Overview

Vanguard's broad large-cap fund tracking the CRSP US Large Cap Index — roughly the top 85% of US market capitalisation, slightly broader than the S&P 500.

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Fund Details

Investment Thesis

VV is a near-substitute for an S&P 500 fund with two structural differences: it uses CRSP's index rather than S&P's, so there is no index committee making discretionary inclusion decisions, and it captures slightly more of the large-cap universe. In practice its returns track the S&P 500 closely enough that the choice between VV and VOO is largely a matter of index philosophy rather than expected outcome. At 0.04% the cost difference is negligible.

Who It's For

Core-portfolio investors who want broad US large-cap exposure and prefer a rules-based index without committee discretion. VV works as a direct S&P 500 substitute, and is sometimes chosen specifically to avoid holding the identical index as another account for tax-loss-harvesting purposes.

10-Year History

Historical figures are ETFHub estimates modelled from asset-class return patterns and may differ from official fund records. Data as of August 2026.

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