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By early 1992, when its assets had gradually increased to $4.3 billion, it was the 7th largest U.S. equity fund. Encouraged by the past and optimistic about the future, I publicly predicted that "market indexing will come into its own as a major force . . . and that by the turn of the twentieth century, our index fund will be the largest equity fund in the world."
John C. Bogle (7/29/97)
From the Foreword of Index Mutual Funds: Profiting from an Investment Revolution
by W. Scott Simon (Index Mutual Funds web site)

Unfortunately, we won't be able to determine the exact date: Vanguard no longer provides daily asset information on its funds. That said, I suspect the Index 500 will pass Magellan in November of 1999.
SageBrian@aol.com (2/13/98)

I believe the Vanguard S&P 500 will overtake Magellan by mid-1999. . . unlike Magellan size doesn't become a problem.
ckguruprasad@hotmail.com (5/22/98)

At the current pace, Vanguard Index 500 should pass Magellan by August 1999.
David O'Leary, Alpha Equity Research (former Vice President at Fidelity)
From Vanguard closes in on "World's Largest" Title $$ in theStreet.com (11/13/98)

We expect the Vanguard 500 Index Fund to surpass the Magellan Fund in terms of net managed assets by late next year or early 2000.
Russell Kinnel (Morningstar) in Changing of the Vanguard:
Vanguard 500 Index fund may surpass Fidelity's Magellan as nation's largest from CNNFN (12/14/98)

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