N-CSR 1 fixincfinal.htm FIXED INCOME ANNUAL REPORT

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM N-CSR

 

CERTIFIED SHAREHOLDER REPORT

OF

REGISTERED MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES

 

Investment Company Act file number: 811-2368

 

Name of Registrant: Vanguard Fixed Income Securities Funds

 

Address of Registrant:

P.O. Box 2600

Valley Forge, PA 19482

 

Name and address of agent for service:

Heidi Stam, Esquire

P.O. Box 876

Valley Forge, PA 19482

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (610) 669-1000

 

Date of fiscal year end: January 31

 

Date of reporting period: February 1, 2007–January 31, 2008

 

Item 1: Reports to Shareholders

 



 

 


>  The Vanguard U.S. Government Bond Funds produced strong returns as interest rates declined and prices rose across most sectors of the bond market.

>  The yield curve went from relatively flat to a more typical, upward-sloping shape during the fiscal year, with the yields of short-term bonds dropping more than those of longer-term bonds.

>  All five Vanguard U.S. Government Bond Funds outperformed the average returns of their peer groups for the year.

 

Contents

 

 

 

Your Fund’s Total Returns

1

Chairman’s Letter

2

Advisors’ Report

9

Short-Term Treasury Fund

14

Short-Term Federal Fund

27

Intermediate-Term Treasury Fund

40

GNMA Fund

53

Long-Term Treasury Fund

64

About Your Fund’s Expenses

78

Glossary

83

 

 

Please note: The opinions expressed in this report are just that—informed opinions. They should not be considered promises or advice. Also, please keep in mind that the information and opinions cover the period through the date on the cover of this report. Of course, the risks of investing in your fund are spelled out in the prospectus.

 

 


Your Fund’s Total Returns

 

Fiscal Year Ended January 31, 2008

 

 

 

Ticker

Total

 

Symbol

Returns

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Fund

 

 

Investor Shares

VFISX

9.8%

Admiral™ Shares1

VFIRX

10.0   

Lehman 1–5 Year U.S. Treasury Index

 

10.3   

Average Short Treasury Fund2

 

8.3   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vanguard Short-Term Federal Fund

 

 

Investor Shares

VSGBX

9.3%

Admiral Shares1

VSGDX

9.4   

Lehman 1–5 Year U.S. Government Index

 

9.9   

Average 1–5 Year Government Fund2

 

6.9   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Fund

 

 

Investor Shares

VFITX

13.7%

Admiral Shares1

VFIUX

13.9   

Lehman 5–10 Year U.S. Treasury Index

 

14.1   

Average General Treasury Fund2

 

11.9   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vanguard GNMA Fund

 

 

Investor Shares

VFIIX

8.6%

Admiral Shares1

VFIJX

8.7   

Lehman GNMA Index

 

8.8   

Average GNMA Fund2

 

8.1   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Fund

 

 

Investor Shares

VUSTX

13.1%

Admiral Shares1

VUSUX

13.3   

Lehman Long U.S. Treasury Index

 

13.6   

Average General Treasury Fund2

 

11.9   

 

 

 

1  A lower-cost class of shares available to many longtime shareholders and to those with significant investments in the fund.

2  Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.

 

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Chairman’s Letter

 

Dear Shareholder,

During the fiscal year ended January 31, 2008, interest rates decreased across the maturity spectrum, allowing bond prices to rise. The biggest yield declines occurred among short-term issues, driven by the Federal Reserve Board’s aggressive actions to spur liquidity during the second half of the fiscal year.

These dynamics were reflected in the performance of the Vanguard U.S. Government Bond Funds. For the funds’ Investor Shares, returns ranged from 8.6% for the GNMA Fund to 13.7% for the Intermediate-Term Treasury Fund.

Yields declined for all five funds. The largest decrease was in the Short-Term Treasury Fund, whose yield dropped 2.24 percentage points to 2.49%; the smallest was in the GNMA Fund, whose yield decreased 0.12 percentage point to 4.97%. Yields and returns were slightly higher for the funds’ Admiral Shares. The yield of each fund’s Investor Shares on January 31, as well as the components of each fund’s 12-month total return, appear in the table on page 4. The Fund Profile pages in this report show yields for both share classes of each fund.

Bond returns grew stronger as Fed lowered rates

During the first half of the fiscal year, a stronger U.S. economy made investors more willing to take on risk to earn higher yields; spreads thus narrowed between the yields of U.S. Treasury securities and those of lower-quality issues. But as the subprime lending problems unraveled further in summer, investors flocked to higher-quality government and corporate bonds. This drove Treasury prices higher and yields lower, widening the spread between Treasury yields and those of riskier bonds.

The Federal Reserve Board responded to the credit market turmoil and deteriorating economic outlook with aggressive reductions in its target for the federal funds rate. The Fed cut the rate five times during the fiscal year (twice in January), ending the period at 3.0%, the lowest rate since May 2005.

Lower interest rates depressed bond yields, but pushed prices higher. The broad taxable bond market returned 8.8% for the fiscal year. Tax-exempt municipal bonds returned 4.9%.

 

Stocks gained in the first half but faltered in the second

The broad U.S. stock market returned –2.7% for the 12 months ended January 31, reflecting a volatile year punctuated by sharp declines for equities. Gains in the first half of the fiscal period were largely relinquished in midsummer and fall as repercussions from the subprime mortgage debacle began to be felt in the broader U.S. economy. The stock market’s retreat accelerated in January amid tightening global credit markets, a weakening U.S. dollar, and widening fears of a U.S. recession.

 

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Market Barometer

 

 

 

 

Average Annual Total Returns

 

Periods Ended January 31, 2008

 

One Year

Three Years

Five Years

Bonds

 

 

 

Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (Broad taxable market)

8.8%

4.9%

4.8%

Lehman Municipal Bond Index

4.9   

4.0   

4.6   

Citigroup 3-Month Treasury Bill Index

4.6   

4.2   

3.0   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stocks

 

 

 

Russell 1000 Index (Large-caps)

–2.4%

7.8%

12.6%

Russell 2000 Index (Small-caps)

–9.8   

5.8   

15.3   

Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index (Entire market)

–2.7   

7.9   

13.2   

MSCI All Country World Index ex USA (International)

5.4   

17.0   

22.9   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CPI

 

 

 

Consumer Price Index

4.3%

3.4%

3.0%

 

Large-capitalization stocks fared best in these unsettled conditions, outperforming small-caps for the year; meanwhile, growth stocks outpaced their value-oriented counterparts.

International stocks outperformed U.S. stocks for the sixth straight year, largely owing to exchange-rate gains produced by the weak U.S. dollar. Emerging markets and developed economies in Europe and Asia posted strong performances earlier in the fiscal year, but slumped after November as a result of increased concern about a U.S.-led downturn.

Subprime loan crisis, flight to quality boost government bonds

At the start of the U.S. Government Bond Funds’ fiscal year, there was little difference between the yields of Treasury bonds and other fixed income securities, reflecting investors’ willingness to take on greater levels of risk to earn higher yields. As the year progressed, however, that sentiment changed quickly as investors grew worried about subprime loan defaults and sought the relative safety of higher-quality corporate and government-backed bonds.

At the same time, the Federal Reserve Board repeatedly attempted to prevent a recession by lowering its target for the federal funds rate. The combination of a growing aversion to risk and aggressive Fed action to reverse a liquidity crunch sparked a rally in government-backed bonds during the latter half of the funds’ fiscal year. All five funds turned in their best total return performance in five years.

 

Yields and Returns

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEC 30-Day Yields

 

Components of Total Returns

 

on January 31,

 

Fiscal Year Ended January 31, 2008

Bond Fund (Investor Shares)

2007

2008

 

Capital

Income

Total

Short-Term Treasury

4.73%

2.49%

 

5.3%

4.5%

9.8%

Short-Term Federal

4.87   

3.40   

 

4.5   

4.8   

9.3   

Intermediate-Term Treasury

4.67   

3.06   

 

8.7   

5.0   

13.7   

GNMA

5.09   

4.97   

 

3.1   

5.5   

8.6   

Long-Term Treasury

4.79   

4.03   

 

7.8   

5.3   

13.1   

 

 

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As interest rates fell, bond prices rallied across the maturity spectrum. The Short-Term Treasury Fund’s 9.8% return for Investor Shares reflected a healthy income return of 4.5% and a 5.3% capital return. The Short-Term Federal Fund did nearly as well: a 9.3% return for Investor Shares. Both funds outperformed their peer-group averages.

The Intermediate-Term Treasury Fund’s Investor Shares returned 13.7%, the highest total return of the five funds, with the help of an 8.7% rise in principal resulting from the stronger demand for intermediate-term Treasury securities.

 

Because demand for longer-term bonds didn’t increase as dramatically, the Long-Term Treasury Fund’s capital return wasn’t quite as high (7.8% for Investor Shares), but its total return was still a significant 13.1%.

The GNMA Fund’s total return of 8.6% for Investor Shares was the lowest of the group, given the capital return of just 3.1%. Worries about growing mortgage default rates restrained the price appreciation of mortgage-backed securities compared with the rising demand for U.S. Treasury securities.

 

Total Returns

 

Ten Years Ended January 31, 2008

 

 

Average

Bond Fund (Investor Shares)

Annual Return

Short-Term Treasury

5.1%

Lehman 1–5 Year U.S. Treasury Index

5.2   

Average Short Treasury Fund1

4.3   

Short-Term Federal

5.2%

Lehman 1–5 Year U.S. Government Index

5.3   

Average 1–5 Year Government Fund1

4.3   

Intermediate-Term Treasury

6.4%

Lehman 5–10 Year U.S. Treasury Index

6.4   

Average General Treasury Fund1

5.8   

GNMA

5.8%

Lehman GNMA Index

5.9   

Average GNMA Fund1

5.0   

Long-Term Treasury

7.0%

Lehman Long U.S. Treasury Index

7.2   

Average General Treasury Fund1

5.8   

The figures shown represent past performance, which is not a guarantee of future results. (Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data cited. For performance data current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at www.vanguard.com/performance.) Note, too, that both investment returns and principal value can fluctuate widely, so an investor’s shares, when sold, could be worth more or less than their original cost.

1  Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.

 

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The funds continue to outperform their peers over the long term

Over the long term—when true financial stewardship becomes more evident—the Vanguard U.S. Government Bond Funds have performed better than the average returns of their competitors. The funds have also kept pace with the returns of their market benchmarks, which are unmanaged indexes that incur no operating costs.

This impressive ten-year record of the funds is a credit to the talent and discipline of the funds’ advisors—Vanguard Fixed Income Group, which oversees the three Treasury Funds and the Short-Term Federal Fund, and Wellington Management Company, LLP, which manages the GNMA Fund.

 

The advisors’ efforts are helped by Vanguard’s consistently low costs, which allow a higher percentage of each fund’s returns to flow to shareholders. These low costs have another, perhaps underappreciated, benefit: The advisors don’t have to take on added risk in reaching for higher yields. Government-issued bonds typically have little credit risk, but the advisors still must evaluate tradeoffs between potential return and volatility as they make portfolio-management decisions. Historically low expenses have allowed the funds to take a more conservative stance and still produce enviable results.

The table on page 5 compares each fund’s performance over the past ten-year period with the performance of market and competitor benchmarks.

 

Expense Ratios1

 

 

 

Your fund compared with its peer group

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investor

Admiral

Peer

Bond Fund

Shares

Shares

Group

Short-Term Treasury

0.22%

0.10%

0.51%

Short-Term Federal

0.20   

0.10   

0.96   

Intermediate-Term Treasury

0.26   

0.10   

0.64   

GNMA

0.21   

0.11   

1.04   

Long-Term Treasury

0.26   

0.10   

0.64   

 

 

 

1  Fund expense ratios reflect the 12 months ended January 31, 2008. Peer groups are: for the Short-Term Treasury Fund, the Average Short Treasury Fund; for the Short-Term Federal Fund, the Average 1–5 Year Government Fund; for the Intermediate-Term Treasury Fund, the Average General Treasury Fund; for the GNMA Fund, the Average GNMA Fund; for the Long-Term Treasury Fund, the Average General Treasury Fund. Peer-group expense ratios are derived from data provided by Lipper Inc. and capture information through year-end 2007.

 

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A strong year for bonds is no reason to change your long-term strategy

The past fiscal year saw nervous investors flock to U.S. Treasury securities as a haven from the most severe credit squeeze in years. The resulting increase in bond prices boosted returns for the Vanguard U.S. Government Bond Funds. With recession worries dominating the financial headlines, it might be tempting for investors in government-backed bonds to count on a continued bull market. After all, pessimism about the economy and the stock market often generates expectations of a stronger demand for bonds.

But making bets on the near-term direction of interest rates by shifting more money into bond funds with recent strong returns is a risky proposition. What seems to be a sure thing one month can look misguided the next. As always, we encourage our clients to keep their eyes on long-term goals, not short-term trends. Each of the Vanguard U.S. Government Bond Funds invests in a distinct segment of the government securities market, and each is suited to fill a specific role. Whether bond prices are rising or falling, it’s helpful to remember the role your particular fund plays in your portfolio and in your overall investment strategy.

 

As I close this report to you, it’s my pleasure to introduce the funds’ new president, F. William McNabb III. Bill is a man of great character and integrity who is intimately familiar with all aspects of Vanguard—from how we serve our clients to how we invest for our clients.

Bill and I have worked together very closely for more than two decades. I’m thrilled that the funds’ board elected him president, effective March 1, and designated him as my successor as chief executive officer, a role he will assume within a year, after an orderly transition. Bill and the rest of our team will serve you and our other clients extremely well in the years ahead.

Thank you for entrusting your assets to Vanguard.

Sincerely,

 


 

John J. Brennan

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

February 22, 2008

 

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Your Fund’s Performance at a Glance

January 31, 2007–January 31, 2008

 

 

 

Distributions Per Share

 

Starting

Ending

Income

Capital

Bond Fund

Share Price

Share Price

Dividends

Gains

Short-Term Treasury

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$10.26

$10.80

$0.444

$0.000

Admiral Shares

10.26

10.80

0.457

0.000

Short-Term Federal

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$10.26

$10.72

$0.465

$0.000

Admiral Shares

10.26

10.72

0.475

0.000

Intermediate-Term Treasury

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$10.69

$11.62

$0.491

$0.000

Admiral Shares

10.69

11.62

0.509

0.000

GNMA

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$10.16

$10.47

$0.533

$0.000

Admiral Shares

10.16

10.47

0.543

0.000

Long-Term Treasury

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$10.99

$11.76

$0.533

$0.085

Admiral Shares

10.99

11.76

0.551

0.085

 

 

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Advisors’ Report

For the Short-, Intermediate-, and Long-Term Treasury Funds; and the Short-Term Federal Fund

During the fiscal year ended January 31, 2008, the Vanguard U.S. Government Bond Funds produced strong returns, ranging from 9.3% for the Short-Term Federal Fund Investor Shares to 13.9% for the Intermediate-Term Treasury Fund Admiral Shares. All the funds outperformed the average returns of their peers during the period.

The investment environment

The U.S. economy slowed dramatically in the latter half of the fiscal year as a housing recession intensified problems among subprime mortgage-loan lenders—problems that first erupted in midsummer and continued to rattle the financial markets for the remainder of the period. Meanwhile, stocks sagged, crude oil prices hovered near historic highs, and the U.S. dollar lost ground against other major currencies.

These economic headwinds triggered a “flight to quality” that drove prices of U.S. Treasury bonds sharply higher, and their yields lower. The Treasury yield curve had remained relatively flat throughout the first half of the funds’ fiscal year. As economic conditions began to erode and problems arose with structured finance backed by subprime assets, Treasury security prices rallied in anticipation of a shift in Fed policy that would lower short-term interest rates.

 

Yields of U.S. Treasury Bonds

 

 

 

January 31,

January 31,

Maturity

2007

2008

2 years

4.93%

2.10%

3 years

4.86   

2.20   

5 years

4.82   

2.76   

10 years

4.82   

3.60   

30 years

4.92   

4.32   

 

 

 

 

Source: Vanguard.

 

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Declines in Treasury yields were steepest at the short end of the maturity spectrum. The yield of the 2-year Treasury note, which started the fiscal year at 4.93%, had dropped more than 2.75 percentage points, to 2.10%, by the end of the period. The yield of the 10-year Treasury bond fell from 4.82% at the end of January 2007 to 3.60% 12 months later.

Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve Board aggressively moved to ease a credit squeeze and prevent a recession by cutting its target for the federal funds rate on five separate occasions, including an unprecedented 1.25 percentage points within a matter of two weeks in January. At the end of the funds’ fiscal year, the fed funds target rate had moved from 5.25% to 3.00%.

The management of the funds

For the fiscal year, the Short-Term Treasury Fund returned 9.8% for Investor Shares, a performance that came close to matching its Lehman benchmark. We maintained relatively even exposure to securities of varying maturities across the short-term segment of the market (1 to 5 years) through most of the period. We did reduce our position in federal agency securities and used the proceeds to invest in 2-year Treasuries. This activity overweighted the portfolio modestly in shorter-term securities and benefited the fund’s performance, given the strength in the short-term Treasury market as the year progressed.

The Intermediate-Term Treasury Fund was the best performer in the group, returning 13.7% for Investor Shares. The 5- to 10-year sector of the Treasury yield curve remained flat during the first half of the period, before reverting to a more typical shape by the end of the fiscal year. By winter, prices had risen for the entire intermediate-term sector, but especially among 5-year notes. We favored maturities in the 6- to 7-year period, underweighting investments in 5- and 10-year Treasuries.

In the Long-Term Treasury Fund, we reduced our position in federal agency securities as the spread between their yields and those of Treasuries widened in the second half of 2007. We favored the 15- to 20-year maturity range of the long-term Treasury yield curve, which benefited the fund’s performance as prices rose to a greater degree in that segment of the long-term market. However, the gains from this strategy were offset somewhat by the fund’s average duration, which was shorter than that of its benchmark index. (Duration is a measure of a bond fund’s price sensitivity to changing interest rates. The shorter a fund’s duration, the less sensitive it is to changes in rates.) The fund’s total return of 13.1% for Investor Shares ended up coming close to the benchmark index and outdistanced its peer group average by more than a percentage point.

We kept the Short-Term Federal Fund’s average duration close to benchmark levels as uncertainty and risk grew in the market and investors favored Treasuries. We overweighted shorter-maturity bonds and underweighted longer-maturity bonds within the short-term sector in order to benefit from the steepening of the yield curve. We also added exposure to agency bonds as the yield spread relative to Treasuries widened later in the year, giving the fund somewhat higher yields. The fund returned 9.3% for Investor Shares, which closely tracked its Lehman benchmark and easily outperformed its peer group average.

Our investment outlook

Economic activity continues to be hampered by the ongoing housing market downturn, and consumer spending on discretionary items has cooled markedly in the wake of rapid rises in energy and food prices. Although economic growth has been helped by solid global demand for U.S. exports and capital spending, expectations for real GDP growth in 2008 continue to recede as the nation’s housing recession continues and the attendant “credit crunch” increases financing costs for certain businesses and households.

Recent speeches by leading Federal Reserve officials point to further reductions in short-term interest rates, a view reflected in the fixed income futures markets. Meanwhile, the Federal

 

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Reserve has reduced its discount rate more aggressively and, in conjunction with other central banks, initiated a Temporary Auction Facility (TAF) to provide additional funds to interested depository institutions.

 

However, the Fed’s room to maneuver may be limited by inflation that accelerated in late 2007 and early 2008 as food and energy prices remain high. Through January 2008, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is up 4.3% over the past 12 months. While pipeline inflationary pressures remain elevated, Federal Reserve officials have stressed that long-run inflation expectations, as reflected in the difference between nominal and inflation-adjusted interest rates, have remained “well contained.” Consequently, expectations for core CPI inflation going forward are for a modest and gradual deceleration toward 2% in the face of limited economic growth.

Looking forward, the portfolios of the three Treasury funds are cautiously positioned with average durations just a bit shorter than their benchmarks. The Short-Term Federal Fund’s average maturity is neutral relative to its benchmark as we continue to look for agency or mortgage-backed securities with high credit ratings that were hit unnecessarily hard by the recent flight to Treasuries.

David R. Glocke, Principal

Ronald M. Reardon, Principal

Vanguard Fixed Income Group

February 21, 2008

 

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For the GNMA Fund

For the fiscal year ended January 31, Vanguard GNMA Fund returned 8.6% for Investor Shares and 8.7% for Admiral Shares. The fund outperformed the average return of competing GNMA funds and nearly matched the result of its benchmark index.

The investment environment

Interest rates plummeted over the last 12 months. One year ago, the Treasury yield curve was pretty flat, at 5% across all maturities. Today, short-term Treasury rates are at 2%, while long yields, which fell less dramatically, are at 4.3%. Outside of Treasuries, bond prices showed muted gains (and even some noteworthy declines) as yield spreads widened. Economic bears are in favor, with some sectors of the bond market priced for a deep and prolonged recession.

A year ago, investors thought that “high quality” mortgage securities were fairly uniform and that all had high credit ratings, sufficient liquidity, and rational underwriting criteria. Agency-backed mortgages, which were deemed too boring, lost market share over the last few years, given restrictive underwriting requirements compared with newer, more aggressive financing options. With available liquidity, which was rare in this market environment, agency-backed mortgages were by far the best performers among mortgages, as their prices rallied. Agency mortgage rates converged on 5% for 30-year terms, creating new refinancing opportunities for homeowners with good credit.

 

With the full backing of the U.S. government, GNMAs generated high single-digit returns, far above those for cash, but below the double-digit returns of Treasuries. At the end of the fiscal year, GNMA market yields are about 5%; compared with cash rates and comparable-duration Treasury yields of only 3%, both the income advantage and total return opportunity are substantial and attractive. In a wide variety of outcomes, GNMAs are set to perform well over the next 12 months.

The fund’s successes

The Fund continues to find a comforting harbor from the stormy seas by concentrating on full-faith GNMAs. Fund performance has benefited from this bias, as well as from all the work done refining holdings to reflect better prospective prepayment characteristics. We continue to describe our careful attention to identifying discount GNMAs with faster underlying housing turnover and premiums with less refinancing risk as a very low-cost insurance policy against a dramatic change in interest rates. In fact, we anticipate that with greater refinancings immediately ahead, this strategy will serve our shareholders well.

The fund’s shortfalls

We attempted to increase our duration modestly and move into more discount coupons when mortgage rates approached 6%, but we never quite reached our targeted levels. We could have captured more capital gains if we had been able to lengthen duration, given the acute market rally that ensued.

 

The fund’s positioning

Too many investors are running scared, worried about a terrible economic downturn and happy to own low-yielding Treasuries until fears subside. A 5-year Treasury note delivered a great 14% total return over the last year, but that’s in the past. If you were to purchase a new 5-year Treasury note this year, given a 2.75% yield-to-maturity and assuming rates do not change, it will take the full five years to deliver a 14% return. After inflation, that will leave very little return at best. Therefore, we are hesitant to extend duration and play for more rate declines from today’s levels.

 

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In an easy fiscal and monetary policy environment, we are very excited about the outlook for GNMAs relative to government securities. Their ultimate credit quality buffers us from violent housing market trends and their high yield spread generates a competitive income with a reasonable chance of yield spread tightening should rates reverse course and head higher. A return to growth in the issuance of GNMAs will create new opportunities for us. In the short term, an acceleration in prepayments may cause some negative headlines for the market, but our careful mortgage pool selection should give us the ability to move from a position of strength to exploit swings in sentiment, to the GNMA Fund’s advantage.

Thomas L. Pappas, CFA, Senior Vice

President and Partner

Michael F. Garrett, Vice President

Wellington Management Company, LLP

February 21, 2008

 

 

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Short-Term Treasury Fund

 

 

Short-Term Treasury Fund

 

Fund Profile

As of January 31, 2008

 

Financial Attributes

 

 

Comparative

Broad

 

Fund

Index1

Index2

Number of Issues

36

75

9,133

Yield

 

Investor Shares

2.5%

 

 

Admiral Shares

2.6%

 

 

Yield to Maturity

2.4%3

2.3%

4.5%

Average Coupon

4.4%

4.3%

5.4%

Average Effective

 

 

 

Maturity

2.3 years

2.6 years

6.8 years

Average Quality4

Aaa

Aaa

Aa1

Average Duration

2.1 years

2.4 years

4.2 years

Expense Ratio

 

Investor Shares

0.22%

 

 

Admiral Shares

0.10%

 

 

Short-Term Reserves

1.6%

 

Volatility Measures5

 

 

Fund Versus

Fund Versus

 

Comparative Index1

Broad Index2

R-Squared

0.99

0.72

Beta

0.90

0.58

 

Sector Diversification6 (% of portfolio)

 

 

 

Government Mortgage-Backed

0.1%

Treasury/Agency

98.3   

Short-Term Reserves

1.6   

 

Distribution by Maturity (% of portfolio)

 

 

 

Under 1 Year

2.7%

1–3 Years

76.1   

3–5 Years

20.2   

Over 5 Years

1.0   

 

Distribution by Credit Quality4 (% of portfolio)

 

 

Aaa

100%

 

 

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Short-Term Treasury Fund

 

Investment Focus

 


 

 

1  Lehman 1–5 Year U.S. Treasury Index.

2  Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.

3  Before expenses.

4  Moody’s Investors Service.

5  For an explanation of R-squared, beta, and other terms used here, see the Glossary on pages 83 and 84.

6  The agency and mortgage-backed securities may include issues from government-sponsored enterprises; such issues are not backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.

 

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Short-Term Treasury Fund

 

Performance Summary

All of the returns in this report represent past performance, which is not a guarantee of future results that may be achieved by the fund. (Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data cited. For performance data current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at www.vanguard.com/performance.) Note, too, that both investment returns and principal value can fluctuate widely, so an investor’s shares, when sold, could be worth more or less than their original cost. The returns shown do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or on the sale of fund shares.

Cumulative Performance: January 31, 1998–January 31, 2008

Initial Investment of $10,000

 


 

 

Average Annual Total Returns

Final Value

 

Periods Ended January 31, 2008

of a $10,000

 

One Year

Five Years

Ten Years

Investment

Short-Term Treasury Fund Investor Shares1

9.84%

3.78%

5.12%

$16,481

Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index

8.81   

4.76   

6.01   

17,934

Lehman 1–5 Year U.S. Treasury Index

10.35   

3.77   

5.19   

16,582

Average Short Treasury Fund2

8.33   

3.13   

4.33   

15,284

 

 

 

 

 

Final Value

 

 

 

Since

of a $100,000

 

One Year

Five Years

Inception3

Investment

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury

Fund Admiral Shares

9.98%

3.92%

4.89%

$139,427

Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index

8.81   

4.76   

5.87   

148,744

Lehman 1–5 Year U.S. Treasury Index

10.35   

3.77   

4.78   

138,466

 

 

 

1  Total returns do not include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

2  Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.

3  Performance for the fund’s Admiral Shares and comparative standards is calculated since the Admiral Shares’ inception: February 13, 2001.

 

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Short-Term Treasury Fund

 

Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): January 31, 1998–January 31, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares

Lehman1

Fiscal

Capital

Income

Total

Total

Year

Return

Return

Return

Return

1999

1.2%

5.5%

6.7%

6.9%

2000

–4.0   

5.2   

1.2   

1.3   

2001

4.1   

6.3   

10.4   

10.5   

2002

1.9   

5.0   

6.9   

7.4   

2003

3.4   

4.0   

7.4   

7.2   

2004

0.2   

2.5   

2.7   

2.6   

2005

–1.8   

2.7   

0.9   

1.0   

2006

–1.3   

3.2   

1.9   

1.5   

2007

–0.5   

4.3   

3.8   

3.8   

2008

5.3   

4.5   

9.8   

10.3   

 

Average Annual Total Returns: Periods Ended December 31, 2007

This table presents average annual total returns through the latest calendar quarter—rather than through the end of the fiscal period. Securities and Exchange Commission rules require that we provide this information.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ten Years

 

Inception Date

One Year

Five Years

Capital

Income

Total

Investor Shares2

10/28/1991

7.89%

3.34%

0.70%

4.33%

5.03%

Admiral Shares

2/13/2001

8.02   

3.48   

0.783   

3.873   

4.653   

 

 

 

1  Lehman 1–5 Year U.S. Treasury Index.

2  Total returns do not include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

3  Return since inception.

Note: See Financial Highlights tables on pages 21 and 22 for dividend and capital gains information.

 

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Short-Term Treasury Fund

 

Financial Statements

Statement of Net Assets

As of January 31, 2008

The fund provides a complete list of its holdings four times in each fiscal year, at the quarter-ends. For the second and fourth fiscal quarters, the lists appear in the fund’s semiannual and annual reports to shareholders. For the first and third fiscal quarters, the fund files the lists with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form N-Q. Shareholders can look up the fund’s Forms N-Q on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Forms N-Q may also be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room (see the back cover of this report for further information).

 

 

 

 

 

Face

Market

 

 

 

Maturity

Amount

Value

 

 

Coupon

Date

($000)

($000)

U.S. Government and Agency Obligations (97.3%)

 

 

 

 

U.S. Government Securities (91.0%)

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.875%

10/31/08

50,000

50,976

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.500%

2/15/09

45,000

46,062

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.750%

2/28/09

55,000

56,495

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.500%

4/30/09

333,000

342,520

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.875%

5/15/09

211,000

218,187

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.875%

5/31/09

210,000

217,415

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.875%

8/15/09

260,000

270,603

 

U.S. Treasury Note

3.125%

11/30/09

395,000

401,727

 

U.S. Treasury Note

3.250%

12/31/09

300,000

306,093

1

U.S. Treasury Note

3.500%

2/15/10

440,000

451,686

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.750%

2/15/10

400,000

420,564

 

U.S. Treasury Note

6.500%

2/15/10

50,000

54,281

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.000%

4/15/10

200,000

207,812

 

U.S. Treasury Note

3.875%

9/15/10

15,000

15,635

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.375%

12/15/10

85,000

90,020

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.875%

4/30/11

30,500

32,873

 

U.S. Treasury Note

5.125%

6/30/11

45,000

48,966

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.875%

7/31/11

100,000

108,094

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.625%

10/31/11

70,200

75,454

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.500%

11/30/11

60,000

64,275

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.625%

2/29/12

62,000

66,786

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.500%

3/31/12

122,000

130,883

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.500%

4/30/12

102,000

109,443

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.875%

6/30/12

45,000

48,994

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.625%

7/31/12

135,000

145,673

 

 

 

 

 

3,981,517

Agency Bonds and Notes (6.2%)

 

 

 

 

2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

5.125%

8/23/10

86,500

91,538

2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

6.000%

6/15/11

20,000

21,962

2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

7.250%

1/15/10

20,000

21,700

3

Overseas Private Investment Corp.

 

 

 

 

 

(U.S. Government Guaranteed)

7.450%

12/15/10

8,182

8,755

 

Private Export Funding Corp.

6.670%

9/15/09

17,000

18,014

 

Private Export Funding Corp.

7.200%

1/15/10

7,100

7,703

 

Private Export Funding Corp.

7.250%

6/15/10

64,080

70,714

 

Private Export Funding Corp.

6.070%

4/30/11

29,000

31,901

 

 

 

 

 

272,287

Mortgage-Backed Securities (0.1%)

 

 

 

 

2,3 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

5.500%

4/1/16–5/1/16

890

919

 

 

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Short-Term Treasury Fund

 

 

2,3 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

7.000%

9/1/15–1/1/16

645

678

2,3 Federal National Mortgage Assn.

7.000%

11/1/15–3/1/16

1,696

1,783

 

 

 

 

3,380

Total U.S. Government and Agency Obligations (Cost $4,134,644)

 

4,257,184

Temporary Cash Investment (1.6%)

 

 

 

 

Repurchase Agreement

 

 

 

 

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

 

 

 

 

(Dated 1/31/08, Repurchase Value $68,507,000,

 

 

 

 

collateralized by Federal National

 

 

 

 

Mortgage Assn.5.400%, 2/1/08, Federal

 

 

 

 

Home Loan Bank 5.125%, 9/10/10)

 

 

 

 

(Cost $68,501)

2.900%

2/1/08

68,501

68,501

Total Investments (98.9%) (Cost $4,203,145)

 

 

 

4,325,685

Other Assets and Liabilities (1.1%)

 

 

 

 

Other Assets—Note B

 

 

 

64,362

Liabilities

 

 

 

(15,794)

 

 

 

 

48,568

Net Assets (100%)

 

 

 

4,374,253

 

At January 31, 2008, net assets consisted of:4

 

 

Amount

 

($000)

Paid-in Capital

4,246,221

Undistributed Net Investment Income

Accumulated Net Realized Gains

4,494

Unrealized Appreciation

 

Investment Securities

122,540

Futures Contracts

998

Net Assets

4,374,253

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares—Net Assets

 

Applicable to 158,044,873 outstanding $.001 par value

 

shares of beneficial interest (unlimited authorization)

1,707,213

Net Asset Value Per Share—Investor Shares

$10.80

 

 

 

 

Admiral Shares—Net Assets

 

Applicable to 246,900,590 outstanding $.001 par value

 

shares of beneficial interest (unlimited authorization)

2,667,040

Net Asset Value Per Share—Admiral Shares

$10.80

 

 

 

 

 

•  See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements.

1  Securities with a value of $2,566,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open futures contracts.

2  The issuer operates under a congressional charter; its securities are neither issued nor guaranteed by the U.S. government. If needed, access to additional funding from the U.S. Treasury (beyond the issuer’s line of credit) would require congressional action.

3  The average or expected maturity is shorter than the final maturity shown due to the possibility of interim principal payments and prepayments or the possibility of the issue being called.

4  See Note C in Notes to Financial Statements for the tax-basis components of net assets.

 

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Short-Term Treasury Fund

 

Statement of Operations

 

 

Year Ended

 

January 31, 2008

 

($000)

Investment Income

 

Income

 

Interest

167,876

Total Income

167,876

Expenses

 

The Vanguard Group—Note B

 

Investment Advisory Services

322

Management and Administrative

 

Investor Shares

2,500

Admiral Shares

1,399

Marketing and Distribution

 

Investor Shares

364

Admiral Shares

596

Custodian Fees

50

Auditing Fees

28

Shareholders’ Reports

 

Investor Shares

80

Admiral Shares

8

Trustees’ Fees and Expenses

4

Total Expenses

5,351

Net Investment Income

162,525

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

 

Investment Securities Sold

65,296

Futures Contracts

(4,235)

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

61,061

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

 

Investment Securities

140,926

Futures Contracts

1,017

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

141,943

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

365,529

 

 

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Short-Term Treasury Fund

 

Statement of Changes in Net Assets

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

 

2008

2007

 

($000)

($000)

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

 

Operations

 

 

Net Investment Income

162,525

147,307

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

61,061

(25,517)

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

141,943

9,052

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

365,529

130,842

Distributions

 

 

Net Investment Income

 

 

Investor Shares

(60,646)

(56,583)

Admiral Shares

(101,879)

(90,724)

Realized Capital Gain

 

 

Investor Shares

Admiral Shares

Total Distributions

(162,525)

(147,307)

Capital Share Transactions—Note E

 

 

Investor Shares

301,884

(34,099)

Admiral Shares

361,662

225,518

Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions

663,546

191,419

Total Increase (Decrease)

866,550

174,954

Net Assets

 

 

Beginning of Period

3,507,703

3,332,749

End of Period

4,374,253

3,507,703

 

 

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Short-Term Treasury Fund

 

Financial Highlights

 

Investor Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Period

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period

$10.26

$10.31

$10.45

$10.64

$10.79

Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net Investment Income

.444

.436

.331

.279

.271

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

 

 

 

 

 

on Investments

.540

(.050)

(.140)

(.190)

.020

Total from Investment Operations

.984

.386

.191

.089

.291

Distributions

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends from Net Investment Income

(.444)

(.436)

(.331)

(.279)

(.271)

Distributions from Realized Capital Gains

(.170)

Total Distributions

(.444)

(.436)

(.331)

(.279)

(.441)

Net Asset Value, End of Period

$10.80

$10.26

$10.31

$10.45

$10.64

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Return1

9.84%

3.82%

1.86%

0.85%

2.74%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ratios/Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net Assets, End of Period (Millions)

$1,707

$1,328

$1,369

$1,854

$2,028

Ratio of Total Expenses to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

0.22%

0.26%

0.26%

0.24%

0.26%

Ratio of Net Investment Income to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

4.26%

4.24%

3.19%

2.65%

2.52%

Portfolio Turnover Rate

120%

114%

93%

108%

125%

 

 

 

1  Total returns do not include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

 

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Short-Term Treasury Fund

 

Admiral Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Period

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period

$10.26

$10.31

$10.45

$10.64

$10.79

Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net Investment Income

.457

.452

.348

.292

.285

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

 

 

 

 

 

on Investments

.540

(.050)

(.140)

(.190)

.020

Total from Investment Operations

.997

.402

.208

.102

.305

Distributions

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends from Net Investment Income

(.457)

(.452)

(.348)

(.292)

(.285)

Distributions from Realized Capital Gains

(.170)

Total Distributions

(.457)

(.452)

(.348)

(.292)

(.455)

Net Asset Value, End of Period

$10.80

$10.26

$10.31

$10.45

$10.64

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Return

9.98%

3.98%

2.02%

0.97%

2.88%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ratios/Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net Assets, End of Period (Millions)

$2,667

$2,179

$1,964

$1,605

$1,657

Ratio of Total Expenses to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

0.10%

0.10%

0.10%

0.12%

0.13%

Ratio of Net Investment Income to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

4.38%

4.40%

3.35%

2.77%

2.65%

Portfolio Turnover Rate

120%

114%

93%

108%

125%

 

 

 

See accompanying Notes, which are an integral part of the Financial Statements.

 

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Short-Term Treasury Fund

 

Notes to Financial Statements

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The fund files reports with the SEC under the company name Vanguard Fixed Income Securities Funds. The fund offers two classes of shares, Investor Shares and Admiral Shares. Investor Shares are available to any investor who meets the fund’s minimum purchase requirements. Admiral Shares are designed for investors who meet certain administrative, service, tenure, and account-size criteria.

A. The following significant accounting policies conform to generally accepted accounting principles for U.S. mutual funds. The fund consistently follows such policies in preparing its financial statements.

1. Security Valuation: Bonds, and temporary cash investments acquired over 60 days to maturity, are valued using the latest bid prices or using valuations based on a matrix system (which considers such factors as security prices, yields, maturities, and ratings), both as furnished by independent pricing services. Other temporary cash investments are valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value. Securities for which market quotations are not readily available, or whose values have been materially affected by events occurring before the fund’s pricing time but after the close of the securities’ primary markets, are valued by methods deemed by the board of trustees to represent fair value.

2. Futures Contracts: The fund uses futures contracts to invest in fixed income asset classes with greater efficiency and lower cost than is possible through direct investment, to add value when these instruments are attractively priced, or to adjust sensitivity to changes in interest rates. The primary risks associated with the use of futures contracts are imperfect correlation between changes in market values of bonds held by the fund and the prices of futures contracts, and the possibility of an illiquid market.

Futures contracts are valued based upon their quoted daily settlement prices. The aggregate principal amounts of the contracts are not recorded in the Statement of Net Assets. Fluctuations in the value of the contracts are recorded in the Statement of Net Assets as an asset (liability) and in the Statement of Operations as unrealized appreciation (depreciation) until the contracts are closed, when they are recorded as realized futures gains (losses).

3. Repurchase Agreements: The fund may invest in repurchase agreements. Securities pledged as collateral for repurchase agreements are held by a custodian bank until the agreements mature. Each agreement requires that the market value of the collateral be sufficient to cover payments of interest and principal; however, in the event of default or bankruptcy by the other party to the agreement, retention of the collateral may be subject to legal proceedings.

4. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Accordingly, no provision for federal income taxes is required in the financial statements.

5. Distributions: Distributions from net investment income are declared daily and paid on the first business day of the following month. Annual distributions from realized capital gains, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date.

6. Other: Interest income is accrued daily. Premiums and discounts on debt securities purchased are amortized and accreted, respectively, to interest income over the lives of the respective securities. Security transactions are accounted for on the date securities are bought or sold. Costs used to determine realized gains (losses) on the sale of investment securities are those of the specific securities sold.

 

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Short-Term Treasury Fund

 

Each class of shares has equal rights as to assets and earnings, except that each class separately bears certain class-specific expenses related to maintenance of shareholder accounts (included in Management and Administrative expenses) and shareholder reporting. Marketing and distribution expenses are allocated to each class of shares based on a method approved by the board of trustees. Income, other non-class-specific expenses, and gains and losses on investments are allocated to each class of shares based on its relative net assets.

B. The Vanguard Group furnishes at cost investment advisory, corporate management, administrative, marketing, and distribution services. The costs of such services are allocated to the fund under methods approved by the board of trustees. The fund has committed to provide up to 0.40% of its net assets in capital contributions to Vanguard. At January 31, 2008, the fund had contributed capital of $356,000 to Vanguard (included in Other Assets), representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 0.36% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and officers of Vanguard.

C. Capital gain distributions are determined on a tax basis and may differ from realized capital gains for financial reporting purposes. Differences may be permanent or temporary. Permanent differences are reclassified among capital accounts in the financial statements to reflect their tax character. Temporary differences arise when gains or losses are recognized in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes; these differences will reverse at some time in the future.

The fund used a capital loss carryforward of $56,586,000 to offset taxable capital gains realized during the year ended January 31, 2008, reducing the amount of capital gains that would otherwise be available to distribute to shareholders. For tax purposes, at January 31, 2008, the fund had $8,928,000 of long-term capital gains available for distribution.

The fund had realized losses totaling $3,519,000 through January 31, 2008, which are deferred and reduce the amount of tax-basis unrealized appreciation on investment securities.

At January 31, 2008, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $4,206,664,000. Net unrealized appreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $119,021,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $119,408,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $387,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.

At January 31, 2008, the aggregate settlement value of open futures contracts expiring in March 2008 and the related unrealized appreciation (depreciation) were:

 

 

 

 

($000)

 

Number of

Aggregate

Unrealized

 

Long (Short)

Settlement

Appreciation

Futures Contracts

Contracts

Value

(Depreciation)

5-Year Treasury Note

375

42,375

998

 

Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on open futures contracts is required to be treated as realized gain (loss) for tax purposes.

D. During the year ended January 31, 2008, the fund purchased $4,974,613,000 of investment securities and sold $4,373,521,000 of investment securities, other than temporary cash investments.

 

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Short-Term Treasury Fund

 

E. Capital share transactions for each class of shares were:

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

 

 

2008

 

 

2007

 

Amount

Shares

 

Amount

Shares

 

($000)

(000)

 

($000)

(000)

Investor Shares

 

 

 

 

 

Issued

739,397

70,533

 

378,933

36,912

Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions

55,158

5,293

 

50,835

4,949

Redeemed

(492,671)

(47,272)

 

(463,867)

(45,178)

Net Increase (Decrease)—Investor Shares

301,884

28,554

 

(34,099)

(3,317)

Admiral Shares

 

 

 

 

 

Issued

1,115,387

106,620

 

726,143

70,694

Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions

86,583

8,310

 

79,592

7,748

Redeemed

(840,308)

(80,494)

 

(580,217)

(56,484)

Net Increase (Decrease)—Admiral Shares

361,662

34,436

 

225,518

21,958

 

F. In June 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Interpretation No. 48 (“FIN 48”), “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes.” FIN 48 establishes the minimum threshold for recognizing, and a system for measuring, the benefits of tax-return positions in financial statements, effective for the fund’s current fiscal year. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken on federal income tax returns for all open tax years (tax years ended January 31, 2005–2008) for purposes of implementing FIN 48, and has concluded that no provision for income tax is required in the fund’s financial statements.

 

 

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Short-Term Federal Fund

 

 

Short-Term Federal Fund

 

Fund Profile

As of January 31, 2008

 

Financial Attributes

 

 

 

 

 

Comparative

Broad

 

Fund

Index1

Index2

Number of Issues

49

589

9,133

Yield

 

Investor Shares

3.4%

 

 

Admiral Shares

3.5%

 

 

Yield to Maturity

3.1%3

2.7%

4.5%

Average Coupon

5.2%

4.5%

5.4%

Average Effective

 

 

 

Maturity

2.5 years

2.6 years

6.8 years

Average Quality4

Aaa

Aaa

Aa1

Average Duration

2.2 years

2.3 years

4.2 years

Expense Ratio

 

Investor Shares

0.20%

 

 

Admiral Shares

0.10%

 

 

Short-Term Reserves

2.4%

 

Volatility Measures5

 

 

Fund Versus

Fund Versus

 

Comparative Index1

Broad Index2

R-Squared

0.97

0.78

Beta

0.85

0.53

 

Sector Diversification6 (% of portfolio)

 

 

 

Government Mortgage-Backed

13.4%

Treasury/Agency

84.2   

Short-Term Reserves

2.4   

 

Distribution by Maturity (% of portfolio)

 

 

 

Under 1 Year

25.7%

1–3 Years

52.2   

3–5 Years

19.8   

Over 5 Years

2.3   

 

 

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Short-Term Federal Fund

 

Distribution by Credit Quality4 (% of portfolio)

 

 

Aaa

100%

 

Investment Focus

 


 

 

1  Lehman 1–5 Year U.S. Government Index.

2  Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.

3  Before expenses.

4  Moody’s Investors Service.

5  For an explanation of R-squared, beta, and other terms used here, see the Glossary on pages 83 and 84.

6  The agency and mortgage-backed securities may include issues from government-sponsored enterprises; such issues are not backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.

 

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Short-Term Federal Fund

 

Performance Summary

All of the returns in this report represent past performance, which is not a guarantee of future results that may be achieved by the fund. (Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data cited. For performance data current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at www.vanguard.com/performance.) Note, too, that both investment returns and principal value can fluctuate widely, so an investor’s shares, when sold, could be worth more or less than their original cost. The returns shown do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or on the sale of fund shares.

Cumulative Performance: January 31, 1998–January 31, 2008

Initial Investment of $10,000

 


 

 

Average Annual Total Returns

Final Value

 

Periods Ended January 31, 2008

of a $10,000

 

One Year

Five Years

Ten Years

Investment

Short-Term Federal Fund Investor Shares1

9.25%

3.75%

5.20%

$16,601

Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index

8.81   

4.76   

6.01   

17,934

Lehman 1–5 Year U.S. Government Index

9.86   

3.81   

5.25   

16,686

Average 1–5 Year Government Fund2

6.94   

2.90   

4.29   

15,225

 

 

 

 

 

Final Value

 

 

 

Since

of a $100,000

 

One Year

Five Years

Inception3

Investment

Short-Term Federal Fund Admiral Shares

9.36%

3.83%

4.81%

$138,740

Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index

8.81   

4.76   

5.84   

148,543

Lehman 1–5 Year U.S. Government Index

9.86   

3.81   

4.83   

138,947

 

 

1  Total returns do not include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

2  Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.

3  Performance for the fund’s Admiral Shares and comparative standards is calculated since the Admiral Shares’ inception: February 12, 2001.

 

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Short-Term Federal Fund

 

Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): January 31, 1998–January 31, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares

Lehman1

Fiscal

Capital

Income

Total

Total

Year

Return

Return

Return

Return

1999

0.7%

5.9%

6.6%

6.9%

2000

–4.0   

5.6   

1.6   

1.3   

2001

4.4   

6.5   

10.9   

10.8   

2002

2.1   

5.4   

7.5   

7.5   

2003

2.9   

4.1   

7.0   

7.2   

2004

–0.5   

3.0   

2.5   

2.6   

2005

–1.8   

2.8   

1.0   

1.2   

2006

–1.3   

3.3   

2.0   

1.6   

2007

0.1   

4.2   

4.3   

4.0   

2008

4.5   

4.8   

9.3   

9.9   

 

Average Annual Total Returns: Periods Ended December 31, 2007

This table presents average annual total returns through the latest calendar quarter—rather than through the end of the fiscal period. Securities and Exchange Commission rules require that we provide this information.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ten Years

 

Inception Date

One Year

Five Years

Capital

Income

Total

Investor Shares2

12/31/1987

7.43%

3.35%

0.58%

4.54%

5.12%

Admiral Shares

2/12/2001

7.53

3.44

0.623

3.973

4.593

 

 

 

1  Lehman 1–5 Year U.S. Government Index.

2  Total returns do not include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

3  Return since inception.

Note: See Financial Highlights tables on pages 35 and 36 for dividend and capital gains information.

 

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Short-Term Federal Fund

 

Financial Statements

Statement of Net Assets

As of January 31, 2008

 

The fund provides a complete list of its holdings four times in each fiscal year, at the quarter-ends. For the second and fourth fiscal quarters, the lists appear in the fund’s semiannual and annual reports to shareholders. For the first and third fiscal quarters, the fund files the lists with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form N-Q. Shareholders can look up the fund’s Forms N-Q on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Forms N-Q may also be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room (see the back cover of this report for further information).

 

 

 

 

 

Face

Market

 

 

 

Maturity

Amount

Value

 

 

Coupon

Date

($000)

($000)

U.S. Government and Agency Obligations (98.2%)

 

 

 

U.S. Government Securities (0.9%)

 

 

 

 

1

U.S. Treasury Note

3.625%

7/15/09

27,400

27,969

 

 

 

 

 

 

Agency Bonds and Notes (83.2%)

 

 

 

 

2

Federal Home Loan Bank

3.375%

2/15/08

50,000

50,011

2

Federal Home Loan Bank

4.875%

3/5/08

100,000

100,194

2

Federal Home Loan Bank

3.875%

2/13/09

20,000

20,190

2

Federal Home Loan Bank

4.250%

5/15/09

19,640

19,996

2

Federal Home Loan Bank

5.000%

3/12/10

50,000

52,269

2

Federal Home Loan Bank

5.250%

6/11/10

25,000

26,405

2

Federal Home Loan Bank

5.125%

9/10/10

75,000

79,368

2

Federal Home Loan Bank

4.750%

12/10/10

25,000

26,306

2

Federal Home Loan Bank

3.625%

12/17/10

50,000

51,169

2

Federal Home Loan Bank

4.625%

2/18/11

50,000

52,627

2

Federal Home Loan Bank

5.000%

5/13/11

80,000

85,188

2

Federal Home Loan Bank

5.250%

6/10/11

29,105

31,265

2

Federal Home Loan Bank

4.625%

10/10/12

150,000

158,024

2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

4.625%

8/22/08

75,000

75,809

2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

4.875%

2/17/09

100,000

102,085

2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

5.750%

3/15/09

21,500

22,190

2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

5.000%

6/11/09

25,000

25,731

2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

4.125%

11/30/09

135,000

138,300

2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

7.000%

3/15/10

50,000

54,379

2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

4.750%

10/4/10

25,000

26,225

2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

5.250%

7/18/11

100,000

107,202

2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

4.125%

12/21/12

25,000

25,774

2,3

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

5.450%

11/21/13

50,000

50,963

2,3

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

5.375%

1/9/14

50,000

51,083

2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

4.750%

2/1/08

59,920

59,915

2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

6.000%

5/15/08

37,000

37,344

2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

5.250%

6/15/08

100,000

100,936

2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

3.250%

8/15/08

50,000

50,156

2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

4.000%

1/26/09

50,000

50,525

2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

4.875%

4/15/09

50,000

51,194

2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

5.125%

7/13/09

75,000

77,500

2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

7.250%

1/15/10

100,000

108,502

2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

4.625%

6/1/10

100,000

104,153

2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

7.125%

6/15/10

157,975

173,836

2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

5.125%

4/15/11

50,000

53,454

2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

4.750%

11/19/12

100,000

105,923

2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

3.625%

2/12/13

50,000

50,399

 

Private Export Funding Corp.

6.670%

9/15/09

17,000

18,014

 

 

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Short-Term Federal Fund

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2,474,604

Mortgage-Backed Securities (14.1%)

 

 

 

 

 

Conventional Mortgage-Backed Securities (8.9%)

 

 

 

2,3

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

5.500%

2/1/16–11/1/17

29,917

30,796

2,3

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

6.500%

9/1/11

748

769

2,3

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

7.500%

2/1/08

2

2

2,3

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

5.000%

8/1/20–7/1/22

167,402

169,741

2,3

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

5.500%

11/1/21–5/1/22

33,061

33,871

2,3

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

6.000%

4/1/17

8,988

9,277

2,3

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

6.500%

10/1/20–9/1/16

15,487

16,070

2,3

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

7.500%

3/1/15–8/1/15

714

750

2,3

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

8.000%

10/1/14–9/1/15

2,848

3,007

 

 

 

 

 

 

2,3

Nonconventional Mortgage-Backed Securities (5.2%)

 

 

2,3

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

3.727%

8/1/33

4,761

4,809

2,3

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

5.990%

5/1/36

9,321

9,552

2,3

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

3.541%

10/1/33

7,984

8,069

2,3

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

3.568%

8/1/33

6,123

6,205

2,3

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

3.693%

8/1/33

2,158

2,190

2,3

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

3.695%

7/1/33

4,184

4,230

2,3

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

3.715%

9/1/33

18,802

19,041

2,3

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

3.717%

6/1/33

7,655

7,716

2,3

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

3.798%

9/1/33

8,771

8,890

2,3

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

3.803%

8/1/33

8,743

8,872

2,3

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

3.816%

7/1/33

9,517

9,783

2,3

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

4.303%

8/1/34

5,975

6,027

2,3

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

4.318%

6/1/34

25,624

25,902

2,3

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

6.298%

9/1/36

17,870

18,473

2,3

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

6.421%

9/1/36

15,650

16,304

 

 

 

 

 

420,346

Total U.S. Government and Agency Obligations (Cost $2,843,212)

 

2,922,919

Temporary Cash Investment (2.6%)

 

 

 

 

Repurchase Agreement

 

 

 

 

 

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

 

 

 

 

 

(Dated 1/31/08, Repurchase Value $75,850,000,

 

 

 

 

collateralized by Federal Home Loan Bank 5.500%,

 

 

 

 

6/12/15, and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

 

 

 

 

5.000%–5.750%, 1/15/12–7/15/14)

 

 

 

 

 

(Cost $75,844)

2.900%

2/1/08

75,844

75,844

Total Investments (100.8%) (Cost $2,919,056)

 

 

 

2,998,763

Other Assets and Liabilities (–0.8%)

 

 

 

 

Other Assets—Note B

 

 

 

45,017

Liabilities

 

 

 

(68,026)

 

 

 

 

 

(23,009)

Net Assets (100%)

 

 

 

2,975,754

 

 

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Short-Term Federal Fund

 

At January 31, 2008, net assets consisted of:4

 

 

Amount

 

($000)

Paid-in Capital

2,920,707

Undistributed Net Investment Income

Accumulated Net Realized Losses

(28,540)

Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

 

Investment Securities

79,707

Futures Contracts

3,880

Net Assets

2,975,754

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares—Net Assets

 

Applicable to 153,970,679 outstanding $.001 par value shares of

 

beneficial interest (unlimited authorization)

1,650,318

Net Asset Value Per Share—Investor Shares

$10.72

 

 

 

 

Admiral Shares—Net Assets

 

Applicable to 123,660,157 outstanding $.001 par value shares of

 

beneficial interest (unlimited authorization)

1,325,436

Net Asset Value Per Share—Admiral Shares

$10.72

 

 

•  See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements.

1  Securities with a value of $2,500,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open futures contracts.

2  The issuer operates under a congressional charter; its securities are neither issued nor guaranteed by the U.S. government. If needed, access to additional funding from the U.S. Treasury (beyond the issuer’s line of credit) would require congressional action.

3  The average or expected maturity is shorter than the final maturity shown because of the possibility of interim principal payments and prepayments or the possibility of the issue being called.

4  See Note C in Notes to Financial Statements for the tax-basis components of net assets.

 

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Short-Term Federal Fund

 

Statement of Operations

 

 

Year Ended

 

January 31, 2008

 

($000)

Investment Income

 

Income

 

Interest

126,032

Total Income

126,032

Expenses

 

The Vanguard Group—Note B

 

Investment Advisory Services

234

Management and Administrative

 

Investor Shares

2,387

Admiral Shares

694

Marketing and Distribution

 

Investor Shares

402

Admiral Shares

276

Custodian Fees

49

Auditing Fees

33

Shareholders’ Reports

 

Investor Shares

74

Admiral Shares

7

Trustees’ Fees and Expenses

3

Total Expenses

4,159

Net Investment Income

121,873

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

 

Investment Securities Sold

(1,669)

Futures Contracts

14,585

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

12,916

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

 

Investment Securities

105,432

Futures Contracts

4,683

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

110,115

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

244,904

 

 

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Short-Term Federal Fund

 

Statement of Changes in Net Assets

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

 

2008

2007

 

($000)

($000)

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

 

Operations

 

 

Net Investment Income

121,873

108,712

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

12,916

(18,179)

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

110,115

21,358

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

244,904

111,891

Distributions

 

 

Net Investment Income

 

 

Investor Shares

(69,438)

(64,714)

Admiral Shares

(52,435)

(43,998)

Realized Capital Gain

 

 

Investor Shares

Admiral Shares

Total Distributions

(121,873)

(108,712)

Capital Share Transactions—Note E

 

 

Investor Shares

66,959

(173,050)

Admiral Shares

208,478

67,830

Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions

275,437

(105,220)

Total Increase (Decrease)

398,468

(102,041)

Net Assets

 

 

Beginning of Period

2,577,286

2,679,327

End of Period

2,975,754

2,577,286

 

 

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Short-Term Federal Fund

 

Financial Highlights

 

Investor Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Period

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period

$10.26

$10.25

$10.39

$10.60

$10.67

Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net Investment Income

.465

.420

.340

.291

.304

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

 

 

 

 

 

on Investments

.460

.010

(.140)

(.189)

(.046)

Total from Investment Operations

.925

.430

.200

.102

.258

Distributions

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends from Net Investment Income

(.465)

(.420)

(.340)

(.291)

(.311)

Distributions from Realized Capital Gains

(.021)

(.017)

Total Distributions

(.465)

(.420)

(.340)

(.312)

(.328)

Net Asset Value, End of Period

$10.72

$10.26

$10.25

$10.39

$10.60

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Return1

9.25%

4.29%

1.96%

0.98%

2.45%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ratios/Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net Assets, End of Period (Millions)

$1,650

$1,514

$1,686

$2,403

$2,604

Ratio of Total Expenses to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

0.20%

0.20%

0.20%

0.20%

0.22%

Ratio of Net Investment Income to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

4.48%

4.10%

3.29%

2.77%

2.86%

Portfolio Turnover Rate

70%

89%

51%

49%

81%

 

 

 

1  Total returns do not include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

 

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Short-Term Federal Fund

 

Admiral Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Period

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period

$10.26

$10.25

$10.39

$10.60

$10.67

Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net Investment Income

.475

.431

.350

.300

.310

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

 

 

 

 

 

on Investments

.460

.010

(.140)

(.189)

(.046)

Total from Investment Operations

.935

.441

.210

.111

.264

Distributions

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends from Net Investment Income

(.475)

(.431)

(.350)

(.300)

(.317)

Distributions from Realized Capital Gains

(.021)

(.017)

Total Distributions

(.475)

(.431)

(.350)

(.321)

(.334)

Net Asset Value, End of Period

$10.72

$10.26

$10.25

$10.39

$10.60

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Return

9.36%

4.39%

2.06%

1.06%

2.51%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ratios/Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net Assets, End of Period (Millions)

$1,325

$1,063

$993

$690

$662

Ratio of Total Expenses to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

0.10%

0.10%

0.10%

0.12%

0.17%

Ratio of Net Investment Income to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

4.58%

4.20%

3.39%

2.86%

2.91%

Portfolio Turnover Rate

70%

89%

51%

49%

81%

 

 

 

See accompanying Notes, which are an integral part of the Financial Statements.

 

36

 


Short-Term Federal Fund

 

Notes to Financial Statements

Vanguard Short-Term Federal Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The fund files reports with the SEC under the company name Vanguard Fixed Income Securities Funds. The fund offers two classes of shares, Investor Shares and Admiral Shares. Investor Shares are available to any investor who meets the fund’s minimum purchase requirements. Admiral Shares are designed for investors who meet certain administrative, service, tenure, and account-size criteria.

A. The following significant accounting policies conform to generally accepted accounting principles for U.S. mutual funds. The fund consistently follows such policies in preparing its financial statements.

1. Security Valuation: Bonds, and temporary cash investments acquired over 60 days to maturity, are valued using the latest bid prices or using valuations based on a matrix system (which considers such factors as security prices, yields, maturities, and ratings), both as furnished by independent pricing services. Other temporary cash investments are valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value. Securities for which market quotations are not readily available, or whose values have been materially affected by events occurring before the fund’s pricing time but after the close of the securities’ primary markets, are valued by methods deemed by the board of trustees to represent fair value.

2. Futures Contracts: The fund uses futures contracts to invest in fixed income asset classes with greater efficiency and lower cost than is possible through direct investment, to add value when these instruments are attractively priced, or to adjust sensitivity to changes in interest rates. The primary risks associated with the use of futures contracts are imperfect correlation between changes in market values of bonds held by the fund and the prices of futures contracts, and the possibility of an illiquid market.

Futures contracts are valued based upon their quoted daily settlement prices. The aggregate principal amounts of the contracts are not recorded in the Statement of Net Assets. Fluctuations in the value of the contracts are recorded in the Statement of Net Assets as an asset (liability) and in the Statement of Operations as unrealized appreciation (depreciation) until the contracts are closed, when they are recorded as realized futures gains (losses).

3. Repurchase Agreements: The fund may invest in repurchase agreements. Securities pledged as collateral for repurchase agreements are held by a custodian bank until the agreements mature. Each agreement requires that the market value of the collateral be sufficient to cover payments of interest and principal; however, in the event of default or bankruptcy by the other party to the agreement, retention of the collateral may be subject to legal proceedings.

4. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Accordingly, no provision for federal income taxes is required in the financial statements.

5. Distributions: Distributions from net investment income are declared daily and paid on the first business day of the following month. Annual distributions from realized capital gains, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date.

6. Other: Interest income is accrued daily. Premiums and discounts on debt securities purchased are amortized and accreted, respectively, to interest income over the lives of the respective securities. Security transactions are accounted for on the date securities are bought or sold. Costs used to determine realized gains (losses) on the sale of investment securities are those of the specific securities sold.

 

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Short-Term Federal Fund

 

Each class of shares has equal rights as to assets and earnings, except that each class separately bears certain class-specific expenses related to maintenance of shareholder accounts (included in Management and Administrative expenses) and shareholder reporting. Marketing and distribution expenses are allocated to each class of shares based on a method approved by the board of trustees. Income, other non-class-specific expenses, and gains and losses on investments are allocated to each class of shares based on its relative net assets.

B. The Vanguard Group furnishes at cost investment advisory, corporate management, administrative, marketing, and distribution services. The costs of such services are allocated to the fund under methods approved by the board of trustees. The fund has committed to provide up to 0.40% of its net assets in capital contributions to Vanguard. At January 31, 2008, the fund had contributed capital of $242,000 to Vanguard (included in Other Assets), representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 0.24% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and officers of Vanguard.

C. Capital gain distributions are determined on a tax basis and may differ from realized capital gains for financial reporting purposes. Differences may be permanent or temporary. Permanent differences are reclassified among capital accounts in the financial statements to reflect their tax character. Temporary differences arise when gains or losses are recognized in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes; these differences will reverse at some time in the future.

For tax purposes, at January 31, 2008, the fund had available realized losses of $24,700,000 to offset future net capital gains of $5,787,000 through January 31, 2014, and $18,913,000 through January 31, 2015.

At January 31, 2008, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $2,919,056,000. Net unrealized appreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $79,707,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $80,614,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $907,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.

At January 31, 2008, the aggregate settlement value of open futures contracts expiring in March 2008 and the related unrealized appreciation (depreciation) were:

 

 

 

 

($000)

 

Number of

Aggregate

Unrealized

 

Long (Short)

Settlement

Appreciation

Futures Contracts

Contracts

Value

(Depreciation)

2-Year Treasury Note

1,803

384,433

3,710

5-Year Treasury Note

86

9,718

170

 

Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on open futures contracts is required to be treated as realized gain (loss) for tax purposes.

D. During the year ended January 31, 2008, the fund purchased $2,056,989,000 of investment securities and sold $1,555,941,000 of investment securities, other than temporary cash investments.

 

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Short-Term Federal Fund

 

E. Capital share transactions for each class of shares were:

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

 

 

2008

 

 

2007

 

Amount

Shares

 

Amount

Shares

 

($000)

(000)

 

($000)

(000)

Investor Shares

 

 

 

 

 

Issued

502,123

48,198

 

308,589

30,156

Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions

62,890

6,049

 

57,648

5,630

Redeemed

(498,054)

(47,886)

 

(539,287)

(52,727)

Net Increase (Decrease)—Investor Shares

66,959

6,361

 

(173,050)

(16,941)

Admiral Shares

 

 

 

 

 

Issued

479,535

45,977

 

346,637

33,905

Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions

44,070

4,236

 

35,570

3,474

Redeemed

(315,127)

(30,170)

 

(314,377)

(30,729)

Net Increase (Decrease)—Admiral Shares

208,478

20,043

 

67,830

6,650

 

F. In June 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Interpretation No. 48 (“FIN 48”), “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes.” FIN 48 establishes the minimum threshold for recognizing, and a system for measuring, the benefits of tax-return positions in financial statements, effective for the fund’s current fiscal year. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken on federal income tax returns for all open tax years (tax years ended January 31, 2005–2008) for purposes of implementing FIN 48, and has concluded that no provision for income tax is required in the fund’s financial statements.

 

 

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Intermediate-Term Treasury Fund

 

Intermediate-Term Treasury Fund

 

Fund Profile

As of January 31, 2008

 

Financial Attributes

 

 

 

 

 

Comparative

Broad

 

Fund

Index1

Index2

Number of Issues

39

32

9,133

Yield

 

Investor Shares

3.1%

 

 

Admiral Shares

3.2%

 

 

Yield to Maturity

3.2%3

3.6%

4.5%

Average Coupon

5.0%

5.2%

5.4%

Average Effective

 

 

 

Maturity

6.2 years

7.5 years

6.8 years

Average Quality4

Aaa

Aaa

Aa1

Average Duration

5.1 years

6.1 years

4.2 years

Expense Ratio

 

Investor Shares

0.26%

 

 

Admiral Shares

0.10%

 

 

Short-Term Reserves

2.8%

 

Volatility Measures5

 

 

Fund Versus

Fund Versus

 

Comparative Index1

Broad Index2

R-Squared

0.99

0.91

Beta

0.87

1.34

 

Sector Diversification6 (% of portfolio)

 

 

 

Government Mortgage-Backed

0.1%

Treasury/Agency

97.1   

Short-Term Reserves

2.8   

 

Distribution by Maturity (% of portfolio)

 

 

 

Under 1 Year

2.9%

1–5 Years

32.3   

5–10 Years

50.8   

10–20 Years

14.0   

 

Distribution by Credit Quality4 (% of portfolio)

 

 

Aaa

100%

 

 

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Investment Focus

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1  Lehman 5–10 Year U.S. Treasury Index.

2  Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.

3  Before expenses.

4  Moody’s Investors Service.

5  For an explanation of R-squared, beta, and other terms used here, see the Glossary on pages 83 and 84.

6  The agency and mortgage-backed securities may include issues from government-sponsored enterprises; such issues are not backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.

 

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Performance Summary

All of the returns in this report represent past performance, which is not a guarantee of future results that may be achieved by the fund. (Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data cited. For performance data current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at www.vanguard.com/performance.) Note, too, that both investment returns and principal value can fluctuate widely, so an investor’s shares, when sold, could be worth more or less than their original cost. The returns shown do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or on the sale of fund shares.

Cumulative Performance: January 31, 1998–January 31, 2008

Initial Investment of $10,000

 


 

 

Average Annual Total Returns

Final Value

 

Periods Ended January 31, 2008

of a $10,000

 

One Year

Five Years

Ten Years

Investment

Intermediate-Term Treasury Fund

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares1

13.68%

4.94%

6.40%

$18,599

Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index

8.81   

4.76   

6.01   

17,934

Lehman 5–10 Year U.S. Treasury Index

14.13   

5.01   

6.39   

18,586

Average General Treasury Fund2

11.86   

4.87   

5.76   

17,500

 

 

 

 

 

Final Value

 

 

 

Since

of a $100,000

 

One Year

Five Years

Inception3

Investment

Intermediate-Term Treasury Fund Admiral Shares

13.86%

5.10%

6.46%

$154,684

Lehman Aggregate Bond Index

8.81   

4.76   

5.84   

148,543

Lehman 5–10 U.S. Year Treasury Index

14.13   

5.01   

6.33   

153,337

 

 

1  Total returns do not include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

2  Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.

3  Performance for the fund’s Admiral Shares and comparative standards is calculated since the Admiral Shares’ inception: February 12, 2001.

 

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Intermediate-Term Treasury Fund

 

Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): January 31, 1998–January 31, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares

Lehman1

Fiscal

Capital

Income

Total

Total

Year

Return

Return

Return

Return

1999

3.3%

6.1%

9.4%

10.0%

2000

–10.1   

5.5   

–4.6   

–5.0   

2001

9.1   

7.0   

16.1   

15.8   

2002

0.8   

5.8   

6.6   

6.8   

2003

7.6   

5.5   

13.1   

12.6   

2004

–0.5   

4.2   

3.7   

3.7   

2005

–1.3   

4.4   

3.1   

3.6   

2006

–3.1   

4.5   

1.4   

1.1   

2007

–1.5   

4.7   

3.2   

3.0   

2008

8.7   

5.0   

13.7   

14.1   

 

Average Annual Total Returns: Periods Ended December 31, 2007

This table presents average annual total returns through the latest calendar quarter—rather than through the end of the fiscal period. Securities and Exchange Commission rules require that we provide this information.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ten Years

 

Inception Date

One Year

Five Years

Capital

Income

Total

Investor Shares2

10/28/1991

9.98%

4.20%

0.98%

5.28%

6.26%

Admiral Shares

2/12/2001

10.15   

4.35   

1.063   

5.013   

6.073   

 

 

 

 

1  Lehman 5–10 Year U.S. Treasury Index.

2  Total returns do not include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

3  Return since inception.

Note: See Financial Highlights tables on pages 49 and 50 for dividend and capital gains information.

 

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Intermediate-Term Treasury Fund

 

Financial Statements

 

Statement of Net Assets

As of January 31, 2008

The fund provides a complete list of its holdings four times in each fiscal year, at the quarter-ends. For the second and fourth fiscal quarters, the lists appear in the fund’s semiannual and annual reports to shareholders. For the first and third fiscal quarters, the fund files the lists with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form N-Q. Shareholders can look up the fund’s Forms N-Q on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Forms N-Q may also be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room (see the back cover of this report for further information).

 

 

 

 

 

Face

Market

 

 

 

Maturity

Amount

Value

 

 

Coupon

Date

($000)

($000)

U.S. Government and Agency Obligations (96.0%)

 

 

 

U.S. Government Securities (86.3%)

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. Treasury Bond

3.625%

5/15/13

278,100

288,137

1

U.S. Treasury Bond

4.000%

2/15/15

456,000

476,807

 

U.S. Treasury Bond

8.750%

5/15/17

32,700

45,673

 

U.S. Treasury Bond

9.125%

5/15/18

62,000

90,036

 

U.S. Treasury Bond

9.000%

11/15/18

68,000

98,770

 

U.S. Treasury Bond

8.875%

2/15/19

342,000

494,190

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.500%

2/28/11

16,000

17,035

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.625%

10/31/11

175,000

188,097

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.500%

11/30/11

304,000

325,660

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.625%

12/31/11

58,000

62,468

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.625%

2/29/12

90,000

96,947

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.500%

3/31/12

420,000

450,580

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.875%

6/30/12

170,000

185,087

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.250%

9/30/12

25,000

26,594

 

U.S. Treasury Note

3.875%

10/31/12

80,000

83,800

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.250%

11/15/13

784,000

836,551

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.000%

2/15/14

457,500

481,519

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.250%

8/15/14

60,000

63,844

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.250%

11/15/14

120,000

127,537

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.125%

5/15/15

20,000

21,019

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.500%

2/15/16

30,000

32,194

 

U.S. Treasury Note

5.125%

5/15/16

81,000

90,315

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.875%

8/15/16

125,000

137,149

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.625%

11/15/16

30,000

32,386

 

 

 

 

 

4,752,395

Agency Bonds and Notes (8.7%)

 

 

 

 

 

Agency for International Development–

 

 

 

 

 

Egypt (U.S. Government Guaranteed)

4.450%

9/15/15

40,000

41,364

2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

5.750%

1/15/12

19,500

21,295

2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

4.375%

3/15/13

22,000

22,946

2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

5.000%

5/11/17

39,500

42,032

3,4

Guaranteed Trade Trust

 

 

 

 

 

(U.S. Government Guaranteed)

6.690%

1/15/09

5,936

5,995

3

Overseas Private Investment Corp.

 

 

 

 

 

(U.S. Government Guaranteed)

7.600%

12/15/12

16,977

18,634

3

Overseas Private Investment Corp.

 

 

 

 

 

(U.S. Government Guaranteed)

7.050%

11/15/13

22,500

24,732

Private Export Funding Corp.

7.200%

1/15/10

12,900

13,996

Private Export Funding Corp.

7.250%

6/15/10

135,920

149,990

Private Export Funding Corp.

6.070%

4/30/11

51,000

56,101

Private Export Funding Corp.

5.685%

5/15/12

10,000

10,956

 

 

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Intermediate-Term Treasury Fund

 

 

Private Export Funding Corp.

4.950%

11/15/15

65,000

69,054

 

 

 

 

477,095

Mortgage-Backed Securities (1.0%)

 

 

 

 

2,3 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

5.500%

4/1/16–5/1/16

2,410

2,484

2,3 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

7.000%

5/1/15–3/1/16

684

719

2,3 Federal National Mortgage Assn. Grantor Trust

7.300%

5/25/10

30,000

32,349

2,3 Federal National Mortgage Assn. Grantor Trust

5.763%

12/25/11

20,000

21,516

 

 

 

 

57,068

Total U.S. Government and Agency Obligations (Cost $4,905,904)

 

5,286,558

Temporary Cash Investments (2.8%)

 

 

 

 

Repurchase Agreements

 

 

 

 

UBS Securities LLC

 

 

 

 

(Dated 1/31/08, Repurchase Value $54,004,000,

 

 

 

collateralized by Federal Home Loan

 

 

 

 

Mortgage Corp. 7.000%, 3/15/10)

2.850%

2/1/08

54,000

54,000

 

 

 

 

 

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

 

 

 

 

(Dated 1/31/08, Repurchase Value $100,534,000,

 

 

 

collateralized by Federal Home Loan

 

 

 

 

Bank 5.000%,2/4/09, and Federal Home Loan

 

 

 

 

Mortgage Corp. 4.125%, 7/12/10)

2.900%

2/1/08

100,526

100,526

Total Temporary Cash Investments (Cost $154,526)

 

 

154,526

Total Investments (98.8%) (Cost $5,060,430)

 

 

 

5,441,084

Other Assets and Liabilities (1.2%)

 

 

 

 

Other Assets—Note B

 

 

 

80,998

Liabilities

 

 

 

(15,922)

 

 

 

 

65,076

Net Assets (100%)

 

 

 

5,506,160

 

 

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Intermediate-Term Treasury Fund

 

At January 31, 2008, net assets consisted of:5

 

 

Amount

 

($000)

Paid-in Capital

5,172,217

Undistributed Net Investment Income

Accumulated Net Realized Losses

(48,935)

Unrealized Appreciation

 

Investment Securities

380,654

Futures Contracts

2,224

Net Assets

5,506,160

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares—Net Assets

 

Applicable to 194,828,712 outstanding $.001 par value shares of

 

beneficial interest (unlimited authorization)

2,263,199

Net Asset Value Per Share—Investor Shares

$11.62

 

 

 

 

Admiral Shares—Net Assets

 

Applicable to 279,172,096 outstanding $.001 par value shares of

 

beneficial interest (unlimited authorization)

3,242,961

Net Asset Value Per Share—Admiral Shares

$11.62

 

 

 

See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements.

1

Securities with a value of $2,614,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open futures contracts.

2

The issuer operates under a congressional charter; its securities are neither issued nor guaranteed by the U.S. government. If needed, access to additional funding from the U.S. Treasury (beyond the issuer’s line of credit) would require congressional action.

3

The average or expected maturity is shorter than the final maturity shown because of the possibility of interim principal payments and prepayments.

4

Security exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. Such securities may be sold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. At January 31, 2008, the value of this security represented 0.1% of net assets.

5

See Note C in Notes to Financial Statements for the tax-basis components of net assets.

 

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Intermediate-Term Treasury Fund

 

Statement of Operations

 

 

Year Ended

 

January 31, 2008

 

($000)

Investment Income

 

Income

 

Interest

209,046

Total Income

209,046

Expenses

 

The Vanguard Group—Note B

 

Investment Advisory Services

375

Management and Administrative

 

Investor Shares

3,948

Admiral Shares

1,620

Marketing and Distribution

 

Investor Shares

467

Admiral Shares

581

Custodian Fees

58

Auditing Fees

30

Shareholders’ Reports

 

Investor Shares

124

Admiral Shares

13

Trustees’ Fees and Expenses

5

Total Expenses

7,221

Net Investment Income

201,825

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

 

Investment Securities Sold

15,040

Futures Contracts

(772)

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

14,268

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

 

Investment Securities

373,215

Futures Contracts

2,251

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

375,466

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

591,559

 

 

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Intermediate-Term Treasury Fund

 

Statement of Changes in Net Assets

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

 

2008

2007

 

($000)

($000)

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

 

Operations

 

 

Net Investment Income

201,825

183,632

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

14,268

(52,462)

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

375,466

(5,356)

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

591,559

125,814

Distributions

 

 

Net Investment Income

 

 

Investor Shares

(82,785)

(78,606)

Admiral Shares

(119,040)

(105,026)

Realized Capital Gain

 

 

Investor Shares

Admiral Shares

Total Distributions

(201,825)

(183,632)

Capital Share Transactions—Note E

 

 

Investor Shares

424,313

(32,212)

Admiral Shares

741,365

212,944

Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions

1,165,678

180,732

Total Increase (Decrease)

1,555,412

122,914

Net Assets

 

 

Beginning of Period

3,950,748

3,827,834

End of Period

5,506,160

3,950,748

 

 

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Intermediate-Term Treasury Fund

 

Financial Highlights

 

Investor Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Period

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period

$10.69

$10.85

$11.28

$11.45

$11.69

Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net Investment Income

.491

.499

.509

.504

.483

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

 

 

 

 

 

on Investments

.930

(.160)

(.354)

(.154)

(.058)

Total from Investment Operations

1.421

.339

.155

.350

.425

Distributions

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends from Net Investment Income

(.491)

(.499)

(.509)

(.504)

(.483)

Distributions from Realized Capital Gains

(.076)

(.016)

(.182)

Total Distributions

(.491)

(.499)

(.585)

(.520)

(.665)

Net Asset Value, End of Period

$11.62

$10.69

$10.85

$11.28

$11.45

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Return1

13.68%

3.22%

1.41%

3.14%

3.71%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ratios/Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net Assets, End of Period (Millions)

$2,263

$1,676

$1,735

$2,169

$2,261

Ratio of Total Expenses to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

0.26%

0.26%

0.26%

0.24%

0.26%

Ratio of Net Investment Income to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

4.48%

4.66%

4.59%

4.45%

4.14%

Portfolio Turnover Rate

52%

87%

66%

61%

34%

 

 

 

 

1  Total returns do not include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

 

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Intermediate-Term Treasury Fund

 

Admiral Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Period

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period

$10.69

$10.85

$11.28

$11.45

$11.69

Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net Investment Income

.509

.516

.526

.518

.498

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

 

 

 

 

 

on Investments

.930

(.160)

(.354)

(.154)

(.058)

Total from Investment Operations

1.439

.356

.172

.364

.440

Distributions

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends from Net Investment Income

(.509)

(.516)

(.526)

(.518)

(.498)

Distributions from Realized Capital Gains

(.076)

(.016)

(.182)

Total Distributions

(.509)

(.516)

(.602)

(.534)

(.680)

Net Asset Value, End of Period

$11.62

$10.69

$10.85

$11.28

$11.45

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Return

13.86%

3.38%

1.56%

3.27%

3.85%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ratios/Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net Assets, End of Period (Millions)

$3,243

$2,274

$2,093

$1,665

$1,694

Ratio of Total Expenses to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

0.10%

0.10%

0.10%

0.12%

0.13%

Ratio of Net Investment Income to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

4.64%

4.82%

4.75%

4.58%

4.27%

Portfolio Turnover Rate

52%

87%

66%

61%

34%

 

 

 

See accompanying Notes, which are an integral part of the Financial Statements.

 

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Intermediate-Term Treasury Fund

 

Notes to Financial Statements

Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The fund files reports with the SEC under the company name Vanguard Fixed Income Securities Funds. The fund offers two classes of shares, Investor Shares and Admiral Shares. Investor Shares are available to any investor who meets the fund’s minimum purchase requirements. Admiral Shares are designed for investors who meet certain administrative, service, tenure, and account-size criteria.

A. The following significant accounting policies conform to generally accepted accounting principles for U.S. mutual funds. The fund consistently follows such policies in preparing its financial statements.

1. Security Valuation: Bonds, and temporary cash investments acquired over 60 days to maturity, are valued using the latest bid prices or using valuations based on a matrix system (which considers such factors as security prices, yields, maturities, and ratings), both as furnished by independent pricing services. Other temporary cash investments are valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value. Securities for which market quotations are not readily available, or whose values have been materially affected by events occurring before the fund’s pricing time but after the close of the securities’ primary markets, are valued by methods deemed by the board of trustees to represent fair value.

2. Futures Contracts: The fund uses futures contracts to invest in fixed income asset classes with greater efficiency and lower cost than is possible through direct investment, to add value when these instruments are attractively priced, or to adjust sensitivity to changes in interest rates. The primary risks associated with the use of futures contracts are imperfect correlation between changes in market values of bonds held by the fund and the prices of futures contracts, and the possibility of an illiquid market.

Futures contracts are valued based upon their quoted daily settlement prices. The aggregate principal amounts of the contracts are not recorded in the Statement of Net Assets. Fluctuations in the value of the contracts are recorded in the Statement of Net Assets as an asset (liability) and in the Statement of Operations as unrealized appreciation (depreciation) until the contracts are closed, when they are recorded as realized futures gains (losses).

3. Repurchase Agreements: The fund may invest in repurchase agreements. Securities pledged as collateral for repurchase agreements are held by a custodian bank until the agreements mature. Each agreement requires that the market value of the collateral be sufficient to cover payments of interest and principal; however, in the event of default or bankruptcy by the other party to the agreement, retention of the collateral may be subject to legal proceedings.

4. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Accordingly, no provision for federal income taxes is required in the financial statements.

5. Distributions: Distributions from net investment income are declared daily and paid on the first business day of the following month. Annual distributions from realized capital gains, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date.

6. Other: Interest income is accrued daily. Premiums and discounts on debt securities purchased are amortized and accreted, respectively, to interest income over the lives of the respective securities. Security transactions are accounted for on the date securities are bought or sold. Costs used to determine realized gains (losses) on the sale of investment securities are those of the specific securities sold.

Each class of shares has equal rights as to assets and earnings, except that each class separately bears certain class-specific expenses related to maintenance of shareholder accounts (included in Management and Administrative expenses) and shareholder reporting. Marketing and distribution expenses are allocated to each class of shares based on a method approved by the board of trustees. Income, other non-class-specific expenses, and gains and

 

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losses on investments are allocated to each class of shares based on its relative net assets.

B. The Vanguard Group furnishes at cost investment advisory, corporate management, administrative, marketing, and distribution services. The costs of such services are allocated to the fund under methods approved by the board of trustees. The fund has committed to provide up to 0.40% of its net assets in capital contributions to Vanguard. At January 31, 2008, the fund had contributed capital of $426,000 to Vanguard (included in Other Assets), representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 0.43% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and officers of Vanguard.

C. Capital gain distributions are determined on a tax basis and may differ from realized capital gains for financial reporting purposes. Differences may be permanent or temporary. Permanent differences are reclassified among capital accounts in the financial statements to reflect their tax character. Temporary differences arise when gains or losses are recognized in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes; these differences will reverse at some time in the future.

For tax purposes, at January 31, 2008, the fund had available realized losses of $45,236,000 to offset future net capital gains through January 31, 2015.

At January 31, 2008, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $5,061,966,000. Net unrealized appreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $379,118,000, consisting entirely of unrealized gains on securities that had risen in value since their purchase.

At January 31, 2008, the aggregate settlement value of open futures contracts expiring in March 2008 and the related unrealized appreciation (depreciation) were:

 

 

 

 

($000)

 

Number of

Aggregate

Unrealized

 

Long (Short)

Settlement

Appreciation

Futures Contracts

Contracts

Value

(Depreciation)

10-Year Treasury Note

725

84,621

2,224

 

Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on open futures contracts is required to be treated as realized gain (loss) for tax purposes.

D. During the year ended January 31, 2008, the fund purchased $3,287,163,000 of investment securities and sold $2,250,979,000 of investment securities, other than temporary cash investments.

 

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E. Capital share transactions for each class of shares were:

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

 

 

2008

 

 

2007

 

Amount

Shares

 

Amount

Shares

 

($000)

(000)

 

($000)

(000)

Investor Shares

 

 

 

 

 

Issued

930,915

84,257

 

365,615

34,153

Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions

70,612

6,435

 

65,448

6,112

Redeemed

(577,214)

(52,653)

 

(463,275)

(43,298)

Net Increase (Decrease)—Investor Shares

424,313

38,039

 

(32,212)

(3,033)

Admiral Shares

 

 

 

 

 

Issued

1,169,020

105,578

 

561,127

52,333

Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions

96,216

8,768

 

84,712

7,909

Redeemed

(523,871)

(47,887)

 

(432,895)

(40,411)

Net Increase (Decrease)—Admiral Shares

741,365

66,459

 

212,944

19,831

 

F. In June 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Interpretation No. 48 (“FIN 48”), “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes.” FIN 48 establishes the minimum threshold for recognizing, and a system for measuring, the benefits of tax-return positions in financial statements, effective for the fund’s current fiscal year. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken on federal income tax returns for all open tax years (tax years ended January 31, 2005–2008) for purposes of implementing FIN 48, and has concluded that no provision for income tax is required in the fund’s financial statements.

 

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GNMA Fund

 

Fund Profile

As of January 31, 2008

 

Financial Attributes

 

 

 

 

 

Comparative

Broad

 

Fund

Index1

Index2

Number of Issues

303

109

9,133

Yield

 

Investor Shares

5.0%

 

 

Admiral Shares

5.1%

 

 

Yield to Maturity

4.8%4

5.1%

4.5%

Average Coupon

5.6%

5.7%

5.4%

Average Effective

 

 

 

Maturity

4.7 years

5.9 years

6.8 years

Average Quality5

Aaa

Aaa

Aa1

Average Duration

2.8 years

2.9 years

4.2 years

Expense Ratio

 

Investor Shares

0.21%

 

 

Admiral Shares

0.11%

 

 

Short-Term Reserves

4.3%

 

Volatility Measures6

 

 

Fund Versus

Fund Versus

 

Comparative Index1

Broad Index2

R-Squared

0.99

0.90

Beta

1.02

0.83

 

 

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Distribution by Coupon (% of portfolio)

 

 

 

Below 6%

60.6%

6%–7%

36.7   

7%–8%

2.3   

Over 8%

0.4   

 

Investment Focus

 


 

1  Lehman GNMA Index.

2  Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.

3  Issues are mortgage pools grouped by coupon.

4  Before expenses.

5  Moody’s Investors Service.

6  For an explanation of R-squared, beta, and other terms used here, see the Glossary on pages 83 and 84.

 

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Performance Summary

All of the returns in this report represent past performance, which is not a guarantee of future results that may be achieved by the fund. (Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data cited. For performance data current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at www.vanguard.com/performance.) Note, too, that both investment returns and principal value can fluctuate widely, so an investor’s shares, when sold, could be worth more or less than their original cost. The returns shown do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or on the sale of fund shares.

Cumulative Performance: January 31, 1998–January 31, 2008

Initial Investment of $10,000

 


 

 

Average Annual Total Returns

Final Value

 

Periods Ended January 31, 2008

of a $10,000

 

One Year

Five Years

Ten Years

Investment

GNMA Fund Investor Shares1

8.56%

4.49%

5.79%

$17,564

Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index

8.81   

4.76   

6.01   

17,934

Lehman GNMA Index

8.80   

4.69   

5.93   

17,785

Average GNMA Fund2

8.13   

3.77   

5.03   

16,339

 

 

 

 

 

Final Value

 

 

 

Since

of a $100,000

 

One Year

Five Years

Inception3

Investment

GNMA Fund Admiral Shares

8.67%

4.58%

5.61%

$146,270

Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index

8.81   

4.76   

5.84   

148,543

Lehman GNMA Index

8.80   

4.69   

5.59   

146,029

 

 

 

 

1  Total returns do not include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

2  Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.

3  Performance for the fund’s Admiral Shares and comparative standards is calculated since the Admiral Shares’ inception: February 12, 2001.

 

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Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): January 31, 1998–January 31, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares

Lehman1

Fiscal

Capital

Income

Total

Total

Year

Return

Return

Return

Return

1999

0.0%

6.8%

6.8%

6.7%

2000

–7.3   

6.4   

–0.9   

0.3   

2001

6.6   

7.5   

14.1   

13.9   

2002

0.9   

6.5   

7.4   

7.6   

2003

2.9   

5.8   

8.7   

7.9   

2004

–1.9   

4.8   

2.9   

3.1   

2005

–0.4   

4.7   

4.3   

4.4   

2006

–1.8   

4.7   

2.9   

3.0   

2007

–1.3   

5.2   

3.9   

4.3   

2008

3.1   

5.5   

8.6   

8.8   

 

Average Annual Total Returns: Periods Ended December 31, 2007

This table presents average annual total returns through the latest calendar quarter—rather than through the end of the fiscal period. Securities and Exchange Commission rules require that we provide this information.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ten Years

 

Inception Date

One Year

Five Years

Capital

Income

Total

Investor Shares2

6/27/1980

7.01%

4.25%

–0.03%

5.79%

5.76%

Admiral Shares

2/12/2001

7.11   

4.34   

0.103   

5.373   

5.473   

 

 

 

1  Lehman GNMA Index.

2  Total returns do not include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

3  Return since inception.

Note: See Financial Highlights tables on pages 62 and 63 for dividend and capital gains information.

 

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Financial Statements

Statement of Net Assets

As of January 31, 2008

The fund provides a complete list of its holdings four times in each fiscal year, at the quarter-ends. For the second and fourth fiscal quarters, the lists appear in the fund’s semiannual and annual reports to shareholders. For the first and third fiscal quarters, the fund files the lists with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form N-Q. Shareholders can look up the fund’s Forms N-Q on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Forms N-Q may also be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room (see the back cover of this report for further information).

 

 

 

 

 

Face

Market

 

 

 

Maturity

Amount

Value

 

 

Coupon

Date

($000)

($000)

Government National Mortgage Association Obligations (96.0%)

 

 

1

Government National Mortgage Assn.

4.159%

2/21/41

74,233

73,407

1

Government National Mortgage Assn.

4.500%

5/15/33–3/15/37

97,367

95,248

1

Government National Mortgage Assn.

5.000%

7/15/20–6/16/37

3,797,244

3,811,248

1

Government National Mortgage Assn.

5.500%

3/15/13–10/15/37

9,699,155

9,913,178

1

Government National Mortgage Assn.

6.000%

10/15/16–9/15/37

5,857,547

6,065,451

1

Government National Mortgage Assn.

6.500%

6/15/08–12/15/37

2,263,099

2,362,869

1

Government National Mortgage Assn.

7.000%

2/15/08–12/15/36

363,114

386,350

1

Government National Mortgage Assn.

7.250%

12/15/26–2/15/27

165

176

1

Government National Mortgage Assn.

7.500%

3/15/08–10/15/31

130,891

140,782

1

Government National Mortgage Assn.

7.750%

2/15/27

256

258

1

Government National Mortgage Assn.

8.000%

4/15/08–8/15/31

58,599

63,102

1

Government National Mortgage Assn.

8.250%

4/15/08–7/15/08

12

12

1

Government National Mortgage Assn.

8.500%

8/15/08–6/15/28

14,498

15,614

1

Government National Mortgage Assn.

9.000%

11/15/08–2/15/23

10,872

11,613

1

Government National Mortgage Assn.

9.250%

9/15/16–7/15/17

61

66

1

Government National Mortgage Assn.

9.500%

7/15/09–7/15/22

5,333

5,793

1

Government National Mortgage Assn.

10.000%

7/20/14–8/20/18

67

73

1

Government National Mortgage Assn.

11.000%

7/15/10–2/20/16

29

31

1

Government National Mortgage Assn.

11.250%

9/20/15–2/20/16

43

47

1

Government National Mortgage Assn.

11.500%

5/15/13–11/20/15

38

42

1

Government National Mortgage Assn.

12.000%

1/15/13–1/20/16

90

101

1

Government National Mortgage Assn.

12.500%

5/20/14–7/20/15

36

41

1

Government National Mortgage Assn.

13.000%

1/15/11–1/20/15

33

38

1

Government National Mortgage Assn.

13.500%

5/15/10–12/15/14

22

26

1

Government National Mortgage Assn.

14.000%

6/15/11

16

17

1

Government National Mortgage Assn.

15.000%

5/15/12

2

2

Total Government National Mortgage Association Obligations (Cost $22,599,025)

 

22,945,585

Temporary Cash Investments (4.3%)

 

 

 

 

Repurchase Agreements

 

 

 

 

 

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

 

 

 

 

 

(Dated 1/31/08, Repurchase Value $446,837,000,

 

 

 

 

collateralized by Government National Mortgage

 

 

 

 

Assn.4.500%–7.000%, 9/15/31–7/15/39)

3.000%

2/1/08

446,800

446,800

UBS Securities LLC

 

 

 

(Dated 1/31/08, Repurchase Value $572,946,000,

 

 

 

collateralized by Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

 

 

 

6.500%–16.250%, 5/1/08–7/15/93, Federal National

 

 

 

Mortgage Assn. 4.500%–8.500%, 8/1/08–12/1/47)

 

 

 

2.950%

2/1/08

572,900

572,900

 

 

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Total Temporary Cash Investments (Cost $1,019,700)

 

 

1,019,700

Total Investments (100.3%) (Cost $23,618,725)

 

 

23,965,285

Other Assets and Liabilities (–0.3%)

 

 

 

Other Assets—Note C

 

 

127,095

Liabilities

 

 

(198,833)

 

 

 

(71,738)

Net Assets (100%)

 

 

23,893,547

 

At January 31, 2008, net assets consisted of:2

 

 

 

 

Amount

 

($000)

Paid-in Capital

23,659,376

Undistributed Net Investment Income

Accumulated Net Realized Losses

(112,389)

Unrealized Appreciation

346,560

Net Assets

23,893,547

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares—Net Assets

 

Applicable to 1,233,048,233 outstanding $.001 par value shares of

 

beneficial interest (unlimited authorization)

12,915,878

Net Asset Value Per Share—Investor Shares

$10.47

 

 

 

 

Admiral Shares—Net Assets

 

Applicable to 1,048,012,945 outstanding $.001 par value shares of

 

beneficial interest (unlimited authorization)

10,977,669

Net Asset Value Per Share—Admiral Shares

$10.47

 

 

 

 

•  See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements.

1  The average or expected maturity is shorter than the final maturity shown because of the possibility of interim principal payments and prepayments.

2  See Note D in Notes to Financial Statements for the tax-basis components of net assets.

 

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Statement of Operations

 

 

Year Ended

 

January 31, 2008

 

($000)

Investment Income

 

Income

 

Interest

1,253,663

Total Income

1,253,663

Expenses

 

Investment Advisory Fees—Note B

2,266

The Vanguard Group—Note C

 

Management and Administrative

 

Investor Shares

20,873

Admiral Shares

7,521

Marketing and Distribution

 

Investor Shares

2,645

Admiral Shares

1,704

Custodian Fees

1,601

Auditing Fees

32

Shareholders’ Reports

 

Investor Shares

559

Admiral Shares

75

Trustees’ Fees and Expenses

26

Total Expenses

37,302

Net Investment Income

1,216,361

Realized Net Gain (Loss) on Investment Securities Sold

(2,097)

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) of Investment Securities

710,303

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

1,924,567

 

 

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Statement of Changes in Net Assets

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

 

2008

2007

 

($000)

($000)

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

 

Operations

 

 

Net Investment Income

1,216,361

1,208,442

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

(2,097)

5,547

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

710,303

(330,394)

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

1,924,567

883,595

Distributions

 

 

Net Investment Income

 

 

Investor Shares

(663,782)

(679,004)

Admiral Shares

(552,579)

(529,438)

Realized Capital Gain

 

 

Investor Shares

Admiral Shares

Total Distributions

(1,216,361)

(1,208,442)

Capital Share Transactions—Note F

 

 

Investor Shares

(304,906)

(886,113)

Admiral Shares

496,065

19,104

Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions

191,159

(867,009)

Total Increase (Decrease)

899,365

(1,191,856)

Net Assets

 

 

Beginning of Period

22,994,182

24,186,038

End of Period

23,893,547

22,994,182

 

 

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Financial Highlights

 

Investor Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Period

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period

$10.16

$10.29

$10.48

$10.52

$10.72

Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net Investment Income

.533

.522

.483

.480

.502

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

 

 

 

 

 

on Investments

.310

(.130)

(.190)

(.040)

(.200)

Total from Investment Operations

.843

.392

.293

.440

.302

Distributions

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends from Net Investment Income

(.533)

(.522)

(.483)

(.480)

(.502)

Distributions from Realized Capital Gains

Total Distributions

(.533)

(.522)

(.483)

(.480)

(.502)

Net Asset Value, End of Period

$10.47

$10.16

$10.29

$10.48

$10.52

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Return1

8.56%

3.94%

2.88%

4.31%

2.89%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ratios/Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net Assets, End of Period (Millions)

$12,916

$12,835

$13,905

$18,946

$19,245

Ratio of Total Expenses to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

0.21%

0.21%

0.21%

0.20%

0.20%

Ratio of Net Investment Income to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

5.22%

5.14%

4.67%

4.61%

4.73%

Portfolio Turnover Rate

21%

18%

38%

53%

64%

 

 

 

1  Total returns do not include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

 

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Admiral Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Period

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period

$10.16

$10.29

$10.48

$10.52

$10.72

Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net Investment Income

.543

.532

.492

.487

.509

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

 

 

 

 

 

on Investments

.310

(.130)

(.190)

(.040)

(.200)

Total from Investment Operations

.853

.402

.302

.447

.309

Distributions

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends from Net Investment Income

(.543)

(.532)

(.492)

(.487)

(.509)

Distributions from Realized Capital Gains

Total Distributions

(.543)

(.532)

(.492)

(.487)

(.509)

Net Asset Value, End of Period

$10.47

$10.16

$10.29

$10.48

$10.52

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Return

8.67%

4.04%

2.97%

4.38%

2.96%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ratios/Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net Assets, End of Period (Millions)

$10,978

$10,159

$10,281

$5,363

$5,335

Ratio of Total Expenses to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

0.11%

0.11%

0.11%

0.13%

0.13%

Ratio of Net Investment Income to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

5.32%

5.24%

4.77%

4.68%

4.80%

Portfolio Turnover Rate

21%

18%

38%

53%

64%

 

 

 

 

See accompanying Notes, which are an integral part of the Financial Statements.

 

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Notes to Financial Statements

Vanguard GNMA Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The fund files reports with the SEC under the company name Vanguard Fixed Income Securities Funds. The fund offers two classes of shares, Investor Shares and Admiral Shares. Investor Shares are available to any investor who meets the fund’s minimum purchase requirements. Admiral Shares are designed for investors who meet certain administrative, service, tenure, and account-size criteria.

A. The following significant accounting policies conform to generally accepted accounting principles for U.S. mutual funds. The fund consistently follows such policies in preparing its financial statements.

1. Security Valuation: Bonds, and temporary cash investments acquired over 60 days to maturity, are valued using the latest bid prices or using valuations based on a matrix system (which considers such factors as security prices, yields, maturities, and ratings), both as furnished by independent pricing services. Other temporary cash investments are valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value. Securities for which market quotations are not readily available, or whose values have been materially affected by events occurring before the fund’s pricing time but after the close of the securities’ primary markets, are valued by methods deemed by the board of trustees to represent fair value.

2. Repurchase Agreements: The fund may invest in repurchase agreements. Securities pledged as collateral for repurchase agreements are held by a custodian bank until the agreements mature. Each agreement requires that the market value of the collateral be sufficient to cover payments of interest and principal; however, in the event of default or bankruptcy by the other party to the agreement, retention of the collateral may be subject to legal proceedings.

3. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Accordingly, no provision for federal income taxes is required in the financial statements.

4. Distributions: Distributions from net investment income are declared daily and paid on the first business day of the following month. Annual distributions from realized capital gains, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date.

5. Other: Interest income is accrued daily. Premiums and discounts on debt securities purchased are amortized and accreted, respectively, to interest income over the lives of the respective securities. Security transactions are accounted for on the date securities are bought or sold. Costs used to determine realized gains (losses) on the sale of investment securities are those of the specific securities sold.

Each class of shares has equal rights as to assets and earnings, except that each class separately bears certain class-specific expenses related to maintenance of shareholder accounts (included in Management and Administrative expenses) and shareholder reporting. Marketing and distribution expenses are allocated to each class of shares based on a method approved by the board of trustees. Income, other non-class-specific expenses, and gains and losses on investments are allocated to each class of shares based on its relative net assets.

B. Wellington Management Company, LLP, provides investment advisory services to the fund for a fee calculated at an annual percentage rate of average net assets. For the year ended January 31, 2008, the investment advisory fee represented an effective annual rate of 0.01% of the fund’s average net assets.

 

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C. The Vanguard Group furnishes at cost corporate management, administrative, marketing, and distribution services. The costs of such services are allocated to the fund under methods approved by the board of trustees. The fund has committed to provide up to 0.40% of its net assets in capital contributions to Vanguard. At January 31, 2008, the fund had contributed capital of $1,975,000 to Vanguard (included in Other Assets), representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 1.97% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and officers of Vanguard.

D Capital gain distributions are determined on a tax basis and may differ from realized capital gains for financial reporting purposes. Differences may be permanent or temporary. Permanent differences are reclassified among capital accounts in the financial statements to reflect their tax character. Temporary differences arise when gains or losses are recognized in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes; these differences will reverse at some time in the future.

For tax purposes, at January 31, 2008, the fund had available realized losses of $64,188,000 to offset future net capital gains of $29,714,000 through January 31, 2012, $26,020,000 through January 31, 2013, $6,347,000 through January 31, 2015, and $2,107,000 through January 31, 2016.

At January 31, 2008, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $23,618,725,000. Net unrealized appreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $346,560,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $373,401,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $26,841,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.

E. During the year ended January 31, 2008, the fund purchased $4,871,380,000 of investment securities and sold $4,779,209,000 of investment securities, other than temporary cash investments.

F. Capital share transactions for each class of shares were:

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

 

 

2008

 

 

2007

 

 

Amount

Shares

 

Amount

Shares

 

 

($000)

(000)

 

($000)

(000)

 

Investor Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

Issued

2,223,779

217,349

 

2,050,407

202,014

 

Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions

568,410

55,644

 

574,128

56,605

 

Redeemed

(3,097,095)

(303,475)

 

(3,510,648)

(346,183)

 

Net Increase (Decrease)—Investor Shares

(304,906)

(30,482)

 

(886,113)

(87,564)

 

Admiral Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

Issued

1,880,483

183,875

 

1,621,681

159,557

 

Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions

386,273

37,806

 

364,607

35,943

 

Redeemed

(1,770,691)

(173,818)

 

(1,967,184)

(194,268)

 

Net Increase (Decrease)—Admiral Shares

496,065

47,863

 

19,104

1,232

 

 

G. In June 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Interpretation No. 48 (“FIN 48”), “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes.” FIN 48 establishes the minimum threshold for recognizing, and a system for measuring, the benefits of tax-return positions in financial statements, effective for the fund’s current fiscal year. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken on federal income tax returns for all open tax years (tax years ended January 31, 2005–2008) for purposes of implementing FIN 48, and has concluded that no provision for income tax is required in the fund’s financial statements.

 

 

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Long-Term Treasury Fund

 

Fund Profile

As of January 31, 2008

 

Financial Attributes

 

 

 

 

 

Comparative

Broad

 

Fund

Index1

Index2

Number of Issues

28

33

9,133

Yield

 

Investor Shares

4.0%

 

 

Admiral Shares

4.2%

 

 

Yield to Maturity

4.2%3

4.2%

4.5%

Average Coupon

6.7 years

6.8%

5.4%

Average Effective

 

 

 

Maturity

17.2 years

17.6 years

6.8 years

Average Quality4

Aaa

Aaa

Aa1

Average Duration

10.5 years

11.2 years

4.2 years

Expense Ratio

 

Investor Shares

0.26%

 

 

Admiral Shares

0.10%

 

 

Short-Term Reserves

0.5%

 

Volatility Measures5

 

 

Fund Versus

Fund Versus

 

Comparative Index1

Broad Index2

R-Squared

1.00

0.91

Beta

0.99

2.28

 

Sector Diversification6 (% of portfolio)

 

 

 

Treasury/Agency

99.5%

Short-Term Reserves

0.5   

 

Distribution by Maturity (% of portfolio)

 

 

 

Under 1 Year

0.5%

1–5 Years

0.0   

5–10 Years

2.4   

10–20 Years

71.2   

20–30 Years

25.9   

 

 

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Distribution by Credit Quality4 (% of portfolio)

 

 

Aaa

100%

 

Investment Focus

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

1  Lehman Long U.S. Treasury Index.

2  Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.

3  Before expenses.

4  Moody’s Investors Service.

5  For an explanation of R-squared, beta, and other terms used here, see the Glossary on pages 83 and 84.

6  The agency securities may include issues from government-sponsored enterprises; such issues are not backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.

 

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Performance Summary

All of the returns in this report represent past performance, which is not a guarantee of future results that may be achieved by the fund. (Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data cited. For performance data current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at www.vanguard.com/performance.) Note, too, that both investment returns and principal value can fluctuate widely, so an investor’s shares, when sold, could be worth more or less than their original cost. The returns shown do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or on the sale of fund shares.

Cumulative Performance: January 31, 1998–January 31, 2008

Initial Investment of $10,000

 


 

 

Average Annual Total Returns

Final Value

 

Periods Ended January 31, 2008

of a $10,000

 

One Year

Five Years

Ten Years

Investment

Long-Term Treasury Fund Investor Shares1

13.09%

6.09%

7.04%

$19,749

Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index

8.81   

4.76   

6.01   

17,934

Lehman Long U.S. Treasury Index

13.58   

6.25   

7.21   

20,056

Average General Treasury Fund2

11.86   

4.87   

5.76   

17,500

 

 

 

 

 

Final Value

 

 

 

Since

of a $100,000

 

One Year

Five Years

Inception3

Investment

Long-Term Treasury Fund Admiral Shares

13.27%

6.24%

7.29%

$163,216

Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index

8.81   

4.76   

5.84   

148,543

Lehman Long U.S. Treasury Index

13.58   

6.25   

7.30   

163,338

 

 

 

 

1  Total returns do not include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

2  Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.

3  Performance for the fund’s Admiral Shares and comparative standards is calculated since the Admiral Shares’ inception: February 12, 2001.

 

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Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): January 31, 1998–January 31, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares

Lehman1

Fiscal

Capital

Income

Total

Total

Year

Return

Return

Return

Return

1999

5.8%

6.2%

12.0%

12.3%

2000

–13.7   

5.3   

–8.4   

–8.3   

2001

11.7   

6.9   

18.6   

18.8   

2002

–0.4   

5.7   

5.3   

5.4   

2003

9.0   

5.8   

14.8   

14.9   

2004

0.0   

4.9   

4.9   

4.6   

2005

2.7   

5.3   

8.0   

8.6   

2006

–1.9   

4.9   

3.0   

2.9   

2007

–3.1   

4.9   

1.8   

2.0   

2008

7.8   

5.3   

13.1   

13.6   

 

Average Annual Total Returns: Periods Ended December 31, 2007

This table presents average annual total returns through the latest calendar quarter—rather than through the end of the fiscal period. Securities and Exchange Commission rules require that we provide this information.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ten Years

 

Inception Date

One Year

Five Years

Capital

Income

Total

Investor Shares2

5/19/1986

9.24%

5.44%

1.46%

5.51%

6.97%

Admiral Shares

2/12/2001

9.42   

5.59   

1.593   

5.383   

6.973   

 

 

1  Lehman Long U.S. Treasury Index.

2  Total returns do not include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

3  Return since inception.

Note: See Financial Highlights tables on pages 74 and 75 for dividend and capital gains information.

 

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Financial Statements

Statement of Net Assets

As of January 31, 2008

The fund provides a complete list of its holdings four times in each fiscal year, at the quarter-ends. For the second and fourth fiscal quarters, the lists appear in the fund’s semiannual and annual reports to shareholders. For the first and third fiscal quarters, the fund files the lists with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form N-Q. Shareholders can look up the fund’s Forms N-Q on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Forms N-Q may also be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room (see the back cover of this report for further information).

 

 

 

 

Face

Market

 

 

Maturity

Amount

Value

 

Coupon

Date

($000)

($000)

U.S. Government and Agency Obligations (97.6%)

 

 

 

U.S. Government Securities (95.3%)

 

 

 

 

U.S. Treasury Bond

9.125%

5/15/18

25,000

36,305

U.S. Treasury Bond

8.875%

2/15/19

35,500

51,298

U.S. Treasury Bond

8.125%

8/15/19

51,000

70,627

U.S. Treasury Bond

8.500%

2/15/20

17,000

24,281

U.S. Treasury Bond

8.750%

5/15/20

40,360

58,818

U.S. Treasury Bond

8.750%

8/15/20

102,000

149,064

U.S. Treasury Bond

7.875%

2/15/21

189,581

261,681

U.S. Treasury Bond

8.125%

5/15/21

92,875

130,997

U.S. Treasury Bond

8.125%

8/15/21

32,000

45,230

U.S. Treasury Bond

8.000%

11/15/21

23,000

32,301

U.S. Treasury Bond

7.250%

8/15/22

38,000

50,617

U.S. Treasury Bond

7.125%

2/15/23

83,000

109,781

U.S. Treasury Bond

6.250%

8/15/23

101,500

124,718

U.S. Treasury Bond

7.625%

2/15/25

60,000

84,253

U.S. Treasury Bond

6.875%

8/15/25

52,000

68,420

U.S. Treasury Bond

6.000%

2/15/26

92,200

111,475

U.S. Treasury Bond

6.750%

8/15/26

59,000

77,115

U.S. Treasury Bond

6.500%

11/15/26

25,050

31,982

U.S. Treasury Bond

6.625%

2/15/27

66,000

85,388

U.S. Treasury Bond

6.375%

8/15/27

122,650

155,076

U.S. Treasury Bond

6.125%

11/15/27

107,000

131,978

U.S. Treasury Bond

5.500%

8/15/28

25,000

28,820

U.S. Treasury Bond

5.250%

11/15/28

16,000

17,915

U.S. Treasury Bond

5.250%

2/15/29

103,500

115,903

U.S. Treasury Bond

6.125%

8/15/29

163,800

203,931

U.S. Treasury Bond

5.375%

2/15/31

151,725

173,843

U.S. Treasury Bond

5.000%

5/15/37

133,500

147,726

 

 

 

 

2,579,543

Agency Note (2.3%)

 

 

 

 

Private Export Funding Corp.

4.950%

11/15/15

60,000

63,742

 

 

 

 

63,742

 

 

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Total U.S. Government and Agency Obligations (Cost $2,382,976)

 

2,643,285

Temporary Cash Investment (0.5%)

 

 

 

 

Repurchase Agreement

 

 

 

 

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

 

 

 

 

(Dated 1/31/08, Repurchase Value

 

 

 

 

$13,638,000,collateralized by Federal Home

 

 

 

 

Loan Bank 5.500%, 6/12/15) (Cost $13,637)

2.900%

2/1/08

13,637

13,637

Total Investments (98.1%) (Cost $2,396,613)

 

 

 

2,656,922

Other Assets and Liabilities (1.9%)

 

 

 

 

Income Receivable

 

 

 

55,791

Other Assets—Note B

 

 

 

4,272

Liabilities

 

 

 

(9,491)

 

 

 

 

50,572

Net Assets (100%)

 

 

 

2,707,494

 

 

At January 31, 2008, net assets consisted of:1

 

 

Amount

 

($000)

Paid-in Capital

2,456,984

Undistributed Net Investment Income

Overdistributed Net Realized Gains

(9,799)

Unrealized Appreciation

260,309

Net Assets

2,707,494

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares—Net Assets

 

Applicable to 129,001,263 outstanding $.001 par value shares of

 

beneficial interest (unlimited authorization)

1,517,554

Net Asset Value Per Share—Investor Shares

$11.76

 

 

 

 

Admiral Shares—Net Assets

 

Applicable to 101,152,273 outstanding $.001 par value shares of

 

beneficial interest (unlimited authorization)

1,189,940

Net Asset Value Per Share—Admiral Shares

$11.76

 

 

 

 

•  See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements.

1  See Note C in Notes to Financial Statements for the tax-basis components of net assets.

 

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Long-Term Treasury Fund

 

Statement of Operations

 

 

Year Ended

 

January 31, 2008

 

($000)

Investment Income

 

Income

 

Interest

115,371

Total Income

115,371

Expenses

 

The Vanguard Group—Note B

 

Investment Advisory Services

198

Management and Administrative

 

Investor Shares

2,806

Admiral Shares

606

Marketing and Distribution

 

Investor Shares

292

Admiral Shares

232

Custodian Fees

40

Auditing Fees

26

Shareholders’ Reports

 

Investor Shares

81

Admiral Shares

7

Trustees’ Fees and Expenses

3

Total Expenses

4,291

Net Investment Income

111,080

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

 

Investment Securities Sold

13,640

Futures Contracts

63

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

13,703

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

 

Investment Securities

162,191

Futures Contracts

21

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

162,212

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

286,995

 

 

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Statement of Changes in Net Assets

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

 

2008

2007

 

($000)

($000)

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

 

Operations

 

 

Net Investment Income

111,080

107,855

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

13,703

11,363

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

162,212

(81,313)

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

286,995

37,905

Distributions

 

 

Net Investment Income

 

 

Investor Shares

(62,169)

(65,298)

Admiral Shares

(48,911)

(42,557)

Realized Capital Gain

 

 

Investor Shares

(9,899)

(6,648)

Admiral Shares

(7,401)

(3,886)

Total Distributions

(128,380)

(118,389)

Capital Share Transactions—Note E

 

 

Investor Shares

166,188

(104,926)

Admiral Shares

256,952

83,821

Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions

423,140

(21,105)

Total Increase (Decrease)

581,755

(101,589)

Net Assets

 

 

Beginning of Period

2,125,739

2,227,328

End of Period

2,707,494

2,125,739

 

 

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Financial Highlights

 

Investor Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Period

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period

$10.99

$11.40

$11.76

$11.52

$11.66

Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net Investment Income

.533

.547

.563

.574

.562

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

 

 

 

 

 

on Investments

.855

(.356)

(.218)

.314

(.001)

Total from Investment Operations

1.388

.191

.345

.888

.561

Distributions

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends from Net Investment Income

(.533)

(.547)

(.563)

(.574)

(.562)

Distributions from Realized Capital Gains

(.085)

(.054)

(.142)

(.074)

(.139)

Total Distributions

(.618)

(.601)

(.705)

(.648)

(.701)

Net Asset Value, End of Period

$11.76

$10.99

$11.40

$11.76

$11.52

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Return1

13.09%

1.80%

2.98%

8.01%

4.94%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ratios/Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net Assets, End of Period (Millions)

$1,518

$1,262

$1,419

$1,490

$1,471

Ratio of Total Expenses to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

0.26%

0.26%

0.26%

0.24%

0.26%

Ratio of Net Investment Income to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

4.78%

4.96%

4.82%

5.02%

4.81%

Portfolio Turnover Rate

37%

68%

25%

38%

64%

 

 

 

 

1  Total returns do not include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

 

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Admiral Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Period

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period

$10.99

$11.40

$11.76

$11.52

$11.66

Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net Investment Income

.551

.564

.581

.588

.577

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

 

 

 

 

 

on Investments

.855

(.356)

(.218)

.314

(.001)

Total from Investment Operations

1.406

.208

.363

.902

.576

Distributions

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends from Net Investment Income

(.551)

(.564)

(.581)

(.588)

(.577)

Distributions from Realized Capital Gains

(.085)

(.054)

(.142)

(.074)

(.139)

Total Distributions

(.636)

(.618)

(.723)

(.662)

(.716)

Net Asset Value, End of Period

$11.76

$10.99

$11.40

$11.76

$11.52

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Return

13.27%

1.96%

3.14%

8.15%

5.07%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ratios/Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net Assets, End of Period (Millions)

$1,190

$863

$809

$436

$450

Ratio of Total Expenses to Average Net Assets

0.10%

0.10%

0.10%

0.12%

0.13%

Ratio of Net Investment Income to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

4.94%

5.12%

4.99%

5.15%

4.94%

Portfolio Turnover Rate

37%

68%

25%

38%

64%

 

 

 

See accompanying Notes, which are an integral part of the Financial Statements.

 

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Notes to Financial Statements

Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The fund files reports with the SEC under the company name Vanguard Fixed Income Securities Funds. The fund offers two classes of shares, Investor Shares and Admiral Shares. Investor Shares are available to any investor who meets the fund’s minimum purchase requirements. Admiral Shares are designed for investors who meet certain administrative, service, tenure, and account-size criteria.

A. The following significant accounting policies conform to generally accepted accounting principles for U.S. mutual funds. The fund consistently follows such policies in preparing its financial statements.

1. Security Valuation: Bonds, and temporary cash investments acquired over 60 days to maturity, are valued using the latest bid prices or using valuations based on a matrix system (which considers such factors as security prices, yields, maturities, and ratings), both as furnished by independent pricing services. Other temporary cash investments are valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value. Securities for which market quotations are not readily available, or whose values have been materially affected by events occurring before the fund’s pricing time but after the close of the securities’ primary markets, are valued by methods deemed by the board of trustees to represent fair value.

2. Futures Contracts: The fund uses futures contracts to invest in fixed income asset classes with greater efficiency and lower cost than is possible through direct investment, to add value when these instruments are attractively priced, or to adjust sensitivity to changes in interest rates. The primary risks associated with the use of futures contracts are imperfect correlation between changes in market values of bonds held by the fund and the prices of futures contracts, and the possibility of an illiquid market.

Futures contracts are valued based upon their quoted daily settlement prices. The aggregate principal amounts of the contracts are not recorded in the Statement of Net Assets. Fluctuations in the value of the contracts are recorded in the Statement of Net Assets as an asset (liability) and in the Statement of Operations as unrealized appreciation (depreciation) until the contracts are closed, when they are recorded as realized futures gains (losses).

3. Repurchase Agreements: The fund may invest in repurchase agreements. Securities pledged as collateral for repurchase agreements are held by a custodian bank until the agreements mature. Each agreement requires that the market value of the collateral be sufficient to cover payments of interest and principal; however, in the event of default or bankruptcy by the other party to the agreement, retention of the collateral may be subject to legal proceedings.

4. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Accordingly, no provision for federal income taxes is required in the financial statements.

5. Distributions: Distributions from net investment income are declared daily and paid on the first business day of the following month. Annual distributions from realized capital gains, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date.

6. Other: Interest income is accrued daily. Premiums and discounts on debt securities purchased are amortized and accreted, respectively, to interest income over the lives of the respective securities. Security transactions are accounted for on the date securities are bought or sold. Costs used to determine realized gains (losses) on the sale of investment securities are those of the specific securities sold.

 

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Long-Term Treasury Fund

 

Each class of shares has equal rights as to assets and earnings, except that each class separately bears certain class-specific expenses related to maintenance of shareholder accounts (included in Management and Administrative expenses) and shareholder reporting. Marketing and distribution expenses are allocated to each class of shares based on a method approved by the board of trustees. Income, other non-class-specific expenses, and gains and losses on investments are allocated to each class of shares based on its relative net assets.

B. The Vanguard Group furnishes at cost investment advisory, corporate management, administrative, marketing, and distribution services. The costs of such services are allocated to the fund under methods approved by the board of trustees. The fund has committed to provide up to 0.40% of its net assets in capital contributions to Vanguard. At January 31, 2008, the fund had contributed capital of $208,000 to Vanguard (included in Other Assets), representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 0.21% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and officers of Vanguard.

C. Capital gain distributions are determined on a tax basis and may differ from realized capital gains for financial reporting purposes. Differences may be permanent or temporary. Permanent differences are reclassified among capital accounts in the financial statements to reflect their tax character. Temporary differences arise when gains or losses are recognized in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes; these differences will reverse at some time in the future.

The fund used a tax accounting practice to treat a portion of the price of capital shares redeemed during the year as distributions from realized capital gains. Accordingly, the fund has reclassified $2,084,000 from overdistributed net realized gains to paid-in capital.

For tax purposes, at January 31, 2008, the fund had short-term and long-term capital gains of $2,388,000 and $1,194,000, respectively, available for distribution. Short-term gain distributions are treated as ordinary income for tax purposes.

The fund had realized losses totaling $13,381,000 through January 31, 2008, which are deferred for tax purposes and reduce the amount of tax-basis unrealized appreciation on investment securities.

At January 31, 2008, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $2,409,994,000. Net unrealized appreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $246,928,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $247,182,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $254,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.

D. During the year ended January 31, 2008, the fund purchased $1,239,562,000 of investment securities and sold $839,331,000 of investment securities, other than temporary cash investments.

 

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Long-Term Treasury Fund

 

E. Capital share transactions for each class of shares were:

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

 

 

2008

 

 

2007

 

Amount

Shares

 

Amount

Shares

 

($000)

(000)

 

($000)

(000)

Investor Shares

 

 

 

 

 

Issued

438,358

38,720

 

232,664

21,059

Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions

65,449

5,860

 

65,019

5,904

Redeemed

(337,619)

(30,429)

 

(402,609)

(36,545)

Net Increase (Decrease)—Investor Shares

166,188

14,151

 

(104,926)

(9,582)

Admiral Shares

 

 

 

 

 

Issued

499,474

44,548

 

255,868

23,205

Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions

43,735

3,914

 

35,164

3,192

Redeemed

(286,257)

(25,841)

 

(207,211)

(18,812)

Net Increase (Decrease)—Admiral Shares

256,952

22,621

 

83,821

7,585

 

F. In June 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Interpretation No. 48 (“FIN 48”), “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes.” FIN 48 establishes the minimum threshold for recognizing, and a system for measuring, the benefits of tax-return positions in financial statements, effective for the fund’s current fiscal year. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken on federal income tax returns for all open tax years (tax years ended January 31, 2005–2008) for purposes of implementing FIN 48, and has concluded that no provision for income tax is required in the fund’s financial statements.

 

 

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Report of Independent Registered

Public Accounting Firm

 

To the Trustees of Vanguard Fixed Income Securities Funds and the Shareholders of Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Fund, Vanguard Short-Term Federal Fund, Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Fund, Vanguard GNMA Fund and Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Fund:

In our opinion, the accompanying statements of net assets and the related statements of operations and of changes in net assets and the financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Fund, Vanguard Short-Term Federal Fund, Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Fund, Vanguard GNMA Fund and Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Fund (constituting separate portfolios of Vanguard Fixed Income Securities Funds, hereafter referred to as the “Funds”) at January 31, 2008, the results of each of their operations for the year then ended, the changes in each of their net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements and financial highlights (hereafter referred to as “financial statements”) are the responsibility of the Funds’ management; our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits, which included confirmation of securities at January 31, 2008 by correspondence with the custodians and brokers, provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

PricewaterhouseCoopers

LLP Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

March 12, 2008

 

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Special 2007 tax information (unaudited) for Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Fund

This information for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2008, is included pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

For non-resident alien shareholders, 100.00% of income dividends qualifies as interest-related dividends.

 


Special 2007 tax information (unaudited) for Vanguard Short-Term Federal Fund

This information for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2008, is included pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

For non-resident alien shareholders, 100.00% of income dividends qualifies as interest-related dividends.

 


Special 2007 tax information (unaudited) for Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Fund

This information for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2008, is included pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

For non-resident alien shareholders, 99.23% of income dividends qualifies as interest-related dividends.

 


Special 2007 tax information (unaudited) for Vanguard GNMA Fund

This information for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2008, is included pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

For non-resident alien shareholders, 100.00% of income dividends qualifies as interest-related dividends.

 


Special 2007 tax information (unaudited) for Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Fund

This information for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2008, is included pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

The fund distributed $18,964,000 as capital gain dividends (from net long-term capital gains) to shareholders during the fiscal year.

For non-resident alien shareholders, 100.00% of income dividends qualifies as interest-related dividends.

 

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About Your Fund’s Expenses

As a shareholder of the fund, you incur ongoing costs, which include costs for portfolio management, administrative services, and shareholder reports (like this one), among others. Operating expenses, which are deducted from a fund’s gross income, directly reduce the investment return of the fund.

A fund’s expenses are expressed as a percentage of its average net assets. This figure is known as the expense ratio. The following examples are intended to help you understand the ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in your fund and to compare these costs with those of other mutual funds. The examples are based on an investment of $1,000 made at the beginning of the period shown and held for the entire period.

The table on page 82 illustrates your fund’s costs in two ways:

• Based on actual fund return. This section helps you to estimate the actual expenses that you paid over the period. The “Ending Account Value” shown is derived from the fund’s actual return, and the third column shows the dollar amount that would have been paid by an investor who started with $1,000 in the fund. You may use the information here, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period.

To do so, simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number given for your fund under the heading “Expenses Paid During Period.”

• Based on hypothetical 5% yearly return. This section is intended to help you compare your fund’s costs with those of other mutual funds. It assumes that the fund had a yearly return of 5% before expenses, but that the expense ratio is unchanged. In this case—because the return used is not the fund’s actual return—the results do not apply to your investment. The example is useful in making comparisons because the Securities and Exchange Commission requires all mutual funds to calculate expenses based on a 5% return. You can assess your fund’s costs by comparing this hypothetical example with the hypothetical examples that appear in shareholder reports of other funds.

Note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight and help you compare ongoing costs only and do not reflect transaction costs incurred by the fund for buying and selling securities. Further, the expenses do not include the account service fee described in the prospectus. If such a fee were applied to your account, your costs would be higher. Your fund does not charge transaction fees, such as purchase or redemption fees, nor does it carry a “sales load.”

The calculations assume no shares were bought or sold during the period. Your actual costs may have been higher or lower, depending on the amount of your investment and the timing of any purchases or redemptions.

You can find more information about the fund’s expenses in the Financial Statements section of this report. For additional information on operating expenses and other shareholder costs, please refer to your fund’s current prospectus.

 

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Six Months Ended January 31, 2008

 

 

 

 

Beginning

Ending

Expenses

 

Account Value

Account Value

Paid During

U.S. Government Bond Funds

7/31/2007

1/31/2008

Period1

Based on Actual Fund Return

 

 

 

Short-Term Treasury Fund

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$1,000.00

$1,069.29

$1.10

Admiral Shares

1,000.00

1,069.87

0.52

Short-Term Federal Fund

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$1,000.00

$1,065.19

$1.04

Admiral Shares

1,000.00

1,065.72

0.52

Intermediate-Term Treasury Fund

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$1,000.00

$1,104.83

$1.38

Admiral Shares

1,000.00

1,105.72

0.53

GNMA Fund

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$1,000.00

$1,069.13

$1.10

Admiral Shares

1,000.00

1,069.67

0.57

Long-Term Treasury Fund

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$1,000.00

$1,107.10

$1.38

Admiral Shares

1,000.00

1,107.99

0.53

Based on Hypothetical 5% Yearly Return

 

 

 

Short-Term Treasury Fund

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$1,000.00

$1,024.15

$1.07

Admiral Shares

1,000.00

1,024.70

0.51

Short-Term Federal Fund

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$1,000.00

$1,024.20

$1.02

Admiral Shares

1,000.00

1,024.70

0.51

Intermediate-Term Treasury Fund

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$1,000.00

$1,023.89

$1.33

Admiral Shares

1,000.00

1,024.70

0.51

GNMA Fund

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$1,000.00

$1,024.15

$1.07

Admiral Shares

1,000.00

1,024.65

0.56

Long-Term Treasury Fund

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$1,000.00

$1,023.89

$1.33

Admiral Shares

1,000.00

1,024.70

0.51

 

 

 

1  The calculations are based on expenses incurred in the most recent six-month period. The fund’s annualized six-month expense ratios for that period are: for the Short-Term Treasury Fund, 0.21% for Investor Shares, 0.10% for Admiral Shares; for the Short-Term Federal Fund, 0.20% for Investor Shares and 0.10% for Admiral Shares; for the Intermediate-Term Treasury Fund, 0.26% for Investor Shares and 0.10% for Admiral Shares; for the GNMA Fund, 0.21% for Investor Shares and 0.11% for Admiral Shares; and for the Long-Term Treasury Fund, 0.26% for Investor Shares and 0.10% for Admiral Shares. The dollar amounts shown as “Expenses Paid” are equal to the annualized expense ratio multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by the number of days in the most recent six-month period, then divided by the number of days in the most recent 12-month period.

 

 

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Glossary

Average Coupon. The average interest rate paid on the fixed income securities held by a fund. It is expressed as a percentage of face value.

Average Duration. An estimate of how much the value of the bonds held by a fund will fluctuate in response to a change in interest rates. To see how the value could change, multiply the average duration by the change in rates. If interest rates rise by 1 percentage point, the value of the bonds in a fund with an average duration of five years would decline by about 5%. If rates decrease by a percentage point, the value would rise by 5%.

Average Effective Maturity. The average length of time until fixed income securities held by a fund reach maturity and are repaid, taking into consideration the possibility that the issuer may call the bond before its maturity date. The figure reflects the proportion of fund assets represented by each security; it also reflects any futures contracts held. In general, the longer the average effective maturity, the more a fund’s share price will fluctuate in response to changes in market interest rates.

Average Quality. An indicator of credit risk, this figure is the average of the ratings assigned to a fund’s fixed income holdings by credit-rating agencies. The agencies make their judgment after appraising an issuer’s ability to meet its obligations. Quality is graded on a scale, with Aaa or AAA indicating the most creditworthy bond issuers. U.S. Treasury securities are considered to have the highest credit quality.

Beta. A measure of the magnitude of a fund’s past share-price fluctuations in relation to the ups and downs of a given market index. The index is assigned a beta of 1.00. Compared with a given index, a fund with a beta of 1.20 typically would have seen its share price rise or fall by 12% when the index rose or fell by 10%. For this report, beta is based on returns over the past 36 months for both the fund and the index. Note that a fund’s beta should be reviewed in conjunction with its R-squared (see definition below). The lower the R-squared, the less correlation there is between the fund and the index, and the less reliable beta is as an indicator of volatility.

Distribution by Coupon. A breakdown of the securities in a fund according to coupon rate—the interest rate that an issuer promises to pay, expressed as an annual percentage of face value. Securities with unusually high coupon rates may be subject to call risk, the possibility that they will be redeemed (or “called”) early by the issuer.

Expense Ratio. The percentage of a fund’s average net assets used to pay its annual administrative and advisory expenses. These expenses directly reduce returns to investors.

Inception Date. The date on which the assets of a fund (or one of its share classes) are first invested in accordance with the fund’s investment objective. For funds with a subscription period, the inception date is the day after that period ends. Investment performance is measured from the inception date.

R-Squared. A measure of how much of a fund’s past returns can be explained by the returns from the market in general, as measured by a given index. If a fund’s total returns were precisely synchronized with an index’s returns, its R-squared would be 1.00. If the fund’s returns bore no relationship to the index’s returns, its R-squared would be 0. For this report, R-squared is based on returns over the past 36 months for both the fund and the index.

 

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Short-Term Reserves. The percentage of a fund invested in highly liquid, short-term securities that can be readily converted to cash.

Yield. A snapshot of a fund’s interest income. The yield, expressed as a percentage of the fund’s net asset value, is based on income earned over the past 30 days (7 days for money market funds) and is annualized, or projected forward for the coming year.

Yield to Maturity. The rate of return an investor would receive if the fixed income securities held by a fund were held to their maturity dates.

 

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The People Who Govern Your Fund

The trustees of your mutual fund are there to see that the fund is operated and managed in your best interests since, as a shareholder, you are a part owner of the fund. Your fund’s trustees also serve on the board of directors of The Vanguard Group, Inc., which is owned by the Vanguard funds and provides services to them on an at-cost basis.

A majority of Vanguard’s board members are independent, meaning that they have no affiliation with Vanguard or the funds they oversee, apart from the sizable personal investments they have made as private individuals.

Our independent board members bring distinguished backgrounds in business, academia, and public service to their task of working with Vanguard officers to establish the policies and oversee the activities of the funds. Among board members’ responsibilities are selecting investment advisors for the funds; monitoring fund operations, performance, and costs; reviewing contracts; nominating and selecting new trustees/directors; and electing Vanguard officers.

Each trustee serves a fund until its termination; or until the trustee’s retirement, resignation, or death; or otherwise as specified in the fund’s organizational documents. Any trustee may be removed at a shareholders’ meeting by a vote representing two-thirds of the net asset value of all shares of the fund together with shares of other Vanguard funds organized within the same trust. The table on these two pages shows information for each trustee and executive officer of the fund. The mailing address of the trustees and officers is P.O. Box 876, Valley Forge, PA 19482.

 

Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and Trustee

 

 

John J. Brennan1

 

Born 1954

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive

Trustee since May 1987;

Officer, and Director/Trustee of The Vanguard Group, Inc., and of each of the investment

Chairman of the Board and

companies served by The Vanguard Group.

Chief Executive Officer

 

152 Vanguard Funds Overseen

 

 

 

Independent Trustees

 

 

 

Charles D. Ellis

 

Born 1937

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Applecore Partners (pro bono ventures

Trustee since January 2001

in education); Senior Advisor to Greenwich Associates (international business strategy

152 Vanguard Funds Overseen

consulting); Successor Trustee of Yale University; Overseer of the Stern School of Business

 

at New York University; Trustee of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.

 

 

Emerson U. Fullwood

 

Born 1948

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Executive Chief Staff and Marketing

Trustee since January 2008

Officer for North America since 2004 and Corporate Vice President of Xerox Corporation

152 Vanguard Funds Overseen

(photocopiers and printers); Director of SPX Corporation (multi-industry manufacturing),

 

of the United Way of Rochester, and of the Boy Scouts of America.

 

 

Rajiv L. Gupta

 

Born 1945

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Chairman, President, and

Trustee since December 20012

Chief Executive Officer of Rohm and Haas Co. (chemicals); Board Member of

152 Vanguard Funds Overseen

the American Chemistry Council; Director of Tyco International, Ltd. (diversified

 

manufacturing and services) since 2005.

 

 

 


Amy Gutmann

 

Born 1949

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: President of the University of

Trustee since June 2006

Pennsylvania since 2004; Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences, Annenberg School

152 Vanguard Funds Overseen

for Communication, and Graduate School of Education of the University of Pennsylvania

 

since 2004; Provost (2001–2004) and Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and

 

the University Center for Human Values (1990–2004), Princeton University; Director of

 

Carnegie Corporation of New York since 2005 and of Schuylkill River Development

 

Corporation and Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce since 2004.

 

 

JoAnn Heffernan Heisen

 

Born 1950

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Corporate Vice President and

Trustee since July 1998

Chief Global Diversity Officer since 2006, Vice President and Chief Information

152 Vanguard Funds Overseen

Officer (1997–2005), and Member of the Executive Committee of Johnson &

 

Johnson (pharmaceuticals/consumer products); Director of the University Medical

 

Center at Princeton and Women’s Research and Education Institute.

 

 

André F. Perold

 

Born 1952

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: George Gund Professor of Finance

Trustee since December 2004

and Banking, Harvard Business School; Senior Associate Dean, Director of Faculty

152 Vanguard Funds Overseen

Recruiting, and Chair of Finance Faculty, Harvard Business School; Director and Chairman

 

of UNX, Inc. (equities trading firm) since 2003; Chair of the Investment Committee of

 

HighVista Strategies LLC (private investment firm) since 2005.

 

 

Alfred M. Rankin, Jr.

 

Born 1941

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Chairman, President, Chief Executive

Trustee since January 1993

Officer, and Director of NACCO Industries, Inc. (forklift trucks/housewares/lignite); Director

152 Vanguard Funds Overseen

of Goodrich Corporation (industrial products/aircraft systems and services).

 

 

 

 

J. Lawrence Wilson

 

Born 1936

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Retired Chairman and Chief Executive

Trustee since April 1985

Officer of Rohm and Haas Co. (chemicals); Director of Cummins Inc. (diesel engines) and

152 Vanguard Funds Overseen

AmerisourceBergen Corp. (pharmaceutical distribution); Trustee of Vanderbilt University

 

and of Culver Educational Foundation.

 

 

Executive Officers1

 

 

 

Thomas J. Higgins

 

Born 1957

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Principal of The Vanguard Group, Inc.;

Treasurer since July 1998

Treasurer of each of the investment companies served by The Vanguard Group.

152 Vanguard Funds Overseen

 

 

 

 

 

Heidi Stam

 

Born 1956

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Managing Director of The Vanguard

Secretary since July 2005

Group, Inc., since 2006; General Counsel of The Vanguard Group since 2005; Secretary of

152 Vanguard Funds Overseen

The Vanguard Group, and of each of the investment companies served by The Vanguard

 

Group, since 2005; Principal of The Vanguard Group (1997–2006).

 

Vanguard Senior Management Team

 

 

 

 

 

 

R. Gregory Barton

Kathleen C. Gubanich

F. William McNabb III

Ralph K. Packard

Mortimer J. Buckley

Paul A. Heller

Michael S. Miller

George U. Sauter

 

Founder

 

John C. Bogle

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, 1974–1996

 

1  Officers of the funds are “interested persons” as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940.

2  December 2002 for Vanguard Equity Income Fund, Vanguard Growth Equity Fund, the Vanguard Municipal Bond Funds, and the Vanguard State Tax-Exempt Funds.

More information about the trustees is in the Statement of Additional Information, available from The Vanguard Group.

 

 

 


 


 

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You can obtain a free copy of Vanguard’s proxy voting

 

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the fund’s current prospectus.

In addition, you may obtain a free report on how your

 

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You can review and copy information about your fund

 

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To find out more about this public service, call the SEC

 

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> During the 12 months ended January 31, 2008, Investor Shares of the Vanguard Corporate Bond Funds posted returns ranging from 0.7% to 8.2%.

> Each fund either bettered, or was in line with, its benchmark index during the fiscal year and for the decade.

> U.S. Treasury bond yields declined dramatically across the maturity spectrum toward the end of the fiscal year. By contrast, the yields of some corporate bonds, especially those of longer-term and lower-quality issues, rose as investors became more risk averse.

 

Contents

 

 

 

Your Fund’s Total Returns

1

Chairman’s Letter

2

Advisors’ Report

10

Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund

16

Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade Fund

35

Long-Term Investment-Grade Fund

52

High-Yield Corporate Fund

66

About Your Fund’s Expenses

82

Glossary

84

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please note: The opinions expressed in this report are just that—informed opinions. They should not be considered promises or advice. Also, please keep in mind that the information and opinions cover the period through the date on the cover of this report. Of course, the risks of investing in your fund are spelled out in the prospectus.

 

 


Your Fund’s Total Returns

 

 

Fiscal Year Ended January 31, 2008

 

 

 

Ticker

Total

 

Symbol

Returns

Vanguard Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

 

Investor Shares

VFSTX

7.2%

Admiral™ Shares1

VFSUX

7.3   

Institutional Shares 2

VFSIX

7.3   

Lehman 1–5 Year U.S. Credit Index

 

7.9   

Average 1–5 Year Investment Grade Debt Fund3

 

5.2   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vanguard Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

 

Investor Shares

VFICX

8.2%

Admiral Shares1

VFIDX

8.3   

Lehman 5–10 Year U.S. Credit Index

 

6.9   

Average Intermediate Investment Grade Debt Fund3

 

6.4   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vanguard Long-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

 

Investor Shares

VWESX

4.4%

Admiral Shares1

VWETX

4.5   

Lehman U.S. Long Credit A or Better Index

 

3.7   

Average Corporate A-Rated Debt Fund3

 

5.8   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vanguard High-Yield Corporate Fund

 

 

Investor Shares

VWEHX

0.7%

Admiral Shares1

VWEAX

0.8   

Lehman U.S. Corporate High Yield Index

 

–0.6   

Average High-Current-Yield Fund3

 

–1.5   

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 A lower-cost class of shares available to many longtime shareholders and to those with significant investments in the fund.

2 This class of shares also carries low expenses and is available for a minimum investment of $50 million.

3 Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.

 

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Chairman’s Letter

 

Dear Shareholder,

The latter half of the fiscal year was marked by turbulent financial markets, including a swift and dramatic “flight to quality” in the fixed income markets. Each of the Vanguard Corporate Bond Funds weathered the experience well.

The interest rate environment was shaped by the Federal Reserve Board’s response, at least initially, to worries that pervaded the stock and bond markets about the potential negative impact of subprime-mortgage-related investments. (The Vanguard Corporate Bond Funds have no direct exposure to these investments.) These concerns led to a radical, and belated, reassessment of risk by investors who had been willing to accept yields on some investments that, in retrospect, provided insufficient compensation given the risks involved.

Such a risk-averse environment favored the Short-Term, Intermediate-Term, and Long-Term funds because of their strong emphasis on high-quality investment-grade securities. It also favored the High-Yield Corporate Fund in relation to its peers; the fund’s conservative approach in the below-investment-grade market emphasizes higher-quality offerings.

The table on page 1 shows how these trends in fiscal 2008 favorably affected the performance of the Corporate Bond Funds compared with their benchmark indexes and peer-group funds.

 

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Bond returns grew stronger as Fed lowered rates

During the first half of the fiscal year, a stronger U.S. economy made investors more willing to take on risk to earn higher yields; spreads thus narrowed between the yields of U.S. Treasury securities and those of lower-quality issues. But as the subprime lending problems unraveled further in summer, investors flocked to higher-quality government and corporate bonds. This drove Treasury prices higher and yields lower, widening the spread between Treasury yields and those of riskier bonds.

The Federal Reserve Board responded to the credit-market turmoil and deteriorating economic outlook with aggressive reductions in its target for the federal funds rate.

 

The Fed cut the rate five times during the fiscal year (twice in January), ending the period at 3.0%, the lowest rate since May 2005.

Lower interest rates depressed bond yields, but pushed prices higher. The broad taxable bond market returned 8.8% for the fiscal year. Tax-exempt municipal bonds returned 4.9%.

 

Market Barometer

 

 

 

 

Average Annual Total Returns

 

Periods Ended January 31, 2008

 

One Year

Three Years

Five Years

Bonds

 

 

 

Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (Broad taxable market)

8.8%

4.9%

4.8%

Lehman Municipal Bond Index

4.9   

4.0   

4.6   

Citigroup 3-Month Treasury Bill Index

4.6   

4.2   

3.0   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stocks

 

 

 

Russell 1000 Index (Large-caps)

–2.4%

7.8%

12.6%

Russell 2000 Index (Small-caps)

–9.8   

5.8   

15.3   

Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index (Entire market)

–2.7   

7.9   

13.2   

MSCI All Country World Index ex USA (International)

5.4   

17.0   

22.9   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CPI

 

 

 

Consumer Price Index

4.3%

3.4%

3.0%

 

 

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Stocks gained in the first half but faltered in the second

The broad U.S. stock market returned –2.7% for the 12 months ended January 31, reflecting a volatile year punctuated by sharp declines for equities. Gains in the first half of the fiscal period were largely relinquished in midsummer and fall as repercussions from the subprime mortgage debacle began to be felt in the broader U.S. economy. The stock market’s retreat accelerated in January amid tightening global credit markets, a weakening U.S. dollar, and widening fears of a U.S. recession.

 

Large-capitalization stocks fared best in these unsettled conditions, outperforming small-caps for the year; meanwhile, growth stocks outpaced their value-oriented counterparts.

International stocks outperformed U.S. stocks for the sixth straight year, largely owing to exchange-rate gains produced by the weak U.S. dollar. Emerging markets and developed stock markets in Europe and Asia posted strong performances earlier in the fiscal year, but slumped after November as a result of increased concern about a U.S.-led downturn.

Market turmoil proved to be an opportunity for your funds

The subprime-related stresses precipitated a “flight to quality,” lowering prices of riskier investments and raising those of higher-quality assets. The investor stampede benefited each of the Corporate Bond Funds, since the three investment-grade funds emphasize higher-quality securities and the high-yield fund focuses on better-quality securities in the high-yield universe.

The market turmoil drove up prices both of securities issued by the U.S. Treasury, viewed as supersafe from a credit point of view, and of government agencies, which

 

Yields and Returns

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Components of Total Returns

 

 

12 Months Ended January 31, 2008

 

SEC 30-Day Annualized

 

 

 

 

Yields on January 31,

Capital

Income

Total

Bond Fund

2007

2008

Return

Return

Return

Short-Term Investment-Grade

 

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares

5.04%

4.56%

2.09%

5.08%

7.17%

Admiral Shares

5.15   

4.67   

2.09   

5.20   

7.29

Institutional Shares

5.18   

4.70   

2.09   

5.23   

7.32

Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade

 

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares

5.33%

4.97%

2.80%

5.41%

8.21%

Admiral Shares

5.44

5.08

2.80

5.53

8.33

Long-Term Investment-Grade

 

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares

5.75%

5.82%

–1.42%

5.85%

4.43%

Admiral Shares

5.88

5.91

–1.42

5.95

4.53

High-Yield Corporate

 

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares

7.11%

8.32%

–6.43%

7.13%

0.70%

Admiral Shares

7.24

8.45

–6.43

7.26

0.83

 

 

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run a close second. This boosted the returns of each of the Corporate Bond Funds because of their holdings in these securities, which, at year-end, ranged from modest, in the case of the Long-Term Investment-Grade and High-Yield Corporate Funds, to about 17% of assets for the Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade Fund.

 

The Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund, whose holdings of Treasuries and of government-agency securities had grown to over 20% of assets as of October, also benefited from this rush to safety. Before the fiscal year-end, the fund’s advisor, Vanguard Fixed Income Group, redeployed most of these assets in investment opportunities that, in its judgment, had become more attractive amid the market turmoil.

 

The steep decline in the yields of shorter-term, high-quality securities drove up the share prices of the Short-Term and Intermediate-Term Funds, since bond prices move inversely to yield changes. The price change, or capital-return component of a fund’s total return, accounted for about one-third of each fund’s total return in fiscal 2008. (For details, see the table on page 4.)

When the income from the funds’ bond investments is included, the Short-Term fund’s Investor Shares earned a total return of 7.2%, in line with the benchmark’s 7.9% return and well ahead of the 5.2% average return for the fund’s peers. The Intermediate-Term fund earned 8.2%, easily outpacing both its benchmark (6.9%) and competitors (6.4%). The Long-Term fund’s 4.4% return also bested its benchmark index (3.7%) but lagged its peer group (5.8%).

 

Expense Ratios1

 

 

 

 

Your fund compared with its peer group

 

 

 

 

 

Investor

Admiral

Institutional

Peer

 

Shares

Shares

Shares

Group

Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund

0.21%

0.10%

0.07%

0.92%

Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade Fund

0.21   

0.10   

—   

0.96   

Long-Term Investment-Grade Fund

0.22   

0.12   

—   

1.12   

High-Yield Corporate Fund

0.25   

0.13   

—   

1.26   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 Fund expense ratios reflect the 12 months ended January 31, 2008. Peer groups are: for the Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund, the Average 1–5 Year Investment Grade Debt Fund; for the Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade Fund, the Average Intermediate Investment Grade Debt Fund; for the Long-Term Investment-Grade Fund, the Average Corporate A-Rated Debt Fund; and for the High-Yield Corporate Fund, the Average High-Current-Yield Fund. Peer-group expense ratios are derived from data provided by Lipper Inc. and capture information through year-end 2007.

 

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Reflecting investors’ increasing concerns about risk, yields of high-yield bonds leaped from levels many believed did not take into account the bonds’ higher associated risk. As the seesaw relationship between bond prices and yields implies, higher interest rates mean lower bond prices: in the case of the High-Yield Corporate Fund, a –6.4% capital loss. But a high (7.1%) income return more than offset the capital loss, resulting in a net total return of 0.7% for Investor Shares.

Although it had a low absolute return, the High-Yield Fund outpaced the negative returns of both its benchmark (–0.6%) and peer-group mutual funds (–1.5%). When risk aversion is in retreat, the High-Yield Fund tends to lag the return of its index and peer-group mutual funds because of its focus on higher-quality bonds within the high-yield, or “junk,” bond universe. When investors pay more attention to risk, as they have since last summer, the portfolio’s more conservative strategy generally leads to stronger relative returns.

Long-term approach trumps short-term market concerns

Over the years, and including the latest fiscal period—a time of heightened market uncertainty—the Corporate Bond Funds’ managers have relied on a number of prudent approaches. These approaches have served the funds in both good times and bad, and reflect Vanguard’s overall investing philosophy.

 

 

 

 

Total Returns

 

 

Ten Years Ended January 31, 2008

 

 

 

 

Average

 

 

Annual Return

 

 

Average

 

Vanguard

Competing

Bond Fund Investor Shares

Fund

Fund1

Short-Term Investment-Grade

5.1%

4.3%

Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade

6.1   

5.0   

Long-Term Investment-Grade

6.2   

4.9   

High-Yield Corporate

4.7   

3.6   

The figures shown represent past performance, which is not a guarantee of future results. (Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data cited. For performance data current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at www.vanguard.com/performance.) Note, too, that both investment returns and principal value can fluctuate widely, so an investor’s shares, when sold, could be worth more or less than their original cost.

 

 

1 Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.

 

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For one thing, smart analysis of the balance between risk and potential return helped the funds steer clear of the housing-related investments that proved troublesome to many investors. Sometimes the best investments are those not made.

Also, by keeping their expenses low, the funds could more easily act on this risk/return analysis. As you know, a fund’s costs come straight out of its returns. Thanks to their low expense ratios, the Vanguard Corporate Bond Funds could avoid the temptation to “stretch for yield”—and thus take on more risk—to produce strong performance relative to their peer groups. You can compare the funds’ strikingly lower costs with the averages for their competitors in the table on page 5.

Further aiding the funds has been their broad diversification within each of their intended areas of focus. Diversification is a tried-and-true approach to further dampening risk.

In addition, the advisors’ patience and long-term orientation provided perspective during the ups and downs that marked this fiscal year and tempted some investors to overreact. During the past 12 months, this overreaction manifested itself in the apparent undervaluation of promising securities—and provided an opportunity for the funds’ advisors to selectively add assets, including financials-sector securities, at what they perceive to be bargain prices to their respective portfolios.

Over the long term, the Corporate Bond Funds have outpaced the average returns of their peer groups, as shown in the table on page 6. For example, a hypothetical $10,000 initial investment in the Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade Fund would have grown to $18,001—or $1,670 above the average result of a similar investment in peer funds.

You can be a better investor if you tune out the noise

Fiscal 2008 was a “noisy” year. The level of investment noise rose by several decibels as pundits chattered about the broader impact of subprime lending, a possible economic slowdown, rising energy prices, a slumping housing market, and a declining dollar, among other things.

Such discourse inevitably suggests a sense of urgency, but Vanguard has found that you can safely tune out the noise if you hold a balanced portfolio of diversified stock and bond funds in proportions suited to your unique circumstances. Such a portfolio gives you exposure to the long-term growth potential represented by stocks, while relying on bonds for ballast against the stock market’s volatility.

 

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Moreover, bonds do more than serve as investment cushions. They can sometimes outperform stocks, as they did in fiscal 2008. This has happened often enough—in about 35% of one-year periods from 1926 through 20071—to serve as another reminder of the benefits of a balanced portfolio.

Earl E. McEvoy, long-standing fund manager, to retire

Earl E. McEvoy, longtime manager of Vanguard Long-Term Investment-Grade Fund and Vanguard High-Yield Corporate Fund, will retire from Wellington Management Company, LLP, on June 30, 2008. Lucius T. Hill III, Senior Vice President and Partner, and Michael L. Hong, CFA, Vice President—both at Wellington—will assume responsibility, respectively, for managing the Long-Term Investment-Grade Fund and the High-Yield Corporate Fund.

For the past 25 years, Earl has served Vanguard shareholders with distinction, managing a number of fixed income and balanced portfolios. He has managed the Long-Term Investment-Grade Fund since 1994 and the High-Yield Corporate Fund since 1984. We thank him for his service, and we have great confidence in the experienced professionals who will oversee these portfolios in the future.

 

Bill McNabb recently named president of the funds

As I close this report to you, it’s my pleasure to introduce the funds’ new president, F. William McNabb III. Bill is a man of great character and integrity who is intimately familiar with all aspects of Vanguard—from how we serve our clients to how we invest for our clients.

Bill and I have worked together very closely for more than two decades. I’m thrilled that the funds’ board elected him president, effective March 1, and designated him as my successor as chief executive officer, a role he will assume within a year, after an orderly transition. Bill and the rest of our team will serve you and our other clients extremely well in the years ahead.

Thank you for entrusting your assets to Vanguard.

Sincerely,

 


 

John J. Brennan

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

February 22, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 Returns are for the period 1926–2007. Sources: Vanguard calculations, based on the following indexes: For stock market returns, Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, 1926 through 1970; Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index, 1971 through April 22, 2005; Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) US Broad Market Index thereafter. For bond market returns, S&P High Grade Corporate Index, 1926 through 1968; Citigroup High Grade Index, 1969 through 1972; Lehman Brothers U.S. Long Credit AA Index, 1973 through 1975; Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, 1976 through 2007.

 

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Your Fund’s Performance at a Glance

 

 

 

 

January 31, 2007–January 31, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Distributions Per Share

 

Starting

Ending

Income

Capital

 

Share Price

Share Price

Dividends

Gains

Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$10.54

$10.76

$0.516

$0.000

Admiral Shares

10.54

10.76

0.528

0.000

Institutional Shares

10.54

10.76

0.531

0.000

Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$9.66

$9.93

$0.501

$0.000

Admiral Shares

9.66

9.93

0.511

0.000

Long-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$9.15

$9.02

$0.523

$0.000

Admiral Shares

9.15

9.02

0.532

0.000

High-Yield Corporate Fund

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$6.22

$5.82

$0.446

$0.000

Admiral Shares

6.22

5.82

0.454

0.000

 

 

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Advisors’ Report

 

For the Short- and Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade Funds

For the fiscal year ended January 31, 2008, the Investor Shares of the Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund returned 7.2%, and the Admiral and Institutional Shares each returned 7.3%. The Investor Shares of the Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade Fund returned 8.2%, and the fund’s Admiral Shares returned 8.3%. Both funds outperformed the average results of their peer groups, benefiting from their emphasis on high-quality securities. The Intermediate-Term Fund outpaced its benchmark index, and the Short-Term Fund trailed a few steps behind.

The investment environment

The U.S. economy began to slow dramatically in the second half of our fiscal year. In fourth-quarter 2007, according to estimates from the U.S. Commerce Department, the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) expanded at an annualized rate of less than 1%. As the economy has slowed, the nation’s labor market has softened.

Expectations for real GDP growth in 2008 continue to recede as the nation’s housing recession continues and the attendant “credit crunch” increases financing costs for certain businesses and households. The prospects for a U.S. recession in 2008 have risen notably, with some analysts suggesting that the economy (unofficially) entered a recession in December 2007.

The Federal Reserve Board moved aggressively to ease the credit squeeze and prevent a recession, providing additional funding to the major banks through a temporary auction facility and cutting its target for the federal funds rate on five separate occasions during the second half of the fiscal year. By the fiscal year-end, the federal funds target rate had decreased from 5.25% to 3.00%. Recent remarks by Fed officials have suggested that further cuts could be in store.

Even as the Fed eased its monetary policy, the rate of consumer inflation accelerated. Through December 2007, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was up 4.1% over the previous 12 months. Excluding food and energy prices, the core CPI was up 2.4% over the same period. Thus far, little “pass-through” has been observed from high commodity prices to nonrelated consumer-retail items. Although pipeline inflationary pressures remain elevated, the Fed has stressed that long-run inflation expectations, as reflected in the difference between nominal and inflation-adjusted interest rates, have remained “well contained.” Consequently, expectations for core CPI inflation going forward are for a modest and gradual deceleration toward or even below 2% in the face of low economic growth.

The U.S. bond market

At the start of the 2008 fiscal year, spreads between lower-quality corporate bonds and U.S. Treasury bonds were unusually tight, as a seemingly benign economic environment and ample liquidity promoted low levels of risk aversion among investors. In July and August, the situation changed dramatically. Rapid deterioration in securities backed by subprime-mortgage loans precipitated a broader credit crunch.

 

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Treasuries rallied, particularly the shortest-maturity, most-liquid securities. At the start of the fiscal period, the 2-year Treasury note yielded 4.93%. As of January 31, 2008, it yielded just 2.10%. This flight to safety increased the spreads between the yields of higher- and lower-quality securities. Treasury bonds outperformed corporate bonds, and high-quality securities outperformed weaker credits.

Management of the funds

The Short-Term Investment-Grade and Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade Funds were well-positioned for this environment, benefiting from their customary emphasis on high-quality securities. The funds had no exposure to subprime-mortgage-backed securities or to collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), two of the most troubled segments of the fixed income market over the past year.

Compared with market benchmarks, the funds also benefited from their more modest exposure to the poorly performing finance and asset-backed securities (ABS) sectors. Over the full 12 months, for example, the ABS segment under-performed the broader credit market by almost 2 percentage points. (These securities trailed Treasuries by more than 8 percentage points.)

Both funds handily outperformed the average returns of their peer groups, benefiting from their emphasis on higher-quality securities and their low operating expenses. The Intermediate-Term Fund also outperformed its benchmark—the Lehman 5–10 Year U.S. Credit Index—while the Short-Term Fund modestly underperformed the Lehman 1–5 Year U.S. Credit Index. We kept the portfolios’ durations, a measure of interest rate sensitivity, near the middle of their typical ranges. As a result of this positioning, the funds’ effective durations were a bit shorter than those of their Lehman benchmarks, which worked against us as interest rates pulled back sharply in the second half of the fiscal year.

Robert F. Auwaerter, Principal

Vanguard Fixed Income Group

February 22, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

Starting and Ending Yields of U.S. Treasury Securities

 

 

 

January 31,

January 31,

Maturity

2007

2008

2 years

4.93%

2.10%

3 years

4.86   

2.20   

5 years

4.82   

2.76   

10 years

4.82   

3.60   

30 years

4.92   

4.32   

 

Source: Vanguard.

 

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For the Long-Term Investment-Grade and High-Yield Corporate Funds

The performance of both Vanguard Long-Term Investment-Grade Fund and Vanguard High-Yield Corporate Fund is affected by the direction of interest rates, by the risk premiums for issuers of corporate bonds, and by the overall health of the U.S. economy.

In the earlier part of the funds’ 2008 fiscal year, excessive liquidity available for corporate borrowers and private equity firms contributed to a speculative credit bubble that rapidly deflated last summer. Corporations decided that they were underleveraged, which provided them an opportunity to borrow and buy back some of their own shares, potentially raising their stock price. (Rating agencies reacted negatively to the strategy.) Private equity firms, supported by banks and investment dealers, purchased entire companies at apparently excessive multiples of cash flows. The underlying assumption justifying these purchases was that the cost of debt would be inexpensive and that capital would be eagerly available.

In summer 2007, the bond and stock markets realized that the asset quality of particular securities was rapidly declining and that the U.S. economy was slowing. Owners of deteriorating financial assets took charges against their capital positions, leading to a reduction in their own ability to lend and to a widespread evaporation of credit. Even though corporate managements suspended their use of leverage strategies, credit spreads in the investment-grade market widened, pressured by worsening economic fundamentals and reduced availability of capital.

This sudden change should have created a stronger environment for investors in high-grade corporate bonds. Instead, tolerance for risk disappeared. Financial companies that had made loans to highly leveraged borrowers saw their bonds punished in the investment-grade corporate bond market. As the yields of the bonds of financial institutions increased, the debt securities of other corporate issuers followed suit.

At the same time, nominal interest rates of U.S. Treasuries fell because of active intervention by the monetary authorities. A flight-to-quality phenomenon ricocheted throughout the financial system, and banks became reluctant to lend to each other. The Federal Reserve Board quickly intervened on several occasions during the second half of the fiscal year to attempt to restore the functioning of the short-term money markets, but lenders have nevertheless been wary of extending credit.

Long-Term Investment-Grade Fund: The investment environment

The yield advantage of corporate bonds over Treasuries generally depends on the state of the U.S. economy, liquidity conditions, and the willingness of creditors to take on risk. The economy is slowing, although we do not anticipate conditions as severe as those of a classical recession.

 

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Federal monetary policy usually succeeds in preventing recessions, but the healing process of restoring lending and risk tolerance takes time. We envision this restorative process to take at least 12 months. Corporate spreads are at generous levels for the credit risks associated with them. We expect yield spreads to slowly tighten over the next 12 months as appetite for risk improves and as fiscal and monetary policies help to ensure stabilization of the economy.

Our current approach to the widening in risk premiums is to buy some of the stronger, higher-quality issuers that can comfortably withstand the current and anticipated negative factors affecting the economy.

The tenor of the bond market’s debate about the direction of the Fed’s interest rate policy has changed from that of 12 months ago. At the fiscal year-end, the discussion centered on how much further the Fed needed to cut short-term rates to stave off a recession and to reduce investor anxieties. The emphasis is almost exclusively about the fallout from delinquent subprime mortgages and the effects on financial institutions.

Successes

The fund does not own any collateral debt obligations backed by subprime mortgages. The fund had shifted its emphasis away from “vanilla” corporate bonds and toward non-event risk-type bonds, such as highly rated taxable municipal bonds, Treasuries, and agencies. This strategy, along with an underweighted position in brokerage firms, contributed positively to relative performance. The fund was fortunate enough not to own any securities that were downgraded to below-investment-grade status because of attempts to boost a company’s stock price or because of deteriorating credit fundamentals. The fund’s performance over both the 6- and 12-month fiscal periods exceeded the results of its benchmark.

Shortfalls

Because credit spreads widened and long rates declined, the fund should have had a longer duration and held even less credit-sensitive issues. Such positioning would have led to more capital appreciation as Treasury yields declined and to less deterioration of principal as risk premiums expanded. Our holdings in the insurance industry hurt the fund’s performance. In general, we invest the majority of the fund in investment-grade corporate credit; large shifts away from that part of the bond market would be unusual for the fund.

Positioning

The fund’s position in long-term investment-grade bonds with excellent call protection should contribute to income stability. Given the fund’s long duration and maturity, the biggest risk to the portfolio is a rise in long-term interest rates and widening risk premiums.

 

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We anticipate that inflationary expectations will remain contained in the coming quarters as the economy weakens. Muted concerns about future inflation are a necessary condition to prevent long-term rates from rising. Our bias is to lengthen duration marginally by purchasing high-quality corporate bonds and Treasuries, given the market’s unease about subprime mortgages and their potential contagious effects on financial institutions. We do not see the Fed raising rates in the foreseeable future.

The fund generally purchases bonds of large, well-established companies with stable operating histories. We do not own foreign bonds denominated in non-U.S. currencies.

High-Yield Corporate Fund: The investment environment

High-yield issuers are, in general, the marginal corporate borrower and are most vulnerable to credit contraction. Average bond prices declined in the second half of the fiscal year. Average spreads widened to 709 basis points over Treasuries as of January 31, an increase of 268 basis points since July. During this period, the riskiest securities underperformed: BB-rated bonds returned 3.4%; by contrast, CCC-rated bonds returned –3.9%.

Although the Fed has acted swiftly to try to rehabilitate the short-term markets, we are still cautious about the longer-term outlook. We expect the weakening economy to increase pressure on borrowers of poor credit quality as well as on those with overleveraged capital structures. Moody’s Investors Service has raised its forecast for default rates to 4.8%, from 4.0%. In addition to rising default rates, recovery rates in bankruptcy proceedings may be lower going forward compared to historical periods, given the increased emphasis of secured debt over high-yield bonds on corporate balance sheets today.

The fund has meaningful exposure to relatively higher-quality names within the high-yield market. We believe these credits have more consistent businesses and greater predictability of cash flows than those at the lower end of the spectrum. Given our view that credit will remain contracted and that corporate defaults will rise, we believe this positioning is appropriate. This strategy has benefited the fund over the last six months, allowing it to outperform its benchmark by more than 150 basis points.

Successes

The fund outperformed both the Lehman U.S. Corporate High Yield Index and the average high-current-yield fund in fiscal 2008, and there were no defaults among the portfolio’s securities. The fund’s higher-quality positioning was a significant contributor to outperformance.

 

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Shortfalls

The fund was hurt by its underexposure to securities from the supermarket and chemical industries as well as by security-selection decisions in the utilities and autos sectors.

Positioning

The fund is consistent in its investment objective and strategy. The quality bias just described reflects the higher credit hurdle that issuers must clear to be accepted into the portfolio. We accept lower yields, but expect fewer defaults and a better long-term total return than that of the market. We will continue to strive to minimize credit mistakes.

 

Corporate bonds have an asymmetrical payoff, meaning that their prices can decline more readily than they can appreciate. Our strategy is to diversify the portfolio’s holdings both by issuer and by industry as we seek to mitigate the risk of capital erosion and the effects and credit mistakes. We tend to avoid non-cash-paying securities, preferred stocks, and equity-linked securities such as convertibles, given the potential volatility of these instruments.

Earl E. McEvoy, Senior Vice President

and Partner

Wellington Management Company, LLP

February 20, 2008

 

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Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

Fund Profile

As of January 31, 2008

 

Financial Attributes

 

 

 

 

 

Comparative

Broad

 

Fund

Index1

Index2

Number of Issues

811

1,199

9,133

Yield

 

Investor Shares

4.6%

 

 

Admiral Shares

4.7%

 

 

Institutional Shares

4.7%

 

 

Yield to Maturity

4.6%3

4.4%

4.5%

Average Coupon

5.3%

5.8%

5.4%

Average Effective

 

 

 

Maturity

3.4 years

3.1 years

6.8 years

Average Quality4

Aa2

A1

Aa1

Average Duration

2.2 years

2.8 years

4.2 years

Expense Ratio

 

Investor Shares

0.21%

 

 

Admiral Shares

0.10%

 

 

Institutional Shares

0.07%

 

 

Short-Term Reserves

0.5%

 

Sector Diversification5 (% of portfolio)

 

 

 

Asset-Backed/Commercial Mortgage-Backed

24.6%

Finance

38.5   

Foreign

1.5   

Government Mortgage-Backed

3.1   

Industrial

25.1   

Treasury/Agency

0.2   

Utilities

5.2   

Other

1.3   

Short-Term Reserves

0.5%

 

Volatility Measures6

 

 

Fund Versus

Fund Versus

 

Comparative Index1

Broad Index2

R-Squared

0.96

0.83

Beta

0.72

0.44

 

 

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Distribution by Credit Quality4(% of portfolio)

 

 

 

Aaa

33.9%

Aa

23.7   

A

24.7   

Baa

16.7   

Ba

0.9   

B

0.1   

 

Distribution by Maturity (% of portfolio)

 

 

 

Under 1 Year

21.5%

1–3 Years

46.9   

3–5 Years

25.6   

Over 5 Years

6.0   

 

 

Investment Focus

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 Lehman 1–5 Year U.S. Credit Index.

2 Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.

3 Before expenses.

4 Moody’s Investors Service.

5 The agency and mortgage-backed securities sectors may include issues from government-sponsored enterprises; such issues are not backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.

6 For an explanation of R-squared, beta, and other terms used here, see the Glossary on page 84.

 

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Performance Summary

All of the returns in this report represent past performance, which is not a guarantee of future results that may be achieved by the fund. (Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data cited. For performance data current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at www.vanguard.com/performance.) Note, too, that both investment returns and principal value can fluctuate widely, so an investor’s shares, when sold, could be worth more or less than their original cost. The returns shown do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or on the sale of fund shares.

Cumulative Performance: January 31, 1998–January 31, 2008

Initial Investment of $10,000

 


 

 

 

Average Annual Total Returns

Final Value

 

Periods Ended January 31, 2008

of a $10,000

 

One Year

Five Years

Ten Years

Investment

Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares 1

7.17%

4.10%

5.09%

$16,436

Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index

8.81   

4.76   

6.01   

17,934

Lehman 1–5 Year U.S. Credit Index

7.86   

4.30   

5.74   

17,478

Average 1–5 Year Investment-Grade Fund2

5.19   

3.04   

4.28   

15,206

 

 

 

 

 

Final Value of

 

 

 

Since

a $100,000

 

One Year

Five Years

Inception3

Investment

Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund Admiral Shares

7.29%

4.20%

4.75%

$138,201

Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index

8.81   

4.76   

5.84   

148,543

Lehman 1–5 Year U.S. Credit Index

7.86   

4.30   

5.50   

145,237

 

 

 

 

 

Final Value of a

 

 

 

 

$50,000,000

 

One Year

Five Years

Ten Years

Investment

Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

 

 

 

Institutional Shares

7.32%

4.23%

5.22%

$83,191,832

Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index

8.81   

4.76   

6.01   

89,667,997

Lehman 1–5 Year U.S. Credit Index

7.86   

4.30   

5.74   

87,389,405

 

 

1 Total returns do not include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

2 Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.

3 Returns for the Admiral Shares and comparative standards are since the Admiral Shares’ inception: February 12, 2001.

 

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Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): January 31, 1998–January 31, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares

Lehman1

Fiscal

Capital

Income

Total

Total

Year

Return

Return

Return

Return

1999

–0.1%

6.3%

6.2%

7.1%

2000

–3.4   

6.2   

2.8   

1.5   

2001

2.6   

7.1   

9.7   

10.7   

2002

0.6   

6.3   

6.9   

8.3   

2003

–0.4   

5.4   

5.0   

8.7   

2004

0.3   

4.0   

4.3   

5.6   

2005

–1.7   

3.4   

1.7   

1.9   

2006

–1.2   

3.6   

2.4   

1.5   

2007

0.4   

4.6   

5.0   

4.7   

2008

2.1   

5.1   

7.2   

7.9   

 

Average Annual Total Returns: Periods Ended December 31, 2007

This table presents average annual total returns through the latest calendar quarter—rather than through the end of the fiscal period. Securities and Exchange Commission rules require that we provide this information.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ten Years

 

Inception Date

One Year

Five Years

Capital

Income

Total

Investor Shares 2

10/29/1982

5.86%

3.86%

–0.15%

5.21%

5.06%

Admiral Shares

2/12/2001

5.98   

3.96   

–0.113   

4.703   

4.593   

Institutional Shares

9/30/1997

6.01   

3.99   

–0.15   

5.33   

5.18   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 Lehman 1–5 Year U.S. Credit Index.

2 Total returns do not include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

3 Return since inception.

Note: See Financial Highlights tables on pages 27–29 for dividend and capital gains information.

 

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Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

Financial Statements

Statement of Net Assets—Investments Summary

As of January 31, 2008

This Statement summarizes the fund’s holdings by asset type (U.S. government and agency issues, corporate bonds, sovereign bonds, etc.); corporate bonds are further classified by industry sector. Details are reported for each of the fund’s 50 largest individual holdings and for investments that, in total for any issuer, represent more than 1% of the fund’s net assets. The total value of smaller holdings is reported as a single amount within each category.

The fund provides a complete list of its holdings four times in each fiscal year, at the quarter-ends. For the second and fourth fiscal quarters, the complete listing of the fund’s holdings is available electronically on Vanguard.com® and on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website (www.sec.gov), or you can have it mailed to you without charge by calling 800-662-7447. For the first and third fiscal quarters, the fund files the lists with the SEC on Form N-Q. Shareholders can look up the fund’s Forms N-Q on the SEC’s website. Forms N-Q may also be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room (see the back cover of this report for further information).

 

 

 

 

 

Face

Market

Percentage

 

 

 

Maturity

Amount

Value

of Net

 

 

Coupon

Date

($000)

($000)

Assets

U.S. Government and Agency Obligations

 

 

 

U.S. Government Securities

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. Treasury Note

3.500%

2/15/10

291,800

299,550

1.5%

 

U.S. Treasury Note

3.875%

9/15/10

182,000

189,706

0.9%

 

U.S. Treasury Note

3.875%

5/15/10

140,000

145,316

0.7%

 

U.S. Treasury Note

3.375%

9/15/09

97,780

99,644

0.5%

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.250%

10/15/10

72,300

76,152

0.4%

 

U.S. Treasury Note

3.375%

10/15/09

70,000

71,422

0.3%

 

U.S. Treasury Note

3.625%–4.875%

11/15/08–6/15/10

69,708

72,224

0.4%

 

 

 

 

 

954,014

4.7%

Mortgage-Backed Securities

 

 

 

 

 

Conventional Mortgage-Backed Securities

 

 

 

1,2

Federal Home Loan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mortgage Corp.

6.000%–7.000%

1/1/09–4/1/17

15,789

16,421

0.1%

1,2

Federal National

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mortgage Assn.

5.606%–7.500%

10/1/11–5/1/17

52,604

54,315

0.3%

 

Nonconventional Mortgage-Backed Securities

 

 

 

1,2

Federal Home Loan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mortgage Corp.

3.651%–7.274%

7/15/24–8/1/37

194,898

198,209

1.0%

1,2

Federal National

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mortgage Assn.

3.000%–7.208%

8/25/27–10/1/33

302,631

307,548

1.5%

 

 

 

 

 

576,493

2.9%

Total U.S. Government and Agency Obligations (Cost $1,480,249)

1,530,507

7.6%

Corporate Bonds

 

 

 

 

 

Asset-Backed/Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities

 

 

 

3

BA Covered Bond Issuer

5.500%

6/14/12

36,600

39,090

0.2%

2

Banc of America Funding Corp.

5.599%

9/20/46

72,311

72,887

0.4%

2

Banc of America

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mortgage Securities

3.419%–7.527%

9/25/32–2/25/34

19,955

19,710

0.1%

2

Bank of America

 

 

 

 

 

 

Credit Card Trust

4.720%

5/15/13

70,200

72,341

0.4%

 

 

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Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

 

2

Bear Stearns Adjustable Rate

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mortgage Trust

5.797%

10/25/36

80,893

81,467

0.4%

2

Bear Stearns Adjustable Rate

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mortgage Trust

5.480%

5/25/47

64,076

64,248

0.3%

2,3,4

BMW Floorplan Master Owner Trust

4.022%

9/17/11

107,500

104,959

0.5%

2

Cabela’s Master Credit Card Trust

4.310%

12/16/13

59,750

60,157

0.3%

2

Citigroup/Deutsche Bank

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commercial Mortgage Trust

5.205%

12/11/49

60,025

59,614

0.3%

2

First Horizon Mortgage

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pass-Through Trust

5.499%

1/25/37

74,656

75,008

0.4%

2

Honda Auto Receivables

 

 

 

 

 

 

Owner Trust

5.100%

3/18/11

58,700

59,906

0.3%

2

JP Morgan Mortgage Trust

5.300%

7/25/35

83,806

84,365

0.4%

2

Morgan Stanley Capital I

5.803%

6/13/42

81,050

81,806

0.4%

2,3,4

Nordstrom Private Label

 

 

 

 

 

 

Credit Card Master Trust

4.296%

5/15/15

93,000

90,737

0.4%

2

Residential Funding

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mortgage Securities I

5.855%

8/25/36

58,559

59,119

0.3%

2

Sequoia Mortgage Trust

5.653%

9/20/46

73,653

74,034

0.4%

2

Wells Fargo Mortgage Backed

 

 

 

 

 

 

Securities Trust

5.637%

10/25/36

72,951

73,993

0.4%

Other—Asset Backed/Commercial

 

 

 

 

 

Mortgage-Backed Securities

 

 

 

3,481,307

17.3%

 

 

 

 

 

4,654,748

23.2%

Finance

 

 

 

 

 

 

Banking

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bank of America

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capital Trust XIV

5.630%

12/31/49

105,428

86,477

0.4%

 

Bank of America Corp.

4.994%–5.375%

2/27/09–8/15/11

102,239

104,150

0.5%

4

Bank of Ireland

5.016%

12/18/09

61,800

61,368

0.3%

4

Bank of Nova Scotia

3.325%

3/28/08

94,000

93,967

0.5%

3,4

BBVA US Senior

 

 

 

 

 

 

S.A. Unipersonal

4.067%

4/17/09

117,500

117,246

0.6%

4

Citigroup, Inc.

5.286%

6/9/09

81,000

80,821

0.4%

3,4

Credit Agricole

5.103%

5/28/10

93,750

92,816

0.5%

3,4

DnB NOR Bank ASA

4.447%

10/13/09

60,900

60,463

0.3%

 

FleetBoston Financial Corp.

7.375%

12/1/09

5,000

5,308

0.0%

3,4

HBOS Treasury Services PLC

5.206%

12/8/10

89,800

89,015

0.4%

 

HSBC Bank PLC

6.950%

3/15/11

4,800

5,152

0.0%

 

HSBC Bank USA

3.875%–5.187%

9/15/09–12/14/09

77,000

76,786

0.4%

 

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

5.375%

10/1/12

72,565

75,819

0.4%

4

MBNA Corp.

5.308%

5/5/08

17,400

17,410

0.1%

 

Republic New York Corp.

5.875%

10/15/08

9,934

10,081

0.1%

 

Royal Bank of Canada

5.290%

2/2/09

114,300

115,938

0.6%

3,4

Royal Bank of

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scotland Group PLC

3.944%

7/21/08

97,700

97,212

0.5%

3,4

Santander U.S. Debt,

 

 

 

 

 

 

S.A. Unipersonal

5.201%

11/20/09

119,400

116,491

0.6%

4

Zions Bancorp.

6.641%

12/10/09

65,700

65,561

0.3%

Other—Banking

 

 

 

2,331,355

11.6%

 

Brokerage

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc.

5.750%

7/18/11

69,400

71,118

0.4%

4

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter

4.538%

1/15/10

100,900

99,206

0.5%

Other—Brokerage

 

 

 

616,658

3.0%

 

 

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Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

 

 

Finance Companies

 

 

 

 

 

 

American General

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finance Corp.

2.750%–5.375%

6/15/08–7/15/12

117,428

117,348

0.6%

 

General Electric

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capital Corp.

5.250%

10/19/12

97,830

101,919

0.5%

 

General Electric

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capital Corp.

3.344%–6.375%

7/28/08–11/15/17

301,050

306,510

1.5%

2

HSBC Finance

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capital Trust IX

5.911%

11/30/35

5,000

4,585

0.0%

 

HSBC Finance Corp.

4.125%–5.250%

12/15/08–1/14/11

104,175

105,259

0.5%

 

International Lease

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finance Corp.

3.500%–5.750%

4/1/09–1/13/12

150,467

151,993

0.8%

Other—Finance Companies

 

 

 

445,031

2.3%

 

Insurance

 

 

 

 

 

3

Berkshire Hathaway Finance Corp.

4.500%

1/15/13

68,685

70,493

0.4%

 

Chubb Corp.

5.472%

8/16/08

97,900

99,034

0.5%

3,4

MassMutual Global Funding II

3.959%

4/21/11

117,100

115,521

0.6%

5

Other—Insurance

 

 

 

787,068

3.8%

 

Real Estate Investment Trusts

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arden Realty LP

5.200%

9/1/11

7,700

7,948

0.0%

Other—Real Estate Investment Trusts

 

274,744

1.4%

 

 

 

 

 

7,077,871

35.3%

Industrial

 

 

 

 

 

Basic Industry

 

 

 

126,450

0.6%

 

Capital Goods

 

 

 

 

 

4

Caterpillar Financial Services Corp.

4.929%

8/11/09

74,100

73,636

0.4%

Other—Capital Goods

 

 

 

468,696

2.3%

 

Communication

 

 

 

 

 

 

AT&T Inc.

4.125%

9/15/09

64,970

65,336

0.3%

 

British Telecommunications PLC

8.625%

12/15/10

68,983

77,330

0.4%

 

Telefonica Emisiones SAU

5.984%

6/20/11

60,400

63,219

0.3%

 

Telefonos de Mexico SA

4.500%

11/19/08

58,830

58,830

0.3%

Other—Communication

 

 

 

681,040

3.4%

 

Consumer Cyclical

 

 

 

 

 

4

Paccar Financial Corp.

4.955%

5/17/10

70,325

69,876

0.3%

Other—Consumer Cyclical

 

 

 

891,387

4.5%

Consumer Noncyclical

 

 

 

949,691

4.7%

 

Energy

 

 

 

 

 

4

Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

5.391%

9/15/09

84,670

83,062

0.4%

Other—Energy

 

 

 

407,298

2.1%

 

Technology

 

 

 

 

 

 

International Business

 

 

 

 

 

 

Machines Corp.

4.950%

3/22/11

73,300

75,791

0.4%

4

Oracle Corp.

4.930%

5/14/10

93,775

93,010

0.5%

Other—Technology

 

 

 

191,286

0.9%

Transportation

 

 

 

450,490

2.3%

Industrial—Other

 

 

 

26,435

0.1%

 

 

 

 

 

4,852,863

24.2%

Utilities

 

 

 

 

 

Electric

 

 

 

745,196

3.7%

 

Natural Gas

 

 

 

 

 

3,4

Rockies Express Pipeline LLC

5.776%

8/20/09

61,500

61,683

0.3%

Other—Natural Gas

 

 

 

186,904

1.0%

 

 

 

 

 

993,783

5.0%

Total Corporate Bonds (Cost $17,562,375)

 

 

17,579,265

87.7%

 

 

22

 


Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

 

 

 

Market

Percentage

 

 

 

Value

of Net

 

 

 

($000)

Assets

† Sovereign Bonds (U.S. Dollar-Denominated) (Cost $301,275)

307,755

1.5%

† Taxable Municipal Bond (Cost $47,450)

 

 

47,282

0.3%

† Tax-Exempt Municipal Bonds (Cost $59,281)

 

61,960

0.3%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coupon

Shares

 

 

Preferred Stocks

 

 

 

 

4 Bank of America Corp.

5.908%

736,360

14,580

0.1%

General Electric Capital Corp.

6.450%

300,000

7,923

0.0%

† Other—Preferred Stocks

 

 

101,585

0.5%

Total Preferred Stocks (Cost $139,704)

 

 

124,088

0.6%

Temporary Cash Investment

 

 

 

 

6 Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund,

 

 

 

 

(Cost $128,005)

4.060%

128,004,970

128,005

0.6%

Total Investments (Cost $19,718,339)

 

 

19,778,862

98.6%

Other Assets and Liabilities

 

 

 

 

Other Assets—Note B

 

 

373,198

1.9%

Liabilities

 

 

(96,847)

(0.5%)

 

 

 

276,351

1.4%

Net Assets

 

 

20,055,213

100.0%

 

 

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Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

At January 31, 2008, net assets consisted of: 7

 

 

Amount

 

($000)

Paid-in Capital

20,074,634

Undistributed Net Investment Income

Accumulated Net Realized Losses

(238,087)

Unrealized Appreciation

 

Investment Securities

60,523

Futures Contracts

48,622

Swap Contracts

109,521

Net Assets

20,055,213

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares—Net Assets

 

Applicable to 1,040,549,398 outstanding $.001 par value shares of

 

beneficial interest (unlimited authorization)

11,201,202

Net Asset Value Per Share—Investor Shares

$10.76

 

 

 

 

Admiral Shares—Net Assets

 

Applicable to 780,577,548 outstanding $.001 par value shares of

 

beneficial interest (unlimited authorization)

8,402,687

Net Asset Value Per Share—Admiral Shares

$10.76

 

 

 

 

Institutional Shares—Net Assets

 

Applicable to 41,926,350 outstanding $.001 par value shares of

 

beneficial interest (unlimited authorization)

451,324

Net Asset Value Per Share—Institutional Shares

$10.76

 

 

 

 

• See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements .

† Represents the aggregate value, by category, of securities that are not among the 50 largest holdings and, in total for any issuer, represent 1% or less of net assets.

1 The issuer operates under a congressional charter; its securities are neither issued nor guaranteed by the U.S. government. If needed, access to additional funding from the U.S. Treasury (beyond the issuer’s line of credit) would require congressional action.

2 The average or expected maturity is shorter than the final maturity shown because of the possibility of interim principal payments and prepayments or the possibility of the issue being called.

3 Certain of the fund’s securities are exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. Such securities may be sold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. At January 31, 2008, the aggregate value of these securities was $3,257,515,000, representing 16.2% of net assets.

4 Adjustable-rate security.

5 Securities with a value of $18,504,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open futures contracts.

6 Affiliated money market fund available only to Vanguard funds and certain trusts and accounts managed by Vanguard. Rate shown is the 7-day yield.

7 See Note D in Notes to Financial Statements for the tax-basis components of net assets.

 

24

 


Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

Statement of Operations

 

 

 

Year Ended

 

January 31, 2008

 

($000)

Investment Income

 

Income

 

Dividends

7,373

Interest1

959,976

Security Lending

10

Total Income

967,359

Expenses

 

The Vanguard Group—Note B

 

Investment Advisory Services

1,643

Management and Administrative—Investor Shares

18,453

Management and Administrative—Admiral Shares

5,001

Management and Administrative—Institutional Shares

140

Marketing and Distribution—Investor Shares

2,746

Marketing and Distribution—Admiral Shares

1,611

Marketing and Distribution—Institutional Shares

103

Custodian Fees

230

Auditing Fees

40

Shareholders’ Reports—Investor Shares

272

Shareholders’ Reports—Admiral Shares

91

Shareholders’ Reports—Institutional Shares

Trustees’ Fees and Expenses

20

Total Expenses

30,350

Expenses Paid Indirectly—Note C

(230)

Net Expenses

30,120

Net Investment Income

937,239

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

 

Investment Securities Sold

3,328

Futures Contracts

57,413

Swap Contracts

(7,175)

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

53,566

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

 

Investment Securities

157,753

Futures Contracts

70,339

Swap Contracts

115,828

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

343,920

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

1,334,725

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 Interest income from an affiliated company of the fund was $21,902,000.

 

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Statement of Changes in Net Assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

 

2008

2007

 

($000)

($000)

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

 

Operations

 

 

Net Investment Income

937,239

807,072

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

53,566

(26,377)

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

343,920

74,399

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

1,334,725

855,094

Distributions

 

 

Net Investment Income

 

 

Investor Shares

(528,923)

(461,070)

Admiral Shares

(379,524)

(310,998)

Institutional Shares

(21,130)

(20,571)

Realized Capital Gain

 

 

Investor Shares

Admiral Shares

Institutional Shares

Total Distributions

(929,577)

(792,639)

Capital Share Transactions—Note F

 

 

Investor Shares

607,261

(86,791)

Admiral Shares

1,244,029

235,739

Institutional Shares

42,774

(118,667)

Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions

1,894,064

30,281

Total Increase (Decrease)

2,299,212

92,736

Net Assets

 

 

Beginning of Period

17,756,001

17,663,265

End of Period

20,055,213

17,756,001

 

 

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Financial Highlights

 

 

Investor Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For a Share Outstanding

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

Throughout Each Period

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period

$10.54

$10.50

$10.63

$10.81

$10.78

Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net Investment Income

.520

.479

.389

.355

.415

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

 

 

 

 

 

on Investments

.216

.031

(.135)

(.173)

.043

Total from Investment Operations

.736

.510

.254

.182

.458

Distributions

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends from Net Investment Income

(.516)

(.470)

(.384)

(.362)

(.428)

Distributions from Realized Capital Gains

Total Distributions

(.516)

(.470)

(.384)

(.362)

(.428)

Net Asset Value, End of Period

$10.76

$10.54

$10.50

$10.63

$10.81

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Return1

7.17%

4.96%

2.44%

1.71%

4.31%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ratios/Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net Assets, End of Period (Millions)

$11,201

$10,364

$10,414

$13,049

$11,732

Ratio of Total Expenses to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

0.21%

0.21%

0.21%

0.18%

0.21%

Ratio of Net Investment Income to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

4.91%

4.55%

3.68%

3.31%

3.80%

Portfolio Turnover Rate

48%

43%

31%

37%

43%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 Total returns do not include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

 

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Admiral Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For a Share Outstanding

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

Throughout Each Period

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period

$10.54

$10.50

$10.63

$10.81

$10.78

Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net Investment Income

.532

.490

.400

.363

.423

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

 

 

 

 

 

on Investments

.216

.031

(.135)

(.173)

.043

Total from Investment Operations

.748

.521

.265

.190

.466

Distributions

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends from Net Investment Income

(.528)

(.481)

(.395)

(.370)

(.436)

Distributions from Realized Capital Gains

Total Distributions

(.528)

(.481)

(.395)

(.370)

(.436)

Net Asset Value, End of Period

$10.76

$10.54

$10.50

$10.63

$10.81

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Return

7.29%

5.07%

2.55%

1.79%

4.40%

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ratios/Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net Assets, End of Period (Millions)

$8,403

$6,993

$6,733

$4,254

$3,907

Ratio of Total Expenses to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

0.10%

0.10%

0.10%

0.11%

0.13%

Ratio of Net Investment Income to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

5.02%

4.66%

3.79%

3.38%

3.87%

Portfolio Turnover Rate

48%

43%

31%

37%

43%

 

 

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Institutional Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For a Share Outstanding

 

Year Ended January 31,

Throughout Each Period

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period

$10.54

$10.50

$10.63

$10.81

$10.78

Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net Investment Income

.535

.493

.404

.366

.427

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

 

 

 

 

 

on Investments

.216

.031

(.135)

(.173)

.043

Total from Investment Operations

.751

.524

.269

.193

.470

Distributions

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends from Net Investment Income

(.531)

(.484)

(.399)

(.373)

(.440)

Distributions from Realized Capital Gains

Total Distributions

(.531)

(.484)

(.399)

(.373)

(.440)

Net Asset Value, End of Period

$10.76

$10.54

$10.50

$10.63

$10.81

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Return

7.32%

5.11%

2.58%

1.81%

4.43%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ratios/Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net Assets, End of Period (Millions)

$451

$400

$517

$891

$849

Ratio of Total Expenses to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

0.07%

0.07%

0.07%

0.08%

0.10%

Ratio of Net Investment Income to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

5.05%

4.69%

3.82%

3.41%

3.90%

Portfolio Turnover Rate

48%

43%

31%

37%

43%

 

 

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Notes to Financial Statements

Vanguard Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The fund files reports with the SEC under the company name Vanguard Fixed Income Securities Funds. Certain of the fund’s investments are in corporate debt instruments; the issuers’ abilities to meet their obligations may be affected by economic developments in their respective industries. The fund offers three classes of shares, Investor Shares, Admiral Shares, and Institutional Shares. Investor Shares are available to any investor who meets the fund’s minimum purchase requirements. Admiral Shares are designed for investors who meet certain administrative, service, tenure, and account-size criteria. Institutional Shares are designed for investors who meet certain administrative and service criteria and invest a minimum of $50 million.

A. The following significant accounting policies conform to generally accepted accounting principles for U.S. mutual funds. The fund consistently follows such policies in preparing its financial statements.

1. Security Valuation: Bonds, and temporary cash investments acquired over 60 days to maturity, are valued using the latest bid prices or using valuations based on a matrix system (which considers such factors as security prices, yields, maturities, and ratings), both as furnished by independent pricing services. Equity securities are valued at the latest quoted sales prices or official closing prices taken from the primary market in which each security trades; such securities not traded on the valuation date are valued at the mean of the latest quoted bid and asked prices. Investments in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund are valued at that fund’s net asset value. Other temporary cash investments are valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value. Securities for which market quotations are not readily available, or whose values have been materially affected by events occurring before the fund’s pricing time but after the close of the securities’ primary markets, are valued by methods deemed by the board of trustees to represent fair value.

2. Futures Contracts: The fund uses futures contracts to invest in fixed income asset classes with greater efficiency and lower cost than is possible through direct investment, to add value when these instruments are attractively priced, or to adjust sensitivity to changes in interest rates. The primary risks associated with the use of futures contracts are imperfect correlation between changes in market values of bonds held by the fund and the prices of futures contracts, and the possibility of an illiquid market.

Futures contracts are valued based upon their quoted daily settlement prices. The aggregate principal amounts of the contracts are not recorded in the Statement of Net Assets. Fluctuations in the value of the contracts are recorded in the Statement of Net Assets as an asset (liability) and in the Statement of Operations as unrealized appreciation (depreciation) until the contracts are closed, when they are recorded as realized futures gains (losses).

3. Swap Contracts: The fund has sold credit protection through credit default swaps, to simulate investments in long bond positions that are either unavailable or considered to be less attractively priced in the bond market. Under the terms of the swaps, the seller of the credit protection receives a periodic payment amount (premium) from the buyer that is a fixed percentage amount applied to a notional principal amount. In return, the seller agrees to pay the buyer the notional amount and take delivery of a debt instrument of the reference issuer of the same notional par amount if the reference entity is subject to a credit event (such as bankruptcy, failure to pay, or obligation acceleration) during the term of the swap.

The fund has also entered into interest rate swap transactions. Under the terms of the swaps, one party pays the other an amount that is a fixed percentage rate applied to a notional principal amount. In return, the counterparty agrees to pay a floating rate, which is reset periodically based on short-term interest rates, applied to the same notional amount.

 

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The fund has also entered into swap transactions to earn the total return on a specified security or index of fixed income securities. Under the terms of the swaps, the fund receives the total return (either receiving the increase or paying the decrease) on a reference security or index, applied to a notional principal amount. In return, the fund agrees to pay the counterparty a floating rate, which is reset periodically based on short-term interest rates, applied to the same notional amount. At the same time, the fund invests an amount equal to the notional amount of the swaps in high-quality floating-rate securities.

The notional amounts of swap contracts are not recorded in the Statement of Net Assets.Swaps are valued daily, and the change in value is recorded as unrealized appreciation (depreciation) until the counterparty requires the fund to take delivery upon occurrence of a credit event (for selling credit protection), periodic payments are made, or the swap terminates, at which time realized gain (loss) is recorded. The net premium to be received or paid by the fund under swap contracts is accrued daily and recorded as realized gain (loss). The primary risks associated with selling credit protection are that, upon the occurrence of a defined credit event, the market value of the debt instrument received by the fund from the buyer will be significantly less than the amount paid by the fund for such instrument, and that the debt instrument will be illiquid. A primary risk for all types of swaps is that a counterparty will default on its obligation to pay net amounts due to the fund.

4. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Accordingly, no provision for federal income taxes is required in the financial statements.

5. Distributions: Distributions from net investment income are declared daily and paid on the first business day of the following month. Annual distributions from realized capital gains, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date.

6. Security Lending: The fund may lend its securities to qualified institutional borrowers to earn additional income. Security loans are required to be secured at all times by collateral at least equal to the market value of securities loaned. The fund invests cash collateral received in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, and records a liability for the return of the collateral, during the period the securities are on loan. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less expenses associated with the loan.

7. Other: Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date. Interest income includes income distributions received from Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund and is accrued daily. Premiums and discounts on debt securities purchased are amortized and accreted, respectively, to interest income over the lives of the respective securities. Security transactions are accounted for on the date securities are bought or sold. Costs used to determine realized gains (losses) on the sale of investment securities are those of the specific securities sold.

Each class of shares has equal rights as to assets and earnings, except that each class separately bears certain class-specific expenses related to maintenance of shareholder accounts (included in Management and Administrative expenses) and shareholder reporting. Marketing and distribution expenses are allocated to each class of shares based on a method approved by the board of trustees. Income, other non-class-specific expenses, and gains and losses on investments are allocated to each class of shares based on its relative net assets.

 

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B. The Vanguard Group furnishes at cost investment advisory, corporate management, administrative, marketing, and distribution services. The costs of such services are allocated to the fund under methods approved by the board of trustees. The fund has committed to provide up to 0.40% of its net assets in capital contributions to Vanguard. At January 31, 2008, the fund had contributed capital of $1,664,000 to Vanguard (included in Other Assets), representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 1.66% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and officers of Vanguard.

C. The fund’s custodian bank has agreed to reduce its fees when the fund maintains cash on deposit in the non-interest-bearing custody account. For the year ended January 31, 2008, custodian fee offset arrangements reduced the fund’s expenses by $230,000.

D. Capital gain distributions are determined on a tax basis and may differ from realized capital gains for financial reporting purposes. Differences may be permanent or temporary. Permanent differences are reclassified among capital accounts in the financial statements to reflect their tax character. Temporary differences arise when gains or losses are recognized in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes; these differences will reverse at some time in the future.

Realized and unrealized gains (losses) on certain of the fund’s swap contracts are treated as ordinary income (loss) for tax purposes; the effect on the fund’s income dividends to shareholders is offset by a change in principal return. Realized losses of $7,662,000 on swap contracts have been reclassified from accumulated net realized losses to undistributed net investment income.

For tax purposes, at January 31, 2008, the fund had available realized losses of $189,134,000 to offset future net capital gains of $77,747,000 through January 31, 2011, $29,567,000 through January 31, 2013, $49,839,000 through January 31, 2014, and $31,981,000 through January 31, 2015.

At January 31, 2008, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $19,718,339,000. Net unrealized appreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $60,523,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $258,553,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $198,030,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.

At January 31, 2008, the aggregate settlement value of open futures contracts expiring in March 2008 and the related unrealized appreciation (depreciation) were:

 

 

 

 

($000)

 

Number of

Aggregate

Unrealized

 

Long (Short)

Settlement

Appreciation

Futures Contracts

Contracts

Value

(Depreciation)

2-Year Treasury Note

9,021

1,923,446

28,334

5-Year Treasury Note

10,958

1,238,254

32,074

10-Year Treasury Note

(3,354)

391,475

(11,786)

 

Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on open futures contracts is required to be treated as realized gain (loss) for tax purposes.

 

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At January 31, 2008, the fund had the following open swap contracts:

 

Credit Default Swaps

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unrealized

 

 

 

Notional

 

Appreciation

 

Termination

 

Amount

Premium

(Depreciation)

Reference Entity

Date

Dealer1

($000)

Received

($000)

United Parcel Service

3/20/08

WB

94,670

0.070%

(11)

Lehman Brothers Inc.

6/20/08

DBS

34,200

0.180%

(213)

Procter & Gamble Co.

9/20/08

DBS

111,800

0.120%

(85)

Burlington Northern

Santa Fe Corp.

6/20/12

DBS

18,400

0.400%

(102)

Johnson & Johnson

9/20/12

UBS

7,340

0.080%

(42)

Johnson & Johnson

9/20/12

GS

18,345

0.070%

(112)

Lehman Brothers Inc.

12/20/12

BA

14,675

1.190%

(279)

 

 

 

 

 

(844)

 

Interest Rate Swaps

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fixed

Floating

Unrealized

 

 

Notional

Interest Rate

Interest Rate

Appreciation

 

 

Amount

Received

Received

(Depreciation)

Termination Date

Dealer1

($000)

(Paid)

(Paid)

($000)

3/28/08

LEH

94,000

4.758%

(3.285%)2

221

9/19/08

LEH

119,400

4.743%

(4.941%)3

1,013

3/1/09

WB

175,000

4.858%

(5.124%)3

3,395

4/17/09

LEH

117,500

5.637%

(3.998%)3

3,623

5/18/09

LEH

44,000

5.601%

(4.905%)3

1,486

6/2/09

DBS

40,850

3.765%

(5.124%)3

418

6/2/09

WB

56,470

5.629%

(5.124%)3

1,938

6/9/09

LEH

81,000

5.636%

(5.146%)3

2,799

6/18/09

LEH

34,200

5.039%

(4.966%)3

925

7/27/09

LEH

35,000

5.468%

(3.244%)3

1,311

8/8/09

LEH

98,750

5.039%

(4.898%)3

3,141

8/11/09

BS

74,100

5.062%

(4.879%)3

2,397

8/21/09

LEH

43,450

5.274%

(4.982%)3

1,547

8/25/09

LEH

16,160

5.628%

(5.030%)3

663

9/15/09

LEH

177,000

3.855%

(4.991%)3

2,418

9/17/09

BS

70,000

5.183%

(4.023%)2

2,542

10/2/09

LEH

61,500

5.026%

(4.729%)3

2,002

10/13/09

LEH

60,900

5.052%

(4.379%)3

2,057

10/26/09

LEH

60,880

5.170%

(3.244%)3

2,291

11/16/09

BS

9,500

5.413%

(4.081%)2

418

11/16/09

LEH

38,620

4.641%

(4.878%)3

1,171

11/20/09

LEH

119,400

4.979%

(4.949%)3

4,335

 

 

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Interest Rate Swaps (continued)

 

 

 

Fixed

Floating

Unrealized

 

 

Notional

Interest Rate

Interest Rate

Appreciation

 

 

Amount

Received

Received

(Depreciation)

Termination Date

Dealer1

($000)

(Paid)

(Paid)

($000)

12/9/09

LEH

18,900

5.414%

(5.146%)3

833

12/14/09

LEH

38,500

5.414%

(5.058%)3

1,705

12/17/09

LEH

23,500

5.413%

(4.991%)3

1,043

12/18/09

LEH

61,800

4.973%

(4.966%)3

2,255

12/23/09

LEH

49,750

5.045%

(4.884%)3

1,886

1/15/10

WB

100,900

5.416%

(4.258%)3

4,670

2/15/10

WB

75,000

5.468%

(4.236%)2

3,822

5/8/10

BS

101,310

5.268%

(4.898%)3

5,192

5/10/10

LEH

41,400

5.239%

(4.879%)3

2,101

5/15/10

LEH

183,000

4.828%

(4.869%)3

7,616

5/15/10

BS

59,350

5.248%

(4.236%)2

3,028

5/18/10

BS

48,900

5.154%

(4.905%)3

2,390

5/21/10

LEH

204,275

5.262%

(4.982%)3

10,473

6/15/10

BS

25,000

4.983%

(3.244%)3

1,164

6/15/10

LEH

51,600

4.982%

(4.055%)3

2,322

6/28/10

LEH

15,700

5.413%

(4.843%)3

860

7/17/10

BS

37,500

5.195%

(4.023%)2

1,970

8/2/10

LEH

20,000

5.419%

(4.894%)3

1,180

8/15/10

LEH

41,500

5.418%

(4.869%)3

2,448

10/16/11

BS

24,450

5.030%

(4.055%)3

1,475

 

 

 

 

 

100,544

 

Total Return Swaps

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unrealized

 

 

Notional

Floating

Appreciation

 

 

Amount

Interest Rate

(Depreciation)

Reference Entity/Termination Date

Dealer1

($000)

Paid2

($000)

Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities Index

 

 

 

 

2/29/08

UBS

55,000

3.194%

2,346

2/29/08

UBS

179,700

3.194%

7,475

 

 

 

 

9,821

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 BA—Bank of America, N.A.

BS—Bear Stearns Bank PLC

DBS—Deutsche Bank AG

GS—Goldman Sachs Capital Markets

LEH—Lehman Brothers Special Financing Inc.

UBS—UBS AG

WB—Wachovia Bank, N.A.

2 Based on one-month London InterBank Offered Rate (LIBOR) as of the most recent payment date.

3 Based on three-month London InterBank Offered Rate (LIBOR) as of the most recent payment date.

 

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E. During the year ended January 31, 2008, the fund purchased $5,451,562,000 of investment securities and sold $4,589,215,000 of investment securities, other than U.S. government securities and temporary cash investments. Purchases and sales of U.S. government securities were $2,925,693,000 and $3,455,670,000, respectively.

F. Capital share transactions for each class of shares were:

 

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

 

 

2008

 

2007

 

Amount

Shares

Amount

Shares

 

($000)

(000)

($000)

(000)

Investor Shares

 

 

 

 

Issued

3,084,096

290,971

2,303,235

219,212

Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions

486,843

45,895

419,693

39,942

Redeemed

(2,963,678)

(279,265)

(2,809,719)

(267,572)

Net Increase (Decrease)—Investor Shares

607,261

57,601

(86,791)

(8,418)

Admiral Shares

 

 

 

 

Issued

3,068,780

289,500

2,203,023

209,668

Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions

321,009

30,258

260,597

24,799

Redeemed

(2,145,760)

(202,379)

(2,227,881)

(212,189)

Net Increase (Decrease)—Admiral Shares

1,244,029

117,379

235,739

22,278

Institutional Shares

 

 

 

 

Issued

72,562

6,848

76,400

7,267

Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions

18,817

1,774

15,113

1,438

Redeemed

(48,605)

(4,590)

(210,180)

(20,021)

Net Increase (Decrease)—Institutional Shares

42,774

4,032

(118,667)

(11,316)

 

 

G. In June 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Interpretation No. 48 (“FIN 48”), “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes.” FIN 48 establishes the minimum threshold for recognizing, and a system for measuring, the benefits of tax-return positions in financial statements, effective for the fund’s current fiscal year. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken on federal income tax returns for all open tax years (tax years ended January 31, 2005–2008) for purposes of implementing FIN 48, and has concluded that no provision for income tax is required in the fund’s financial statements.

 

 

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Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

Fund Profile

As of January 31, 2008

 

Financial Attributes

 

 

 

 

 

Comparative

Broad

 

Fund

Index1

Index2

Number of Issues

653

1,159

9,133

Yield

 

Investor Shares

5.0%

 

 

Admiral Shares

5.1%

 

 

Yield to Maturity

5.3%3

5.5%

4.5%

Average Coupon

5.7%

5.6%

5.4%

Average Effective

 

 

 

Maturity

8.2 years

7.7 years

6.8 years

Average Quality4

Aa3

A1

Aa1

Average Duration

5.2 years

6.2 years

4.2 years

Expense Ratio

 

Investor Shares

0.21%

 

 

Admiral Shares

0.10%

 

 

Short-Term Reserves

0.3%

 

Sector Diversification5 (% of portfolio)

 

 

 

Asset-Backed/Commercial Mortgage-Backed

8.0%

Finance

35.7   

Foreign

2.0   

Government Mortgage-Backed

0.8   

Industrial

28.1   

Treasury/Agency

16.7   

Utilities

7.6   

Other

0.8   

Short-Term Reserves

0.3%

 

Volatility Measures6

 

 

Fund Versus

Fund Versus

 

Comparative Index1

Broad Index2

R-Squared

0.94

0.97

Beta

0.88

1.13

 

Distribution by Credit Quality4(% of portfolio)

 

 

 

Aaa

30.5%

Aa

18.5   

A

31.7   

Baa

18.2   

Ba

0.9   

B

0.2   

 

 

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Distribution by Maturity (% of portfolio)

 

 

 

Under 1 Year

2.5%

1–5 Years

37.4   

5–10 Years

46.4   

10–20 Years

11.6   

20–30 Years

0.0   

Over 30 Years

2.1   

 

 

Investment Focus

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 Lehman 5–10 Year U.S. Credit Index.

2 Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.

3 Before expenses.

4 Moody’s Investors Service.

5 The agency and mortgage-backed securities sectors may include issues from government-sponsored enterprises; such issues are not backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.

6 For an explanation of R-squared, beta, and other terms used here, see the Glossary on page 84.

 

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Performance Summary

All of the returns in this report represent past performance, which is not a guarantee of future results that may be achieved by the fund. (Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data cited. For performance data current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at www.vanguard.com/performance.) Note, too, that both investment returns and principal value can fluctuate widely, so an investor’s shares, when sold, could be worth more or less than their original cost. The returns shown do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or on the sale of fund shares.

Cumulative Performance: January 31, 1998–January 31, 2008

Initial Investment of $10,000

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Average Annual Total Returns

Final Value

 

Periods Ended January 31, 2008

of a $10,000

 

One Year

Five Years

Ten Years

Investment

Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares 1

8.21%

5.10%

6.05%

$18,001

Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index

8.81   

4.76   

6.01   

17,934

Lehman 5–10 Year U.S. Credit Index

6.87   

5.37   

6.39   

18,579

Average Intermediate Investment-Grade Fund2

6.35   

4.08   

5.03   

16,331

 

 

 

 

 

Final Value of

 

 

 

Since

a $100,000

 

One Year

Five Years

Inception3

Investment

Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

 

 

 

Admiral Shares

8.33%

5.21%

6.26%

$152,679

Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index

8.81

4.76

5.84

148,543

Lehman 5–10 Year U.S. Credit Index

6.87

5.37

6.59

155,954

 

 

 

 

 

1 Total returns do not include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

2 Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.

3 Returns for the Admiral Shares and comparative standards are since the Admiral Shares’ inception: February 12, 2001.

 

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Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): January 31, 1998–January 31, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares

Lehman1

Fiscal

Capital

Income

Total

Total

Year

Return

Return

Return

Return

1999

1.2%

6.5%

7.7%

8.4%

2000

–8.9

6.2

–2.7

–3.7

2001

5.4

7.8

13.2

14.3

2002

1.5

6.7

8.2

8.1

2003

3.1

6.2

9.3

11.0

2004

2.1

5.3

7.4

9.7

2005

–0.5

4.7

4.2

5.4

2006

–3.3

4.7

1.4

0.6

2007

–0.7

5.2

4.5

4.4

2008

2.8

5.4

8.2

6.9

 

 

Average Annual Total Returns: Periods Ended December 31, 2007

This table presents average annual total returns through the latest calendar quarter—rather than through the end of the fiscal period. Securities and Exchange Commission rules require that we provide this information.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ten Years

 

Inception Date

One Year

Five Years

Capital

Income

Total

Investor Shares 2

11/1/1993

6.14%

4.70%

0.13%

5.88%

6.01%

Admiral Shares

2/12/2001

6.26

4.81

0.513

5.543

6.053

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 Lehman 5–10 Year U.S. Credit Index.

2 Total returns do not include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

3 Return since inception.

Note: See Financial Highlights tables on pages 47 and 48 for dividend and capital gains information.

 

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Financial Statements

Statement of Net Assets—Investments Summary

As of January 31, 2008

This Statement summarizes the fund’s holdings by asset type (U.S. government and agency issues, corporate bonds, sovereign bonds, etc.); corporate bonds are further classified by industry sector. Details are reported for each of the fund’s 50 largest individual holdings and for investments that, in total for any issuer, represent more than 1% of the fund’s net assets. The total value of smaller holdings is reported as a single amount within each category.

The fund provides a complete list of its holdings four times in each fiscal year, at the quarter-ends. For the second and fourth fiscal quarters, the complete listing of the fund’s holdings is available electronically on Vanguard.com® and on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website (www.sec.gov), or you can have it mailed to you without charge by calling 800-662-7447. For the first and third fiscal quarters, the fund files the lists with the SEC on Form N-Q. Shareholders can look up the fund’s Forms N-Q on the SEC’s website. Forms N-Q may also be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room (see the back cover of this report for further information).

 

 

 

 

 

Face

Market

Percentage

 

 

 

 

Maturity

Amount

Value

of Net

 

 

 

Coupon

Date

($000)

($000)

Assets

 

U.S. Government and Agency Obligations

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. Government Securities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. Treasury Bond

4.250%

11/15/17

54,700

57,426

0.9%

 

 

U.S. Treasury Bond

7.250%

5/15/16

17,500

22,118

0.4%

 

 

U.S. Treasury Bond

3.625%

5/15/13

5,000

5,180

0.1%

 

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.875%

2/15/12

99,800

108,657

1.8%

 

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.250%

8/15/13

64,700

69,047

1.1%

 

 

U.S. Treasury Note

3.875%

2/15/13

38,480

40,374

0.7%

 

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.375%–4.750%

9/30/11–8/15/12

51,575

55,500

0.9%

 

 

 

 

 

 

358,302

5.9%

Agency Bonds and Notes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Agency for International

 

 

 

 

 

 

Development—Egypt

 

 

 

 

 

 

(U.S. Government Guaranteed)

4.450%

9/15/15

20,000

20,682

0.3%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mortgage-Backed Securities

 

 

 

 

 

Conventional Mortgage-Backed Securities

 

 

4,191

0.1%

 

Nonconventional Mortgage-Backed Securities

 

24,994

0.4%

 

 

 

 

 

 

29,185

0.5%

 

Total U.S. Government and Agency Obligations (Cost $384,206)

408,169

6.7%

 

Corporate Bonds

 

 

 

 

 

 

Asset Backed/Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities

 

 

 

 

1

BA Covered Bond Issuer

5.500%

6/14/12

11,000

11,748

0.2%

 

2,3

Chase Issuance Trust

4.276%

10/15/12

25,000

24,668

0.4%

 

2,3

Citibank Credit Card Issuance Trust

4.004%

10/20/14

25,000

24,278

0.4%

 

2,3

Discover Card Master Trust I

4.246%

9/16/10

25,000

24,991

0.4%

 

2,3

MBNA Credit Card

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Master Note Trust

4.296%

6/15/15

31,000

30,121

0.5%

 

2

Morgan Stanley Capital I

5.803%

6/13/42

24,100

24,325

0.4%

 

1,2,3

Nordstrom Private Label

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Credit Card Master Trust

4.296%

5/15/15

28,000

27,319

0.4%

 

 

 

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Other—Asset Backed/Commercial

 

 

 

 

 

Mortgage-Backed Securities

 

 

 

378,051

6.2%

 

 

 

 

 

 

545,501

8.9%

 

Finance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Banking

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bank of America Corp.

5.420%

3/15/17

42,300

42,239

0.7%

 

 

Bank of America Corp.

4.875%–5.300%

1/15/13–3/15/17

40,021

40,371

0.6%

 

Bank One Corp.

4.900%

4/30/15

15,000

14,590

0.2%

 

3

Citigroup, Inc.

5.286%

6/9/09

25,700

25,643

0.4%

 

 

Citigroup, Inc.

5.500%

2/15/17

25,000

24,755

0.4%

 

 

Citigroup, Inc.

5.625%

8/27/12

20,000

20,817

0.3%

 

 

Citigroup, Inc.

5.000%–7.250%

10/1/10–8/15/17

29,900

30,339

0.5%

 

Credit Suisse First

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Boston USA, Inc.

5.500%

8/16/11

20,000

20,862

0.3%

 

 

Golden West Financial Corp.

4.750%

10/1/12

22,450

22,523

0.4%

 

 

HSBC Bank USA

4.625%

4/1/14

22,000

21,408

0.3%

 

 

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

4.500%–6.750%

2/1/11–1/15/18

73,400

76,522

1.3%

 

MBNA Corp.

7.500%

3/15/12

6,145

6,837

0.1%

 

 

Southtrust Corp.

5.800%

6/15/14

14,705

15,844

0.3%

 

 

Wachovia Bank NA

4.800%–6.000%

11/1/14–11/15/17

22,000

22,167

0.4%

 

 

Wachovia Corp.

5.625%

10/15/16

25,000

24,956

0.4%

 

 

Wachovia Corp.

5.750%

2/1/18

5,000

4,955

0.1%

 

 

Washington Mutual

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finance Corp.

6.875%

5/15/11

10,000

10,776

0.2%

 

 

Wells Fargo & Co.

4.200%–5.625%

1/15/10–12/11/17

71,025

72,016

1.2%

 

Western Financial Bank

9.625%

5/15/12

1,640

1,748

0.0%

4

Other—Banking

 

 

 

619,670

10.2%

 

Brokerage

 

 

 

 

 

2

Goldman Sachs Capital II

5.793%

6/1/49

30,000

23,011

0.4%

 

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

5.625%

1/15/17

29,000

29,071

0.5%

 

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

5.950%

1/18/18

22,000

22,785

0.4%

3

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

4.178%–5.142%

7/23/09–6/28/10

12,500

12,358

0.2%

 

Lehman Brothers

 

 

 

 

 

 

Holdings, Inc.

6.500%

7/19/17

30,000

30,615

0.5%

 

Lehman Brothers

 

 

 

 

 

 

Holdings, Inc.

6.200%

9/26/14

22,500

23,327

0.4%

 

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

4.500%

11/4/10

25,000

25,080

0.4%

 

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

6.400%

8/28/17

22,500

23,082

0.4%

 

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

5.450%–6.050%

2/5/13–5/2/17

32,425

32,010

0.5%

 

Morgan Stanley

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dean Witter

4.750%

4/1/14

26,250

25,286

0.4%

 

 

Morgan Stanley

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dean Witter

5.375%–5.950%

10/15/15–12/28/17

45,000

44,777

0.7%

Other—Brokerage

 

 

 

55,529

0.9%

 

 

Finance Companies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

American Express

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Centurion Bank

6.000%

9/13/17

21,000

21,870

0.4%

 

 

American Express

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Centurion Bank

4.241%–5.550%

11/16/09–10/17/12

24,150

24,817

0.4%

 

American Express Co.

4.875%

7/15/13

16,417

16,492

0.3%

 

 

American General

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finance Corp.

5.850%

6/1/13

25,000

25,618

0.4%

 

 

American General

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finance Corp.

4.875%–6.900%

8/17/11–1/15/67

43,500

43,290

0.7%

 

 

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General Electric

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capital Corp.

5.875%

2/15/12

54,600

58,187

1.0%

 

General Electric

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capital Corp.

6.000%

6/15/12

25,000

26,632

0.4%

 

General Electric

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capital Corp.

4.375%–6.375%

11/21/11–11/15/67

29,850

30,642

0.5%

2

HSBC Finance

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capital Trust IX

5.911%

11/30/35

27,500

25,217

0.4%

 

International Lease

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finance Corp.

4.950%–5.875%

2/1/11–6/1/14

31,000

31,626

0.5%

Other—Finance Companies

 

 

 

84,800

1.4%

 

Insurance

 

 

 

 

 

 

American International Group, Inc.

5.850%

1/16/18

10,000

10,195

0.2%

 

Berkshire Hathaway Finance Corp.

4.625%

10/15/13

29,100

30,153

0.5%

 

Berkshire Hathaway Finance Corp.

4.750%

5/15/12

20,000

20,720

0.3%

 

Berkshire Hathaway Finance Corp.

4.850%

1/15/15

17,100

17,241

0.3%

1,3

MassMutual Global Funding II

5.310%

12/6/13

35,000

34,984

0.6%

Other—Insurance

 

 

 

259,957

4.2%

 

Real Estate Investment Trusts

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arden Realty LP

5.200%

9/1/11

1,900

1,961

0.0%

Other—Real Estate Investment Trusts

 

 

150,467

2.5%

 

 

 

 

 

2,380,838

39.0%

Industrial

 

 

 

 

 

Basic Industry

 

 

 

53,401

0.9%

 

Capital Goods

 

 

 

 

 

 

General Electric Co.

5.250%

12/6/17

5,000

5,061

0.1%

 

United Technologies Corp.

6.350%

3/1/11

30,600

32,964

0.5%

Other—Capital Goods

 

 

 

194,022

3.2%

 

Communication

 

 

 

 

 

 

France Telecom

7.750%

3/1/11

25,000

27,248

0.4%

 

Time Warner Cable Inc.

5.850%

5/1/17

21,500

21,529

0.4%

 

Verizon Communications Corp.

5.550%

2/15/16

5,000

5,101

0.1%

 

Verizon Global Funding Corp.

7.375%

9/1/12

40,000

44,755

0.7%

 

Verizon Global Funding Corp.

6.875%

6/15/12

16,000

17,541

0.3%

Other—Communication

 

 

 

208,388

3.4%

 

Consumer Cyclical

 

 

 

 

 

 

DaimlerChrysler North

 

 

 

 

 

 

America Holding Corp.

5.750%

9/8/11

30,000

31,190

0.5%

 

Target Corp.

5.375%

6/15/09

23,100

23,692

0.4%

 

Toyota Motor Credit Corp.

4.350%

12/15/10

20,000

20,725

0.4%

 

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

4.550%

5/1/13

23,000

23,353

0.4%

Other—Consumer Cyclical

 

 

 

233,500

3.8%

 

Consumer Noncyclical

 

 

 

 

 

1

Health Care Services Corp.

7.750%

6/15/11

20,000

22,217

0.4%

4

Other—Consumer Noncyclical

 

 

 

491,507

8.0%

 

Energy

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shell International Finance

4.950%

3/22/12

33,680

35,570

0.6%

Other—Energy

 

 

 

173,727

2.8%

 

Technology

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cisco Systems Inc.

5.500%

2/22/16

21,940

22,733

0.4%

 

IBM International Group Capital

5.050%

10/22/12

25,000

25,976

0.4%

Other—Technology

 

 

 

51,714

0.9%

Transportation

 

 

 

117,976

1.9%

Industrial—Other

 

 

 

47,714

0.8%

 

 

 

 

 

1,931,604

31.7%

 

 

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Utilities

 

 

 

 

 

 

Electric

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nstar

8.000%

2/15/10

20,000

21,646

0.3%

2

Wisconsin Energy Corp.

6.250%

5/15/67

25,000

22,951

0.4%

Other—Electric

 

 

 

322,806

5.3%

Natural Gas

 

 

 

146,072

2.4%

 

 

 

 

 

513,475

8.4%

Total Corporate Bonds (Cost $5,350,583)

 

 

5,371,418

88.0%

Sovereign Bonds (U.S. Dollar-Denominated) (Cost $148,652)

152,220

2.5%

Taxable Municipal Bonds (Cost $24,210)

 

 

23,649

0.4%

Tax-Exempt Municipal Bonds (Cost $17,552)

 

 

18,346

0.3%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shares

 

 

Preferred Stocks

 

 

 

 

 

3

Bank of America Corp.

5.908%

 

213,775

4,233

0.1%

3

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

6.050%

 

582,000

12,874

0.2%

3

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

6.000%

 

44,600

784

0.0%

Other—Preferred Stocks

 

 

 

13,663

0.2%

Total Preferred Stocks (Cost $36,249)

 

 

31,554

0.5%

Temporary Cash Investment

 

 

 

 

 

5

Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Cost $82,054)

4.060%

 

82,054,311

82,054

1.3%

Total Investments (Cost $6,043,506)

 

 

 

6,087,410

99.7%

Other Assets and Liabilities

 

 

 

 

 

Other Assets—Note B

 

 

 

117,054

1.9%

Liabilities

 

 

 

(99,554)

(1.6%)

 

 

 

 

 

17,500

0.3%

Net Assets

 

 

 

6,104,910

100.0%

 

 

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At January 31, 2008, net assets consisted of: 6

 

 

Amount

 

($000)

Paid-in Capital

6,028,995

Undistributed Net Investment Income

Accumulated Net Realized Gains

6,102

Unrealized Appreciation

 

Investment Securities

43,904

Futures Contracts

23,292

Swap Contracts

2,617

Net Assets

6,104,910

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares—Net Assets

 

Applicable to 266,773,263 outstanding $.001 par value shares of

 

beneficial interest (unlimited authorization)

2,649,536

Net Asset Value Per Share—Investor Shares

$9.93

 

 

 

 

Admiral Shares—Net Assets

 

Applicable to 347,910,964 outstanding $.001 par value shares of

 

beneficial interest (unlimited authorization)

3,455,374

Net Asset Value Per Share—Admiral Shares

$9.93

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements .

† Represents the aggregate value, by category, of securities that are not among the 50 largest holdings and, in total for any issuer, represent 1% or less of net assets.

1 Certain of the fund’s securities are exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. Such securities may be sold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. At January 31, 2008, the aggregate value of these securities was $903,273,000, representing 14.8% of net assets.

2 The average or expected maturity is shorter than the final maturity shown because of the possibility of interim principal payments and prepayments or the possibility of the issue being called.

3 Adjustable-rate security.

4 Securities with a value of $9,227,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open futures contracts.

5 Affiliated money market fund available only to Vanguard funds and certain trusts and accounts managed by Vanguard. Rate shown is the 7-day yield.

6 See Note D in Notes to Financial Statements for the tax-basis components of net assets.

 

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Statement of Operations

 

 

 

Year Ended

 

January 31, 2008

 

($000)

Investment Income

 

Income

 

Dividends

2,144

Interest1

300,371

Total Income

302,515

Expenses

 

The Vanguard Group—Note B

 

Investment Advisory Services

488

Management and Administrative

 

Investor Shares

4,295

Admiral Shares

2,145

Marketing and Distribution

 

Investor Shares

569

Admiral Shares

574

Custodian Fees

68

Auditing Fees

38

Shareholders’ Reports

 

Investor Shares

88

Admiral Shares

11

Trustees’ Fees and Expenses

6

Total Expenses

8,282

Expenses Paid Indirectly—Note C

(59)

Net Expenses

8,223

Net Investment Income

294,292

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

 

Investment Securities Sold

12,524

Futures Contracts

28,232

Swap Contracts

(914)

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

39,842

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

 

Investment Securities

86,996

Futures Contracts

28,954

Swap Contracts

4,738

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

120,688

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

454,822

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 Interest income from an affiliated company of the fund was $7,223,000.

 

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Statement of Changes in Net Assets

 

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

 

2008

2007

 

($000)

($000)

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

 

Operations

 

 

Net Investment Income

294,292

258,740

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

39,842

(21,154)

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

120,688

(14,664)

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

454,822

222,922

Distributions

 

 

Net Investment Income

 

 

Investor Shares

(129,589)

(121,871)

Admiral Shares

(164,358)

(136,375)

Realized Capital Gain

 

 

Investor Shares

Admiral Shares

Total Distributions

(293,947)

(258,246)

Capital Share Transactions—Note F

 

 

Investor Shares

161,558

(11,423)

Admiral Shares

570,343

261,837

Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions

731,901

250,414

Total Increase (Decrease)

892,776

215,090

Net Assets

 

 

Beginning of Period

5,212,134

4,997,044

End of Period

6,104,910

5,212,134

 

 

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Financial Highlights

 

 

Investor Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For a Share Outstanding

 

Year Ended January 31,

Throughout Each Period

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period

$9.66

$9.73

$10.08

$10.19

$10.06

Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net Investment Income

.501

.490

.466

.474

.503

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

 

 

 

 

 

on Investments

.270

(.071)

(.332)

(.055)

.224

Total from Investment Operations

.771

.419

.134

.419

.727

Distributions

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends from Net Investment Income

(.501)

(.489)

(.466)

(.474)

(.518)

Distributions from Realized Capital Gains

(.018)

(.055)

(.079)

Total Distributions

(.501)

(.489)

(.484)

(.529)

(.597)

Net Asset Value, End of Period

$9.93

$9.66

$9.73

$10.08

$10.19

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Return1

8.21%

4.45%

1.36%

4.24%

7.38%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ratios/Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net Assets, End of Period (Millions)

$2,650

$2,418

$2,447

$3,219

$2,813

Ratio of Total Expenses to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

0.21%

0.21%

0.21%

0.20%

0.20%

Ratio of Net Investment Income to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

5.16%

5.10%

4.71%

4.70%

4.90%

Portfolio Turnover Rate

48%

43%

51%

40%

55%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 Total returns do not include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

 

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Admiral Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For a Share Outstanding

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

Throughout Each Period

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period

$9.66

$9.73

$10.08

$10.19

$10.06

Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net Investment Income

.511

.501

.477

.484

.512

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

 

 

 

 

 

on Investments

.270

(.071)

(.332)

(.055)

.224

Total from Investment Operations

.781

.430

.145

.429

.736

Distributions

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends from Net Investment Income

(.511)

(.500)

(.477)

(.484)

(.527)

Distributions from Realized Capital Gains

(.018)

(.055)

(.079)

Total Distributions

(.511)

(.500)

(.495)

(.539)

(.606)

Net Asset Value, End of Period

$9.93

$9.66

$9.73

$10.08

$10.19

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Return

8.33%

4.57%

1.47%

4.34%

7.48%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ratios/Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net Assets, End of Period (Millions)

$3,455

$2,794

$2,550

$1,528

$1,318

Ratio of Total Expenses to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

0.10%

0.10%

0.10%

0.10%

0.11%

Ratio of Net Investment Income to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

5.27%

5.21%

4.82%

4.80%

4.99%

Portfolio Turnover Rate

48%

43%

51%

40%

55%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See accompanying Notes, which are an integral part of the Financial Statements .

 

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Notes to Financial Statements

Vanguard Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The fund files reports with the SEC under the company name Vanguard Fixed Income Securities Funds. Certain of the fund’s investments are in corporate debt instruments; the issuers’ abilities to meet their obligations may be affected by economic developments in their respective industries. The fund offers two classes of shares, Investor Shares and Admiral Shares. Investor Shares are available to any investor who meets the fund’s minimum purchase requirements. Admiral Shares are designed for investors who meet certain administrative, service, tenure, and account-size criteria.

A. The following significant accounting policies conform to generally accepted accounting principles for U.S. mutual funds. The fund consistently follows such policies in preparing its financial statements.

1. Security Valuation: Bonds, and temporary cash investments acquired over 60 days to maturity, are valued using the latest bid prices or using valuations based on a matrix system (which considers such factors as security prices, yields, maturities, and ratings), both as furnished by independent pricing services. Equity securities are valued at the latest quoted sales prices or official closing prices taken from the primary market in which each security trades; such securities not traded on the valuation date are valued at the mean of the latest quoted bid and asked prices. Investments in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund are valued at that fund’s net asset value. Other temporary cash investments are valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value. Securities for which market quotations are not readily available, or whose values have been materially affected by events occurring before the fund’s pricing time but after the close of the securities’ primary markets, are valued by methods deemed by the board of trustees to represent fair value.

2. Futures Contracts: The fund uses futures contracts to invest in fixed income asset classes with greater efficiency and lower cost than is possible through direct investment, to add value when these instruments are attractively priced, or to adjust sensitivity to changes in interest rates. The primary risks associated with the use of futures contracts are imperfect correlation between changes in market values of bonds held by the fund and the prices of futures contracts, and the possibility of an illiquid market.

Futures contracts are valued based upon their quoted daily settlement prices. The aggregate principal amounts of the contracts are not recorded in the Statement of Net Assets.Fluctuations in the value of the contracts are recorded in the Statement of Net Assets as an asset (liability) and in the Statement of Operations as unrealized appreciation (depreciation) until the contracts are closed, when they are recorded as realized futures gains (losses).

3. Swap Contracts: The fund has sold credit protection through credit default swaps, to simulate investments in long bond positions that are either unavailable or considered to be less attractively priced in the bond market. Under the terms of the swaps, the seller of the credit protection receives a periodic payment amount (premium) from the buyer that is a fixed percentage amount applied to a notional principal amount. In return, the seller agrees to pay the buyer the notional amount and take delivery of a debt instrument of the reference issuer of the same notional par amount if the reference entity is subject to a credit event (such as bankruptcy, failure to pay, or obligation acceleration) during the term of the swap.

The fund has also entered into interest rate swap transactions. Under the terms of the swaps, one party pays the other an amount that is a fixed percentage rate applied to a notional principal amount. In return, the counterparty agrees to pay a floating rate, which is reset periodically based on short-term interest rates, applied to the same notional amount.

 

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The fund has also entered into swap transactions to earn the total return on a specified security or index of fixed income securities. Under the terms of the swaps, the fund receives the total return (either receiving the increase or paying the decrease) on a reference security or index, applied to a notional principal amount. In return, the fund agrees to pay the counterparty a floating rate, which is reset periodically based on short-term interest rates, applied to the same notional amount. At the same time, the fund invests an amount equal to the notional amount of the swaps in high-quality floating-rate securities.

The notional amounts of swap contracts are not recorded in the Statement of Net Assets. Swaps are valued daily, and the change in value is recorded as unrealized appreciation (depreciation) until the counterparty requires the fund to take delivery upon occurrence of a credit event (for selling credit protection), periodic payments are made, or the swap terminates, at which time realized gain (loss) is recorded. The net premium to be received or paid by the fund under swap contracts is accrued daily and recorded as realized gain (loss). The primary risks associated with selling credit protection are that, upon the occurrence of a defined credit event, the market value of the debt instrument received by the fund from the buyer will be significantly less than the amount paid by the fund for such instrument, and that the debt instrument will be illiquid. A primary risk for all types of swaps is that a counterparty will default on its obligation to pay net amounts due to the fund.

4. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Accordingly, no provision for federal income taxes is required in the financial statements.

5. Distributions: Distributions from net investment income are declared daily and paid on the first business day of the following month. Annual distributions from realized capital gains, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date.

6. Other: Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date. Interest income includes income distributions received from Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund and is accrued daily. Premiums and discounts on debt securities purchased are amortized and accreted, respectively, to interest income over the lives of the respective securities. Security transactions are accounted for on the date securities are bought or sold. Costs used to determine realized gains (losses) on the sale of investment securities are those of the specific securities sold.

Each class of shares has equal rights as to assets and earnings, except that each class separately bears certain class-specific expenses related to maintenance of shareholder accounts (included in Management and Administrative expenses) and shareholder reporting. Marketing and distribution expenses are allocated to each class of shares based on a method approved by the board of trustees. Income, other non-class-specific expenses, and gains and losses on investments are allocated to each class of shares based on its relative net assets.

B. The Vanguard Group furnishes at cost investment advisory, corporate management, administrative, marketing, and distribution services. The costs of such services are allocated to the fund under methods approved by the board of trustees. The fund has committed to provide up to 0.40% of its net assets in capital contributions to Vanguard. At January 31, 2008, the fund had contributed capital of $498,000 to Vanguard (included in Other Assets), representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 0.50% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and officers of Vanguard.

 

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C. The fund’s custodian bank has agreed to reduce its fees when the fund maintains cash on deposit in the non-interest-bearing custody account. For the year ended January 31, 2008, custodian fee offset arrangements reduced the fund’s expenses by $59,000.

D. Capital gain distributions are determined on a tax basis and may differ from realized capital gains for financial reporting purposes. Differences may be permanent or temporary. Permanent differences are reclassified among capital accounts in the financial statements to reflect their tax character. Temporary differences arise when gains or losses are recognized in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes; these differences will reverse at some time in the future.

The fund used a tax accounting practice to treat a portion of the price of capital shares redeemed during the year as distributions from realized capital gains. Accordingly, the fund has reclassified $395,000 from accumulated net realized gains to paid-in capital.

Realized and unrealized gains (losses) on certain of the fund’s swap contracts are treated as ordinary income (loss) for tax purposes; the effect on the fund’s income dividends to shareholders is offset by a change in principal return. Realized losses of $345,000 on swap contracts have been reclassified from accumulated net realized gains to undistributed net investment income.

The fund used a capital loss carry forward of $37,728,000 to offset taxable capital gains realized during the year ended January 31, 2008, reducing the amount of capital gains that would otherwise be available to distribute to shareholders. For tax purposes, at January 31, 2008, the fund had $30,872,000 of long-term capital gains available for distribution.

At January 31, 2008, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $6,045,011,000. Net unrealized appreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $42,399,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $132,253,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $89,854,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.

At January 31, 2008, the aggregate settlement value of open futures contracts expiring in March 2008 and the related unrealized appreciation (depreciation) were:

 

 

 

 

($000)

 

Number of

Aggregate

Unrealized

 

Long (Short)

Settlement

Appreciation

Futures Contracts

Contracts

Value

(Depreciation)

10-Year Treasury Note

5,617

655,609

19,345

5-Year Treasury Note

1,286

145,318

4,135

2-Year Treasury Note

(58)

12,367

(188)

 

 

Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on open futures contracts is required to be treated as realized gain (loss) for tax purposes.

 

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At January 31, 2008, the fund had the following open swap contracts:

 

Credit Default Swaps

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unrealized

 

 

 

Notional

 

Appreciation

 

Termination

 

Amount

Premium

(Depreciation)

Reference Entity

Date

Dealer1

($000)

Received

($000)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe

6/20/12

DBS

5,000

0.400%

(28)

Johnson & Johnson

9/20/12

GS

5,400

0.070%

(33)

Johnson & Johnson

9/20/12

UBS

2,160

0.080%

(12)

Lehman Brothers Inc.

12/20/12

BA

10,000

1.190%

(190)

 

 

 

 

 

(263)

 

Interest Rate Swaps

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fixed

Floating

Unrealized

 

 

Notional

Interest Rate

Interest Rate

Appreciation

 

 

Amount

Received

Received

(Depreciation)

Termination Date

Dealer1

($000)

(Paid)

(Paid)2

($000)

5/25/09

LEH

10,000

3.175%

(5.030%)

30

5/8/10

LEH

9,000

3.758%

(4.898%)

110

 

 

 

 

 

140

 

Total Return Swaps

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unrealized

 

 

Notional

Floating

Appreciation

 

 

Amount

Interest

(Depreciation)

Reference Entity/Termination Date

Dealer1

($000)

Rate Paid3

($000)

Lehman AAA Commercial Mortgage-Backed

 

 

 

 

Securities Index

 

 

 

 

4/30/08

BA

100,000

3.194%

(157)

Mortgage-Backed Securities Index

 

 

 

 

2/29/08

UBS

53,000

3.194%

2,204

2/29/08

UBS

16,250

3.194%

693

 

 

 

 

2,740

 

 

 

 

1 BA—Bank of America, N.A.

DBS—Deutsche Bank AG

GS—Goldman Sachs Capital Markets

LEH—Lehman Brothers Special Financing Inc.

UBS—UBS AG

2 Based on three-month London InterBank Offered Rate (LIBOR) as of the most recent payment date.

3 Based on one-month London InterBank Offered Rate (LIBOR) as of the most recent payment date.

 

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E. During the year ended January 31, 2008, the fund purchased $1,975,211,000 of investment securities and sold $1,012,495,000 of investment securities other than U.S. government securities and temporary cash investments. Purchases and sales of U.S. government securities were $1,115,920,000 and $1,537,050,000, respectively.

F. Capital share transactions for each class of shares were:

 

 

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

 

 

2008

 

2007

 

Amount

Shares

Amount

Shares

 

($000)

(000)

($000)

(000)

Investor Shares

 

 

 

 

Issued

745,232

76,618

570,652

59,302

Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions

104,563

10,756

97,205

10,111

Redeemed

(688,237)

(70,836)

(679,280)

(70,689)

Net Increase (Decrease)—Investor Shares

161,558

16,538

(11,423)

(1,276)

Admiral Shares

 

 

 

 

Issued

1,064,565

109,633

800,037

83,187

Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions

127,429

13,103

101,884

10,596

Redeemed

(621,651)

(63,911)

(640,084)

(66,780)

Net Increase (Decrease)—Admiral Shares

570,343

58,825

261,837

27,003

 

 

G. In June 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Interpretation No. 48 (“FIN 48”), “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes.” FIN 48 establishes the minimum threshold for recognizing, and a system for measuring, the benefits of tax-return positions in financial statements, effective for the fund’s current fiscal year. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken on federal income tax returns for all open tax years (tax years ended January 31, 2005–2008) for purposes of implementing FIN 48, and has concluded that no provision for income tax is required in the fund’s financial statements.

 

 

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Long-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

Fund Profile

As of January 31, 2008

 

Financial Attributes

 

 

 

 

Comparative

Broad

 

Fund

Index1

Index2

Number of Issues

210

543

9,133

Yield

 

Investor Shares

5.8%

 

 

Admiral Shares

5.9%

 

 

Yield to Maturity

5.9%3

6.2%

4.5%

Average Coupon

6.5%

6.4%

5.4%

Average Effective

 

 

 

Maturity

21.7 years

24.4 years

6.8 years

Average Quality4

A1

Aa3

Aa1

Average Duration

11.4 years

11.8 years

4.2 years

Expense Ratio

 

Investor Shares

0.22%

 

 

Admiral Shares

0.12%

 

 

Short-Term Reserves

2.0%

 

Sector Diversification5 (% of portfolio)

 

 

 

Asset-Backed/Commercial Mortgage-Backed

0.0%

Finance

26.0   

Government Mortgage-Backed

0.0   

Industrial

40.2   

Treasury/Agency

6.8   

Utilities

11.9   

Sovereign

4.1   

Other

9.0   

Short-Term Reserves

2.0%

 

Volatility Measures6

 

 

Fund Versus

Fund Versus

 

Comparative Index1

Broad Index2

R-Squared

0.98

0.80

Beta

1.00

2.05

 

Distribution by Credit Quality4(% of portfolio)

 

 

 

Aaa

16.0%

Aa

26.6   

A

42.1   

Baa

14.4   

Other

0.9   

 

 

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Distribution by Maturity (% of portfolio)

 

 

 

Under 1 Year

0.0%

1–5 Years

0.0   

5–10 Years

5.0   

10–20 Years

26.9   

20–30 Years

66.8   

Over 30 Years

1.3   

 

Investment Focus

 


 

 

 

1 Lehman U.S. Long Credit A or Better Index.

2 Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.

3 Before expenses.

4 Moody’s Investors Service.

5 The agency and mortgage-backed securities sectors may include issues from government-sponsored enterprises; such issues are not backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.

6 For an explanation of R-squared, beta, and other terms used here, see the Glossary on page 84.

 

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Performance Summary

All of the returns in this report represent past performance, which is not a guarantee of future results that may be achieved by the fund. (Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data cited. For performance data current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at www.vanguard.com/performance.) Note, too, that both investment returns and principal value can fluctuate widely, so an investor’s shares, when sold, could be worth more or less than their original cost. The returns shown do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or on the sale of fund shares.

Cumulative Performance: January 31, 1998–January 31, 2008

Initial Investment of $10,000

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Average Annual Total Returns

Final Value

 

Periods Ended January 31, 2008

of a $10,000

 

One Year

Five Years

Ten Years

Investment

Long-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares 1

4.43%

5.34%

6.19%

$18,229

Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index

8.81   

4.76   

6.01   

17,934

Lehman U.S. Long Credit A or Better Index

3.70   

5.23   

6.39   

18,579

Average Corporate A-Rated Debt Fund2

5.77   

4.08   

4.92   

16,171

 

 

 

 

 

Final Value of

 

 

 

Since

a $100,000

 

One Year

Five Years

Inception3

Investment

Long-Term Investment-Grade Fund Admiral Shares

4.53%

5.46%

6.82%

$158,308

Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index

8.81   

4.76   

5.84   

148,543

Lehman U.S. Long Credit A or Better Index

3.70   

5.23   

6.99   

160,164

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 Total returns do not include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

2 Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.

3 Returns for the Admiral Shares and comparative standards are since the Admiral Shares’ inception: February 12, 2001.

 

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Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): January 31, 1998–January 31, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares

Lehman1

Fiscal

Capital

Income

Total

Total

Year

Return

Return

Return

Return

1999

2.9%

6.6%

9.5%

10.3%

2000

–13.3

5.9

–7.4

–8.3

2001

6.8

7.7

14.5

15.8

2002

1.5

6.8

8.3

9.1

2003

5.0

6.8

11.8

12.7

2004

2.2

5.9

8.1

7.7

2005

3.8

6.0

9.8

10.0

2006

–4.0

5.3

1.3

1.3

2007

–2.3

5.7

3.4

3.6

2008

–1.4

5.8

4.4

3.7

 

Average Annual Total Returns: Periods Ended December 31, 2007

This table presents average annual total returns through the latest calendar quarter—rather than through the end of the fiscal period. Securities and Exchange Commission rules require that we provide this information.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ten Years

 

Inception Date

One Year

Five Years

Capital

Income

Total

Investor Shares 2

7/9/1973

3.75%

5.37%

0.07%

6.24%

6.31%

Admiral Shares

2/12/2001

3.86

5.48

0.763

6.133

6.893

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 Lehman U.S. Long Credit AA or Better Index through March 2000; Lehman U.S. Long Credit A or Better Index thereafter.

2 Total returns do not include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

3 Return since inception.

Note: See Financial Highlights tables on pages 64 and 65 for dividend and capital gains information.

 

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Financial Statements

Statement of Net Assets—Investments Summary

As of January 31, 2008

This Statement summarizes the fund’s holdings by asset type (U.S. government and agency issues, corporate bonds, sovereign bonds, etc.); corporate bonds are further classified by industry sector. Details are reported for each of the fund’s 50 largest individual holdings and for investments that, in total for any issuer, represent more than 1% of the fund’s net assets. The total value of smaller holdings is reported as a single amount within each category.

The fund provides a complete list of its holdings four times in each fiscal year, at the quarter-ends. For the second and fourth fiscal quarters, the complete listing of the fund’s holdings is available electronically on Vanguard.com® and on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website (www.sec.gov), or you can have it mailed to you without charge by calling 800-662-7447. For the first and third fiscal quarters, the fund files the lists with the SEC on Form N-Q. Shareholders can look up the fund’s Forms N-Q on the SEC’s website. Forms N-Q may also be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room (see the back cover of this report for further information).

 

 

 

 

 

Face

Market

Percentage

 

 

 

Maturity

Amount

Value

of Net

 

 

Coupon

Date

($000)

($000)

Assets

U.S. Government and Agency Obligations

 

 

 

 

† U.S. Government Securities

 

 

 

27,664

0.5%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Agency Bonds and Notes

 

 

 

 

 

1

Federal Home Loan Bank

5.500%

7/15/36

100,000

110,097

1.9%

1

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

6.250%

7/15/32

100,000

120,533

2.1%

1

Federal National

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mortgage Assn.

6.625%–15.500%

10/1/12–11/15/30

100,000

124,913

2.2%

 

 

 

 

 

355,543

6.2%

Total U.S. Government and Agency Obligations (Cost $365,586)

 

383,207

6.7%

Corporate Bonds

 

 

 

 

 

Finance

 

 

 

 

 

 

Banking

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bank of America Corp.

6.000%

10/15/36

55,000

54,069

0.9%

 

Citigroup, Inc.

6.625%

6/15/32

38,000

38,830

0.7%

 

Citigroup, Inc.

5.850%–6.625%

1/15/28–8/25/36

67,735

66,482

1.2%

2

HBOS Treasury Services PLC

6.000%

11/1/33

46,500

42,499

0.7%

 

HSBC Bank USA

5.875%

11/1/34

45,700

41,531

0.7%

 

HSBC Bank USA

5.625%

8/15/35

28,000

24,539

0.4%

 

HSBC Holdings PLC

7.625%

5/17/32

21,200

23,656

0.4%

 

NationsBank Corp.

6.800%

3/15/28

35,000

36,345

0.6%

 

Washington Mutual, Inc.

5.250%

9/15/17

40,000

35,186

0.6%

Other—Banking

 

 

 

334,218

5.9%

 

Brokerage

 

 

 

 

 

 

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

6.125%

2/15/33

45,725

45,147

0.8%

 

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

6.450%

5/1/36

15,000

13,979

0.2%

Other—Brokerage

 

 

 

60,912

1.1%

 

Finance Companies

 

 

 

 

 

 

General Electric Capital Corp.

6.750%

3/15/32

90,000

97,989

1.7%

Other—Finance Companies

 

 

 

10,411

0.2%

 

 

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Insurance

 

 

 

 

 

 

AXA Financial, Inc.

7.000%

4/1/28

34,910

36,629

0.6%

 

Hartford Financial

 

 

 

 

 

 

Services Group, Inc.

6.100%

10/1/41

47,500

45,503

0.8%

 

Hartford Financial

 

 

 

 

 

 

Services Group, Inc.

5.950%

10/15/36

22,610

21,320

0.4%

 

MetLife, Inc.

5.700%–6.375%

6/15/34–6/15/35

25,000

24,001

0.4%

2

Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

7.800%

11/1/25

35,000

41,157

0.7%

2

New York Life Insurance

5.875%

5/15/33

70,275

68,639

1.2%

Insurance—Other

 

 

 

310,880

5.4%

 

 

 

 

 

1,473,922

25.6%

Industrial

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic Industry

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aluminum Co. of America

6.750%

1/15/28

45,000

44,972

0.8%

 

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.

6.500%

1/15/28

42,100

44,501

0.8%

Other—Basic Industry

 

 

 

85,197

1.4%

 

Capital Goods

 

 

 

 

 

 

Caterpillar, Inc.

6.625%

7/15/28

35,000

37,319

0.7%

2

Hutchison Whampoa

 

 

 

 

 

 

International Ltd.

7.450%

11/24/33

50,000

56,615

1.0%

 

Minnesota Mining &

 

 

 

 

 

 

Manufacturing Corp.

6.375%

2/15/28

35,000

38,666

0.7%

 

Minnesota Mining &

 

 

 

 

 

 

Manufacturing Corp.

5.700%

3/15/37

35,000

35,776

0.6%

Other—Capital Goods

 

 

 

101,734

1.7%

 

Communication

 

 

 

 

 

 

AT&T Wireless

8.750%

3/1/31

50,000

62,606

1.1%

 

Bell Telephone Co. of Pennsylvania

8.350%

12/15/30

6,260

7,496

0.1%

 

BellSouth Corp.

6.875%

10/15/31

40,000

42,270

0.7%

 

BellSouth Corp.

6.000%

11/15/34

40,000

38,178

0.7%

 

CBS Corp.

7.875%

7/30/30

40,000

42,314

0.7%

 

Deutsche Telekom

 

 

 

 

 

 

International Finance

8.250%

6/15/30

50,000

61,777

1.1%

 

France Telecom

8.500%

3/1/31

38,175

48,675

0.8%

 

GTE Corp.

6.940%

4/15/28

20,000

20,967

0.4%

 

Indiana Bell Telephone Co., Inc.

7.300%

8/15/26

20,000

21,584

0.4%

 

Michigan Bell Telephone Co.

7.850%

1/15/22

25,000

28,089

0.5%

 

New Jersey Bell Telephone Co.

8.000%

6/1/22

25,000

28,995

0.5%

 

Pacific Bell

7.125%

3/15/26

15,000

15,979

0.3%

 

Time Warner Cable Inc.

6.550%

5/1/37

40,000

39,659

0.7%

 

Verizon Communications Corp.

6.250%

4/1/37

15,000

15,149

0.3%

 

Verizon Global

 

 

 

 

 

 

Funding Corp.

5.850%–7.750%

12/1/30–9/15/35

40,500

41,066

0.7%

 

Verizon Maryland, Inc.

5.125%

6/15/33

12,000

10,218

0.2%

Other—Communication

 

 

 

115,706

2.0%

 

Consumer Cyclical

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

7.550%

2/15/30

45,000

52,213

0.9%

Other—Consumer Cyclical

 

 

 

150,110

2.6%

 

Consumer Noncyclical

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anheuser-Busch Cos., Inc.

6.800%

8/20/32

31,900

36,024

0.6%

 

Anheuser-Busch Cos., Inc.

5.750%–6.750%

12/15/27–4/1/36

21,460

22,477

0.4%

 

Bestfoods

6.625%

4/15/28

30,000

32,636

0.6%

 

CPC International, Inc.

7.250%

12/15/26

30,000

34,737

0.6%

 

Procter & Gamble Co.

5.500%–6.450%

1/15/26–3/5/37

64,000

66,217

1.2%

 

 

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3

Procter & Gamble Co. ESOP

9.360%

1/1/21

32,684

42,679

0.7%

 

Wyeth

5.950%

4/1/37

50,000

48,877

0.9%

Other—Consumer Noncyclical

 

 

 

363,156

6.3%

 

Energy

 

 

 

 

 

 

ConocoPhillips

5.900%

10/15/32

20,300

20,818

0.4%

 

Phillips Petroleum Co.

7.000%

3/30/29

10,000

11,511

0.2%

 

Tosco Corp.

7.800%–8.125%

1/1/27–2/15/30

35,000

43,945

0.8%

Other—Energy

 

 

 

122,899

2.1%

 

Technology

 

 

 

 

 

 

International Business

 

 

 

 

 

 

Machines Corp.

7.000%

10/30/25

50,000

55,668

1.0%

Other—Technology

 

 

 

10,329

0.2%

Transportation

 

 

 

47,554

0.8%

Industrial—Other

 

 

 

25,819

0.4%

 

 

 

 

 

2,273,177

39.6%

Utilities

 

 

 

 

 

 

Electric

 

 

 

 

 

 

Appalachian Power Co.

6.700%

8/15/37

50,000

51,604

0.9%

 

Duke Energy Carolinas LLC

6.100%

6/1/37

50,000

50,576

0.9%

 

National Rural Utilities

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cooperative Finance Corp.

8.000%

3/1/32

50,000

58,010

1.0%

 

Northern States Power Co.

6.200%

7/1/37

50,000

50,985

0.9%

 

Northern States Power Co.

7.125%

7/1/25

30,000

33,944

0.6%

 

South Carolina Electric & Gas Co.

6.625%

2/1/32

35,000

37,459

0.7%

 

Tampa Electric Co.

6.150%

5/15/37

35,000

35,209

0.6%

 

Virginia Electric & Power Co.

6.000%

5/15/37

50,000

49,618

0.9%

Other—Electric

 

 

 

243,811

4.2%

 

Natural Gas

 

 

 

 

 

 

Texas Eastern Transmission

7.000%

7/15/32

17,000

18,574

0.3%

Other—Natural Gas

 

 

 

45,871

0.8%

 

 

 

 

 

675,661

11.8%

Total Corporate Bonds (Cost $4,345,591)

 

 

4,422,760

77.0%

Sovereign Bonds (U.S. Dollar-Denominated)

 

 

 

 

International Bank for

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reconstruction & Development

7.625%

1/19/23

43,320

60,053

1.0%

 

Province of Quebec

7.500%

9/15/29

24,500

32,124

0.6%

 

Quebec Hydro Electric

9.400%

2/1/21

40,000

58,174

1.0%

Other—Sovereign Bonds

 

 

 

82,770

1.5%

Total Sovereign Bonds (Cost $203,602)

 

 

233,121

4.1%

Taxable Municipal Bonds

 

 

 

 

 

 

Illinois (Taxable Pension) GO

5.100%

6/1/33

145,000

143,723

2.5%

 

Illinois (Taxable Pension) GO

4.950%

6/1/23

8,935

8,970

0.2%

 

New Jersey Econ. Dev. Auth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

State Pension Rev.

7.425%

2/15/29

50,002

61,281

1.1%

 

New York City NY Transitional

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finance Auth. Rev.

5.210%

8/1/17

51,980

54,065

0.9%

 

North Carolina Duke Univ. Rev.

5.850%

4/1/37

38,850

40,395

0.7%

 

President and Fellows of

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harvard College

6.300%

10/1/37

55,000

57,344

1.0%

 

Southern California Public

 

 

 

 

 

 

Power Auth.

6.930%

5/15/17

37,000

43,607

0.8%

Other—Taxable Municipal Bonds

 

 

100,762

1.7%

Total Taxable Municipal Bonds (Cost $496,805)

 

510,147

8.9%

 

 

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Temporary Cash Investment

 

 

 

 

 

Repurchase Agreement

 

 

 

 

 

Banc of America Securities, LLC

 

 

 

 

 

(Dated 1/31/08, Repurchase Value

 

 

 

 

 

$112,331,000, collateralized

 

 

 

 

 

by U.S. Treasury Note

 

 

 

 

 

2.125%, 1/31/10)

 

 

 

 

 

(Cost $112,326)

1.500%

2/1/08

112,326

112,326

2.0%

Total Investments (Cost $5,523,910)

 

 

 

5,661,561

98.7%

Other Assets and Liabilities

 

 

 

 

 

Other Assets—Note C

 

 

 

93,526

1.6%

Liabilities

 

 

 

(16,603)

(0.3%)

 

 

 

 

76,923

1.3%

Net Assets

 

 

 

5,738,484

100.0%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At January 31, 2008, net assets consisted of: 4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amount

 

 

 

 

 

($000)

Paid-in Capital

 

 

 

 

5,651,131

Undistributed Net Investment Income

 

 

 

 

Accumulated Net Realized Losses

 

 

 

 

(50,298)

Unrealized Appreciation

 

 

 

 

137,651

Net Assets

 

 

 

 

5,738,484

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares—Net Assets

 

 

 

 

 

Applicable to 455,651,164 outstanding $.001 par value shares of

 

 

beneficial interest (unlimited authorization)

 

 

 

4,111,607

Net Asset Value Per Share—Investor Shares

 

 

 

$9.02

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Admiral Shares—Net Assets

 

 

 

 

 

Applicable to 180,292,035 outstanding $.001 par value shares of

 

 

beneficial interest (unlimited authorization)

 

 

 

1,626,877

Net Asset Value Per Share—Admiral Shares

 

 

 

$9.02

 

 

 

 

 

• See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements .

† Represents the aggregate value, by category, of securities that are not among the 50 largest holdings and, in total for any issuer, represent 1% or less of net assets.

1 The issuer operates under a congressional charter; its securities are neither issued nor guaranteed by the U.S. government. If needed, access to additional funding from the U.S. Treasury (beyond the issuer’s line of credit) would require congressional action.

2 Certain of the fund’s securities are exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. Such securities may be sold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. At January 31, 2008, the aggregate value of these securities was $336,085,000, representing 5.9% of net assets.

3 The average or expected maturity is shorter than the final maturity shown because of the possibility of interim principal payments and prepayments or the possibility of the issue being called.

4 See Note D in Notes to Financial Statements for the tax-basis components of net assets.

GO—General Obligation Bond.

 

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Long-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

Statement of Operations

 

 

Year Ended

 

January 31, 2008

 

($000)

Investment Income

 

Income

 

Interest

349,158

Security Lending

1

Total Income

349,159

Expenses

 

Investment Advisory Fees—Note B

1,322

The Vanguard Group—Note C

 

Management and Administrative

 

Investor Shares

7,231

Admiral Shares

1,200

Marketing and Distribution

 

Investor Shares

970

Admiral Shares

278

Custodian Fees

48

Auditing Fees

34

Shareholders’ Reports

 

Investor Shares

110

Admiral Shares

8

Trustees’ Fees and Expenses

7

Total Expenses

11,208

Net Investment Income

337,951

Realized Net Gain (Loss) on Investment Securities Sold

(28,549)

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) of Investment Securities

(44,673)

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

264,729

 

 

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Long-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

Statement of Changes in Net Assets

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

 

2008

2007

 

($000)

($000)

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

 

Operations

 

 

Net Investment Income

337,951

321,707

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

(28,549)

(16,118)

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

(44,673)

(124,971)

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

264,729

180,618

Distributions

 

 

Net Investment Income

 

 

Investor Shares

(246,101)

(238,073)

Admiral Shares

(91,850)

(83,634)

Realized Capital Gain

 

 

Investor Shares

Admiral Shares

Total Distributions

(337,951)

(321,707)

Capital Share Transactions—Note F

 

 

Investor Shares

(32,102)

80,999

Admiral Shares

112,338

142,637

Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions

80,236

223,636

Total Increase (Decrease)

7,014

82,547

Net Assets

 

 

Beginning of Period

5,731,470

5,648,923

End of Period

5,738,484

5,731,470

 

 

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Financial Highlights

 

Investor Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For a Share Outstanding

 

Year Ended January 31,

Throughout Each Period

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period

$9.15

$9.37

$9.76

$9.40

$9.20

Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net Investment Income

.523

.521

.515

.521

.526

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

 

 

 

 

 

on Investments

(.130)

(.220)

(.390)

.360

.200

Total from Investment Operations

.393

.301

.125

.881

.726

Distributions

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends from Net Investment Income

(.523)

(.521)

(.515)

(.521)

(.526)

Distributions from Realized Capital Gains

Total Distributions

(.523)

(.521)

(.515)

(.521)

(.526)

Net Asset Value, End of Period

$9.02

$9.15

$9.37

$9.76

$9.40

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Return1

4.43%

3.39%

1.27%

9.77%

8.09%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ratios/Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net Assets, End of Period (Millions)

$4,112

$4,196

$4,219

$4,328

$3,944

Ratio of Total Expenses to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

0.22%

0.25%

0.25%

0.25%

0.28%

Ratio of Net Investment Income to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

5.78%

5.73%

5.35%

5.58%

5.64%

Portfolio Turnover Rate

15%

15%

9%

16%

11%

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 Total returns do not include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

 

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Admiral Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For a Share Outstanding

Year Ended January 31,

Throughout Each Period

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period

$9.15

$9.37

$9.76

$9.40

$9.20

Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net Investment Income

.532

.533

.527

.531

.535

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

 

 

 

 

 

on Investments

(.130)

(.220)

(.390)

.360

.200

Total from Investment Operations

.402

.313

.137

.891

.735

Distributions

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends from Net Investment Income

(.532)

(.533)

(.527)

(.531)

(.535)

Distributions from Realized Capital Gains

Total Distributions

(.532)

(.533)

(.527)

(.531)

(.535)

Net Asset Value, End of Period

$9.02

$9.15

$9.37

$9.76

$9.40

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Return

4.53%

3.53%

1.40%

9.89%

8.19%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ratios/Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net Assets, End of Period (Millions)

$1,627

$1,535

$1,430

$704

$618

Ratio of Total Expenses to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

0.12%

0.12%

0.12%

0.14%

0.19%

Ratio of Net Investment Income to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

5.88%

5.86%

5.48%

5.69%

5.73%

Portfolio Turnover Rate

15%

15%

9%

16%

11%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See accompanying Notes, which are an integral part of the Financial Statements .

 

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Notes to Financial Statements

Vanguard Long-Term Investment-Grade Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The fund files reports with the SEC under the company name Vanguard Fixed Income Securities Funds. Certain of the fund’s investments are in corporate debt instruments; the issuers’ abilities to meet their obligations may be affected by economic developments in their respective industries. The fund offers two classes of shares: Investor Shares and Admiral Shares. Investor Shares are available to any investor who meets the fund’s minimum purchase requirements. Admiral Shares are designed for investors who meet certain administrative, service, tenure, and account-size criteria.

A. The following significant accounting policies conform to generally accepted accounting principles for U.S. mutual funds. The fund consistently follows such policies in preparing its financial statements.

1. Security Valuation: Bonds, and temporary cash investments acquired over 60 days to maturity, are valued using the latest bid prices or using valuations based on a matrix system (which considers such factors as security prices, yields, maturities, and ratings), both as furnished by independent pricing services. Investments in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund are valued at that fund’s net asset value. Other temporary cash investments are valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value. Securities for which market quotations are not readily available, or whose values have been materially affected by events occurring before the fund’s pricing time but after the close of the securities’ primary markets, are valued by methods deemed by the board of trustees to represent fair value.

2. Repurchase Agreements: The fund may invest in repurchase agreements. Securities pledged as collateral for repurchase agreements are held by a custodian bank until the agreements mature. Each agreement requires that the market value of the collateral be sufficient to cover payments of interest and principal; however, in the event of default or bankruptcy by the other party to the agreement, retention of the collateral may be subject to legal proceedings.

3. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Accordingly, no provision for federal income taxes is required in the financial statements.

4. Distributions: Distributions from net investment income are declared daily and paid on the first business day of the following month. Annual distributions from realized capital gains, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date.

5. Security Lending: The fund may lend its securities to qualified institutional borrowers to earn additional income. Security loans are required to be secured at all times by collateral at least equal to the market value of securities loaned. The fund invests cash collateral received in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, and records a liability for the return of the collateral, during the period the securities are on loan. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less expenses associated with the loan.

6. Other: Interest income is accrued daily. Premiums and discounts on debt securities purchased are amortized and accreted, respectively, to interest income over the lives of the respective securities. Security transactions are accounted for on the date securities are bought or sold. Costs used to determine realized gains (losses) on the sale of investment securities are those of the specific securities sold.

Each class of shares has equal rights as to assets and earnings, except that each class separately bears certain class-specific expenses related to maintenance of shareholder accounts (included in Management and Administrative expenses) and shareholder reporting. Marketing and distribution expenses are allocated to each class of shares based on a method approved by the board of trustees. Income, other non-class-specific expenses, and gains and losses on investments are allocated to each class of shares based on its relative net assets.

B. Wellington Management Company, LLP,provides investment advisory services to the fund for a fee calculated at an annual percentage rate of average net assets. For the year ended January 31, 2008, the investment advisory fee represented an effective annual rate of 0.02% of the fund’s average net assets.

C. The Vanguard Group furnishes at cost corporate management, administrative, marketing, and distribution services. The costs of such services are allocated to the fund under methods approved by the board of trustees. The fund has committed to provide up to 0.40% of its net assets in capital contributions to Vanguard. At January 31, 2008, the fund had contributed capital of $495,000 to Vanguard (included in Other Assets), representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 0.49% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and officers of Vanguard.

D. Capital gain distributions are determined on a tax basis and may differ from realized capital gains for financial reporting purposes. Differences may be permanent or temporary. Permanent differences are

 

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reclassified among capital accounts in the financial statements to reflect their tax character. Temporary differences arise when gains or losses are recognized in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes; these differences will reverse at some time in the future.

For tax purposes, at January 31, 2008, the fund had available realized losses of $50,267,000 to offset future net capital gains of $281,000 through January 31, 2011, $15,169,000 through January 31, 2015, and $34,817,000 through January 31, 2017.

At January 31, 2008, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $5,523,910,000. Net unrealized appreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $137,651,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $248,486,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $110,835,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.

E. During the year ended January 31, 2008, the fund purchased $746,880,000 of investment securities and sold $766,979,000 of investment securities other than U.S. government securities and temporary cash investments. Purchases and sales of U.S. government securities were $92,158,000 and $62,166,000, respectively.

 

F. Capital share transactions for each class of shares were:

 

 

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

 

 

2008

 

 

2007

 

Amount

Shares

 

Amount

Shares

 

($000)

(000)

 

($000)

(000)

Investor Shares

 

 

 

 

 

Issued

771,394

85,388

 

781,323

85,981

Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions

223,901

24,731

 

215,980

23,732

Redeemed

(1,027,397)

(113,326)

 

(916,304)

(101,060)

Net Increase (Decrease)—Investor Shares

(32,102)

(3,207)

 

80,999

8,653

Admiral Shares

 

 

 

 

 

Issued

435,712

48,114

 

428,567

46,824

Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions

67,894

7,500

 

57,766

6,346

Redeemed

(391,268)

(43,191)

 

(343,696)

(37,836)

Net Increase (Decrease)—Admiral Shares

112,338

12,423

 

142,637

15,334

 

G. In June 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Interpretation No. 48 (“FIN 48”), “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes.” FIN 48 establishes the minimum threshold for recognizing, and a system for measuring, the benefits of tax-return positions in financial statements, effective for the fund’s current fiscal year. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken on federal income tax returns for all open tax years (tax years ended January 31, 2005–2008) for purposes of implementing FIN 48, and has concluded that no provision for income tax is required in the fund’s financial statements.

 

 

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High-Yield Corporate Fund

 

Fund Profile

As of January 31, 2008

 

Financial Attributes

 

 

 

 

 

Comparative

Broad

 

Fund

Index1

Index2

Number of Issues

236

1,540

9,133

Yield

 

Investor Shares

8.3%

 

 

Admiral Shares

8.5%

 

 

Yield to Maturity

8.2%3

10.1%

4.5%

Average Coupon

7.4%

8.0%

5.4%

Average Effective

 

 

 

Maturity

7.7 years

7.4 years

6.8 years

Average Quality 4

Ba2

B1

Aa1

Average Duration

5.1 years

4.7 years

4.2 years

Expense Ratio

 

Investor Shares

0.25%

 

 

Admiral Shares

0.13%

 

 

Short-Term Reserves

1.8%

 

Sector Diversification (% of portfolio)

 

 

 

Basic Industry

8.3%

Capital Goods

4.9   

Communication

19.2   

Consumer Cyclical

15.4   

Consumer Noncyclical

10.7   

Energy

11.1   

Finance

3.9   

Other Industrial

0.1   

Technology

1.9   

Transportation

2.7   

Treasury/Agency

5.7   

Utilities

12.5   

Sovereign

1.8   

Short-Term Reserves

1.8%

 

Volatility Measures5

 

 

Fund Versus

Fund Versus

 

Comparative Index 1

Broad Index 2

R-Squared

0.94

0.03

Beta

0.89

0.27

 

 

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Distribution by Credit Quality4 (% of portfolio)

 

 

Aaa

4.7%

Aa

0   

A

0   

Baa

4.6   

Ba

38.0   

B

42.1   

Below B/Other

10.6   

 

Distribution by Maturity (% of portfolio)

 

 

Under 1 Year

0.4%

1–5 Years

25.4   

5–10 Years

59.5   

10–20 Years

7.6   

20–30 Years

7.1   

 

Investment Focus

 


 

 

1  Lehman U.S. Corporate High Yield Index.

2  Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.

3  Before expenses.

4  Moody’s Investors Service.

5  For an explanation of R-squared, beta, and other terms used here, see the Glossary on page 84.

 

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Performance Summary

All of the returns in this report represent past performance, which is not a guarantee of future results that may be achieved by the fund. (Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data cited. For performance data current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at www.vanguard.com/performance.) Note, too, that both investment returns and principal value can fluctuate widely, so an investor’s shares, when sold, could be worth more or less than their original cost. The returns shown do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or on the sale of fund shares.

Cumulative Performance: January 31, 1998–January 31, 2008

Initial Investment of $10,000

 


 

 

Average Annual Total Returns

Final Value

 

Periods Ended January 31, 2008

of a $10,000

 

One Year

Five Years

Ten Years

Investment

High-Yield Corporate Fund Investor Shares1

0.70%

7.13%

4.69%

$15,814

Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index

8.81   

4.76   

6.01   

17,934

Lehman U.S. Corporate High Yield Index

–0.60   

9.88   

5.18   

16,573

Average High-Current-Yield Fund2

–1.46   

8.48   

3.65   

14,311

 

 

 

 

 

Final Value of

 

 

 

Since

a $100,000

 

One Year

Five Years

Inception3

Investment

High-Yield Corporate Fund Admiral Shares1

0.83%

7.25%

6.45%

$147,507

Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index

8.81   

4.76   

5.56   

140,017

Lehman U.S. Corporate High Yield Index

–0.60   

9.88   

8.34   

164,536

 

 

 

1  Total return figures do not reflect the 1% fee assessed on redemptions of shares held for less than one year; nor, for the Investor Shares, do they include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

2  Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.

3  Returns for the Admiral Shares and comparative standards are since the Admiral Shares’ inception: November 12, 2001.

 

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Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): January 31, 1998–January 31, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares

Lehman1

Fiscal

Capital

Income

Total

Total

Year

Return

Return

Return

Return

1999

–3.0%

8.3%

5.3%

1.5%

2000

–7.8   

8.0   

0.2   

0.5   

2001

–4.4   

9.1   

4.7   

1.6   

2002

–9.6   

8.5   

–1.1   

–1.4   

2003

–5.7   

8.3   

2.6   

1.2   

2004

7.9   

8.6   

16.5   

27.2   

2005

–0.2   

7.5   

7.3   

8.9   

2006

–3.1   

7.0   

3.9   

4.5   

2007

0.5   

7.4   

7.9   

11.3   

2008

–6.4   

7.1   

0.7   

–0.6   

 

Average Annual Total Returns: Periods Ended December 31, 2007

This table presents average annual total returns through the latest calendar quarter—rather than through the end of the fiscal period. Securities and Exchange Commission rules require that we provide this information.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ten Years

 

Inception Date

One Year

Five Years

Capital

Income

Total

Investor Shares 2

12/27/1978

2.04%

7.62%

–3.06%

8.02%

4.96%

Admiral Shares2

11/12/2001

2.17   

7.74   

–1.143   

7.813   

6.673

 

 

1  Lehman U.S. Corporate High Yield Index.

2  Total return figures do not reflect the 1% fee assessed on redemptions of shares held for less than one year; nor, for the Investor Shares, do they include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

3  Return since inception.

Note: See Financial Highlights tables on pages 78 and 79 for dividend and capital gains information.

 

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Financial Statements

Statement of Net Assets—Investments Summary

As of January 31, 2008

This Statement summarizes the fund’s holdings by asset type (U.S. government and agency issues, corporate bonds, sovereign bonds, etc.); corporate bonds are further classified by industry sector. Details are reported for each of the fund’s 50 largest individual holdings and for investments that, in total for any issuer, represent more than 1% of the fund’s net assets. The total value of smaller holdings is reported as a single amount within each category.

The fund provides a complete list of its holdings four times in each fiscal year, at the quarter-ends. For the second and fourth fiscal quarters, the complete listing of the fund’s holdings is available electronically on Vanguard.com® and on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website (www.sec.gov), or you can have it mailed to you without charge by calling 800-662-7447. For the first and third fiscal quarters, the fund files the lists with the SEC on Form N-Q. Shareholders can look up the fund’s Forms N-Q on the SEC’s website. Forms N-Q may also be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room (see the back cover of this report for further information).

 

 

 

 

 

Face

Market

Percentage

 

 

 

Maturity

Amount

Value

of Net

 

 

Coupon

Date

($000)

($000)

Assets

U.S. Government Securities

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.000%

11/15/12

100,650

106,217

1.2%

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.875%

7/31/11

95,750

103,500

1.2%

 

U.S. Treasury Note

5.750%

8/15/10

93,740

101,898

1.1%

 

U.S. Treasury Note

5.625%

5/15/08

93,920

94,859

1.1%

 

U.S. Treasury Note

5.500%

5/15/09

90,165

93,983

1.0%

Total U.S. Government Securities (Cost $479,859)

 

 

500,457

5.6%

Corporate Bonds

 

 

 

 

 

Finance

 

 

 

 

 

Banking

 

 

 

22,544

0.2%

 

Finance Companies

 

 

 

 

 

 

General Motors

 

 

 

 

 

 

Acceptance Corp. LLC

8.000%

11/1/31

190,230

156,940

1.8%

 

General Motors

 

 

 

 

 

 

Acceptance Corp. LLC

6.750%–6.875%

8/28/12–12/1/14

62,825

52,671

0.6%

Insurance

 

 

 

60,643

0.7%

Real Estate Investment Trust

 

 

 

51,740

0.6%

 

 

 

 

 

344,538

3.9%

Industrial

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic Industry

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arch Western Finance

6.750%

7/1/13

67,495

65,301

0.7%

 

Freeport-McMoRan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Copper & Gold Inc.

8.375%

4/1/17

94,685

100,129

1.1%

 

Freeport-McMoRan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Copper & Gold Inc.

8.250%

4/1/15

39,685

41,669

0.5%

1

Georgia-Pacific Corp.

7.125%

1/15/17

78,040

75,699

0.9%

 

Georgia-Pacific Corp.

8.000%–8.125%

5/15/11–1/15/24

54,135

52,746

0.6%

 

Novelis Inc.

7.250%

2/15/15

76,675

70,733

0.8%

 

US Steel Corp.

7.000%

2/1/18

58,385

57,545

0.6%

Other—Basic Industry

 

 

 

258,740

2.9%

 

Capital Goods

 

 

 

 

 

 

Allied Waste

 

 

 

 

 

 

North America Inc.

5.750%–7.250%

2/15/11–6/1/17

94,330

92,125

1.0%

 

United Rentals NA Inc.

6.500%

2/15/12

63,080

57,876

0.7%

Other—Capital Goods

 

 

 

275,292

3.1%

 

Communication

 

 

 

 

 

1

Charter Communications

 

 

 

 

 

 

OPT LLC

8.000%

4/30/12

95,150

90,155

1.0%

1

Charter Communications

 

 

 

 

 

 

OPT LLC

8.375%

4/30/14

76,940

73,285

0.8%

 

Citizens Communications

9.250%

5/15/11

62,665

66,581

0.7%

 

 

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Citizens Communications

6.625%–9.000%

3/15/15–8/15/31

37,665

35,647

0.4%

 

CSC Holdings, Inc.

7.625%

7/15/18

79,045

70,943

0.8%

 

CSC Holdings, Inc.

6.750%–8.125%

7/15/09–2/15/18

109,995

105,933

1.2%

 

Dex Media, Inc.

8.000%

11/15/13

16,290

14,905

0.2%

 

Idearc Inc.

8.000%

11/15/16

164,915

148,424

1.7%

 

Intelsat Bermuda Ltd.

7.625%–9.250%

4/15/12–6/15/16

117,890

93,820

1.1%

 

Intelsat Holding Ltd.

8.625%

1/15/15

62,875

62,875

0.7%

 

Intelsat Holding Ltd.

8.250%

1/15/13

6,980

6,945

0.1%

 

PanAmSat Corp.

9.000%

8/15/14

41,751

41,438

0.5%

 

Qwest Communications

 

 

 

 

 

 

International Inc.

8.875%

3/15/12

90,455

95,995

1.1%

 

Qwest Communications

 

 

 

 

 

 

International Inc.

7.500%

10/1/14

10,505

10,571

0.1%

 

R.H. Donnelley Corp.

8.875%

1/15/16

105,890

91,065

1.0%

1

R.H. Donnelley Corp.

6.875%–8.875%

1/15/13–10/15/17

53,240

45,226

0.5%

 

US West

 

 

 

 

 

 

Communications Group

6.875%

9/15/33

80,755

72,780

0.8%

 

Windstream Corp.

8.625%

8/1/16

57,015

59,153

0.7%

 

Windstream Corp.

7.000%–8.125%

8/1/13–3/15/19

55,015

52,947

0.6%

Other—Communication

 

 

 

448,438

5.0%

 

Consumer Cyclical

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ford Motor Co.

7.450%

7/16/31

56,555

41,427

0.5%

2

Ford Motor Credit Co.

8.000%

12/15/13

157,937

137,800

1.6%

 

Ford Motor Credit Co.

7.000%

10/1/13

144,115

119,545

1.3%

 

Ford Motor Credit Co.

8.000%

12/15/16

83,500

69,653

0.8%

2

Ford Motor Credit Co.

8.708%

4/15/12

40,570

39,503

0.4%

 

^General Motors Corp.

8.375%

7/15/33

139,550

114,431

1.3%

 

General Motors Corp.

8.250%

7/15/23

47,885

38,188

0.4%

 

Harrah’s Operating Co., Inc.

5.750%

10/1/17

100,000

60,000

0.7%

 

Harrah’s Operating Co., Inc.

5.625%–6.500%

6/1/15–6/1/16

45,465

28,968

0.3%

 

Host Hotels & Resorts LP

6.875%

11/1/14

35,930

35,301

0.4%

 

Host Marriott LP

7.125%

11/1/13

68,215

68,215

0.8%

 

Mandalay Resort Group

9.375%

2/15/10

34,730

35,772

0.4%

 

MGM Mirage, Inc.

8.500%

9/15/10

78,475

81,222

0.9%

 

MGM Mirage, Inc.

6.750%–8.375%

2/1/11–9/1/12

32,450

32,070

0.4%

 

Park Place

 

 

 

 

 

 

Entertainment Corp.

8.125%

5/15/11

1,890

1,644

0.0%

 

Service Corp. International

6.750%–7.625%

10/1/14–10/1/18

91,793

91,789

1.0%

1

TRW Automotive Inc.

7.000%

3/15/14

96,785

89,526

1.0%

1

TRW Automotive Inc.

7.250%

3/15/17

49,145

44,845

0.5%

Other—Consumer Cyclical

 

 

 

210,789

2.4%

 

Consumer Noncyclical

 

 

 

 

 

 

Community Health Systems

8.875%

7/15/15

72,460

73,547

0.8%

 

Constellation Brands Inc.

7.250%

9/1/16

65,188

62,092

0.7%

 

Elan Financial PLC

7.750%

11/15/11

67,950

63,873

0.7%

 

Elan Financial PLC

8.869%–8.875%

11/15/11–12/1/13

67,775

63,664

0.7%

 

HCA Inc.

6.375%

1/15/15

96,955

82,896

0.9%

 

HCA Inc.

6.500%

2/15/16

69,575

59,139

0.7%

 

HCA Inc.

5.750%–9.250%

3/15/14–11/6/33

60,360

58,204

0.7%

 

Tenet Healthcare Corp.

9.875%

7/1/14

73,300

69,635

0.8%

 

Tenet Healthcare Corp.

6.500%–9.250%

6/1/12–2/1/15

38,890

34,842

0.4%

Other—Consumer Noncyclical

 

 

 

364,905

4.1%

 

Energy

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chesapeake Energy Corp.

6.500%

8/15/17

67,780

65,577

0.7%

 

Chesapeake Energy Corp.

6.250%–7.750%

1/15/15–1/15/18

127,485

124,636

1.4%

1

OPTI Canada Inc.

8.250%

12/15/14

67,550

66,030

0.7%

1

OPTI Canada Inc.

7.875%

12/15/14

24,135

22,898

0.3%

 

Peabody Energy Corp.

7.375%

11/1/16

59,950

60,999

0.7%

 

Peabody Energy Corp.

6.875%–7.875%

3/15/13–11/1/26

83,235

83,206

0.9%

 

Pioneer Natural

 

 

 

 

 

 

Resources Co.

6.650%

3/15/17

68,845

66,386

0.7%

 

Pioneer Natural

 

 

 

 

 

 

Resources Co.

5.875%–7.200%

7/15/16–1/15/28

77,265

72,678

0.8%

Other—Energy

 

 

 

404,078

4.7%

 

Technology

 

 

 

 

 

 

NXP BV

7.875%

10/15/14

61,075

56,418

0.6%

Other—Technology

 

 

 

105,519

1.2%

 

 

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Transportation

 

 

 

 

 

2

Avis Budget Car Rental

7.369%–7.750%

5/15/14–5/15/16

111,000

100,649

1.1%

 

Hertz Corp.

8.875%

1/1/14

68,500

66,616

0.7%

 

Hertz Corp.

10.500%

1/1/16

32,355

31,142

0.4%

Other—Transportation

 

 

 

38,381

0.4%

Industrial—Other

 

 

 

4,484

0.1%

 

 

 

 

 

6,478,163

72.9%

Utilities

 

 

 

 

 

 

Electric

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dynegy Inc.

8.375%

5/1/16

75,465

73,578

0.8%

 

Dynegy Inc.

7.750%

6/1/19

40,000

36,600

0.4%

 

Mirant North America LLC

7.375%

12/31/13

59,415

59,638

0.7%

 

NRG Energy Inc.

7.375%

2/1/16

96,890

93,741

1.1%

 

NRG Energy Inc.

7.375%

1/15/17

69,725

67,546

0.8%

 

NRG Energy Inc.

7.250%

2/1/14

30,145

29,467

0.3%

 

Reliant Energy, Inc.

6.750%

12/15/14

86,930

87,799

1.0%

 

Reliant Energy, Inc.

7.875%

6/15/17

20,000

19,550

0.2%

 

TXU Corp.

6.500%

11/15/24

77,300

57,009

0.6%

 

TXU Corp.

5.550%–6.550%

11/15/14–11/15/34

131,235

99,846

1.1%

Other—Electric

 

 

 

253,569

2.9%

 

Natural Gas

 

 

 

 

 

1

Williams Cos., Inc.

6.375%–8.125%

10/1/10–1/15/31

107,285

115,288

1.3%

Other—Natural Gas

 

 

 

101,574

1.1%

 

 

 

 

 

1,095,205

12.3%

Total Corporate Bonds (Cost $8,405,515)

 

 

7,917,906

89.1%

Sovereign Bonds (U.S. Dollar-Denominated)

 

 

 

 

 

Republic of Argentina

7.000%

9/12/13

116,365

103,238

1.2%

 

Republic of Argentina

7.000%

4/17/17

69,450

55,664

0.6%

Total Sovereign Bonds (Cost $174,335)

 

 

158,902

1.8%

Temporary Cash Investments

 

 

 

 

 

Repurchase Agreement

 

 

 

 

 

 

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Dated 1/31/08, Repurchase Value

 

 

 

 

 

$154,861,000, collateralized by

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. Treasury Inflation-Indexed

 

 

 

 

 

Note 3.000%, 7/15/12)

1.750%

2/1/08

154,853

154,853

1.7%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shares

 

 

Money Market Fund

 

 

 

 

 

3

Vanguard Market

 

 

 

 

 

 

Liquidity Fund—Note G

4.060%

 

158,109,800

158,110

1.8%

Total Temporary Cash Investments (Cost $312,963)

 

 

312,963

3.5%

Total Investments (Cost $9,372,672)

 

 

8,890,228

100.0%

Other Assets and Liabilities

 

 

 

 

 

Other Assets—Note C

 

 

 

208,383

2.3%

Liabilities—Note G

 

 

 

(209,600)

(2.3%)

 

 

 

 

 

(1,217)

0.0%

Net Assets

 

 

 

8,889,011

100.0%

 

 

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At January 31, 2008, net assets consisted of: 4

 

 

Amount

 

($000)

Paid-in Capital

10,867,018

Undistributed Net Investment Income

Accumulated Net Realized Losses

(1,495,563)

Unrealized Depreciation

(482,444)

Net Assets

8,889,011

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares—Net Assets

 

Applicable to 790,821,736 outstanding $.001 par value shares of

 

beneficial interest (unlimited authorization)

4,602,401

Net Asset Value Per Share—Investor Shares

$5.82

 

 

 

 

Admiral Shares—Net Assets

 

Applicable to 736,581,007 outstanding $.001 par value shares of

 

beneficial interest (unlimited authorization)

4,286,610

Net Asset Value Per Share—Admiral Shares

$5.82

 

 

 

•  See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements .

†  Represents the aggregate value, by category, of securities that are not among the 50 largest holdings and, in total for any issuer, represent 1% or less of net assets.

^  Part of security position is on loan to broker-dealers. See Note G in Notes to Financial Statements .

1  Certain of the fund’s securities are exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. Such securities may be sold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. At January 31, 2008, the aggregate value of these securities was $883,092,000, representing 9.9% of net assets.

2  Adjustable-rate note.

3  Affiliated money market fund available only to Vanguard funds and certain trusts and accounts managed by Vanguard. Rate shown is the 7-day yield.

4  See Note E in Notes to Financial Statements for the tax-basis components of net assets.

 

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High-Yield Corporate Fund

 

Statement of Operations

 

 

Year Ended

 

January 31, 2008

 

($000)

Investment Income

 

Income

 

Interest

705,833

Security Lending

3,240

Total Income

709,073

Expenses

 

Investment Advisory Fees—Note B

3,403

The Vanguard Group—Note C

 

Management and Administrative

 

Investor Shares

9,496

Admiral Shares

3,137

Marketing and Distribution

 

Investor Shares

945

Admiral Shares

706

Custodian Fees

28

Auditing Fees

34

Shareholders’ Reports

 

Investor Shares

249

Admiral Shares

28

Trustees’ Fees and Expenses

11

Total Expenses

18,037

Expenses Paid Indirectly—Note D

(28)

Net Expenses

18,009

Net Investment Income

691,064

Realized Net Gain (Loss) on Investment Securities Sold

(47,020)

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) of Investment Securities

(577,690)

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

66,354

 

 

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Statement of Changes in Net Assets

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

 

2008

2007

 

($000)

($000)

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

 

Operations

 

 

Net Investment Income

691,064

653,463

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

(47,020)

35,036

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

(577,690)

8,449

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

66,354

696,948

Distributions

 

 

Net Investment Income

 

 

Investor Shares

(361,709)

(362,070)

Admiral Shares

(329,355)

(291,393)

Realized Capital Gain

 

 

Investor Shares

Admiral Shares

Total Distributions

(691,064)

(653,463)

Capital Share Transactions—Note H

 

 

Investor Shares

(216,455)

(89,530)

Admiral Shares

264,667

441,564

Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions

48,212

352,034

Total Increase (Decrease)

(576,498)

395,519

Net Assets

 

 

Beginning of Period

9,465,509

9,069,990

End of Period

8,889,011

9,465,509

 

 

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Financial Highlights

 

Investor Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For a Share Outstanding

Year Ended January 31,

Throughout Each Period

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period

$6.22

$6.19

$6.39

$6.40

$5.93

Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net Investment Income

.446

.438

.437

.460

.474

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

 

 

 

 

 

on Investments

(.400)

.030

(.200)

(.010)

.470

Total from Investment Operations

.046

.468

.237

.450

.944

Distributions

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends from Net Investment Income

(.446)

(.438)

(.437)

(.460)

(.474)

Distributions from Realized Capital Gains

Total Distributions

(.446)

(.438)

(.437)

(.460)

(.474)

Net Asset Value, End of Period

$5.82

$6.22

$6.19

$6.39

$6.40

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Return1

0.70%

7.89%

3.89%

7.34%

16.47%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ratios/Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net Assets, End of Period (Millions)

$4,602

$5,146

$5,214

$7,246

$7,271

Ratio of Total Expenses to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

0.25%

0.26%

0.25%

0.22%

0.23%

Ratio of Net Investment Income to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

7.34%

7.13%

7.01%

7.26%

7.65%

Portfolio Turnover Rate

26%

47%

44%

51%

52%

 

 

 

 

 

1  Total returns do not reflect the 1% fee assessed on redemptions of shares held for less than one year, or the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

 

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Admiral Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For a Share Outstanding

Year Ended January 31,

Throughout Each Period

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period

$6.22

$6.19

$6.39

$6.40

$5.93

Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net Investment Income

.454

.446

.445

.466

.477

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

 

 

 

 

 

on Investments

(.400)

.030

(.200)

(.010)

.470

Total from Investment Operations

.054

.476

.245

.456

.947

Distributions

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends from Net Investment Income

(.454)

(.446)

(.445)

(.466)

(.477)

Distributions from Realized Capital Gains

Total Distributions

(.454)

(.446)

(.445)

(.466)

(.477)

Net Asset Value, End of Period

$5.82

$6.22

$6.19

$6.39

$6.40

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Return1

0.83%

8.03%

4.04%

7.44%

16.54%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ratios/Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net Assets, End of Period (Millions)

$4,287

$4,320

$3,856

$2,225

$2,403

Ratio of Total Expenses to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

0.13%

0.13%

0.12%

0.12%

0.17%

Ratio of Net Investment Income to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

7.46%

7.26%

7.14%

7.36%

7.71%

Portfolio Turnover Rate

26%

47%

44%

51%

52%

 

 

 

1  Total returns do not reflect the 1% fee assessed on redemptions of shares held for less than one year. See accompanying Notes, which are an integral part of the Financial Statements .

 

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Notes to Financial Statements

Vanguard High-Yield Corporate Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The fund files reports with the SEC under the company name Vanguard Fixed Income Securities Funds. Certain of the fund’s investments are in corporate debt instruments; the issuers’ abilities to meet these obligations may be affected by economic developments in their respective industries. The fund offers two classes of shares, Investor Shares and Admiral Shares. Investor Shares are available to any investor who meets the fund’s minimum purchase requirements. Admiral Shares are designed for investors who meet certain administrative, service, tenure, and account-size criteria.

A. The following significant accounting policies conform to generally accepted accounting principles for U.S. mutual funds. The fund consistently follows such policies in preparing its financial statements.

1. Security Valuation: Bonds, and temporary cash investments acquired over 60 days to maturity, are valued using the latest bid prices or using valuations based on a matrix system (which considers such factors as security prices, yields, maturities, and ratings), both as furnished by independent pricing services. Investments in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund are valued at that fund’s net asset value. Other temporary cash investments are valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value. Securities for which market quotations are not readily available, or whose values have been materially affected by events occurring before the fund’s pricing time but after the close of the securities’ primary markets, are valued by methods deemed by the board of trustees to represent fair value.

2. Repurchase Agreements: The fund may invest in repurchase agreements. Securities pledged as collateral for repurchase agreements are held by a custodian bank until the agreements mature. Each agreement requires that the market value of the collateral be sufficient to cover payments of interest and principal; however, in the event of default or bankruptcy by the other party to the agreement, retention of the collateral may be subject to legal proceedings.

3. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Accordingly, no provision for federal income taxes is required in the financial statements.

4. Distributions: Distributions from net investment income are declared daily and paid on the first business day of the following month. Annual distributions from realized capital gains, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date.

5. Security Lending: The fund may lend its securities to qualified institutional borrowers to earn additional income. Security loans are required to be secured at all times by collateral at least equal to the market value of securities loaned. The fund invests cash collateral received in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, and records a liability for the return of the collateral, during the period the securities are on loan. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less expenses associated with the loan.

6. Other: Interest income is accrued daily. Premiums and discounts on debt securities purchased are amortized and accreted, respectively, to interest income over the lives of the respective securities. Security transactions are accounted for on the date securities are bought or sold. Costs used to determine realized gains (losses) on the sale of investment securities are those of the specific securities sold. Fees assessed on redemptions of capital shares are credited to paid-in capital.

 

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Each class of shares has equal rights as to assets and earnings, except that each class separately bears certain class-specific expenses related to maintenance of shareholder accounts (included in Management and Administrative expenses) and shareholder reporting. Marketing and distribution expenses are allocated to each class of shares based on a method approved by the board of trustees. Income, other non-class-specific expenses, and gains and losses on investments are allocated to each class of shares based on its relative net assets.

B. Wellington Management Company, LLP,provides investment advisory services to the fund for a fee calculated at an annual percentage rate of average net assets. For the year ended January 31, 2008, the investment advisory fee represented an effective annual rate of 0.04% of the fund’s average net assets.

C. The Vanguard Group furnishes at cost corporate management, administrative, marketing, and distribution services. The costs of such services are allocated to the fund under methods approved by the board of trustees. The fund has committed to provide up to 0.40% of its net assets in capital contributions to Vanguard. At January 31, 2008, the fund had contributed capital of $756,000 to Vanguard (included in Other Assets), representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 0.76% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and officers of Vanguard.

D. The fund’s custodian bank has agreed to reduce its fees when the fund maintains cash on deposit in the non-interest-bearing custody account. For the year ended January 31, 2008, custodian fee offset arrangements reduced the fund’s expenses by $28,000.

E. Capital gain distributions are determined on a tax basis and may differ from realized capital gains for financial reporting purposes. Differences may be permanent or temporary. Permanent differences are reclassified among capital accounts in the financial statements to reflect their tax character. Temporary differences arise when gains or losses are recognized in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes; these differences will reverse at some time in the future.

For tax purposes, at January 31, 2008, the fund had available realized losses of $1,492,018,000 to offset future net capital gains of $669,185,000 through January 31, 2010, $721,932,000 through January 31, 2011, $53,881,000 through January 31, 2012, $19,765,000 through January 31, 2016, and $27,255,000 through January 31, 2017.

At January 31, 2008, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $9,372,672,000. Net unrealized depreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $482,444,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $82,210,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $564,654,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.

F. During the year ended January 31, 2008, the fund purchased $2,180,328,000 of investment securities and sold $2,494,750,000 of investment securities, other than U.S. government securities and temporary cash investments. Purchases and sales of U.S. government securities were $49,662,000 and $46,810,000, respectively.

G. The market value of securities on loan to broker-dealers at January 31, 2008, was $153,536,000, for which the fund received cash collateral of $158,110,000.

 

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H. Capital share transactions for each class of shares were:

 

 

Year Ended January 31,

 

 

2008

 

 

2007

 

Amount

Shares

 

Amount

Shares

 

($000)

(000)

 

($000)

(000)

Investor Shares

 

 

 

 

 

Issued

1,004,788

165,099

 

973,154

158,314

Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions

288,723

47,638

 

284,591

46,401

Redeemed1

(1,509,966)

(249,151)

 

(1,347,275)

(219,645)

Net Increase (Decrease)—Investor Shares

(216,455)

(36,414)

 

(89,530)

(14,930)

Admiral Shares

 

 

 

 

 

Issued

1,130,533

185,810

 

983,669

160,082

Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions

218,430

36,057

 

188,948

30,801

Redeemed1

(1,084,296)

(179,709)

 

(731,053)

(119,299)

Net Increase (Decrease)—Admiral Shares

264,667

42,158

 

441,564

71,584

 

I. In June 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Interpretation No. 48 (“FIN 48”), “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes.” FIN 48 establishes the minimum threshold for recognizing, and a system for measuring, the benefits of tax-return positions in financial statements, effective for the fund’s current fiscal year. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken on federal income tax returns for all open tax years (tax years ended January 31, 2005–2008) for purposes of implementing FIN 48, and has concluded that no provision for income tax is required in the fund’s financial statements.

 

1  Net of redemption fees of $1,365,000 and $1,197,000 (fund totals).

 

 

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Report of Independent Registered

Public Accounting Firm

 

To the Trustees of Vanguard Fixed Income Securities Funds and the Shareholders of Vanguard Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund, Vanguard Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade Fund, Vanguard Long-Term Investment-Grade Fund and Vanguard High-Yield Corporate Fund:

In our opinion, the accompanying statements of net assets—investments summary, and the related statements of operations and of changes in net assets and the financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Vanguard Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund, Vanguard Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade Fund, Vanguard Long-Term Investment-Grade Fund and Vanguard High-Yield Corporate Fund (constituting separate portfolios of Vanguard Fixed Income Securities Funds, hereafter referred to as the “Funds”) at January 31, 2008, the results of each of their operations for the year then ended, the changes in each of their net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements and financial highlights (hereafter referred to as “financial statements”) are the responsibility of the Funds’ management; our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits, which included confirmation of securities at January 31, 2008 by correspondence with the custodians and brokers and by agreement to the underlying ownership records for Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

March 12, 2008

 

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Special 2007 tax information (unaudited) for Vanguard Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund

This information for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2008, is included pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

For nonresident alien shareholders, 82.7% of income dividends are interest-related dividends.

 


Special 2007 tax information (unaudited) for Vanguard Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade Fund

This information for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2008, is included pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

The fund distributed $395,000 as capital gain dividends (from net long-term capital gains) to shareholders during the fiscal year.

For nonresident alien shareholders, 79.9% of income dividends are interest-related dividends.

 


Special 2007 tax information (unaudited) for Vanguard Long-Term Investment-Grade Fund

This information for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2008, is included pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

For nonresident alien shareholders, 82.5% of income dividends are interest-related dividends.

 


Special 2007 tax information (unaudited) for Vanguard High-Yield Corporate Fund

This information for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2008, is included pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

For nonresident alien shareholders, 86.1% of income dividends are interest-related dividends.

 

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About Your Fund’s Expenses

As a shareholder of the fund, you incur ongoing costs, which include costs for portfolio management, administrative services, and shareholder reports (like this one), among others. Operating expenses, which are deducted from a fund’s gross income, directly reduce the investment return of the fund.

A fund’s expenses are expressed as a percentage of its average net assets. This figure is known as the expense ratio. The following examples are intended to help you understand the ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in your fund and to compare these costs with those of other mutual funds. The examples are based on an investment of $1,000 made at the beginning of the period shown and held for the entire period.

The table on page 86 illustrates your fund’s costs in two ways:

• Based on actual fund return. This section helps you to estimate the actual expenses that you paid over the period. The “Ending Account Value” shown is derived from the fund’s actual return, and the third column shows the dollar amount that would have been paid by an investor who started with $1,000 in the fund. You may use the information here, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period.

To do so, simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number given for your fund under the heading “Expenses Paid During Period.”

• Based on hypothetical 5% yearly return. This section is intended to help you compare your fund’s costs with those of other mutual funds. It assumes that the fund had a yearly return of 5% before expenses, but that the expense ratio is unchanged. In this case—because the return used is not the fund’s actual return—the results do not apply to your investment. The example is useful in making comparisons because the Securities and Exchange Commission requires all mutual funds to calculate expenses based on a 5% return. You can assess your fund’s costs by comparing this hypothetical example with the hypothetical examples that appear in shareholder reports of other funds.

Note that the expenses shown in the table on page 83 are meant to highlight and help you compare ongoing costs only and do not reflect transaction costs incurred by the fund for buying and selling securities. Further, the expenses do not include the High-Yield Corporate Fund’s 1% fee on redemptions of shares held for less than one year, nor do they include the account service fee described in the prospectus. If such fees were applied to your account, your costs would be higher. Your fund does not carry a “sales load.”

The calculations assume no shares were bought or sold during the period. Your actual costs may have been higher or lower, depending on the amount of your investment and the timing of any purchases or redemptions.

You can find more information about the funds’ expenses, including annual expense ratios, in the Financial Statements section of this report. For additional information on operating expenses and other shareholder costs, please refer to your fund’s current prospectus.

 

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Six Months Ended January 31, 2008

 

 

 

 

Beginning

Ending

Expenses

 

Account Value

Account Value

Paid During

 

7/31/2007

1/31/2008

Period1

Based on Actual Fund Return

 

 

 

Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$1,000.00

$1,045.25

$1.08

Admiral Shares

1,000.00

1,045.83

0.52

Institutional Shares

1,000.00

1,045.98

0.36

Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$1,000.00

$1,063.75

$1.09

Admiral Shares

1,000.00

1,064.34

0.52

Long-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$1,000.00

$1,045.79

$1.08

Admiral Shares

1,000.00

1,046.26

0.62

High-Yield Corporate Fund

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$1,000.00

$1,029.31

$1.33

Admiral Shares

1,000.00

1,029.98

0.67

Based on Hypothetical 5% Yearly Return

 

 

 

Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$1,000.00

$1,024.15

$1.07

Admiral Shares

1,000.00

1,024.70

0.51

Institutional Shares

1,000.00

1,024.85

0.36

Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$1,000.00

$1,024.15

$1.07

Admiral Shares

1,000.00

1,024.70

0.51

Long-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$1,000.00

$1,024.15

$1.07

Admiral Shares

1,000.00

1,024.60

0.61

High-Yield Corporate Fund

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$1,000.00

$1,023.89

$1.33

Admiral Shares

1,000.00

1,024.55

0.66

 

 

 

 

1  The calculations are based on expenses incurred in the most recent six-month period. The fund’s annualized six-month expense ratios for that period are: for the Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund, 0.21% for Investor Shares, 0.10% for Admiral Shares, and 0.07% for Institutional Shares; for the Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade Fund, 0.21% for Investor Shares and 0.10% for Admiral Shares; for the Long-Term Investment-Grade Fund, 0.21% for Investor Shares and 0.12% for Admiral Shares; for the High-Yield Corporate Fund, 0.26% for Investor Shares and 0.13% for Admiral Shares. The dollar amounts shown as “Expenses Paid” are equal to the annualized expense ratio multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by the number of days in the most recent six-month period, then divided by the number of days in the most recent 12-month period.

 

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Glossary

Average Coupon. The average interest rate paid on the fixed income securities held by a fund. It is expressed as a percentage of face value.

Average Duration. An estimate of how much the value of the bonds held by a fund will fluctuate in response to a change in interest rates. To see how the value could change, multiply the average duration by the change in rates. If interest rates rise by 1 percentage point, the value of the bonds in a fund with an average duration of five years would decline by about 5%. If rates decrease by a percentage point, the value would rise by 5%.

Average Effective Maturity. The average length of time until fixed income securities held by a fund reach maturity and are repaid, taking into consideration the possibility that the issuer may call the bond before its maturity date. The figure reflects the proportion of fund assets represented by each security; it also reflects any futures contracts held. In general, the longer the average effective maturity, the more a fund’s share price will fluctuate in response to changes in market interest rates.

Average Quality. An indicator of credit risk, this figure is the average of the ratings assigned to a fund’s fixed income holdings by credit-rating agencies. The agencies make their judgment after appraising an issuer’s ability to meet its obligations. Quality is graded on a scale, with Aaa or AAA indicating the most creditworthy bond issuers. U.S. Treasury securities are considered to have the highest credit quality.

Beta. A measure of the magnitude of a fund’s past share-price fluctuations in relation to the ups and downs of a given market index. The index is assigned a beta of 1.00. Compared with a given index, a fund with a beta of 1.20 typically would have seen its share price rise or fall by 12% when the index rose or fell by 10%. For this report, beta is based on returns over the past 36 months for both the fund and the index. Note that a fund’s beta should be reviewed in conjunction with its R-squared (see definition below). The lower the R-squared, the less correlation there is between the fund and the index, and the less reliable beta is as an indicator of volatility.

Expense Ratio. The percentage of a fund’s average net assets used to pay its annual administrative and advisory expenses. These expenses directly reduce returns to investors.

Inception Date. The date on which the assets of a fund (or one of its share classes) are first invested in accordance with the fund’s investment objective. For funds with a subscription period, the inception date is the day after that period ends. Investment performance is measured from the inception date.

R-Squared. A measure of how much of a fund’s past returns can be explained by the returns from the market in general, as measured by a given index. If a fund’s total returns were precisely synchronized with an index’s returns, its R-squared would be 1.00. If the fund’s returns bore no relationship to the index’s returns, its R-squared would be 0. For this report, R-squared is based on returns over the past 36 months for both the fund and the index.

Short-Term Reserves. The percentage of a fund invested in highly liquid, short-term securities that can be readily converted to cash.

Yield. A snapshot of a fund’s interest income. The yield, expressed as a percentage of the fund’s net asset value, is based on income earned over the past 30 days (7 days for money market funds) and is annualized, or projected forward for the coming year.

Yield to Maturity. The rate of return an investor would receive if the fixed income securities held by a fund were held to their maturity dates.

 

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The People Who Govern Your Fund

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A majority of Vanguard’s board members are independent, meaning that they have no affiliation with Vanguard or the funds they oversee, apart from the sizable personal investments they have made as private individuals.

Our independent board members bring distinguished backgrounds in business, academia, and public service to their task of working with Vanguard officers to establish the policies and oversee the activities of the funds. Among board members’ responsibilities are selecting investment advisors for the funds; monitoring fund operations, performance, and costs; reviewing contracts; nominating and selecting new trustees/directors; and electing Vanguard officers.

Each trustee serves a fund until its termination; or until the trustee’s retirement, resignation, or death; or otherwise as specified in the fund’s organizational documents. Any trustee may be removed at a shareholders’ meeting by a vote representing two-thirds of the net asset value of all shares of the fund together with shares of other Vanguard funds organized within the same trust. The table on these two pages shows information for each trustee and executive officer of the fund. The mailing address of the trustees and officers is P.O. Box 876, Valley Forge, PA 19482.

 

Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and Trustee

 

 

 

 

John J. Brennan1

 

 

Born 1954

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive

 

Trustee since May 1987;

Officer, and Director/Trustee of The Vanguard Group, Inc., and of each of the investment

 

Chairman of the Board and

companies served by The Vanguard Group.

 

Chief Executive Officer

 

 

152 Vanguard Funds Overseen

 

 

 

 

 

Independent Trustees

 

 

 

 

 

Charles D. Ellis

 

 

Born 1937

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Applecore Partners (pro bono ventures

 

Trustee since January 2001

in education); Senior Advisor to Greenwich Associates (international business strategy

 

152 Vanguard Funds Overseen

consulting); Successor Trustee of Yale University; Overseer of the Stern School of Business

 

 

at New York University; Trustee of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.

 

 

 

 

Emerson U. Fullwood

 

 

Born 1948

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Executive Chief Staff and Marketing

 

Trustee since January 2008

Officer for North America since 2004 and Corporate Vice President of Xerox Corporation

 

152 Vanguard Funds Overseen

(photocopiers and printers); Director of SPX Corporation (multi-industry manufacturing),

 

 

of the United Way of Rochester, and of the Boy Scouts of America.

 

 

 

 

Rajiv L. Gupta

 

 

Born 1945

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Chairman, President, and

 

Trustee since December 20012

Chief Executive Officer of Rohm and Haas Co. (chemicals); Board Member of

 

152 Vanguard Funds Overseen

the American Chemistry Council; Director of Tyco International, Ltd. (diversified

 

 

manufacturing and services) since 2005.

 

Amy Gutmann

 

Born 1949

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: President of the University of

Trustee since June 2006

Pennsylvania since 2004; Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences, Annenberg School

152 Vanguard Funds Overseen

for Communication, and Graduate School of Education of the University of Pennsylvania

 

since 2004; Provost (2001–2004) and Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and

 

the University Center for Human Values (1990–2004), Princeton University; Director of

 

Carnegie Corporation of New York since 2005 and of Schuylkill River Development

 

Corporation and Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce since 2004.

 

 

 

 

 


JoAnn Heffernan Heisen

 

Born 1950

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Corporate Vice President and

Trustee since July 1998

Chief Global Diversity Officer since 2006, Vice President and Chief Information

152 Vanguard Funds Overseen

Officer (1997–2005), and Member of the Executive Committee of Johnson &

 

Johnson (pharmaceuticals/consumer products); Director of the University Medical

 

Center at Princeton and Women’s Research and Education Institute.

 

 

André F. Perold

 

Born 1952

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: George Gund Professor of Finance

Trustee since December 2004

and Banking, Harvard Business School; Senior Associate Dean, Director of Faculty

152 Vanguard Funds Overseen

Recruiting, and Chair of Finance Faculty, Harvard Business School; Director and Chairman

 

of UNX, Inc. (equities trading firm) since 2003; Chair of the Investment Committee of

 

HighVista Strategies LLC (private investment firm) since 2005.

 

 

Alfred M. Rankin, Jr.

 

Born 1941

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Chairman, President, Chief Executive

Trustee since January 1993

Officer, and Director of NACCO Industries, Inc. (forklift trucks/housewares/lignite); Director

152 Vanguard Funds Overseen

of Goodrich Corporation (industrial products/aircraft systems and services).

 

 

 

 

J. Lawrence Wilson

 

Born 1936

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Retired Chairman and Chief Executive

Trustee since April 1985

Officer of Rohm and Haas Co. (chemicals); Director of Cummins Inc. (diesel engines) and

152 Vanguard Funds Overseen

AmerisourceBergen Corp. (pharmaceutical distribution); Trustee of Vanderbilt University

 

and of Culver Educational Foundation.

 

 

Executive Officers1

 

 

 

Thomas J. Higgins

 

Born 1957

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Principal of The Vanguard Group, Inc.;

Treasurer since July 1998

Treasurer of each of the investment companies served by The Vanguard Group.

152 Vanguard Funds Overseen

 

 

 

 

 

Heidi Stam

 

Born 1956

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Managing Director of The Vanguard

Secretary since July 2005

Group, Inc., since 2006; General Counsel of The Vanguard Group since 2005; Secretary of

152 Vanguard Funds Overseen

The Vanguard Group, and of each of the investment companies served by The Vanguard

 

Group, since 2005; Principal of The Vanguard Group (1997–2006).

 

Vanguard Senior Management Team

 

 

 

 

 

 

R. Gregory Barton

Kathleen C. Gubanich

F. William McNabb III

Ralph K. Packard

Mortimer J. Buckley

Paul A. Heller

Michael S. Miller

George U. Sauter

 

Founder

 

John C. Bogle

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, 1974–1996

 

 

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2  December 2002 for Vanguard Equity Income Fund, Vanguard Growth Equity Fund, the Vanguard Municipal Bond Funds, and the Vanguard State Tax-Exempt Funds.

More information about the trustees is in the Statement of Additional Information,available from The Vanguard Group.

 

 



 

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Vanguard® Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

 

 

 

Schedule of Investments

 

 

 

 

January 31, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Face

Market

 

 

 

Maturity

Amount

Value

 

 

Coupon

Date

($000)

($000)

U.S.

Government and Agency Obligations (7.6%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S.

Government Securities (4.7%)

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.375%

11/15/08

7,325

7,446

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.500%

2/15/09

8,900

9,110

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.875%

8/15/09

20,000

20,816

 

U.S. Treasury Note

3.375%

9/15/09

97,780

99,644

 

U.S. Treasury Note

3.375%

10/15/09

70,000

71,422

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.625%

11/15/09

25,450

26,548

 

U.S. Treasury Note

3.500%

2/15/10

291,800

299,550

 

U.S. Treasury Note

3.875%

5/15/10

140,000

145,316

 

U.S. Treasury Note

3.625%

6/15/10

8,033

8,304

 

U.S. Treasury Note

3.875%

9/15/10

182,000

189,706

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.250%

10/15/10

72,300

76,152

 

 

 

 

 

954,014

Mortgage-Backed Securities (2.9%)

 

 

 

 

 

Conventional Mortgage-Backed Securities (0.4%)

 

 

 

1,2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

6.000%

3/1/17–4/1/17

15,681

16,312

1,2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

7.000%

1/1/09

108

109

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

5.606%

2/1/37

8,448

8,669

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

6.000%

12/1/16–5/1/17

21,674

22,372

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

6.500%

12/1/11–9/1/16

19,548

20,283

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

7.000%

10/1/11–4/1/13

2,408

2,441

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

7.500%

3/1/15

526

550

 

Nonconventional Mortgage-Backed Securities (2.5%)

 

 

 

1,2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

3.651%

8/1/33

8,000

8,087

1,2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

3.727%

8/1/33

5,203

5,255

1,2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

3.836%

8/1/33

7,192

7,273

1,2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

3.876%

7/1/33

33,687

33,774

1,2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

3.929%

6/1/33

10,170

10,310

1,2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

4.055%

5/1/33

5,447

5,548

1,2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

4.072%

6/1/33

11,586

11,740

1,2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

4.115%

5/1/33

10,854

11,051

1,2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

4.213%

2/1/33

5,228

5,349

1,2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

5.000%

7/15/24

19,157

19,358

1,2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

5.324%

1/1/33

5,693

5,834

1,2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

5.500%

12/15/27

5,634

5,783

1,2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

5.866%

8/1/37

45,648

46,841

1,2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

7.072%

7/1/32

1,110

1,141

1,2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

7.117%

10/1/32

2,488

2,564

1,2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

7.180%

9/1/32

3,213

3,311

1,2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

7.225%

8/1/32

1,992

2,042

1,2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

7.238%

8/1/32

3,283

3,365

1,2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

7.254%

9/1/32

2,116

2,157

1,2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

7.270%

8/1/32

2,701

2,782

1,2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

7.274%

9/1/32

4,496

4,644

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

3.000%

8/25/32

849

846

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

3.402%

8/1/33

8,227

8,327

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

3.485%

8/1/33

8,135

8,243

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

3.638%

8/1/33

7,576

7,680

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

3.693%

8/1/33

2,538

2,576

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

3.695%

7/1/33

11,322

11,446

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

3.707%

8/1/33

15,508

15,676

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

3.715%

9/1/33

17,987

18,215

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

3.716%

6/1/33

30,331

30,768

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

3.717%

6/1/33

15,336

15,459

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

3.740%

10/1/33

7,802

7,918

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

3.798%

9/1/33

24,647

24,984

 

 

1

 


 

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

3.803%

8/1/33

16,719

16,965

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

3.816%

7/1/33

18,068

18,574

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

3.962%

4/1/33

9,286

9,458

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

3.971%

5/1/33

20,786

21,195

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

4.034%

5/1/33

13,017

13,161

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

4.086%

4/1/33

6,227

6,365

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

4.105%

5/1/33

9,227

9,420

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

4.117%

5/1/33

3,709

3,777

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

4.208%

7/1/33

28,876

29,428

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

5.500%

8/25/27

10,112

10,335

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

5.510%

8/1/37

8,830

9,058

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

6.193%

12/1/32

2,702

2,759

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

7.051%

8/1/32

1,819

1,851

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

7.064%

7/1/32

1,299

1,326

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

7.156%

9/1/32

652

672

1,2

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

7.208%

9/1/32

1,044

1,066

 

 

 

 

 

576,493

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total U.S. Government and Agency Obligations (Cost $1,480,249)

 

 

1,530,507

Corporate Bonds (87.7%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Asset-Backed/Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (23.2%)

 

 

 

2,3

American Express Credit Account Master Trust

4.346%

9/15/10

23,200

23,203

2,3

American Express Credit Account Master Trust

4.686%

11/15/10

16,000

15,959

2,3

American Express Credit Account Master Trust

4.326%

3/15/12

16,630

16,533

2,3

American Express Credit Account Master Trust

4.266%

12/15/13

22,500

22,108

2,3

American Express Issuance Trust

4.266%

8/15/11

24,500

24,220

2,4

ARG Funding Corp.

4.020%

4/20/09

14,155

14,161

4

BA Covered Bond Issuer

5.500%

6/14/12

36,600

39,090

2

Banc of America Commercial Mortgage, Inc.

5.334%

9/10/45

14,475

14,570

2

Banc of America Funding Corp.

5.599%

9/20/46

72,311

72,887

2

Banc of America Mortgage Securities

7.527%

9/25/32

487

488

2

Banc of America Mortgage Securities

6.428%

2/25/33

1,866

1,862

2

Banc of America Mortgage Securities

4.183%

5/25/33

4,043

3,977

2

Banc of America Mortgage Securities

3.419%

7/25/33

6,370

6,331

2

Banc of America Mortgage Securities

3.540%

2/25/34

7,189

7,052

2

Banc of America Securities Auto Trust

5.180%

6/18/10

40,000

40,491

2

Bank of America Credit Card Trust

4.720%

5/15/13

70,200

72,341

2,3

Bank of America Credit Card Trust

4.256%

6/17/13

44,920

44,207

2,3

Bank One Issuance Trust

4.346%

12/15/10

25,000

24,988

2

Bear Stearns Adjustable Rate Mortgage Trust

5.797%

10/25/36

80,893

81,467

2

Bear Stearns Adjustable Rate Mortgage Trust

5.480%

5/25/47

64,076

64,248

2

Bear Stearns Commercial Mortgage Securities, Inc.

5.478%

10/12/41

46,800

47,147

2

Bear Stearns Commercial Mortgage Securities, Inc.

4.254%

7/11/42

11,800

11,727

2

Bear Stearns Commercial Mortgage Securities, Inc.

5.330%

1/12/45

11,250

11,207

2

Bear Stearns Commercial Mortgage Securities, Inc.

5.574%

6/11/50

45,000

45,072

2

Bear Stearns Commercial Mortgage Securities, Inc.

5.613%

6/11/50

40,000

40,014

2,3,4

BMW Floorplan Master Owner Trust

4.022%

9/17/11

107,500

104,959

2

BMW Vehicle Lease Trust

4.590%

8/15/13

30,800

31,011

2

Cabela’s Master Credit Card Trust

4.310%

12/16/13

59,750

60,157

2

Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust

4.980%

5/15/11

29,550

29,962

2

Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust

5.000%

12/15/11

15,760

16,149

2

Capital One Auto Finance Trust

5.250%

8/15/11

34,200

34,693

2

Capital One Multi-Asset Execution Trust

4.150%

7/16/12

37,800

36,693

2

Capital One Prime Auto Receivables Trust

4.320%

8/15/09

3,002

3,003

2

Capital One Prime Auto Receivables Trust

4.990%

9/15/10

30,603

30,801

2

CarMax Auto Owner Trust

4.210%

1/15/10

6,245

6,253

2,3

Chase Credit Card Master Trust

4.346%

7/15/10

24,900

24,894

2

Chase Issuance Trust

4.960%

9/17/12

37,540

39,020

2,3

Chase Issuance Trust

4.276%

10/15/12

33,000

32,562

2

Chase Issuance Trust

4.650%

12/17/12

4,262

4,376

2

Chase Manhattan Auto Owner Trust

3.870%

6/15/09

7,654

7,657

2

Chase Manhattan Auto Owner Trust

5.340%

7/15/10

49,703

50,149

 

 

2

 


 

2

Chase Manhattan Auto Owner Trust

3.980%

4/15/11

16,100

16,146

2

CIT Equipment Collateral

4.420%

5/20/09

4,844

4,853

2

Citibank Credit Card Issuance Trust

4.850%

2/10/11

44,200

44,830

2

Citibank Credit Card Issuance Trust

5.150%

3/7/11

39,250

39,648

2

Citibank Credit Card Issuance Trust

5.500%

6/22/12

46,900

48,319

2

Citibank Credit Card Issuance Trust

4.750%

10/22/12

49,000

50,636

2

Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust

5.888%

12/10/49

41,000

41,437

2

Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust, Inc.

4.675%

3/25/34

9,086

9,005

2

Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust Inc.

5.920%

7/25/37

44,155

45,128

2

Citigroup/Deutsche Bank Commercial Mortgage Trust

5.655%

11/15/44

14,270

14,332

2

Citigroup/Deutsche Bank Commercial Mortgage Trust

5.205%

12/11/49

60,025

59,614

2

CNH Equipment Trust

4.270%

1/15/10

4,334

4,321

2

CNH Equipment Trust

5.200%

8/16/10

22,637

22,707

2,3

CNH Wholesale Master Note Trust

4.346%

6/15/11

23,475

23,496

2,3,4

CNH Wholesale Master Note Trust

4.296%

7/15/12

29,350

29,073

2

Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates

5.811%

12/10/49

19,000

19,249

2

Countrywide Home Loans

4.064%

5/25/33

6,924

6,757

2

Countrywide Home Loans

3.496%

11/19/33

12,743

12,673

2

Countrywide Home Loans

5.356%

3/20/36

33,913

33,319

2

Countrywide Home Loans

5.463%

2/25/47

43,389

42,608

2

Credit Suisse Mortgage Capital Certificates

5.512%

2/15/39

20,800

21,204

2

Credit Suisse Mortgage Capital Certificates

5.912%

6/15/39

36,575

37,008

2

Credit Suisse Mortgage Capital Certificates

5.589%

9/15/40

29,100

29,156

2

DaimlerChrysler Auto Trust

5.330%

8/8/10

21,730

21,923

2

DaimlerChrysler Auto Trust

4.980%

2/8/11

26,200

26,308

2,3

DaimlerChrysler Master Owner Trust

4.266%

11/15/11

22,000

21,754

2,3

Discover Card Master Trust I

4.246%

9/16/10

46,000

45,984

2,3

Federal National Mortgage Assn. Grantor Trust

3.616%

6/25/33

110

106

2

First Horizon Mortgage Pass-Through Trust

5.676%

11/25/36

32,504

33,049

2

First Horizon Mortgage Pass-Through Trust

5.499%

1/25/37

74,656

75,008

2,3

Fleet Home Equity Loan Trust

4.209%

1/20/33

6,670

6,138

2

Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust

4.300%

8/15/09

3,285

3,289

2

Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust

5.160%

11/15/10

27,500

28,008

2

Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust

5.250%

9/15/11

41,845

42,957

2

Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust

5.150%

11/15/11

23,820

24,436

2

Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust

3.960%

4/15/12

14,900

14,978

2

GE Capital Commercial Mortgage Corp.

4.353%

6/10/48

20,500

20,387

2,3

GE Capital Credit Card Master Note Trust

4.276%

3/15/13

17,600

17,350

2

GMAC Mortgage Corp. Loan Trust

5.298%

11/19/35

12,936

13,219

2,3

Gracechurch Card Funding PLC

4.033%

9/15/10

39,500

39,361

2,3

Granite Master Issuer PLC

4.038%

12/17/54

8,800

8,595

2,3

Granite Master Issuer PLC

4.996%

12/20/54

26,200

26,164

2

Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust

2.070%

2/15/11

5,188

5,186

2

Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust

2.760%

5/15/11

7,747

7,724

2

Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust

2.530%

11/15/11

8,359

8,295

2

Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust

5.240%

1/15/12

9,800

9,895

2

Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust

3.560%

2/15/12

15,733

15,705

2

Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust

5.220%

3/15/12

13,850

14,115

2

Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust

5.100%

5/15/12

28,850

29,362

2,4

Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust

5.040%

10/15/12

29,100

29,583

2

Honda Auto Receivables Owner Trust

4.610%

8/17/09

6,485

6,499

2

Honda Auto Receivables Owner Trust

5.100%

3/18/11

58,700

59,906

2

Honda Auto Receivables Owner Trust

5.460%

5/23/11

27,400

28,187

2

Honda Auto Receivables Owner Trust

5.090%

7/18/13

5,870

6,032

2

Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust

5.110%

4/15/11

52,000

52,897

2

John Deere Owner Trust

3.980%

6/15/09

1,926

1,928

2

John Deere Owner Trust

5.040%

7/15/11

34,700

34,793

2

JP Morgan Mortgage Trust

5.300%

7/25/35

83,806

84,365

2

JPMorgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities

4.625%

3/15/46

22,200

22,172

2

JPMorgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities

5.298%

5/15/47

18,700

18,691

2

JPMorgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities

5.992%

6/15/49

50,700

51,429

2

JPMorgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities

5.629%

2/12/51

24,053

24,127

2

JPMorgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities

5.827%

2/15/51

44,610

45,134

 

 

3

 


 

2,3,4

Kildare Securities Ltd.

5.206%

12/10/43

58,600

56,752

2

LB-UBS Commercial Mortgage Trust

5.303%

2/15/40

37,500

37,368

2

LB-UBS Commercial Mortgage Trust

5.318%

2/15/40

23,300

23,258

2

Master Adjustable Rate Mortgages Trust

3.824%

4/25/34

11,760

11,477

2,3

MBNA Credit Card Master Note Trust

4.356%

8/16/10

41,300

41,291

2

MBNA Credit Card Master Note Trust

3.650%

3/15/11

10,765

10,779

2

MBNA Credit Card Master Note Trust

4.900%

7/15/11

9,425

9,570

2,3

MBNA Credit Card Master Note Trust

4.256%

2/15/12

40,000

39,712

2

MBNA Credit Card Master Note Trust

4.500%

1/15/13

19,775

20,243

2

Merrill Auto Trust Securitization

4.100%

8/25/09

6,332

6,334

2

Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors, Inc.

6.395%

2/25/33

7,266

7,200

2

Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors, Inc.

4.610%

7/25/33

5,387

5,363

2

Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors, Inc.

4.561%

2/25/34

17,980

17,925

2

Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors, Inc.

5.500%

5/25/36

46,381

46,858

2

Merrill Lynch Mortgage Trust

4.556%

6/12/43

16,850

16,781

2

Merrill Lynch Mortgage Trust

5.918%

6/12/50

38,100

38,542

2

Merrill Lynch/Countrywide Commercial Mortgage Trust

5.282%

8/12/48

23,500

23,377

2

Merrill Lynch/Countrywide Commercial Mortgage Trust

5.693%

6/12/50

10,300

10,381

2

Merrill Lynch/Countrywide Commercial Mortgage Trust

5.331%

3/12/51

18,760

18,685

2

Morgan Stanley Capital I

5.803%

6/13/42

81,050

81,806

2

Morgan Stanley Capital I

5.374%

3/12/44

25,330

25,526

2

Morgan Stanley Capital I

5.623%

12/12/49

16,800

16,852

2

Morgan Stanley Capital I

5.090%

10/12/52

19,825

19,843

2,3

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Credit Card

 

 

 

 

 

Home Equity Line of Credit Trust

3.646%

11/25/15

2,884

2,915

2

Morgan Stanley Mortgage Loan Trust

4.074%

2/25/34

13,411

13,190

2

Morgan Stanley Mortgage Loan Trust

5.427%

6/25/36

41,563

41,992

2,3

National City Credit Card Master Trust

4.286%

8/15/12

57,400

56,790

2,3

National City Credit Card Master Trust

4.286%

3/17/14

24,825

24,265

2

Nissan Auto Receivables Owner Trust

3.990%

7/15/09

8,826

8,832

2

Nissan Auto Receivables Owner Trust

4.190%

7/15/09

5,321

5,328

2,3

Nissan Auto Receivables Owner Trust

4.266%

7/15/10

29,100

29,034

2

Nissan Auto Receivables Owner Trust

5.030%

5/16/11

11,200

11,465

2

Nissan Auto Receivables Owner Trust

3.890%

8/15/11

16,800

16,817

2

Nissan Auto Receivables Owner Trust

5.450%

6/15/12

40,400

41,735

2,3,4

Nordstrom Private Label Credit Card Master Trust

4.296%

5/15/15

93,000

90,737

2,3

Permanent Master Issuer PLC

4.308%

1/15/16

32,800

32,400

2

PG&E Energy Recovery Funding LLC

4.140%

9/25/12

39,250

39,992

2

PG&E Energy Recovery Funding LLC

4.370%

6/25/14

47,300

48,166

2

Provident Funding Mortgage Loan Trust

4.034%

4/25/34

22,227

21,988

2,3

Rental Car Finance Corp.

3.576%

6/25/09

23,783

23,768

2

Residential Funding Mortgage Securities I

5.855%

8/25/36

58,559

59,119

2

Residential Funding Mortgage Securities I

5.963%

9/25/36

26,615

27,580

2

Salomon Brothers Mortgage Securities VII

4.111%

9/25/33

27,348

26,910

2

Sequoia Mortgage Trust

5.653%

9/20/46

73,653

74,034

2

Thornburg Mortgage Securities Trust

3.304%

3/25/44

12,909

12,934

2

Toyota Auto Receivables Owner Trust

2.790%

1/15/10

3,294

3,293

2

USAA Auto Owner Trust

4.550%

2/16/10

25,735

25,803

2

USAA Auto Owner Trust

4.900%

2/15/12

29,800

30,447

2

USAA Auto Owner Trust

4.160%

4/16/12

13,780

13,943

2

USAA Auto Owner Trust

4.500%

10/15/13

28,020

27,720

2,3

Volkswagen Credit Auto Master Trust

3.954%

7/20/10

53,775

53,646

2,3

Wachovia Asset Securitization, Inc.

3.636%

6/25/33

2,221

2,055

2

Wachovia Auto Loan Owner Trust

5.100%

7/20/11

24,500

24,737

2

Wachovia Auto Owner Trust

5.390%

9/20/11

25,320

26,009

2

Wachovia Bank Commercial Mortgage Trust

5.569%

5/15/46

29,100

29,958

2

Wachovia Bank Commercial Mortgage Trust

5.275%

11/15/48

16,490

16,485

2

Washington Mutual Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates

6.548%

1/25/33

946

942

2

Washington Mutual Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates

3.842%

8/25/33

7,717

7,669

2

Washington Mutual Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates

4.047%

9/25/33

10,732

10,604

 

 

4

 


 

2

Wells Fargo Home Equity Trust

3.970%

5/25/34

22,377

22,252

2

Wells Fargo Mortgage Backed Securities Trust

5.637%

10/25/36

72,951

73,993

2

World Omni Auto Receivables Trust

5.010%

10/15/10

32,985

33,168

2

World Omni Auto Receivables Trust

5.230%

2/15/11

17,600

17,863

 

 

 

 

 

4,654,748

Finance (35.3%)

 

 

 

 

 

Banking (18.5%)

 

 

 

 

 

AmSouth Bank NA

6.125%

3/1/09

2,300

2,339

3,4

ANZ National Bank International Ltd.

4.447%

4/14/08

56,800

56,916

3,4

ANZ National Bank International Ltd.

4.938%

8/7/09

19,600

19,513

3

Associated Bank NA

5.031%

2/1/08

9,350

9,350

 

3

Associated Bank NA

5.244%

6/2/08

37,550

37,510

 

Astoria Financial Corp.

5.750%

10/15/12

12,000

12,613

2,4

Banco Mercantil del Norte

6.135%

10/13/16

19,550

19,257

4

Banco Mercantil del Norte SA (Cayman Islands)

5.875%

2/17/14

34,000

33,702

3,4

Banco Santander Chile

5.496%

12/9/09

18,900

18,936

 

Bank of America Capital Trust XIV

5.630%

12/31/49

105,428

86,477

3

Bank of America Corp.

5.040%

2/27/09

33,500

33,478

3

Bank of America Corp.

4.994%

8/2/10

20,000

19,845

 

Bank of America Corp.

5.375%

8/15/11

48,739

50,827

3

Bank of Ireland

5.016%

12/18/09

61,800

61,368

 

Bank of New York Co., Inc.

5.050%

3/3/09

37,900

38,431

 

Bank of New York Co., Inc.

5.410%

5/15/09

30,800

31,441

2

Bank of New York Mellon

3.400%

3/15/13

9,355

9,349

 

Bank of New York Mellon

7.300%

12/1/09

4,900

5,201

 

Bank of New York Mellon

4.950%

1/14/11

14,700

15,014

3

Bank of Nova Scotia

3.325%

3/28/08

94,000

93,967

3

Barclays Bank PLC

4.989%

8/10/09

46,800

46,846

 

Barclays Bank PLC

7.400%

12/15/09

6,788

7,184

 

Barclays Bank PLC

5.450%

9/12/12

19,550

20,563

4

Barclays Bank PLC

7.375%

12/15/49

4,420

4,773

 

BB&T Corp.

6.500%

8/1/11

20,875

22,167

3,4

BBVA US Senior S.A. Unipersonal

4.067%

4/17/09

117,500

117,246

4

BNP Paribas

4.800%

6/24/15

13,800

13,350

3

Branch Banking & Trust Co.

5.174%

9/2/08

17,800

17,821

3,4

BTMU Curacao Holdings NV

5.261%

12/19/16

36,725

34,210

3

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

5.090%

5/27/08

34,200

34,245

4

CBG Florida REIT Corp.

7.114%

2/15/49

25,100

19,661

3

Charter One Bank N.A.

3.294%

4/24/09

29,370

29,047

 

Charter One Bank N.A.

5.500%

4/26/11

16,400

17,102

3

Citigroup Global Markets

5.091%

3/17/09

38,700

38,632

3

Citigroup, Inc.

5.286%

6/9/09

81,000

80,821

 

Citigroup, Inc.

5.250%

2/27/12

19,900

20,329

 

Citigroup, Inc.

5.300%

10/17/12

46,700

48,363

4

Commonwealth Bank of Australia

5.000%

11/6/12

24,000

25,019

4

Commonwealth Bank of Australia

6.024%

3/15/49

21,125

20,191

3,4

Compass Bank

5.143%

10/9/09

46,700

46,511

3,4

Credit Agricole

5.103%

5/28/10

93,750

92,816

2,4

Credit Agricole

6.637%

5/31/49

7,600

6,931

3

Credit Suisse First Boston USA, Inc.

5.234%

6/2/08

40,000

40,059

 

Credit Suisse First Boston USA, Inc.

4.125%

1/15/10

38,425

38,709

3

Credit Suisse First Boston USA, Inc.

5.069%

8/15/10

41,500

41,015

 

Credit Suisse First Boston USA, Inc.

5.500%

8/16/11

8,500

8,867

 

Deutsche Bank Financial, Inc.

7.500%

4/25/09

17,920

18,731

3,4

Deutsche Bank Financial, Inc.

3.571%

4/30/09

11,730

11,730

3

Deutsche Bank New York Branch

5.132%

8/21/09

46,790

46,722

4

Development Bank of Singapore Ltd.

7.875%

8/10/09

21,600

22,763

3,4

Development Bank of Singapore Ltd.

5.097%

5/16/17

54,850

51,622

3,4

DnB NOR Bank ASA

4.447%

10/13/09

60,900

60,463

 

Fifth Third Bank

3.375%

8/15/08

16,701

16,688

3

First Tennessee Bank

5.131%

12/17/09

23,500

23,506

 

FirstStar Bank

7.125%

12/1/09

11,985

12,787

 

 

5

 


 

 

FleetBoston Financial Corp.

7.375%

12/1/09

5,000

5,308

 

GreenPoint Financial Corp.

3.200%

6/6/08

36,560

36,389

4

HBOS Treasury Services PLC

4.000%

9/15/09

32,000

32,089

3,4

HBOS Treasury Services PLC

5.206%

12/8/10

89,800

89,015

 

HSBC Bank PLC

6.950%

3/15/11

4,800

5,152

 

HSBC Bank USA

3.875%

9/15/09

38,500

38,633

3

HSBC Bank USA

5.187%

12/14/09

38,500

38,153

4

ICICI Bank Ltd.

5.750%

1/12/12

9,125

8,705

2

Independence Community Bank

3.750%

4/1/14

16,040

16,153

2

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

4.891%

9/1/15

25,200

25,631

 

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

4.600%

1/17/11

9,350

9,471

 

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

5.600%

6/1/11

35,000

36,458

 

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

6.625%

3/15/12

19,601

21,147

 

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

5.375%

10/1/12

72,565

75,819

 

KeyCorp

4.700%

5/21/09

15,700

15,801

3

KeyCorp

3.385%

5/26/09

19,570

19,420

4

Lloyds TSB Group PLC

6.267%

11/14/49

23,575

20,707

2,4

Manufacturers & Traders Trust Co.

3.850%

4/1/13

18,050

18,045

 

Marshall & Ilsley Bank

5.150%

2/22/12

21,500

21,876

3

MBNA Corp.

5.308%

5/5/08

17,400

17,410

 

Mellon Capital IV

6.244%

6/29/49

32,825

28,326

 

Mellon Funding Corp.

3.250%

4/1/09

48,350

48,078

 

National Australia Bank

8.600%

5/19/10

18,760

20,521

 

National Westminster Bank PLC

7.375%

10/1/09

9,337

9,920

 

North Fork Bancorp., Inc.

5.875%

8/15/12

8,070

7,420

 

PNC Funding Corp.

6.500%

5/1/08

9,795

9,869

3

PNC Funding Corp.

4.339%

6/12/09

23,450

23,321

 

PNC Funding Corp.

5.125%

12/14/10

28,155

29,196

3

Regions Financial Corp.

4.978%

8/8/08

47,400

47,373

 

Regions Financial Corp.

4.375%

12/1/10

1,500

1,491

 

Regions Financial Corp.

7.000%

3/1/11

10,385

10,906

 

Republic New York Corp.

5.875%

10/15/08

9,934

10,081

3

Royal Bank of Canada

4.896%

3/20/08

28,180

28,231

 

Royal Bank of Canada

5.290%

2/2/09

114,300

115,938

3,4

Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC

3.944%

7/21/08

97,700

97,212

 

Santander Finance Issuances

6.375%

2/15/11

17,675

18,691

3,4

Santander U.S. Debt, S.A. Unipersonal

5.201%

11/20/09

119,400

116,491

 

Sanwa Bank Ltd.

7.400%

6/15/11

9,825

10,606

 

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken

6.875%

2/15/09

11,630

12,053

4

Societe Generale

5.922%

12/5/49

9,200

8,542

 

Sovereign Bancorp, Inc.

4.800%

9/1/10

7,000

6,866

 

Sovereign Bank

4.000%

2/1/08

4,800

4,800

2

Sovereign Bank

4.375%

8/1/13

2,397

2,409

 

State Street Corp.

7.650%

6/15/10

8,075

8,701

3

State Street Corp.

3.351%

4/30/12

5,000

5,002

 

SunTrust Banks, Inc.

4.000%

10/15/08

8,650

8,699

3

SunTrust Banks, Inc.

5.115%

5/22/09

14,700

14,694

3

SunTrust Banks, Inc.

5.244%

6/2/09

56,470

56,458

 

Toronto Dominion Bank NY

6.150%

10/15/08

4,400

4,475

3,4

Unicredit Luxembourg Finance

4.717%

1/13/17

51,600

48,200

 

US Bank NA

4.125%

3/17/08

47,500

47,543

 

US Bank NA

5.700%

12/15/08

12,300

12,577

2

US Central Credit Union

2.700%

9/30/09

3,636

3,625

2

USB Capital IX

6.189%

4/15/49

53,940

43,004

4

USB Realty Corp.

6.091%

12/22/49

11,750

9,186

2

Wachovia Capital Trust III

5.800%

3/15/42

27,485

22,098

3

Wachovia Corp.

3.301%

10/28/08

52,900

52,898

 

Wachovia Corp.

6.000%

10/30/08

9,775

9,917

 

Wachovia Corp.

6.375%

2/1/09

45,800

46,795

 

Wachovia Corp.

6.150%

3/15/09

15,650

16,014

3

Wachovia Corp.

4.388%

10/15/11

24,450

23,818

 

Wachovia Corp.

5.300%

10/15/11

18,725

19,299

 

Washington Mutual Bank

5.550%

6/16/10

8,965

8,655

 

 

6

 


 

 

Washington Mutual Bank

6.875%

6/15/11

21,983

20,874

 

Wells Fargo & Co.

4.200%

1/15/10

50,000

50,486

 

Wells Fargo & Co.

4.625%

8/9/10

5,270

5,449

 

Wells Fargo & Co.

5.250%

10/23/12

9,775

10,151

 

Wells Fargo & Co.

4.375%

1/31/13

25,425

25,305

 

Wells Fargo Bank NA

6.450%

2/1/11

23,800

25,227

 

Western Financial Bank

9.625%

5/15/12

5,610

5,978

3

Zions Bancorp.

6.641%

12/10/09

65,700

65,561

 

Brokerage (3.9%)

 

 

 

 

2,3

Bear Stearns Co., Inc.

5.028%

2/8/08

24,500

24,498

3

Bear Stearns Co., Inc.

5.416%

9/9/09

43,450

42,207

 

Bear Stearns Co., Inc.

4.500%

10/28/10

24,158

23,904

3

Bear Stearns Co., Inc.

3.474%

1/31/11

25,020

22,604

 

Franklin Resources Inc.

3.700%

4/15/08

14,100

14,087

2

Goldman Sachs Capital II

5.793%

12/29/49

19,430

14,903

3

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

4.178%

7/23/09

6,265

6,192

3

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

4.964%

12/23/09

49,750

49,210

3

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

5.324%

3/2/10

29,300

28,886

3

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

5.142%

6/28/10

45,030

44,518

 

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

5.625%

1/15/17

5,870

5,884

 

Jefferies Group Inc.

5.875%

6/8/14

7,050

7,065

 

LaBranche & Co.

9.500%

5/15/09

14,450

14,522

 

LaBranche & Co.

11.000%

5/15/12

1,625

1,617

3

Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc.

5.082%

8/21/09

24,450

23,812

3

Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc.

4.978%

11/16/09

38,620

37,459

3

Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc.

5.170%

5/25/10

19,555

18,834

 

Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc.

5.750%

7/18/11

69,400

71,118

 

Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc.

5.625%

1/24/13

9,200

9,345

3

Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc.

5.685%

8/19/65

9,410

7,782

3

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

5.097%

2/5/10

56,575

54,730

 

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

4.250%

2/8/10

33,300

32,974

 

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

4.790%

8/4/10

35,465

35,658

3

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

5.371%

6/5/12

25,000

23,526

 

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

6.050%

8/15/12

18,975

19,656

 

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

5.450%

2/5/13

14,100

14,107

3

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter

4.538%

1/15/10

100,900

99,206

 

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter

6.750%

4/15/11

17,500

18,658

 

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter

5.250%

11/2/12

19,610

20,020

 

Finance Companies (6.2%)

 

 

 

 

3

American Express Centurion Bank

4.241%

11/16/09

9,500

9,203

 

American Express Centurion Bank

5.200%

11/26/10

29,300

30,276

 

American Express Credit Corp.

3.000%

5/16/08

11,450

11,433

3

American Express Credit Corp.

3.994%

5/19/09

23,750

23,421

3

American Express Credit Corp.

4.720%

10/4/10

19,600

18,685

4

American Express Travel

5.250%

11/21/11

18,800

19,445

 

American General Finance Corp.

2.750%

6/15/08

5,850

5,828

 

American General Finance Corp.

4.625%

5/15/09

23,935

24,041

 

American General Finance Corp.

5.375%

9/1/09

14,065

14,301

 

American General Finance Corp.

3.875%

10/1/09

39,000

38,884

 

American General Finance Corp.

4.875%

5/15/10

5,200

5,292

 

American General Finance Corp.

5.200%

12/15/11

12,700

12,608

 

American General Finance Corp.

4.875%

7/15/12

16,678

16,394

 

Capital One Bank

5.000%

6/15/09

19,650

19,345

 

Capital One Bank

6.500%

6/13/13

4,875

4,669

3

Capital One Bank FSB

5.211%

3/13/09

48,900

48,970

 

Capital One Financial

5.700%

9/15/11

14,700

13,579

 

Capital One Financial

4.800%

2/21/12

4,380

3,974

 

CIT Group, Inc.

5.600%

4/27/11

52,775

49,769

 

CIT Group, Inc.

5.800%

7/28/11

24,450

23,829

 

CIT Group, Inc.

7.625%

11/30/12

5,375

5,399

 

Countrywide Financial Corp.

5.800%

6/7/12

11,320

10,188

 

Countrywide Home Loan

3.250%

5/21/08

3,400

3,289

 

Countrywide Home Loan

6.250%

4/15/09

28,210

26,094

 

 

7

 


 

 

Countrywide Home Loan

5.625%

7/15/09

16,610

15,281

 

Countrywide Home Loan

4.000%

3/22/11

13,920

12,076

3

General Electric Capital Corp.

5.171%

3/4/08

22,500

22,505

2,3

General Electric Capital Corp.

3.344%

7/28/08

39,150

39,165

 

General Electric Capital Corp.

4.125%

9/1/09

50,000

50,719

3

General Electric Capital Corp.

4.939%

5/10/10

41,400

41,194

 

General Electric Capital Corp.

4.250%

9/13/10

55,250

56,578

 

General Electric Capital Corp.

5.000%

12/1/10

34,200

35,716

 

General Electric Capital Corp.

5.500%

4/28/11

20,700

21,670

 

General Electric Capital Corp.

5.875%

2/15/12

4,800

5,115

 

General Electric Capital Corp.

4.375%

3/3/12

18,600

18,818

 

General Electric Capital Corp.

5.250%

10/19/12

97,830

101,919

2

General Electric Capital Corp.

6.375%

11/15/67

14,450

15,030

2

HSBC Finance Capital Trust IX

5.911%

11/30/35

5,000

4,585

 

HSBC Finance Corp.

4.125%

12/15/08

5,200

5,227

 

HSBC Finance Corp.

4.125%

11/16/09

17,500

17,537

 

HSBC Finance Corp.

4.625%

9/15/10

46,650

47,195

 

HSBC Finance Corp.

5.250%

1/14/11

34,825

35,300

 

International Lease Finance Corp.

3.500%

4/1/09

9,410

9,351

 

International Lease Finance Corp.

4.750%

7/1/09

6,965

7,044

 

International Lease Finance Corp.

4.875%

9/1/10

13,377

13,547

 

International Lease Finance Corp.

4.950%

2/1/11

45,000

45,010

 

International Lease Finance Corp.

5.450%

3/24/11

39,190

39,811

 

International Lease Finance Corp.

5.750%

6/15/11

23,425

24,204

 

International Lease Finance Corp.

4.750%

1/13/12

13,100

13,026

 

iStar Financial Inc.

7.000%

3/15/08

2,320

2,319

 

iStar Financial Inc.

4.875%

1/15/09

34,560

32,966

3

SLM Corp.

3.471%

7/27/09

36,000

34,557

 

SLM Corp.

4.500%

7/26/10

28,445

26,264

 

Insurance (5.3%)

 

 

 

 

 

Berkshire Hathaway Finance Corp.

3.375%

10/15/08

22,600

22,676

4

Berkshire Hathaway Finance Corp.

4.500%

1/15/13

68,685

70,493

 

Chubb Corp.

5.472%

8/16/08

97,900

99,034

2

Chubb Corp.

6.375%

3/29/37

3,760

3,667

 

Coventry Health Care Inc.

5.875%

1/15/12

2,375

2,469

2

Everest Reinsurance Holdings, Inc.

6.600%

5/15/37

5,850

5,098

 

Genworth Financial, Inc.

5.231%

5/16/09

25,300

25,621

 

Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.

5.550%

8/16/08

29,400

29,706

2

ING Capital Funding Trust III

5.775%

12/8/49

11,170

10,386

4

ING Security Life Institutional Funding

4.250%

1/15/10

29,500

30,074

4

Jackson National Life Insurance Co.

3.500%

1/22/09

14,620

14,646

4

John Hancock Global Funding II

6.500%

3/1/11

8,000

8,633

2,4

Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.

7.000%

3/15/37

7,600

6,870

2

Lincoln National Corp.

6.050%

4/20/67

8,340

7,707

 

Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc.

5.375%

7/15/14

4,100

4,010

3,4

MassMutual Global Funding II

3.959%

4/21/11

117,100

115,521

3,4

MassMutual Global Funding II

5.310%

12/6/13

14,950

14,943

2,4

MBIA, Inc.

14.000%

1/15/33

32,800

28,536

3,4

Merna Reinsurance Ltd.

6.580%

7/7/10

18,330

18,110

3,4

MetLife Global Funding I

5.065%

5/18/10

48,900

48,945

3,4

Monumental Global Funding II

4.603%

1/9/09

46,875

46,794

4

Monumental Global Funding II

4.375%

7/30/09

14,310

14,451

4

Monumental Global Funding II

4.625%

3/15/10

15,385

15,688

4,5

New York Life Global Funding

3.875%

1/15/09

23,700

23,834

4

New York Life Global Funding

4.625%

8/16/10

9,360

9,579

4

New York Life Global Funding

5.250%

10/16/12

9,340

9,690

4

Oil Insurance Ltd.

7.558%

6/30/49

13,225

13,485

3,4

Premium Asset Trust

4.408%

7/15/08

22,800

22,832

4

PRICOA Global Funding I

3.900%

12/15/08

42,325

42,481

4

PRICOA Global Funding I

4.200%

1/15/10

18,291

18,440

4

PRICOA Global Funding I

4.625%

6/25/12

5,000

5,023

4

Principal Life Global

3.625%

4/30/08

14,550

14,565

4

Principal Life Global

4.400%

10/1/10

9,800

9,985

 

 

8

 


 

 

Principal Life Income Funding

5.125%

3/1/11

29,400

30,435

2

Progressive Corp.

6.700%

6/15/37

7,320

6,819

 

Safeco Corp.

4.200%

2/1/08

43,799

43,794

 

Safeco Corp.

4.875%

2/1/10

9,380

9,523

2

Travelers Cos. Inc.

6.250%

3/15/37

16,175

15,377

 

Travelers Property Casualty Corp.

3.750%

3/15/08

34,420

34,420

3

UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

5.204%

3/2/09

19,575

19,387

4

UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

5.125%

11/15/10

18,750

19,395

 

UnumProvident Corp.

5.859%

5/15/09

24,230

24,615

 

WellPoint Inc.

4.250%

12/15/09

16,300

16,427

 

Willis North America Inc.

5.125%

7/15/10

8,040

8,072

4

Xlliac Global Funding

4.800%

8/10/10

15,700

16,069

2,4

ZFS Finance USA Trust I

5.875%

5/9/32

14,625

13,791

 

Real Estate Investment Trusts (1.4%)

 

 

 

 

 

Arden Realty LP

5.200%

9/1/11

7,700

7,948

 

AvalonBay Communities, Inc.

8.250%

7/15/08

9,885

10,063

 

AvalonBay Communities, Inc.

7.500%

12/15/10

3,110

3,319

 

AvalonBay Communities, Inc.

5.500%

1/15/12

9,375

9,274

 

Brandywine Operating Partnership

5.750%

4/1/12

17,190

17,277

 

Developers Diversified Realty Corp.

5.250%

4/15/11

7,330

7,245

 

Developers Diversified Realty Corp.

5.375%

10/15/12

14,100

13,298

 

Health Care Property Investors, Inc.

4.875%

9/15/10

24,350

23,612

 

 

Health Care REIT, Inc.

8.000%

9/12/12

19,125

19,707

 

HRPT Properties Trust

6.950%

4/1/12

29,100

30,308

 

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP

4.820%

8/15/11

14,035

13,773

 

Liberty Property LP

6.375%

8/15/12

9,400

9,837

 

ProLogis

5.250%

11/15/10

21,800

21,856

 

ProLogis

5.500%

4/1/12

18,820

18,882

 

Regency Centers LP

7.950%

1/15/11

4,700

5,062

 

Simon Property Group Inc.

4.875%

3/18/10

27,900

27,942

 

Simon Property Group Inc.

4.875%

8/15/10

17,950

17,983

 

United Dominion Realty Trust

6.500%

6/15/09

6,350

6,510

4

Westfield Capital Corp.

4.375%

11/15/10

18,930

18,796

 

 

 

 

 

7,077,871

Industrial (24.2%)

 

 

 

 

 

Basic Industry (0.6%)

 

 

 

 

 

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.

5.000%

1/15/13

30,325

31,451

 

International Steel Group, Inc.

6.500%

4/15/14

8,800

9,130

 

Lubrizol Corp.

5.875%

12/1/08

10,920

11,041

 

Lubrizol Corp.

4.625%

10/1/09

28,128

28,537

 

Rohm & Haas Co.

5.600%

3/15/13

20,585

21,428

 

Weyerhaeuser Co.

6.750%

3/15/12

9,790

10,323

3,4

Xstrata Finance Dubai Ltd.

5.229%

11/13/09

14,750

14,540

 

Capital Goods (2.7%)

 

 

 

 

 

Allied Waste North America Inc.

6.875%

6/1/17

9,125

8,828

4

BAE Systems Holdings Inc.

4.750%

8/15/10

33,386

34,349

 

Boeing Capital Corp.

6.100%

3/1/11

21,075

22,462

4

C8 Capital SPV Ltd.

6.640%

12/15/49

5,600

5,303

 

Caterpillar Financial Services Corp.

2.700%

7/15/08

7,660

7,643

 

Caterpillar Financial Services Corp.

3.700%

8/15/08

6,910

6,927

 

Caterpillar Financial Services Corp.

4.500%

9/1/08

13,700

13,777

3

Caterpillar Financial Services Corp.

5.216%

3/10/09

38,200

38,156

3

Caterpillar Financial Services Corp.

4.929%

8/11/09

74,100

73,636

 

Caterpillar Financial Services Corp.

4.300%

6/1/10

1,000

1,020

 

Harsco Corp.

5.125%

9/15/13

8,000

8,424

3

Honeywell International, Inc.

5.171%

3/13/09

24,500

24,467

3

Honeywell International, Inc.

3.294%

7/27/09

9,800

9,771

 

Honeywell International, Inc.

6.125%

11/1/11

8,238

8,822

4

Hutchison Whampoa International Ltd.

5.450%

11/24/10

23,200

23,958

 

John Deere Capital Corp.

4.875%

3/16/09

7,915

8,038

 

John Deere Capital Corp.

4.625%

4/15/09

47,750

48,383

3

John Deere Capital Corp.

4.345%

10/16/09

35,000

35,035

 

 

9

 


 

 

John Deere Capital Corp.

5.400%

4/7/10

3,300

3,438

 

L-3 Communications Corp.

7.625%

6/15/12

2,325

2,377

 

L-3 Communications Corp.

6.125%

7/15/13

1,550

1,527

 

L-3 Communications Corp.

5.875%

1/15/15

5,600

5,432

 

Lafarge SA

6.150%

7/15/11

1,875

1,946

2,4

Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing ESOP Trust

5.620%

7/15/09

9,855

10,058

 

Northrop Grumman Corp.

8.000%

10/15/09

5,400

5,772

 

Northrop Grumman Corp.

7.125%

2/15/11

9,375

10,245

4

Oakmont Asset Trust

4.514%

12/22/08

16,110

16,158

 

Owens-Brockway Glass Container, Inc.

8.875%

2/15/09

6,812

6,812

 

Raytheon Co.

4.850%

1/15/11

24,105

24,941

 

Textron Financial Corp.

4.125%

3/3/08

13,200

13,207

3

Textron Financial Corp.

4.477%

1/12/09

39,170

39,235

 

Textron Financial Corp.

4.600%

5/3/10

11,750

11,884

 

Tyco International Group SA

6.375%

10/15/11

9,765

10,301

 

Communication (4.7%)

 

 

 

 

3

America Movil SA de C.V.

4.957%

6/27/08

18,700

18,687

 

America Movil SA de C.V.

4.125%

3/1/09

15,625

15,586

 

AT&T Inc.

4.125%

9/15/09

64,970

65,336

3

AT&T Inc.

4.978%

2/5/10

35,200

34,857

 

AT&T Inc.

7.300%

11/15/11

47,673

52,571

 

AT&T Inc.

4.950%

1/15/13

14,625

14,931

 

British Sky Broadcasting Corp.

6.875%

2/23/09

4,750

4,883

 

British Sky Broadcasting Corp.

8.200%

7/15/09

47,967

50,690

 

 

British Telecommunications PLC

8.625%

12/15/10

68,983

77,330

 

Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.

6.750%

1/30/11

22,885

24,147

 

Comcast Corp.

5.850%

1/15/10

33,312

34,321

 

Comcast Corp.

5.500%

3/15/11

29,190

29,944

 

Cox Communications, Inc.

3.875%

10/1/08

4,725

4,723

 

Cox Communications, Inc.

7.875%

8/15/09

21,348

22,429

 

Cox Communications, Inc.

4.625%

1/15/10

13,400

13,441

4

Cox Enterprises, Inc.

7.875%

9/15/10

12,000

13,018

 

Deutsche Telekom International Finance

3.875%

7/22/08

22,141

22,062

 

Deutsche Telekom International Finance

8.000%

6/15/10

23,455

25,411

 

France Telecom

7.750%

3/1/11

14,670

15,989

 

Gannett Co., Inc.

4.125%

6/15/08

32,845

32,914

3

Gannett Co., Inc.

5.230%

5/26/09

24,500

24,326

 

Nextel Communications

5.950%

3/15/14

10,000

9,006

2

NYNEX Corp.

9.550%

5/1/10

6,163

6,525

 

Sprint Capital Corp.

6.125%

11/15/08

22,180

22,263

 

Sprint Capital Corp.

7.625%

1/30/11

17,860

17,899

 

Telecom Italia Capital

4.000%

1/15/10

35,850

35,423

 

Telecom Italia Capital

4.875%

10/1/10

19,700

19,918

 

Telefonica Emisiones SAU

5.984%

6/20/11

60,400

63,219

 

Telefonos de Mexico SA

4.500%

11/19/08

58,830

58,830

 

Telefonos de Mexico SA

4.750%

1/27/10

18,730

18,894

 

Time Warner Cable Inc.

5.400%

7/2/12

23,500

23,840

 

Univision Communications, Inc.

3.875%

10/15/08

9,230

8,953

 

Verizon Global Funding Corp.

7.250%

12/1/10

39,430

42,860

 

Verizon Global Funding Corp.

6.875%

6/15/12

18,725

20,529

 

Consumer Cyclical (4.8%)

 

 

 

 

3,4

American Honda Finance

5.206%

3/9/09

53,870

53,832

3,4

American Honda Finance

4.939%

5/12/09

29,400

29,323

4

American Honda Finance

5.125%

12/15/10

24,390

25,394

 

Centex Corp.

4.875%

8/15/08

7,490

7,374

 

Centex Corp.

5.800%

9/15/09

9,380

8,877

 

Centex Corp.

7.875%

2/1/11

5,040

4,844

 

CVS Caremark Corp.

4.000%

9/15/09

9,500

9,462

 

CVS Caremark Corp.

5.750%

8/15/11

10,000

10,430

2

CVS Caremark Corp.

6.302%

6/1/37

16,400

15,650

 

DaimlerChrysler North America Holding Corp.

4.050%

6/4/08

35,400

35,456

3

DaimlerChrysler North America Holding Corp.

5.441%

10/31/08

36,439

36,416

 

 

10

 


 

 

DaimlerChrysler North America Holding Corp.

7.200%

9/1/09

9,150

9,565

 

DaimlerChrysler North America Holding Corp.

4.875%

6/15/10

29,480

29,882

 

DaimlerChrysler North America Holding Corp.

8.000%

6/15/10

4,670

5,043

 

Darden Restaurants Inc.

5.625%

10/15/12

6,540

6,517

 

Federated Department Stores, Inc.

6.300%

4/1/09

16,875

17,187

 

Federated Department Stores, Inc.

6.625%

4/1/11

17,146

17,548

 

Gamestop Corp.

8.000%

10/1/12

8,750

9,188

4

Harley-Davidson Funding Corp.

5.250%

12/15/12

10,950

11,204

4

Harley-Davidson Inc.

5.000%

12/15/10

9,300

9,597

 

Harrah’s Entertainment Inc.

7.875%

3/15/10

5,425

5,113

 

International Speedway Corp.

4.200%

4/15/09

25,770

25,772

 

J.C. Penney Co., Inc.

8.000%

3/1/10

2,400

2,518

 

J.C. Penney Co., Inc.

9.000%

8/1/12

25,811

28,756

 

K. Hovnanian Enterprises

6.250%

1/15/16

7,710

5,320

 

KB Home

6.375%

8/15/11

8,750

8,378

 

KB Home

7.250%

6/15/18

2,200

2,052

 

Lennar Corp.

5.125%

10/1/10

5,300

4,392

 

Lennar Corp.

5.950%

10/17/11

6,550

5,429

 

Lowe’s Cos., Inc.

8.250%

6/1/10

8,600

9,503

 

Lowe’s Cos., Inc.

5.600%

9/15/12

18,275

19,197

 

May Department Stores Co.

5.950%

11/1/08

17,020

17,172

 

May Department Stores Co.

4.800%

7/15/09

22,297

22,294

 

MDC Holdings Inc.

7.000%

12/1/12

5,385

5,596

 

MGM Mirage, Inc.

8.500%

9/15/10

5,600

5,796

 

MGM Mirage, Inc.

6.750%

4/1/13

3,825

3,615

 

MGM Mirage, Inc.

5.875%

2/27/14

4,000

3,620

4

Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp.

4.625%

3/8/10

28,250

28,623

4

Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp.

5.625%

3/14/11

39,200

40,525

3

Paccar Financial Corp.

4.955%

5/17/10

70,325

69,876

 

Royal Caribbean Cruises

6.750%

3/15/08

6,470

6,462

 

Royal Caribbean Cruises

7.000%

6/15/13

11,500

11,328

 

Royal Caribbean Cruises

6.875%

12/1/13

2,320

2,285

 

Target Corp.

3.375%

3/1/08

7,900

7,898

 

Target Corp.

5.400%

10/1/08

27,295

27,590

 

Target Corp.

5.375%

6/15/09

14,930

15,313

 

Target Corp.

5.125%

1/15/13

9,340

9,634

 

Tenneco Automotive Inc.

8.625%

11/15/14

4,400

4,279

3

The Walt Disney Co.

4.125%

7/16/10

19,550

19,456

 

The Walt Disney Co.

5.700%

7/15/11

7,500

7,909

3

Time Warner, Inc.

5.109%

11/13/09

29,500

28,779

 

Toll Corp.

8.250%

2/1/11

2,305

2,227

2

Toyota Motor Credit Corp.

2.750%

8/6/09

4,582

4,582

3

Viacom Inc.

5.341%

6/16/09

34,200

34,272

 

Viacom Inc.

5.750%

4/30/11

3,900

3,997

 

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

4.000%

1/15/10

20,000

20,330

 

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

4.125%

7/1/10

19,000

19,392

 

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

4.125%

2/15/11

25,000

25,340

 

Western Union Co.

5.400%

11/17/11

19,500

20,029

 

Yum! Brands, Inc.

7.650%

5/15/08

15,944

16,095

 

Yum! Brands, Inc.

8.875%

4/15/11

6,800

7,730

 

Consumer Noncyclical (4.7%)

 

 

 

 

 

Abbott Laboratories

3.750%

3/15/11

6,550

6,562

 

Abbott Laboratories

5.600%

5/15/11

16,845

17,777

 

Abbott Laboratories

5.150%

11/30/12

19,500

20,587

 

Altria Group, Inc.

5.625%

11/4/08

9,475

9,611

 

Altria Group, Inc.

7.000%

11/4/13

3,000

3,448

 

AmerisourceBergen Corp.

5.625%

9/15/12

10,000

10,086

3,4

Amgen Inc.

5.133%

11/28/08

32,800

32,768

 

Amgen Inc.

4.000%

11/18/09

41,950

42,251

3

AstraZeneca PLC

5.441%

9/11/09

37,400

37,502

 

Baxter Finco, BV

4.750%

10/15/10

21,300

21,842

 

Becton, Dickinson & Co.

7.150%

10/1/09

4,900

5,192

 

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

5.250%

8/15/13

5,875

6,218

 

 

11

 


 

 

Brown-Forman Corp.

3.000%

3/15/08

14,700

14,688

4

Cadbury Schweppes US Finance

3.875%

10/1/08

44,815

44,878

 

Campbell Soup Co.

5.875%

10/1/08

20,300

20,663

4

Cardinal Health, Inc.

4.999%

10/2/09

18,725

18,763

4

Cargill Inc.

3.625%

3/4/09

25,180

25,078

4

Cargill Inc.

5.200%

1/22/13

18,650

18,805

4

Cosan Finance Ltd.

7.000%

2/1/17

4,560

4,286

4

Covidien International

5.150%

10/15/10

18,680

19,540

 

Diageo Capital PLC

3.375%

3/20/08

16,435

16,436

 

Diageo Capital PLC

5.200%

1/30/13

6,540

6,732

3

General Mills, Inc.

4.024%

1/22/10

28,100

27,339

 

General Mills, Inc.

5.650%

9/10/12

14,030

14,628

 

H.J. Heinz Co.

6.000%

3/15/08

9,525

9,552

 

Hershey Foods Corp.

5.300%

9/1/11

5,625

5,845

 

Hormel Foods Corp.

6.625%

6/1/11

8,900

9,649

 

Hospira, Inc.

4.950%

6/15/09

19,000

19,297

3

Hospira, Inc.

5.310%

3/30/10

12,594

12,449

 

Kellogg Co.

6.600%

4/1/11

50,120

53,520

 

Kellogg Co.

5.125%

12/3/12

9,770

10,144

 

Kraft Foods, Inc.

4.125%

11/12/09

55,550

55,873

 

Kraft Foods, Inc.

5.625%

8/11/10

14,050

14,865

 

Kroger Co.

6.375%

3/1/08

9,170

9,188

 

Kroger Co.

7.450%

3/1/08

10,880

10,905

 

Kroger Co.

7.250%

6/1/09

18,442

19,268

 

Land O’Lakes Inc.

9.000%

12/15/10

1,590

1,666

3

Martin Marietta

3.394%

4/30/10

18,750

18,671

 

Medtronic Inc.

4.375%

9/15/10

18,800

19,184

 

Molson Coors Capital Finance

4.850%

9/22/10

6,575

6,749

4

Pepsi Bottling Holdings Inc.

5.625%

2/17/09

26,200

26,784

 

 

PepsiAmericas Inc.

6.375%

5/1/09

10,170

10,544

 

PepsiAmericas Inc.

5.625%

5/31/11

4,890

5,153

 

Pepsico, Inc.

4.650%

2/15/13

9,370

9,757

 

Quest Diagnostic, Inc.

5.125%

11/1/10

9,400

9,826

 

Reynolds American Inc.

7.625%

6/1/16

3,050

3,283

3,4

SABMiller PLC

5.029%

7/1/09

14,675

14,671

4

SABMiller PLC

6.200%

7/1/11

27,465

29,463

3

Safeway, Inc.

5.208%

3/27/09

19,600

19,645

 

Safeway, Inc.

7.500%

9/15/09

31,300

33,157

 

Safeway, Inc.

4.950%

8/16/10

13,675

13,883

 

Smithfield Foods, Inc.

7.750%

7/1/17

6,050

5,717

 

Wyeth

6.950%

3/15/11

42,420

45,303

 

Energy (2.5%)

 

 

 

 

 

Anadarko Finance Co.

6.750%

5/1/11

15,531

16,598

3

Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

5.391%

9/15/09

84,670

83,062

 

Canadian Natural Resources

6.700%

7/15/11

8,575

9,098

 

Canadian Natural Resources

5.150%

2/1/13

14,020

14,285

4

Canadian Oil Sands

4.800%

8/10/09

13,090

13,298

 

Chesapeake Energy Corp.

7.625%

7/15/13

3,850

3,985

 

Conoco Funding Co.

6.350%

10/15/11

30,020

32,495

 

Devon Financing Corp.

6.875%

9/30/11

40,580

44,294

4

GS-Caltex Oil Corp.

5.500%

10/15/15

8,300

8,102

 

Kerr McGee Corp.

6.875%

9/15/11

40,130

43,554

 

Marathon Oil Corp.

6.125%

3/15/12

24,585

26,202

2,4,6

Oil Enterprises Ltd.

6.239%

6/30/08

2,322

2,337

2,4

Petroleum Co. of Trinidad & Tobago

6.000%

5/8/22

5,800

5,900

2,4

PF Export Receivables Master Trust

3.748%

6/1/13

7,299

7,015

2,4

PF Export Receivables Master Trust

6.436%

6/1/15

13,411

13,706

 

Phillips Petroleum Co.

8.750%

5/25/10

31,205

34,789

 

Phillips Petroleum Co.

9.375%

2/15/11

15,375

17,758

 

Shell International Finance

5.625%

6/27/11

50,251

53,711

4

Trans Capital Investment

5.670%

3/5/14

25,475

25,131

 

 

12

 


 

 

Transocean Inc.

5.250%

3/15/13

11,240

11,601

 

Valero Energy Corp.

3.500%

4/1/09

11,600

11,527

 

XTO Energy, Inc.

5.900%

8/1/12

11,250

11,912

 

Technology (1.8%)

 

 

 

 

 

Agilent Technologies Inc.

6.500%

11/1/17

8,325

8,420

3

Cisco Systems Inc.

5.095%

2/20/09

14,700

14,702

 

Cisco Systems Inc.

5.250%

2/22/11

24,525

25,562

 

Fiserv, Inc.

6.125%

11/20/12

24,370

25,546

 

Hewlett-Packard Co.

3.625%

3/15/08

5,326

5,327

3

Hewlett-Packard Co.

5.051%

6/15/10

23,450

23,264

 

International Business Machines Corp.

3.800%

2/1/08

29,800

29,797

 

International Business Machines Corp.

4.250%

9/15/09

13,825

14,060

 

International Business Machines Corp.

4.950%

3/22/11

73,300

75,791

 

International Business Machines Corp.

4.750%

11/29/12

7,950

8,223

 

Intuit Inc.

5.400%

3/15/12

9,375

9,614

3

Oracle Corp.

4.930%

5/14/10

93,775

93,010

 

Pitney Bowes Credit Corp.

5.750%

8/15/08

12,560

12,718

 

Pitney Bowes, Inc.

5.000%

3/15/15

14,170

14,053

 

Transportation (2.3%)

 

 

 

 

2

American Airlines, Inc.

3.857%

7/9/10

7,298

6,805

 

American Airlines, Inc.

6.817%

5/23/11

7,453

7,099

 

American Airlines, Inc.

7.858%

10/1/11

15,885

16,282

 

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.

5.900%

7/1/12

14,700

15,490

 

Canadian National Railway Co.

4.250%

8/1/09

3,000

3,024

 

Canadian National Railway Co.

6.375%

10/15/11

4,500

4,791

 

Continental Airlines, Inc.

7.056%

9/15/09

4,173

4,204

2

Continental Airlines, Inc.

6.648%

9/15/17

3,641

3,577

2

Continental Airlines, Inc.

6.900%

1/2/18

2,357

2,351

2

Continental Airlines, Inc.

9.798%

4/1/21

8,271

8,105

 

CSX Corp.

4.875%

11/1/09

5,740

5,808

 

CSX Corp.

6.750%

3/15/11

16,800

17,912

 

Delta Air Lines, Inc.

7.570%

11/18/10

45,690

45,690

4

Delta Air Lines, Inc.

6.821%

8/10/22

10,940

10,393

4

Delta Air Lines, Inc.

8.021%

8/10/22

5,290

4,920

4

ERAC USA Finance Co.

7.350%

6/15/08

9,610

9,739

3,4

ERAC USA Finance Co.

3.501%

4/30/09

9,400

9,386

3,4

ERAC USA Finance Co.

5.303%

8/28/09

19,500

19,494

4

ERAC USA Finance Co.

7.950%

12/15/09

12,270

13,231

4

ERAC USA Finance Co.

8.000%

1/15/11

8,400

9,167

 

FedEx Corp.

3.500%

4/1/09

39,720

39,581

 

FedEx Corp.

5.500%

8/15/09

21,600

22,114

 

Greenbrier Co. Inc.

8.375%

5/15/15

9,113

8,156

2,3

JetBlue Airways Corp.

9.241%

3/17/08

2,191

2,192

2,3

JetBlue Airways Corp.

7.969%

11/15/08

2,342

2,319

2,3

JetBlue Airways Corp.

5.366%

12/15/13

17,971

16,566

3

JetBlue Airways Corp.

5.411%

3/15/14

25,765

22,854

3

JetBlue Airways Corp.

5.319%

11/15/16

19,135

16,725

 

Norfolk Southern Corp.

8.625%

5/15/10

10,290

11,480

 

Norfolk Southern Corp.

6.750%

2/15/11

16,300

17,835

 

Norfolk Southern Corp.

5.257%

9/17/14

10,806

10,762

 

TFM SA de CV

9.375%

5/1/12

2,000

2,065

 

Union Pacific Corp.

7.250%

11/1/08

11,600

11,902

 

Union Pacific Corp.

3.875%

2/15/09

9,500

9,500

 

Union Pacific Corp.

3.625%

6/1/10

19,320

19,331

 

Union Pacific Corp.

5.450%

1/31/13

4,680

4,832

2

United Air Lines Inc.

7.186%

4/1/11

14,845

14,808

 

Other (0.1%)

 

 

 

 

 

Briggs & Stratton Corp.

8.875%

3/15/11

17,470

18,605

2,4

Parker Retirement Savings Plan Trust

6.340%

7/15/08

1,385

1,402

 

Thermo Electron Corp.

5.000%

6/1/15

6,730

6,428

 

 

 

 

 

4,852,863

Utilities (5.0%)

 

 

 

 

 

Electric Utilities (3.7%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

13

 


 

4

AES Panama SA

6.350%

12/21/16

8,500

8,381

3

Alabama Power Co.

5.220%

8/25/09

27,490

27,242

 

Alabama Power Co.

4.850%

12/15/12

6,840

7,033

4

American Water Capital Corp.

6.085%

10/15/17

29,200

30,049

 

Appalachian Power Co.

5.650%

8/15/12

16,870

17,712

 

Avista Corp.

9.750%

6/1/08

20,100

20,376

 

Carolina Power & Light Co.

6.650%

4/1/08

25,900

26,023

 

Consolidated Edison Co. of New York

8.125%

5/1/10

6,010

6,570

 

Consumers Energy Co.

4.800%

2/17/09

10,783

10,824

 

Consumers Energy Co.

4.400%

8/15/09

9,370

9,367

 

Consumers Energy Co.

4.000%

5/15/10

22,567

22,374

2

Dominion Resources, Inc.

6.300%

9/30/66

37,740

36,223

4

EDP Finance BV

5.375%

11/2/12

14,750

15,162

 

Entergy Gulf States, Inc.

3.600%

6/1/08

47,530

47,318

 

FirstEnergy Corp.

6.450%

11/15/11

7,750

8,187

 

Florida Power Corp.

4.500%

6/1/10

14,775

15,102

 

FPL Group Capital, Inc.

5.625%

9/1/11

35,570

37,622

2

FPL Group Capital, Inc.

6.350%

10/1/66

8,820

8,273

3

Georgia Power Co.

5.085%

2/17/09

925

925

2,4

GWF Energy LLC

6.131%

12/30/11

7,520

7,824

 

MidAmerican Energy Co.

5.650%

7/15/12

32,800

34,681

 

Northeast Utilities

3.300%

6/1/08

6,025

6,014

 

Northeast Utilities

7.250%

4/1/12

16,385

17,996

 

Northern States Power Co.

4.750%

8/1/10

7,350

7,532

 

Nstar

8.000%

2/15/10

8,502

9,202

 

NStar Electric Co.

4.875%

10/15/12

5,480

5,666

 

Ohio Edison

4.000%

5/1/08

8,000

8,005

 

Ohio Power Co.

5.300%

11/1/10

10,030

10,511

 

Pacific Gas & Electric Co.

3.600%

3/1/09

12,320

12,343

 

Pacific Gas & Electric Co.

4.200%

3/1/11

14,450

14,508

3

Pepco Holdings, Inc.

5.749%

6/1/10

11,510

11,319

 

PPL Capital Funding, Inc.

4.330%

3/1/09

34,242

34,477

2

PPL Capital Funding, Inc.

6.700%

3/30/67

20,650

18,754

 

PPL Electric Utilities Corp.

6.250%

8/15/09

19,070

19,823

 

 

Public Service Co. of Colorado

4.375%

10/1/08

12,260

12,332

 

Public Service Co. of Colorado

6.875%

7/15/09

22,758

23,644

 

Public Service Co. of New Mexico

4.400%

9/15/08

6,050

6,051

 

Public Service Electric & Gas

4.000%

11/1/08

40,378

40,354

 

Puget Sound Energy Inc.

3.363%

6/1/08

16,610

16,570

3

Southern California Edison Co.

4.994%

2/2/09

7,500

7,522

 

Southern California Edison Co.

7.625%

1/15/10

7,150

7,704

4

SP PowerAssets Ltd.

3.800%

10/22/08

18,875

18,876

 

Tampa Electric Co.

6.875%

6/15/12

4,700

5,114

 

Tampa Electric Co.

6.375%

8/15/12

7,459

7,988

 

Texas - New Mexico Power Co.

6.125%

6/1/08

7,575

7,619

 

Wisconsin Energy Corp.

6.500%

4/1/11

16,850

18,004

 

Natural Gas (1.3%)

 

 

 

 

 

AGL Capital Corp.

7.125%

1/14/11

9,900

10,674

 

CenterPoint Energy

6.500%

2/1/08

18,360

18,358

2

Enbridge Energy Partners

8.050%

10/1/37

4,615

4,381

2

Enterprise Products Operating LP

8.375%

8/1/66

20,700

20,375

4

Gaz Capital SA

6.212%

11/22/16

14,100

13,776

4

Gulf South Pipeline Co.

5.750%

8/15/12

23,400

24,664

4

NGPL Pipeco LLC

6.514%

12/15/12

23,370

24,246

 

ONEOK Partners, LP

8.875%

6/15/10

7,950

8,874

 

ONEOK Partners, LP

5.900%

4/1/12

9,370

9,836

 

Plains All American Pipeline LP

4.750%

8/15/09

26,800

27,230

3,4

Rockies Express Pipeline LLC

5.776%

8/20/09

61,500

61,683

2

Southern Union Co.

7.200%

11/1/66

17,625

17,460

2

Trans-Canada Pipelines

6.350%

5/15/67

7,500

7,030

 

 

 

 

 

993,783

 

 

14

 


 

Total Corporate Bonds (Cost $17,562,375)

 

 

 

17,579,265

Sovereign Bonds (U.S. Dollar-Denominated) (1.5%)

 

 

 

 

 

China Development Bank

8.250%

5/15/09

18,790

20,090

4

Export-Import Bank of Korea

4.125%

2/10/09

19,200

19,290

 

Export-Import Bank of Korea

5.500%

10/17/12

17,800

18,311

 

Korea Development Bank

4.750%

7/20/09

56,500

57,584

 

Korea Development Bank

5.300%

1/17/13

18,675

19,002

2

Pemex Finance Ltd.

9.690%

8/15/09

14,350

14,841

 

Petrobras International Finance

9.125%

7/2/13

5,587

6,676

 

Petrobras International Finance

7.750%

9/15/14

1,600

1,808

2,4

Petroleum Export/Cayman

4.623%

6/15/10

16,389

16,675

2,4

Petroleum Export/Cayman

5.265%

6/15/11

17,251

17,245

4

Petronas Capital Ltd.

7.000%

5/22/12

20,700

22,946

2,4

Qatar Petroleum

5.579%

5/30/11

18,278

18,959

2,4

Ras Laffan Liquified Natural Gas Co.

3.437%

9/15/09

14,690

14,873

2,4

Ras Laffan Liquified Natural Gas Co. Ltd. II

5.298%

9/30/20

14,590

14,168

4

Republic of Trinidad & Tobago

9.875%

10/1/09

18,760

20,585

4

Taqa Abu Dhabi National Energy Co.

5.620%

10/25/12

9,400

9,718

4

Taqa Abu Dhabi National Energy Co.

5.875%

10/27/16

15,000

14,984

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Sovereign Bonds (Cost $301,275)

 

 

 

307,755

Taxable Municipal Bond (0.3%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund Finance Corp. Rev.

 

 

 

 

(Cost $47,450)

5.016%

10/15/12

47,450

47,282

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tax-Exempt Municipal Bonds (0.3%)

 

 

 

 

 

Minnesota GO

5.000%

8/1/11

27,635

30,021

 

Minnesota GO

5.000%

8/1/12

29,040

31,939

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Tax-Exempt Municipal Bonds (Cost $59,281)

 

 

 

61,960

 

 

15

 


Preferred Stocks (0.6%)

 

 

 

 

 

Aspen Insurance Holdings

7.401%

 

262,600

6,000

3

Bank of America Corp.

5.908%

 

736,360

14,580

3

Fannie Mae

5.948%

 

934,000

23,256

 

General Electric Capital Corp.

6.450%

 

300,000

7,923

3

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

6.050%

 

2,080,000

46,010

3

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

6.000%

 

152,000

2,671

 

Santander Financial

6.800%

 

404,900

9,406

3

SunTrust Banks, Inc.

6.224%

 

369,500

7,926

3

Zions Bancorp.

6.214%

 

293,775

6,316

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Preferred Stocks (Cost $139,704)

 

 

 

124,088

Temporary Cash Investments (0.6%)

 

 

 

 

7 Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund (Cost $128,005)

4.060%

 

128,004,970

128,005

Total Investments (98.6%) (Cost $19,718,339)

 

 

 

19,778,862

Other Assets and Liabilities—Net (1.4%)

 

 

 

276,351

Net Assets (100%)

 

 

 

20,055,213

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 The issuer operates under a congressional charter; its securities are neither issued nor guaranteed by the U.S. government. If needed, access to additional funding from the U.S. Treasury (beyond the issuer’s line of credit) would require congressional action.

2 The average or expected maturity is shorter than the final maturity shown because of the possibility of interim principal payments and prepayments or the possibility of the issue being called.

3 Adjustable-rate security.

4 Security exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. Such securities may be sold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. At January 31, 2008, the aggregate value of these securities was $3,257,515,000, representing 16.2% of net assets.

5 Securities with a value of $18,504,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open futures contracts.

6 Scheduled principal and interest payments are guaranteed by Municipal Bond Insurance Association.

7 Affiliated money market fund available only to Vanguard funds and certain trusts and accounts managed by Vanguard. Rate shown is the 7-day yield.

GO—General Obligation Bond.

REIT—Real Estate Investment Trust.

 

16

 


Vanguard® Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

 

 

 

Schedule of Investments

 

 

 

 

January 31, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Face

Market

 

 

 

Maturity

Amount

Value

 

 

Coupon

Date

($000)

($000)

U.S.

Government and Agency Obligations (6.7%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S.

Government Securities (5.9%)

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. Treasury Bond

3.625%

5/15/13

5,000

5,180

 

U.S. Treasury Bond

7.250%

5/15/16

17,500

22,118

 

U.S. Treasury Bond

4.250%

11/15/17

54,700

57,426

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.500%

9/30/11

4,225

4,520

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.625%

10/31/11

2,625

2,821

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.500%

11/30/11

4,900

5,249

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.625%

12/31/11

4,700

5,062

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.750%

1/31/12

8,475

9,168

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.875%

2/15/12

99,800

108,657

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.625%

2/29/12

4,300

4,632

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.500%

3/31/12

8,100

8,690

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.750%

5/31/12

7,750

8,394

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.375%

8/15/12

6,500

6,964

 

U.S. Treasury Note

3.875%

2/15/13

38,480

40,374

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.250%

8/15/13

64,700

69,047

 

 

 

 

 

358,302

Agency Bonds and Notes (0.3%)

 

 

 

 

 

Agency for International Development - Egypt

 

 

 

 

 

(U.S. Government Guaranteed)

4.450%

9/15/15

20,000

20,682

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mortgage-Backed Securities (0.5%)

 

 

 

 

 

Conventional Mortgage-Backed Securities (0.1%)

 

 

 

 

1,2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

6.000%

4/1/17

4,029

4,191

 

Nonconventional Mortgage-Backed Securities (0.4%)

 

 

 

 

1,2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

5.000%

6/15/24

18,417

18,621

1,2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

5.000%

10/15/24

4,141

4,197

1,2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

7.238%

8/1/32

1,305

1,337

1,2

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

7.274%

9/1/32

812

839

 

 

 

 

 

29,185

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total U.S. Government and Agency Obligations (Cost $384,206)

 

 

408,169

Corporate Bonds (88.0%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Asset-Backed/Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (8.9%)

 

 

 

2,3

American Express Credit Account Master Trust

4.346%

9/15/10

6,800

6,801

2,3

American Express Credit Account Master Trust

4.346%

10/15/10

10,000

9,998

2,3

American Express Credit Account Master Trust

4.266%

12/15/14

15,000

14,637

2,3

American Express Credit Account Master Trust

4.286%

9/15/16

10,000

9,629

4

BA Covered Bond Issuer

5.500%

6/14/12

11,000

11,748

2,3

Bank One Issuance Trust

4.346%

12/15/10

14,000

13,993

2

Bank One Issuance Trust

4.370%

4/15/12

10,000

9,947

2

Bear Stearns Commercial Mortgage Securities, Inc.

4.945%

2/11/41

8,000

7,870

2

Bear Stearns Commercial Mortgage Securities, Inc.

4.254%

7/11/42

7,360

7,315

2

Bear Stearns Commercial Mortgage Securities, Inc.

5.574%

6/11/50

13,000

13,021

2

Bear Stearns Commercial Mortgage Securities, Inc.

5.613%

6/11/50

11,900

11,904

2

Capital One Multi-Asset Execution Trust

4.150%

7/16/12

7,000

6,795

2

Capital One Multi-Asset Execution Trust

5.050%

12/17/18

15,000

15,219

2,3

Chase Credit Card Master Trust

4.346%

7/15/10

11,000

10,997

2,3

Chase Issuance Trust

4.276%

10/15/12

25,000

24,668

2

Citibank Credit Card Issuance Trust

5.150%

3/7/11

11,125

11,238

2,3

Citibank Credit Card Issuance Trust

4.004%

10/20/14

25,000

24,278

2

Citibank Credit Card Issuance Trust

4.850%

3/10/17

10,000

10,150

2

Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust

5.888%

12/10/49

13,000

13,139

2

Citigroup/Deutsche Bank Commercial Mortgage Trust

5.655%

11/15/44

4,270

4,288

2

Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates

5.811%

12/10/49

5,600

5,673

 

 

17

 


 

2

Credit Suisse Mortgage Capital Certificates

5.912%

6/15/39

11,000

11,130

2

Credit Suisse Mortgage Capital Certificates

5.589%

9/15/40

8,800

8,817

2

Detroit Edison Securitization Funding LLC

6.190%

3/1/13

15,000

15,765

2,3

Discover Card Master Trust I

4.246%

9/16/10

25,000

24,991

2,3

Fleet Home Equity Loan Trust

4.209%

1/20/33

1,970

1,813

2

GE Capital Commercial Mortgage Corp.

4.353%

6/10/48

5,350

5,321

2

JPMorgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities

5.629%

2/12/51

7,000

7,022

2

JPMorgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities

5.827%

2/15/51

13,370

13,527

2

LB-UBS Commercial Mortgage Trust

5.430%

2/15/40

8,000

7,947

2

Massachusetts RRB Special Purpose Trust

4.400%

3/15/15

12,000

12,100

2,3

MBNA Credit Card Master Note Trust

4.256%

2/15/12

15,000

14,892

2,3

MBNA Credit Card Master Note Trust

4.296%

6/15/15

31,000

30,121

2

Merrill Lynch Mortgage Trust

5.918%

6/12/50

11,000

11,128

2

Merrill Lynch/Countrywide Commercial Mortgage Trust

5.810%

6/12/50

5,000

5,076

2

Morgan Stanley Capital I

5.803%

6/13/42

24,100

24,325

2

Morgan Stanley Capital I

5.623%

12/12/49

4,700

4,714

2,3

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Credit Card

 

 

 

 

 

Home Equity Line of Credit Trust

3.646%

11/25/15

848

857

2

National City Credit Card Master Trust

4.286%

8/15/12

10,000

9,894

2

National City Credit Card Master Trust

4.286%

3/17/14

15,000

14,662

2,3,4

Nordstrom Private Label Credit Card Master Trust

4.296%

5/15/15

28,000

27,319

2

PECO Energy Transition Trust

6.520%

12/31/10

10,000

10,668

2

PSE&G Transition Funding LLC

6.610%

6/15/15

15,000

16,253

2,3

Target Credit Card Master Trust

3.436%

10/27/14

15,000

14,791

2

Wachovia Bank Commercial Mortgage Trust

5.569%

5/15/46

8,800

9,060

 

 

 

 

 

545,501

Finance (39.0%)

 

 

 

 

 

Banking (18.3%)

 

 

 

 

4

ANZ Capital Trust II

5.360%

12/15/49

10,000

9,559

 

AmSouth Bank NA

5.200%

4/1/15

10,000

9,462

3,4

ANZ National Bank International Ltd.

4.447%

4/14/08

13,000

13,027

 

Astoria Financial Corp.

5.750%

10/15/12

9,000

9,459

2,4

Banco Mercantil del Norte

6.862%

10/13/21

5,000

4,950

4

Banco Mercantil del Norte SA (Cayman Islands)

5.875%

2/17/14

8,550

8,475

4

Banco Santander Peru

5.375%

12/9/14

4,000

4,053

2

Bank of America Capital Trust XIV

5.630%

12/31/49

18,540

15,207

 

Bank of America Corp.

4.875%

1/15/13

16,021

16,305

 

Bank of America Corp.

5.250%

12/1/15

15,000

15,124

 

Bank of America Corp.

5.300%

3/15/17

9,000

8,942

 

Bank of America Corp.

5.420%

3/15/17

42,300

42,239

5

Bank of New York Mellon

4.950%

1/14/11

5,000

5,107

 

Bank of New York Mellon

4.950%

3/15/15

5,000

4,944

 

Bank One Corp.

4.900%

4/30/15

15,000

14,590

2,4

Barclays Bank PLC

5.926%

12/15/49

15,000

13,911

 

BB&T Corp.

6.500%

8/1/11

12,500

13,274

 

BB&T Corp.

4.750%

10/1/12

5,000

5,020

2,4

BBVA International Preferred Unipersonal

5.919%

12/31/49

7,000

6,277

4

BNP Paribas

4.800%

6/24/15

10,000

9,674

3,4

BTMU Curacao Holdings NV

5.261%

12/19/16

10,790

10,051

2,4

CBG Florida REIT Corp.

7.114%

2/15/49

17,340

13,583

3

Citigroup, Inc.

5.286%

6/9/09

25,700

25,643

 

Citigroup, Inc.

7.250%

10/1/10

900

971

 

Citigroup, Inc.

5.625%

8/27/12

20,000

20,817

 

Citigroup, Inc.

5.000%

9/15/14

9,000

8,807

 

Citigroup, Inc.

5.300%

1/7/16

10,000

10,103

 

Citigroup, Inc.

5.500%

2/15/17

25,000

24,755

 

Citigroup, Inc.

6.000%

8/15/17

10,000

10,458

 

Comerica Bank

5.750%

11/21/16

4,000

3,882

4

Commonwealth Bank of Australia

5.000%

11/6/12

15,500

16,158

2,4

Commonwealth Bank of Australia

6.024%

3/15/49

17,050

16,296

2,4

Credit Agricole

6.637%

5/31/49

18,900

17,236

 

Credit Suisse First Boston USA, Inc.

5.500%

8/16/11

20,000

20,862

 

Deutsche Bank Financial LLC

5.375%

3/2/15

10,000

10,021

 

 

18

 


 

3,4

Development Bank of Singapore Ltd.

5.097%

5/16/17

16,500

15,529

 

Fifth Third Bank

4.750%

2/1/15

18,150

17,420

 

First Tennessee Bank

5.050%

1/15/15

5,000

4,931

 

Golden West Financial Corp.

4.750%

10/1/12

22,450

22,523

 

HSBC Bank USA

3.875%

9/15/09

1,500

1,505

 

HSBC Bank USA

4.625%

4/1/14

22,000

21,408

 

Hudson United Bank

7.000%

5/15/12

9,200

9,900

4

ICICI Bank Ltd.

5.750%

1/12/12

2,675

2,552

 

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

6.750%

2/1/11

10,400

11,119

 

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

4.500%

1/15/12

5,000

5,087

 

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

5.750%

1/2/13

10,000

10,451

 

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

4.875%

3/15/14

5,000

4,991

 

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

6.125%

6/27/17

15,000

15,680

 

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

6.000%

10/1/17

10,000

10,401

 

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

6.000%

1/15/18

18,000

18,793

 

Key Bank NA

4.950%

9/15/15

18,000

17,565

2,4

Lloyds TSB Group PLC

6.267%

11/14/49

6,875

6,039

2,4

Manufacturers & Traders Trust Co.

3.850%

4/1/13

2,750

2,749

 

Marshall & Ilsley Bank

5.250%

9/4/12

4,000

4,118

 

MBNA Corp.

7.500%

3/15/12

6,145

6,837

 

Mellon Bank NA

4.750%

12/15/14

5,000

5,008

 

Mellon Funding Corp.

3.250%

4/1/09

10,000

9,944

 

Mercantile Bankshares Corp.

4.625%

4/15/13

10,000

10,196

 

National Australia Bank

8.600%

5/19/10

5,000

5,469

 

National City Bank

6.250%

3/15/11

8,000

8,297

 

National City Corp.

4.900%

1/15/15

3,435

3,023

 

PNC Bank NA

4.875%

9/21/17

6,100

5,800

 

PNC Bank NA

6.000%

12/7/17

4,500

4,570

 

PNC Funding Corp.

5.625%

2/1/17

5,000

4,967

 

Regions Financial Corp.

6.375%

5/15/12

8,975

9,409

 

Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC

5.000%

11/12/13

6,000

6,172

 

Sanwa Bank Ltd.

7.400%

6/15/11

2,825

3,049

4

Scotland International Finance

7.700%

8/15/10

10,000

10,920

 

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken

6.875%

2/15/09

5,000

5,182

2,4

Societe Generale

5.922%

12/5/49

20,000

18,570

 

Southtrust Corp.

5.800%

6/15/14

14,705

15,844

 

Sovereign Bancorp, Inc.

4.800%

9/1/10

5,000

4,904

 

Sovereign Bank

4.000%

2/1/08

4,900

4,900

2

Sovereign Bank

4.375%

8/1/13

2,458

2,471

 

State Street Capital Trust

5.300%

1/15/16

12,000

12,147

3

SunTrust Banks, Inc.

5.244%

6/2/09

12,175

12,172

3

SunTrust Banks, Inc.

5.029%

4/1/15

6,000

5,957

2,4

Toronto-Dominion Bank

6.378%

10/15/49

13,000

11,889

 

UBS AG

5.875%

7/15/16

10,000

10,394

 

UBS AG

5.875%

12/20/17

4,000

4,225

3,4

Unicredit Luxembourg Finance

4.717%

1/13/17

14,925

13,941

 

Union Planters Corp.

7.750%

3/1/11

10,000

10,751

 

UnionBanCal Corp.

5.250%

12/16/13

3,000

2,968

4

United Overseas Bank Ltd.

4.500%

7/2/13

7,000

6,817

 

US Bank NA

6.300%

2/4/14

5,000

5,355

 

US Bank NA

4.950%

10/30/14

14,750

14,708

2

USB Capital IX

6.189%

4/15/49

12,525

9,986

2,4

USB Realty Corp.

6.091%

12/15/49

3,450

2,697

 

Wachovia Bank NA

4.800%

11/1/14

10,000

9,819

 

Wachovia Bank NA

6.000%

11/15/17

12,000

12,348

 

Wachovia Corp.

5.625%

10/15/16

25,000

24,956

 

Wachovia Corp.

5.750%

2/1/18

5,000

4,955

 

Washington Mutual Bank

5.500%

1/15/13

6,147

5,680

 

Washington Mutual Bank

5.650%

8/15/14

7,500

6,758

 

Washington Mutual Bank

5.125%

1/15/15

9,000

7,908

 

Washington Mutual Finance Corp.

6.875%

5/15/11

10,000

10,776

 

Wells Fargo & Co.

4.200%

1/15/10

20,000

20,194

 

Wells Fargo & Co.

5.125%

9/1/12

5,500

5,666

 

 

19

 


 

 

Wells Fargo & Co.

5.250%

10/23/12

12,000

12,461

 

Wells Fargo & Co.

4.375%

1/31/13

8,025

7,987

 

Wells Fargo & Co.

4.950%

10/16/13

4,500

4,555

 

Wells Fargo & Co.

4.625%

4/15/14

10,000

9,860

 

Wells Fargo & Co.

5.125%

9/15/16

5,000

5,075

 

Wells Fargo & Co.

5.625%

12/11/17

6,000

6,218

 

Western Financial Bank

9.625%

5/15/12

1,640

1,748

2,4

Westpac Capital Trust III

5.819%

12/30/49

14,300

13,967

 

Wilmington Trust Corp.

4.875%

4/15/13

18,305

17,801

 

Zions Bancorp.

6.000%

9/15/15

11,000

11,006

 

Zions Bancorp.

5.500%

11/16/15

8,000

7,758

 

Brokerage (5.7%)

 

 

 

 

 

Bear Stearns Co., Inc.

5.700%

11/15/14

10,785

10,357

 

Bear Stearns Co., Inc.

7.250%

2/1/18

15,000

14,979

 

BlackRock, Inc.

6.250%

9/15/17

10,000

10,485

2

Goldman Sachs Capital II

5.793%

6/1/49

30,000

23,011

3

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

4.178%

7/23/09

3,575

3,534

3

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

5.142%

6/28/10

8,925

8,824

 

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

5.625%

1/15/17

29,000

29,071

 

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

5.950%

1/18/18

22,000

22,785

 

Jefferies Group Inc.

5.875%

6/8/14

7,500

7,516

 

LaBranche & Co.

9.500%

5/15/09

4,225

4,246

 

LaBranche & Co.

11.000%

5/15/12

375

373

 

Lazard Group

6.850%

6/15/17

5,000

4,774

 

Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc.

5.625%

1/24/13

2,755

2,799

 

Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc.

6.200%

9/26/14

22,500

23,327

 

Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc.

6.500%

7/19/17

30,000

30,615

 

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

4.500%

11/4/10

25,000

25,080

 

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

5.450%

2/5/13

5,425

5,428

 

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

6.050%

5/16/16

15,000

14,951

 

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

5.700%

5/2/17

12,000

11,631

 

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

6.400%

8/28/17

22,500

23,082

 

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter

4.750%

4/1/14

26,250

25,286

 

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter

5.375%

10/15/15

15,000

14,957

 

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter

5.450%

1/9/17

10,000

9,732

 

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter

5.950%

12/28/17

20,000

20,088

 

Finance Companies (6.4%)

 

 

 

 

3

American Express Centurion Bank

4.241%

11/16/09

5,000

4,843

 

American Express Centurion Bank

5.200%

11/26/10

8,750

9,041

 

American Express Centurion Bank

5.550%

10/17/12

10,400

10,933

 

American Express Centurion Bank

6.000%

9/13/17

21,000

21,870

 

American Express Co.

4.875%

7/15/13

16,417

16,492

 

American General Finance Corp.

4.875%

5/15/10

1,000

1,018

 

American General Finance Corp.

5.625%

8/17/11

15,500

15,866

 

American General Finance Corp.

4.875%

7/15/12

12,000

11,796

 

American General Finance Corp.

5.850%

6/1/13

25,000

25,618

 

American General Finance Corp.

6.900%

12/15/17

7,000

7,181

2,4

American General Finance Corp.

6.000%

1/15/67

8,000

7,429

 

CIT Group, Inc.

7.625%

11/30/12

2,750

2,762

 

CIT Group, Inc.

5.000%

2/1/15

12,000

10,135

 

CIT Group, Inc.

5.400%

1/30/16

11,000

8,974

 

CIT Group, Inc.

5.650%

2/13/17

1,500

1,231

 

Countrywide Financial Corp.

5.800%

6/7/12

3,415

3,073

 

Countrywide Home Loan

4.000%

3/22/11

4,200

3,643

 

General Electric Capital Corp.

4.375%

11/21/11

10,200

10,351

 

General Electric Capital Corp.

5.875%

2/15/12

54,600

58,187

 

General Electric Capital Corp.

4.375%

3/3/12

5,200

5,261

 

General Electric Capital Corp.

6.000%

6/15/12

25,000

26,632

 

General Electric Capital Corp.

6.375%

11/15/67

14,450

15,030

2

HSBC Finance Capital Trust IX

5.911%

11/30/35

27,500

25,217

 

HSBC Finance Corp.

4.125%

11/16/09

5,000

5,010

3

HSBC Finance Corp.

5.341%

9/14/12

8,000

7,583

 

International Lease Finance Corp.

4.950%

2/1/11

6,300

6,301

 

 

20

 


 

 

International Lease Finance Corp.

5.750%

6/15/11

4,700

4,856

 

International Lease Finance Corp.

5.875%

5/1/13

10,000

10,278

 

International Lease Finance Corp.

5.650%

6/1/14

10,000

10,191

 

iStar Financial Inc.

7.000%

3/15/08

680

680

 

iStar Financial Inc.

5.950%

10/15/13

10,000

8,647

 

SLM Corp.

5.050%

11/14/14

7,500

6,324

4

USAA Capital Corp.

4.640%

12/15/09

11,000

11,295

4

USAA Capital Corp.

4.996%

12/12/11

15,000

15,443

 

Insurance (6.1%)

 

 

 

 

 

ACE INA Holdings, Inc.

5.700%

2/15/17

3,000

3,044

 

Allied World Assurance

7.500%

8/1/16

5,000

5,343

 

American International Group, Inc.

5.850%

1/16/18

10,000

10,195

 

Berkshire Hathaway Finance Corp.

4.750%

5/15/12

20,000

20,720

 

Berkshire Hathaway Finance Corp.

4.625%

10/15/13

29,100

30,153

 

Berkshire Hathaway Finance Corp.

4.850%

1/15/15

17,100

17,241

2

Chubb Corp.

6.375%

3/29/37

8,000

7,802

 

CIGNA Corp.

7.000%

1/15/11

10,000

10,746

 

Coventry Health Care Inc.

5.875%

1/15/12

625

650

 

Coventry Health Care Inc.

5.950%

3/15/17

4,000

3,989

2

Everest Reinsurance Holdings, Inc.

6.600%

5/15/37

1,740

1,516

 

Genworth Financial, Inc.

4.950%

10/1/15

5,000

4,758

2

Genworth Financial, Inc.

6.150%

11/15/66

8,000

7,153

 

Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.

4.625%

7/15/13

10,000

10,007

 

Humana Inc.

6.450%

6/1/16

10,000

10,264

2

ING Capital Funding Trust III

5.775%

12/8/49

3,120

2,901

2,4

Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.

7.000%

3/15/37

2,225

2,011

 

Lincoln National Corp.

6.200%

12/15/11

7,000

7,389

2

Lincoln National Corp.

6.050%

4/20/67

5,940

5,489

 

Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc.

5.375%

7/15/14

5,325

5,207

3,4

MassMutual Global Funding II

5.310%

12/6/13

35,000

34,984

2,4

MBIA, Inc.

14.000%

1/15/33

9,875

8,591

3,4

Merna Reinsurance Ltd.

6.580%

7/7/10

5,450

5,385

 

MetLife, Inc.

5.375%

12/15/12

10,000

10,352

3,4

Monumental Global Funding III

3.501%

1/25/13

10,000

9,628

 

Nationwide Financial Services

5.900%

7/1/12

5,000

5,255

4

New York Life Global Funding

5.250%

10/16/12

5,000

5,187

4

New York Life Global Funding

5.375%

9/15/13

12,000

12,601

2,4

Oil Insurance Ltd.

7.558%

6/30/49

10,600

10,808

2

PartnerRe Finance II

6.440%

12/1/66

15,000

13,502

4

Principal Life Global

4.400%

10/1/10

10,000

10,189

2

Progressive Corp.

6.700%

6/15/37

2,200

2,049

 

Protective Life Secured Trust

4.000%

4/1/11

5,000

5,008

 

Prudential Financial, Inc.

5.100%

9/20/14

15,000

14,842

 

Prudential Financial, Inc.

4.750%

6/13/15

7,000

6,690

 

St. Paul Travelers Cos., Inc.

5.500%

12/1/15

4,000

4,092

2

Travelers Cos. Inc.

6.250%

3/15/37

4,750

4,516

 

Travelers Property Casualty Corp.

5.000%

3/15/13

5,000

5,168

 

UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

5.000%

8/15/14

12,000

11,771

 

WellPoint Inc.

6.375%

1/15/12

7,500

7,959

 

WellPoint Inc.

6.800%

8/1/12

10,000

10,568

4

Xlliac Global Funding

4.800%

8/10/10

3,300

3,378

2,4

ZFS Finance USA Trust I

5.875%

5/9/32

4,400

4,149

 

Real Estate Investment Trusts (2.5%)

 

 

 

 

 

Arden Realty LP

5.200%

9/1/11

1,900

1,961

 

AvalonBay Communities, Inc.

5.750%

9/15/16

13,550

12,726

 

Camden Property Trust

5.000%

6/15/15

10,000

9,084

 

Colonial Realty LP

5.500%

10/1/15

3,000

2,730

 

CPG Partners LP

8.250%

2/1/11

5,000

5,339

 

Developers Diversified Realty Corp.

5.250%

4/15/11

7,500

7,413

 

Equity One Inc.

6.250%

1/15/17

5,000

4,632

 

ERP Operating LP

5.125%

3/15/16

11,000

10,129

 

HCP Inc.

6.700%

1/30/18

5,000

4,659

 

Health Care Property Investors, Inc.

6.000%

1/30/17

5,000

4,474

 

 

21

 


 

 

Health Care REIT, Inc.

8.000%

9/12/12

5,000

5,152

 

Health Care REIT, Inc.

5.875%

5/15/15

5,725

5,228

 

Hospitality Properties

6.300%

6/15/16

5,000

4,769

 

HRPT Properties Trust

5.750%

2/15/14

6,061

5,696

 

HRPT Properties Trust

6.400%

2/15/15

9,500

9,117

 

Kimco Realty Corp.

5.783%

3/15/16

10,000

9,590

 

Liberty Property LP

5.125%

3/2/15

5,000

4,658

 

National Retail Properties

6.875%

10/15/17

7,000

7,115

 

ProLogis

5.625%

11/15/15

5,000

4,666

 

ProLogis

5.625%

11/15/16

5,500

5,037

 

Regency Centers LP

4.950%

4/15/14

5,000

4,612

 

Simon Property Group Inc.

4.875%

3/18/10

10,000

10,015

 

Simon Property Group Inc.

4.875%

8/15/10

3,750

3,757

 

Simon Property Group Inc.

5.250%

12/1/16

5,000

4,636

4

Westfield Capital Corp.

4.375%

11/15/10

5,270

5,233

 

 

 

 

 

2,380,838

Industrial (31.7%)

 

 

 

 

 

Basic Industry (0.9%)

 

 

 

 

4

ABX Financing Co.

5.750%

10/15/16

7,000

7,004

 

Alcoa, Inc.

5.550%

2/1/17

5,000

4,832

 

Alcoa, Inc.

5.870%

2/23/22

1,100

1,072

 

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.

5.000%

1/15/13

11,525

11,953

 

International Steel Group, Inc.

6.500%

4/15/14

2,200

2,283

 

Praxair, Inc.

5.250%

11/15/14

5,000

5,244

 

Rio Tinto Finance USA Ltd.

2.625%

9/30/08

7,000

6,952

 

Rohm & Haas Co.

6.000%

9/15/17

6,000

6,194

 

Weyerhaeuser Co.

6.750%

3/15/12

7,461

7,867

 

Capital Goods (3.8%)

 

 

 

 

 

Allied Waste North America Inc.

6.875%

6/1/17

2,675

2,588

 

Avery Dennison Corp.

4.875%

1/15/13

6,800

6,819

2,4

BAE Systems Asset Trust

7.156%

12/15/11

5,486

5,774

4

BAE Systems Holdings Inc.

5.200%

8/15/15

10,000

10,037

 

Boeing Capital Corp.

6.100%

3/1/11

5,000

5,329

 

Boeing Co.

5.125%

2/15/13

8,000

8,336

2,4

C8 Capital SPV Ltd.

6.640%

12/15/49

3,925

3,717

 

Caterpillar Financial Services Corp.

4.300%

6/1/10

7,000

7,138

 

Caterpillar Financial Services Corp.

4.600%

1/15/14

3,000

2,978

 

Caterpillar Financial Services Corp.

5.850%

9/1/17

3,000

3,180

 

Crane Co.

5.500%

9/15/13

5,000

5,230

 

CRH America Inc.

6.000%

9/30/16

7,000

6,753

 

Embraer Overseas Ltd.

6.375%

1/24/17

4,000

3,775

 

Emerson Electric Co.

7.125%

8/15/10

12,500

13,639

 

Emerson Electric Co.

5.250%

10/15/18

5,000

5,066

 

General Dynamics Corp.

4.250%

5/15/13

16,350

16,481

 

General Electric Co.

5.250%

12/6/17

5,000

5,061

 

John Deere Capital Corp.

7.000%

3/15/12

13,440

15,057

 

L-3 Communications Corp.

7.625%

6/15/12

675

690

 

L-3 Communications Corp.

6.125%

7/15/13

450

443

 

L-3 Communications Corp.

5.875%

1/15/15

1,400

1,358

 

Lafarge SA

6.500%

7/15/16

5,000

5,019

 

Masco Corp.

5.875%

7/15/12

10,560

11,148

2,4

Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing ESOP Trust

5.620%

7/15/09

1,699

1,734

 

Owens-Brockway Glass Container, Inc.

8.875%

2/15/09

1,978

1,978

 

Raytheon Co.

4.850%

1/15/11

13,850

14,331

 

Textron Financial Corp.

4.600%

5/3/10

8,000

8,091

 

Tyco International Group SA

6.375%

10/15/11

10,000

10,549

 

Tyco International Group SA

6.000%

11/15/13

11,000

11,597

 

United Technologies Corp.

6.350%

3/1/11

30,600

32,964

 

Waste Management, Inc.

7.375%

8/1/10

4,870

5,187

 

Communication (5.3%)

 

 

 

 

 

AT&T Inc.

6.250%

3/15/11

5,000

5,301

 

AT&T Inc.

4.950%

1/15/13

4,380

4,472

 

AT&T Inc.

5.100%

9/15/14

10,000

10,089

 

 

22

 


 

 

AT&T Inc.

5.625%

6/15/16

13,000

13,247

 

British Sky Broadcasting Corp.

6.875%

2/23/09

10,000

10,281

 

British Sky Broadcasting Corp.

8.200%

7/15/09

4,125

4,359

 

British Telecommunications PLC

8.625%

12/15/10

5,450

6,109

 

Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.

8.875%

5/1/17

3,400

4,088

 

Comcast Corp.

5.500%

3/15/11

7,000

7,181

 

Comcast Corp.

5.900%

3/15/16

15,000

15,105

 

Comcast Corp.

4.950%

6/15/16

10,000

9,449

 

Cox Communications, Inc.

6.750%

3/15/11

10,000

10,587

 

Cox Communications, Inc.

4.625%

6/1/13

4,000

3,909

4

Cox Enterprises, Inc.

7.875%

9/15/10

5,000

5,424

 

Deutsche Telekom International Finance

8.000%

6/15/10

16,000

17,334

 

France Telecom

7.750%

3/1/11

25,000

27,248

 

News America Inc.

4.750%

3/15/10

9,800

9,983

 

Nextel Communications

5.950%

3/15/14

5,000

4,503

 

Rogers Cable Inc.

6.750%

3/15/15

6,000

6,270

 

Sprint Capital Corp.

8.375%

3/15/12

5,000

5,202

 

Telecom Italia Capital

5.250%

11/15/13

10,000

10,089

 

Telefonica Emisiones SAU

5.984%

6/20/11

5,000

5,233

 

Telefonica Emisiones SAU

6.421%

6/20/16

7,000

7,471

 

Telefonos de Mexico SA

5.500%

1/27/15

10,000

9,925

 

Time Warner Cable Inc.

5.850%

5/1/17

21,500

21,529

 

Univision Communications, Inc.

3.875%

10/15/08

7,000

6,790

 

Verizon Communications Corp.

5.550%

2/15/16

5,000

5,101

 

Verizon Global Funding Corp.

6.875%

6/15/12

16,000

17,541

 

Verizon Global Funding Corp.

7.375%

9/1/12

40,000

44,755

 

Vodafone AirTouch PLC

7.750%

2/15/10

5,820

6,228

 

Vodafone Group PLC

5.000%

9/15/15

10,000

9,759

 

Consumer Cyclical (5.5%)

 

 

 

 

4

American Honda Finance

5.125%

12/15/10

17,000

17,700

 

Centex Corp.

7.875%

2/1/11

4,160

3,998

2,4

CVS Caremark Corp.

6.117%

1/10/13

6,776

6,864

 

DaimlerChrysler North America Holding Corp.

4.050%

6/4/08

7,000

7,011

 

DaimlerChrysler North America Holding Corp.

7.200%

9/1/09

600

627

 

DaimlerChrysler North America Holding Corp.

4.875%

6/15/10

3,300

3,345

 

DaimlerChrysler North America Holding Corp.

5.750%

9/8/11

30,000

31,190

 

DaimlerChrysler North America Holding Corp.

7.300%

1/15/12

6,736

7,357

 

DaimlerChrysler North America Holding Corp.

6.500%

11/15/13

10,000

10,843

 

Darden Restaurants Inc.

6.200%

10/15/17

5,000

4,935

 

Federated Retail Holding

5.900%

12/1/16

5,000

4,708

 

Gamestop Corp.

8.000%

10/1/12

2,475

2,599

4

Harley-Davidson Funding Corp.

5.250%

12/15/12

3,300

3,377

4

Harley-Davidson Inc.

5.000%

12/15/10

2,600

2,683

 

Harrah's Entertainment Inc.

7.875%

3/15/10

1,575

1,484

 

Home Depot Inc.

5.400%

3/1/16

12,875

12,323

 

International Speedway Corp.

4.200%

4/15/09

3,815

3,815

 

International Speedway Corp.

5.400%

4/15/14

7,000

7,058

 

J.C. Penney Co., Inc.

7.950%

4/1/17

5,000

5,355

 

Johnson Controls, Inc.

5.250%

1/15/11

3,000

3,107

 

K. Hovnanian Enterprises

6.250%

1/15/16

4,260

2,939

 

KB Home

6.375%

8/15/11

2,250

2,154

 

KB Home

7.250%

6/15/18

600

560

 

Kohl's Corp.

6.250%

12/15/17

7,000

7,003

 

Lowe's Cos., Inc.

5.600%

9/15/12

5,450

5,725

 

Lowe's Cos., Inc.

5.000%

10/15/15

7,000

6,921

 

McDonald's Corp.

5.800%

10/15/17

5,000

5,300

 

MDC Holdings Inc.

7.000%

12/1/12

1,615

1,678

 

MGM Mirage, Inc.

8.500%

9/15/10

1,400

1,449

 

MGM Mirage, Inc.

6.750%

4/1/13

1,075

1,016

 

MGM Mirage, Inc.

5.875%

2/27/14

1,000

905

4

Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp.

4.625%

3/8/10

11,570

11,723

4

Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp.

5.625%

3/14/11

10,500

10,855

 

Pulte Homes, Inc.

5.200%

2/15/15

5,000

4,218

 

 

23

 


 

 

Royal Caribbean Cruises

6.750%

3/15/08

1,530

1,528

 

Royal Caribbean Cruises

7.000%

6/15/13

3,250

3,201

 

Royal Caribbean Cruises

6.875%

12/1/13

680

670

 

Ryland Group, Inc.

5.375%

1/15/15

10,000

8,757

 

Target Corp.

5.375%

6/15/09

23,100

23,692

 

Tenneco Automotive Inc.

8.625%

11/15/14

1,100

1,070

 

The Walt Disney Co.

5.625%

9/15/16

10,000

10,461

 

Toll Corp.

8.250%

2/1/11

695

672

 

Toyota Motor Credit Corp.

4.350%

12/15/10

20,000

20,725

 

Viacom Inc.

6.125%

10/5/17

5,000

5,049

 

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

5.000%

4/5/12

5,000

5,221

 

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

4.550%

5/1/13

23,000

23,353

 

Western Union Co.

5.400%

11/17/11

14,000

14,380

 

Yum! Brands, Inc.

7.700%

7/1/12

7,000

7,765

 

Yum! Brands, Inc.

6.250%

3/15/18

3,000

3,091

 

Consumer Noncyclical (8.4%)

 

 

 

 

 

Abbott Laboratories

5.600%

11/30/17

16,000

16,762

 

Allergan Inc.

5.750%

4/1/16

10,000

10,335

 

Altria Group, Inc.

5.625%

11/4/08

2,475

2,511

 

Altria Group, Inc.

7.000%

11/4/13

5,000

5,747

 

AmerisourceBergen Corp.

5.625%

9/15/12

2,800

2,824

 

AmerisourceBergen Corp.

5.875%

9/15/15

3,000

2,961

 

Amgen Inc.

4.850%

11/18/14

15,000

14,897

4

Amgen Inc.

5.850%

6/1/17

10,000

10,370

 

Anheuser-Busch Cos., Inc.

5.500%

1/15/18

5,000

5,189

 

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.

5.870%

11/15/10

10,000

10,568

 

AstraZeneca PLC

5.400%

6/1/14

5,025

5,171

 

AstraZeneca PLC

5.900%

9/15/17

14,475

15,312

 

Baxter Finco, BV

4.750%

10/15/10

16,860

17,289

 

Becton, Dickinson & Co.

4.550%

4/15/13

8,000

8,051

 

Boston Scientific

5.125%

1/12/17

6,000

5,130

 

Bottling Group LLC

5.500%

4/1/16

7,000

7,275

 

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

5.250%

8/15/13

13,400

14,183

 

Bunge Ltd. Finance Corp.

5.875%

5/15/13

2,000

2,079

 

Campbell Soup Co.

4.875%

10/1/13

10,000

10,281

4

Cargill Inc.

6.300%

4/15/09

8,750

8,976

4

Cargill Inc.

4.375%

6/1/13

8,600

8,367

 

Clorox Co.

5.000%

1/15/15

7,000

6,765

 

Coca Cola Bottling Co.

5.000%

11/15/12

7,000

7,206

 

Coca-Cola Co.

5.350%

11/15/17

17,000

17,871

 

Colgate-Palmolive Co.

5.980%

4/25/12

14,300

15,413

 

ConAgra Foods, Inc.

6.750%

9/15/11

2,950

3,173

 

ConAgra Foods, Inc.

5.819%

6/15/17

4,687

4,788

4

Cosan Finance Ltd.

7.000%

2/1/17

1,340

1,260

4

Covidien International

6.000%

10/15/17

4,000

4,213

 

Diageo Capital PLC

5.750%

10/23/17

7,000

7,220

 

Estee Lauder Cos. Inc.

6.000%

1/15/12

6,800

7,238

4

Fosters Finance Corp.

4.875%

10/1/14

4,000

3,981

 

Genentech Inc.

4.750%

7/15/15

16,150

16,140

 

General Mills, Inc.

6.000%

2/15/12

6,429

6,747

 

General Mills, Inc.

5.700%

2/15/17

3,000

3,013

 

Hasbro Inc.

6.300%

9/15/17

5,000

5,057

4

Health Care Services Corp.

7.750%

6/15/11

20,000

22,217

 

Hershey Foods Corp.

4.850%

8/15/15

5,000

4,941

5

Hormel Foods Corp.

6.625%

6/1/11

16,085

17,439

 

Johnson & Johnson

5.550%

8/15/17

7,500

8,147

 

Kellogg Co.

6.600%

4/1/11

13,500

14,416

 

Kimberly-Clark Corp.

4.875%

8/15/15

6,000

5,995

 

Kraft Foods, Inc.

6.125%

2/1/18

5,000

5,075

 

Kroger Co.

6.200%

6/15/12

9,300

9,874

 

Kroger Co.

6.400%

8/15/17

5,000

5,334

 

Land O'Lakes Inc.

9.000%

12/15/10

410

429

 

Medtronic Inc.

4.750%

9/15/15

20,000

19,824

 

 

24

 


 

 

Nabisco Inc.

7.550%

6/15/15

15,000

16,649

 

PepsiAmericas Inc.

4.500%

3/15/13

6,000

6,000

 

Reynolds American Inc.

7.625%

6/1/16

875

942

4

SABMiller PLC

6.200%

7/1/11

13,000

13,946

 

Safeway, Inc.

4.950%

8/16/10

5,495

5,578

 

Safeway, Inc.

6.350%

8/15/17

3,000

3,174

 

Schering-Plough Corp.

6.000%

9/15/17

5,000

5,166

 

Smithfield Foods, Inc.

7.750%

7/1/17

1,800

1,701

4

Tesco PLC

5.500%

11/15/17

7,000

7,143

 

Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.

4.650%

7/15/15

5,700

5,633

 

Wyeth

6.950%

3/15/11

10,000

10,680

 

Wyeth

5.500%

3/15/13

13,000

13,618

 

Wyeth

5.500%

2/1/14

5,000

5,199

 

Wyeth

5.500%

2/15/16

10,000

10,241

 

Energy (3.4%)

 

 

 

 

 

Anadarko Finance Co.

6.750%

5/1/11

1,750

1,870

 

Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

5.950%

9/15/16

18,000

18,499

 

Apache Corp.

6.250%

4/15/12

4,325

4,635

 

Apache Corp.

5.625%

1/15/17

4,000

4,158

 

Canadian Natural Resources

5.700%

5/15/17

5,000

5,039

 

Canadian Natural Resources

5.900%

2/1/18

10,000

10,128

 

Chesapeake Energy Corp.

7.625%

7/15/13

1,075

1,113

 

Devon Financing Corp.

6.875%

9/30/11

2,625

2,865

 

Encana Corp.

5.900%

12/1/17

5,570

5,758

 

EOG Resources Inc.

5.875%

9/15/17

3,000

3,177

4

GS-Caltex Oil Corp.

5.500%

10/15/15

6,000

5,857

 

Kerr McGee Corp.

6.875%

9/15/11

5,000

5,427

4

LG Caltex Oil Corp.

5.500%

8/25/14

4,000

3,916

 

Marathon Oil Corp.

6.000%

10/1/17

15,000

15,578

 

Nexen, Inc.

5.650%

5/15/17

3,000

2,976

 

Noble Corp.

5.875%

6/1/13

3,000

3,223

2,4,6

Oil Enterprises Ltd.

6.239%

6/30/08

442

445

 

Petro-Canada

4.000%

7/15/13

8,000

7,568

2,4

Petroleum Co. of Trinidad & Tobago

6.000%

5/8/22

8,800

8,951

2,4

PF Export Receivables Master Trust

3.748%

6/1/13

2,104

2,022

2,4

PF Export Receivables Master Trust

6.436%

6/1/15

3,910

3,995

 

Shell International Finance

4.950%

3/22/12

33,680

35,570

4

Statoil

5.125%

4/30/14

10,000

10,222

4

Trans Capital Investment

5.670%

3/5/14

17,450

17,214

 

Transocean Inc.

6.000%

3/15/18

8,000

8,195

 

Valero Energy Corp.

6.125%

6/15/17

10,000

10,203

 

XTO Energy, Inc.

6.250%

4/15/13

5,000

5,399

 

XTO Energy, Inc.

6.250%

8/1/17

5,000

5,294

 

Technology (1.7%)

 

 

 

 

 

Agilent Technologies Inc.

6.500%

11/1/17

5,950

6,018

 

Cisco Systems Inc.

5.500%

2/22/16

21,940

22,733

 

Equifax Inc.

6.300%

7/1/17

5,000

5,238

 

IBM International Group Capital

5.050%

10/22/12

25,000

25,976

 

International Business Machines Corp.

5.700%

9/14/17

7,000

7,348

 

Intuit Inc.

5.750%

3/15/17

5,000

4,941

 

Oracle Corp.

5.250%

1/15/16

13,000

13,118

 

Pitney Bowes, Inc.

5.000%

3/15/15

10,000

9,917

 

Pitney Bowes, Inc.

5.750%

9/15/17

5,000

5,134

 

Transportation (1.9%)

 

 

 

 

 

American Airlines, Inc.

6.817%

5/23/11

714

680

2

Burlington Northern Railroad Co. Equipment Trust

7.330%

6/23/10

967

1,003

 

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.

8.125%

4/15/20

5,000

6,011

 

Canadian National Railway Co.

5.800%

6/1/16

4,000

4,163

 

Continental Airlines, Inc.

6.563%

2/15/12

3,000

3,082

2

Continental Airlines, Inc.

6.648%

9/15/17

1,064

1,045

2

Continental Airlines, Inc.

9.798%

4/1/21

2,297

2,252

4

Delta Air Lines, Inc.

6.821%

8/10/22

3,290

3,125

4

Delta Air Lines, Inc.

8.021%

8/10/22

1,590

1,479

 

 

25

 


 

4

ERAC USA Finance Co.

7.950%

12/15/09

10,000

10,783

4

ERAC USA Finance Co.

8.000%

1/15/11

5,740

6,264

 

FedEx Corp.

3.500%

4/1/09

2,700

2,691

 

Greenbrier Co. Inc.

8.375%

5/15/15

2,540

2,273

2,3

JetBlue Airways Corp.

9.241%

3/17/08

548

548

2,3

JetBlue Airways Corp.

7.969%

11/15/08

585

580

2,3

JetBlue Airways Corp.

5.366%

12/15/13

4,473

4,124

3

JetBlue Airways Corp.

5.411%

3/15/14

7,150

6,342

3

JetBlue Airways Corp.

5.319%

11/15/16

4,765

4,165

 

Norfolk Southern Corp.

8.625%

5/15/10

10,000

11,157

2

Northwest Airlines Inc.

7.027%

11/1/19

5,000

4,842

 

Ryder System Inc.

5.850%

3/1/14

4,000

4,238

 

Southwest Airlines Co.

5.250%

10/1/14

11,025

10,836

2

Southwest Airlines Co.

6.150%

8/1/22

4,000

4,137

 

Union Pacific Corp.

6.650%

1/15/11

8,223

8,871

4

Union Pacific Corp.

5.214%

9/30/14

6,000

6,244

 

Union Pacific Corp.

5.750%

11/15/17

2,500

2,520

2

United Air Lines Inc.

7.186%

4/1/11

4,532

4,521

 

Other (0.8%)

 

 

 

 

 

Black & Decker Corp.

7.125%

6/1/11

8,550

9,332

 

Briggs & Stratton Corp.

8.875%

3/15/11

2,150

2,290

 

Cintas Corp.

6.000%

6/1/12

5,000

5,360

2,4

Parker Retirement Savings Plan Trust

6.340%

7/15/08

281

284

 

 

Parker-Hannifin Corp

4.875%

2/15/13

6,100

6,324

 

Rockwell Automation

5.650%

12/1/17

5,000

5,171

4

Targeted Return Index Securities Trust 10-2002

6.962%

1/15/12

13,300

14,464

 

Thermo Electron Corp.

5.000%

6/1/15

4,700

4,489

 

 

 

 

 

1,931,604

Utilities (8.4%)

 

 

 

 

 

Electric (6.0%)

 

 

 

 

4

AES Panama SA

6.350%

12/21/16

10,800

10,649

3

Alabama Power Co.

5.220%

8/25/09

5,000

4,955

4

American Water Capital Corp.

6.085%

10/15/17

8,750

9,004

 

Appalachian Power Co.

5.650%

8/15/12

4,970

5,218

 

Baltimore Gas & Electric Co.

5.900%

10/1/16

5,000

5,088

 

Carolina Power & Light Co.

5.150%

4/1/15

12,000

12,201

 

Carolina Power & Light Co.

5.250%

12/15/15

10,000

10,200

 

Columbus Southern Power

5.500%

3/1/13

10,000

10,462

 

Commonwealth Edison Co.

5.950%

8/15/16

5,000

5,104

 

Consolidated Edison Co. of New York

4.875%

2/1/13

7,500

7,634

 

Consumers Energy Co.

4.000%

5/15/10

6,680

6,623

2

Dominion Resources, Inc.

6.300%

9/30/66

10,990

10,548

 

Duke Energy Carolinas LLC

5.250%

1/15/18

5,000

5,101

4

EDP Finance BV

6.000%

2/2/18

6,000

6,207

 

Entergy Gulf States, Inc.

3.600%

6/1/08

4,100

4,082

 

Entergy Gulf States, Inc.

5.250%

8/1/15

10,000

9,617

 

FirstEnergy Corp.

6.450%

11/15/11

1,120

1,183

2

FPL Group Capital, Inc.

6.350%

10/1/66

10,850

10,177

2,4

GWF Energy LLC

6.131%

12/30/11

1,981

2,061

4

Illinois Power

6.125%

11/15/17

5,000

5,276

4

ITC Holdings Corp.

6.050%

1/31/18

20,000

20,011

4

Korea East-West Power Co.

4.875%

4/21/11

5,000

5,167

4

Korea East-West Power Co.

5.250%

11/15/12

5,000

5,305

 

MidAmerican Energy Co.

5.125%

1/15/13

9,000

9,295

 

NiSource Finance Corp.

7.875%

11/15/10

5,594

6,065

 

Northeast Utilities

7.250%

4/1/12

4,620

5,074

 

Nstar

8.000%

2/15/10

20,000

21,646

 

Ohio Edison

4.000%

5/1/08

5,000

5,003

 

Ohio Power Co.

4.850%

1/15/14

5,000

4,889

 

Ohio Power Co.

6.000%

6/1/16

4,000

4,189

 

Pacific Gas & Electric Co.

4.200%

3/1/11

5,000

5,020

 

Pacific Gas & Electric Co.

4.800%

3/1/14

5,000

5,003

 

 

26

 


 

 

PECO Energy Co.

5.950%

11/1/11

15,000

15,788

 

PECO Energy Co.

4.750%

10/1/12

4,500

4,552

 

Pennsylvania Electric Co.

6.050%

9/1/17

7,000

7,107

3

Pepco Holdings, Inc.

5.749%

6/1/10

3,075

3,024

 

Potomac Electric Power

4.950%

11/15/13

5,465

5,506

2

PPL Capital Funding, Inc.

6.700%

3/30/67

15,000

13,623

 

Progress Energy, Inc.

7.100%

3/1/11

516

557

 

Public Service Co. of Colorado

5.500%

4/1/14

7,000

7,232

 

Public Service Co. of New Mexico

4.400%

9/15/08

1,600

1,600

 

Sierra Pacific Power Co.

6.000%

5/15/16

5,000

5,088

 

Southern Co.

5.300%

1/15/12

7,000

7,285

4

SP PowerAssets Ltd.

5.000%

10/22/13

15,000

15,141

 

Tampa Electric Co.

6.375%

8/15/12

2,193

2,349

 

Texas - New Mexico Power Co.

6.125%

6/1/08

2,238

2,251

4

United Electric Distribution

4.700%

4/15/11

10,000

10,015

 

Virginia Electric & Power Co.

5.950%

9/15/17

5,000

5,277

2

Wisconsin Energy Corp.

6.250%

5/15/67

25,000

22,951

 

Natural Gas (2.4%)

 

 

 

 

 

AGL Capital Corp.

7.125%

1/14/11

10,000

10,782

 

Atmos Energy Corp.

4.950%

10/15/14

6,420

6,176

 

El Paso Natural Gas Co.

5.950%

4/15/17

3,000

3,023

 

Enbridge Energy Partners

4.750%

6/1/13

10,000

9,967

2

Enbridge Energy Partners

8.050%

10/1/37

3,280

3,113

 

Enbridge Inc.

5.800%

6/15/14

10,000

10,164

2

Enterprise Products Operating LP

8.375%

8/1/66

5,850

5,758

4

Florida Gas Transmission

7.625%

12/1/10

5,000

5,557

4

Gulf South Pipeline Co.

6.300%

8/15/17

7,000

7,363

4

Gulfstream Natural Gas Systems

5.560%

11/1/15

8,500

8,617

 

KeySpan Gas East Corp.

7.875%

2/1/10

10,000

10,744

 

National Grid PLC

6.300%

8/1/16

7,000

7,308

4

NGPL Pipeco LLC

7.119%

12/15/17

10,000

10,306

 

Northwest Pipeline Corp.

5.950%

4/15/17

10,000

10,088

 

ONEOK Partners, LP

6.150%

10/1/16

10,000

10,380

 

Panhandle Eastern Pipeline

6.200%

11/1/17

5,000

4,924

 

Plains All American Pipeline LP

4.750%

8/15/09

2,850

2,896

3,4

Rockies Express Pipeline LLC

5.776%

8/20/09

10,000

10,030

2

Southern Union Co.

7.200%

11/1/66

5,175

5,127

2

Trans-Canada Pipelines

6.350%

5/15/67

4,000

3,749

 

 

 

 

 

513,475

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Corporate Bonds (Cost $5,350,583)

 

 

 

5,371,418

Sovereign Bonds (U.S. Dollar-Denominated) (2.5%)

 

 

 

 

 

China Development Bank

5.000%

10/15/15

1,500

1,510

 

Corp. Andina de Fomento

6.875%

3/15/12

4,225

4,547

 

Corp. Andina de Fomento

5.200%

5/21/13

5,000

5,009

4

Export-Import Bank of Korea

4.125%

2/10/09

4,800

4,823

 

Export-Import Bank of Korea

5.500%

10/17/12

12,700

13,064

 

Financement Quebec

5.000%

10/25/12

10,000

10,679

4

Gaz Capital SA

6.212%

11/22/16

9,800

9,575

 

Korea Development Bank

4.750%

7/20/09

15,950

16,256

4

Korea Highway Corp.

4.875%

4/7/14

5,000

4,996

2

Pemex Finance Ltd.

9.690%

8/15/09

5,250

5,430

 

Petrobras International Finance

9.125%

7/2/13

3,937

4,705

 

Petrobras International Finance

7.750%

9/15/14

400

452

2,4

Petroleum Export/Cayman

5.265%

6/15/11

4,737

4,736

4

Petronas Capital Ltd.

7.000%

5/22/12

15,000

16,628

2,4

Ras Laffan Liquified Natural Gas Co.

3.437%

9/15/09

3,987

4,036

2,4

Ras Laffan Liquified Natural Gas Co. Ltd. II

5.298%

9/30/20

15,020

14,585

4

Republic of Indonesia

6.875%

1/17/18

2,000

2,060

 

Republic of Korea

4.250%

6/1/13

9,325

9,409

 

Republic of Panama

7.250%

3/15/15

5,000

5,523

4

Taqa Abu Dhabi National Energy Co.

5.875%

10/27/16

4,000

3,996

4

Taqa Abu Dhabi National Energy Co.

6.165%

10/25/17

10,000

10,201

 

 

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Total Sovereign Bonds (Cost $148,652)

 

 

 

152,220

Taxable Municipal Bonds (0.4%)

 

 

 

 

3

Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund Finance Corp. Rev.

5.016%

10/15/12

14,210

14,160

 

Tobacco Settlement Finance Auth. Rev.

7.467%

6/1/47

10,000

9,489

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Taxable Municipal Bonds (Cost $24,210)

 

 

 

23,649

Tax-Exempt Municipal Bonds (0.3%)

 

 

 

 

 

Minnesota GO

5.000%

8/1/11

8,150

8,854

 

Minnesota GO

5.000%

8/1/12

8,630

9,492

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Tax-Exempt Municipal Bonds (Cost $17,552)

 

 

 

18,346

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preferred Stocks (0.5%)

 

 

 

 

 

Aspen Insurance Holdings

7.401%

 

76,950

1,758

 

Axis Capital Holdings

7.500%

 

50,000

5,052

3

Bank of America Corp.

5.908%

 

213,775

4,233

3

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

6.050%

 

582,000

12,874

3

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

6.000%

 

44,600

784

 

Santander Financial

6.800%

 

117,650

2,733

3

SunTrust Banks, Inc.

6.224%

 

105,500

2,263

3

Zions Bancorp.

6.214%

 

86,350

1,857

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Preferred Stocks (Cost $36,249)

 

 

 

31,554

 

 

 

 

Market

 

 

 

Value

 

Coupon

Shares

($000)

Temporary Cash Investment (1.3%)

 

 

 

7 Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund (Cost $82,054)

4.060%

82,054,311

82,054

Total Investments (99.7%) (Cost $6,043,506)

 

 

6,087,410

Other Assets and Liabilities—Net (0.3%)

 

 

17,500

Net Assets (100%)

 

 

6,104,910

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 The issuer operates under a congressional charter; its securities are neither issued nor guaranteed by the U.S. government. If needed, access to additional funding from the U.S. Treasury (beyond the issuer's line of credit) would require congressional action.

2 The average or expected maturity is shorter than the final maturity shown because of the possibility of interim principal payments and prepayments or the possibility of the issue being called.

3 Adjustable-rate security.

4 Security exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. Such securities may be sold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. At January 31, 2008, the

 

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aggregate value of these securities was $903,273,000, representing 14.8% of net assets.

5 Securities with a value of $9,227,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open futures contracts.

6 Scheduled principal and interest payments are guaranteed by Municipal Bond Insurance Association.

7 Affiliated money market fund available only to Vanguard funds and certain trusts and accounts managed by Vanguard. Rate shown is the 7-day yield.

GO—General Obligation Bond.

REIT—Real Estate Investment Trust.

 

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Vanguard® Long-Term Investment-Grade Fund

 

 

 

 

Schedule of Investments

 

 

 

 

January 31, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Face

Market

 

 

 

Maturity

Amount

Value

 

 

Coupon

Date

($000)

($000)

U.S.

Government and Agency Obligations (6.7%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S.

Government Securities (0.5%)

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. Treasury Bond

5.000%

5/15/37

25,000

27,664

 

Agency Bonds and Notes (6.2%)

 

 

 

 

1

Federal Home Loan Bank

5.500%

7/15/36

100,000

110,097

1

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

6.250%

7/15/32

100,000

120,533

1

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

6.625%

11/15/30

100,000

124,912

 

 

 

 

 

355,542

 

Conventional Mortgage-Backed Securities (0.0%)

 

 

 

1

Federal National Mortgage Assn.

15.500%

10/1/12

1

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total U.S. Government and Agency Obligations (Cost $365,586)

 

383,207

Corporate Bonds (77.0%)

 

 

 

 

Finance (25.6%)

 

 

 

 

 

Banking (12.1%)

 

 

 

 

 

Abbey National PLC

7.950%

10/26/29

15,000

17,795

 

Banc One Corp.

7.750%

7/15/25

25,000

28,076

 

Banc One Corp.

7.625%

10/15/26

10,000

11,211

 

Banc One Corp.

8.000%

4/29/27

15,000

17,329

 

Bank of America Corp.

6.000%

10/15/36

55,000

54,069

 

BB&T Corp.

5.250%

11/1/19

30,000

29,255

 

Citigroup, Inc.

6.625%

1/15/28

25,000

25,755

 

Citigroup, Inc.

6.625%

6/15/32

38,000

38,830

 

Citigroup, Inc.

6.000%

10/31/33

22,900

21,790

 

Citigroup, Inc.

5.850%

12/11/34

11,500

10,896

 

Citigroup, Inc.

6.125%

8/25/36

8,335

8,041

 

Comerica Bank

5.200%

8/22/17

25,000

23,684

 

Credit Suisse First Boston USA, Inc.

7.125%

7/15/32

28,000

31,795

2

HBOS Treasury Services PLC

6.000%

11/1/33

46,500

42,499

 

HSBC Bank USA

5.875%

11/1/34

45,700

41,531

 

HSBC Bank USA

5.625%

8/15/35

28,000

24,539

 

HSBC Holdings PLC

7.625%

5/17/32

21,200

23,656

 

Mellon Funding Corp.

5.500%

11/15/18

8,800

8,914

 

National City Corp.

6.875%

5/15/19

15,000

14,326

 

NationsBank Corp.

6.800%

3/15/28

35,000

36,345

 

Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC

4.700%

7/3/18

26,125

24,803

 

SunTrust Banks, Inc.

5.450%

12/1/17

21,000

21,015

 

SunTrust Banks, Inc.

5.400%

4/1/20

10,000

9,877

 

Wachovia Bank NA

5.850%

2/1/37

28,850

25,547

 

Wachovia Corp.

6.605%

10/1/25

30,000

29,996

 

Washington Mutual, Inc.

5.250%

9/15/17

40,000

35,186

 

Wells Fargo & Co.

5.375%

2/7/35

30,000

26,578

 

Wells Fargo Bank NA

5.950%

8/26/36

15,000

14,017

 

Brokerage (2.1%)

 

 

 

 

 

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

6.125%

2/15/33

45,725

45,147

 

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

6.450%

5/1/36

15,000

13,979

 

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

6.875%

11/15/18

16,000

16,787

 

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

6.220%

9/15/26

10,000

9,238

 

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

6.110%

1/29/37

15,000

13,343

 

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter

7.250%

4/1/32

20,000

21,544

 

Finance Companies (1.9%)

 

 

 

 

 

CIT Group, Inc.

6.000%

4/1/36

15,000

10,411

 

General Electric Capital Corp.

6.750%

3/15/32

90,000

97,989

 

Insurance (9.5%)

 

 

 

 

 

ACE INA Holdings, Inc.

6.700%

5/15/36

20,000

20,111

 

Allstate Corp.

6.750%

5/15/18

20,000

21,876

 

Allstate Corp.

5.550%

5/9/35

14,075

12,614

 

 

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Allstate Corp.

5.950%

4/1/36

8,000

7,527

 

American General Corp.

6.625%

2/15/29

33,000

34,416

 

American International Group, Inc.

6.250%

5/1/36

10,000

10,139

 

American Re Corp.

7.450%

12/15/26

10,000

10,514

 

AXA Financial, Inc.

7.000%

4/1/28

34,910

36,629

 

Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.

5.950%

10/15/36

22,610

21,320

 

Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.

6.100%

10/1/41

47,500

45,503

2

John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.

7.375%

2/15/24

30,000

34,528

2

Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.

8.500%

5/15/25

28,335

32,227

 

Lincoln National Corp.

6.150%

4/7/36

13,900

13,247

2,3

Massachusetts Mutual Life

7.625%

11/15/23

15,970

19,130

 

MetLife, Inc.

6.375%

6/15/34

15,000

14,847

 

MetLife, Inc.

5.700%

6/15/35

10,000

9,154

2

Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

7.800%

11/1/25

35,000

41,157

2

New York Life Insurance

5.875%

5/15/33

70,275

68,639

 

Principal Financial Group, Inc.

6.050%

10/15/36

16,500

15,630

 

Prudential Financial, Inc.

5.750%

7/15/33

23,000

20,932

 

Prudential Financial, Inc.

5.400%

6/13/35

10,000

8,539

 

Travelers Property Casualty Corp.

7.750%

4/15/26

25,000

28,578

 

UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

5.800%

3/15/36

12,000

10,702

 

XL Capital Ltd.

6.375%

11/15/24

11,500

10,170

 

 

 

 

 

1,473,922

Industrial (39.6%)

 

 

 

 

 

Basic Industry (3.0%)

 

 

 

 

 

Aluminum Co. of America

6.750%

1/15/28

45,000

44,972

 

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.

6.500%

1/15/28

42,100

44,501

 

Monsanto Co.

5.500%

7/30/35

15,000

14,842

 

Morton International, Inc.

9.750%

6/1/20

10,000

13,377

 

PPG Industries, Inc.

9.000%

5/1/21

9,750

12,885

 

Rohm & Haas Co.

7.850%

7/15/29

25,000

29,179

 

Weyerhaeuser Co.

7.375%

3/15/32

15,000

14,914

 

Capital Goods (4.7%)

 

 

 

 

 

Boeing Co.

6.625%

2/15/38

13,000

14,708

 

Boeing Co.

7.875%

4/15/43

8,000

10,515

 

Caterpillar, Inc.

6.625%

7/15/28

35,000

37,319

 

Deere & Co.

7.125%

3/3/31

15,000

16,980

2

Hutchison Whampoa International Ltd.

7.450%

11/24/33

50,000

56,615

 

Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Corp.

6.375%

2/15/28

35,000

38,666

 

Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Corp.

5.700%

3/15/37

35,000

35,776

 

PACTIV Corp.

8.125%

6/15/17

10,000

11,512

2

Siemens Financieringsmat

6.125%

8/17/26

10,000

9,967

 

United Technologies Corp.

8.875%

11/15/19

15,000

19,840

 

United Technologies Corp.

7.500%

9/15/29

15,000

18,212

 

Communication (11.2%)

 

 

 

 

 

AT&T Wireless

8.750%

3/1/31

50,000

62,606

 

Bell Telephone Co. of Pennsylvania

8.350%

12/15/30

6,260

7,496

 

BellSouth Corp.

6.875%

10/15/31

40,000

42,270

 

BellSouth Corp.

6.000%

11/15/34

40,000

38,178

 

CBS Corp.

7.875%

7/30/30

40,000

42,314

 

Comcast Corp.

5.650%

6/15/35

30,500

26,590

 

Comcast Corp.

6.450%

3/15/37

14,500

14,082

2

Cox Communications, Inc.

6.450%

12/1/36

10,000

9,737

 

Deutsche Telekom International Finance

8.250%

6/15/30

50,000

61,777

 

France Telecom

8.500%

3/1/31

38,175

48,675

 

GTE Corp.

6.940%

4/15/28

20,000

20,967

 

Indiana Bell Telephone Co., Inc.

7.300%

8/15/26

20,000

21,584

 

Michigan Bell Telephone Co.

7.850%

1/15/22

25,000

28,089

 

New Jersey Bell Telephone Co.

8.000%

6/1/22

25,000

28,995

 

News America Inc.

6.200%

12/15/34

11,750

11,268

 

News America Inc.

6.400%

12/15/35

14,000

13,722

 

Pacific Bell

7.125%

3/15/26

15,000

15,979

 

Sprint Capital Corp.

8.750%

3/15/32

21,615

21,072

 

Telefonica Europe BV

8.250%

9/15/30

15,500

19,235

 

 

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Time Warner Cable Inc.

6.550%

5/1/37

40,000

39,659

 

Verizon Communications Corp.

6.250%

4/1/37

15,000

15,149

 

Verizon Global Funding Corp.

7.750%

12/1/30

10,500

12,392

 

Verizon Global Funding Corp.

5.850%

9/15/35

30,000

28,674

 

Verizon Maryland, Inc.

5.125%

6/15/33

12,000

10,218

 

Consumer Cyclical (3.5%)

 

 

 

 

 

CVS Corp.

6.250%

6/1/27

34,000

33,901

 

Dayton Hudson Corp.

6.650%

8/1/28

15,000

15,108

 

Lowe’s Cos., Inc.

6.500%

3/15/29

26,010

25,698

 

Target Corp.

7.000%

7/15/31

20,000

20,571

 

The Walt Disney Co.

7.000%

3/1/32

22,000

25,353

 

Time Warner, Inc.

6.625%

5/15/29

10,775

10,370

 

Time Warner, Inc.

6.500%

11/15/36

10,000

9,377

 

Viacom Inc.

6.875%

4/30/36

10,000

9,732

 

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

7.550%

2/15/30

45,000

52,213

 

Consumer Noncyclical (11.3%)

 

 

 

 

 

Anheuser-Busch Cos., Inc.

6.750%

12/15/27

10,000

11,042

 

Anheuser-Busch Cos., Inc.

6.800%

8/20/32

31,900

36,024

 

Anheuser-Busch Cos., Inc.

5.750%

4/1/36

11,460

11,435

 

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.

6.750%

12/15/27

11,000

11,613

 

Becton, Dickinson & Co.

4.900%

4/15/18

13,200

13,106

 

Becton, Dickinson & Co.

7.000%

8/1/27

8,300

9,140

 

Bestfoods

6.625%

4/15/28

30,000

32,636

 

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

6.800%

11/15/26

20,000

21,538

2

Cargill Inc.

6.125%

9/15/36

23,000

21,586

 

Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc.

6.950%

11/15/26

10,000

11,163

 

CPC International, Inc.

7.250%

12/15/26

30,000

34,737

 

Eli Lilly & Co.

7.125%

6/1/25

12,125

13,714

 

Eli Lilly & Co.

5.500%

3/15/27

33,375

32,356

 

GlaxoSmithKline Capital Inc.

5.375%

4/15/34

21,995

21,012

 

Hershey Foods Corp.

7.200%

8/15/27

21,461

24,120

 

Johnson & Johnson

6.950%

9/1/29

22,457

26,940

 

Kellogg Co.

7.450%

4/1/31

18,800

21,807

 

Kimberly-Clark Corp.

6.250%

7/15/18

25,000

26,721

 

Kraft Foods, Inc.

6.500%

11/1/31

15,000

14,446

 

Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc.

7.000%

3/1/29

17,000

19,564

 

Pharmacia Corp.

6.750%

12/15/27

28,000

31,627

 

Procter & Gamble Co.

6.450%

1/15/26

27,000

29,753

 

Procter & Gamble Co.

5.500%

2/1/34

25,000

24,542

 

Procter & Gamble Co.

5.550%

3/5/37

12,000

11,922

3

Procter & Gamble Co. ESOP

9.360%

1/1/21

32,684

42,679

 

Schering-Plough Corp.

6.750%

12/1/33

17,920

19,023

 

Sysco Corp.

6.500%

8/1/28

22,000

23,680

 

Wyeth

5.950%

4/1/37

50,000

48,877

 

Energy (3.5%)

 

 

 

 

 

Burlington Resources, Inc.

7.400%

12/1/31

25,000

29,925

 

ChevronTexaco Corp.

8.625%

11/15/31

13,000

17,588

 

ConocoPhillips

5.900%

10/15/32

20,300

20,818

 

Encana Corp.

6.500%

8/15/34

10,000

10,249

 

Halliburton Co.

8.750%

2/15/21

10,000

12,524

 

Mobil Corp.

8.625%

8/15/21

22,000

30,873

 

Phillips Petroleum Co.

7.000%

3/30/29

10,000

11,511

 

Suncor Energy, Inc.

5.950%

12/1/34

22,400

21,740

 

Tosco Corp.

7.800%

1/1/27

15,000

18,367

 

Tosco Corp.

8.125%

2/15/30

20,000

25,578

 

Technology (1.2%)

 

 

 

 

 

International Business Machines Corp.

7.000%

10/30/25

50,000

55,668

 

Pitney Bowes, Inc.

4.750%

5/15/18

11,100

10,329

 

Transportation (0.8%)

 

 

 

 

 

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.

6.875%

12/1/27

25,000

26,019

 

Norfolk Southern Corp.

7.800%

5/15/27

18,500

21,535

 

Other (0.4%)

 

 

 

 

 

Eaton Corp.

7.625%

4/1/24

15,000

16,742

 

 

32

 


 

 

Eaton Corp.

5.250%

6/15/35

10,800

9,077

 

 

 

 

 

2,273,177

 

Utilities (11.8%)

 

 

 

 

 

Electric (10.7%)

 

 

 

 

 

Alabama Power Co.

5.700%

2/15/33

12,800

12,297

 

Appalachian Power Co.

6.700%

8/15/37

50,000

51,604

 

Arizona Public Service Co.

5.625%

5/15/33

9,000

7,972

 

Baltimore Gas & Electric Co.

6.350%

10/1/36

10,000

9,635

 

Carolina Power & Light Co.

5.700%

4/1/35

7,500

7,195

 

Connecticut Light & Power Co.

6.350%

6/1/36

15,000

15,087

 

Consolidated Edison Co. of New York

5.100%

6/15/33

9,600

8,307

 

Consolidated Edison Co. of New York

6.200%

6/15/36

14,000

14,082

 

Duke Energy Carolinas LLC

6.100%

6/1/37

50,000

50,576

 

Florida Power & Light Co.

5.625%

4/1/34

16,275

15,670

 

Florida Power & Light Co.

4.950%

6/1/35

10,000

8,773

 

Florida Power & Light Co.

5.400%

9/1/35

10,000

9,316

 

Florida Power Corp.

6.750%

2/1/28

22,375

24,437

 

Indiana Michigan Power Co.

6.050%

3/15/37

15,000

14,395

 

MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co.

6.125%

4/1/36

20,000

20,051

 

National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corp.

8.000%

3/1/32

50,000

58,010

 

Northern States Power Co.

7.125%

7/1/25

30,000

33,944

 

Northern States Power Co.

6.200%

7/1/37

50,000

50,985

 

Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co.

6.500%

4/15/28

12,770

12,977

 

PacifiCorp

6.100%

8/1/36

15,000

15,193

 

PSE&G Power LLC

8.625%

4/15/31

15,000

18,884

 

Puget Sound Energy Inc.

6.724%

6/15/36

10,000

10,618

 

South Carolina Electric & Gas Co.

6.625%

2/1/32

35,000

37,459

 

Southern California Edison Co.

6.000%

1/15/34

8,800

8,851

 

Tampa Electric Co.

6.150%

5/15/37

35,000

35,209

 

Virginia Electric & Power Co.

6.000%

5/15/37

50,000

49,618

 

Wisconsin Electric Power Co.

5.700%

12/1/36

10,365

10,071

 

Natural Gas (1.1%)

 

 

 

 

 

KeySpan Corp.

5.875%

4/1/33

12,000

11,209

 

KeySpan Corp.

5.803%

4/1/35

10,000

9,289

 

San Diego Gas & Electric

6.000%

6/1/26

25,000

25,373

 

Texas Eastern Transmission

7.000%

7/15/32

17,000

18,574

 

 

 

 

 

675,661

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Corporate Bonds (Cost $4,345,591)

 

 

 

4,422,760

 

Sovereign Bonds (U.S. Dollar-Denominated) (4.1%)

 

 

 

 

International Bank for Reconstruction & Development

7.625%

1/19/23

43,320

60,053

 

International Bank for Reconstruction & Development

4.750%

2/15/35

30,300

30,276

 

Province of British Columbia

6.500%

1/15/26

13,800

16,406

 

Province of Quebec

7.500%

9/15/29

24,500

32,124

 

Province of Saskatchewan

8.500%

7/15/22

10,000

14,498

 

Quebec Hydro Electric

9.400%

2/1/21

40,000

58,174

 

Republic of Italy

6.875%

9/27/23

17,700

21,590

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Sovereign Bonds (Cost $203,602)

 

 

 

233,121

 

Taxable Municipal Bonds (8.9%)

 

 

 

 

 

Commonwealth Financing Auth. Pennsylvania Rev.

5.197%

6/1/26

25,000

24,854

 

George Washington Univ.

5.300%

2/1/17

25,000

25,859

 

Illinois (Taxable Pension) GO

4.950%

6/1/23

8,935

8,970

 

Illinois (Taxable Pension) GO

5.100%

6/1/33

145,000

143,723

 

New Jersey Econ. Dev. Auth. State Pension Rev.

7.425%

2/15/29

50,002

61,281

 

New York City NY Transitional Finance Auth. Rev.

5.210%

8/1/17

51,980

54,065

 

North Carolina Duke Univ. Rev.

5.850%

4/1/37

38,850

40,395

 

Oregon Community College Dist.

5.440%

6/30/23

10,595

11,389

 

Oregon School Board Assn.

4.759%

6/30/28

15,000

13,793

 

President and Fellows of Harvard College

6.300%

10/1/37

55,000

57,344

 

Southern California Public Power Auth.

6.930%

5/15/17

37,000

43,607

 

Wisconsin Public Service Rev.

5.700%

5/1/26

23,025

24,867

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

33

 


 

34

 


Total Taxable Municipal Bonds (Cost $496,805)

 

 

 

510,147

Temporary Cash Investment (2.0%)

 

 

 

 

Repurchase Agreement

 

 

 

 

Banc of America Securities, LLC

 

 

 

 

(Dated 1/31/08, Repurchase Value $112,331,000,

 

 

 

 

collateralized by U.S. Treasury Note 2.125%, 1/31/10)

 

 

 

(Cost $112,326)

1.500%

2/1/08

112,326

112,326

 

 

 

 

 

Total Investments (98.7%) (Cost $5,523,910)

 

 

 

5,661,561

Other Assets and Liabilities—Net (1.3%)

 

 

 

76,923

Net Assets (100%)

 

 

 

5,738,484

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 The issuer operates under a congressional charter; its securities are neither issued nor guaranteed by the U.S. government. If needed, access to additional funding from the U.S. Treasury (beyond the issuer’s line of credit) would require congressional action.

2 Security exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. Such securities may be sold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. At January 31, 2008, the aggregate value of these securities was $336,085,000, representing 5.9% of net assets.

3 The average or expected maturity is shorter than the final maturity shown because of the possibility of interim principal payments and prepayments or the possibility of the issue being called.

GO—General Obligation Bond.

 

35

 


Vanguard® High-Yield Corporate Fund

 

 

 

 

Schedule of Investments

 

 

 

 

January 31, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Face

Market

 

 

 

 

Maturity

Amount

Value

 

 

 

Coupon

Date

($000)

($000)

U.S.

Government Securities (5.6%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. Treasury Note

5.625%

5/15/08

93,920

94,859

 

 

U.S. Treasury Note

5.500%

5/15/09

90,165

93,983

 

 

U.S. Treasury Note

5.750%

8/15/10

93,740

101,898

 

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.875%

7/31/11

95,750

103,500

 

 

U.S. Treasury Note

4.000%

11/15/12

100,650

106,217

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total U.S. Government Securities (Cost $479,859)

 

 

500,457

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Corporate Bonds (89.1%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finance (3.9%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Banking (0.2%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chevy Chase Savings Bank

6.875%

12/1/13

23,595

22,544

 

 

Finance Companies (2.4%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

General Motors Acceptance Corp. LLC

6.875%

8/28/12

37,825

32,183

 

 

General Motors Acceptance Corp. LLC

6.750%

12/1/14

25,000

20,488

 

 

General Motors Acceptance Corp. LLC

8.000%

11/1/31

190,230

156,940

 

 

Insurance (0.7%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Provident Funding Mortgage Loan Trust

7.000%

7/15/18

31,750

34,086

 

 

UnumProvident Corp.

6.750%

12/15/28

20,560

20,319

 

 

UnumProvident Corp.

7.375%

6/15/32

6,295

6,238

 

 

Real Estate Investment Trust (0.6%)

 

 

 

 

1

 

Rouse Co.

6.750%

5/1/13

55,355

51,740

 

 

 

 

 

 

344,538

Industrial (72.9%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic Industry (8.1%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arch Western Finance

6.750%

7/1/13

67,495

65,301

2

 

BL Mylan TLB

7.562%

12/11/17

23,142

22,621

2

 

BL Mylan TLB

8.125%

12/11/17

14,873

14,538

 

 

Bowater Canada Finance

7.950%

11/15/11

38,885

30,136

 

 

Cascades Inc.

7.250%

2/15/13

22,965

21,128

 

 

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.

8.250%

4/1/15

39,685

41,669

 

 

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.

8.375%

4/1/17

94,685

100,129

 

^

Georgia Gulf Corp.

9.500%

10/15/14

41,785

32,383

 

 

Georgia-Pacific Corp.

8.125%

5/15/11

34,730

34,990

1

 

Georgia-Pacific Corp.

7.125%

1/15/17

78,040

75,699

 

 

Georgia-Pacific Corp.

8.000%

1/15/24

19,405

17,756

 

 

IMC Global, Inc.

7.300%

1/15/28

22,500

22,219

 

 

International Steel Group, Inc.

6.500%

4/15/14

42,615

44,213

 

 

Methanex Corp.

8.750%

8/15/12

28,910

30,934

1

 

Mosaic Co.

7.625%

12/1/14

8,060

8,554

1

 

Mosaic Co.

7.875%

12/1/16

6,715

7,252

 

 

Neenah Paper Inc.

7.375%

11/15/14

28,380

24,762

 

 

Novelis Inc.

7.250%

2/15/15

76,675

70,733

 

 

US Steel Corp.

7.000%

2/1/18

58,385

57,545

 

 

Capital Goods (4.8%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alliant Techsystems Inc.

6.750%

4/1/16

25,410

24,521

 

 

Allied Waste North America Inc.

5.750%

2/15/11

6,805

6,601

 

 

Allied Waste North America Inc.

6.375%

4/15/11

16,170

15,968

 

 

Allied Waste North America Inc.

7.250%

3/15/15

7,680

7,584

 

 

Allied Waste North America Inc.

7.125%

5/15/16

15,415

15,280

 

 

Allied Waste North America Inc.

6.875%

6/1/17

48,260

46,692

1

^

Ashtead Capital Inc.

9.000%

8/15/16

22,555

18,890

1

^

Ashtead Holding PLC

8.625%

8/1/15

10,310

8,506

 

 

Ball Corp.

6.625%

3/15/18

18,800

18,518

 

 

Case New Holland Inc.

7.125%

3/1/14

45,750

45,636

 

 

Crown Americas Inc.

7.625%

11/15/13

22,580

22,919

 

 

36

 


 

 

 

Crown Americas Inc.

7.750%

11/15/15

22,580

23,032

 

 

L-3 Communications Corp.

7.625%

6/15/12

24,850

25,409

 

 

L-3 Communications Corp.

6.125%

7/15/13

8,425

8,299

 

 

L-3 Communications Corp.

6.375%

10/15/15

16,190

16,028

 

 

Owens-Brockway Glass Container, Inc.

8.875%

2/15/09

21,610

21,610

 

 

Texas Industries Inc.

7.250%

7/15/13

19,470

18,642

 

 

United Rentals NA Inc.

6.500%

2/15/12

63,080

57,876

 

 

United Rentals NA Inc.

7.750%

11/15/13

28,350

23,282

 

 

Communication (19.0%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

CanWest Media Inc.

8.000%

9/15/12

59,309

56,344

1

 

CanWest MediaWorks LP

9.250%

8/1/15

50,000

46,870

1

 

Charter Communications OPT LLC

8.000%

4/30/12

95,150

90,155

1

 

Charter Communications OPT LLC

8.375%

4/30/14

76,940

73,285

 

 

Citizens Communications

9.250%

5/15/11

62,665

66,581

 

 

Citizens Communications

6.625%

3/15/15

25,000

23,562

 

 

Citizens Communications

9.000%

8/15/31

12,655

12,085

 

 

CSC Holdings, Inc.

8.125%

7/15/09

7,420

7,550

 

 

CSC Holdings, Inc.

8.125%

8/15/09

19,355

19,548

 

 

CSC Holdings, Inc.

7.625%

4/1/11

33,335

33,002

 

 

CSC Holdings, Inc.

6.750%

4/15/12

20,305

19,137

 

 

CSC Holdings, Inc.

7.875%

2/15/18

29,580

26,696

 

 

CSC Holdings, Inc.

7.625%

7/15/18

79,045

70,943

 

 

Dex Media, Inc.

8.000%

11/15/13

16,290

14,905

 

 

DirecTV Holdings

6.375%

6/15/15

45,930

43,289

 

 

GCI Inc.

7.250%

2/15/14

53,475

45,587

 

 

Idearc Inc.

8.000%

11/15/16

164,915

148,424

 

 

Intelsat Bermuda Ltd.

7.625%

4/15/12

33,950

25,802

 

 

Intelsat Bermuda Ltd.

6.500%

11/1/13

46,555

30,726

 

 

Intelsat Bermuda Ltd.

9.250%

6/15/16

37,385

37,292

 

 

Intelsat Holding Ltd.

8.250%

1/15/13

6,980

6,945

 

 

Intelsat Holding Ltd.

8.625%

1/15/15

62,875

62,875

 

 

Liberty Media Corp.

5.700%

5/15/13

39,195

36,186

 

 

Liberty Media Corp.

8.500%

7/15/29

9,730

9,222

 

 

Liberty Media Corp.

8.250%

2/1/30

44,115

40,169

 

 

Mediacom Broadband LLC

8.500%

10/15/15

47,845

39,353

 

 

Mediacom LLC/Mediacom Capital Corp.

9.500%

1/15/13

29,080

25,881

 

 

Medianews Group Inc.

6.875%

10/1/13

47,767

26,750

 

 

PanAmSat Corp.

9.000%

8/15/14

41,751

41,438

 

 

Quebecor Media Inc.

7.750%

3/15/16

44,905

41,537

1

 

Quebecor Media Inc.

7.750%

3/15/16

40,270

37,250

 

 

Qwest Communications International Inc.

8.875%

3/15/12

90,455

95,995

 

 

Qwest Communications International Inc.

7.500%

10/1/14

10,505

10,571

 

 

R.H. Donnelley Corp.

6.875%

1/15/13

8,415

7,153

 

 

R.H. Donnelley Corp.

6.875%

1/15/13

33,535

28,505

 

 

R.H. Donnelley Corp.

8.875%

1/15/16

105,890

91,065

1

 

R.H. Donnelley Corp.

8.875%

10/15/17

11,290

9,568

 

 

US West Communications Group

6.875%

9/15/33

80,755

72,780

 

 

Windstream Corp.

8.125%

8/1/13

11,565

11,941

 

 

Windstream Corp.

8.625%

8/1/16

57,015

59,153

 

 

Windstream Corp.

7.000%

3/15/19

43,450

41,006

 

 

Consumer Cyclical (15.1%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

AMC Entertainment Inc.

8.000%

3/1/14

24,160

21,261

 

 

Corrections Corp. of America

6.250%

3/15/13

12,065

12,005

 

 

Corrections Corp. of America

6.750%

1/31/14

6,300

6,332

 

 

Ford Motor Co.

7.450%

7/16/31

56,555

41,427

2

 

Ford Motor Credit Co.

8.708%

4/15/12

40,570

39,503

 

 

Ford Motor Credit Co.

7.000%

10/1/13

144,115

119,545

2

 

Ford Motor Credit Co.

8.000%

12/15/13

157,937

137,800

 

 

Ford Motor Credit Co.

8.000%

12/15/16

83,500

69,653

 

 

General Motors Corp.

8.250%

7/15/23

47,885

38,188

 

^

General Motors Corp.

8.375%

7/15/33

139,550

114,431

 

 

Harrah’s Operating Co., Inc.

5.625%

6/1/15

29,725

18,875

 

 

Harrah’s Operating Co., Inc.

6.500%

6/1/16

15,740

10,093

 

 

37

 


 

 

 

Harrah’s Operating Co., Inc.

5.750%

10/1/17

100,000

60,000

 

 

Host Hotels & Resorts LP

6.875%

11/1/14

35,930

35,301

 

 

Host Marriott LP

7.125%

11/1/13

68,215

68,215

 

 

Mandalay Resort Group

9.375%

2/15/10

34,730

35,772

 

 

Marquee Inc.

8.625%

8/15/12

23,910

24,089

 

 

MGM Mirage, Inc.

8.500%

9/15/10

78,475

81,222

 

 

MGM Mirage, Inc.

8.375%

2/1/11

12,720

13,006

 

 

MGM Mirage, Inc.

6.750%

9/1/12

19,730

19,064

 

 

Park Place Entertainment Corp.

8.125%

5/15/11

1,890

1,644

 

 

Seneca Gaming Corp.

7.250%

5/1/12

28,640

27,709

 

 

Service Corp. International

7.375%

10/1/14

10,990

11,210

 

 

Service Corp. International

6.750%

4/1/16

4,038

3,947

 

 

Service Corp. International

7.000%

6/15/17

41,725

40,891

 

 

Service Corp. International

7.625%

10/1/18

35,040

35,741

 

 

Station Casinos

6.500%

2/1/14

19,665

13,593

 

 

Station Casinos

6.875%

3/1/16

15,040

10,227

 

 

Station Casinos

6.625%

3/15/18

9,820

6,285

 

 

Tenneco Automotive Inc.

10.250%

7/15/13

10,147

10,756

1

 

TRW Automotive Inc.

7.000%

3/15/14

96,785

89,526

1

 

TRW Automotive Inc.

7.250%

3/15/17

49,145

44,845

 

 

WMG Acquisition Corp.

7.375%

4/15/14

4,780

3,740

 

 

Wynn Las Vegas LLC

6.625%

12/1/14

40,825

39,345

1

 

Wynn Las Vegas LLC

6.625%

12/1/14

36,780

35,447

 

 

Consumer Noncyclical (10.5%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aramark Corp.

8.500%

2/1/15

44,935

44,879

 

 

Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc.

7.500%

8/15/13

6,550

6,616

 

 

Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc.

6.125%

12/15/14

10,295

9,909

 

 

Community Health Systems

8.875%

7/15/15

72,460

73,547

 

 

Constellation Brands Inc.

7.250%

9/1/16

65,188

62,092

 

 

Constellation Brands Inc.

7.250%

5/15/17

24,655

23,484

 

 

Delhaize America Inc.

9.000%

4/15/31

12,665

14,791

 

 

Elan Financial PLC

7.750%

11/15/11

67,950

63,873

2

 

Elan Financial PLC

8.869%

11/15/11

30,775

28,236

 

 

Elan Financial PLC

8.875%

12/1/13

37,000

35,428

 

 

Fisher Scientific International Inc.

6.750%

8/15/14

13,585

14,707

 

 

Fisher Scientific International Inc.

6.125%

7/1/15

12,700

12,756

 

 

HCA Inc.

5.750%

3/15/14

9,135

7,765

 

 

HCA Inc.

6.375%

1/15/15

96,955

82,896

 

 

HCA Inc.

6.500%

2/15/16

69,575

59,139

 

 

HCA Inc.

9.250%

11/15/16

36,990

38,932

 

 

HCA Inc.

7.690%

6/15/25

4,510

3,630

 

 

HCA Inc.

7.500%

11/6/33

9,725

7,877

 

 

Omnicare, Inc.

6.125%

6/1/13

6,565

5,909

 

 

Omnicare, Inc.

6.750%

12/15/13

14,435

13,280

 

 

Omnicare, Inc.

6.875%

12/15/15

20,475

18,428

 

 

Reynolds American Inc.

7.250%

6/1/13

45,910

49,296

 

 

Reynolds American Inc.

7.300%

7/15/15

36,460

38,556

 

 

Smithfield Foods, Inc.

7.750%

7/1/17

48,545

45,875

 

 

Tenet Healthcare Corp.

6.500%

6/1/12

13,690

12,116

 

 

Tenet Healthcare Corp.

7.375%

2/1/13

13,755

12,139

 

 

Tenet Healthcare Corp.

9.875%

7/1/14

73,300

69,635

 

 

Tenet Healthcare Corp.

9.250%

2/1/15

11,445

10,587

 

 

Ventas Realty LP/Capital Corp.

6.750%

6/1/10

7,650

7,746

 

 

Ventas Realty LP/Capital Corp.

6.625%

10/15/14

24,485

24,424

 

 

Ventas Realty LP/Capital Corp.

7.125%

6/1/15

16,405

16,815

 

 

Ventas Realty LP/Capital Corp.

6.500%

6/1/16

17,655

17,434

 

 

Energy (10.9%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chesapeake Energy Corp.

7.750%

1/15/15

3,785

3,875

 

 

Chesapeake Energy Corp.

6.625%

1/15/16

48,625

47,531

 

 

Chesapeake Energy Corp.

6.875%

1/15/16

29,855

29,706

 

 

Chesapeake Energy Corp.

6.500%

8/15/17

67,780

65,577

 

 

Chesapeake Energy Corp.

6.250%

1/15/18

45,220

43,524

 

 

Encore Acquisition Co.

6.250%

4/15/14

5,010

4,622

 

 

38

 


 

 

 

Encore Acquisition Co.

6.000%

7/15/15

17,645

15,947

 

 

Forest Oil Corp.

8.000%

12/15/11

21,660

22,580

 

 

Forest Oil Corp.

7.750%

5/1/14

11,805

11,953

1

 

Forest Oil Corp.

7.250%

6/15/19

38,860

38,860

 

 

Hornbeck Offshore Services

6.125%

12/1/14

29,470

27,407

 

 

Newfield Exploration Co.

6.625%

4/15/16

23,985

23,685

1

 

OPTI Canada Inc.

7.875%

12/15/14

24,135

22,898

1

 

OPTI Canada Inc.

8.250%

12/15/14

67,550

66,030

 

 

Peabody Energy Corp.

6.875%

3/15/13

35,550

35,283

 

 

Peabody Energy Corp.

7.375%

11/1/16

59,950

60,999

 

 

Peabody Energy Corp.

7.875%

11/1/26

47,685

47,923

 

 

Petrohawk Energy Corp.

9.125%

7/15/13

13,465

13,903

1

 

Petroplus Finance Ltd.

6.750%

5/1/14

52,435

48,240

1

 

Petroplus Finance Ltd.

7.000%

5/1/17

42,000

38,115

 

 

Pioneer Natural Resources Co.

5.875%

7/15/16

29,845

27,534

 

 

Pioneer Natural Resources Co.

6.650%

3/15/17

68,845

66,386

 

 

Pioneer Natural Resources Co.

6.875%

5/1/18

34,565

33,490

 

 

Pioneer Natural Resources Co.

7.200%

1/15/28

12,855

11,654

 

 

Plains Exploration & Production Co.

7.750%

6/15/15

9,715

9,751

 

 

Plains Exploration & Production Co.

7.000%

3/15/17

9,230

8,815

 

 

Pride International Inc.

7.375%

7/15/14

50,760

51,966

 

 

Southwestern Energy

7.500%

2/1/18

44,155

45,314

 

 

Whiting Petroleum Corp.

7.250%

5/1/12

17,725

17,459

 

 

Whiting Petroleum Corp.

7.250%

5/1/13

21,975

21,590

 

 

Whiting Petroleum Corp.

7.000%

2/1/14

3,950

3,871

 

 

Technology (1.8%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Freescale Semiconductor

8.875%

12/15/14

64,180

52,467

 

 

IKON Office Solutions

7.750%

9/15/15

19,760

20,106

 

 

NXP BV

7.875%

10/15/14

61,075

56,418

 

 

Sensata Technologies

8.000%

5/1/14

36,405

32,946

 

 

Transportation (2.6%)

 

 

 

 

2

 

Avis Budget Car Rental

7.369%

5/15/14

8,045

6,858

 

 

Avis Budget Car Rental

7.625%

5/15/14

57,285

52,845

 

 

Avis Budget Car Rental

7.750%

5/15/16

45,750

40,946

3

 

Continental Airlines, Inc.

9.798%

4/1/21

33,327

32,661

 

 

Continental Airlines, Inc.

6.903%

4/19/22

6,320

5,720

 

 

Hertz Corp.

8.875%

1/1/14

68,500

66,616

 

 

Hertz Corp.

10.500%

1/1/16

32,355

31,142

 

 

Other (0.1%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

UCAR Finance, Inc.

10.250%

2/15/12

4,343

4,484

 

 

 

 

 

 

6,478,163

Utilities (12.3%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Electric (9.9%)

 

 

 

 

1

 

AES Corp.

8.750%

5/15/13

17,839

18,597

 

 

AES Corp.

7.750%

10/15/15

49,640

50,385

 

 

AES Corp.

8.000%

10/15/17

16,000

16,480

 

 

Aquila Inc.

9.950%

2/1/11

42,960

46,289

 

 

Aquila Inc.

14.875%

7/1/12

4,815

6,007

 

 

Dynegy Inc.

8.375%

5/1/16

75,465

73,578

 

 

Dynegy Inc.

7.750%

6/1/19

40,000

36,600

 

 

Edison Mission Energy

7.500%

6/15/13

8,775

8,994

 

 

Edison Mission Energy

7.000%

5/15/17

19,945

19,471

 

 

Edison Mission Energy

7.200%

5/15/19

19,325

18,939

 

 

Mirant North America LLC

7.375%

12/31/13

59,415

59,638

 

 

Nevada Power Co.

6.500%

4/15/12

9,945

10,256

 

 

Nevada Power Co.

5.875%

1/15/15

15,895

16,153

 

 

Nevada Power Co.

6.650%

4/1/36

9,710

9,734

 

 

NRG Energy Inc.

7.250%

2/1/14

30,145

29,467

 

 

NRG Energy Inc.

7.375%

2/1/16

96,890

93,741

 

 

NRG Energy Inc.

7.375%

1/15/17

69,725

67,546

 

 

Reliant Energy, Inc.

6.750%

12/15/14

86,930

87,799

 

 

Reliant Energy, Inc.

7.875%

6/15/17

20,000

19,550

 

 

TECO Energy, Inc.

7.200%

5/1/11

28,710

30,239

 

 

TECO Energy, Inc.

6.750%

5/1/15

1,945

2,025

 

 

TXU Corp.

5.550%

11/15/14

64,890

51,912

 

 

TXU Corp.

6.500%

11/15/24

77,300

57,009

 

 

TXU Corp.

6.550%

11/15/34

66,345

47,934

 

 

Natural Gas (2.4%)

 

 

 

 

1

 

NGPL Pipeco LLC

7.119%

12/15/17

45,555

46,948

 

 

Suburban Propane Partners

6.875%

12/15/13

23,690

23,039

1

 

Williams Cos., Inc.

6.375%

10/1/10

5,710

5,817

 

 

Williams Cos., Inc.

7.125%

9/1/11

21,465

22,887

 

 

Williams Cos., Inc.

8.125%

3/15/12

38,775

42,459

 

Williams Cos., Inc.

7.500%

1/15/31

41,335

44,125

 

Williams Partners LP

7.500%

6/15/11

16,660

17,451

 

Williams Partners LP

7.250%

2/1/17

13,625

14,136

 

 

 

 

 

1,095,205

Total Corporate Bonds (Cost $8,405,515)

 

 

 

7,917,906

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sovereign Bonds (U.S. Dollar-Denominated) (1.8%)

 

 

 

 

 

Republic of Argentina

7.000%

9/12/13

116,365

103,238

 

Republic of Argentina

7.000%

4/17/17

69,450

55,664

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Sovereign Bonds (Cost $174,335)

 

 

 

158,902

 

 

 

 

 

 

Temporary Cash Investments (3.5%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Repurchase Agreement (1.7%)

 

 

 

 

 

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

 

 

 

 

 

(Dated 1/31/08, Repurchase Value $154,861,000, collateralized

 

 

 

 

by U.S. Treasury Inflation-Indexed Note 3.000%, 7/15/12)

1.750%

2/1/08

154,853

154,853

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shares

 

 

Money Market Fund (1.8%)

 

 

 

 

4

Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund

4.060%

 

158,109,800

158,110

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Temporary Cash Investments (Cost $312,963)

 

 

 

312,963

Total Investments (100.0%) (Cost $9,372,672)

 

 

 

8,890,228

Other Assets and Liabilities—Net (0.0%)

 

 

 

(1,217)

Net Assets (100%)

 

 

 

8,889,011

 

 

^ Part of security position is on loan to broker-dealers.

1 Security exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. Such securities may be sold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. At January 31, 2008, the aggregate value of these securities was $883,092,000, representing 9.9% of net assets.

2 Adjustable-rate note.

3 The average or expected maturity is shorter than the final maturity shown because of the possibility of interim principal payments and prepayments or the possibility of the issue being called.

4 Affiliated money market fund available only to Vanguard funds and certain trusts and accounts managed by Vanguard. Rate shown is the 7-day yield.

 

39


Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 

To the Trustees of Vanguard Fixed Income Securities Funds and the Shareholders of Vanguard Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund, Vanguard Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade Fund, Vanguard Long-Term Investment-Grade Fund, and Vanguard High-Yield Corporate Fund:

We have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the financial statements (not presented herein) of Vanguard Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund, Vanguard Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade Fund, Vanguard Long-Term Investment-Grade Fund, and Vanguard High-Yield Corporate Fund (constituting separate portfolios of Vanguard Fixed Income Securities Funds, the “Funds”) as of January 31, 2008, and for the year then ended and have issued our unqualified report thereon dated March 12, 2008. Our audits included audits of the Funds’ schedules of investments as of January 31, 2008. These schedules of investments are the responsibility of the Funds’ management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these schedules of investments based on our audits.

In our opinion, the accompanying schedules of investments referred to above, when read in conjunction with the financial statements of the Funds referred to above, present fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

 

March 12, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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© 2008 Vanguard Group. Inc.

All rights reserved.

Vanguard Marketing Corporation, Distributor.

SNA390 032008

 

 

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Item 2: Code of Ethics. The Registrant has adopted a code of ethics that applies to the Registrant’s principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or controller or persons performing similar functions. The Code of Ethics was amended during the reporting period covered by this report to make certain technical, non-material changes.

 

Item 3: Audit Committee Financial Expert. The following members of the Audit Committee have been determined by the Registrant’s Board of Trustees to be Audit Committee Financial Experts serving on its Audit Committee, and to be independent: Charles D. Ellis, Rajiv L. Gupta, JoAnn Heffernan Heisen, André F. Perold, Alfred M. Rankin, Jr., and J. Lawrence Wilson.

 

Item 4: Principal Accountant Fees and Services.

(a)  Audit Fees.

Audit Fees of the Registrant

Fiscal Year Ended January 31, 2008: $295,000

Fiscal Year Ended January 31, 2007: $260,000

Aggregate Audit Fees of Registered Investment Companies in the Vanguard Group.

Fiscal Year Ended January 31, 2008: $2,835,320

Fiscal Year Ended January 31, 2007: $2,347,620

(b)  Audit-Related Fees.

Fiscal Year Ended January 31, 2008: $630,400

Fiscal Year Ended January 31, 2007: $530,000

Includes fees billed in connection with assurance and related services provided to the Registrant, The Vanguard Group, Inc., Vanguard Marketing Corporation, and other registered investment companies in the Vanguard Group.

(c)  Tax Fees.

Fiscal Year Ended January 31, 2008: $215,900

Fiscal Year Ended January 31, 2007: $101,300

Includes fees billed in connection with tax compliance, planning and advice services provided to the Registrant, The Vanguard Group, Inc., Vanguard Marketing Corporation, and other registered investment companies in the Vanguard Group and related to income and excise taxes.

(d)  All Other Fees.

Fiscal Year Ended January 31, 2008: $0

Fiscal Year Ended January 31, 2007: $0

Includes fees billed for services related to risk management and privacy matters. Services were provided to the Registrant, The Vanguard Group, Inc., Vanguard Marketing Corporation, and other registered investment companies in the Vanguard Group.

(e)  (1) Pre-Approval Policies. The policy of the Registrant’s Audit Committee is to consider and, if appropriate, approve before the principal accountant is engaged for such services, all specific audit

 


and non-audit services provided to: (1) the Registrant; (2) The Vanguard Group, Inc.; (3) other entities controlled by The Vanguard Group, Inc. that provide ongoing services to the Registrant; and (4) other registered investment companies in the Vanguard Group. In making a determination, the Audit Committee considers whether the services are consistent with maintaining the principal accountant’s independence.

In the event of a contingency situation in which the principal accountant is needed to provide services in between scheduled Audit Committee meetings, the Chairman of the Audit Committee would be called on to consider and, if appropriate, pre-approve audit or permitted non-audit services in an amount sufficient to complete services through the next Audit Committee meeting, and to determine if such services would be consistent with maintaining the accountant’s independence. At the next scheduled Audit Committee meeting, services and fees would be presented to the Audit Committee for formal consideration, and, if appropriate, approval by the entire Audit Committee. The Audit Committee would again consider whether such services and fees are consistent with maintaining the principal accountant’s independence.

The Registrant’s Audit Committee is informed at least annually of all audit and non-audit services provided by the principal accountant to the Vanguard complex, whether such services are provided to: (1) the Registrant; (2) The Vanguard Group, Inc.; (3) other entities controlled by The Vanguard Group, Inc. that provide ongoing services to the Registrant; or (4) other registered investment companies in the Vanguard Group.

(2) No percentage of the principal accountant’s fees or services were approved pursuant to the waiver provision of paragraph (c)(7)(i)(C) of Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X.

(f)  For the most recent fiscal year, over 50% of the hours worked under the principal accountant’s engagement were not performed by persons other than full-time, permanent employees of the principal accountant.

(g)  Aggregate Non-Audit Fees.

Fiscal Year Ended January 31, 2008: $215,900

Fiscal Year Ended January 31, 2007: $101,300

Includes fees billed for non-audit services provided to the Registrant, The Vanguard Group, Inc., Vanguard Marketing Corporation, and other registered investment companies in the Vanguard Group.

(h)  For the most recent fiscal year, the Audit Committee has determined that the provision of all non-audit services was consistent with maintaining the principal accountant’s independence.

Item 5: Not Applicable.

 

Item 6: Not Applicable.

 

Item 7: Not Applicable.

 

Item 8: Not Applicable.

 

Item 9: Not Applicable.

 

Item 10: Not Applicable.

 

Item 11: Controls and Procedures.

 

(a) Disclosure Controls and Procedures. The Principal Executive and Financial Officers concluded that the Registrant's Disclosure Controls and Procedures are effective based on their

 


evaluation of the Disclosure Controls and Procedures as of a date within 90 days of the filing date of this report.

(b) Internal Control Over Financial Reporting. There were no significant changes in Registrant’s Internal Control Over Financial Reporting or in other factors that could significantly affect this control subsequent to the date of the evaluation, including any corrective actions with regard to significant deficiencies and material weaknesses.

 

Item 12: Exhibits.

 

(a)  Code of Ethics.

(b)  Certifications.

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

VANGUARD FIXED INCOME SECURITIES FUNDS

 

 

BY:

 

(signature)

(HEIDI STAM)

JOHN J. BRENNAN*

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

 

 

Date: March 17, 2008

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

VANGUARD FIXED INCOME SECURITIES FUNDS

 

 

BY:

 

(signature)

(HEIDI STAM)

JOHN J. BRENNAN*

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

 

 

Date: March 17, 2008

 

 

VANGUARD FIXED INCOME SECURITIES FUNDS

 

 

BY:

 

(signature)

(HEIDI STAM)

THOMAS J. HIGGINS*

TREASURER

 

 

Date: March 17, 2008

 

*By Power of Attorney. Filed on January 18, 2008, see File Number 2-29601. Incorporated by Reference.