year and $6000 for individuals that are over the age of 60.
Most of the Vanguard Funds are eligible for an individual’s retirement savings. This is with both IRA and Roth IRS eligible funds. The minimum investment for most of these with an IRA account is $3000.
When choosing which funds to make an investment in, there are many sources that give advice. Money magazine made a list of the best 70 mutual funds in January of 2010. Of those 70 mutual funds, 23 of them were from Vanguard. That is a full one third of the list. This included actively managed funds, Index funds, ETF’s and target retirement funds.
Forbes is another highly respected magazine that is designed to help investors choose the right funds wisely. They also had a best buy list in January of 2010 that listed 135 different funds that would make good investments. 27% or 36 of those funds were Vanguard mutual funds. These were chosen on criteria of risk adjusted performance and low costs. Of the 23 different categories, at least one Vanguard fund was selected in 17 of them.
The Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fund (VEIEX) was on the Forbes honor roll. It has an expense ratio of 0.40% and had a one year performance as of February 28, 2010 of 91.90%
It might sound like a sales pitch, but it is true that the choice of Vanguard Mutual Funds for Retirement Savings is a good choice immaterial which fund you chose.
For more reference about investments from Vanguard on this site please view Vanguard Dividend Growth Fund Review – VDIGX
For additional resources about ETF”s, please view Actively Managed ETFs Explained which is one our sister site of ETFinvestingblog.com.
Even further resources about mutual funds and other investments from Fidelity on another sister site of ours is mutualfundexplorer.com please view Best Fidelity No Load Mutual Funds.
A stock market resource on investing from another sister site of stockmarketinvestingblog.com is an article on Investing in Lithium Companies which is worth a look at three companies that had return over 500% last year.
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