Let us leave aside those poor souls who find themselves positively bilious at the notion of a young, working class man
earning huge piles of money; they are peculiar creatures.
And as the Growth Fund of America's excellent record began to become common knowledge among mutual fund investors, it saw a
huge pile up in assets that made it difficult to outperform the S&P 500 and continue to maintain the excellent reputation that the fund had
earned over time.