Objective. Vanguard Russell 1000 Index Fund seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of large-capitalization stocks.
You can purchase Russell 1000 ETFs or index funds through your online brokerage.
The iShares Russell 1000 ETF seeks to track the investment results of an index composed of large- and mid-capitalization U.S. equities.
The Russell 1000 Growth Index is comprised of 532 members of the Russell 1000 Index (the largest 1000 companies in the Russell 3000 Index), while the S&P 500 Growth Index is comprised of 272 members of the S&P 500.
The Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth Index ETF is a solid choice for ETF investors who favor growth stocks over value stocks, large caps over small and medium caps, and U.S. stocks over a mix of domestic and foreign stocks. (Large-cap stocks have market capitalizations of at least $10 billion.)
The Russell 1000 Index represents the top 1000 companies by market capitalization in the United States.
Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund (47.8%) Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund (32%) Vanguard Total Bond Market II Index Fund (14%) Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund (5.2%)
Fidelity and Vanguard both do a good job keeping costs fairly low, but Fidelity has a slight edge overall. Both brokers charge zero commission for stock and ETF trades, but Fidelity charges $0.65 per contract on options trades, while Vanguard charges $1 per contract for customers with less than $1 million in assets.
Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund seeks to track the investment performance of the Russell 2000 Index, an unmanaged benchmark representing small U.S. companies. Using full replication, the portfolio holds all stocks in the same capitalization weighting as the index.
The iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF seeks to track the investment results of an index composed of large- and mid-capitalization U.S. equities that exhibit growth characteristics.
The key difference between the Russell 2000 versus the Russell 1000 or the S&P 500 is that while the Russell 2000 represents the small cap equities market, the Russell 1000 and S&P 500 represent the large cap equities market. As a result, the Russell 2000 is “much more diversified,” Donohue said.
The Fund is an "index fund" that seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of its Underlying Index (defined below). The Fund is a collective investment trust maintained and managed by BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. ("BTC").
Stocks are either added or subtracted from its indexes based on several criteria: market cap, share price, trading volume, and other factors. As you can imagine, when a company is added to the Russell 1000, it tends to increase the demand for its shares. In turn, that can lead to increased volatility in the short term.
The Vanguard 500 Index Fund is one of the most renowned index funds on the market today, and a good buy-and-hold option, according to Azoury. It gives you exposure to 500 of the largest U.S. companies trading on the stock market.
What are the best performing Vanguard funds? Based on 10-year average annual returns, the top-performing Vanguard fund is the actively managed U.S. large-cap growth fund (VWUSX) at 20.74%. The passively managed large-cap growth index fund (VIGAX) comes in second with 19.32%.
Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF (VCSH, $77.74) is a low-risk index bond exchange-traded fund that offers investors a healthy yield of 3.6%.
In the United States, the top 3,000 stocks (those of the 3,000 largest companies) make up the broad-market Russell 3000 Index. The top 1,000 of those companies make up the large-cap Russell 1000 Index, and the bottom 2,000 (the smallest companies) make up the small-cap Russell 2000 Index.
If you want to invest in the Russell 2000 Index, you don't need to buy all 2,000 stocks. You can invest in the index rather easily through a mutual fund or exchange-traded fund (ETF) designed to passively track it.
Source: FTSE Russell as of May 7, 2021. Representing the US large cap market segment, the total market cap of the Russell 1000 Index increased 49.5% from $29.5 trillion as of last year's reconstitution to $44.1 trillion.