Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund;Investor

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10.59

Change

+0.03 +0.28%

Dec 19, 2016

YTD return

1.79%

5 yr avg return

1.85%

Total net assets

6.09B

52 week low

52 week high

$10.55

$11.18

Yield

2.40%

Fees & Expenses

Front load

0.00%

Deferred load

0.00%

Max. redemption fee

0.00%

Total expense ratio

0.16%

12 b-1

0.02%

Turnover

84.00%

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Distributions

Income dividend

0.02

Dividend freq.

Daily

Capital gain (2015)

0.01

Capital gain (YTD)

n/a

Risk Measures

Alpha

0.24

Beta

-0.04

Standard deviation

0.93

R. squared

0.02

Min. Investment

Standard (taxable)

3000

IRA

3000

Mutual Fund Prospectuses

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Lipper Leader

Total Return: 3 Consistent Return: 2 Preservation: 4 Tax Efficiency: 3 Expense: 5

YTD Lipper Ranking: Quintile 4 (66th percentile)

Lipper Ranking & Performance

Fund return Category Index
(Barclay US Agg)		 % rank in category Quintile rank
YTD 1.79% 2.31% 2.50% 66% 4
1yr 1.47% 2.08% 2.17% 71% 4
3yr 2.52% 2.43% 2.79% 50% 3
5yr 1.85% 2.28% 2.43% 75% 4
10yr 4.08% 3.84% 4.27% 47% 3

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Fund Details

Category

Core Bond Funds

Fund family

VANGUARD INDEX FDS

Fund status

Open

Fund inception

December 11, 1986

Manager

Joshua C. Barrickman

Investment Policy

The Fund seeks to generate returns that track the performance of the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Float Adjusted Index, and will maintain a dollar-weighted average maturity consistent with that of the index. The Index measures investment-grade, taxable fixed income securities in the U.S.

Top Holdings

Company Symbol % of total net assets
Asset Backed Securities n/a 0.68
Fgn. Currency Denominated Bonds n/a 1.85
Government Agency Securities n/a 3.47
GNMA and Other Mtg Backed n/a 23.12
Corporate Notes/Bonds n/a 29.55
Treasury Notes/Bonds n/a 40.22
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