VCLTVanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Get income16y track recordRanked #24 of 1,622 in this goal

Seeks to track the performance of a market-weighted corporate bond index with a long-term dollar-weighted average maturity.

By Vanguard · Launched 2009

Annual Cost

0.03%

#190 of 5,562 · low cost

Fund Size

$9.2B

#289 of 5,562 · large

Dividend YieldGoal

5.53%

Track Record

16 years

#722 of 5,562 · established

Performance

Total-return NAV · USD

Growth of $10,000

$10,408+4.1%

Total-return NAV, USD. Net of fund fees, before tax.

Classification

How Beacon categorizes this fund

Asset class

Fixed income

Region

North america

Strategy

Index tracking

Index tracked

Bloomberg US 10+ Year Corporate Bond Index

What it actually holds

By weight

Concentration

Top 10 holdings = 3.1% of fund✓ well diversified

Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund

0.5%

Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc

0.4%

CVS Health Corp

0.3%

Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The

0.3%

Boeing Co/The

0.3%

Meta Platforms Inc

0.3%

Wells Fargo & Co

0.3%

AT&T Inc

0.3%

AT&T Inc

0.3%

Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc

0.2%

Asset allocation

Bonds

99.8%

Cash

0.2%

Risk profile

Last 12 months · Sharpe & Sortino need 3+ years

Volatility (1Y)

7.8%Low

Year-on-year price swings

Max drawdown

-34.3%Severe

Worst peak-to-trough loss

Sharpe (3Y)

0.13Below average

Sortino (3Y)

0.18Moderate downside risk

Bond profile

Avg maturity

8.7 years

Credit ratings

US Government

0.4%

AAA

2.2%

10.8%

45.0%

BBB

42.0%

Other

0.1%

Where to buy

Listing

Exchange: NASDAQ Global Select Market

Full fund details

Objective: Seeks to track the performance of a market-weighted corporate bond index with a long-term dollar-weighted average maturity.
Strategy: Employs an indexing approach to track the Bloomberg U.S. 10+ Year Corporate Bond Index, which includes investment-grade, fixed-rate, taxable debt securities with maturities greater than 10 years. Invests at least 80% of net assets in bonds that make up the Target Index.
Inception date: November 19, 2009
Fund family: Vanguard