"Indeed, the fund's long-term record has been good. For the 10 years ended in 1996, its annual return was 21.8 percent on average, 6.5 percentage points ahead of the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index...
Through Thursday, Giftrust had lost 13.0 percent for the year, while Royce Gift Shares had gained 3.94 percent. Last year, the Royce fund returned 25.6 percent, while Giftrust was up just 5.8 percent."
Ed McQuarrie talks the REAL History of Stocks and Bond performance.
https://www.morningstar.com/portfolios/how-use-commodities-your-portfolio?utm_source=eloqua&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FundSpy&utm_content=None_61962&utm_id=32070
How Commodities funds can help diversification with Stocks and Bonds and usually not correlated to either
https://www.morningstar.com/funds/most-stunning-fact-about-vanguards-etf-flows-2
This article shows people are pulling money out of mutual funds and putting it into index funds an example is VOO. Also Vanguard Primecap and Core fund opened the fund due to them both because of money being pulled out. INDEX ETF's way to go tax efficient and low expenses