{
  "id": 6285273,
  "title": "The investment lessons from the Vanguard 500 Index fund’s 50-year history",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/08/the-investment-lessons-from-the-vanguard-500-index-funds-50-year-6285273",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-08T13:45:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MarketWatch",
    "slug": "marketwatch",
    "url": "https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-investment-lessons-from-the-vanguard-500-index-funds-50-year-history-81fd384a?mod=mw_rss_topstories"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "If you had shifted your entire equity portfolio into the Vanguard 500 Index Fund, and then did nothing else for the next few decades, your performance rank would almost certainly be above the 80th percentile. Where else in life can you perform that well by sitting on your hands?",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}