VTSAX - The Greatest Index Fund In The World 

He was called Saint Bogle for a reason. A legend. A humanitarian. Few have done more to allow the average person to benefit from the capitalist system.

Inflation depreciates idle money. I'm in a privileged position to be able to save almost 65% of our net household income, as I placed it on safer investments. The key for us was not spending beyond our means. If you invest and have other sources of income outside of dividends then you will be able to live off dividends. Got north of $520K in my portfolio as I bought a lot of dividend stocks before, I'm buying more now, and I will buy more when it drops further.

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Mr. Kim you are amazing You are combining most genuine financial advices together and make it easy for a regular guy like me.

Finally, someone makes investing easy to understand. THANK YOU!!

Thank you for this video! I enjoy your videos a lot. Clear & Concise !

I like your presentation and content very much! I am very grateful for the advice that you share as well.

Thank you for teaching me. I might switch my Retirement Index Fund in my VG Roth to a VTSAX.

This was so nicely presented - thank you!

Good commentary. I follow this advice for many years.

All this useful information! I take notes everyday with things related to Real Estate, Investing, Tax-Write Offs, etc and you've helped me alot with mostly Investing! Thanks!

I've been invested in VTSAX for more than 30 years. It's been the best financial investment decision that I have ever made.

Awesome explanations of the history and difference between owners of Fidelity/Vanguard. $8.2 Billion is a lot different than $80 million and really shows the goals of both CEO's and how they treat customers. Thank you!

You are the best ! I enjoy your matter of fact style ! I am now going to buy VTSAX !!!

I have Fzrox and VTI. Love them both.

Great information. I loved the structure of the video.

Subscribed for life! Great work sir. Part of newsletter as well

Love VANGUARD!. Very honest...

Thank you so much for this great information

Excellent video. Very informative!

Great video! This was refreshing.

One of my favorites

My favorite

information packed video, great! You crammed that all in there

Great video. Love your insight

Thanks!

Excellent video

Excellent info and research, as always! I am impressed with how thorough you are. I especially appreciate how do you tend to give the larger context, before providing all of the relevant details. For me, this is the perfect one two punch, that gives me actionable ideas, based on clear understanding. I don’t know any other channel that does this as well as you do.

Great video Tae! Index funds are the besttttt - building wealth over the long term 💯 I personally DCA into VTI every week :) Hope you're doing well!!

There is such a thing as over-diversification. I personally follow Warren Buffet’s 20 stock rule and have beat the market choosing high-quality companies I want to hold for 5+ years.

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I have it in my Roth IRA.. 307 shares! :D

Love your videos! Agreed the VTSAX is an incredible Index Fund. Question, I can get Schwab's SWPPX identical holdings for 60.01 where as the VTSAX is 95.22. Percentages of holding very close as well.....is SWPPX the same buy?

Best index fund for a Roth IRA in my opinion

great video but i would of also liked a part on international diversification the usa is big but not the entire world if you only invest in the usa you are not doing diversification optimally maybe Vanguard FTSE All-World UCITS ETF would be a better one to buy and hold forever?

Great job 😃

vgt without a doubt #1

Mr. Kim, thank you for what you do. Quick question. I have an IRA with SoFi. Would it be a good idea to invest in VTSAX with them? Or there is SoFi analog of it that would make more sense?

Mr Kim, what account would you advise to buy vtsax in? I know you can get an ira roth or traditional versus an individual broker account?

I use fidelity vtsax has higher transaction fee. Is there any other equivalent fidelity fund.

Sorry for a newbie question but, why is this favorable over VOO? Is it just to have exposure to smaller companies?

Excellent information . Thank. You much

Do you have a video on Principal? I’m starting my company 401k and that’s who they use. Any help would be appreciated.

I married a Taehae Kim. You have great content!

Are the stocks owned by the fund held in local currency terms? I think it’s a good time to diversify globally in terms of currency as well as asset classes.

Currently 100% in my Roth and taxable. Love VTSAX

Do people own both total and S&P500?

What is a non-daily inverse of vtsax?

What do you think of VTWAX compared to VTSAX? Thank you!

Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing. - Warren Buffett

Please review ivv

Cap weighted, so maybe not as diversified as one would expect for the number of holdings.

ETFs have lower taxes than mutual funds. If you are not using a tax advantaged account, do NOT buy mutual funds. Buy ETFs.

THanks for your videos. Do you have any videos about how to know when to sell vanguard index funds? For example, (and maybe it is just my misunderstanding)... If I think I perceive stocks are overvalued, should I sell? Or... is this something that the passive vanguard index fund management does on its own? For example, if vanguard perceives that stocks are overvalued, do they pull money out automatically for me? I'm just learning

would suggest adding a diversified international index fund or etf as well for added diversification

When I was looking through it, vti returns were slightly higher. We aren’t taking anything huge but maybe .2% more consistently over time

Great video thank you. Any thoughts on Vanguard LifeStrategy 80% Equity UCITS ETF EUR Acc? Dubai-based investor looking to retire in Europe.

I got this stock in 2021 for about $115, I haven't seen any return since and don't know if I will. I, unfortunately, bought it at its peak ever.

Compare to VONG, it seems better than VTSAX?

I keep on reading how great vtsax is. But never why is it doing so bad right now? Any insights will be helpful.

Something I am curious about. I have a Roth IRA with my bank that I can trade through fee free and buy Vanguard stock. Is there any downside to me continuing to use my regular bank IRA as opposed to opening an IRA or a securities account directly through Vanguard.

Mr. Kim, what are your thoughts on VTI, the ETF version of VTSAX?

What about the VTSMX

Not available in the uk😢

It is not VTI anymore?

T.D. ameritrade offers this fund. Is it ok to buy there? Or is it better to start a vanguard account? Thanks.

why not VSMPX, identical fund with less expense ratio.

this fund and the S&P 500 match each other on charts. am i wong?

Maybe a dumb question, but if active management isn't able to reliably beat the average, why is there an entire, massive industry of fund managers and traders out there actively picking stocks? What is the point of them? Is their career secretly worthless?

ETF?

Are you the Tae Kim from Tae Kims Japanese Grammar?

No international stocks?

Is it ok to invest VTSAX in a taxable account?

Even better than VOO?

I have VTSAX in my taxable account. FZROX in my Roth IRA.

The chart looks exactly like VOO…i mean exactly.

What’s the downside of VTI for long term investors?

hello from Philippines where can I invest this one.

Why VTSAX? Why not VTI?

What is the equivalent ETF to VTSAX?

The stock market has been a really tough one this past year, but I watched an interview on CNBC where the anchor kept mentioning " karina mattis ". This prompted me to get in touch with her, and from August 2022 till now we have been working together, and I can now boast of $540,000 in my trading portfolio.

Can Canadians invest directly into VTSAX? Where?! How?! :)

Quick question for ‘The Lemmings’ (on here): ((Coz this dude drinks the ol’ “Vanguard” Kool-Aid…)) Who has the largest position in Vanguard…? And who, therefore, with a flick of a switch can change your stock portfolio from hero towards a zero if the WEF suddenly decide it’s all about “equity”?

VOO

if you open the account as an IRA; however (preferably a Roth IRA), the minium investment drops to $1K

Bogle didn't need 8 Billion dollars...nobody on earth needs that. 80M is more than enough. 20M is more than enough. 10M is more than enough. 5M is more than enough....you get the point

Ok, so moral argument aside (not dismissing it, its compelling on its own)... why does Vanguard cost 3x what Fidelity does, if its running "at cost"? Is it just incredibly inefficiently run organization? And one that is always way behind on things like buying fractional shares, automating ETF purchases, etc? I'm a Fidelity user, and open to hearing why its actually better for me, not just theoretically better by underlying philosophy... but I'm just not seeing it in the bottom line for me the customer. I get the hesitation on the zero fee funds for their loss leader trade-offs, but the comparable returns of their paid fund to vanguard at 1/3 of the cost is hard to deny. What am I missing, other than liking Bogle and the underlying concept?

You got this one wrong, VGT is the best one

WHY WHY WHY pay the fees. It is the same as SPY

There are better funds - when sorted by past performance (Vanguard funds comparison only here) - VONG and VUG perform better over time, 5YR - VONG = 74.12% (EX Ratio .08) and 5YR - VUG = 66.22% (EX Ratio .04) and MAX over the entire lifetime of the funds are still also higher... VTSAX 5YR = 49.58% (EX Ratio .04)... Clearly not the greatest fund although not a bad fund... ETF's are typically always a better bet than an Index Fund due to many reasons if your self-directed investing and don't want to purchase individual stocks. Unfortunately, for 401k or other retirement accounts, 403b, etc., (company sponsored), your typically limited to Mutual Funds/Index funds which have a lower yield due their nature of lower risk/reward...

Vanguard now does fractional shares VTSAX no longer needed. Just buy VTI :)

It cost $74 fee to invest $3,000 when I try to buy VTSAX, is it expensive ?

VTWAX is more diversified than VTSAX!

DOW is outperforming it. Get a DOW ETF.

VTWAX is better. No splitting hairs

I'm retiring next month and have a million dollars. Do you think this is a good fund for me to invest in and live off the gains?

No one gets rich diversifying.

I don’t know, VTSAX has not been doing great for last year and a half.

I'm European. How the hell I put my money on that? Is there an app?

You don’t like VTI???