It's okay if you didn't know that Vanguard has long offered a few actively managed funds. Some of them are actually pretty good. You might think that this is John Bogle's nod to the fact that not everyone will embrace passive investing. That may be true, but he also took the time to lay out some rules of buying actively managed funds for customers. Morningstar decided to apply Bogle's criteria to Vanguard's funds for fun. They found some good ones, which include some you might expect, notably Vanguard Capital Opportunity and Vanguard Primecap.
For more on this:
- Here's the Morningstar article