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FYI: The Vanguard Small-Cap Growth fund (NYSEARCA: VBK) is a passive exchange-traded fund, or ETF, that seeks to replicate, before fees and expenses, the performance of the MSCI Small Cap Growth Index, or the underlying index. The underlying index is designed to be a representation of those firms categorized as growth companies within the CRSP U.S. Small Cap Index, used to track the MSCI Small Cap 1750, which itself represents domestic small-cap equities.