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Investor Shares for Participants | Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund
Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund
Investment Objective
The Fund seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of the overall stock market.
Fees and Expenses
The following table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy and hold Investor Shares of the Fund.
Shareholder Fees

(Fees paid directly from your investment)
Shareholder Fees
Investor Shares for Participants
Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund
Investor Shares
Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases none
Purchase Fee none
Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Reinvested Dividends none
Redemption Fee none
Annual Fund Operating Expenses

(Expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
Investor Shares for Participants
Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund
Investor Shares
Management Fees 0.13%
12b-1 Distribution Fee none
Other Expenses 0.03%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.16%
Example
The following example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund’s Investor Shares with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. It illustrates the hypothetical expenses that you would incur over various periods if you invested $10,000 in the Fund’s shares. This example assumes that the Shares provide a return of 5% each year and that total annual fund operating expenses remain as stated in the preceding table. You would incur these hypothetical expenses whether or not you redeem your investment at the end of the given period. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Expense Example
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Investor Shares for Participants | Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund | Investor Shares | USD ($) 16 52 90 205
Portfolio Turnover
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in more taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the previous expense example, reduce the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 3% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the CRSP US Total Market Index, which represents approximately 100% of the investable U.S. stock market and includes large-, mid-, small-, and micro-cap stocks regularly traded on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. The Fund invests by sampling the Index, meaning that it holds a broadly diversified collection of securities that, in the aggregate, approximates the full Index in terms of key characteristics. These key characteristics include industry weightings and market capitalization, as well as certain financial measures, such as price/earnings ratio and dividend yield.
Principal Risks
An investment in the Fund could lose money over short or even long periods. You should expect the Fund’s share price and total return to fluctuate within a wide range. The Fund is subject to the following risks, which could affect the Fund’s performance:

• Stock market risk, which is the chance that stock prices overall will decline. Stock markets tend to move in cycles, with periods of rising prices and periods of falling prices. In addition, the Fund’s target index may, at times, become focused in stocks of a particular market sector, which would subject the Fund to proportionately higher exposure to the risks of that sector.

• Index sampling risk, which is the chance that the securities selected for the Fund, in the aggregate, will not provide investment performance matching that of the Fund’s target index. Index sampling risk for the Fund should be low.

An investment in the Fund is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
Annual Total Returns
The following bar chart and table are intended to help you understand the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the performance of the Fund‘s Investor Shares has varied from one calendar year to another over the periods shown. The table shows how the average annual total returns of the Investor Shares compare with those of the Fund‘s target index and other comparative indexes, which have investment characteristics similar to those of the Fund. Keep in mind that the Fund’s past performance does not indicate how the Fund will perform in the future. Updated performance information is available on our website at vanguard.com/performance or by calling Vanguard toll-free at 800-662-7447.
Annual Total Returns — Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund Investor Shares
Bar Chart
During the periods shown in the bar chart, the highest return for a calendar quarter was 16.95% (quarter ended June 30, 2009), and the lowest return for a quarter was –22.73% (quarter ended December 31, 2008).
Average Annual Total Returns for Periods Ended December 31, 2015
Average Annual Total Returns - Investor Shares for Participants - Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund
1 Year
5 Years
10 Years
Investor Shares 0.29% 12.03% 7.39%
MSCI US Broad Market Index [1] 0.57% 12.25% 7.55%
Spliced Total Stock Market Index [1] 0.40% 12.18% 7.51%
CRSP US Total Market Index [1] 0.40%
[1] Comparative Indexes (reflect no deduction for fees or expenses)