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FUND FLOWS SPOTLIGHT

Core Funds Dominate the Decade
Over the past decade, the large-blend Morningstar
Category has cleaned up while most other U.S.
stock fund categories, especially large growth, have
seen outflows. (See Trends on Page 19.) Similarly,
the foreign large-blend category is easily the biggest
winner among the major foreign-stock categories.
Two key trends have catalyzed this zeal for
core fund options. One is a big shift in the financial

U.S. Stock Category

advice business toward a fee-based model that has
encouraged portfolio construction using lowcost, diversified building blocks. The other is the rise
of target-date funds, which tend to invest in
a handful of funds covering major asset classes.
For example, Vanguard Target Retirement 2030
VTHRX and its institutional sibling Vanguard
Institutional Target Retirement 2030 VTTWX have

Net Inflows/Outflows $B

Large Value

Foreign Stock Category

Large Blend
-32.6

Mid-Cap Blend

35.9
-73.0

Small Value

-0.2

Small Blend

675.2

34.1
17.9

Foreign Smid Blend

25.9

Foreign Smid Growth

7.4

Foreign Smid Value

3.3
-89.2

World Smid Stock

-45.0
-700

Foreign Lg Value

World Lg Stock

31.1

Small Growth

280.2

Foreign Lg Growth

-428.7

Mid-Cap Growth

Net Inflows/Outflows $B

Foreign Lg Blend

630.6

Mid-Cap Value

Jeffrey Ptak, CFA, is head of global manager research
for Morningstar.

Div Emerging Mkts

-54.3

Large Growth

funneled nearly $45 billion over the past 10 years
to just four funds: a U.S. total stock market
index fund, a foreign total stock market index fund,
a U.S. total investment-grade bond market index
fund, and a foreign total bond market index fund.

0

7.6

700

-200

0

200

400

600

800

Source: Morningstar Direct. Data as of 11/30/2019.

Active Versus Passive Fund Strategies The percentage of U.S. actively managed funds that outperformed their respective Morningstar Style Index.
< 20%

> 40%

Index Returns (12/31/2019)

61.3%

24.8

16.2%

31.9

32.0%

36.0

68.1%

20.0

12.2%

29.6

49.2%

27.6

Value

Core

Growth

31.8%

10.8

30.0%

14.4

17.9%

21.8

39.4%

8.0

17.0%

12.0

28.8%

18.3

70.6%

2.7

30.2%

8.2

50.3%

14.2

Value

Core

Growth

10.5%

9.8

21.9%

11.0

14.5%

14.6

11.6%

9.0

20.5%

9.3

33.3%

11.8

Mid

33.8

63.1%

4.9

28.9%

8.2

49.4%

10.3

Small

32.8%

Large

33.1

Mid

11.4%

Small

25.7

Large

42.8%

5-Year

Mid

3-Year

Small

1-Year

20 to 40%

Value

Core

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Percentage of Actively Managed Funds Outperforming Index:

Growth

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