Vanguard LifeStrategy Funds , Opinions requested.

bowlhead99

So, you have a bunch of specialist and volatile 100% equities funds with relatively concentrated portfolios, and are comparing them against a fund that is more diversified and not 100% invested into equities and is likely to be less volatile over the longer term. So, you won't get the same results from all the funds.

In fact, when picking the other funds for your portfolio you deliberately selected funds that had gone up a lot in recent years, so it is not surprising that when you look at their charts they have gone up more than the one that you first picked, which is designed to give decent long term balanced growth at low cost rather than try to shoot the lights out.

If you no longer want decent long term balanced growth at low cost, and instead want to try to shoot for the stars at risk of experiencing a worse outcome or significantly greater volatility as your portfolio continues, then sure, dump the LifeStrategy fund and go with the others.