VCLTVanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares
Tracks the performance of the Bloomberg U.S. 10+ Year Corporate Bond Index.
By Vanguard · Launched 2009
Annual Cost
0.03%
#41 of 6,040 · low cost
Fund Size
$9.6B
#305 of 6,040 · large
Return (1Y)
-3.5%
Track Record
16 years
#718 of 6,040 · established
Performance
Total-return NAV · USDGrowth of $10,000
$9,465-5.3%
Total-return NAV, USD. Net of fund fees, before tax.
What's inside
How Beacon categorizes this fundAsset class
Fixed incomeRegion
North americaStrategy
Index tracking
Index tracked
Bloomberg US 10+ Year Corporate Bond Index
Holdings
By weightConcentration
Top 10 holdings = 3.4% of funddiversified
Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund
0.6%
United States Treasury Note/Bond
0.6%
Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc
0.4%
CVS Health Corp
0.3%
Boeing Co/The
0.3%
AT&T Inc
0.3%
Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The
0.2%
Wells Fargo & Co
0.2%
AT&T Inc
0.2%
Meta Platforms Inc
0.2%
Asset allocation
Bonds
99.4%
Cash
0.6%
Risk profile
Last 12 months · Sharpe & Sortino need 3+ yearsVolatility (1Y)
7.8%Low
Year-on-year price swings
Max drawdown
-34.3%Severe
Worst peak-to-trough loss
Sharpe (3Y)
0.07Below average
Sortino (3Y)
0.10Moderate downside risk
Bond profile
Avg maturity
8.4 years
Credit ratings
US Government
0.2%
AAA
1.7%
AA
12.2%
A
44.7%
BBB
41.4%
Other
0.0%
Listing
- Exchange
- NASDAQ Global Select Market
Full fund details
- Objective
- Tracks the performance of the Bloomberg U.S. 10+ Year Corporate Bond Index.
- Strategy
- Employs an indexing investment approach to track the Bloomberg U.S. 10+ Year Corporate Bond Index, holding U.S. dollar-denominated, investment-grade, fixed-rate, taxable debt securities with maturities greater than 10 years. Uses sampling to approximate the full Target Index in terms of key risk factors and maintains a long-term dollar-weighted average maturity.
- Inception date
- November 19, 2009
- Fund family
- Vanguard
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Data updated on 2026-09-18