A. Financial Planning magazine has an article that puts together a list of 20 of the best-performing passive funds over 10 years.
The average annual return for these 20 passive funds was 12.6%, while the S&P 500 posted a 7.6% annual gain during the same period, as measured by SPY, the biggest S&P 500 ETF. Over three years, the average return of these 20 funds was 13.1%; for SPY, it was 11.6%.