The Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) tracks the performance of the CRSP U.S. Total Market Index. The fund has returned 8.86% since its inception in 2001 (as of July 31, 2021). The fund is a market capitalization-weighted index that measures the entire investable U.S. equity market. It includes small-, mid-, and large-cap companies.3 The fund is managed in a passive manner and uses an index-sampling strategy.