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#1100 Eric Balchunas On The Greatest Investor You Never Heard Of

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Investing in the S&P 500 Index Fund

When Vanguard first launched, the S&P 500 index fund had $11 million in assets. It's just so weird to think about considering how big of a deal that fund is today. In 2008, Vanguard took in money every month until October when the market was down 70%. So this part of the hard choices were early and paid off later for investors.

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