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Fund Comparisons

The classic match-ups, settled. Each comparison lays the two funds side by side — cost, strategy, minimum — and gives a plain bottom line.

VTSAX vs FZROX

The total-market title fight: Vanguard's flagship versus Fidelity's free upstart.

 VTSAX vs SWTSX

Vanguard versus Schwab for total-market supremacy.

 VTSAX vs FSKAX

Vanguard's total-market fund against Fidelity's.

 VTSAX vs VFIAX

The classic Vanguard family argument: total market or just the S&P 500?

 FXAIX vs VFIAX

Two S&P 500 funds from the two biggest names in indexing.

 FXAIX vs SWPPX

Fidelity versus Schwab in the race to the cheapest S&P 500 fund.

 FZROX vs FXAIX

An all-Fidelity question: the zero-fee total market fund, or the near-zero S&P 500 fund?

 FZROX vs FSKAX

Fidelity's own total-market civil war: the free proprietary-index fund against the 0.015% Dow-Jones-tracking one.

 VFIAX vs SWPPX

Vanguard's S&P 500 Admiral shares versus Schwab's.

 VTIAX vs FZILX

Total international, paid versus free.

 VTIAX vs FTIHX

The two heavyweight total-international index funds.

 VTIAX vs SWISX

Total international versus developed-markets-only.

 VBTLX vs FXNAX

The two default total-bond funds, both tracking the Bloomberg US Aggregate.

 VBTLX vs SWAGX

Vanguard versus Schwab for the boring, essential bond slot.

 VTWAX vs VTSAX

Own the whole world, or just the US?

 FCNTX vs FXAIX

One of the strongest active records in history against the index it's measured by.

 AGTHX vs VFIAX

The advisor channel's flagship growth fund versus a Vanguard S&P 500 fund.

 TRBCX vs VIGAX

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 PRWCX vs VWELX

Two of the best balanced funds ever run, head to head — David Giroux's (largely closed) Capital Appreciation against Vanguard's 95-year-old Wellington.

 VWELX vs VWINX

The Wellington siblings.

 DODGX vs VVIAX

Active deep value against indexed value.

 VFORX vs FBIFX

The 2040 target-date showdown: Vanguard versus Fidelity's index series.

 VFIFX vs SWYMX

2050 target-date funds from Vanguard and Schwab, both all-index, both built to be your entire retirement account.

 VTINX vs VWINX

Two ways to invest in retirement: Vanguard's all-index Target Retirement Income fund against the actively managed Wellesley Income.

 VIGAX vs FBGRX

Indexed growth against one of Fidelity's aggressive active growth funds.

 VSMAX vs FSSNX

Small-cap indexing, Vanguard versus Fidelity — with a subtle index difference (CRSP vs Russell 2000) that has historically nudged returns.

 VIMAX vs FSMDX

Mid-cap index funds from Vanguard and Fidelity.

 PTTRX vs VBTLX

Active bond royalty against the passive default.

 PIMIX vs DODIX

Two of the most respected active bond funds, with very different risk dials.

 FSPSX vs VTMGX

Developed-international index funds, Fidelity versus Vanguard.
Bigger picture

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