Vanguard’s Best Mutual Funds
These are rated Vanguard’s Best Mutual Funds by Morningstar, Forbes and Money magazines and myself.
11 of the Vanguard Funds in the retirement sector made it to the Money top 70 lists and top of the list for retirement funds. Forbes liked 4 of them with the retirement term at 2015, 2025, 2035, and 2045.
Of the 519 funds that Vanguards manages Forbes placed 36 of them on their list in 17 of the 23 different categories. The one that stood out amongst the rest and made the honor roll was Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Funds (VEIEX). This fund invests in the BRIC markets along with Korea and Taiwan.
The expense ratio is only 0.40% and $3000 is the minimal investment amount. The performance of this fund as of March 31, 2010 was a one year return of 78.86%, 3 year at 4.71%, 5 year at 14.60% and a 10 year performance of 10.28%.
The best performer this year so far is the REIT Index Fund (VGSIX) with an YTD return of 21.83%. This is the highest of all the Vanguard Funds. The second best performer this year is the Small Cap Value Index (VISVX) with an YTD return of 20.42%. The Small cap Index (NAESX) comes in third with an YTD return of 18.93%.
The best one year return as of March 31, 2010 was the REIT Index Fund (VGSIX) with a 109.90%. The second best was Capital Value at 105.64%, but it is closed to new investors. Precious Metals and Mining (VGPMX) comes in third with a one year return of 79.66% and fourth is the Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Funds (VEIEX) with a one year return of 78.86%.
These are the Vanguard’s Best Mutual Funds as interpreted by me with help from some very heavy hitters in the investment world. Remember past performance does not guarantee future profits. Invest with caution, please.
For more reference about investments from Vanguard on this site please view Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF (VIG) Review.
For a resource about ETF”s, please view Regional Bank ETFs 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 Fidelity Large Cap Growth Funds and Small Cap Stock List on stockmarketinvestingblog.com.
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