Sorry Jack

Bogle: Vanguard is always near the top in performance and it's always the lowest cost...

The legendary Vanguard 500 Index Investor

Trailing Total Returns as of today's close

	Total Return %	+/- S&P 500 TR	+/- Morningstar Large Core TR USD Index	% Rank in Cat
1-Day	-1.88	0.00	0.27	76
1-Week	-1.09	0.01	0.41	76
1-Month	4.45	0.02	-0.91	63
3-Month	22.27	0.03	-1.56	49
Year-to-date	0.05	0.03	1.68	64
1-Year	-33.74	0.02	-4.76	51
3-Year Annualized	-9.41	-0.06	-2.93	48
5-Year Annualized	-2.57	-0.09	-2.05	53
10-Yr Annualized*	-2.56	-0.08	-1.31	56

The S&P 500 consistently underperforms most large cap blend mutual funds. Clearly, survivor bias is an issue here, but not enough to worry about.