Windsor became the highest returning, and subsequently largest mutual fund in existence during Neff's management, eventually closing to new investors for a period in the 1980s. Neff retired from Vanguard in 1995. During Neff's thirty-one-year tenure at Windsor (1964 to 1995), the fund returned 13.7% annually versus 10.6% for the S&P 500.
John Neff was born in 1931 in Wauseon, Ohio. He attended the University of Toledo and graduated summa cum laude in 1955.
He then worked at the National City Bank of Cleveland before attending business school at Case Western Reserve University, graduating in 1958.

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