US Small-Capitalization Value and Growth Stock Mutual Funds

Small Cap Index Fund Investments with low costs

This summary delivers a list of the least expensive small capitalization value and growth stock mutual fund investments. The list of the lowest expense index investment company funds in the small cap index fund asset class tends to be relatively stable over time. Individual investors in the lowest cost index mutual funds are inclined to be loyal to the relatively short list of index mutual fund firms that furnish the lowest fee index investment company funds.

Investors in the most economical index mutual funds accept that least expensive leads to better net returns as time goes by. xxx(asset class name)xxx index funds probably will not have better portfolio performance prior to investment taxes and fees. Instead, index mutual funds pursue the middle or average market return, and they are not designed to surpass the market return.

Nevertheless, the much lower costs of xxx(asset class name)xxx index investment company funds enable individual investors to save significantly more of the market return instead of sharing the market’s investment performance with the financial services industry by having to pay unneeded investment fees. As the years go by, shareholders in index mutual funds tend to do better than share owners who pay avoidable costs to the financial services industry.

Lowest Cost Small Cap Index Fund Investments

Fund Name — Expense Ratio — Ticker Symbol

• Vanguard Small-Cap Growth Admiral — 0.07% expense ratio — VSGAX
• Vanguard Small-Cap Value Admiral — 0.07% expense ratio — VSIAX
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The table’s first listed lowest management expense small cap index mutual fund is the Vanguard Small-Cap Growth Admiral, which includes VSGAX trading symbol. The Vanguard Small-Cap Growth Admiral prospectus provides the low fee management expense percentage in this small cap value and growth stock index funds category.

The subsequent line lists lowest fee small cap index mutual fund is the Vanguard Small-Cap Value Admiral, with the VSIAX ticker symbol. The Vanguard Small-Cap Value Admiral carries the lowest fee management expense ratio in this small capitalization value and growth stock index funds classification.