From Greg Wilson, chief analyst, the Legacy Portfolio: One fund has crushed the S&P 500 for over four decades… by doing nothing.

A $10,000 investment in the fund in 1970 would be worth $1,229,036 today. Not bad for just sitting and waiting.

I’m talking about the Voya Corporate Leaders Trust Fund. And what it did was buy equal amounts of stock in 30 major corporations. This was in 1935.

It hasn’t picked a new stock since.

The trust’s founders believed companies that could prosper in the Great Depression would succeed in all economic and market conditions. They were right.

Take a look at the chart below… the Voya fund beats the S&P 500 by 52%.

By using a long-term approach, Voya has done incredibly well. It employs the same long-term strategy we use in our Legacy Portfolio. And it invests in many of the same world-class companies we do. The fund’s made up of industry leaders that all survived the Great Recession and thrived in the years after.

  Now, there are more benefits to the long-term time frame and safe stock selection than just market-beating returns…

  • Like simplicity. The Legacy Portfolio is only a handful of select securities. As Legacy investors, we spend just a few hours per year buying and accumulating shares. There’s no selling or stop losses. And no more fretting about daily market actions.

  • Plus, you can do away with money manager fees. For example, $10,000 that grows 10% annually will turn into $67,275 after 20 years. But the same $10,000 will turn into only $55,025 when you have to pay a 1% annual management fee.

    You end up with over 22% more cash as a Legacy investor… again, by doing nothing.

To learn how to harness the power of “nothing,” click here to access a free online training program on Legacy investing.