Vanguard 500 Index Fund Admiral Shares
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- Vanguard 500 Index Fund Admiral Shares (VFIAX) is a large-blend mutual fund that employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, a benchmark measuring the investment return of large-capitalization U.S. stocks. The fund invests at least 80% of its assets in the common stocks included in the S&P 500 Index as well as in depositary receipts representing S&P 500 stocks; it holds approximately 500 stocks weighted by market capitalization, with top holdings including NVIDIA Corp (7.37%), Apple Inc (7.07%), Microsoft Corp (6.24%), Amazon.com Inc (3.86%), and Broadcom Inc (3.24%), resulting in 99% allocation to U.S. stocks across sectors led by technology (35.48%), financial services (12.96%), and consumer cyclical (10.63%). Launched on November 13, 2000, with a minimum initial investment of $3,000, VFIAX features an adjusted expense ratio of 0.04%, a turnover rate of 2%, and total net assets exceeding $1.4 trillion, managed by a team including Michelle Louie (since 2017), Nick Birkett (since 2023), and Aurélie Denis (since 2025). The fund is offered by The Vanguard Group, Inc., founded in 1975 and headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, which operates globally with offices in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia. In recent developments, Vanguard announced on October 21, 2025, the addition of VFIAX—along with its ETF share class VOO and Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund—to its Investor Choice program effective 2026, expanding proxy voting options to approximately 20 million investors and tripling eligible assets from $1 trillion to over $3 trillion, representing more than 50% of Vanguard's U.S.-based equity index assets. This follows Vanguard's largest fee cuts in early 2025, costing an estimated $350 million, and the establishment of a dedicated advice and wealth management division under CEO Salim Ramji. The firm continues robust asset growth, with inflows rivaling BlackRock, and maintains low-cost indexing across its mutual funds and ETFs targeted at individual investors, advisors, retirement plans, and institutional clients primarily in the United States.