Vanguard Russell 3000 Growth Index Fund is an open-end management investment company. The Fund seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of the broad U.S. stock market. The fund is designed to track the performance of the Russell 3000A® Index, which represents approximately 98% of the U.S. equity market and comprises the 3,000 largest companies in the United States. It attempts to replicate the target index by investing its assets in the stocks that make up the index, holding each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index. As of Aug 31 2013, the Fund's investments portfolio was valued at $501,781,000. The VTHR YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the VTHR YTD return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the total return for a given investment year-to-date for the current calendar year
(up to the end of prior trading session). Arguably, choosing the current calendar year for a measurement
period is on the one hand completely arbitrary, but on the other hand a year-to-date look can be extremely
useful in the context of our country's tax system which taxes gains and income on a calendar year basis.
Thus, researching Year-To-Date Returns is good practice for investors — whether VTHR YTD return or other benchmarks/peers
— and when doing so it is also important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's YTD return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon. Our website aims to empower investors
by performing the VTHR YTD return calculation (with any dividends reinvested as applicable), and to provide a
coverage universe of many stocks and ETFs to be able to compare YTD returns.
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