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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: 811-05628

Name of Registrant: Vanguard Malvern Funds
Address of Registrant: P.O. Box 2600
  Valley Forge, PA 19482

 

Name and address of agent for service: Anne E. Robinson, Esquire
  P.O. Box 876
  Valley Forge, PA 19482

 

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

Date of fiscal year end: September 30

Date of reporting period: October 1, 2017 – September 30, 2018

Item 1: Reports to Shareholders



Annual Report | September 30, 2018

Vanguard U.S. Value Fund


 

Vanguard’s Principles for Investing Success

We want to give you the best chance of investment success. These principles, grounded in Vanguard’s research and experience, can put you on the right path.

Goals. Create clear, appropriate investment goals.

Balance. Develop a suitable asset allocation using broadly diversified funds. Cost. Minimize cost.

Discipline. Maintain perspective and long-term discipline.

A single theme unites these principles: Focus on the things you can control.

We believe there is no wiser course for any investor.

Contents  
Your Fund’s Performance at a Glance. 1
CEO’s Perspective. 3
Advisor’s Report. 5
Fund Profile. 7
Performance Summary. 8
Financial Statements. 10
Your Fund’s After-Tax Returns. 24
About Your Fund’s Expenses. 25
Glossary. 27

 

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 front of this report. Of course, the risks of investing in your fund are spelled out in the prospectus.

See the Glossary for definitions of investment terms used in this report.


 

Your Fund’s Performance at a Glance

• Vanguard U.S. Value Fund returned more than 10% for the 12 months ended September 30, 2018, a bit ahead of both its benchmark index and the average return of its peer group.

• The broad U.S. stock market returned more than 17% as corporate earnings remained strong and the U.S. economy continued to show signs of growth. Stocks endured a stretch of volatility in the first quarter of 2018 before rebounding.

• Growth stocks outperformed their value brethren, and large- and small-capitalization stocks generally surpassed mid-caps.

• Your fund’s stock selection model generated broad-based performance. The model focuses on five signals that rank a universe of stocks. Four of those signals—valuation, growth, sentiment, and management decisions—contributed to relative performance.

• Energy, health care, and information technology stocks contributed most to relative returns, while consumer staples, telecommunication services, and real estate stocks detracted most.

Total Returns: Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2018  
  Total
  Returns
Vanguard U.S. Value Fund 10.22%
Russell 3000 Value Index 9.46
Multi-Cap Value Funds Average 9.60
Multi-Cap Value Funds Average: Derived from data provided by Lipper, a Thomson Reuters Company.  
 
 
Total Returns: Ten Years Ended September 30, 2018  
  Average
  Annual Return
U.S. Value Fund 10.09%
Russell 3000 Value Index 9.76
Multi-Cap Value Funds Average 9.49
Multi-Cap Value Funds Average: Derived from data provided by Lipper, a Thomson Reuters Company.  

 

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 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.

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Expense Ratios    
Your Fund Compared With Its Peer Group    
    Peer Group
  Fund Average
U.S. Value Fund 0.23% 1.06%

 

The fund expense ratio shown is from the prospectus dated January 26, 2018, and represents estimated costs for the current fiscal year. For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2018, the fund’s expense ratio was 0.22%. The peer-group expense ratio is derived from data provided by Lipper, a Thomson Reuters Company, and captures information through year-end 2017.

Peer group: Multi-Cap Value Funds.

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CEO’s Perspective


Tim Buckley
President and Chief Executive Officer

Dear Shareholder,

Over the years, I’ve found that prudent investors exhibit a common trait: discipline. No matter how the markets move or what new investing fad hits the headlines, those who stay focused on their goals and tune out the noise are set up for long-term success.

The prime gateway to investing is saving, and you don’t usually become a saver without a healthy dose of discipline. Savers make the decision to sock away part of their income, which means spending less and delaying gratification, no matter how difficult that may be.

Of course, disciplined investing extends beyond diligent saving. The financial markets, in the short term especially, are unpredictable; I have yet to meet the investor who can time them perfectly. It takes discipline to resist the urge to go all-in when markets are frothy or to retreat when things look bleak.

Staying put with your investments is one strategy for handling volatility. Another, rebalancing, requires even more discipline because it means steering your money away from strong performers and toward poorer performers.

Patience—a form of discipline—is also the friend of long-term investors. Higher returns are the potential reward for weathering the market’s turbulence and uncertainty.

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We have been enjoying one of the longest bull markets in history, but it won’t continue forever. Prepare yourself now for how you will react when volatility comes back. Don’t panic. Don’t chase returns or look for answers outside the asset classes you trust. And be sure to rebalance periodically, even when there’s turmoil.

Whether you’re a master of self-control, get a boost from technology, or work with a professional advisor, know that discipline

is necessary to get the most out of your investment portfolio. And know that Vanguard is with you for the entire ride.

Thank you for your continued loyalty.


Mortimer J. Buckley

President and Chief Executive Officer

October 18, 2018

Market Barometer      
    Average Annual Total Returns
  Periods Ended September 30, 2018
  One Year Three Years Five Years
Stocks      
Russell 1000 Index (Large-caps) 17.76% 17.07% 13.67%
Russell 2000 Index (Small-caps) 15.24 17.12 11.07
Russell 3000 Index (Broad U.S. market) 17.58 17.07 13.46
FTSE All-World ex US Index (International) 2.13 10.18 4.51
 
Bonds      
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index      
(Broad taxable market) -1.22% 1.31% 2.16%
Bloomberg Barclays Municipal Bond Index      
(Broad tax-exempt market) 0.35 2.24 3.54
FTSE Three-Month U. S. Treasury Bill Index 1.57 0.80 0.48
 
CPI      
Consumer Price Index 2.28% 1.99% 1.52%

 

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Advisor’s Report

For the 12 months ended September 30, 2018, Vanguard U.S. Value Fund returned more than 10%, ahead of its benchmark index, the Russell 3000 Value Index, which returned over 9%. It also slightly outperformed the average return of its peer group.

Investment environment

United States gross domestic product (GDP) grew at annual rate of 4.2% in the second quarter of 2018, powered by a rebound in consumer spending, exports, and business investment. The unemployment rate declined to 3.7% in September, and total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 134,000. Job gains occurred in professional and business services, in health care, and in transportation and warehousing.

In its September meeting, the Federal Reserve increased interest rates by 25 basis points to a target range of 2.00% to 2.25%. Along with the rate increase, the Fed projected one more hike before the end of the year and three in 2019. In June, the European Central Bank (ECB) announced plans to end bond purchases at the end of the year and keep interest rates at record low levels at least through the summer of 2019. The ECB also confirmed it will halve bond purchases to 15 billion euros ($17.4 billion) per month in the fourth quarter.

Over the period, the broad U.S. equity market, as measured by the Russell 3000 Index, returned more than 17%. U.S. stock market performance was broad-based; most market sectors advanced, led by

information technology, consumer discretionary, and health care. Growth stocks outperformed their value counterparts, small- and large-capitalization stocks outpaced small-caps, and U.S. stocks outpaced their international brethren. Developed Pacific markets surpassed emerging markets and developed European markets.

Investment objective and strategy

Although it’s important to understand how overall performance is affected by the macroeconomic factors we’ve described, our strategy focuses on company-specific fundamentals—not technical analysis. Our stock selection model evaluates companies within our investment universe to identify those with attractive characteristics that we believe will outperform over the long run.

To do this, we use a strict quantitative process that focuses on a combination of five key themes: high quality—healthy balance sheets and consistent cash-flow generation; effective use of capital by management—sound investment policies that favor internal over external funding; consistent earnings growth—a demonstrated ability to grow earnings year after year; strong market sentiment—market confirmation of our view; and reasonable valuation—avoidance of overpriced stocks.

The interaction of these themes generates an opinion on all the stocks in our universe each day. Using the results of our model, we then construct our portfolio with the

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goal of maximizing expected return, while minimizing exposure to risks that our research indicates do not improve returns, such as industry selection and other risks relative to our benchmark.

Our successes and failures

The fund’s outperformance was driven by our sentiment and growth signals. The valuation and management decisions signals contributed to a lesser degree, while our quality signal detracted significantly.

Results exceeded or equaled the benchmark in almost all sectors. The top relative performer was energy, followed by health care and information technology. Consumer staples, telecommunication services, and real estate were the weakest relative performers.

The portfolio benefited from Advanced Micro Devices in information technology, Denbury Resources and W&T Offshore in energy, and WellCare Health Plans in health care, as well as an underweighted allocation to General Electric in industrials. The greatest shortfalls came from PG&E in utilities, Sanderson Farms in consumer staples, and Unum Group in financials, along with underweighted allocations to Cisco Systems and Intel in information technology.

Portfolio Managers:

James P. Stetler

Binbin Guo, Principal,

Head of Alpha Equity Investments

Vanguard Quantitative Equity Group

October 18, 2018

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U.S. Value Fund

Fund Profile
As of September 30, 2018

Portfolio Characteristics    
    Russell DJ
    3000 U.S. Total
    Value Market
  Fund Index FA Index
Number of Stocks 255 2,113 3,825
Median Market Cap $34.2B $58.1B $73.9B
Price/Earnings Ratio 15.3x 16.3x 21.0x
Price/Book Ratio 2.2x 2.0x 3.1x
Return on Equity 11.3% 11.6% 14.9%
Earnings Growth Rate 4.7% 5.7% 8.5%
Dividend Yield 2.1% 2.3% 1.7%
Foreign Holdings 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Turnover Rate 75%
Ticker Symbol VUVLX
Expense Ratio1 0.23%
30-Day SEC Yield 1.87%
Short-Term Reserves -0.1%

 

Sector Diversification (% of equity exposure)
  Fund
Consumer Discretionary 8.3%
Consumer Staples 6.7
Energy 10.7
Financials 23.1
Health Care 14.8
Industrials 8.5
Information Technology 10.1
Materials 3.7
Real Estate 5.2
Telecommunication Services 3.3
Utilities 5.6

Sector categories are based on the Global Industry Classification Standard (“GICS”), except for the “Other” category (if applicable), which includes securities that have not been provided a GICS classification as of the effective reporting period.

 

 

Volatility Measures    
  Russell DJ
  3000 U.S. Total
  Value Market
  Index FA Index
R-Squared 0.95 0.84
Beta 1.07 1.03

These measures show the degree and timing of the fund’s fluctuations compared with the indexes over 36 months.

 

Ten Largest Holdings (% of total net assets)
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Diversified Banks 3.1%
Pfizer Inc. Pharmaceuticals 2.2
Chevron Corp. Integrated Oil & Gas 2.2
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Multi-Sector Holdings 2.0
Exxon Mobil Corp. Integrated Oil & Gas 1.9
Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals 1.8
AT&T Inc. Integrated  
  Telecommunication  
  Services 1.8
Bank of America Corp. Diversified Banks 1.7
Merck & Co. Inc. Pharmaceuticals 1.5
Intel Corp. Semiconductors 1.5
Top Ten   19.7%

The holdings listed exclude any temporary cash investments and equity index products.

 

Investment Focus


1 The expense ratio shown is from the prospectus dated January 26, 2018, and represents estimated costs for the current fiscal year. For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2018, the expense ratio was 0.22%.

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U.S. Value 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 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: September 30, 2008, Through September 30, 2018
Initial Investment of $10,000


  Average Annual Total Returns  
  Periods Ended September 30, 2018  
        Final Value
  One Five Ten of a $10,000
  Year Years Years Investment
U.S. Value Fund* 10.22% 11.33% 10.09% $26,154
Russell 3000 Value Index 9.46 10.65 9.76 25,383
Multi-Cap Value Funds Average 9.60 9.54 9.49 24,763
Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market        
Float Adjusted Index 17.58 13.42 12.05 31,191

 

Multi-Cap Value Funds Average: Derived from data provided by Lipper, a Thomson Reuters Company.

See Financial Highlights for dividend and capital gains information.

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U.S. Value Fund

Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): September 30, 2008, Through September 30, 2018


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U.S. Value Fund

Financial Statements

Statement of Net Assets
As of September 30, 2018

The fund reports a complete list of its holdings in regulatory filings 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 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).

      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
Common Stocks (99.5%)1    
Consumer Discretionary (8.2%)  
  Comcast Corp. Class A 294,371 10,424
* Liberty Media Corp-Liberty    
  SiriusXM Class A 228,503 9,926
  Darden Restaurants Inc. 81,725 9,087
* Weight Watchers    
  International Inc. 116,666 8,399
* Deckers Outdoor Corp. 69,282 8,215
  New York Times Co.    
  Class A 346,317 8,017
  Tailored Brands Inc. 300,150 7,561
* Urban Outfitters Inc. 175,944 7,196
  Lear Corp. 49,519 7,180
^ Sirius XM Holdings Inc. 1,117,139 7,060
  Las Vegas Sands Corp. 114,758 6,809
* Crocs Inc. 311,837 6,639
  Abercrombie & Fitch Co. 279,499 5,903
  Best Buy Co. Inc. 73,952 5,869
  Walt Disney Co. 48,896 5,718
  Ralph Lauren Corp. Class A 30,562 4,204
  Dine Brands Global Inc. 45,528 3,702
* Madison Square    
  Garden Co. Class A 8,789 2,771
* Visteon Corp. 24,759 2,300
  McDonald’s Corp. 13,406 2,243
* Stoneridge Inc. 69,859 2,076
  AMC Entertainment    
  Holdings Inc. Class A 90,166 1,848
  Aptiv plc 16,984 1,425
* Modine Manufacturing Co. 47,761 712
  Winnebago Industries Inc. 20,611 683
* American Public Education    
  Inc. 19,814 655
* Fossil Group Inc. 24,750 576
*,^ Conn’s Inc. 14,150 500
  PulteGroup Inc. 18,348 455
* Denny’s Corp. 30,377 447

 

      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
* Cambium Learning    
  Group Inc. 34,779 412
  Johnson Outdoors Inc.    
  Class A 3,564 331
      139,343
Consumer Staples (6.6%)    
  Procter & Gamble Co. 199,976 16,644
  Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. 233,900 11,758
  Kroger Co. 380,375 11,073
  PepsiCo Inc. 90,422 10,109
  Lamb Weston Holdings Inc. 142,826 9,512
* Herbalife Nutrition Ltd. 163,079 8,896
  Conagra Brands Inc. 216,796 7,364
* US Foods Holding Corp. 226,491 6,980
  Walmart Inc. 74,174 6,966
  Philip Morris International    
  Inc. 77,177 6,293
  Nu Skin Enterprises Inc.    
  Class A 62,133 5,121
  Cal-Maine Foods Inc. 85,906 4,149
  Tyson Foods Inc. Class A 69,557 4,141
* Simply Good Foods Co. 90,159 1,754
  JM Smucker Co. 8,488 871
* Chefs’ Warehouse Inc. 13,531 492
  Flowers Foods Inc. 22,608 422
      112,545
Energy (10.7%)    
  Chevron Corp. 299,882 36,669
  Exxon Mobil Corp. 382,516 32,521
  ConocoPhillips 264,127 20,443
  Occidental Petroleum    
  Corp. 191,163 15,708
  Valero Energy Corp. 134,539 15,304
  PBF Energy Inc. Class A 209,550 10,459
* Whiting Petroleum Corp. 184,858 9,805
  HollyFrontier Corp. 134,502 9,402
* Denbury Resources Inc. 1,415,317 8,775
* Continental Resources Inc. 128,335 8,763

 

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U.S. Value Fund

      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
* W&T Offshore Inc. 591,555 5,703
  Phillips 66 27,425 3,091
* California Resources Corp. 57,278 2,780
  Schlumberger Ltd. 26,099 1,590
      181,013
Financials (22.9%)    
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. 469,623 52,992
* Berkshire Hathaway Inc.    
  Class B 156,952 33,605
  Bank of America Corp. 980,304 28,880
  Wells Fargo & Co. 343,335 18,046
  Aflac Inc. 299,721 14,108
  Morgan Stanley 290,457 13,527
  Capital One Financial Corp. 138,994 13,195
  Allstate Corp. 130,313 12,862
  Citigroup Inc. 170,436 12,227
  SunTrust Banks Inc. 179,624 11,997
  Regions Financial Corp. 614,456 11,275
  T. Rowe Price Group Inc. 93,716 10,232
  Fifth Third Bancorp 363,719 10,155
  Citizens Financial Group Inc. 260,476  10,047
  Comerica Inc. 110,027 9,924
  Torchmark Corp. 111,509 9,667
  Ally Financial Inc. 359,583 9,511
* SVB Financial Group 27,770 8,632
  Zions Bancorporation 169,442 8,497
  CME Group Inc. 47,279 8,047
* E*TRADE Financial Corp. 153,341 8,034
  TCF Financial Corp. 335,346 7,985
  Ameriprise Financial Inc. 54,042 7,980
  Universal Insurance    
  Holdings Inc. 162,706 7,899
  Unum Group 160,881 6,286
  Popular Inc. 107,904 5,530
  Kemper Corp. 57,467 4,623
  Santander Consumer USA    
  Holdings Inc. 129,783 2,601
  Bank of NT Butterfield &    
  Son Ltd. 48,605 2,521
  Alleghany Corp. 3,703 2,416
  MetLife Inc. 48,340 2,258
  Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 9,508 2,132
  Hanover Insurance Group    
  Inc. 16,822 2,075
  Greenhill & Co. Inc. 76,020 2,003
  Assured Guaranty Ltd. 45,620 1,927
  OFG Bancorp 113,403 1,831
* Axos Financial Inc. 43,873 1,509
  Federal Agricultural    
  Mortgage Corp. 18,311 1,322
  Primerica Inc. 10,922 1,317
  BB&T Corp. 25,620 1,244
* Blucora Inc. 27,421 1,104
* Enova International Inc. 37,962 1,093
  US Bancorp 15,262 806

 

  Brown & Brown Inc. 25,040 740
* MBIA Inc. 68,074 728
  First American Financial    
  Corp. 11,417 589
  BankUnited Inc. 16,023 567
  Nelnet Inc. Class A 9,310 532
  Fidelity National Financial    
  Inc. 12,681 499
* On Deck Capital Inc. 50,527 382
* Ambac Financial Group Inc. 17,704 361
  Hamilton Lane Inc. Class A 7,676 340
      388,660
Health Care (14.7%)    
  Pfizer Inc. 832,727 36,698
  Johnson & Johnson 220,594 30,479
  Merck & Co. Inc. 362,941 25,747
  Anthem Inc. 66,774 18,299
  Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. 242,227 15,037
  Cigna Corp. 64,754 13,485
  Abbott Laboratories 181,567 13,320
  Humana Inc. 31,117 10,534
* WellCare Health Plans Inc. 32,675 10,472
* Haemonetics Corp. 88,419 10,131
  HCA Healthcare Inc. 67,342 9,369
* Molina Healthcare Inc. 57,786 8,593
* IQVIA Holdings Inc. 46,495 6,032
* Express Scripts Holding Co. 58,494 5,558
* Enanta Pharmaceuticals Inc. 61,561 5,261
  Medtronic plc 52,587 5,173
  Baxter International Inc. 55,288 4,262
  Amgen Inc. 16,037 3,324
* REGENXBIO Inc. 40,515 3,059
* CareDx Inc. 82,979 2,394
* Medpace Holdings Inc. 35,233 2,111
* Centene Corp. 14,316 2,073
* Spectrum Pharmaceuticals    
  Inc. 108,777 1,827
* ArQule Inc. 207,601 1,175
* PTC Therapeutics Inc. 19,894 935
* MacroGenics Inc. 34,537 741
* Acorda Therapeutics Inc. 31,862 626
  Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 2,130 520
* Triple-S Management Corp.    
  Class B 26,102 493
* Endo International plc 22,794 384
* Avanos Medical Inc. 5,155 353
      248,465
Industrials (8.5%)    
  Lockheed Martin Corp. 29,453 10,189
  Raytheon Co. 49,101 10,147
  WW Grainger Inc. 28,276 10,106
  SkyWest Inc. 169,951 10,010
  Caterpillar Inc. 65,272 9,953
* HD Supply Holdings Inc. 208,755 8,933
* United Rentals Inc. 53,548 8,760

 

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U.S. Value Fund

      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
  Terex Corp. 218,143 8,706
  Honeywell International Inc. 41,112 6,841
* FTI Consulting Inc. 67,998 4,977
* United Continental    
  Holdings Inc. 52,106 4,640
  Quad/Graphics Inc. 202,916 4,229
  ArcBest Corp. 84,142 4,085
^ ADT Inc. 428,725 4,026
  Spirit AeroSystems    
  Holdings Inc. Class A 36,548 3,350
  United Technologies Corp. 20,867 2,917
  General Electric Co. 247,254 2,791
*,^ Enphase Energy Inc. 537,254 2,606
  GrafTech International Ltd. 131,808 2,572
* Vicor Corp. 55,778 2,566
  Global Brass & Copper    
  Holdings Inc. 60,757 2,242
  Expeditors International of    
  Washington Inc. 30,014 2,207
  Harris Corp. 12,414 2,101
  Allison Transmission    
  Holdings Inc. 32,313 1,681
* XPO Logistics Inc. 13,811 1,577
* Harsco Corp. 54,845 1,566
  Union Pacific Corp. 8,452 1,376
* Meritor Inc. 69,335 1,342
  Delta Air Lines Inc. 21,576 1,248
  Schneider National Inc.    
  Class B 40,390 1,009
  PACCAR Inc. 13,678 933
  Heidrick & Struggles    
  International Inc. 27,371 926
  DMC Global Inc. 22,273 909
* Textainer Group Holdings    
  Ltd. 66,932 857
  Insteel Industries Inc. 11,168 401
* BMC Stock Holdings Inc. 17,542 327
* Echo Global Logistics Inc. 10,242 317
      143,423
Information Technology (10.0%)  
  Intel Corp. 525,848 24,867
  Cisco Systems Inc. 373,716 18,181
  HP Inc. 572,066 14,742
  QUALCOMM Inc. 162,749 11,723
  Microsoft Corp. 95,970 10,976
  Booz Allen Hamilton    
  Holding Corp. Class A 202,924 10,071
* Advanced Micro Devices    
  Inc. 313,060 9,670
  NetApp Inc. 107,139 9,202
  CDW Corp. 87,054 7,741
* CACI International Inc.    
  Class A 41,486 7,640
  Oracle Corp. 125,160 6,453
* VMware Inc. Class A 41,256 6,438

 

* ON Semiconductor Corp. 332,688 6,132
* Electro Scientific Industries    
  Inc. 257,984 4,502
  Hewlett Packard Enterprise    
  Co. 185,142 3,020
* Glu Mobile Inc. 368,621 2,746
* Unisys Corp. 128,390 2,619
* SMART Global Holdings    
  Inc. 86,156 2,476
  ManTech International Corp.    
  Class A 32,645 2,067
* Dell Technologies Inc.    
  Class V 20,691 2,010
  Comtech    
  Telecommunications Corp. 48,147 1,746
* Micron Technology Inc. 25,554 1,156
* Insight Enterprises Inc. 20,187 1,092
* eGain Corp. 126,191 1,022
* Cardtronics plc Class A 12,970 410
  PC Connection Inc. 9,593 373
      169,075
Materials (3.8%)    
  CF Industries Holdings Inc. 210,225 11,445
  Freeport-McMoRan Inc. 764,977 10,648
  Huntsman Corp. 293,377 7,989
  DowDuPont Inc. 120,699 7,762
  LyondellBasell Industries    
  NV Class A 58,380 5,985
  Warrior Met Coal Inc. 220,042 5,950
  Louisiana-Pacific Corp. 204,951 5,429
  Westlake Chemical Corp. 56,069 4,660
* Alcoa Corp. 49,373 1,995
  Boise Cascade Co. 37,017 1,362
* Verso Corp. 10,524 354
* Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. 26,534 336
      63,915
Real Estate (5.2%)    
  Weyerhaeuser Co. 343,941 11,099
  Xenia Hotels & Resorts    
  Inc. 402,120 9,530
  Park Hotels & Resorts Inc. 283,584 9,307
  Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. 63,131 9,111
  Prologis Inc. 132,120 8,956
  Spirit Realty Capital Inc. 1,032,013 8,318
  Rayonier Inc. 232,520 7,862
  CubeSmart 177,101 5,053
*,^ Forestar Group Inc. 215,108 4,560
  Pebblebrook Hotel Trust 111,197 4,044
  CorEnergy Infrastructure    
  Trust Inc. 91,941 3,455
* CBRE Group Inc. Class A 65,808 2,902
  Hersha Hospitality Trust    
  Class A 55,726 1,263
  NorthStar Realty Europe    
  Corp. 68,919 976

 

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      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
  Hospitality Properties Trust 22,662 654
  Uniti Group Inc. 29,899 603
      87,693
Telecommunication Services (3.3%)  
  AT&T Inc. 881,815 29,612
  Verizon Communications    
  Inc. 283,182 15,119
* T-Mobile US Inc. 72,902 5,116
^ Frontier Communications    
  Corp. 371,541 2,411
  Telephone & Data Systems    
  Inc. 70,233 2,137
* United States Cellular Corp. 20,817 932
  ATN International Inc. 4,927 364
      55,691
Utilities (5.6%)    
  NextEra Energy Inc. 113,785 19,070
  Exelon Corp. 347,380 15,167
  FirstEnergy Corp. 331,921 12,338
  NRG Energy Inc. 317,967 11,892
  Entergy Corp. 136,932 11,109
  AES Corp. 715,240 10,013
* Vistra Energy Corp. 319,462 7,948
* Clearway Energy Inc.    
  Class C 174,982 3,368
  National Fuel Gas Co. 34,775 1,950
  Otter Tail Corp. 19,101 915
* Clearway Energy Inc.    
  Class A 31,020 591
      94,361
Total Common Stocks    
(Cost $1,374,307)   1,684,184
Temporary Cash Investments (1.2%)1  
Money Market Fund (1.1%)    
2,3 Vanguard Market Liquidity    
  Fund, 2.209% 191,918 19,192
 
    Face  
    Amount  
    ($000)  
U. S. Government and Agency Obligations (0.1%)
4 United States Treasury Bill,    
  1.962%, 10/11/18 202 202
4 United States Treasury Bill,    
  2.078%, 11/15/18 400 399
      601
Total Temporary Cash Investments  
(Cost $19,792)   19,793
Total Investments (100.7%)    
(Cost $1,394,099)   1,703,977

 

  Amount
  ($000)
Other Assets and Liabilities (-0.7%)  
Other Assets  
Investment in Vanguard 87
Receivables for Investment Securities Sold 61,722
Receivables for Accrued Income 1,525
Receivables for Capital Shares Issued 1,109
Other Assets 59
Total Other Assets 64,502
Liabilities  
Payables for Investment Securities  
Purchased (60,066)
Collateral for Securities on Loan (14,218)
Payables for Capital Shares Redeemed (1,095)
Payables to Vanguard (1,093)
Variation Margin Payable—Futures  
Contracts (3)
Total Liabilities (76,475)
Net Assets (100%)  
Applicable to 84,475,233 outstanding  
$.001 par value shares of beneficial  
interest (unlimited authorization) 1,692,004
Net Asset Value Per Share $20.03

 

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At September 30, 2018, net assets consisted of:
  Amount
  ($000)
Paid-in Capital 1,289,507
Undistributed Net Investment Income 21,478
Accumulated Net Realized Gains 71,149
Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)  
Investment Securities 309,878
Futures Contracts (8)
Net Assets 1,692,004

 

See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements.
* Non-income-producing security.
^ Includes partial security positions on loan to broker-dealers.
The total value of securities on loan is $12,939,000.
1 The fund invests a portion of its cash reserves in equity
markets through the use of index futures contracts. After
giving effect to futures investments, the fund’s effective
common stock and temporary cash investment positions
represent 100.0% and 0.7%, respectively, of net assets.
2 Affiliated money market fund available only to Vanguard funds
and certain trusts and accounts managed by Vanguard. Rate
shown is the 7-day yield.
3 Includes $14,218,000 of collateral received for securities
on loan.
4 Securities with a value of $419,000 have been segregated as
initial margin for open futures contracts.

Derivative Financial Instruments Outstanding as of Period End    
 
Futures Contracts        
        ($000)
        Value and
    Number of   Unrealized
    Long (Short) Notional Appreciation
  Expiration Contracts Amount (Depreciation)
Long Futures Contracts        
E-mini S&P 500 Index December 2018 51 7,443 (8)

 

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

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U.S. Value Fund  
 
 
Statement of Operations  
 
  Year Ended
  September 30, 2018
  ($000)
Investment Income  
Income  
Dividends 35,730
Interest1 114
Securities Lending—Net 278
Total Income 36,122
Expenses  
The Vanguard Group—Note B  
Investment Advisory Services 1,077
Management and Administrative 2,272
Marketing and Distribution 276
Custodian Fees 27
Auditing Fees 32
Shareholders’ Reports and Proxy 35
Trustees’ Fees and Expenses 1
Total Expenses 3,720
Net Investment Income 32,402
Realized Net Gain (Loss)  
Investment Securities Sold1 80,175
Futures Contracts 1,333
Realized Net Gain (Loss) 81,508
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)  
Investment Securities1 50,928
Futures Contracts (62)
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) 50,866
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations 164,776

 

1 Interest income, realized net gain (loss), and change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) from an affiliated company of the fund were $100,000, $1,000, and ($2,000), respectively. Purchases and sales are for temporary cash investment purposes.

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

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U.S. Value Fund    
 
 
Statement of Changes in Net Assets    
 
  Year Ended September 30,
  2018 2017
  ($000) ($000)
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets    
Operations    
Net Investment Income 32,402 36,922
Realized Net Gain (Loss) 81,508 100,791
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) 50,866 109,876
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations 164,776 247,589
Distributions    
Net Investment Income (32,253) (30,933)
Realized Capital Gain1 (97,416) (22,230)
Total Distributions (129,669) (53,163)
Capital Share Transactions    
Issued 214,440 422,683
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 121,791 50,256
Redeemed (354,645) (365,711)
Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions (18,414) 107,228
Total Increase (Decrease) 16,693 301,654
Net Assets    
Beginning of Period 1,675,311 1,373,657
End of Period2 1,692,004 1,675,311

 

1 Includes fiscal 2018 and 2017 short-term gain distributions totaling $22,953,000 and $0, respectively. Short-term gain distributions are treated as ordinary income dividends for tax purposes.

2 Net Assets—End of Period includes undistributed (overdistributed) net investment income of $21,478,000 and $23,033,000.

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

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U.S. Value Fund          
 
 
Financial Highlights          
 
 
For a Share Outstanding     Year Ended September 30,
Throughout Each Period 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period $19.63 $17.25 $16.48 $16.95 $14.41
Investment Operations          
Net Investment Income . 3731 .4371 .440 .355 .299
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)          
on Investments 1.563 2.606 1.341 (.543) 2.531
Total from Investment Operations 1.936 3.043 1.781 (.188) 2.830
Distributions          
Dividends from Net Investment Income (. 382) (. 386) (. 358) (. 282) (. 290)
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains (1.154) (.277) (.653)
Total Distributions (1.536) (.663) (1.011) (.282) (.290)
Net Asset Value, End of Period $20.03 $19.63 $17.25 $16.48 $16.95
 
Total Return2 10.22% 17.87% 11.09% -1.18% 19.89%
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data          
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) $1,692 $1,675 $1,374 $1,215 $1,117
Ratio of Total Expenses to Average Net Assets 0.22% 0.23% 0.23% 0.26% 0.29%
Ratio of Net Investment Income to          
Average Net Assets 1.92% 2.36% 2.63% 2.10% 1.92%
Portfolio Turnover Rate 75% 95% 76% 66% 57%

 

1 Calculated based on average shares outstanding.

2 Total returns do not include account service fees that may have applied in the periods shown. Fund prospectuses provide information about any applicable account service fees.

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

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Notes to Financial Statements

Vanguard U.S. Value Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund.

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

1. Security Valuation: Securities are valued as of the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4 p.m., Eastern time) on the valuation date. 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. 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. Investments in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund are valued at that fund’s net asset value. Temporary cash investments 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.

2. Futures Contracts: The fund uses index futures contracts to a limited extent, with the objective of maintaining full exposure to the stock market while maintaining liquidity. The fund may purchase or sell futures contracts to achieve a desired level of investment, whether to accommodate portfolio turnover or cash flows from capital share transactions. The primary risks associated with the use of futures contracts are imperfect correlation between changes in market values of stocks held by the fund and the prices of futures contracts, and the possibility of an illiquid market. Counterparty risk involving futures is mitigated because a regulated clearinghouse is the counterparty instead of the clearing broker. To further mitigate counterparty risk, the fund trades futures contracts on an exchange, monitors the financial strength of its clearing brokers and clearinghouse, and has entered into clearing agreements with its clearing brokers. The clearinghouse imposes initial margin requirements to secure the fund’s performance and requires daily settlement of variation margin representing changes in the market value of each contract. Any assets pledged as initial margin for open contracts are noted in the Statement of Net Assets.

Futures contracts are valued at their quoted daily settlement prices. The notional 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).

During the year ended September 30, 2018, the fund’s average investments in long and short futures contracts represented less than 1% and 0% of net assets, respectively, based on the average of the notional amounts at each quarter-end during the period.

3. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken for all open federal income tax years (September 30, 2015–2018), and has concluded that no provision for federal income tax is required in the fund’s financial statements.

4. Distributions: Distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Distributions are determined on a tax basis and may differ from net investment income and realized capital gains for financial reporting purposes.

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5. Securities Lending: To earn additional income, the fund lends its securities to qualified institutional borrowers. Security loans are subject to termination by the fund at any time, and are required to be secured at all times by collateral in an amount at least equal to the market value of securities loaned. Daily market fluctuations could cause the value of loaned securities to be more or less than the value of the collateral received. When this occurs, the collateral is adjusted and settled before the opening of the market on the next business day. The fund further mitigates its counterparty risk by entering into securities lending transactions only with a diverse group of prequalified counterparties, monitoring their financial strength, and entering into master securities lending agreements with its counterparties. The master securities lending agreements provide that, in the event of a counterparty’s default (including bankruptcy), the fund may terminate any loans with that borrower, determine the net amount owed, and sell or retain the collateral up to the net amount owed to the fund; however, such actions may be subject to legal proceedings. While collateral mitigates counterparty risk, in the event of a default, the fund may experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned. The fund invests cash collateral received in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, and records a liability in the Statement of Net Assets for the return of the collateral, during the period the securities are on loan. Securities lending income represents fees charged to borrowers plus income earned on invested cash collateral, less expenses associated with the loan. During the term of the loan, the fund is entitled to all distributions made on or in respect of the loaned securities.

6. Credit Facility: The fund and certain other funds managed by The Vanguard Group (“Vanguard”) participate in a $3.1 billion committed credit facility provided by a syndicate of lenders pursuant to a credit agreement that may be renewed annually; each fund is individually liable for its borrowings, if any, under the credit facility. Borrowings may be utilized for temporary and emergency purposes, and are subject to the fund’s regulatory and contractual borrowing restrictions. The participating funds are charged administrative fees and an annual commitment fee of 0.10% of the undrawn amount of the facility; these fees are allocated to the funds based on a method approved by the fund’s board of trustees and included in Management and Administrative expenses on the fund’s Statement of Operations. Any borrowings under this facility bear interest at a rate based upon the higher of the one-month London Interbank Offered Rate, federal funds effective rate, or overnight bank funding rate plus an agreed-upon spread.

The fund had no borrowings outstanding at September 30, 2018, or at any time during the period then ended.

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.

B. In accordance with the terms of a Funds’ Service Agreement (the “FSA”) between Vanguard and the fund, Vanguard furnishes to the fund investment advisory, corporate management, administrative, marketing, and distribution services at Vanguard’s cost of operations (as defined by the FSA). These costs of operations are allocated to the fund based on methods and guidelines approved by the board of trustees. Vanguard does not require reimbursement in the current period for certain costs of

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operations (such as deferred compensation/benefits and risk/insurance costs); the fund’s liability for these costs of operations is included in Payables to Vanguard on the Statement of Net Assets. All other costs of operations payable to Vanguard are generally settled twice a month.

Upon the request of Vanguard, the fund may invest up to 0.40% of its net assets as capital in Vanguard. At September 30, 2018, the fund had contributed to Vanguard capital in the amount of $87,000, representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 0.03% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and employees, respectively, of Vanguard.

C. Various inputs may be used to determine the value of the fund’s investments. These inputs are summarized in three broad levels for financial statement purposes. The inputs or methodologies used to value securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.

Level 1Quoted prices in active markets for identical securities.

Level 2Other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.).

Level 3Significant unobservable inputs (including the fund’s own assumptions used to determine the fair value of investments). Any investments valued with significant unobservable inputs are noted on the Statement of Net Assets.

The following table summarizes the market value of the fund’s investments as of September 30, 2018, based on the inputs used to value them:

  Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
Investments ($000) ($000) ($000)
Common Stocks 1,684,184
Temporary Cash Investments 19,192 601
Futures Contracts—Liabilities1 (3)
Total 1,703,373 601
1 Represents variation margin on the last day of the reporting period.      

 

D. Permanent differences between book-basis and tax-basis components of net assets are reclassified among capital accounts in the financial statements to reflect their tax character. These reclassifications have no effect on net assets or net asset value per share. As of period end, the

following permanent differences primarily attributable to the accounting for distributions in  
connection with fund share redemptions were reclassified to the following accounts:  
  Amount
  ($000)
Paid-in Capital 6,009
Undistributed (Overdistributed) Net Investment Income (1,704)
Accumulated Net Realized Gains (Losses) (4,305)

 

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Temporary differences between book-basis and tax-basis components of accumulated net earnings (losses) arise when certain items of income, gain, or loss are recognized in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes; these differences will reverse at some time in the future. The differences are primarily related to the tax deferral of losses on wash sales and the realization of unrealized gains or losses on certain futures contracts. As of period end, the tax-basis components of accumulated net earnings (losses) are detailed in the table as follows:

  Amount
  ($000)
Undistributed Ordinary Income 22,412
Undistributed Long-Term Gains 71,142
Capital Loss Carryforwards (Non-expiring)
Net Unrealized Gains (Losses) 309,878

 

As of September 30, 2018, gross unrealized appreciation and depreciation for investments and derivatives based on cost for U.S. federal income tax purposes were as follows:

  Amount
  ($000)
Tax Cost 1,394,099
Gross Unrealized Appreciation 345,418
Gross Unrealized Depreciation (35,540)
Net Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) 309,878

 

E. During the year ended September 30, 2018, the fund purchased $1,253,681,000 of investment securities and sold $1,365,282,000 of investment securities, other than temporary cash investments.

F. Capital shares issued and redeemed were:    
  Year Ended September 30,
  2018 2017
  Shares Shares
  (000) (000)
Issued 11,008 22,746
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 6,353 2,714
Redeemed (18,245) (19,713)
Net Increase (Decrease) in Shares Outstanding (884) 5,747

 

G. Management has determined that no events or transactions occurred subsequent to September 30, 2018, that would require recognition or disclosure in these financial statements.

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Board of Trustees of Vanguard Malvern Funds and Shareholders of Vanguard U.S. Value Fund

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying statement of net assets of Vanguard U.S. Value Fund (one of the funds constituting Vanguard Malvern Funds, referred to hereafter as the “Fund”) as of September 30, 2018, the related statement of operations for the year ended September 30, 2018, the statement of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period ended September 30, 2018, including the related notes, and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period ended September 30, 2018 (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Fund as of September 30, 2018, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period ended September 30, 2018 and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period ended September 30, 2018 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Fund’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Fund’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Fund in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of September 30, 2018 by correspondence with the custodians and brokers and by agreement to the underlying ownership records of the transfer agent; when replies were not received from brokers, we performed other auditing procedures. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
November 15, 2018

We have served as the auditor of one or more investment companies in The Vanguard Group of Funds since 1975.

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Special 2018 tax information (unaudited) for Vanguard U.S. Value Fund

This information for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2018, is included pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

The fund distributed $78,768,000 as capital gain dividends (20% rate gain distributions) to shareholders during the fiscal year.

For nonresident alien shareholders, 100% of short-term capital gain dividends distributed by the fund are qualified short-term capital gains.

The fund distributed $30,624,000 of qualified dividend income to shareholders during the fiscal year.

For corporate shareholders, 97.5% of investment income (dividend income plus short-term gains, if any) qualifies for the dividends-received deduction.

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Your Fund’s After-Tax Returns

This table presents returns for your fund both before and after taxes. The after-tax returns are shown in two ways: (1) assuming that an investor owned the fund during the entire period and paid taxes on the fund’s distributions, and (2) assuming that an investor paid taxes on the fund’s distributions and sold all shares at the end of each period.

Calculations are based on the highest individual federal income tax and capital gains tax rates in effect at the times of the distributions and the hypothetical sales. State and local taxes were not considered. After-tax returns reflect any qualified dividend income, using actual prior-year figures and estimates for 2018. (In the example, returns after the sale of fund shares may be higher than those assuming no sale. This occurs when the sale would have produced a capital loss. The calculation assumes that the investor received a tax deduction for the loss.)

Please note that your actual after-tax returns will depend on your tax situation and may differ from those shown. Also note that if you own the fund in a tax-deferred account, such as an individual retirement account or a 401(k) plan, this information does not apply to you. Such accounts are not subject to current taxes.

Finally, keep in mind that a fund’s performance—whether before or after taxes—does not guarantee future results.

Average Annual Total Returns: U.S. Value Fund      
Periods Ended September 30, 2018      
  One Five Ten
  Year Years Years
Returns Before Taxes 10.22% 11.33% 10.09%
Returns After Taxes on Distributions 7.97 10.18 9.33
Returns After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares 7.03 8.80 8.17

 

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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 accompanying table 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 any purchase, redemption, or account service fees described in the fund 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 fund’s 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 September 30, 2018      
  Beginning Ending Expenses
  Account Value Account Value Paid During
U.S. Value Fund 3/31/2018 9/30/2018 Period
Based on Actual Fund Return $1,000.00 $1,074.57 $1.09
Based on Hypothetical 5% Yearly Return 1,000.00 1,024.02 1.07

 

The calculations are based on expenses incurred in the most recent six-month period. The fund’s annualized six-month expense ratio for that period is 0.21%. 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 (183/365).

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Glossary

30-Day SEC Yield. A fund’s 30-day SEC yield is derived using a formula specified by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Under the formula, data related to the fund’s security holdings in the previous 30 days are used to calculate the fund’s hypothetical net income for that period, which is then annualized and divided by the fund’s estimated average net assets over the calculation period. For the purposes of this calculation, a security’s income is based on its current market yield to maturity (for bonds), its actual income (for asset-backed securities), or its projected dividend yield (for stocks). Because the SEC yield represents hypothetical annualized income, it will differ—at times significantly—from the fund’s actual experience. As a result, the fund’s income distributions may be higher or lower than implied by the SEC yield.

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). 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.

Dividend Yield. Dividend income earned by stocks, expressed as a percentage of the aggregate market value (or of net asset value, for a fund). The yield is determined by dividing the amount of the annual dividends by the aggregate value (or net asset value) at the end of the period. For a fund, the dividend yield is based solely on stock holdings and does not include any income produced by other investments.

Earnings Growth Rate. The average annual rate of growth in earnings over the past five years for the stocks now in a fund.

Equity Exposure. A measure that reflects a fund’s investments in stocks and stock futures. Any holdings in short-term reserves are excluded.

Expense Ratio. A fund’s total annual operating expenses expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets. The expense ratio includes management and administrative expenses, but does not include the transaction costs of buying and selling portfolio securities.

Foreign Holdings. The percentage of a fund represented by securities or depositary receipts of companies based outside the United States.

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.

Median Market Cap. An indicator of the size of companies in which a fund invests; the midpoint of market capitalization (market price x shares outstanding) of a fund’s stocks, weighted by the proportion of the fund’s assets invested in each stock. Stocks representing half of the fund’s assets have market capitalizations above the median, and the rest are below it.

Price/Book Ratio. The share price of a stock divided by its net worth, or book value, per share.

For a fund, the weighted average price/book ratio of the stocks it holds.

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Price/Earnings Ratio. The ratio of a stock’s current price to its per-share earnings over the past year. For a fund, the weighted average P/E of the stocks it holds. P/E is an indicator of market expectations about corporate prospects; the higher the P/E, the greater the expectations for a company’s future growth.

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.

Return on Equity. The annual average rate of return generated by a company during the past five years for each dollar of shareholder’s equity (net income divided by shareholder’s equity). For a fund, the weighted average return on equity for the companies whose stocks it holds.

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

Turnover Rate. An indication of the fund’s trading activity. Funds with high turnover rates incur higher transaction costs and may be more likely to distribute capital gains (which may be taxable to investors). The turnover rate excludes in-kind transactions, which have minimal impact on costs.

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The Global Industry Classification Standard (“GICS”) was developed by and is the exclusive property and a service mark of MSCI Inc. (“MSCI”) and Standard and Poor’s, a division of McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (“S&P”), and is licensed for use by Vanguard. Neither MSCI, S&P nor any third party involved in making or compiling the GICS or any GICS classification makes any express or implied warranties or representations with respect to such standard or classification (or the results to be obtained by the use thereof), and all such parties hereby expressly disclaim all warranties of originality, accuracy, completeness, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose with respect to any such standard or classification. Without limiting any of the foregoing, in no event shall MSCI, S&P, any of its affiliates or any third party involved in making or compiling the GICS or any GICS classification have any liability for any direct, indirect, special, punitive, consequential or any other damages (including lost profits) even if notified of the possibility of such damages.

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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. The independent board members have distinguished backgrounds in business, academia, and public service. Each of the trustees and executive officers oversees 211 Vanguard funds.

Information for each trustee and executive officer of the fund appears below. The mailing address of the trustees and officers is P.O. Box 876, Valley Forge, PA 19482. More information about the trustees is in the Statement of Additional Information, which can be obtained, without charge, by contacting Vanguard at 800-662-7447, or online at vanguard.com.

Interested Trustees1

F. William McNabb III

Born in 1957. Trustee since July 2009. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: chairman of the board (January 2010–present) of Vanguard and of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard, trustee (2009–present) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard, and director (2008–present) of Vanguard. Chief executive officer and president (2008–2017) of Vanguard and each of the investment companies served by Vanguard, managing director (1995–2008) of Vanguard, and director (1997–2018) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Director (2018–present) of UnitedHealth Group.

Mortimer J. Buckley

Born in 1969. Trustee since January 2018. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: chief executive officer (January 2018–present) of Vanguard; chief executive officer, president, and trustee (January 2018–present) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard; president and director (2017–present) of Vanguard; and president (February 2018–present) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Chief investment officer (2013–2017), managing director (2002–2017), head of the Retail Investor Group (2006–2012), and chief information officer (2001–2006) of Vanguard. Chairman of the board (2011–2017) of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Independent Trustees

Emerson U. Fullwood

Born in 1948. Trustee since January 2008. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: executive chief staff and marketing officer for North America and corporate vice president (retired 2008) of Xerox Corporation (document management products and services). Former president of the Worldwide Channels Group, Latin America, and Worldwide Customer Service and executive chief staff officer of Developing Markets of Xerox. Executive in residence and 2009–2010 Distinguished Minett Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Lead director of SPX FLOW, Inc. (multi-industry manufacturing). Director of the University of Rochester Medical Center, the Monroe Community College Foundation, the United Way of Rochester, North Carolina A&T University, and Roberts Wesleyan College. Trustee of the University of Rochester.

Amy Gutmann

Born in 1949. Trustee since June 2006. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: president (2004–present) of the University of Pennsylvania. Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences, and professor of communication, Annenberg School for Communication, with secondary faculty appointments in the Department of Philosophy, School of Arts and Sciences, and at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. Trustee of the National Constitution Center.

1 Mr. McNabb and Mr. Buckley are considered “interested persons,” as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, because they are officers of the Vanguard funds.


 

JoAnn Heffernan Heisen

Born in 1950. Trustee since July 1998. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: corporate vice president of Johnson & Johnson (pharmaceuticals/medical devices/consumer products) and member of its executive committee (1997–2008). Chief global diversity officer (retired 2008), vice president and chief information officer (1997–2006), controller (1995–1997), treasurer (1991–1995), and assistant treasurer (1989–1991) of Johnson & Johnson. Director of Skytop Lodge Corporation (hotels) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Member of the advisory board of the Institute for Women’s Leadership at Rutgers University.

F. Joseph Loughrey

Born in 1949. Trustee since October 2009. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: president and chief operating officer (retired 2009) and vice chairman of the board (2008–2009) of Cummins Inc. (industrial machinery). Chairman of the board of Hillenbrand, Inc. (specialized consumer services), Oxfam America, and the Lumina Foundation for Education. Director of the V Foundation for Cancer Research. Member of the advisory council for the College of Arts and Letters and chair of the advisory board to the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, both at the University of Notre Dame.

Mark Loughridge

Born in 1953. Trustee since March 2012. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: senior vice president and chief financial officer (retired 2013) of IBM (information technology services). Fiduciary member of IBM’s Retirement Plan Committee (2004–2013), senior vice president and general manager (2002–2004) of IBM Global Financing, vice president and controller (1998–2002) of IBM, and a variety of other prior management roles at IBM. Member of the Council on Chicago Booth.

Scott C. Malpass

Born in 1962. Trustee since March 2012. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: chief investment officer (1989–present) and vice president (1996–present) of the University of Notre Dame. Assistant professor of finance at the Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame, and member of the Notre Dame 403(b) Investment Committee. Chairman of the board of TIFF Advisory Services, Inc. Member of the board of Catholic Investment Services, Inc. (investment advisors), the board of advisors for Spruceview Capital Partners, and the board of superintendence of the Institute for the Works of Religion.

Deanna Mulligan

Born in 1963. Trustee since January 2018. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: president (2010–present) and chief executive officer (2011–present) of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. Chief operating officer (2010–2011) and executive vice president (2008–2010) of Individual Life and Disability of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. Member of the board of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, the American Council of Life Insurers, the Partnership for New York City (business leadership), and the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy. Trustee of the Economic Club of New York and the Bruce Museum (arts and science). Member of the Advisory Council for the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

André F. Perold

Born in 1952. Trustee since December 2004. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School (retired 2011). Chief investment officer and co-managing partner of HighVista Strategies LLC (private investment firm). Overseer of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

Sarah Bloom Raskin

Born in 1961. Trustee since January 2018. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: deputy secretary (2014–2017) of the United States Department of the Treasury. Governor (2010–2014) of the Federal Reserve Board. Commissioner (2007–2010) of financial regulation for the State of Maryland. Member of the board of directors (2012–2014) of Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. Director of i(x) Investments, LLC.

Peter F. Volanakis

Born in 1955. Trustee since July 2009. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: president and chief operating officer (retired 2010) of Corning Incorporated (communications equipment) and director of Corning Incorporated (2000–2010) and Dow Corning (2001–2010). Director (2012) of SPX Corporation (multi-industry manufacturing). Overseer of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College (2001–2013). Chairman of the board of trustees of Colby-Sawyer College. Member of the Board of Hypertherm Inc. (industrial cutting systems, software, and consumables).


 

Executive Officers

Glenn Booraem

Born in 1967. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard. Investment stewardship officer (2017–present), treasurer (2015–2017), controller (2010–2015), and assistant controller (2001–2010) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard.

Christine M. Buchanan

Born in 1970. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard and global head of Fund Administration at Vanguard. Treasurer (2017–present) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Partner (2005–2017) at KPMG LLP (audit, tax, and advisory services).

Brian Dvorak

Born in 1973. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard. Chief compliance officer (2017–present) of Vanguard and each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Assistant vice president (2017–present) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Vice president and director of Enterprise Risk Management (2011–2013) at Oppenheimer Funds, Inc.

Thomas J. Higgins

Born in 1957. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard. Chief financial officer (2008–present) and treasurer (1998–2008) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard.

Peter Mahoney

Born in 1974. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard. Controller (2015–present) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Head of International Fund Services (2008–2014) at Vanguard.

Anne E. Robinson

Born in 1970. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: general counsel (2016–present) of Vanguard. Secretary (2016–present) of Vanguard and of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Managing director (2016–present) of Vanguard. Director and senior vice president (2016–2018) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Managing director and general counsel of Global Cards and Consumer Services (2014–2016) at Citigroup. Counsel (2003–2014) at American Express.

Michael Rollings

Born in 1963. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: finance director (2017–present) and treasurer (2017) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Managing director (2016–present) of Vanguard. Chief financial officer (2016–present) of Vanguard. Director (2016–present) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Executive vice president and chief financial officer (2006–2016) of MassMutual Financial Group.

Vanguard Senior Management Team
 
Joseph Brennan Chris D. McIsaac
Mortimer J. Buckley James M. Norris
Gregory Davis Thomas M. Rampulla
John James Karin A. Risi
Martha G. King Anne E. Robinson
John T. Marcante Michael Rollings

 

Chairman Emeritus and Senior Advisor

John J. Brennan
Chairman, 1996–2009
Chief Executive Officer and President, 1996–2008

Founder

John C. Bogle
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, 1974–1996


 

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Annual Report | September 30, 2018

Vanguard Capital Value Fund


 

Vanguard’s Principles for Investing Success

We want to give you the best chance of investment success. These principles, grounded in Vanguard’s research and experience, can put you on the right path.

Goals. Create clear, appropriate investment goals.

Balance. Develop a suitable asset allocation using broadly diversified funds. Cost. Minimize cost.

Discipline. Maintain perspective and long-term discipline.

A single theme unites these principles: Focus on the things you can control.

We believe there is no wiser course for any investor.

Contents  
Your Fund’s Performance at a Glance. 1
CEO’s Perspective. 3
Advisor’s Report. 5
Fund Profile. 8
Performance Summary. 9
Financial Statements. 11
Your Fund’s After-Tax Returns. 25
About Your Fund’s Expenses. 26
Glossary. 28

 

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 front of this report. Of course, the risks of investing in your fund are spelled out in the prospectus.

See the Glossary for definitions of investment terms used in this report.


 

Your Fund’s Performance at a Glance

• Vanguard Capital Value Fund returned 8.48% for the 12 months ended September 30,
2018. It trailed its benchmark and the average return of its peers.

• The advisor’s strong selections in the consumer staples, real estate, industrial,
and consumer discretionary sectors helped relative returns.

• The fund’s holdings in health care, financials, and information technology lagged
their benchmark counterparts and detracted from results.

• The fund’s average annual return for the ten years ended September 30, 2018,
outpaced those of its benchmark and its peers.

Total Returns: Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2018  
  Total
  Returns
Vanguard Capital Value Fund 8.48%
Russell 3000 Value Index 9.46
Multi-Cap Value Funds Average 9.60

 

Multi-Cap Value Funds Average: Derived from data provided by Lipper, a Thomson Reuters Company.

Total Returns: Ten Years Ended September 30, 2018  
  Average
  Annual Return
Capital Value Fund 12.17%
Russell 3000 Value Index 9.76
Multi-Cap Value Funds Average 9.49

 

Multi-Cap Value Funds Average: Derived from data provided by Lipper, a Thomson Reuters Company.

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 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.

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Expense Ratios    
Your Fund Compared With Its Peer Group    
    Peer Group
  Fund Average
Capital Value Fund 0.27% 1.06%

 

The fund expense ratio shown is from the prospectus dated January 26, 2018, and represents estimated costs for the current fiscal year. For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2018, the fund’s expense ratio was 0.29%. The peer-group expense ratio is derived from data provided by Lipper, a Thomson Reuters Company, and captures information through year-end 2017.

Peer group: Multi-Cap Value Funds.

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CEO’s Perspective

 

 

Tim Buckley
President and Chief Executive Officer

Dear Shareholder,

Over the years, I’ve found that prudent investors exhibit a common trait: discipline. No matter how the markets move or what new investing fad hits the headlines, those who stay focused on their goals and tune out the noise are set up for long-term success.

The prime gateway to investing is saving, and you don’t usually become a saver without a healthy dose of discipline. Savers make the decision to sock away part of their income, which means spending less and delaying gratification, no matter how difficult that may be.

Of course, disciplined investing extends beyond diligent saving. The financial markets, in the short term especially, are unpredictable; I have yet to meet the investor who can time them perfectly. It takes discipline to resist the urge to go all-in when markets are frothy or to retreat when things look bleak.

Staying put with your investments is one strategy for handling volatility. Another, rebalancing, requires even more discipline because it means steering your money away from strong performers and toward poorer performers.

Patience—a form of discipline—is also the friend of long-term investors. Higher returns are the potential reward for weathering the market’s turbulence and uncertainty.

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We have been enjoying one of the longest bull markets in history, but it won’t continue forever. Prepare yourself now for how you will react when volatility comes back. Don’t panic. Don’t chase returns or look for answers outside the asset classes you trust. And be sure to rebalance periodically, even when there’s turmoil.

Whether you’re a master of self-control, get a boost from technology, or work with a professional advisor, know that discipline

is necessary to get the most out of your investment portfolio. And know that Vanguard is with you for the entire ride.

Thank you for your continued loyalty.


Mortimer J. Buckley
President and Chief Executive Officer
October 18, 2018

Market Barometer      
    Average Annual Total Returns
  Periods Ended September 30, 2018
  One Year Three Years Five Years
Stocks      
Russell 1000 Index (Large-caps) 17.76% 17.07% 13.67%
Russell 2000 Index (Small-caps) 15.24 17.12 11.07
Russell 3000 Index (Broad U.S. market) 17.58 17.07 13.46
FTSE All-World ex US Index (International) 2.13 10.18 4.51
 
Bonds      
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index      
(Broad taxable market) -1.22% 1.31% 2.16%
Bloomberg Barclays Municipal Bond Index      
(Broad tax-exempt market) 0.35 2.24 3.54
FTSE Three-Month U. S. Treasury Bill Index 1.57 0.80 0.48
 
CPI      
Consumer Price Index 2.28% 1.99% 1.52%

 

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Advisor’s Report

For the 12 months ended September 30, 2018, Vanguard Capital Value Fund returned 8.48%, lagging its benchmark, the Russell 3000 Value Index.

Investment environment

Ten of the 11 sectors in the index posted positive absolute total returns. The information technology, health care, and energy sectors exceeded the overall benchmark return by a wide margin. All other sectors trailed the overall benchmark’s result, while the less-cyclical consumer staples sector was the only one to post a negative absolute total return.

We reduced the fund’s holdings in financials and consumer discretionary as we felt the benefits to their earnings from rising interest rates and consumer discretionary income were becoming well-appreciated by investors. We found more interesting value among companies with idiosyncratic challenges in other segments of the market. For example, we added to industrials, telecommunication services, energy, and materials, where we saw attractive risk-reward opportunities in specific stocks.

Our shortfalls

Our security selections were strongest in real estate, consumer staples, and industrials but proved more difficult in financials, health care, and information technology. Positive sector allocation, particularly overweighting information technology and underweighting financials, partially offset the weakness from stock selection.

Shares of British American Tobacco (BAT) were the fund’s largest detractors during the year, despite generally positive performance from consumer staples overall. BAT’s earnings growth trajectory slowed because of weakness in certain foreign currencies, including the Russian ruble, Brazilian real, and South African rand. However, most of the stock’s decline came from compression of the valuation investors placed on those earnings based on concerns over competitive threats from nontraditional entrants such as the e-cigarette maker JUUL.

The stock price of disk-drive and flash-memory producer Western Digital (WD) stumbled. Market participants sold out amid early evidence that the company’s extended string of above-normal earnings reports and guidance raises was coming to a cyclical end. While we were aware that the company’s profits would slide from their recent peak, the drop in valuation has been stunning.

At the time of this writing, WD shares traded for less than four times the earnings the company reported in the last 12 months through June 2018. By comparison, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index stocks traded at almost 20 times their earnings for the same period. The collapse in profitability implied by that comparison is massive, even if WD’s stock is usually valued at some discount to the market at most points in the economic cycle. We believe the stock is significantly undervalued. It remains a holding in the

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fund, although we recognize others may wait for earnings to bottom out and turn positive before returning.

Insurer MetLife also underperformed, despite benefiting from rising long-term interest rates. The company disclosed two material weaknesses (one of them unfavorable to prior reported earnings, the other favorable) in its accounting practices. The net effect was not large relative to shareholders’ equity or ongoing earnings prospects. We continue to hold the stock, although its valuation was hurt as the company’s internal controls were called into question.

Our successes

On the positive side, the timely purchase of grocery retailer Kroger in the face of rising competitive threats from Amazon, Walmart, and others made it the fund’s top contributor. (The decision to avoid struggling industrial conglomerate General Electric was actually even more favorable in terms of performance relative to the Russell 3000 Value Index.)

Kroger benefited nicely from the reduction in corporate tax rates, allowing the company to appease several of its constituencies. It let some earnings flow through to shareholders, some to workers in the form of higher wages and benefits, and a third portion to customers through targeted price reductions. Along with an uptick in same-store sales growth, these decisions helped improve investor sentiment about future earnings prospects, and the valuation increased accordingly.

Bermuda-based insurer XL Group was among the fund’s top contributors after the company agreed to a takeover approach from AXA, Europe’s second-largest insurance provider. Athletic apparel-maker Under Armour also appreciated strongly as the company made progress toward streamlining its product offering, improving its operations, and gaining more control over its cost structure. In both cases, our team felt the shares had reached a fair value, and the fund sold its holdings.

Fund positioning and outlook

At the end of September, the fund’s most significant overweightings relative to the Russell 3000 Value Index were in materials, real estate, energy, information technology, and industrials.

In industrials, we added holdings in Delta Air Lines and Southwest Airlines. Outsized capacity additions by competitor United Airlines spread worries of a market-share battle, particularly in some of Delta’s markets. Southwest also took a hit to its earnings in the aftermath of a tragic engine failure that caused the death of a passenger. Price cuts to attract passengers back following that accident, along with some struggles in implementing a new reservation system, caused difficult temporary revenue comparisons.

Airline earnings can be volatile, and their stocks have traded at sizable discounts to the broad market even during good times. However, we believe that both Delta and Southwest are in good positions to

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generate and distribute high free cash flow to shareholders because of their clean balance sheets and controlled capital-spending plans.

In energy, we initiated positions in Chevron and Concho Resources. We believe that Chevron has an attractive free-cash-flow yield and dividend, as well as less country risk than other major oil companies. In Texas, Permian Basin producers have temporarily outgrown the available capacity of pipelines to transport oil and gas to the market. But we believe Concho is well-positioned to outperform over the longer term, particularly after announcing its agreement to acquire RSP Permian in an all-stock transaction. We believe this will boost future free-cash-flow generation.

The economy is moving at a steady clip. However, we recognize the potential for negative surprises, especially as a result of trade frictions with China, the lagging effect of interest rate hikes, Brexit, and other factors. The net result of purchases and sales during the year has moderately reduced the fund’s exposure—as measured by sector weights, market beta, financial leverage, and other metrics—to an unfavorable shift in expectations.

We will, as contrarian value investors, look to areas of the market characterized by investor unease and a wide range of potential outcomes as fertile fishing ponds for new ideas. We are focusing more intently today on companies with the potential to help themselves out of temporary difficulty rather than those needing a big boost from an accelerating economy. We appreciate the trust of the Capital Value Fund’s shareholders and believe that your confidence will be justified by the performance of the fund’s holdings over a full market cycle.

Respectfully,

David W. Palmer, CFA
Senior Managing Director
and Equity Portfolio Manager

Wellington Management Company llp

October 10, 2018

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Capital Value Fund

Fund Profile
As of September 30, 2018

Portfolio Characteristics    
    Russell DJ
    3000 U.S. Total
    Value Market
  Fund Index FA Index
Number of Stocks 88 2,113 3,825
Median Market Cap $27.4B $58.1B $73.9B
Price/Earnings Ratio 13.0x 16.3x 21.0x
Price/Book Ratio 1.8x 2.0x 3.1x
Return on Equity 10.6% 11.6% 14.9%
Earnings Growth Rate 14.0% 5.7% 8.5%
Dividend Yield 2.4% 2.3% 1.7%
Foreign Holdings 11.4% 0.0% 0.0%
Turnover Rate 47%
Ticker Symbol VCVLX
Expense Ratio1 0.27%
30-Day SEC Yield 2.23%
Short-Term Reserves 0.7%

 

Sector Diversification (% of equity exposure)
  Fund
Consumer Discretionary 6.3%
Consumer Staples 7.5
Energy 12.4
Financials 19.4
Health Care 10.4
Industrials 9.4
Information Technology 11.2
Materials 7.2
Real Estate 7.8
Telecommunication Services 3.0
Utilities 5.4

 

Sector categories are based on the Global Industry Classification Standard (“GICS”), except for the “Other” category (if applicable), which includes securities that have not been provided a GICS classification as of the effective reporting period.

Volatility Measures    
  Russell DJ
  3000 U.S. Total
  Value Market
  Index FA Index
R-Squared 0.90 0.81
Beta 1.21 1.17

 

These measures show the degree and timing of the fund’s fluctuations compared with the indexes over 36 months.

Ten Largest Holdings (% of total net assets)
MetLife Inc. Life & Health  
  Insurance 3.2%
Citigroup Inc. Diversified Banks 3.2
Verizon Communications Integrated  
Inc. Telecommunication  
  Services 3.0
Wells Fargo & Co. Diversified Banks 2.6
Comcast Corp. Cable & Satellite 2.4
PNC Financial Services    
Group Inc. Regional Banks 2.1
Chevron Corp. Integrated Oil & Gas 2.0
Celanese Corp. Specialty Chemicals 1.9
Canadian Natural Oil & Gas Exploration  
Resources Ltd. & Production 1.8
Host Hotels & Resorts    
Inc. Hotel & Resort REITs 1.8
Top Ten   24.0%

 

The holdings listed exclude any temporary cash investments and equity index products.

Investment Focus


1 The expense ratio shown is from the prospectus dated January 26, 2018, and represents estimated costs for the current fiscal year. For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2018, the expense ratio was 0.29%.

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Capital Value 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 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: September 30, 2008, Through September 30, 2018
Initial Investment of $10,000


  Average Annual Total Returns  
  Periods Ended September 30, 2018  
        Final Value
  One Five Ten of a $10,000
  Year Years Years Investment
Capital Value Fund* 8.48% 6.34% 12.17% $31,546
Russell 3000 Value Index 9.46 10.65 9.76 25,383
Multi-Cap Value Funds Average 9.60 9.54 9.49 24,763
Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market        
Float Adjusted Index 17.58 13.42 12.05 31,191

 

Multi-Cap Value Funds Average: Derived from data provided by Lipper, a Thomson Reuters Company.

See Financial Highlights for dividend and capital gains information.

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Capital Value Fund

Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): September 30, 2008, Through September 30, 2018


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Capital Value Fund

Financial Statements

Statement of Net Assets
As of September 30, 2018

The fund reports a complete list of its holdings in regulatory filings 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 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).

      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
Common Stocks (99.5%)    
Consumer Discretionary (6.2%)  
  Comcast Corp. Class A 581,506 20,591
  Newell Brands Inc. 531,523 10,790
* Skechers U. S. A. Inc.    
  Class A 297,400 8,307
  General Motors Co. 239,329 8,058
  Expedia Group Inc. 51,335 6,698
      54,444
Consumer Staples (7.5%)    
  Walgreens Boots    
  Alliance Inc. 195,511 14,253
  British American    
  Tobacco plc 264,747 12,343
  Philip Morris    
  International Inc. 141,729 11,556
  Hormel Foods Corp. 188,600 7,431
  Kroger Co. 242,559 7,061
  Coty Inc. Class A 523,201 6,571
  Archer-Daniels-Midland    
  Co. 118,400 5,952
      65,167
Energy (12.3%)    
  Chevron Corp. 142,181 17,386
  Canadian Natural    
  Resources Ltd. 493,983 16,133
  Cimarex Energy Co. 120,664 11,214
  Halliburton Co. 270,022 10,944
  Anadarko Petroleum    
  Corp. 144,543 9,744
* Concho Resources Inc. 59,500 9,089
  Marathon Oil Corp. 358,643 8,349
  Tenaris SA ADR 223,500 7,492
  Diamondback Energy Inc. 53,731 7,264
  Pioneer Natural    
  Resources Co. 30,341 5,285
* Laredo Petroleum Inc. 575,300 4,700
      107,600

 

Financials (19.2%)    
  MetLife Inc. 604,873 28,260
  Citigroup Inc. 384,996 27,620
  Wells Fargo & Co. 435,316 22,880
  PNC Financial Services    
  Group Inc. 137,281 18,696
  American International    
  Group Inc. 285,302 15,189
  RenaissanceRe    
  Holdings Ltd. 105,968 14,155
* Bank OZK 283,865 10,776
  Unum Group 250,585 9,790
  CNO Financial Group Inc. 377,100 8,002
  Arthur J Gallagher & Co. 95,266 7,092
  Lancashire Holdings Ltd. 675,641 5,352
      167,812
Health Care (10.4%)    
* Mylan NV 386,418 14,143
  Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. 225,097 13,974
  McKesson Corp. 96,363 12,783
  Allergan plc 53,956 10,277
* Biogen Inc. 29,035 10,258
  Koninklijke Philips NV 214,600 9,766
* Seattle Genetics Inc. 88,000 6,787
* Incyte Corp. 88,400 6,107
  AstraZeneca plc ADR 128,100 5,069
* Five Prime Therapeutics    
  Inc. 91,300 1,271
      90,435
Industrials (9.3%)    
  Southwest Airlines Co. 200,200 12,502
  Steelcase Inc. Class A 640,343 11,846
  Herman Miller Inc. 269,015 10,330
  Delta Air Lines Inc. 170,000 9,831
* Genesee & Wyoming    
  Inc. Class A 99,404 9,045
  Sanwa Holdings Corp. 755,500 8,996

 

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      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
  Johnson Controls    
  International plc 234,600 8,211
  Fortune Brands Home    
  & Security Inc. 156,400 8,189
* JELD-WEN Holding Inc. 98,199 2,422
      81,372
Information Technology (11.2%)  
  QUALCOMM Inc. 181,075 13,043
  Western Digital Corp. 205,369 12,022
  KLA-Tencor Corp. 117,997 12,001
  Broadcom Inc. 46,500 11,473
  Genpact Ltd. 350,784 10,738
  Amdocs Ltd. 136,200 8,987
  Samsung Electronics    
  Co. Ltd. 174,624 7,308
* Coherent Inc. 38,100 6,560
  Marvell Technology    
  Group Ltd. 327,300 6,317
*,^ Acacia    
  Communications Inc. 110,371 4,566
  Teradyne Inc. 120,168 4,444
  Silicon Motion    
  Technology Corp. ADR 3,589 193
      97,652
Materials (7.1%)    
  Celanese Corp. Class A 142,245 16,216
  Reliance Steel &    
  Aluminum Co. 184,286 15,718
^ Nutrien Ltd. 137,400 7,934
  CRH plc 229,083 7,497
* Alcoa Corp. 155,900 6,298
  Cabot Corp. 73,700 4,622
  Randgold Resources    
  Ltd. ADR 56,100 3,958
      62,243
Other (0.2%)    
*,§,1 Allstar Co-Invest LLC    
  Private Placement NA 1,169
 
Real Estate (7.7%)    
  Host Hotels & Resorts    
  Inc. 762,591 16,091
  STORE Capital Corp. 334,163 9,286
  Columbia Property    
  Trust Inc. 380,883 9,004
  Brixmor Property Group    
  Inc. 494,116 8,652
  Simon Property Group    
  Inc. 45,238 7,996
  American Tower Corp. 46,259 6,722
  Acadia Realty Trust 187,700 5,261
  Taubman Centers Inc. 75,500 4,517
      67,529

 

Telecommunication Services (3.0%)  
Verizon    
Communications Inc. 489,200 26,118
 
Utilities (5.4%)    
Exelon Corp. 282,211 12,321
Edison International 150,559 10,190
OGE Energy Corp. 253,065 9,191
Sempra Energy 68,085 7,745
* Iberdrola SA 1,026,659 7,541
    46,988
Total Common Stocks    
(Cost $780,951)   868,529
Temporary Cash Investments (1.8%)  
Money Market Fund (1.1%)    
2,3 Vanguard Market Liquidity  
Fund, 2.209% 94,957 9,496
 
  Face  
  Amount  
  ($000)  
Repurchase Agreement (0.7%)  
RBS Securities, Inc.    
2.240%, 10/1/18    
(Dated 9/28/18,    
Repurchase Value    
$6,401,000, collateralized  
by U. S. Treasury    
Note/Bond 1.625%,    
5/15/26, with a value of    
$6,528,000) 6,400 6,400
Total Temporary Cash Investments  
(Cost $15,896)   15,896
Total Investments (101.3%)    
(Cost $796,847)   884,425

 

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Capital Value Fund  
 
 
 
 
  Amount
  ($000)
Other Assets and Liabilities (-1.3%)  
Other Assets  
Investment in Vanguard 45
Receivables for Investment Securities Sold 1,281
Receivables for Accrued Income 1,529
Receivables for Capital Shares Issued 212
Unrealized Appreciation—  
Forward Currency Contracts 150
Other Assets 184
Total Other Assets 3,401
Liabilities  
Payables for Investment Securities  
Purchased (2,377)
Collateral for Securities on Loan (9,495)
Payables to Investment Advisor (142)
Payables for Capital Shares Redeemed (703)
Payables to Vanguard (1,602)
Unrealized Depreciation—  
Forward Currency Contracts (13)
Total Liabilities (14,332)
Net Assets (100%)  
Applicable to 63,336,437 outstanding  
$.001 par value shares of beneficial  
interest (unlimited authorization) 873,494
Net Asset Value Per Share $13.79

 

At September 30, 2018, net assets consisted of:
  Amount
  ($000)
Paid-in Capital 789,611
Undistributed Net Investment Income 11,929
Accumulated Net Realized Losses (15,756)
Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)  
Investment Securities 87,578
Forward Currency Contracts 137
Foreign Currencies (5)
Net Assets 873,494

 

See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements.
* Non-income-producing security.
^ Includes partial security positions on loan to broker-dealers.
The total value of securities on loan is $9,007,000.
§ Security value determined using significant unobservable
inputs.
1 Restricted security represents 0.2% of net assets. Shares not
applicable for this private placement. See Restricted Security
table for additional information.
2 Affiliated money market fund available only to Vanguard funds
and certain trusts and accounts managed by Vanguard. Rate
shown is the 7-day yield.
3 Includes $9,495,000 of collateral received for securities on loan.
ADR—American Depositary Receipt.

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Restricted Securities as of Period End    
 
    Acquisition
  Acquisition Cost
Security Name Date ($000)
Allstar Co-Invest LLC Private Placement August 2011 1,677

 

Derivative Financial Instruments Outstanding as of Period End      
 
Forward Currency Contracts            
            Unrealized
  Contract         Appreciation
      Contract Amount (000)  
  Settlement         (Depreciation)
Counterparty Date   Receive   Deliver ($000)
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC 12/19/18 USD 7,250 JPY 801,276 150
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC 12/19/18 USD 5,071 EUR 4,348 (13)
            137
EUR—Euro.            
JPY—Japanese yen.            
USD—U.S. dollar.            

 

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

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Statement of Operations

  Year Ended
  September 30, 2018
  ($000)
Investment Income  
Income  
Dividends1 20,095
Interest 2 113
Securities Lending—Net 488
Total Income 20,696
Expenses  
Investment Advisory Fees—Note B  
Basic Fee 1,996
Performance Adjustment (1,479)
The Vanguard Group—Note C  
Management and Administrative 1,840
Marketing and Distribution 112
Custodian Fees 29
Auditing Fees 34
Shareholders’ Reports and Proxy 21
Trustees’ Fees and Expenses 2
Total Expenses 2,555
Net Investment Income 18,141
Realized Net Gain (Loss)  
Investment Securities Sold 2 81,410
Forward Currency Contracts 592
Foreign Currencies (67)
Realized Net Gain (Loss) 81,935
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)  
Investment Securities 2 (26,951)
Forward Currency Contracts (115)
Foreign Currencies 5
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) (27,061)
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations 73,015

 

1 Dividends are net of foreign withholding taxes of $167,000.

2 Interest income, realized net gain (loss), and change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) from an affiliated company of the fund were $0, ($1,000), and ($1,000), respectively.

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

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Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  Year Ended September 30,
  2018 2017
  ($000) ($000)
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets    
Operations    
Net Investment Income 18,141 18,261
Realized Net Gain (Loss) 81,935 69,458
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) (27,061) 38,881
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations 73,015 126,600
Distributions    
Net Investment Income (17,678) (15,817)
Realized Capital Gain
Total Distributions (17,678) (15,817)
Capital Share Transactions    
Issued 57,634 80,436
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 16,300 14,657
Redeemed (159,126) (235,684)
Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions (85,192) (140,591)
Total Increase (Decrease) (29,855) (29,808)
Net Assets    
Beginning of Period 903,349 933,157
End of Period1 873,494 903,349

 

1 Net Assets—End of Period includes undistributed (overdistributed) net investment income of $11,929,000 and $11,533,000.

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

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Financial Highlights

For a Share Outstanding     Year Ended September 30,
Throughout Each Period 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period $12.96 $11.50 $11.45 $15.32 $14.57
Investment Operations          
Net Investment Income . 2731 .2411 .180 .1291 .1782
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)          
on Investments .817 1.420 1.060 (2.330) 2.055
Total from Investment Operations 1.090 1.661 1.240 (2.201) 2.233
Distributions          
Dividends from Net Investment Income (. 260) (. 201) (.144) (.175) (.111)
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains (1.046) (1.494) (1.372)
Total Distributions (.260) (.201) (1.190) (1.669) (1.483)
Net Asset Value, End of Period $13.79 $12.96 $11.50 $11.45 $15.32
 
Total Return3 8.48% 14.56% 11.36% -15.67% 16.50%
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data          
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) $873 $903 $933 $1,059 $1,784
Ratio of Total Expenses to Average Net Assets4 0.29% 0.27% 0.25% 0.50% 0.47%
Ratio of Net Investment Income to          
Average Net Assets 2.04% 1.97% 1.51% 0.93% 1.19%2
Portfolio Turnover Rate 47% 41% 134% 90% 90%

 

1 Calculated based on average shares outstanding.
2 Net investment income per share and the ratio of net investment income to average net assets include $0.18 and 0.12%,
respectively, resulting from a special dividend from Vodafone Group plc in the form of cash and shares in Verizon Communications
Inc. in February 2014.
3 Total returns do not include account service fees that may have applied in the periods shown. Fund prospectuses provide
information about any applicable account service fees.
4 Includes performance-based investment advisory fee increases (decreases) of (0.17%), (0.19%), (0.20%), 0.06%, and 0.02%.

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

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Notes to Financial Statements

Vanguard Capital Value Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund.

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

1. Security Valuation: Securities are valued as of the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4 p.m., Eastern time) on the valuation date. 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. Securities for which market quotations are not readily available, or whose values have been affected by events occurring before the fund’s pricing time but after the close of the securities’ primary markets, are valued at their fair values calculated according to procedures adopted by the board of trustees. These procedures include obtaining quotations from an independent pricing service, monitoring news to identify significant market- or security-specific events, and evaluating changes in the values of foreign market proxies (for example, ADRs, futures contracts, or exchange-traded funds), between the time the foreign markets close and the fund’s pricing time. When fair-value pricing is employed, the prices of securities used by a fund to calculate its net asset value may differ from quoted or published prices for the same securities. Investments in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund are valued at that fund’s net asset value. Temporary cash investments 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.

2. Foreign Currency: Securities and other assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars using exchange rates obtained from an independent third party as of the fund’s pricing time on the valuation date. Realized gains (losses) and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investment securities include the effects of changes in exchange rates since the securities were purchased, combined with the effects of changes in security prices. Fluctuations in the value of other assets and liabilities resulting from changes in exchange rates are recorded as unrealized foreign currency gains (losses) until the assets or liabilities are settled in cash, at which time they are recorded as realized foreign currency gains (losses).

3. Forward Currency Contracts: The fund enters into forward currency contracts to protect the value of securities and related receivables and payables against changes in future foreign exchange rates. The fund’s risks in using these contracts include movement in the values of the foreign currencies relative to the U.S. dollar and the ability of the counterparties to fulfill their obligations under the contracts. The fund mitigates its counterparty risk by entering into forward currency contracts only with a diverse group of prequalified counterparties, monitoring their financial strength, entering into master netting arrangements with its counterparties, and requiring its counterparties to transfer collateral as security for their performance. In the absence of a default, the collateral pledged or received by the fund cannot be repledged, resold, or rehypothecated. The master netting arrangements provide that, in the event of a counterparty’s default (including bankruptcy), the fund may terminate the forward currency contracts, determine the net amount owed by either party in accordance with its master netting arrangements, and sell or retain any collateral held up to the net amount owed to the fund under the master netting arrangements. The forward currency contracts contain provisions whereby a counterparty may terminate open contracts if the fund’s net assets

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decline below a certain level, triggering a payment by the fund if the fund is in a net liability position at the time of the termination. The payment amount would be reduced by any collateral the fund has pledged. Any assets pledged as collateral for open contracts are noted in the Statement of Net Assets. The value of collateral received or pledged is compared daily to the value of the forward currency contracts exposure with each counterparty, and any difference, if in excess of a specified minimum transfer amount, is adjusted and settled within two business days.

Forward currency contracts are valued at their quoted daily prices obtained from an independent third party, adjusted for currency risk based on the expiration date of each contract. The notional 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 forward currency contract gains (losses).

During the year ended September 30, 2018, the fund’s average investment in forward currency contracts represented 2% of net assets, based on the average of notional amounts at each quarter-end during the period.

4. Repurchase Agreements: The fund enters into repurchase agreements with institutional counter-parties. Securities pledged as collateral to the fund under repurchase agreements are held by a custodian bank until the agreements mature, and in the absence of a default, such collateral cannot be repledged, resold, or rehypothecated. Each agreement requires that the market value of the collateral be sufficient to cover payments of interest and principal. The fund further mitigates its counterparty risk by entering into repurchase agreements only with a diverse group of prequalified counterparties, monitoring their financial strength, and entering into master repurchase agreements with its counterparties. The master repurchase agreements provide that, in the event of a counter-party’s default (including bankruptcy), the fund may terminate any repurchase agreements with that counterparty, determine the net amount owed, and sell or retain the collateral up to the net amount owed to the fund. Such action may be subject to legal proceedings, which may delay or limit the disposition of collateral.

5. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken for all open federal income tax years (September 30, 2015–2018), and has concluded that no provision for federal income tax is required in the fund’s financial statements.

6. Distributions: Distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Distributions are determined on a tax basis and may differ from net investment income and realized capital gains for financial reporting purposes.

7. Securities Lending: To earn additional income, the fund lends its securities to qualified institutional borrowers. Security loans are subject to termination by the fund at any time, and are required to be secured at all times by collateral in an amount at least equal to the market value of securities loaned. Daily market fluctuations could cause the value of loaned securities to be more or less than the value of the collateral received. When this occurs, the collateral is adjusted and settled before the opening of the market on the next business day. The fund further mitigates its counterparty risk by entering into securities lending transactions only with a diverse group of prequalified counterparties, monitoring their financial strength, and entering into master securities lending

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agreements with its counterparties. The master securities lending agreements provide that, in the event of a counterparty’s default (including bankruptcy), the fund may terminate any loans with that borrower, determine the net amount owed, and sell or retain the collateral up to the net amount owed to the fund; however, such actions may be subject to legal proceedings. While collateral mitigates counterparty risk, in the event of a default, the fund may experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned. The fund invests cash collateral received in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, and records a liability in the Statement of Net Assets for the return of the collateral, during the period the securities are on loan. Securities lending income represents fees charged to borrowers plus income earned on invested cash collateral, less expenses associated with the loan. During the term of the loan, the fund is entitled to all distributions made on or in respect of the loaned securities.

8. Credit Facility: The fund and certain other funds managed by The Vanguard Group (“Vanguard”) participate in a $3.1 billion committed credit facility provided by a syndicate of lenders pursuant to a credit agreement that may be renewed annually; each fund is individually liable for its borrowings, if any, under the credit facility. Borrowings may be utilized for temporary and emergency purposes, and are subject to the fund’s regulatory and contractual borrowing restrictions. The participating funds are charged administrative fees and an annual commitment fee of 0.10% of the undrawn amount of the facility; these fees are allocated to the funds based on a method approved by the fund’s board of trustees and included in Management and Administrative expenses on the fund’s Statement of Operations. Any borrowings under this facility bear interest at a rate based upon the higher of the one-month London Interbank Offered Rate, federal funds effective rate, or overnight bank funding rate plus an agreed-upon spread.

The fund had no borrowings outstanding at September 30, 2018, or at any time during the period then ended.

9. Other: Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date. 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.

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. The basic fee is subject to quarterly adjustments based on the fund’s performance relative to the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Float Adjusted Index for the preceding three years. For the year ended September 30, 2018, the investment advisory fee represented an effective annual basic rate of 0.23% of the fund’s average net assets before a decrease of $1,479,000 (0.17%) based on performance.

C. In accordance with the terms of a Funds’ Service Agreement (the “FSA”) between Vanguard and the fund, Vanguard furnishes to the fund corporate management, administrative, marketing, and distribution services at Vanguard’s cost of operations (as defined by the FSA). These costs of operations are allocated to the fund based on methods and guidelines approved by the board of trustees. Vanguard does not require reimbursement in the current period for certain costs of operations (such as deferred compensation/benefits and risk/insurance costs); the fund’s liability for these costs of operations is included in Payables to Vanguard on the Statement of Net Assets. All other costs of operations payable to Vanguard are generally settled twice a month.

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Upon the request of Vanguard, the fund may invest up to 0.40% of its net assets as capital in Vanguard. At September 30, 2018, the fund had contributed to Vanguard capital in the amount of $45,000, representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 0.02% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and employees, respectively, of Vanguard.

D. Various inputs may be used to determine the value of the fund’s investments. These inputs are summarized in three broad levels for financial statement purposes. The inputs or methodologies used to value securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.

Level 1Quoted prices in active markets for identical securities.

Level 2Other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.).

Level 3Significant unobservable inputs (including the fund’s own assumptions used to determine the fair value of investments). Any investments valued with significant unobservable inputs are noted on the Statement of Net Assets.

The following table summarizes the market value of the fund’s investments as of September 30, 2018, based on the inputs used to value them:

  Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
Investments ($000) ($000) ($000)
Common Stocks 818,323 49,037 1,169
Temporary Cash Investments 9,496 6,400
Forward Currency Contracts—Assets 150
Forward Currency Contracts—Liabilities (13)
Total 827,819 55,574 1,169

 

E. Permanent differences between book-basis and tax-basis components of net assets are reclassified among capital accounts in the financial statements to reflect their tax character. These reclassifications have no effect on net assets or net asset value per share. As of period end, the following permanent differences primarily attributable to the accounting for foreign currency transactions were reclassified to the following accounts:

  Amount
  ($000)
Paid-in Capital
Undistributed (Overdistributed) Net Investment Income (67)
Accumulated Net Realized Gains (Losses) 67

 

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Temporary differences between book-basis and tax-basis components of accumulated net earnings (losses) arise when certain items of income, gain, or loss are recognized in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes; these differences will reverse at some time in the future. The differences are primarily related to the tax deferral of losses on wash sales and forward currency contracts. As of period end, the tax-basis components of accumulated net earnings (losses) are detailed in the table as follows:

  Amount
  ($000)
Undistributed Ordinary Income 13,648
Undistributed Long-term Gains
Capital Loss Carryforwards (Non-expiring)* (15,830)
Net Unrealized Gains (Losses) 87,573

 

* The fund used capital loss carryforwards of $81,887,000 to offset taxable capital gains realized during the year ended
September 30, 2018, reducing the amount of capital gains that would otherwise be available to distribute to shareholders.

As of September 30, 2018, gross unrealized appreciation and depreciation for investments and derivatives based on cost for U.S. federal income tax purposes were as follows:

  Amount
  ($000)
Tax Cost 796,847
Gross Unrealized Appreciation 123,037
Gross Unrealized Depreciation (35,459)
Net Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) 87,578

 

F. During the year ended September 30, 2018, the fund purchased $416,951,000 of investment securities and sold $499,441,000 of investment securities, other than temporary cash investments.

G. Capital shares issued and redeemed were:    
  Year Ended September 30,
  2018 2017
  Shares Shares
  (000) (000)
Issued 4,316 6,622
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 1,227 1,209
Redeemed (11,915) (19,274)
Net Increase (Decrease) in Shares Outstanding (6,372) (11,443)

 

H. Management has determined that no events or transactions occurred subsequent to September 30, 2018, that would require recognition or disclosure in these financial statements.

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Report of Independent Registered
Public Accounting Firm

To the Board of Trustees of Vanguard Malvern Funds and Shareholders of Vanguard Capital Value Fund

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying statement of net assets of Vanguard Capital Value Fund (one of the funds constituting Vanguard Malvern Funds, referred to hereafter as the “Fund”) as of September 30, 2018, the related statement of operations for the year ended September 30, 2018, the statement of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period ended September 30, 2018, including the related notes, and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period ended September 30, 2018 (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Fund as of September 30, 2018, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period ended September 30, 2018 and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period ended September 30, 2018 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Fund’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Fund’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Fund in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of September 30, 2018 by correspondence with the custodians and brokers and by agreement to the underlying ownership records of the transfer agent; when replies were not received from brokers, we performed other auditing procedures. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
November 15, 2018

We have served as the auditor of one or more investment companies in The Vanguard Group of Funds since 1975.

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Special 2018 tax information (unaudited) for Vanguard Capital Value Fund

This information for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2018, is included pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

The fund distributed $17,678,000 of qualified dividend income to shareholders during the fiscal year.

For corporate shareholders, 85.3% of investment income (dividend income plus short-term gains, if any) qualifies for the dividends-received deduction.

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Your Fund’s After-Tax Returns

This table presents returns for your fund both before and after taxes. The after-tax returns are shown in two ways: (1) assuming that an investor owned the fund during the entire period and paid taxes on the fund’s distributions, and (2) assuming that an investor paid taxes on the fund’s distributions and sold all shares at the end of each period.

Calculations are based on the highest individual federal income tax and capital gains tax rates in effect at the times of the distributions and the hypothetical sales. State and local taxes were not considered. After-tax returns reflect any qualified dividend income, using actual prior-year figures and estimates for 2018. (In the example, returns after the sale of fund shares may be higher than those assuming no sale. This occurs when the sale would have produced a capital loss. The calculation assumes that the investor received a tax deduction for the loss.)

Please note that your actual after-tax returns will depend on your tax situation and may differ from those shown. Also note that if you own the fund in a tax-deferred account, such as an individual retirement account or a 401(k) plan, this information does not apply to you. Such accounts are not subject to current taxes.

Finally, keep in mind that a fund’s performance—whether before or after taxes—does not guarantee future results.

Average Annual Total Returns: Capital Value Fund      
Periods Ended September 30, 2018      
  One Five Ten
  Year Years Years
Returns Before Taxes 8.48% 6.34% 12.17%
Returns After Taxes on Distributions 7.99 3.94 10.78
Returns After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares 5.35 4.06 9.65

 

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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 accompanying table 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 any purchase, redemption, or account service fees described in the fund 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 fund’s 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 September 30, 2018      
  Beginning Ending Expenses
  Account Value Account Value Paid During
Capital Value Fund 3/31/2018 9/30/2018 Period
Based on Actual Fund Return $1,000.00 $1,064.04 $1.50
Based on Hypothetical 5% Yearly Return 1,000.00 1,023.61 1.47

 

The calculations are based on expenses incurred in the most recent six-month period. The fund’s annualized six-month expense ratio for that period is 0.29%. 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 (183/365).

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Glossary

30-Day SEC Yield. A fund’s 30-day SEC yield is derived using a formula specified by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Under the formula, data related to the fund’s security holdings in the previous 30 days are used to calculate the fund’s hypothetical net income for that period, which is then annualized and divided by the fund’s estimated average net assets over the calculation period. For the purposes of this calculation, a security’s income is based on its current market yield to maturity (for bonds), its actual income (for asset-backed securities), or its projected dividend yield (for stocks). Because the SEC yield represents hypothetical annualized income, it will differ—at times significantly—from the fund’s actual experience. As a result, the fund’s income distributions may be higher or lower than implied by the SEC yield.

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). 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.

Dividend Yield. Dividend income earned by stocks, expressed as a percentage of the aggregate market value (or of net asset value, for a fund). The yield is determined by dividing the amount of the annual dividends by the aggregate value (or net asset value) at the end of the period. For a fund, the dividend yield is based solely on stock holdings and does not include any income produced by other investments.

Earnings Growth Rate. The average annual rate of growth in earnings over the past five years for the stocks now in a fund.

Equity Exposure. A measure that reflects a fund’s investments in stocks and stock futures. Any holdings in short-term reserves are excluded.

Expense Ratio. A fund’s total annual operating expenses expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets. The expense ratio includes management and administrative expenses, but does not include the transaction costs of buying and selling portfolio securities.

Foreign Holdings. The percentage of a fund represented by securities or depositary receipts of companies based outside the United States.

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.

Median Market Cap. An indicator of the size of companies in which a fund invests; the midpoint of market capitalization (market price x shares outstanding) of a fund’s stocks, weighted by the proportion of the fund’s assets invested in each stock. Stocks representing half of the fund’s assets have market capitalizations above the median, and the rest are below it.

Price/Book Ratio. The share price of a stock divided by its net worth, or book value, per share.

For a fund, the weighted average price/book ratio of the stocks it holds.

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Price/Earnings Ratio. The ratio of a stock’s current price to its per-share earnings over the past year. For a fund, the weighted average P/E of the stocks it holds. P/E is an indicator of market expectations about corporate prospects; the higher the P/E, the greater the expectations for a company’s future growth.

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.

Return on Equity. The annual average rate of return generated by a company during the past five years for each dollar of shareholder’s equity (net income divided by shareholder’s equity). For a fund, the weighted average return on equity for the companies whose stocks it holds.

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

Turnover Rate. An indication of the fund’s trading activity. Funds with high turnover rates incur higher transaction costs and may be more likely to distribute capital gains (which may be taxable to investors). The turnover rate excludes in-kind transactions, which have minimal impact on costs.

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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. The independent board members have distinguished backgrounds in business, academia, and public service. Each of the trustees and executive officers oversees 211 Vanguard funds.

Information for each trustee and executive officer of the fund appears below. The mailing address of the trustees and officers is P.O. Box 876, Valley Forge, PA 19482. More information about the trustees is in the Statement of Additional Information, which can be obtained, without charge, by contacting Vanguard at 800-662-7447, or online at vanguard.com.

Interested Trustees1

F. William McNabb III

Born in 1957. Trustee since July 2009. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: chairman of the board (January 2010–present) of Vanguard and of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard, trustee (2009–present) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard, and director (2008–present) of Vanguard. Chief executive officer and president (2008–2017) of Vanguard and each of the investment companies served by Vanguard, managing director (1995–2008) of Vanguard, and director (1997–2018) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Director (2018–present) of UnitedHealth Group.

Mortimer J. Buckley

Born in 1969. Trustee since January 2018. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: chief executive officer (January 2018–present) of Vanguard; chief executive officer, president, and trustee (January 2018–present) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard; president and director (2017–present) of Vanguard; and president (February 2018–present) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Chief investment officer (2013–2017), managing director (2002–2017), head of the Retail Investor Group (2006–2012), and chief information officer (2001–2006) of Vanguard. Chairman of the board (2011–2017) of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Independent Trustees

Emerson U. Fullwood

Born in 1948. Trustee since January 2008. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: executive chief staff and marketing officer for North America and corporate vice president (retired 2008) of Xerox Corporation (document management products and services). Former president of the Worldwide Channels Group, Latin America, and Worldwide Customer Service and executive chief staff officer of Developing Markets of Xerox. Executive in residence and 2009–2010 Distinguished Minett Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Lead director of SPX FLOW, Inc. (multi-industry manufacturing). Director of the University of Rochester Medical Center, the Monroe Community College Foundation, the United Way of Rochester, North Carolina A&T University, and Roberts Wesleyan College. Trustee of the University of Rochester.

Amy Gutmann

Born in 1949. Trustee since June 2006. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: president (2004–present) of the University of Pennsylvania. Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences, and professor of communication, Annenberg School for Communication, with secondary faculty appointments in the Department of Philosophy, School of Arts and Sciences, and at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. Trustee of the National Constitution Center.

1 Mr. McNabb and Mr. Buckley are considered “interested persons,” as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, because they are officers of the Vanguard funds.


 

JoAnn Heffernan Heisen

Born in 1950. Trustee since July 1998. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: corporate vice president of Johnson & Johnson (pharmaceuticals/medical devices/consumer products) and member of its executive committee (1997–2008). Chief global diversity officer (retired 2008), vice president and chief information officer (1997–2006), controller (1995–1997), treasurer (1991–1995), and assistant treasurer (1989–1991) of Johnson & Johnson. Director of Skytop Lodge Corporation (hotels) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Member of the advisory board of the Institute for Women’s Leadership at Rutgers University.

F. Joseph Loughrey

Born in 1949. Trustee since October 2009. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: president and chief operating officer (retired 2009) and vice chairman of the board (2008–2009) of Cummins Inc. (industrial machinery). Chairman of the board of Hillenbrand, Inc. (specialized consumer services), Oxfam America, and the Lumina Foundation for Education. Director of the V Foundation for Cancer Research. Member of the advisory council for the College of Arts and Letters and chair of the advisory board to the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, both at the University of Notre Dame.

Mark Loughridge

Born in 1953. Trustee since March 2012. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: senior vice president and chief financial officer (retired 2013) of IBM (information technology services). Fiduciary member of IBM’s Retirement Plan Committee (2004–2013), senior vice president and general manager (2002–2004) of IBM Global Financing, vice president and controller (1998–2002) of IBM, and a variety of other prior management roles at IBM. Member of the Council on Chicago Booth.

Scott C. Malpass

Born in 1962. Trustee since March 2012. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: chief investment officer (1989–present) and vice president (1996–present) of the University of Notre Dame. Assistant professor of finance at the Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame, and member of the Notre Dame 403(b) Investment Committee. Chairman of the board of TIFF Advisory Services, Inc. Member of the board of Catholic Investment Services, Inc. (investment advisors), the board of advisors for Spruceview Capital Partners, and the board of superintendence of the Institute for the Works of Religion.

Deanna Mulligan

Born in 1963. Trustee since January 2018. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: president (2010–present) and chief executive officer (2011–present) of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. Chief operating officer (2010–2011) and executive vice president (2008–2010) of Individual Life and Disability of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. Member of the board of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, the American Council of Life Insurers, the Partnership for New York City (business leadership), and the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy. Trustee of the Economic Club of New York and the Bruce Museum (arts and science). Member of the Advisory Council for the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

André F. Perold

Born in 1952. Trustee since December 2004. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School (retired 2011). Chief investment officer and co-managing partner of HighVista Strategies LLC (private investment firm). Overseer of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

Sarah Bloom Raskin

Born in 1961. Trustee since January 2018. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: deputy secretary (2014–2017) of the United States Department of the Treasury. Governor (2010–2014) of the Federal Reserve Board. Commissioner (2007–2010) of financial regulation for the State of Maryland. Member of the board of directors (2012–2014) of Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. Director of i(x) Investments, LLC.

Peter F. Volanakis

Born in 1955. Trustee since July 2009. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: president and chief operating officer (retired 2010) of Corning Incorporated (communications equipment) and director of Corning Incorporated (2000–2010) and Dow Corning (2001–2010). Director (2012) of SPX Corporation (multi-industry manufacturing). Overseer of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College (2001–2013). Chairman of the board of trustees of Colby-Sawyer College. Member of the Board of Hypertherm Inc. (industrial cutting systems, software, and consumables).


 

Executive Officers

Glenn Booraem

Born in 1967. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard. Investment stewardship officer (2017–present), treasurer (2015–2017), controller (2010–2015), and assistant controller (2001–2010) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard.

Christine M. Buchanan

Born in 1970. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard and global head of Fund Administration at Vanguard. Treasurer (2017–present) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Partner (2005–2017) at KPMG LLP (audit, tax, and advisory services).

Brian Dvorak

Born in 1973. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard. Chief compliance officer (2017–present) of Vanguard and each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Assistant vice president (2017–present) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Vice president and director of Enterprise Risk Management (2011–2013) at Oppenheimer Funds, Inc.

Thomas J. Higgins

Born in 1957. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard. Chief financial officer (2008–present) and treasurer (1998–2008) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard.

Peter Mahoney

Born in 1974. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard. Controller (2015–present) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Head of International Fund Services (2008–2014) at Vanguard.

Anne E. Robinson

Born in 1970. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: general counsel (2016–present) of Vanguard. Secretary (2016–present) of Vanguard and of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Managing director (2016–present) of Vanguard. Director and senior vice president (2016–2018) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Managing director and general counsel of Global Cards and Consumer Services (2014–2016) at Citigroup. Counsel (2003–2014) at American Express.

Michael Rollings

Born in 1963. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: finance director (2017–present) and treasurer (2017) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Managing director (2016–present) of Vanguard. Chief financial officer (2016–present) of Vanguard. Director (2016–present) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Executive vice president and chief financial officer (2006–2016) of MassMutual Financial Group.

Vanguard Senior Management Team
 
Joseph Brennan Chris D. McIsaac
Mortimer J. Buckley James M. Norris
Gregory Davis Thomas M. Rampulla
John James Karin A. Risi
Martha G. King Anne E. Robinson
John T. Marcante Michael Rollings

 

Chairman Emeritus and Senior Advisor

John J. Brennan
Chairman, 1996–2009
Chief Executive Officer and President, 1996–2008

Founder

John C. Bogle
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, 1974–1996


 

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Annual Report | September 30, 2018

Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected

Securities Index Fund


 

Vanguard’s Principles for Investing Success

We want to give you the best chance of investment success. These principles, grounded in Vanguard’s research and experience, can put you on the right path.

Goals. Create clear, appropriate investment goals.

Balance. Develop a suitable asset allocation using broadly diversified funds. Cost. Minimize cost.

Discipline. Maintain perspective and long-term discipline.

A single theme unites these principles: Focus on the things you can control.

We believe there is no wiser course for any investor.

Contents  
Your Fund’s Performance at a Glance. 1
CEO’s Perspective. 3
Fund Profile. 5
Performance Summary. 6
Financial Statements. 9
About Your Fund’s Expenses. 25
Glossary. 27

 

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 front of this report. Of course, the risks of investing in your fund are spelled out in the prospectus.

See the Glossary for definitions of investment terms used in this report.


 

Your Fund’s Performance at a Glance

• For the 12 months ended September 30, 2018, Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund returned 0.91% for Investor Shares, tracking its benchmark (+1.01%) and ahead of the average return of its peer funds (+0.33%). The 30-day SEC yield for Investor Shares began the period at –0.20% and ended at 0.79%.

• Prices of regular U.S. Treasury securities fell during the period as economic prospects brightened and interest rates rose. Treasury inflation-protected securities (TIPS) outperformed regular Treasuries as inflation expectations increased, a development that typically favors TIPS over nominal Treasuries.

• A measure of expected inflation over the next five years (the gap between nominal and TIPS yields) widened from 1.82% to 2.04%.

• Since inception, the fund’s average annual return has been in line with that of its benchmark and has exceeded that of its peers.

Total Returns: Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2018      
  30-Day SEC Income Capital Total
  Yield Returns Returns Returns
Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund      
Investor Shares 0.79% 3.09% -2.18% 0.91%
ETF Shares 0.85      
Market Price       0.97
Net Asset Value       1.01
Admiral™ Shares 0.85 3.18 -2.18 1.00
Institutional Shares 0.87 3.20 -2.18 1.02
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Treasury Inflation-Protected        
Securities (TIPS) 0–5 Year Index       1.01
Inflation-Protected Bond Funds Average       0.33

 

Inflation-Protected Bond Funds Average: Derived from data provided by Lipper, a Thomson Reuters Company.

Admiral Shares carry lower expenses and are available to investors who meet certain account-balance requirements. Institutional Shares are available to certain institutional investors who meet specific administrative, service, and account-size criteria. The Vanguard ETF® Shares shown are traded on the Nasdaq exchange and are available only through brokers. The table provides ETF returns based on both the Nasdaq market price and the net asset value for a share. U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,879,964; 7,337,138; 7,720,749; 7,925,573; 8,090,646; and 8,417,623.

For the ETF Shares, the market price is determined by the midpoint of the bid-offer spread as of the closing time of the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4 p.m., Eastern time). The net asset value is also determined as of the NYSE closing time. For more information about how the ETF Shares' market prices have compared with their net asset value, visit vanguard.com, select your ETF, and then select the Price and Performance tab. The ETF premium/discount analysis there shows the percentages of days on which the ETF Shares' market price was above or below the NAV.

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Total Returns: Inception Through September 30, 2018  
  Average
  Annual Return
Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund Investor Shares (Returns since inception:  
10/16/2012) 0.23%
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) 0–5 Year Index 0.32
Inflation-Protected Bond Funds Average -0.40
Inflation-Protected Bond Funds Average: Derived from data provided by Lipper, a Thomson Reuters Company.  

 

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 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.

Expense Ratios          
Your Fund Compared With Its Peer Group          
  Investor ETF Admiral  Institutional Peer Group
  Shares Shares Shares Shares Average
Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index          
Fund 0.15% 0.06% 0.06% 0.04% 0.71%

 

The fund expense ratios shown are from the prospectus dated January 26, 2018, and represent estimated costs for the current fiscal year. For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2018, the expense ratios were 0.14% for Investor Shares, 0.06% for ETF Shares, 0.06% for Admiral Shares, and 0.04% for Institutional Shares. The peer-group expense ratio is derived from data provided by Lipper, a Thomson Reuters Company, and captures information through year-end 2017.

Peer group: Inflation-Protected Bond Funds.

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CEO’s Perspective


Tim Buckley
President and Chief Executive Officer

Dear Shareholder,

Over the years, I’ve found that prudent investors exhibit a common trait: discipline. No matter how the markets move or what new investing fad hits the headlines, those who stay focused on their goals and tune out the noise are set up for long-term success.

The prime gateway to investing is saving, and you don’t usually become a saver without a healthy dose of discipline. Savers make the decision to sock away part of their income, which means spending less and delaying gratification, no matter how difficult that may be.

Of course, disciplined investing extends beyond diligent saving. The financial markets, in the short term especially, are unpredictable; I have yet to meet the investor who can time them perfectly. It takes discipline to resist the urge to go all-in when markets are frothy or to retreat when things look bleak.

Staying put with your investments is one strategy for handling volatility. Another, rebalancing, requires even more discipline because it means steering your money away from strong performers and toward poorer performers.

Patience—a form of discipline—is also the friend of long-term investors. Higher returns are the potential reward for weathering the market’s turbulence and uncertainty.

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We have been enjoying one of the longest bull markets in history, but it won’t continue forever. Prepare yourself now for how you will react when volatility comes back. Don’t panic. Don’t chase returns or look for answers outside the asset classes you trust. And be sure to rebalance periodically, even when there’s turmoil.

Whether you’re a master of self-control, get a boost from technology, or work with a professional advisor, know that discipline

is necessary to get the most out of your investment portfolio. And know that Vanguard is with you for the entire ride.

Thank you for your continued loyalty.


Mortimer J. Buckley
President and Chief Executive Officer
October 18, 2018

Market Barometer      
    Average Annual Total Returns
  Periods Ended September 30, 2018
  One Year Three Years Five Years
Stocks      
Russell 1000 Index (Large-caps) 17.76% 17.07% 13.67%
Russell 2000 Index (Small-caps) 15.24 17.12 11.07
Russell 3000 Index (Broad U.S. market) 17.58 17.07 13.46
FTSE All-World ex US Index (International) 2.13 10.18 4.51
 
Bonds      
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index      
(Broad taxable market) -1.22% 1.31% 2.16%
Bloomberg Barclays Municipal Bond Index      
(Broad tax-exempt market) 0.35 2.24 3.54
FTSE Three-Month U. S. Treasury Bill Index 1.57 0.80 0.48
 
CPI      
Consumer Price Index 2.28% 1.99% 1.52%

 

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Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund

Fund Profile
As of September 30, 2018

Share-Class Characteristics        
  Investor   Admiral Institutional
  Shares ETF Shares Shares Shares
Ticker Symbol VTIPX VTIP VTAPX VTSPX
Expense Ratio1 0.15% 0.06% 0.06% 0.04%
30-Day SEC Yield2 0.79% 0.85% 0.85% 0.87%

 

Financial Attributes    
 
    Bloomberg  
    Barclays Bloomberg
    U.S. TIPS Barclays
    0–5 Year Aggregate
  Fund Index Bond Index
 
Number of Bonds 15 15 10,112
 
Yield to Maturity      
(before expenses) 2.7% 2.7% 3.5%
 
Average Coupon 0.5% 0.5% 3.2%
 
Average Duration 2.7 years 2.7 years 6.0 years
 
Average Effective      
Maturity 2.7 years 2.7 years 8.4 years
 
Short-Term      
Reserves 0.1%

 

Sector Diversification (% of portfolio)  
Treasury/Agency 100.0%

 

Volatility Measures    
  Bloomberg Bloomberg
  Barclays U.S. Barclays
  TIPS 0–5 Aggregate
  Year Index Bond Index
R-Squared 0.99 0.45
Beta 1.03 0.32

 

These measures show the degree and timing of the fund’s fluctuations compared with the indexes over 36 months.

Distribution by Credit Quality (% of portfolio)
U.S. Government 100.0%

 

Credit-quality ratings are obtained from Barclays and are from Moody's, Fitch, and S&P. When ratings from all three agencies are used, the median rating is shown. When ratings from two of the agencies are used, the lower rating for each issue is shown. "Not Rated" is used to classify securities for which a rating is not available. For more information about these ratings, see the Glossary entry for Credit Quality.

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

Distribution by Effective Maturity  
(% of portfolio)  
Under 1 Year 15.3%
1 - 3 Years 40.7
3 - 5 Years 44.0

 

Investment Focus

1 The expense ratios shown are from the prospectus dated January 26, 2018, and represent estimated costs for the current fiscal year. For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2018, the expense ratios were 0.14% for Investor Shares, 0.06% for ETF Shares, 0.06% for Admiral Shares, and 0.04% for Institutional Shares.

2 Yields of inflation-protected securities tend to be lower than those of nominal bonds, because the former do not incorporate market expectations about inflation. The principal amounts—and thus the interest payments—of inflation-protected securities are adjusted over time to reflect inflation.

 

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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 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: October 16, 2012, Through September 30, 2018
Initial Investment of $10,000


  Average Annual Total Returns  
  Periods Ended September 30, 2018  
 
      Since Final Value
  One Five Inception of a $10,000
  Year Years (10/16/2012) Investment
Short-Term Inflation-Protected        
Securities Index Fund Investor Shares 0.91% 0.45% 0.23% $10,136
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Treasury        
         
Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) 0–5        
Year Index 1.01 0.63 0.32 10,192
 
Inflation-Protected Bond Funds Average 0.33 0.80 -0.40 9,766
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate        
Bond Index -1.22 2.16 1.52 10,939

 

Inflation-Protected Bond Funds Average: Derived from data provided by Lipper, a Thomson Reuters Company.

"Since Inception" performance is calculated from the Investor Shares’ inception date for both the fund and its comparative standards.

      Since Final Value
  One Five Inception of a $10,000
  Year Years (10/12/2012) Investment
Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities        
Index Fund ETF Shares Net Asset Value 1.01% 0.55% 0.32% $10,190
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Treasury        
Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) 0–5 Year        
Index 1.01 0.63 0.32 10,191
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond        
Index -1.22 2.16 1.49 10,924

 

"Since Inception" performance is calculated from the ETF Shares’ inception date for both the fund and its comparative standards.

See Financial Highlights for dividend and capital gains information.

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    Average Annual Total Returns  
  Periods Ended September 30, 2018  
      Since Final Value
  One Five Inception of a $10,000
  Year Years (10/16/2012) Investment
Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities        
Index Fund Admiral Shares 1.00% 0.54% 0.32% $10,190
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Treasury        
Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) 0–5 Year        
Index 1.01 0.63 0.32 10,192
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond        
Index -1.22 2.16 1.52 10,939

 

"Since Inception" performance is calculated from the Admiral Shares’ inception date for both the fund and its comparative standards.

      Since Final Value
  One Five Inception of a $5,000,000
  Year Years (10/17/2012) Investment
Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities        
Index Fund Institutional Shares 1.02% 0.58% 0.35% $5,106,110
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Treasury        
Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) 0–5 Year        
Index 1.01 0.63 0.33 5,099,649
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond        
Index -1.22 2.16 1.56 5,482,127

 

"Since Inception" performance is calculated from the Institutional Shares’ inception date for both the fund and its comparative standards.

Cumulative Returns of ETF Shares: October 12, 2012, Through September 30, 2018  
 
      Since
  One Five Inception
  Year Years (10/12/2012)
Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund      
ETF Shares Market Price 0.97% 2.68% 1.95%
Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund      
ETF Shares Net Asset Value 1.01 2.77 1.90
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Treasury      
Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) 0–5 Year Index 1.01 3.17 1.91

 

"Since Inception" performance is calculated from the ETF Shares’ inception date for both the fund and its comparative standards.

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Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): October 16, 2012, Through September 30, 2018  
        Bloomberg
        Barclays
        U.S. TIPS
        0–5 Year
      Investor Shares Index
Fiscal Year Income Returns Capital Returns Total Returns Total Returns
2013 0.09% -1.00% -0.91% -1.20%
2014 0.02 -0.04 -0.02 0.21
2015 0.70 -2.06 -1.36 -1.19
2016 0.43 2.05 2.48 2.62
2017 0.55 -0.24 0.31 0.51
2018 3.09 -2.18 0.91 1.01

 

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Financial Statements

Statement of Net Assets
As of September 30, 2018

The fund reports a complete list of its holdings in regulatory filings 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 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 (99.8%)      
U. S. Government Securities (99.8%)        
United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 2.125% 1/15/19 611,359 719,383
United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 0.125% 4/15/19 2,368,971 2,532,265
United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 1.875% 7/15/19 691,566 826,300
United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 1.375% 1/15/20 854,400 1,002,692
United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 0.125% 4/15/20 2,373,265 2,521,202
United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 1.250% 7/15/20 1,316,264 1,538,578
United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 1.125% 1/15/21 1,524,576 1,766,478
United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 0.125% 4/15/21 2,086,324 2,173,312
United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 0.625% 7/15/21 1,661,078 1,852,344
United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 0.125% 1/15/22 1,840,130 1,997,945
United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 0.125% 4/15/22 2,082,192 2,096,612
United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 0.125% 7/15/22 1,928,722 2,062,399
United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 0.125% 1/15/23 1,944,537 2,055,325
United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 0.625% 4/15/23 1,471,333 1,473,843
United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 0.375% 7/15/23 1,942,808 2,062,740
Total U.S. Government and Agency Obligations (Cost $27,125,074)   26,681,418
 
      Shares  
Temporary Cash Investment (0.1%)        
Money Market Fund (0.1%)        
1 Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund (Cost $16,415) 2.209%   164,149 16,415
Total Investments (99.9%) (Cost $27,141,489)       26,697,833

 

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  Amount
  ($000)
Other Assets and Liabilities (0.1%)  
Other Assets  
Investment in Vanguard 1,342
Receivables for Accrued Income 33,204
Receivables for Capital Shares Issued 157,442
Total Other Assets 191,988
Liabilities  
Payables for Investment Securities Purchased (150,428)
Payables for Capital Shares Redeemed (12,415)
Payables to Vanguard (3,753)
Other Liabilities (24)
Total Liabilities (166,620)
Net Assets (100%) 26,723,201

 

At September 30, 2018, net assets consisted of:  
  Amount
  ($000)
Paid-in Capital 27,246,405
Undistributed Net Investment Income 93,720
Accumulated Net Realized Losses (173,268)
Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) (443,656)
Net Assets 26,723,201
 
Investor Shares—Net Assets  
Applicable to 275,641,114 outstanding $.001 par value shares of  
beneficial interest (unlimited authorization) 6,678,915
Net Asset Value Per Share—Investor Shares $24.23
 
ETF Shares—Net Assets  
Applicable to 112,792,013 outstanding $.001 par value shares of  
beneficial interest (unlimited authorization) 5,452,562
Net Asset Value Per Share—ETF Shares $48.34
 
Admiral Shares—Net Assets  
Applicable to 269,015,939 outstanding $.001 par value shares of  
beneficial interest (unlimited authorization) 6,524,944
Net Asset Value Per Share—Admiral Shares $24.25

 

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  Amount
  ($000)
Institutional Shares—Net Assets  
Applicable to 332,379,281 outstanding $.001 par value shares of  
beneficial interest (unlimited authorization) 8,066,780
Net Asset Value Per Share—Institutional Shares $24.27

 

See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements.
1 Affiliated money market fund available only to Vanguard funds and certain trusts and accounts managed by Vanguard. Rate shown
is the 7-day yield.

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

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Statement of Operations

  Year Ended
  September 30, 2018
  ($000)
Investment Income  
Income  
Interest1 702,385
Total Income 702,385
Expenses  
The Vanguard Group—Note B  
Investment Advisory Services 764
Management and Administrative—Investor Shares 7,543
Management and Administrative—ETF Shares 2,194
Management and Administrative—Admiral Shares 2,677
Management and Administrative—Institutional Shares 2,514
Marketing and Distribution—Investor Shares 1,011
Marketing and Distribution—ETF Shares 281
Marketing and Distribution—Admiral Shares 456
Marketing and Distribution—Institutional Shares 221
Custodian Fees 130
Auditing Fees 64
Shareholders’ Reports and Proxy—Investor Shares 71
Shareholders’ Reports and Proxy—ETF Shares 222
Shareholders’ Reports and Proxy—Admiral Shares 111
Shareholders’ Reports and Proxy—Institutional Shares 7
Trustees’ Fees and Expenses 15
Total Expenses 18,281
Net Investment Income 684,104
Realized Net Gain (Loss)  
Investment Securities Sold1,2 (41,881)
Futures Contracts 1,884
Realized Net Gain (Loss) (39,997)
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) of Investment Securities1 (398,504)
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations 245,603

 

1 Interest income, realized net gain (loss), and change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) from an affiliated company of the fund were $3,306,000, $186,000, and $1,000, respectively. Purchases and sales are for temporary cash investment purposes.

2 Includes $29,083,000 of net gains resulting from in-kind redemptions; such gains are not taxable to the fund.

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

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Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  Year Ended September 30,
  2018 2017
  ($000) ($000)
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets    
Operations    
Net Investment Income 684,104 254,685
Realized Net Gain (Loss) (39,997) (7,041)
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) (398,504) (168,286)
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations 245,603 79,358
Distributions    
Net Investment Income    
Investor Shares (196,531) (27,992)
ETF Shares (158,959) (21,465)
Admiral Shares (186,081) (26,937)
Institutional Shares (242,955) (44,908)
Realized Capital Gain    
Investor Shares
ETF Shares
Admiral Shares
Institutional Shares
Total Distributions (784,526) (121,302)
Capital Share Transactions    
Investor Shares 912,377 826,514
ETF Shares 1,681,666 1,409,404
Admiral Shares 1,573,157 1,712,740
Institutional Shares 1,245,525 1,503,409
Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions 5,412,725 5,452,067
Total Increase (Decrease) 4,873,802 5,410,123
Net Assets    
Beginning of Period 21,849,399 16,439,276
End of Period1 26,723,201 21,849,399

 

1 Net Assets—End of Period includes undistributed (overdistributed) net investment income of $93,720,000 and $194,124,000.

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

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Financial Highlights

Investor Shares          
 
For a Share Outstanding     Year Ended September 30,
Throughout Each Period 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period $24.77 $24.83 $24.23 $24.74 $24.75
Investment Operations          
Net Investment Income . 6691 .3121 .0801 (.131) .183
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)          
on Investments (. 448) (. 237) . 520 (. 206) (.189)
Total from Investment Operations . 221 . 075 . 600 (. 337) (. 006)
Distributions          
Dividends from Net Investment Income (.761) (.135) (.173) (. 004)
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains
Total Distributions (.761) (.135) (.173) (. 004)
Net Asset Value, End of Period $24.23 $24.77 $24.83 $24.23 $24.74
 
Total Return2 0.91% 0.31% 2.48% -1.36% -0.02%
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data          
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) $6,679 $5,904 $5,088 $4,532 $4,517
Ratio of Total Expenses to Average Net Assets 0.14% 0.15% 0.16% 0.17% 0.20%
Ratio of Net Investment Income to          
Average Net Assets 2.73% 1.26% 0.42% (0.53%) 0.88%
Portfolio Turnover Rate 3 25% 27% 28% 26% 18%

 

1 Calculated based on average shares outstanding.

2 Total returns do not include account service fees that may have applied in the periods shown. Fund prospectuses provide information about any applicable account service fees.

3 Excludes the value of portfolio securities received or delivered as a result of in-kind purchases or redemptions of the fund’s capital shares, including ETF Creation Units.

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

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Financial Highlights

ETF Shares          
 
For a Share Outstanding     Year Ended September 30,
Throughout Each Period 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period $49.41 $49.59 $48.36 $49.38 $49.36
Investment Operations          
Net Investment Income 1.3581 .6711 .2511 (. 210) . 414
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)          
on Investments (. 869) (. 477) . 979 (. 415) (. 371)
Total from Investment Operations .489 .194 1.230 (.625) .043
Distributions          
Dividends from Net Investment Income (1.559) (.374) (.395) (.023)
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains
Total Distributions (1.559) (.374) (.395) (.023)
Net Asset Value, End of Period $48.34 $49.41 $49.59 $48.36 $49.38
 
Total Return 1.01% 0.40% 2.54% -1.26% 0.09%
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data          
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) $5,453 $3,881 $2,478 $1,838 $1,336
Ratio of Total Expenses to Average Net Assets 0.06% 0.06% 0.07% 0.08% 0.10%
Ratio of Net Investment Income to          
Average Net Assets 2.81% 1.35% 0.51% (0.44%) 0.98%
Portfolio Turnover Rate2 25% 27% 28% 26% 18%

 

1 Calculated based on average shares outstanding.

2 Excludes the value of portfolio securities received or delivered as a result of in-kind purchases or redemptions of the fund’s capital shares, including ETF Creation Units.

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

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Financial Highlights

Admiral Shares          
 
For a Share Outstanding     Year Ended September 30,
Throughout Each Period 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period $24.79 $24.88 $24.27 $24.77 $24.77
Investment Operations          
Net Investment Income . 6921 .3381 .1491 (.105) . 209
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)          
on Investments (. 450) (. 241) . 461 (.197) (.195)
Total from Investment Operations . 242 .097 .610 (. 302) .014
Distributions          
Dividends from Net Investment Income (.782) (.187) (.198) (. 014)
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains
Total Distributions (.782) (.187) (.198) (. 014)
Net Asset Value, End of Period $24.25 $24.79 $24.88 $24.27 $24.77
 
Total Return2 1.00% 0.40% 2.51% -1.22% 0.06%
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data          
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) $6,525 $5,078 $3,373 $2,126 $1,518
Ratio of Total Expenses to Average Net Assets 0.06% 0.06% 0.07% 0.08% 0.10%
Ratio of Net Investment Income to          
Average Net Assets 2.81% 1.35% 0.51% (0.44%) 0.98%
Portfolio Turnover Rate 3 25% 27% 28% 26% 18%

 

1 Calculated based on average shares outstanding.

2 Total returns do not include account service fees that may have applied in the periods shown. Fund prospectuses provide information about any applicable account service fees.

3 Excludes the value of portfolio securities received or delivered as a result of in-kind purchases or redemptions of the fund’s capital shares, including ETF Creation Units.

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

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Financial Highlights

Institutional Shares          
 
For a Share Outstanding     Year Ended September 30,
Throughout Each Period 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period $24.81 $24.90 $24.28 $24.78 $24.77
Investment Operations          
Net Investment Income . 6961 . 3331 .1391 (. 099) . 215
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)          
on Investments (. 449) (. 225) . 481 (.196) (.189)
Total from Investment Operations . 247 .108 .620 (. 295) .026
Distributions          
Dividends from Net Investment Income (.787) (.198) (. 205) (. 016)
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains
Total Distributions (.787) (.198) (. 205) (. 016)
Net Asset Value, End of Period $24.27 $24.81 $24.90 $24.28 $24.78
 
Total Return 1.02% 0.44% 2.55% -1.19% 0.11%
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data          
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) $8,067 $6,986 $5,500 $3,837 $2,706
Ratio of Total Expenses to Average Net Assets 0.04% 0.04% 0.04% 0.05% 0.07%
Ratio of Net Investment Income to          
Average Net Assets 2.83% 1.37% 0.54% (0.41%) 1.01%
Portfolio Turnover Rate2 25% 27% 28% 26% 18%

 

1 Calculated based on average shares outstanding.

2 Excludes the value of portfolio securities received or delivered as a result of in-kind purchases or redemptions of the fund’s capital shares, including ETF Creation Units.

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

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Notes to Financial Statements

Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The fund offers four classes of shares: Investor Shares, ETF Shares, Admiral Shares, and Institutional Shares. Investor Shares are available to any investor who meets the fund’s minimum purchase requirements. ETF Shares are listed for trading on Nasdaq; they can be purchased and sold through a broker. Admiral Shares and Institutional Shares are designed for investors who meet certain administrative, service, and account-size criteria.

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

1. Security Valuation: Securities are valued as of the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4 p.m., Eastern time) on the valuation date. Bonds and temporary cash investments 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. Securities for which market quotations are not readily available, or whose values have been 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. Counterparty risk involving futures is mitigated because a regulated clearing-house is the counterparty instead of the clearing broker. To further mitigate counterparty risk, the fund trades futures contracts on an exchange, monitors the financial strength of its clearing brokers and clearinghouse, and has entered into clearing agreements with its clearing brokers. The clearing-house imposes initial margin requirements to secure the fund’s performance and requires daily settlement of variation margin representing changes in the market value of each contract. Any assets pledged as initial margin for open contracts are noted in the Statement of Net Assets.

Futures contracts are valued at their quoted daily settlement prices. The notional 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).

During the year ended September 30, 2018, the fund’s average investments in long and short futures contracts each represented less than 1% of net assets, respectively, based on the average of the notional amounts at each quarter-end during the period. The fund had no open futures contracts at September 30, 2018.

3. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken for all open federal income tax years (September 30, 2015–2018), and has concluded that no provision for federal income tax is required in the fund’s financial statements.

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4. Distributions: Distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Distributions are determined on a tax basis and may differ from net investment income and realized capital gains for financial reporting purposes.

5. Credit Facility: The fund and certain other funds managed by The Vanguard Group (“Vanguard”) participate in a $3.1 billion committed credit facility provided by a syndicate of lenders pursuant to a credit agreement that may be renewed annually; each fund is individually liable for its borrowings, if any, under the credit facility. Borrowings may be utilized for temporary and emergency purposes, and are subject to the fund’s regulatory and contractual borrowing restrictions. The participating funds are charged administrative fees and an annual commitment fee of 0.10% of the undrawn amount of the facility; these fees are allocated to the funds based on a method approved by the fund’s board of trustees and included in Management and Administrative expenses on the fund’s Statement of Operations. Any borrowings under this facility bear interest at a rate based upon the higher of the one-month London Interbank Offered Rate, federal funds effective rate, or overnight bank funding rate plus an agreed-upon spread.

The fund had no borrowings outstanding at September 30, 2018, or at any time during the period then ended.

6. Other: 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. Inflation adjustments to the face amount of inflation-indexed securities are included in interest income. 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), shareholder reporting, and the proxy. 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. In accordance with the terms of a Funds’ Service Agreement (the “FSA”) between Vanguard and the fund, Vanguard furnishes to the fund investment advisory, corporate management, administrative, marketing, and distribution services at Vanguard’s cost of operations (as defined by the FSA). These costs of operations are allocated to the fund based on methods and guidelines approved by the board of trustees. Vanguard does not require reimbursement in the current period for certain costs of operations (such as deferred compensation/benefits and risk/insurance costs); the fund’s liability for these costs of operations is included in Payables to Vanguard on the Statement of Net Assets. All other costs of operations payable to Vanguard are generally settled twice a month.

Upon the request of Vanguard, the fund may invest up to 0.40% of its net assets as capital in Vanguard. At September 30, 2018, the fund had contributed to Vanguard capital in the amount of $1,342,000, representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 0.54% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and employees, respectively, of Vanguard.

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C. Various inputs may be used to determine the value of the fund’s investments. These inputs are summarized in three broad levels for financial statement purposes. The inputs or methodologies used to value securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.

Level 1Quoted prices in active markets for identical securities.

Level 2Other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.).

Level 3Significant unobservable inputs (including the fund’s own assumptions used to determine the fair value of investments). Any investments valued with significant unobservable inputs are noted on the Statement of Net Assets.

The following table summarizes the market value of the fund’s investments as of September 30, 2018, based on the inputs used to value them:

  Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
Investments ($000) ($000) ($000)
U.S. Government and Agency Obligations 26,681,418
Temporary Cash Investments 16,415
Total 16,415 26,681,418

 

D. Permanent differences between book-basis and tax-basis components of net assets are reclassified among capital accounts in the financial statements to reflect their tax character. These reclassifications have no effect on net assets or net asset value per share. As of period end, the following permanent differences primarily attributable to the accounting for in-kind redemptions and inflation adjustments were reclassified to the following accounts:

  Amount
  ($000)
Paid-in Capital 29,067
Undistributed (Overdistributed) Net Investment Income 18
Accumulated Net Realized Gains (Losses) (29,085)

 

Temporary differences between book-basis and tax-basis components of accumulated net earnings (losses) arise when certain items of income, gain, or loss are recognized in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes; these differences will reverse at some time in the future. The differences are primarily related to the tax deferral of losses on wash sales. As of period end, the tax-basis components of accumulated net earnings (losses) are detailed in the table as follows:

  Amount
  ($000)
Undistributed Ordinary Income 96,606
Undistributed Long-Term Gains
Capital Loss Carryforwards (Non-expiring) (173,251)
Net Unrealized Gains (Losses) (443,656)

 

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As of September 30, 2018, gross unrealized appreciation and depreciation for investments and derivatives based on cost for U.S. federal income tax purposes were as follows:

  Amount
  ($000)
Tax Cost 27,141,489
Gross Unrealized Appreciation
Gross Unrealized Depreciation (443,656)
Net Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) (443,656)

 

E. During the year ended September 30, 2018, the fund purchased $10,983,028,000 of investment securities and sold $6,371,883,000 of investment securities, other than temporary cash investments. Purchases and sales include $1,641,452,000 and $336,914,000, respectively, in connection with in-kind purchases and redemptions of the fund’s capital shares.

F. Capital share transactions for each class of shares were:      
      Year Ended September 30,
    2018   2017
  Amount Shares Amount Shares
  ($000) (000) ($000) (000)
Investor Shares        
Issued 938,053 38,252 1,069,872 43,271
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 196,139 8,067 27,936 1,136
Redeemed (221,815) (9,082) (271,294) (10,974)
Net Increase (Decrease)—Investor Shares 912,377 37,237 826,514 33,433
ETF Shares        
Issued 2,079,941 42,425 1,524,321 30,900
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions
Redeemed (398,275) (8,175) (114,917) (2,325)
Net Increase (Decrease)—ETF Shares 1,681,666 34,250 1,409,404 28,575
Admiral Shares        
Issued 2,310,017 94,161 2,400,906 97,067
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 170,230 6,995 25,001 1,016
Redeemed (907,090) (36,988) (713,167) (28,817)
Net Increase (Decrease)—Admiral Shares 1,573,157 64,168 1,712,740 69,266
Institutional Shares        
Issued 1,960,417 79,837 2,636,078 106,487
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 238,639 9,799 44,322 1,801
Redeemed (953,531) (38,884) (1,176,991) (47,524)
Net Increase (Decrease)—Institutional Shares 1,245,525 50,752 1,503,409 60,764

 

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At September 30, 2018, one shareholder was the record or beneficial owner of 36% of the fund’s net assets. If the shareholder were to redeem its investment in the fund, the redemption might result in an increase in the fund’s expense ratio, cause the fund to incur higher transaction costs, or lead to the realization of taxable capital gains.

G. Management has determined that no events or transactions occurred subsequent to September 30, 2018, that would require recognition or disclosure in these financial statements.

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Report of Independent Registered
Public Accounting Firm

To the Board of Trustees of Vanguard Malvern Funds and Shareholders of Vanguard Short-Term
Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying statement of net assets of Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund (one of the funds constituting Vanguard Malvern Funds, referred to hereafter as the “Fund”) as of September 30, 2018, the related statement of operations for the year ended September 30, 2018, the statement of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period ended September 30, 2018, including the related notes, and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period ended September 30, 2018 (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Fund as of September 30, 2018, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period ended September 30, 2018 and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period ended September 30, 2018 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Fund’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Fund’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Fund in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of September 30, 2018 by correspondence with the custodians and brokers and by agreement to the underlying ownership records of the transfer agent; when replies were not received from brokers, we performed other auditing procedures. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
November 15, 2018

We have served as the auditor of one or more investment companies in The Vanguard Group of Funds since 1975.

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Special 2018 tax information (unaudited) for Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund

This information for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2018, is included pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

For nonresident alien shareholders, 99.9% 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 accompanying table 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 any purchase, redemption, or account service fees described in the fund 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 fund’s 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 September 30, 2018      
  Beginning Ending Expenses
Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Account Value Account Value Paid During
Fund 3/31/2018 9/30/2018 Period
Based on Actual Fund Return      
Investor Shares $1,000.00 $1,005.57 $0.65
ETF Shares 1,000.00 1,005.92 0.30
Admiral Shares 1,000.00 1,005.76 0.30
Institutional Shares 1,000.00 1,006.31 0.20
Based on Hypothetical 5% Yearly Return      
Investor Shares $1,000.00 $1,024.42 $0.66
ETF Shares 1,000.00 1,024.77 0.30
Admiral Shares 1,000.00 1,024.77 0.30
Institutional Shares 1,000.00 1,024.87 0.20

 

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 0.13% for Investor Shares, 0.06% for ETF Shares, 0.06% for Admiral Shares, and 0.04% for Institutional 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 (183/365).

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Glossary

30-Day SEC Yield. A fund’s 30-day SEC yield is derived using a formula specified by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Under the formula, data related to the fund’s security holdings in the previous 30 days are used to calculate the fund’s hypothetical net income for that period, which is then annualized and divided by the fund’s estimated average net assets over the calculation period. For the purposes of this calculation, a security’s income is based on its current market yield to maturity (for bonds), its actual income (for asset-backed securities), or its projected dividend yield (for stocks). Because the SEC yield represents hypothetical annualized income, it will differ—at times significantly—from the fund’s actual experience. As a result, the fund’s income distributions may be higher or lower than implied by the SEC yield.

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 fund’s bonds will fluctuate in response to a change in “real” interest rates—meaning rates without inflation expectations built in. Real interest rates are reflected in market yields for inflation-adjusted securities. To see how the fund’s bond values could change, multiply the average duration by the change in real rates. For example, if the average duration were five years, then the value of the fund’s bonds would decline by about 5% if real interest rates rose by 1 percentage point. Conversely, if real rates fell by a percentage point, the value of the bonds would rise about 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.

Credit Quality. Credit-quality ratings are measured on a scale that generally ranges from AAA (highest) to D (lowest). U.S. Treasury, U.S. Agency, and U.S. Agency mortgage-backed securities appear under “U.S. Government.” Credit-quality ratings are obtained from Barclays and are from Moody’s, Fitch, and S&P. When ratings from all three agencies are used, the median rating is shown. When ratings from two of the agencies are used, the lower rating for each issue is shown. “Not Rated” is used to classify securities for which a rating is not available.

Expense Ratio. A fund’s total annual operating expenses expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets. The expense ratio includes management and administrative expenses, but does not include the transaction costs of buying and selling portfolio securities.

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.

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

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Yield to Maturity. This term generally refers to the rate of return an investor would receive if the fixed income securities held by a fund were held to their maturity dates. For the Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund, the calculation is modified by adding in the inflation adjustment made over the past 12 months. This change results in a figure more directly comparable to the yield-to-maturity figures for other types of bond funds. (An unmodified yield to maturity is used in calculating the fund’s 30-Day SEC Yield.)

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Neither Barclays Bank Plc, Barclays Capital Inc., or any affiliate (collectively Barclays) or Bloomberg is the issuer or producer of the Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund and neither Bloomberg nor Barclays has any responsibilities, obligations or duties to investors in the Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund. The Index is licensed for use by The Vanguard Group, Inc. (Vanguard) as the sponsor of the Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund. Bloomberg and Barclays’ only relationship with Vanguard in respect of the Index is the licensing of the Index, which is determined, composed and calculated by BISL, or any successor thereto, without regard to the Issuer or the Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund or the owners of the Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund.

Additionally, Vanguard may for itself execute transaction(s) with Barclays in or relating to the Index in connection with the Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund. Investors acquire the Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund from Vanguard and investors neither acquire any interest in the Index nor enter into any relationship of any kind whatsoever with Bloomberg or Barclays upon making an investment in the Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund. The Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund is not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by Bloomberg or Barclays. Neither Bloomberg nor Barclays makes any representation or warranty, express or implied regarding the advisability of investing in the Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund or the advisability of investing in securities generally or the ability of the Index to track corresponding or relative market performance. Neither Bloomberg nor Barclays has passed on the legality or suitability of the Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund with respect to any person or entity. Neither Bloomberg nor Barclays is responsible for and has not participated in the determination of the timing of, prices at, or quantities of the Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund to be issued. Neither Bloomberg nor Barclays has any obligation to take the needs of the Issuer or the owners of the Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund or any other third party into consideration in determining, composing or calculating the Index. Neither Bloomberg nor Barclays has any obligation or liability in connection with administration, marketing or trading of the Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund.

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OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR ANY LOST PROFITS AND EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH, RESULTING FROM THE USE OF THE BLOOMBERG BARCLAYS INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN OR WITH RESPECT TO THE SHORT-TERM INFLATION-PROTECTED SECURITIES INDEX FUND.

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Source: Bloomberg Index Services Limited. Copyright 2018, Bloomberg. All rights reserved.

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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. The independent board members have distinguished backgrounds in business, academia, and public service. Each of the trustees and executive officers oversees 211 Vanguard funds.

Information for each trustee and executive officer of the fund appears below. The mailing address of the trustees and officers is P.O. Box 876, Valley Forge, PA 19482. More information about the trustees is in the Statement of Additional Information, which can be obtained, without charge, by contacting Vanguard at 800-662-7447, or online at vanguard.com.

Interested Trustees1

F. William McNabb III

Born in 1957. Trustee since July 2009. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: chairman of the board (January 2010–present) of Vanguard and of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard, trustee (2009–present) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard, and director (2008–present) of Vanguard. Chief executive officer and president (2008–2017) of Vanguard and each of the investment companies served by Vanguard, managing director (1995–2008) of Vanguard, and director (1997–2018) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Director (2018–present) of UnitedHealth Group.

Mortimer J. Buckley

Born in 1969. Trustee since January 2018. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: chief executive officer (January 2018–present) of Vanguard; chief executive officer, president, and trustee (January 2018–present) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard; president and director (2017–present) of Vanguard; and president (February 2018–present) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Chief investment officer (2013–2017), managing director (2002–2017), head of the Retail Investor Group (2006–2012), and chief information officer (2001–2006) of Vanguard. Chairman of the board (2011–2017) of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Independent Trustees

Emerson U. Fullwood

Born in 1948. Trustee since January 2008. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: executive chief staff and marketing officer for North America and corporate vice president (retired 2008) of Xerox Corporation (document management products and services). Former president of the Worldwide Channels Group, Latin America, and Worldwide Customer Service and executive chief staff officer of Developing Markets of Xerox. Executive in residence and 2009–2010 Distinguished Minett Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Lead director of SPX FLOW, Inc. (multi-industry manufacturing). Director of the University of Rochester Medical Center, the Monroe Community College Foundation, the United Way of Rochester, North Carolina A&T University, and Roberts Wesleyan College. Trustee of the University of Rochester.

Amy Gutmann

Born in 1949. Trustee since June 2006. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: president (2004–present) of the University of Pennsylvania. Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences, and professor of communication, Annenberg School for Communication, with secondary faculty appointments in the Department of Philosophy, School of Arts and Sciences, and at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. Trustee of the National Constitution Center.

1 Mr. McNabb and Mr. Buckley are considered “interested persons,” as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, because they are officers of the Vanguard funds.


 

JoAnn Heffernan Heisen

Born in 1950. Trustee since July 1998. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: corporate vice president of Johnson & Johnson (pharmaceuticals/medical devices/consumer products) and member of its executive committee (1997–2008). Chief global diversity officer (retired 2008), vice president and chief information officer (1997–2006), controller (1995–1997), treasurer (1991–1995), and assistant treasurer (1989–1991) of Johnson & Johnson. Director of Skytop Lodge Corporation (hotels) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Member of the advisory board of the Institute for Women’s Leadership at Rutgers University.

F. Joseph Loughrey

Born in 1949. Trustee since October 2009. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: president and chief operating officer (retired 2009) and vice chairman of the board (2008–2009) of Cummins Inc. (industrial machinery). Chairman of the board of Hillenbrand, Inc. (specialized consumer services), Oxfam America, and the Lumina Foundation for Education. Director of the V Foundation for Cancer Research. Member of the advisory council for the College of Arts and Letters and chair of the advisory board to the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, both at the University of Notre Dame.

Mark Loughridge

Born in 1953. Trustee since March 2012. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: senior vice president and chief financial officer (retired 2013) of IBM (information technology services). Fiduciary member of IBM’s Retirement Plan Committee (2004–2013), senior vice president and general manager (2002–2004) of IBM Global Financing, vice president and controller (1998–2002) of IBM, and a variety of other prior management roles at IBM. Member of the Council on Chicago Booth.

Scott C. Malpass

Born in 1962. Trustee since March 2012. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: chief investment officer (1989–present) and vice president (1996–present) of the University of Notre Dame. Assistant professor of finance at the Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame, and member of the Notre Dame 403(b) Investment Committee. Chairman of the board of TIFF Advisory Services, Inc. Member of the board of Catholic Investment Services, Inc. (investment advisors), the board of advisors for Spruceview Capital Partners, and the board of superintendence of the Institute for the Works of Religion.

Deanna Mulligan

Born in 1963. Trustee since January 2018. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: president (2010–present) and chief executive officer (2011–present) of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. Chief operating officer (2010–2011) and executive vice president (2008–2010) of Individual Life and Disability of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. Member of the board of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, the American Council of Life Insurers, the Partnership for New York City (business leadership), and the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy. Trustee of the Economic Club of New York and the Bruce Museum (arts and science). Member of the Advisory Council for the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

André F. Perold

Born in 1952. Trustee since December 2004. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School (retired 2011). Chief investment officer and co-managing partner of HighVista Strategies LLC (private investment firm). Overseer of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

Sarah Bloom Raskin

Born in 1961. Trustee since January 2018. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: deputy secretary (2014–2017) of the United States Department of the Treasury. Governor (2010–2014) of the Federal Reserve Board. Commissioner (2007–2010) of financial regulation for the State of Maryland. Member of the board of directors (2012–2014) of Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. Director of i(x) Investments, LLC.

Peter F. Volanakis

Born in 1955. Trustee since July 2009. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: president and chief operating officer (retired 2010) of Corning Incorporated (communications equipment) and director of Corning Incorporated (2000–2010) and Dow Corning (2001–2010). Director (2012) of SPX Corporation (multi-industry manufacturing). Overseer of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College (2001–2013). Chairman of the board of trustees of Colby-Sawyer College. Member of the Board of Hypertherm Inc. (industrial cutting systems, software, and consumables).


 

Executive Officers

Glenn Booraem

Born in 1967. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard. Investment stewardship officer (2017–present), treasurer (2015–2017), controller (2010–2015), and assistant controller (2001–2010) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard.

Christine M. Buchanan

Born in 1970. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard and global head of Fund Administration at Vanguard. Treasurer (2017–present) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Partner (2005–2017) at KPMG LLP (audit, tax, and advisory services).

Brian Dvorak

Born in 1973. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard. Chief compliance officer (2017–present) of Vanguard and each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Assistant vice president (2017–present) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Vice president and director of Enterprise Risk Management (2011–2013) at Oppenheimer Funds, Inc.

Thomas J. Higgins

Born in 1957. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard. Chief financial officer (2008–present) and treasurer (1998–2008) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard.

Peter Mahoney

Born in 1974. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard. Controller (2015–present) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Head of International Fund Services (2008–2014) at Vanguard.

Anne E. Robinson

Born in 1970. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: general counsel (2016–present) of Vanguard. Secretary (2016–present) of Vanguard and of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Managing director (2016–present) of Vanguard. Director and senior vice president (2016–2018) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Managing director and general counsel of Global Cards and Consumer Services (2014–2016) at Citigroup. Counsel (2003–2014) at American Express.

Michael Rollings

Born in 1963. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: finance director (2017–present) and treasurer (2017) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Managing director (2016–present) of Vanguard. Chief financial officer (2016–present) of Vanguard. Director (2016–present) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Executive vice president and chief financial officer (2006–2016) of MassMutual Financial Group.

Vanguard Senior Management Team
 
Joseph Brennan Chris D. McIsaac
Mortimer J. Buckley James M. Norris
Gregory Davis Thomas M. Rampulla
John James Karin A. Risi
Martha G. King Anne E. Robinson
John T. Marcante Michael Rollings

 

Chairman Emeritus and Senior Advisor

John J. Brennan
Chairman, 1996–2009
Chief Executive Officer and President, 1996–2008

Founder

John C. Bogle
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, 1974–1996


 

 

                                                    
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Annual Report | September 30, 2018

Vanguard Core Bond Fund


 

Vanguard’s Principles for Investing Success

We want to give you the best chance of investment success. These principles, grounded in Vanguard’s research and experience, can put you on the right path.

Goals. Create clear, appropriate investment goals.

Balance. Develop a suitable asset allocation using broadly diversified funds. Cost. Minimize cost.

Discipline. Maintain perspective and long-term discipline.

A single theme unites these principles: Focus on the things you can control.

We believe there is no wiser course for any investor.

Contents  
Your Fund’s Performance at a Glance. 1
CEO’s Perspective. 2
Advisor’s Report. 4
Fund Profile. 7
Performance Summary. 8
Financial Statements. 10
About Your Fund’s Expenses. 55
Glossary. 57

 

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 front of this report. Of course, the risks of investing in your fund are spelled out in the prospectus.

See the Glossary for definitions of investment terms used in this report.


 

Your Fund’s Performance at a Glance

• Vanguard Core Bond Fund returned –1.32% for Investor Shares and –1.19% for Admiral Shares for the 12 months ended September 30, 2018. Those results were roughly in line with the –1.23% return of its benchmark as well as the –1.25% average return for peer funds.

• Bond yields across the maturity spectrum closed higher. Shorter-term yields climbed as the Federal Reserve continued raising rates, and longer-term yields rose on brighter prospects for growth and inflation. The average spread in corporate bond yields fluctuated but finished the period slightly wider.

• An underweight allocation to U.S. Treasuries in favor of investment-grade credit and a modest overweight allocation to BBB-rated bonds helped the fund, as did security selection in financial services, foreign sovereign bonds, and industrials.

• Primary detractors included a slightly longer duration than the benchmark for part of the period and security selection in mortgage-backed securities.

Total Returns: Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2018      
  30-Day SEC Income Capital Total
  Yield Returns Returns Returns
Vanguard Core Bond Fund        
Investor Shares 3.31% 2.78% -4.10% -1.32%
Admiral™ Shares 3.50 2.91 -4.10 -1.19
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Float Adjusted        
Index       -1.23
Core Bond Funds Average       -1.25

 

Core Bond Funds Average: Derived from data provided by Lipper, a Thomson Reuters Company.

Admiral Shares carry lower expenses and are available to investors who meet certain account-balance requirements.

Expense Ratios      
Your Fund Compared With Its Peer Group      
  Investor Admiral Peer Group
  Shares Shares Average
Core Bond Fund 0.25% 0.15% 0.74%

 

The fund expense ratios shown are from the prospectus dated January 26, 2018, and represent estimated costs for the current fiscal year. For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2018, the fund’s expense ratios were 0.25% for Investor Shares and 0.13% for Admiral Shares. The peer-group expense ratio is derived from data provided by Lipper, a Thomson Reuters Company, and captures information through year-end 2017.

Peer group: Core Bond Funds.

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CEO’s Perspective

 

 

Tim Buckley

President and Chief Executive Officer

Dear Shareholder,

Over the years, I’ve found that prudent investors exhibit a common trait: discipline. No matter how the markets move or what new investing fad hits the headlines, those who stay focused on their goals and tune out the noise are set up for long-term success.

The prime gateway to investing is saving, and you don’t usually become a saver without a healthy dose of discipline. Savers make the decision to sock away part of their income, which means spending less and delaying gratification, no matter how difficult that may be.

Of course, disciplined investing extends beyond diligent saving. The financial markets, in the short term especially, are unpredictable; I have yet to meet the investor who can time them perfectly. It takes discipline to resist the urge to go all-in when markets are frothy or to retreat when things look bleak.

Staying put with your investments is one strategy for handling volatility. Another, rebalancing, requires even more discipline because it means steering your money away from strong performers and toward poorer performers.

Patience—a form of discipline—is also the friend of long-term investors. Higher returns are the potential reward for weathering the market’s turbulence and uncertainty.

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We have been enjoying one of the longest bull markets in history, but it won’t continue forever. Prepare yourself now for how you will react when volatility comes back. Don’t panic. Don’t chase returns or look for answers outside the asset classes you trust. And be sure to rebalance periodically, even when there’s turmoil.

Whether you’re a master of self-control, get a boost from technology, or work with a professional advisor, know that discipline

is necessary to get the most out of your investment portfolio. And know that Vanguard is with you for the entire ride.

Thank you for your continued loyalty.


Mortimer J. Buckley
President and Chief Executive Officer
October 18, 2018

Market Barometer      
    Average Annual Total Returns
  Periods Ended September 30, 2018
  One Year Three Years Five Years
Stocks      
Russell 1000 Index (Large-caps) 17.76% 17.07% 13.67%
Russell 2000 Index (Small-caps) 15.24 17.12 11.07
Russell 3000 Index (Broad U.S. market) 17.58 17.07 13.46
FTSE All-World ex US Index (International) 2.13 10.18 4.51
 
Bonds      
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index      
(Broad taxable market) -1.22% 1.31% 2.16%
Bloomberg Barclays Municipal Bond Index      
(Broad tax-exempt market) 0.35 2.24 3.54
FTSE Three-Month U. S. Treasury Bill Index 1.57 0.80 0.48
 
CPI      
Consumer Price Index 2.28% 1.99% 1.52%

 

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Advisor’s Report

For the 12 months ended September 30, 2018, Vanguard Core Bond Fund returned –1.32% for Investor Shares and –1.19% for Admiral Shares. The –1.23% return of the benchmark, the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Float Adjusted Index, fell between these results, as did the –1.25% average return for peer funds.

With interest rates climbing, the 30-day SEC yield for Investor Shares rose 113 basis points from a year earlier to 3.31%. The 30-day SEC yield for Admiral Shares climbed 122 basis points to 3.50% over the same time frame. (A basis point is one-hundredth of a percentage point.)

Investment environment

Macroeconomic fundamentals were robust throughout the 12 months. Despite two brief federal government shutdowns early in 2018 and a significant escalation in trade tensions, business confidence persisted and consumer spending remained solid. Unemployment hit an almost 50-year low, finishing the period at 3.7%. Tax-cut legislation enacted in late 2017, the March passage of a bill increasing federal spending, and deregulation all added to optimism about growth. Inflation moved up to hover near the Federal Reserve’s 2% target, with some help from an increase in oil prices.

Yields of U.S. Treasury Securities    
  September 30, September 30,
Maturity 2017 2018
2 years 1.48% 2.82%
5 years 1.94 2.95
10 years 2.33 3.06
30 years 2.86 3.21
Source: Vanguard.    

 

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Acknowledging the economy’s health, the Fed moved further down the path toward monetary policy normalization. It continued shrinking the $4.5 trillion balance sheet it had amassed as part of the monetary stimulus it began after the 2008 global financial crisis. The Fed raised the federal funds target rate in December, March, June, and September, putting it at 2%–2.25% at the close of the fiscal year.

Fed action pushed shorter-term yields higher. The yield of the 2-year Treasury note climbed 134 basis points over the period to 2.82%.

Demand for longer-term Treasury bonds was supported at times by escalating trade tensions, geopolitical flare-ups, and political uncertainties in Europe about Brexit and national elections in Germany and Italy. However, the outlook for continuing growth and rising inflation expectations led yields on these securities to end the period higher. The yield of the bellwether 10-year Treasury note ended the period 73 basis points higher at 3.06%.

Corporate fundamentals remained strong, and corporate earnings were very robust—the tax cuts helped with that—but valuations were high and technical support weakened. With the tax changes for corporations, a number of large multinational companies that had been investing overseas money in high-quality corporate bonds withdrew from the market. The average yield spread of investment-grade corporate bonds over Treasuries started the period very tight,

then widened significantly before narrowing slightly. The average spread stood at 106 basis points at the end of the period, up from 101 basis points a year earlier.

Management of the fund

The fund maintained an underweight allocation to Treasuries, favoring credit sectors. We were overweighted in financials. We believed they could benefit from improved balance sheets, less regulation, and rising interest rates, which tend to lift their profitability. Although concerns about the health of Italian banks weighed on returns from this sector in the United States, our bond selection among banks and insurance companies added value. Selection also was positive in industrials, notably in the energy segment, thanks to an upturn in oil prices.

Our overweight to BBB-rated bonds helped the fund. So did an outsize allocation to asset-backed securities, which are typically high-quality, liquid investments made up of pooled auto loans, credit-card debt, and student loans.

Our relatively small allocation to high-quality sovereign debt outside the United States modestly boosted relative performance. We were more defensive on these securities early in the period but selectively increased our exposure later on as relative value opportunities arose.

The fund’s duration (a measure of its sensitivity to changes in interest rates) was modestly longer than that of its benchmark in late 2017 and early 2018,

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although we brought it back in line by the end of the fiscal year. That positioning detracted from relative performance.

We expected the Fed to keep pushing short-term rates higher, but longer rates rose as well when the market began pricing in a stronger U.S. growth scenario.

Security selection in the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) segment also weighed on performance. We favored collateralized mortgage obligations, but their spreads widening more than those of agency MBS as a whole meant they detracted from performance.

The outlook

In the absence of any external shocks, the U.S. economy is on pace to break above its long-term potential growth rate in 2018, given the tax cuts and increased government spending coming on top of solid fundamentals. That, along with some upward pressure on wages because of the tightening labor market, may push the U.S. Core Personal Consumption Expenditure Price Index a little above 2% by the end of 2018. Against this backdrop, the Fed is likely to keep raising rates and trimming the amount of Treasuries and MBS on its balance sheet through 2019.

We see this bounce as cyclical, however, and still expect long-term structural pressures from an aging population, global sourcing of goods and labor, and technological disruptions to result in moderate long-run growth and inflation.

We may continue to see bouts of volatility related to inflation and interest rate expectations. Other potential triggers include the U.S. midterm elections, an intensification of trade disputes, geopolitical tensions, Brexit uncertainty, government spending in Italy, and missteps by central banks.

It’s worth restating that investors should look beyond short-term volatility and adhere to their long-term investment strategies. And keep in mind the silver lining in higher rates for long-term investors—coupon payments and proceeds from maturing bonds can be reinvested at these rates.

Whatever the markets may bring, our experienced team of portfolio managers, credit analysts, and traders will continue to seek out opportunities to add to the fund’s performance.

Portfolio Managers:

Brian W. Quigley

Gemma Wright-Casparius, Principal

Daniel Shaykevich, Principal

Samuel C. Martinez, CFA

Vanguard Fixed Income Group

October 23, 2018

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Core Bond Fund

Fund Profile

As of September 30, 2018

Share-Class Characteristics  
  Investor Admiral
  Shares Shares
Ticker Symbol VCORX VCOBX
Expense Ratio1 0.25% 0.15%
30-Day SEC Yield 3.31% 3.50%

 

Financial Attributes    
 
    Bloomberg
    Barclays U.S.
    Aggregate
    Float Adjusted
  Fund Index
 
Number of Bonds 738 10,112
 
Yield to Maturity    
(before expenses) 3.9% 3.5%
 
Average Coupon 3.2% 3.1%
 
Average Duration 6.1 years 6.1 years
 
Average Effective    
Maturity 7.4 years 8.5 years
 
Short-Term    
Reserves 6.4%

 

Sector Diversification (% of portfolio)  
Asset-Backed 9.8%
Commercial Mortgage-Backed 4.1
Finance 11.9
Foreign 6.1
Government Mortgage-Backed 25.1
Industrial 15.5
Treasury/Agency 26.3
Utilities 1.1
Other 0.1

 

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

Distribution by Effective Maturity  
(% of portfolio)  
Under 1 Year 6.9%
1 - 3 Years 17.3
3 - 5 Years 16.4
5 - 7 Years 20.4
7 - 10 Years 26.0
10 - 20 Years 5.8
20 - 30 Years 6.5
Over 30 Years 0.7

 

Distribution by Credit Quality (% of portfolio)
U.S. Government 51.3%
Aaa 8.3
Aa 3.5
A 11.9
Baa 19.8
Ba 2.2
B 0.8
Not Rated 2.2

 

Credit-quality ratings are obtained from Moody's and S&P, and the higher rating for each issue is shown. "Not Rated" is used to classify securities for which a rating is not available. Not rated securities include a fund's investment in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund or Vanguard Municipal Cash Management Fund, each of which invests in high-quality money market instruments and may serve as a cash management vehicle for the Vanguard funds, trusts, and accounts. For more information about these ratings, see the Glossary entry for Credit Quality.

Investment Focus


1 The expense ratios shown are from the prospectus dated January 26, 2018, and represent estimated costs for the current fiscal year. For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2018, the expense ratios were 0.25% for Investor Shares and 0.13% for Admiral Shares.

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Core Bond 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 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: March 28, 2016, Through September 30, 2018

Initial Investment of $10,000


  Average Annual Total Returns  
  Periods Ended September 30, 2018  
 
    Since Final Value
  One Inception of a $10,000
  Year (3/28/2016) Investment
 
Core Bond Fund Investor Shares -1.32% 0.89% $10,224
Bloomberg Barclays U.S.      
Aggregate Float Adjusted Index -1.23 0.83 10,209
 
Core Bond Funds Average -1.25 1.07 10,270

 

Core Bond Funds Average: Derived from data provided by Lipper, a Thomson Reuters Company.

"Since Inception" performance is calculated from the Investor Shares’ inception date for both the fund and its comparative standards.

    Since Final Value
  One Inception of a $50,000
  Year (3/28/2016) Investment
 
Core Bond Fund Admiral Shares -1.19% 1.01% $51,271
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Float      
Adjusted Index -1.23 0.83 51,044

 

"Since Inception" performance is calculated from the Admiral Shares’ inception date for both the fund and its comparative standards.

See Financial Highlights for dividend and capital gains information.

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Core Bond Fund

Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): March 28, 2016, Through September 30, 2018  
        Bloomberg
        Barclays U.S.
        Aggregate
        Float Adjusted
      Investor Shares Index
Fiscal Year Income Returns Capital Returns Total Returns Total Returns
2016 0.97% 2.60% 3.57% 3.31%
2017 1.96 -1.93 0.03 0.06
2018 2.78 -4.10 -1.32 -1.23

 

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Core Bond Fund

Financial Statements

Statement of Net Assets
As of September 30, 2018

The fund reports a complete list of its holdings in regulatory filings 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 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 (46.5%)      
U. S. Government Securities (16.5%)        
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.125% 2/28/19 3,800 3,781
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.500% 2/28/19 1,200 1,196
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.250% 3/31/19 11,100 11,036
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.625% 3/31/19 1,700 1,693
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.250% 4/30/19 600 596
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.625% 6/30/19 2,250 2,235
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.000% 10/15/19 5,000 4,915
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.000% 11/30/19 1,700 1,667
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.500% 11/30/19 2,500 2,466
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.875% 12/31/19 2,920 2,890
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.000% 1/31/20 1,100 1,089
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.625% 3/15/20 5,200 5,117
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.125% 3/31/20 2,500 2,440
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.375% 3/31/20 2,200 2,155
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.375% 4/30/20 2,800 2,783
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.625% 6/30/20 1,500 1,470
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.375% 8/31/20 1,025 998
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.250% 3/31/21 1,000 962
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.250% 4/30/21 2,300 2,265
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.375% 5/31/21 5,000 4,809
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.625% 6/15/21 330 328
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.125% 7/31/21 800 762
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.125% 8/15/21 6,600 6,463
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.000% 8/31/21 900 878
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.125% 9/30/21 7,000 6,848
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.250% 10/31/21 4,000 3,808
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.000% 10/31/21 18,900 18,407
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.875% 9/30/22 1,800 1,729
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.000% 11/30/22 5,076 4,890
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.375% 1/31/23 7,500 7,329
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.750% 4/30/23 8,100 8,034
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.750% 7/31/23 700 694
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.625% 10/31/23 2,000 1,875
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.250% 12/31/23 2,300 2,221
1 United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.750% 2/15/24 1,900 1,880
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.125% 9/30/24 1,800 1,715

 

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Core Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.750% 6/30/25 3,000 2,953
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.625% 2/15/26 3 3
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.625% 5/15/26 3,000 2,714
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.250% 8/15/27 200 188
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.875% 5/15/28 2,479 2,442
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 6.125% 8/15/29 1,500 1,922
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 4.500% 5/15/38 1,000 1,200
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 3.500% 2/15/39 350 369
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 4.375% 11/15/39 630 747
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 4.625% 2/15/40 425 521
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 3.750% 8/15/41 650 709
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 3.125% 11/15/41 600 594
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 3.125% 2/15/42 650 643
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.750% 8/15/42 130 120
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 3.625% 8/15/43 2,200 2,360
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.875% 8/15/45 1,550 1,459
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.750% 11/15/47 9,000 8,236
2 United States Treasury Note/Bond 3.125% 5/15/48 11,500 11,342
          162,946
Agency Bonds and Notes (5.3%)        
3 AID-Israel 0.000% 11/1/24 1,300 1,064
3 AID-Ukraine 1.844% 5/16/19 1,700 1,702
4 Federal Home Loan Banks 1.250% 1/16/19 100 100
4 Federal Home Loan Banks 1.375% 5/28/19 300 298
5 Federal National Mortgage Assn. 0.000% 2/1/19 800 794
5 Federal National Mortgage Assn. 0.875% 8/2/19 450 444
5 Federal National Mortgage Assn. 0.000% 10/9/19 9,600 9,333
5 Federal National Mortgage Assn. 2.875% 9/12/23 2,400 2,383
5 Federal National Mortgage Assn. 1.875% 9/24/26 5,600 5,087
  Government Trust Certificate 0.000% 10/1/20 1,479 1,390
  Private Export Funding Corp. 4.375% 3/15/19 128 129
  Private Export Funding Corp. 1.450% 8/15/19 2,715 2,686
  Private Export Funding Corp. 2.250% 3/15/20 567 562
  Private Export Funding Corp. 2.300% 9/15/20 150 148
  Private Export Funding Corp. 3.550% 1/15/24 1,000 1,017
  Residual Funding Corp. Principal Strip 0.000% 1/15/21 1,700 1,589
  Resolution Funding Corp. Interest Strip 0.000% 4/15/26 2,480 1,930
  Resolution Funding Corp. Interest Strip 0.000% 1/15/27 2,760 2,080
  Resolution Funding Corp. Interest Strip 0.000% 4/15/27 1,800 1,347
  Resolution Funding Corp. Interest Strip 0.000% 7/15/27 794 589
  Resolution Funding Corp. Interest Strip 0.000% 10/15/27 794 583
  Resolution Funding Corp. Interest Strip 0.000% 4/15/28 3,000 2,160
  Resolution Funding Corp. Principal Strip 0.000% 10/15/19 1,300 1,264
  Resolution Funding Corp. Principal Strip 0.000% 7/15/20 6,520 6,199
  Resolution Funding Corp. Principal Strip 0.000% 10/15/20 3,000 2,832
4 Tennessee Valley Authority 2.250% 3/15/20 1,700 1,685
4 Tennessee Valley Authority Principal Strip 0.000% 11/1/25 3,000 2,362
          51,757
Conventional Mortgage-Backed Securities (18.7%)      
5,6 Fannie Mae Pool 2.000% 1/1/32 2,098 1,968
5,6 Fannie Mae Pool 2.500% 2/1/28–10/1/33 10,227 9,871
5,6 Fannie Mae Pool 3.000% 2/1/27–10/1/48 16,105 15,512
5,6,7 Fannie Mae Pool 3.500% 3/1/27–10/1/48 19,307 19,108
5,6,7 Fannie Mae Pool 4.000% 10/1/33–10/1/48 15,001 15,213

 

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Core Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
5,6,7 Fannie Mae Pool 4.500% 1/1/41–10/1/48 14,465 14,970
5,6 Fannie Mae Pool 5.000% 3/1/38–10/1/48 6,127 6,510
5,6 Fannie Mae Pool 6.000% 5/1/37 696 768
5,6 Freddie Mac Gold Pool 2.500% 8/1/31–10/1/33 1,641 1,585
5,6,7 Freddie Mac Gold Pool 3.000% 9/1/32–12/1/47 14,145 13,751
5,6,7 Freddie Mac Gold Pool 3.500% 3/1/45–10/1/48 20,599 20,325
5,6,7 Freddie Mac Gold Pool 4.000% 1/1/46–10/1/48 8,697 8,791
5,6 Freddie Mac Gold Pool 4.500% 7/1/47 2,261 2,351
6 Ginnie Mae I Pool 3.000% 4/15/45 466 452
6 Ginnie Mae I Pool 3.500% 6/15/47 1,726 1,725
6 Ginnie Mae I Pool 4.000% 7/15/45–8/15/45 203 207
6 Ginnie Mae I Pool 4.500% 2/15/39–9/15/46 1,141 1,205
6 Ginnie Mae I Pool 5.000% 3/15/38–10/1/48 2,647 2,840
6 Ginnie Mae II Pool 3.000% 5/20/43–10/1/48 6,991 6,791
6 Ginnie Mae II Pool 3.500% 10/20/43–11/1/48 22,066 21,996
6,7 Ginnie Mae II Pool 4.000% 11/20/42–10/1/48 11,269 11,459
6,7 Ginnie Mae II Pool 4.500% 11/20/44–10/1/48 6,460 6,703
          184,101
Nonconventional Mortgage-Backed Securities (6.0%)      
5,6,8 Fannie Mae Pool 4.048% 12/1/40 144 152
5,6 Fannie Mae REMICS 3.000% 5/25/47–9/25/48 4,146 3,994
5,6,9 Fannie Mae REMICS 2005-45 2.586% 6/25/35 95 95
5,6,9 Fannie Mae REMICS 2005-95 2.626% 11/25/35 101 102
5,6,9 Fannie Mae REMICS 2006-46 2.536% 6/25/36 353 354
5,6,9 Fannie Mae REMICS 2007-4 2.661% 2/25/37 40 40
5,6,9 Fannie Mae REMICS 2012-122 2.616% 11/25/42 131 132
5,10 Fannie Mae REMICS 2012-125 3.500% 11/25/42 29,509 6,194
5,6,9 Fannie Mae REMICS 2013-19 2.516% 9/25/41 172 172
5,6,9 Fannie Mae REMICS 2013-39 2.566% 5/25/43 167 167
5,6,9 Fannie Mae REMICS 2015-22 2.516% 4/25/45 138 138
5,6,11 Fannie Mae REMICS 2015-8 3.884% 3/25/45 19,663 3,446
5,6,9 Fannie Mae REMICS 2016-55 2.716% 8/25/46 285 289
5,6,9 Fannie Mae REMICS 2016-60 2.466% 9/25/46 561 560
5,6,9 Fannie Mae REMICS 2016-62 2.616% 9/25/46 576 575
5,6,9 Fannie Mae REMICS 2016-93 2.566% 12/25/46 1,136 1,134
5,6 Fannie Mae REMICS 2017-109 3.500% 11/25/45 777 775
5,6 Fannie Mae REMICS 2018-13 3.000% 3/25/48 1,932 1,875
5,6 Fannie Mae REMICS 2018-15 3.500% 10/25/44 906 902
5,6 Fannie Mae REMICS 2018-58 3.000% 8/25/48 2,734 2,605
5,6 Fannie Mae REMICS 2018-65 3.000% 9/25/48 2,546 2,429
5,6 Freddie Mac Non Gold Pool 4.060% 7/1/33 76 80
5,6,8 Freddie Mac Non Gold Pool 4.082% 9/1/37 482 508
5,6,8 Freddie Mac Non Gold Pool 4.448% 7/1/35 563 594
5,6,9 Freddie Mac REMICS 2.508% 11/15/36–8/15/43 265 266
5,6,9 Freddie Mac REMICS 2.518% 11/15/36 95 95
5,6,9 Freddie Mac REMICS 2.608% 6/15/42 48 48
5,6 Freddie Mac REMICS 3.000% 11/25/47–12/15/47 3,298 3,207
5,6,11 Freddie Mac REMICS 3.992% 9/15/47 32,762 5,469
6 Ginnie Mae REMICS 3.000% 12/20/47 1,280 1,254
6,11 Ginnie Mae REMICS 3.985% 6/20/47 4,814 772
10 Ginnie Mae REMICS 4.000% 1/20/45–8/20/46 29,758 5,537
10 Ginnie Mae REMICS 4.500% 5/20/45 17,536 3,766
6 Government National Mortgage Association        
  GNR_18-14 3.000% 12/20/47 1,005 980

 

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Core Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
6 Government National Mortgage Association        
  GNR_18-92 3.500% 7/20/48 2,786 2,769
6 Government National Mortgage Association        
  GNR_18-94 3.000% 7/20/48 5,086 4,924
6 Government National Mortgage Association        
  GNR_18-97 3.500% 7/20/48 2,786 2,770
          59,169
Total U.S. Government and Agency Obligations (Cost $472,504)     457,973
Asset-Backed/Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (13.7%)      
6 Ally Auto Receivables Trust 2017-5 2.220% 10/17/22 180 176
6 Ally Master Owner Trust Series 2017-3 2.040% 6/15/22 350 343
6 Ally Master Owner Trust Series 2018-2 3.290% 5/15/23 860 860
6,12 American Homes 4 Rent 2014-SFR3 3.678% 12/17/36 93 92
12 American Tower Trust #1 3.652% 3/23/48 260 255
6 AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables        
  Trust 2014-2 2.180% 6/8/20 9 9
6 AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables        
  Trust 2015-3 3.340% 8/8/21 285 286
6 AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables        
  Trust 2016-2 3.650% 5/9/22 125 125
6 AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables        
  Trust 2016-3 2.710% 9/8/22 200 197
6 AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables        
  Trust 2016-4 2.410% 7/8/22 225 221
6 AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables        
  Trust 2018-2 4.010% 7/18/24 390 390
6,12 Applebee’s Funding LLC/IHOP Funding LLC 4.277% 9/5/44 35 34
6,12 ARL Second LLC 2014-1A 2.920% 6/15/44 55 54
6,12 Aventura Mall Trust 2013-AVM 3.867% 12/5/32 800 809
6,12 Aventura Mall Trust 2018-AVM 4.112% 7/5/40 700 713
6,12 Avis Budget Rental Car Funding AESOP        
  LLC 2013-2A 2.970% 2/20/20 479 479
6,12 Avis Budget Rental Car Funding AESOP        
  LLC 2015-2A 2.630% 12/20/21 380 374
6,12 Avis Budget Rental Car Funding AESOP        
  LLC 2016-1A 2.990% 6/20/22 500 493
6,12 Avis Budget Rental Car Funding AESOP        
  LLC 2017-1A 3.070% 9/20/23 355 346
6,12 Avis Budget Rental Car Funding AESOP        
  LLC 2017-2A 2.970% 3/20/24 180 174
6,12 Avis Budget Rental Car Funding AESOP        
  LLC 2018-1A 3.700% 9/20/24 270 269
6,12 Avis Budget Rental Car Funding AESOP        
  LLC 2018-1A 4.730% 9/20/24 100 100
6 Banc of America Commercial Mortgage        
  Trust 2015-UBS7 3.705% 9/15/48 160 160
6 Banc of America Commercial Mortgage        
  Trust 2017-BNK3 3.574% 2/15/50 20 20
6 BANK 2017 - BNK4 3.625% 5/15/50 45 45
6 BANK 2017 - BNK5 3.390% 6/15/60 60 58
6 BANK 2017 - BNK6 3.254% 7/15/60 90 86
6 BANK 2017 - BNK6 3.518% 7/15/60 100 98
6 BANK 2017 - BNK6 3.741% 7/15/60 50 49

 

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Core Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
6 BANK 2017 - BNK7 3.435% 9/15/60 100 97
6 BANK 2017 - BNK8 3.488% 11/15/50 230 224
6 BANK 2017 - BNK9 3.538% 11/15/54 655 638
6 BANK 2018 - BN13 4.217% 8/15/61 240 246
6 BANK 2018 - BNK10 3.688% 2/15/61 240 237
6 BANK 2018-BN14 4.185% 9/15/60 25 26
6 BANK 2018-BN14 4.231% 9/15/60 300 310
  Bank of Nova Scotia 1.875% 4/26/21 610 589
6 BENCHMARK 2018-B1 Mortgage Trust 3.666% 1/15/51 140 139
6 BENCHMARK 2018-B1 Mortgage Trust 3.878% 1/15/51 70 70
6 BENCHMARK 2018-B1 Mortgage Trust 4.059% 1/15/51 220 219
6 BENCHMARK 2018-B1 Mortgage Trust 4.256% 1/15/51 340 334
6 BENCHMARK 2018-B2 Mortgage Trust 3.882% 2/15/51 800 805
6 BENCHMARK 2018-B3 Mortgage Trust 4.025% 4/10/51 140 142
6 BENCHMARK 2018-B5 Mortgage Trust 4.208% 7/15/51 190 196
6 Benchmark 2018-B6 Mortgage Trust 4.170% 11/10/51 69 71
6 Benchmark 2018-B6 Mortgage Trust 4.261% 11/10/51 300 311
6 BMW Vehicle Lease Trust 2017-2 2.070% 10/20/20 280 277
6 BMW Vehicle Lease Trust 2017-2 2.190% 3/22/21 90 89
6,12 CAL Funding II Ltd. Series 2018-2A 4.340% 9/25/43 280 281
6 California Republic Auto Receivables        
  Trust 2016-2 2.520% 5/16/22 210 206
6 California Republic Auto Receivables        
  Trust 2016-2 3.510% 3/15/23 210 208
6,12 Canadian Pacer Auto Receivables Trust A        
  Series 2017 2.050% 3/19/21 140 139
6,12 Canadian Pacer Auto Receivables Trust A        
  Series 2017 2.286% 1/19/22 100 98
6,12 Canadian Pacer Auto Receivables Trust A        
  Series 2018 3.220% 9/19/22 140 139
  Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2016-2 3.160% 11/20/23 220 219
6 Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2016-3 2.350% 9/20/21 50 49
6 Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2016-3 2.650% 1/20/24 40 40
6,12 Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2017-1 2.220% 3/21/22 130 128
6 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2016-2 2.160% 12/15/21 100 98
6 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2016-2 3.250% 11/15/22 100 99
6 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2016-3 1.900% 4/15/22 200 194
6 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2016-3 2.200% 6/15/22 190 185
6 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2016-3 2.940% 1/17/23 190 187
6 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2017-4 2.110% 10/17/22 150 148
6 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2017-4 2.330% 5/15/23 90 88
6 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2017-4 2.460% 8/15/23 40 39
6 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2017-4 2.700% 10/16/23 40 39
6 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2018-1 2.640% 6/15/23 50 49
6 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2018-1 2.830% 9/15/23 90 88
6 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2018-1 2.950% 11/15/23 50 49
6 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2018-2 3.370% 10/16/23 90 90
6 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2018-2 3.570% 12/15/23 130 129
6 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2018-2 3.990% 4/15/25 100 99
6 CD 2016-CD1 Commercial Mortgage Trust 3.631% 8/10/49 270 252
6 CD 2017-CD3 Commercial Mortgage Trust 3.631% 2/10/50 140 139
6 CD 2017-CD4 Commercial Mortgage Trust 3.514% 5/10/50 80 78
6 CD 2017-CD5 Commercial Mortgage Trust 3.431% 8/15/50 105 102
6 CD 2017-CD6 Commercial Mortgage Trust 3.456% 11/13/50 45 44

 

14


 

Core Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
6 CFCRE Commercial Mortgage Trust 2016-C4 3.283% 5/10/58 61 58
6,12 Chesapeake Funding II LLC 2016-2A 1.880% 6/15/28 266 265
6,12 Chesapeake Funding II LLC 2018-1 3.040% 4/15/30 600 598
6,12 Chrysler Capital Auto Receivables        
  Trust 2014-BA 3.440% 8/16/21 200 200
6,12 Chrysler Capital Auto Receivables        
  Trust 2016-AA 2.880% 6/15/22 90 90
6,12 Chrysler Capital Auto Receivables        
  Trust 2016-AA 4.220% 2/15/23 90 91
6,12 Chrysler Capital Auto Receivables        
  Trust 2016-BA 1.870% 2/15/22 20 20
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage        
  Trust 2013-GC15 4.371% 9/10/46 30 31
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage        
  Trust 2014-GC19 4.023% 3/10/47 370 378
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage        
  Trust 2014-GC21 3.575% 5/10/47 311 313
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage        
  Trust 2014-GC23 3.622% 7/10/47 350 350
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage        
  Trust 2014-GC23 4.175% 7/10/47 230 232
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage        
  Trust 2014-GC25 3.372% 10/10/47 10 10
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage        
  Trust 2014-GC25 3.635% 10/10/47 360 359
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage        
  Trust 2014-GC25 4.345% 10/10/47 140 139
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage        
  Trust 2014-GC25 4.680% 10/10/47 175 168
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage        
  Trust 2015-GC27 3.137% 2/10/48 228 221
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage        
  Trust 2015-GC31 3.762% 6/10/48 110 110
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage        
  Trust 2015-GC33 3.778% 9/10/58 410 412
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage        
  Trust 2016-C1 3.209% 5/10/49 141 135
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage        
  Trust 2017-C4 3.471% 10/12/50 100 97
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage        
  Trust 2017-P8 3.465% 9/15/50 230 223
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage        
  Trust 2017-P8 4.192% 9/15/50 60 60
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage        
  Trust 2017-P8 4.413% 9/15/50 60 59
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage        
  Trust 2018-C5 4.228% 6/10/51 110 113
6,12 CKE Restaurants Holdings Inc 2018-1A 5.710% 6/20/48 580 582
6,9,12 Colony American Homes 2015-1 3.658% 7/17/32 70 70
6,9,12 Colony American Homes 2015-1A 3.358% 7/17/32 172 172
6,9,12 Colony Starwood Homes 2016-1A Trust 3.658% 7/17/33 298 298
6,9,12 Colony Starwood Homes 2016-1A Trust 4.308% 7/17/33 115 115
6,12 COMM 2012-CCRE3 Mortgage Trust 3.416% 10/15/45 40 39
6 COMM 2012-CCRE4 Mortgage Trust 3.251% 10/15/45 500 488

 

15


 

Core Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
6 COMM 2013-CCRE12 Mortgage Trust 3.765% 10/10/46 60 61
6 COMM 2013-CCRE12 Mortgage Trust 4.046% 10/10/46 500 512
6 COMM 2013-CCRE13 Mortgage Trust 4.194% 11/10/46 230 237
6,12 COMM 2013-CCRE6 Mortgage Trust 3.147% 3/10/46 150 145
6,12 COMM 2013-CCRE6 Mortgage Trust 3.397% 3/10/46 210 205
6 COMM 2013-CCRE8 Mortgage Trust 3.612% 6/10/46 10 10
6,12 COMM 2013-CCRE9 Mortgage Trust 4.399% 7/10/45 230 229
6,12 COMM 2014-277P Mortgage Trust 3.732% 8/10/49 100 100
6 COMM 2014-CCRE14 Mortgage Trust 4.236% 2/10/47 20 21
6 COMM 2014-CCRE15 Mortgage Trust 4.074% 2/10/47 350 359
6 COMM 2014-CCRE17 Mortgage Trust 3.700% 5/10/47 20 20
6 COMM 2014-CCRE17 Mortgage Trust 3.977% 5/10/47 350 357
6 COMM 2014-CCRE17 Mortgage Trust 4.898% 5/10/47 190 191
6 COMM 2014-CCRE18 Mortgage Trust 3.550% 7/15/47 30 30
  COMM 2014-CCRE20 Mortgage Trust 3.326% 11/10/47 20 20
6 COMM 2014-CCRE20 Mortgage Trust 3.590% 11/10/47 350 350
6 COMM 2014-CCRE21 Mortgage Trust 3.528% 12/10/47 50 50
6 COMM 2015-CCRE22 Mortgage Trust 3.309% 3/10/48 228 223
6 COMM 2015-CCRE25 Mortgage Trust 3.759% 8/10/48 120 121
6 COMM 2015-LC19 Mortgage Trust 3.183% 2/10/48 124 121
6 CSAIL 2015-C4 Commercial Mortgage Trust 3.808% 11/15/48 358 359
6 CSAIL 2016-C7 Commercial Mortgage Trust 3.502% 11/15/49 60 58
6 CSAIL 2017-C8 Commercial Mortgage Trust 3.392% 6/15/50 115 111
6 CSAIL 2018-CX12 Commercial Mortgage        
  Trust 4.224% 8/15/51 540 555
6,12 DB Master Finance LLC 2015-1A 3.980% 2/20/45 58 58
6 DBJPM 16-C1 Mortgage Trust 3.503% 5/10/49 140 130
6 DBJPM 17-C6 Mortgage Trust 3.328% 6/10/50 160 155
6,12 Dell Equipment Finance Trust 2017-2 1.970% 2/24/20 148 148
6,12 Dell Equipment Finance Trust 2017-2 2.190% 10/24/22 130 129
12 DNB Boligkreditt AS 2.500% 3/28/22 340 330
6,12 DRB Prime Student Loan Trust 2017-C 2.810% 11/25/42 370 359
6,12 Drive Auto Receivables Trust 2015-AA 3.060% 5/17/21 63 63
6,12 Drive Auto Receivables Trust 2015-DA 4.590% 1/17/23 132 134
6,12 Drive Auto Receivables Trust 2016-BA 4.530% 8/15/23 200 203
6,12 Drive Auto Receivables Trust 2016-C 2.370% 11/16/20 4 4
6,12 Drive Auto Receivables Trust 2016-C 4.180% 3/15/24 90 91
6 Drive Auto Receivables Trust 2017-1 3.840% 3/15/23 50 50
6 Drive Auto Receivables Trust 2017-3 2.300% 5/17/21 260 260
6 Drive Auto Receivables Trust 2017-3 2.800% 7/15/22 330 329
6 Drive Auto Receivables Trust 2018-2 3.220% 4/15/22 360 360
6 Drive Auto Receivables Trust 2018-2 3.630% 8/15/24 560 561
6 Drive Auto Receivables Trust 2018-2 4.140% 8/15/24 390 391
6 Drive Auto Receivables Trust 2018-3 3.370% 9/15/22 490 490
6 Drive Auto Receivables Trust 2018-3 3.720% 9/16/24 480 481
6 Drive Auto Receivables Trust 2018-3 4.300% 9/16/24 260 262
6,12 ELFI Graduate Loan Program 2018-A LLC 3.430% 8/25/42 310 308
5,6,9 Fannie Mae Connecticut Avenue Securities        
  2016-C04 3.666% 1/25/29 83 83
5,6,9 Fannie Mae Connecticut Avenue Securities        
  2016-C05 3.566% 1/25/29 125 125
5,6 Fannie Mae Grantor Trust 2017-T1 2.898% 6/25/27 20 19
6,9 First National Master Note Trust 2017-2 2.598% 10/16/23 250 250
6,12 Flagship Credit Auto Trust 2016-4 1.960% 2/16/21 84 84

 

16


 

Core Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
6 Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2017-B 2.170% 2/15/21 240 237
6 Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2018-A 3.170% 9/15/21 220 219
6,12 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2014-REV1 2.410% 11/15/25 250 249
6,12 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2014-REV2 2.510% 4/15/26 200 199
6 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2016-B 1.850% 9/15/21 200 197
6,12 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2017-1 2.620% 8/15/28 450 438
6,12 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2017-2 2.360% 3/15/29 650 624
6,12 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2017-2 2.600% 3/15/29 120 115
6,12 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2017-2 2.750% 3/15/29 250 239
6,12 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2018-2 3.470% 1/15/30 430 429
6,12 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2018-2 3.610% 1/15/30 260 258
6,12 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2018-2 3.760% 1/15/30 120 119
6,12 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2018-REV1 3.190% 7/15/31 250 243
6,12 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2018-REV1 3.340% 7/15/31 100 97
6 Ford Credit Floorplan Master Owner Trust A        
  Series 2014-2 2.310% 2/15/21 200 200
6 Ford Credit Floorplan Master Owner Trust A        
  Series 2017-1 2.070% 5/15/22 1,050 1,033
6 Ford Credit Floorplan Master Owner Trust A        
  Series 2017-2 2.160% 9/15/22 1,030 1,011
5,6,9 Freddie Mac Structured Agency Credit Risk        
  Debt Notes 2016-DNA3 4.216% 12/25/28 206 209
5,6,12 Freddie Mac Structured Agency Credit Risk        
  Debt Notes 2018-SPI1 3.745% 2/25/48 158 157
5,6,12 Freddie Mac Structured Agency Credit Risk        
  Debt Notes 2018-SPI2 3.820% 5/25/48 188 187
5,6,12 Freddie Mac Structured Agency Credit Risk        
  Debt Notes 2018-SPI3 4.168% 8/25/48 120 120
6,12 FRS I LLC 2013-1A 3.080% 4/15/43 181 181
6 GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust        
  2016-2 2.580% 3/20/20 190 190
6 GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust        
  2017-2 2.180% 6/21/21 90 89
6 GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust        
  2017-3 2.010% 11/20/20 200 198
6 GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust        
  2017-3 2.120% 9/20/21 80 79
6 GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust        
  2017-3 2.400% 9/20/21 80 79
6 GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust        
  2017-3 2.730% 9/20/21 40 39
6,12 GM Financial Consumer Automobile 2017-3 2.130% 3/16/23 150 146
6,12 GM Financial Consumer Automobile 2017-3 2.330% 3/16/23 40 39
6,12 GMF Floorplan Owner Revolving Trust        
  2016-1 2.410% 5/17/21 330 329
6,12 GMF Floorplan Owner Revolving Trust        
  2016-1 2.850% 5/17/21 330 329
6,12 GMF Floorplan Owner Revolving Trust        
  2017-2 2.440% 7/15/22 260 256
6,12 GMF Floorplan Owner Revolving Trust        
  2017-2 2.630% 7/15/22 140 138
6,12 Golden Credit Card Trust 2016-5A 1.600% 9/15/21 150 148
6,12 Golden Credit Card Trust 2018-1A 2.620% 1/15/23 630 621
6,12 Golden Credit Card Trust 2018-4A 3.440% 10/15/25 1,700 1,693

 

17


 

Core Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
6,12,13Gosforth Funding GFUND_18-1A PLC 2.714% 8/25/60 310 310
6,12 GreatAmerica Leasing Receivables Funding        
  LLC Series 2018-1 2.600% 6/15/21 170 168
6,12 GreatAmerica Leasing Receivables Funding        
  LLC Series 2018-1 2.830% 6/17/24 110 108
6 GS Mortgage Securities Corporation II        
  2015-GC30 3.382% 5/10/50 113 110
6 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2013-GCJ12 3.135% 6/10/46 350 345
6 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2013-GCJ14 3.955% 8/10/46 30 31
6 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2014-GC20 3.998% 4/10/47 350 357
6 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2014-GC24 3.931% 9/10/47 390 395
6 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2014-GC24 4.642% 9/10/47 170 173
6 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2014-GC24 4.663% 9/10/47 150 148
6 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2014-GC26 3.364% 11/10/47 150 147
6 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2014-GC26 3.629% 11/10/47 140 140
6 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2015-GC28 3.136% 2/10/48 30 29
6 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2015-GC28 3.396% 2/10/48 203 199
6 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2015-GC34 3.506% 10/10/48 50 49
6 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2016-GS3 2.850% 10/10/49 30 28
6 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2018-GS10 4.155% 7/10/51 300 306
6,12 Harley Marine Financing LLC Barge 2018-1 5.682% 5/15/43 188 186
6,12 Hertz Fleet Lease Funding LP 2018-1 3.230% 5/10/32 710 709
6,12 Hertz Vehicle Financing II LP 2015-1A 2.730% 3/25/21 850 842
6,12 Hertz Vehicle Financing II LP 2016-2A 2.950% 3/25/22 100 98
6,12 Hertz Vehicle Financing II LP 2016-3A 2.270% 7/25/20 25 25
6,12 Hertz Vehicle Financing II LP 2018-1A 3.290% 2/25/24 120 117
6,12 Hertz Vehicle Financing II LP 2018-1A 3.600% 2/25/24 110 107
6,12 Hertz Vehicle Financing II LP 2018-1A 4.390% 2/25/24 100 98
6,12 Hertz Vehicle Financing LLC 2017-2A 3.290% 10/25/23 100 97
6,12 Hertz Vehicle Financing LLC 2017-2A 4.200% 10/25/23 350 351
6,12 Hilton USA Trust 2016-HHV 3.719% 11/5/38 20 20
6,12,13Holmes Master Issuer PLC 2018-1 2.699% 10/15/54 530 529
6,12,13Holmes Master Issuer PLC 2018-2A 2.561% 10/15/54 390 388
6 Honda Auto Receivables 2017-4 Owner Trust 2.210% 3/21/24 80 78
6,12 Houston Galleria Mall Trust 2015-HGLR 3.087% 3/5/37 250 240
6,12 Hyundai Auto Lease Securitization Trust        
  2017-B 2.130% 3/15/21 200 198
6,12 Hyundai Auto Lease Securitization Trust        
  2017-C 2.120% 2/16/21 480 476
6,12 Hyundai Auto Lease Securitization Trust        
  2017-C 2.210% 9/15/21 100 99
6,12 Hyundai Auto Lease Securitization Trust        
  2017-C 2.460% 7/15/22 200 197
6,9,12 Invitation Homes 2017-SFR2 Trust 3.008% 12/17/36 378 377
6,9,12 Invitation Homes 2017-SFR2 Trust 3.309% 12/17/36 130 130
6,9,12 Invitation Homes 2018-SFR1 Trust 2.859% 3/17/37 288 286
6,9,12 Invitation Homes 2018-SFR1 Trust 3.109% 3/17/37 100 99
6 John Deere Owner Trust 2018-B 3.230% 6/16/25 180 179
6,12 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2011-C3 4.717% 2/15/46 1,688 1,733
6,12 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2011-C5 5.586% 8/15/46 550 573
6,12 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2011-RR1 4.717% 3/16/46 20 20

 

18


 

Core Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
6,12 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2012-C8 3.424% 10/15/45 90 89
6 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2013-C13 4.125% 1/15/46 230 227
6 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2013-C16 3.881% 12/15/46 10 10
6 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2013-LC11 2.960% 4/15/46 80 78
6 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2016-JP3 2.870% 8/15/49 50 47
6 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2016-JP4 3.648% 12/15/49 90 89
6 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2017-JP6 3.490% 7/15/50 70 68
6 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2013-C12 3.363% 7/15/45 1,579 1,567
6 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2013-C14 4.133% 8/15/46 30 31
6 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2013-C15 5.265% 11/15/45 30 31
6 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2014-C18 4.079% 2/15/47 380 389
6 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2014-C26 3.231% 1/15/48 350 342
6 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2014-C26 3.494% 1/15/48 350 347
6 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2015-C27 3.179% 2/15/48 258 250
6 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2015-C30 3.822% 7/15/48 80 80
6 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2015-C31 3.801% 8/15/48 100 100
6 JPMCC Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2017-JP5 3.723% 3/15/50 160 159
6 JPMCC Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2017-JP7 3.454% 9/15/50 80 78
6 JPMDB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2017-C7 3.409% 10/15/50 60 58
6 JPMDB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2018-C8 4.211% 6/15/51 50 51
6,12,13Lanark Master Issuer plc 2018-1A 2.730% 12/22/69 167 167
6,9,12 Lanark Master Issuer plc 2018-2A 2.844% 12/22/69 260 260
6,12 Laurel Road Prime Student Loan Trust        
  2018-B 3.540% 5/26/43 580 577
6,9,12 Master Credit Card Trust II Series 2018-1A 2.672% 7/22/24 250 249
6 Mercedes-Benz Auto Lease Trust 2018-A 2.510% 10/16/23 30 30
6,12 MMAF Equipment Finance LLC 2018-A 3.390% 1/10/25 120 120
6,12 MMAF Equipment Finance LLC 2018-A 3.610% 3/10/42 100 100
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2012-C5 3.792% 8/15/45 100 99
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2013-C10 4.219% 7/15/46 200 191
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2013-C12 4.259% 10/15/46 400 411

 

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Core Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2014-C15 3.773% 4/15/47 350 353
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2014-C15 4.051% 4/15/47 10 10
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2014-C15 5.053% 4/15/47 150 153
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2014-C16 3.892% 6/15/47 20 20
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2014-C16 4.479% 6/15/47 80 81
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2014-C17 3.741% 8/15/47 350 352
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2014-C18 3.923% 10/15/47 350 353
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2014-C19 3.526% 12/15/47 450 448
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2015-C20 3.249% 2/15/48 188 182
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2015-C24 3.732% 5/15/48 975 975
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2015-C25 3.635% 10/15/48 180 179
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2016-C29 3.325% 5/15/49 70 68
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2016-C29 4.909% 5/15/49 160 160
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2016-C32 3.720% 12/15/49 260 258
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2017-C34 3.536% 11/15/52 120 117
6 Morgan Stanley Capital I Trust 2015-UBS8 3.809% 12/15/48 499 498
6 Morgan Stanley Capital I Trust 2016-UBS9 3.594% 3/15/49 100 99
6 Morgan Stanley Capital I Trust 2017-HR2 3.587% 12/15/50 75 73
6,9,12 Motor PLC 2017 1A 2.746% 9/25/24 850 849
6,12 MSBAM Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2012-CKSV 3.277% 10/15/30 1,700 1,637
6,9,12 Navient Student Loan Trust 2016-2 3.266% 6/25/65 200 202
6,9,12 Navient Student Loan Trust 2016-3 3.066% 6/25/65 59 59
6,9,12 Navient Student Loan Trust 2016-6A 2.966% 3/25/66 100 101
6,9,12 Navient Student Loan Trust 2017-4A 2.716% 9/27/66 180 181
6,9,12 Navient Student Loan Trust 2017-A 2.558% 12/16/58 141 141
6,12 Navient Student Loan Trust 2017-A 2.880% 12/16/58 240 234
6,9,12 Navient Student Loan Trust 2018-1 2.936% 3/25/67 110 111
6,12 Navient Student Loan Trust 2018-BA 3.610% 12/15/59 230 229
6,12 Navient Student Loan Trust 2018-CA 3.010% 6/16/42 115 115
6,12 Navient Student Loan Trust 2018-CA 3.520% 6/16/42 550 547
6,12 NextGear Floorplan Master Owner Trust        
  2016-1A 2.740% 4/15/21 580 579
6 Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2017-A 1.910% 4/15/20 510 507
6 Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2017-A 2.040% 9/15/22 190 188
6 Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2017-B 2.050% 9/15/20 520 516
6 Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2017-B 2.170% 12/15/21 140 138
6 Nissan Auto Receivables 2017-C Owner        
  Trust 2.280% 2/15/24 320 312

 

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Core Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
6,9 Nissan Master Owner Trust Receivables        
  Series 2017-C 2.478% 10/17/22 735 736
6,12 Palisades Center Trust 2016-PLSD 2.713% 4/13/33 700 683
6,9,12 Pepper Residential Securities Trust        
  2017A-A1UA 3.233% 3/10/58 75 75
6,9,12 Pepper Residential Securities Trust        
  2019A-A1U1 2.489% 10/12/18 500 500
6,9,12 Pepper Residential Securities Trust        
  2021-A1U 3.038% 1/16/60 717 716
6,12,13Permanent Master Issuer PLC 2018-1A 2.747% 7/15/58 250 250
6,12 PFS Financing Corp 2017-B 2.220% 7/15/22 340 333
6,9,12 PFS Financing Corp. 2017-C 2.628% 10/15/21 410 410
6,12 PFS Financing Corp. 2017-D 2.400% 10/17/22 430 422
6,12 PFS Financing Corp. 2018-D 3.190% 4/17/23 250 248
6,9,12 PHEAA Student Loan Trust 2016-2A 3.166% 11/25/65 173 175
6,12 Progress Residential 2015-SFR3 Trust 3.067% 11/12/32 411 404
6,12 Progress Residential 2017-SFR2 Trust 2.897% 12/17/34 200 193
6,12 Progress Residential 2017-SFR2 Trust 3.196% 12/17/34 100 97
6,12 Progress Residential 2018-SFR1 Trust 3.255% 3/17/35 390 382
6,12 Progress Residential 2018-SFR1 Trust 3.484% 3/17/35 100 98
6,12 Progress Residential 2018-SFR3 Trust 3.880% 10/17/35 580 582
6 Public Service New Hampshire Funding LLC        
  2018-1 3.094% 2/1/26 220 219
6 Public Service New Hampshire Funding LLC        
  2018-1 3.506% 8/1/28 100 100
6 Public Service New Hampshire Funding LLC        
  2018-1 3.814% 2/1/35 100 100
6,9,12 Resimac Premier Series 2016-1A 3.523% 10/10/47 437 440
6,9,12 Resimac Premier Series 2018-1A 2.933% 11/10/49 628 627
6,9,12 Resimac Premier Series 2018-1NCA 2.987% 12/16/59 1,050 1,049
6 Santander Drive Auto Receivables Trust        
  2016-2 2.080% 2/16/21 102 101
6 Santander Drive Auto Receivables Trust        
  2016-2 2.660% 11/15/21 170 170
6 Santander Drive Auto Receivables Trust        
  2016-2 3.390% 4/15/22 140 140
6 Santander Drive Auto Receivables Trust        
  2016-3 2.460% 3/15/22 260 258
6 Santander Drive Auto Receivables Trust        
  2017-3 1.870% 6/15/21 220 219
6 Santander Drive Auto Receivables Trust        
  2017-3 2.760% 12/15/22 110 109
6 Santander Drive Auto Receivables Trust        
  2018-1 2.630% 7/15/22 360 358
6 Santander Drive Auto Receivables Trust        
  2018-1 2.960% 3/15/24 310 306
6 Santander Drive Auto Receivables Trust        
  2018-1 3.320% 3/15/24 140 137
6 Santander Drive Auto Receivables Trust        
  2018-3 3.290% 10/17/22 460 459
6 Santander Drive Auto Receivables Trust        
  2018-3 4.070% 8/15/24 760 759
6 Santander Drive Auto Receivables Trust        
  2018-4 3.980% 12/15/25 470 469

 

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Core Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
6,12 Santander Retail Auto Lease Trust 2017-A 2.370% 1/20/22 100 99
6,12 Santander Retail Auto Lease Trust 2017-A 2.680% 1/20/22 100 99
6,12 Santander Retail Auto Lease Trust 2018-A 3.490% 5/20/22 325 323
6,12 Securitized Term Auto Receivables Trust        
  2016-1A 1.524% 3/25/20 22 22
6,12 Securitized Term Auto Receivables Trust        
  2016-1A 1.794% 2/25/21 40 40
6,12 Securitized Term Auto Receivables Trust        
  2017-2A 2.289% 3/25/22 180 175
6 Small Business Administration Participation        
  Certs 2017-20 2.850% 10/1/37 3,922 3,747
6 Small Business Administration Participation        
  Certs 2017-20 2.790% 11/1/37 4,486 4,299
6 Small Business Administration Participation        
  Certs 2017-20 2.780% 12/1/37 3,921 3,754
6 Small Business Administration Participation        
  Certs 2018-20 2.920% 1/1/38 3,618 3,465
6 Small Business Administration Participation        
  Certs 2018-20 3.220% 2/1/38 3,962 3,866
6 Small Business Administration Participation        
  Certs 2018-20C 3.200% 3/1/38 8,313 8,076
6 SMART ABS Series 2016-2US Trust 2.050% 12/14/22 40 39
6,12 SMB Private Education Loan Trust 2016-A 2.700% 5/15/31 371 364
6,9,12 SMB Private Education Loan Trust 2016-B 3.608% 2/17/32 242 248
6,9,12 SMB Private Education Loan Trust 2016-C 3.258% 9/15/34 100 101
6,9,12 SMB Private Education Loan Trust 2017-A 3.058% 9/15/34 120 121
6,12 SMB Private Education Loan Trust 2017-B 2.820% 10/15/35 260 252
6,12 SMB Private Education Loan Trust 2018-B 3.600% 1/15/37 450 449
6,12 SMB Private Education Loan Trust 2018-C 3.630% 11/15/35 570 570
6,12 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2016-B LLC 2.740% 10/25/32 428 424
6,12 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2016-C LLC 2.360% 12/27/32 500 488
6,12 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2016-D LLC 2.340% 4/25/33 100 97
6,9,12 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2016-D LLC 3.166% 1/25/39 39 40
6,12 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2017-B LLC 2.740% 5/25/40 10 10
6,12 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2017-D LLC 2.650% 9/25/40 120 116
6,12 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2017-E LLC 1.860% 11/26/40 375 369
6,12 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2017-E LLC 2.720% 11/26/40 130 126
6,12 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2017-F LLC 2.840% 1/25/41 180 175
6,12 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2018-A LLC 2.950% 2/25/42 100 97
6,12 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2018-C LLC 3.590% 1/25/48 820 818
6,12 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2018-D LLC 3.600% 2/25/48 400 399
12 Stadshypotek AB 2.500% 4/5/22 500 486
6 Synchrony Credit Card Master Note Trust        
  2016-1 2.390% 3/15/22 345 344
6 Synchrony Credit Card Master Note Trust        
  2016-2 2.950% 5/15/24 140 137
6 Synchrony Credit Card Master Note Trust        
  2016-3 1.910% 9/15/22 100 99
6 Synchrony Credit Card Master Note Trust        
  2017-2 2.620% 10/15/25 560 543
6 Synchrony Credit Card Master Note Trust        
  2017-2 2.820% 10/15/25 170 164
6 Synchrony Credit Card Master Note Trust        
  2017-2 3.010% 10/15/25 230 223

 

22


 

Core Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
6,12 Taco Bell Funding LLC 2016-1A 4.377% 5/25/46 35 36
6,12 Taco Bell Funding LLC 2016-1A 4.970% 5/25/46 31 31
6,12 Tesla Auto Lease Trust 2018-A 2.320% 12/20/19 320 319
6,12 Tidewater Auto Receivables Trust 2018-AA 3.120% 7/15/22 390 390
6,12 Tidewater Auto Receivables Trust 2018-AA 3.450% 11/15/24 100 100
6,12 Tidewater Auto Receivables Trust 2018-AA 3.840% 11/15/24 100 100
6,12 Tidewater Auto Receivables Trust 2018-AA 4.300% 11/15/24 100 100
6,12 TMSQ 2014-1500 Mortgage Trust 3.680% 10/10/36 100 98
12 Toronto-Dominion Bank 2.250% 3/15/21 30 29
6,12 Trafigura Securitisation Finance plc 2017-1A 2.470% 12/15/20 890 873
6,12 Trafigura Securitisation Finance plc 2018-1A 3.730% 3/15/22 490 490
6,12 Trinity Rail Leasing LP TRL_18-1 4.620% 6/17/48 440 444
6,12 Trip Rail Master Funding LLC 2017-1A 2.709% 8/15/47 80 78
6,12 Triton Container Finance LLC 2018-A2 4.190% 6/22/43 653 652
6 UBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2017-C7 3.679% 12/15/50 30 30
6 UBS-Barclays Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2013-C6 3.469% 4/10/46 10 10
6,12 Vantage Data Centers Issuer, LLC 2018-1A 4.072% 2/16/43 119 120
6,12 Verizon Owner Trust 2017-3 2.060% 4/20/22 410 404
6,12 Verizon Owner Trust 2017-3 2.380% 4/20/22 240 236
6,12 Verizon Owner Trust 2017-3 2.530% 4/20/22 250 245
6,12 Verizon Owner Trust 2018-1 3.050% 9/20/22 350 347
6,9,12 Volvo Financial Equipment Master Owner        
  Trust 2017-A 2.568% 11/15/22 130 130
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2012-LC5 3.539% 10/15/45 40 40
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2013-LC12 4.218% 7/15/46 350 360
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2013-LC12 4.423% 7/15/46 450 459
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-C26 3.166% 2/15/48 110 107
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-C27 3.190% 2/15/48 388 380
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-C27 3.451% 2/15/48 2,530 2,496
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-C29 3.637% 6/15/48 680 678
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-C30 4.646% 9/15/58 200 198
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-LC22 3.839% 9/15/58 50 50
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-LC22 4.694% 9/15/58 160 158
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-SG1 3.789% 9/15/48 90 90
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2016-C37 3.525% 12/15/49 20 20
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2016-C37 3.794% 12/15/49 70 70
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2017-C38 3.453% 7/15/50 120 117
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2017-C39 3.157% 9/15/50 10 9

 

23


 

Core Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2017-C39 3.418% 9/15/50 240 232
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2017-C40 3.581% 10/15/50 280 274
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2017-C41 3.472% 11/15/50 100 97
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2017-C42 3.589% 12/15/50 195 191
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2017-RC1 3.631% 1/15/60 32 32
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2018-C46 4.152% 8/15/51 230 235
6,12 Wendys Funding LLC 2015-1A 4.497% 6/15/45 49 49
6,12 Wendys Funding LLC 2018-1 3.573% 3/15/48 99 95
6,12 Wendys Funding LLC 2018-1 3.884% 3/15/48 139 134
12 Westpac Banking Corp. 2.100% 2/25/21 40 39
6 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2013-C15 4.153% 8/15/46 100 103
6 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2013-C18 4.162% 12/15/46 20 21
6 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-C19 3.829% 3/15/47 200 201
6 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-C20 3.995% 5/15/47 20 20
6 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-C21 3.410% 8/15/47 10 10
6 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-C21 3.678% 8/15/47 360 362
6 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-C23 3.650% 10/15/57 286 285
6 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-C24 3.607% 11/15/47 380 378
6 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-LC14 4.045% 3/15/47 410 419
6 World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2015-B 2.150% 8/15/22 175 173
6 World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2018-A 2.890% 4/15/25 40 39
6 World Omni Automobile Lease Securitization        
  Trust 2018-A 2.830% 7/15/21 610 607
6 World Omni Automobile Lease Securitization        
  Trust 2018-A 2.940% 5/15/23 180 179
6 World Omni Automobile Lease Securitization        
  Trust 2018-B 3.300% 3/15/24 80 80
Total Asset-Backed/Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (Cost $137,859)   134,922
Corporate Bonds (24.5%)        
Finance (10.4%)        
  Banking (8.4%)        
  American Express Co. 3.700% 8/3/23 4,465 4,446
6 Bank of America Corp. 3.550% 3/5/24 8,610 8,507
  Bank of America Corp. 3.875% 8/1/25 205 203
12 Banque Federative du Credit Mutuel SA 3.750% 7/20/23 5,200 5,167
12 BNP Paribas SA 4.400% 8/14/28 2,600 2,546
14,15 BPCE SA 3.268% 4/24/20 2,000 1,457
6,14 BPCE SA 5.400% 10/27/25 1,070 800

 

24


 

Core Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
6 Citigroup Inc. 4.044% 6/1/24 2,125 2,130
  Comerica Inc. 3.700% 7/31/23 4,670 4,652
14,15 Cooperatieve Rabobank UA 4.600% 7/2/25 6,550 4,821
6 Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 2.908% 6/5/23 2,575 2,490
6 HSBC Holdings plc 3.950% 5/18/24 2,850 2,829
6,16 HSBC Holdings plc 2.256% 11/13/26 417 517
6 HSBC Holdings plc 4.583% 6/19/29 3,000 3,000
6 HSBC Holdings plc 6.000% 11/22/65 360 343
6,16 HSBC Holdings plc 5.875% 9/28/46 1,965 2,568
6 HSBC Holdings plc 6.500% 9/23/66 2,750 2,646
12 Intesa Sanpaolo SPA 3.875% 7/14/27 825 708
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. 3.125% 1/23/25 175 167
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. 3.900% 7/15/25 410 409
6 JPMorgan Chase & Co. 3.509% 1/23/29 850 802
6 JPMorgan Chase & Co. 4.005% 4/23/29 2,865 2,805
14,15 Lloyds Banking Group plc 3.331% 3/7/25 1,000 712
13 Morgan Stanley 3.563% 5/8/24 385 392
6 Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc 5.076% 1/27/30 1,600 1,602
  Santander Holdings USA Inc. 3.700% 3/28/22 3,555 3,504
  Santander Holdings USA Inc. 3.400% 1/18/23 1,650 1,590
  Santander Holdings USA Inc. 4.400% 7/13/27 1,705 1,628
6 Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB 5.750% 12/31/49 2,200 2,211
  Synchrony Bank 3.000% 6/15/22 770 738
  Synchrony Financial 3.700% 8/4/26 3,160 2,853
  Synchrony Financial 3.950% 12/1/27 3,865 3,502
14,15 Wells Fargo & Co. 3.065% 4/27/22 1,500 1,085
  Wells Fargo Bank NA 3.550% 8/14/23 3,435 3,414
  ZB NA 3.500% 8/27/21 4,930 4,902
 
  Finance Companies (0.4%)        
  GE Capital International Funding Co.        
  Unlimited Co. 4.418% 11/15/35 4,500 4,232
 
  Insurance (0.2%)        
17 Chubb INA Holdings Inc. 2.500% 3/15/38 1,500 1,752
 
  Real Estate Investment Trusts (1.4%)        
  Brixmor Operating Partnership LP 3.650% 6/15/24 285 274
  Brixmor Operating Partnership LP 3.850% 2/1/25 60 58
  Brixmor Operating Partnership LP 4.125% 6/15/26 855 829
  Camden Property Trust 4.625% 6/15/21 20 20
  Camden Property Trust 4.875% 6/15/23 25 26
  Camden Property Trust 4.250% 1/15/24 65 66
  Camden Property Trust 3.500% 9/15/24 30 29
  Physicians Realty LP 3.950% 1/15/28 6,285 5,868
  VEREIT Operating Partnership LP 4.875% 6/1/26 200 202
  VEREIT Operating Partnership LP 3.950% 8/15/27 3,400 3,197
12 WEA Finance LLC 4.125% 9/20/28 3,620 3,588
          102,287
Industrial (13.3%)        
  Basic Industry (0.2%)        
  Celulosa Arauco y Constitucion SA 5.500% 11/2/47 225 220
12 Eagle Intermediate Global Holding BV/Ruyi        
  US Finance LLC 7.500% 5/1/25 550 538

 

25


 

Core Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
12 Hi-Crush Partners LP 9.500% 8/1/26 250 232
  Nutrien Ltd. 6.500% 5/15/19 100 102
12 Suzano Austria GmbH 6.000% 1/15/29 1,000 1,002
 
  Capital Goods (1.5%)        
12 Berry Global Inc. 4.500% 2/15/26 338 321
  Embraer Netherlands Finance BV 5.050% 6/15/25 100 100
  Embraer SA 5.150% 6/15/22 400 414
17 General Electric Co. 2.125% 5/17/37 2,500 2,661
6 General Electric Co. 5.000% 12/31/49 10,435 10,161
12 Mueller Water Products Inc. 5.500% 6/15/26 850 854
18 Reynolds Group Issuer Inc. / Reynolds Group        
  Issuer LLC / Reynolds Group Issuer Lu 6.875% 2/15/21 260 263
  United Rentals North America Inc. 5.500% 5/15/27 365 362
  United Rentals North America Inc. 4.875% 1/15/28 61 58
 
  Communication (1.8%)        
12 Cequel Communications Holdings I LLC /        
  Cequel Capital Corp. 7.500% 4/1/28 250 262
  Comcast Corp. 3.375% 8/15/25 7,375 7,120
  Interpublic Group of Cos. Inc. 4.650% 10/1/28 585 586
  Interpublic Group of Cos. Inc. 5.400% 10/1/48 450 447
  Qwest Corp. 6.750% 12/1/21 468 501
  Qwest Corp. 7.250% 9/15/25 200 215
  T-Mobile USA Inc. 4.500% 2/1/26 500 476
  T-Mobile USA Inc. 4.750% 2/1/28 250 235
14 Verizon Communications Inc. 4.050% 2/17/25 1,250 910
  Viacom Inc. 4.375% 3/15/43 5,575 4,867
  Viacom Inc. 5.850% 9/1/43 2,025 2,114
 
  Consumer Cyclical (2.1%)        
12 1011778 BC ULC / New Red Finance Inc. 4.250% 5/15/24 155 147
12 1011778 BC ULC / New Red Finance Inc. 5.000% 10/15/25 565 541
  Boyd Gaming Corp. 6.000% 8/15/26 250 252
12 Churchill Downs Inc. 4.750% 1/15/28 350 327
  General Motors Co. 4.875% 10/2/23 8,000 8,189
  General Motors Financial Co. Inc. 4.200% 3/1/21 300 304
  General Motors Financial Co. Inc. 4.375% 9/25/21 510 518
  General Motors Financial Co. Inc. 3.500% 11/7/24 295 278
  General Motors Financial Co. Inc. 5.250% 3/1/26 650 664
12 Hilton Domestic Operating Co. Inc. 5.125% 5/1/26 950 944
12 Hyundai Capital America 3.100% 4/5/22 220 213
12 International Game Technology plc 6.250% 1/15/27 250 253
12 Live Nation Entertainment Inc. 5.625% 3/15/26 217 219
  MGM Resorts International 5.750% 6/15/25 659 661
12 Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp. 3.875% 9/21/23 5,500 5,502
12 Performance Food Group Inc. 5.500% 6/1/24 1,370 1,356
 
  Consumer Noncyclical (1.4%)        
  Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc. 4.600% 4/15/48 3,745 3,622
12 Aramark Services Inc. 5.000% 2/1/28 715 701
  Campbell Soup Co. 4.800% 3/15/48 3,285 3,000
  CVS Health Corp. 4.300% 3/25/28 4,700 4,663

 

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Core Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
  HCA Inc. 5.625% 9/1/28 1,032 1,037
12 Hologic Inc. 4.375% 10/15/25 325 310
12 Hologic Inc. 4.625% 2/1/28 300 281
 
  Energy (4.1%)        
  Andeavor 4.750% 12/15/23 1,000 1,035
  Baker Hughes a GE Co. LLC / Baker Hughes        
  Co-Obligor Inc. 3.337% 12/15/27 3,000 2,812
  BP Capital Markets plc 3.814% 2/10/24 3,000 3,029
  Buckeye Partners LP 4.125% 12/1/27 375 346
  Buckeye Partners LP 5.600% 10/15/44 900 837
  Cenovus Energy Inc. 3.000% 8/15/22 3,000 2,876
  Cenovus Energy Inc. 4.450% 9/15/42 1,500 1,314
  Continental Resources Inc. 4.500% 4/15/23 5,500 5,596
  Enable Midstream Partners LP 4.950% 5/15/28 1,480 1,471
12 Enbridge Energy Partners LP 3.116% 10/2/18 250 250
12 Enbridge Energy Partners LP 3.119% 10/26/18 375 374
  Energy Transfer Equity LP 5.500% 6/1/27 1,028 1,065
  Energy Transfer LP 9.700% 3/15/19 260 268
  Energy Transfer Partners LP 6.000% 6/15/48 1,025 1,092
12 Eni SPA 4.750% 9/12/28 4,880 4,821
  Sabine Pass Liquefaction LLC 5.625% 3/1/25 5,432 5,792
  Sunoco Logistics Partners Operations LP 5.950% 12/1/25 6,245 6,723
12 Tallgrass Energy Partners LP / Tallgrass        
  Energy Finance Corp. 4.750% 10/1/23 243 243
  Western Gas Partners LP 4.750% 8/15/28 105 103
  Western Gas Partners LP 5.500% 8/15/48 105 99
 
  Other Industrial (0.1%)        
17 Aroundtown SA 1.875% 1/19/26 500 570
16 Aroundtown SA 3.000% 10/16/29 622 760
 
  Technology (1.0%)        
  Broadcom Corp. / Broadcom Cayman        
  Finance Ltd. 3.625% 1/15/24 1,555 1,512
  Broadcom Corp. / Broadcom Cayman        
  Finance Ltd. 3.125% 1/15/25 500 464
  Broadcom Corp. / Broadcom Cayman        
  Finance Ltd. 3.875% 1/15/27 2,500 2,359
  Broadcom Corp. / Broadcom Cayman        
  Finance Ltd. 3.500% 1/15/28 900 817
12 Diamond 1 Finance Corp. / Diamond 2        
  Finance Corp. 6.020% 6/15/26 1,245 1,327
12 Diamond 1 Finance Corp. / Diamond 2        
  Finance Corp. 8.100% 7/15/36 1,500 1,792
12 Vantiv LLC / Vanity Issuer Corp. 4.375% 11/15/25 480 455
  Western Digital Corp. 4.750% 2/15/26 1,100 1,062
 
  Transportation (1.1%)        
6,12 Air Canada 2013-1 Class B Pass Through        
  Trust 5.375% 5/15/21 2,192 2,238
14 Asciano Finance Ltd. 5.400% 5/12/27 1,000 748
14 Aurizon Network Pty Ltd. 4.000% 6/21/24 2,500 1,803

 

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Core Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
6 Continental Airlines 2005-ERJ1 Pass Through        
  Trust 9.798% 10/1/22 152 159
14 Qantas Airways Ltd. 7.500% 6/11/21 5,000 4,003
6 UAL 2007-1 Pass Through Trust 6.636% 7/2/22 1,419 1,483
          130,701
Utilities (0.8%)        
  Electric (0.7%)        
12 Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co. 4.450% 1/15/49 2,100 2,090
12 EDP Finance BV 4.125% 1/15/20 794 798
12 EDP Finance BV 5.250% 1/14/21 1,600 1,642
12 EDP Finance BV 3.625% 7/15/24 2,750 2,633
  Exelon Corp. 3.950% 6/15/25 130 130
 
  Other Utility (0.1%)        
14 DBNGP Finance Co. Pty Ltd. 4.225% 5/28/25 750 548
          7,841
Total Corporate Bonds (Cost $245,506)       240,829
Sovereign Bonds (7.2%)        
12 Arab Petroleum Investments Corp. 4.125% 9/18/23 2,800 2,815
  Argentine Republic 4.625% 1/11/23 1,132 955
  Argentine Republic 6.875% 1/26/27 1,695 1,441
  Bermuda 5.603% 7/20/20 500 517
  Bermuda 4.854% 2/6/24 320 333
  BOC Aviation Ltd. 3.875% 5/9/19 200 200
12 CDP Financial Inc. 4.400% 11/25/19 600 610
  Corp. Andina de Fomento 2.125% 9/27/21 750 722
  Corp. Financiera de Desarrollo SA 4.750% 2/8/22 1,000 1,020
  Corp. Nacional del Cobre de Chile 4.500% 9/16/25 200 203
12 CPPIB Capital Inc. 1.250% 9/20/19 200 197
  Dominican Republic 6.600% 1/28/24 1,900 2,009
  Equinor ASA 2.450% 1/17/23 600 578
12 Export-Import Bank of India 3.875% 2/1/28 240 223
  Export-Import Bank of Korea 2.250% 1/21/20 1,200 1,181
  Export-Import Bank of Korea 5.125% 6/29/20 500 513
  Export-Import Bank of Korea 3.000% 11/1/22 200 195
12 ICBCIL Finance Co. Ltd. 2.375% 5/19/19 300 297
19 Japan Bank for International Cooperation 2.125% 11/16/20 2,400 2,346
12,17 Kingdom of Spain 2.700% 10/31/48 2,273 2,705
  Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. Ltd. 3.000% 9/19/22 200 194
  NTPC Ltd. 4.250% 2/26/26 250 239
12 Ontario Teachers’ Cadillac Fairview        
  Properties Trust 3.125% 3/20/22 200 196
12 Ontario Teachers’ Cadillac Fairview        
  Properties Trust 3.875% 3/20/27 200 199
  Petroleos Mexicanos 8.000% 5/3/19 5,000 5,138
  Petroleos Mexicanos 5.500% 1/21/21 2,775 2,865
  Petroleos Mexicanos 6.875% 8/4/26 1,350 1,418
  Petroleos Mexicanos 6.500% 3/13/27 1,270 1,295
  Petroleos Mexicanos 5.625% 1/23/46 500 424
12,17 Portugal Obrigacoes do Tesouro OT 2.125% 10/17/28 900 1,068
  Province of Ontario 1.625% 1/18/19 1,000 997
  Province of Ontario 2.000% 1/30/19 500 499

 

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Core Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
  Province of Ontario 4.400% 4/14/20 160 163
  Province of Quebec 7.125% 2/9/24 200 234
  Republic of Colombia 7.375% 3/18/19 6,500 6,627
  Republic of Colombia 10.375% 1/28/33 1,652 2,513
  Republic of Croatia 6.750% 11/5/19 1,500 1,553
  Republic of Guatemala 5.750% 6/6/22 900 934
  Republic of Hungary 6.250% 1/29/20 1,200 1,247
17 Republic of Hungary 1.250% 10/22/25 1,250 1,440
  Republic of Latvia 2.750% 1/12/20 2,000 1,983
  Republic of Lithuania 6.125% 3/9/21 365 389
  Republic of Panama 8.125% 4/28/34 150 201
  Republic of Poland 5.125% 4/21/21 615 643
  Republic of Poland 5.000% 3/23/22 70 74
  Republic of Serbia 5.875% 12/3/18 1,000 1,003
  Russian Federation 5.250% 6/23/47 400 384
12 Sinopec Group Overseas Development        
  2018 Ltd. 4.250% 9/12/28 693 682
  Socialist Republic of Vietnam 6.750% 1/29/20 800 830
  State of Israel 4.500% 1/30/43 200 203
  State of Israel 4.125% 1/17/48 300 285
  State of Qatar 5.250% 1/20/20 4,000 4,103
20 United Mexican States 8.000% 12/7/23 210,000 11,326
20 United Mexican States 10.000% 12/5/24 5,000 296
  YPF SA 8.875% 12/19/18 600 601
Total Sovereign Bonds (Cost $71,720)       71,306
Taxable Municipal Bonds (0.1%)        
  California GO 7.550% 4/1/39 500 730
  Chicago IL Board of Education GO 6.319% 11/1/29 100 99
  Wisconsin Annual Appropriation Revenue 3.954% 5/1/36 500 494
Total Taxable Municipal Bonds (Cost $1,337)       1,323
 
        Shares  
Temporary Cash Investments (6.3%)        
Money Market Fund (6.2%)        
21 Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund 2.209%   615,774 61,577
 
        Face  
        Amount  
        ($000)  
Commercial Paper (0.1%)        
22 Enbridge Energy Partners LP 3.073% 10/9/18 625 624
Total Temporary Cash Investments (Cost $62,203)     62,201

 

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Core Bond Fund          
 
 
 
        Notional Market
  Expiration Exercise   Amount Value
  Date Price Contracts ($000) ($000)
Options Purchased (0.0%)          
Exchange-Traded Options Purchased        
Call Options          
10-Year U.S. Treasury Note        
Futures Contracts 10/26/18 120.00 17 2,040 2

 

        Notional  
        Amount on  
        Underlying  
    Expiration Exercise Swap  
  Counterparty Date Rate ($000)  
OTC Credit Default Swaptions Purchased (0.0%)      
Put Swaptions          
CDX-NA-IG-S30-V1, Pays        
1.00% Quarterly DBAG 10/17/18 67.50% 3,155
Total Options Purchased (Cost $4)       2
Total Investments (98.3%) (Cost $991,133)       968,556
Other Assets and Liabilities (1.7%)        
Other Assets         124,181
Liabilities         (107,831)
          16,350
Net Assets (100%)         984,906

 

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Core Bond Fund  
 
 
 
 
  Amount
  ($000)
Statement of Assets and Liabilities  
Assets  
Investments in Securities, at Value  
Unaffiliated Issuers 906,977
Affiliated Issuers 61,577
Options Purchased 2
Total Investments in Securities 968,556
Investment in Vanguard 50
Receivables for Investment Securities Sold 115,718
Receivables for Accrued Income 6,160
Receivables for Capital Shares Issued 1,173
Variation Margin Receivable—Futures Contracts 24
Variation Margin Receivable—CC Swap Contracts 3
Unrealized Appreciation—Forward Currency Contracts 631
Unrealized Appreciation—OTC Swap Contracts 47
Other Assets 375
Total Assets 1,092,737
Liabilities  
Payables for Investment Securities Purchased 105,057
Payables for Capital Shares Redeemed 1,401
Payables for Distributions 411
Payables to Vanguard 102
Options Written, at Value23 107
Variation Margin Payable—Futures Contracts 178
Variation Margin Payable—CC Swap Contracts 1
Unrealized Depreciation—Forward Currency Contracts 213
Unrealized Depreciation—OTC Swap Contracts 148
Other Liabilities 213
Total Liabilities 107,831
Net Assets 984,906

 

At September 30, 2018, net assets consisted of:  
  Amount
  ($000)
Paid-in Capital 1,029,096
Undistributed Net Investment Income 637
Accumulated Net Realized Losses (20,205)
Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)  
Investment Securities (22,575)
Futures Contracts (2,295)
Options (4)
Swap Contracts (183)
Forward Currency Contracts 418
Foreign Currencies 17
Net Assets 984,906

 

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Core Bond Fund  
 
 
  Amount
  ($000)
Investor Shares—Net Assets  
Applicable to 8,327,530 outstanding $.001 par value shares of  
beneficial interest (unlimited authorization) 79,865
Net Asset Value Per Share—Investor Shares $9.59
 
Admiral Shares—Net Assets  
Applicable to 47,198,495 outstanding $.001 par value shares of  
beneficial interest (unlimited authorization) 905,041
Net Asset Value Per Share—Admiral Shares $19.18

 

See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements.
1 Securities with a value of $610,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open cleared swap contracts.
2 Securities with a value of $3,235,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open futures contracts.
3 U.S. government-guaranteed.
4 The issuer operates under a congressional charter; its securities are generally neither guaranteed by the U.S. Treasury nor backed
by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.
5 The issuer was placed under federal conservatorship in September 2008; since that time, its daily operations have been managed
by the Federal Housing Finance Agency and it receives capital from the U.S. Treasury, as needed to maintain a positive net worth,
in exchange for senior preferred stock.
6 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.
7 Includes securities purchased on a when-issued or delayed-delivery basis for which the fund has not taken delivery as of
September 30, 2018.
8 Adjustable-rate security based upon one-year Constant Maturity Treasury yield plus spread.
9 Adjustable-rate security based upon 1-month USD LIBOR plus spread.
10 Interest-only security.
11 Inverse floating rate interest-only security whose interest rate is derived by subtracting 1-month USD LIBOR from a cap.
12 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 September 30, 2018, the aggregate value of these
securities was $105,987,000, representing 10.8% of net assets.
13 Adjustable-rate security based upon 3-month USD LIBOR plus spread.
14 Face amount denominated in Australian dollars.
15 Adjustable-rate security based upon 3-month AUD Australian Bank Bill Rate plus spread.
16 Face amount denominated in British pounds.
17 Face amount denominated in euro.
18 Scheduled principal and interest payments are guaranteed by bank letter of credit.
19 Guaranteed by the Government of Japan.
20 Face amount denominated in Mexican peso.
21 Affiliated money market fund available only to Vanguard funds and certain trusts and accounts managed by Vanguard. Rate shown
is the 7-day yield.
22 Security exempt from registration under Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933. Such securities may be sold in transactions
exempt from registration only to dealers in that program or other “accredited investors.” At September 30, 2018, the value of
these securities was $624,000, representing 0.1% of net assets.
23 Includes premium received of $105,000.
CC—Centrally Cleared.
DBAG—Deutsche Beteiligungs AG.
GO—General Obligation Bond.
OTC—Over-the-Counter.
REMICS—Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduits.

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Core Bond Fund          
 
 
Derivative Financial Instruments Outstanding as of Period End      
Options Written          
        Notional Market
  Expiration   Exercise Amount Value
  Date Contracts Price ($000) ($000)
Exchange-Traded Options          
Call Options          
10-Year U.S. Treasury Note Futures Contract 10/26/18 17 118.50 2,015 (9)
10-Year U.S. Treasury Note Futures Contract 10/26/18 34 119.00 4,046 (11)
10-Year U.S. Treasury Note Futures Contract 10/26/18 17 119.50 2,032 (3)
10-Year U.S. Treasury Note Futures Contract 10/26/18 34 120.50 4,097 (1)
          (24)
 
Put Options          
10-Year U.S. Treasury Note Futures Contract 10/26/18 17 118.50 2,015 (5)
10-Year U.S. Treasury Note Futures Contract 10/26/18 34 119.00 4,046 (18)
10-Year U.S. Treasury Note Futures Contract 10/26/18 17 119.50 2,032 (15)
10-Year U.S. Treasury Note Futures Contract 10/26/18 17 120.00 2,040 (22)
10-Year U.S. Treasury Note Futures Contract 11/23/18 18 118.50 2,133 (8)
          (68)
          (92)

 

        Notional  
        Amount on  
        Underlying Market
  Expiration Exercise Swap Value
  Counterparty Date Rate ($000) ($000)
OTC Credit Default Swaptions Written          
Call Options          
CDX-NA-IG-S30-V1, Receives 1.00% Quarterly DBAG 10/17/18 60.00% 3,155 (7)
CDX-NA-IG-S31-V1, Receives 1.00% Quarterly DBAG 11/21/18 62.50% 2,080 (4)
          (11)
 
Put Options          
CDX-NA-IG-S30-V1, Pays 1.00% Quarterly DBAG 10/17/18 60.00% 3,155 (1)
CDX-NA-IG-S31-V1, Pays 1.00% Quarterly DBAG 11/21/18 62.50% 2,080 (3)
          (4)
          (15)
Total Options Written         (107)
DBAG—Deutsche Beteiligungs AG.          

 

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Core Bond Fund        
 
 
Futures Contracts        
        ($000)
        Value and
    Number of   Unrealized
    Long (Short) Notional Appreciation
  Expiration Contracts Amount (Depreciation)
Long Futures Contracts        
Ultra Long U. S. Treasury Bond December 2018 386 59,553 (1,774)
30-Year U. S. Treasury Bond December 2018 273 38,357 (734)
5-Year U. S. Treasury Note December 2018 250 28,119 7
2-Year U. S. Treasury Note December 2018 113 23,813 (22)
10-Year U. S. Treasury Note December 2018 173 20,549 30
Euro-Buxl December 2018 56 10,324 17
        (2,476)
 
Short Futures Contracts        
Euro-Buxl December 2018 (33) (6,679) 101
Long Gilt December 2018 (35) (5,517) 20
AUD 3-Year Treasury Bond December 2018 (60) (4,826) 9
AUD 10-Year Treasury Bond December 2018 (26) (2,422) 20
Ultra 10-Year U.S. Treasury Note December 2018 (15) (1,890) 27
Euro-Bobl December 2018 (7) (1,062) 4
        181
        (2,295)

 

Forward Currency Contracts            
            Unrealized
  Contract         Appreciation
      Contract Amount (000)  
  Settlement         (Depreciation)
Counterparty Date   Receive   Deliver ($000)
Goldman Sachs Bank AG 10/15/18 EUR 14,951 USD 17,478 (99)
BNP Paribas 10/15/18 GBP 1,625 USD 2,130 (11)
Bank of America, N.A. 10/15/18 EUR 607 USD 711 (6)
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. 10/15/18 EUR 125 USD 145
Deutsche Bank AG 10/15/18 EUR 49 USD 58 (1)
Citibank, N.A. 11/15/18 AUD 71 USD 51
Bank of America, N.A. 11/15/18 AUD 70 USD 51
Deutsche Bank AG 10/15/18 USD 25,634 EUR 21,878 202
Toronto-Dominion Bank 11/15/18 USD 13,418 AUD 18,099 330
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. 10/15/18 USD 11,629 MXN 219,996 (96)

 

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Core Bond Fund            
 
 
Forward Currency Contracts (continued)          
            Unrealized
  Contract         Appreciation
      Contract Amount (000)  
  Settlement         (Depreciation)
Counterparty Date   Receive   Deliver ($000)
Bank of America, N.A. 10/15/18 USD 5,872 GBP 4,465 49
Goldman Sachs Bank AG 11/15/18 USD 3,072 AUD 4,215 24
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. 10/15/18 USD 2,779 EUR 2,373 21
HSBC 11/15/18 USD 796 AUD 1,094 5
Goldman Sachs Bank AG 10/15/18 USD 116 EUR 100
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. 11/15/18 USD 50 AUD 70
Citibank, N.A. 11/15/18 USD 39 AUD 54
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. 11/15/18 USD 26 AUD 37
            418
AUD—Australian dollar.            
EUR—euro.            
GBP—British pound.            
MXN—Mexican peso.            
USD—U.S. dollar.            

 

Centrally Cleared Credit Default Swaps          
        Periodic    
        Premium   Unrealized
        Received   Appreciation
  Termination Notional Amount (Paid)1 Value (Depreciation)
Reference Entity Date   (000) (%) ($000) ($000)
Credit Protection Sold            
CDX-NA-HY-S30-V1 6/20/23 USD 424 5.000 33 1
CDX-NA-IG-S30-V1 6/20/23 USD 2,092 1.000 42 3
iTraxx Europe-S30-V1 12/20/23 EUR 1,062 1.000 20
            4
 
Credit Protection Purchased            
CDX-NA-IG-S30-V1 12/20/23 USD 40,210 (1.000) (777) (70)
            (66)
1 Periodic premium received/paid quarterly.          
EUR—euro.            
USD—U.S. dollar.            

 

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Core Bond Fund              
 
 
Over-the-Counter Credit Default Swaps          
            Remaining  
        Periodic   Up-Front  
        Premium   Premium Unrealized
      Notional Received   Received Appreciation
Termination   Amount (Paid)2 Value (Paid) (Depreciation)
Reference Entity Date Counterparty ($000) (%) ($000) ($000) ($000)
Credit Protection Sold/Moody’s Rating          
Berkshire Hathaway              
Inc./Aa2 6/20/21 JPMC 70 1.000 1 1
Berkshire Hathaway              
Inc./Aa2 6/20/21 GSI 55 1.000 1 1
Berkshire Hathaway              
Inc./Aa2 6/20/22 BARC 450 1.000 9 (6) 3
Berkshire Hathaway              
Inc./Aa2 12/20/22 BARC 400 1.000 8 (6) 2
Berkshire Hathaway              
Inc./Aa2 6/20/24 BARC 600 1.000 8 (6) 2
Berkshire Hathaway              
Inc./Aa2 6/20/24 JPMC 600 1.000 8 (5) 3
Metlife Inc./A3 12/20/21 BARC 100 1.000 2 2
Metlife Inc./A3 6/20/24 BARC 700 1.000 7 (1) 6
People’s Republic of              
China/A3 6/20/22 BNPSW 200 1.000 4 (1) 3
Petroleos Mexicanos/              
Baa3 12/20/23 DBAG 930 1.000 (58) 56 (2)
Republic of Peru/A3 12/20/23 BOANA 1,400 1.000 17 (12) 5
Russian Federation/Ba1 12/20/23 JPMC 275 1.000 (6) 8 2
Russian Federation/Ba1 12/20/23 JPMC 550 1.000 (12) 16 4
Southern Co. /Baa2 6/20/22 JPMC 1,725 1.000 32 (22) 10
Valeo SA/Baa2 6/20/23 GSI 2,460 1.000 1 (3) (2)
Valeo SA/Baa2 6/20/23 JPMC 2,100 1.000 1 (6) (5)
Valeo SA/Baa2 12/20/23 GSI 500 1.000 (3) 1 (2)
          20 13 33

 

Credit Protection Purchased            
Bank of China Ltd. 12/20/21 BNPSW 100 (1.000) (2) (2)
Bank of China Ltd. 6/20/22 BNPSW 200 (1.000) (4) (4)
Barclays Bank plc 6/20/22 CSFBI 4251 (1.000) (9) 7 (2)
Barclays Bank plc 6/20/22 BOANA 4251 (1.000) (9) 7 (2)
Barclays Bank plc 12/20/22 CITNA 1861 (1.000) 6 (6)
CECONOMY AG 6/20/22 BARC 2101 (1.000) (1) (1)
CECONOMY AG 6/20/22 BARC 851 (1.000)
CECONOMY AG 6/20/22 BARC 851 (1.000)
CECONOMY AG 6/20/22 BARC 2901 (1.000) (1) (1)
CECONOMY AG 6/20/22 BARC 2101 (1.000) (1) (1)
CECONOMY AG 6/20/22 BARC 851 (1.000)

 

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Core Bond Fund              
 
 
Over-the-Counter Credit Default Swaps (continued)        
            Remaining  
        Periodic   Up-Front  
        Premium   Premium Unrealized
      Notional Received   Received Appreciation
Termination   Amount (Paid)2 Value (Paid) (Depreciation)
Reference Entity Date Counterparty ($000) (%) ($000) ($000) ($000)
Commerzbank AG 6/20/21 BOANA 505 (1.000) (7) (5) (12)
Deutsche Bank AG 12/20/22 JPMC 440 (1.000) 2 1 3
Dominion Energy Inc. 6/20/22 JPMC 215 (1.000) (6) 6
Exelon Corp. 6/20/22 JPMC 345 (1.000) (9) 8 (1)
Exelon Corp. 6/20/22 JPMC 215 (1.000) (6) 5 (1)
Lincoln National Corp. 6/20/21 BARC 35 (1.000) (1) 1
Lincoln National Corp. 6/20/21 BARC 25 (1.000) (1) (1)
Lincoln National Corp. 12/20/21 BARC 100 (1.000) (2) (2)
McDonald’s Corp. 6/20/22 GSI 325 (1.000) (10) 8 (2)
People’s Republic of              
China 6/20/23 GSI 1,200 (1.000) (27) 16 (11)
Republic of Colombia 6/20/23 GSI 650 (1.000) (1) (9) (10)
Sempra Energy 6/20/22 JPMC 345 (1.000) (9) 8 (1)
Sempra Energy 6/20/22 JPMC 215 (1.000) (5) 5
Societe Generale SA 12/20/21 JPMC 325 (1.000) (7) 1 (6)
Standard Chartered              
Bank 12/20/21 JPMC 185 (1.000) (4) (4)
State of Qatar 6/20/22 BOANA 340 (1.000) (7) (3) (10)
State of Qatar 6/20/22 CITNA 660 (1.000) (14) (6) (20)
Telia Company AB 6/20/23 BARC 5,9001 (1.000) (210) 171 (39)
United Mexican States 12/20/23 JPMC 1,575 (1.000) 8 (12) (4)
          (334) 200 (134)
          (314) 213 (101)

 

The notional amount represents the maximum potential amount the fund could be required to pay as a seller of credit protection if the reference entity was subject to a credit event.

1 Notional amount denominated in euro.
2 Periodic premium received/paid quarterly.
BARC—BarclaysBankplc.
BNPSW—BNP Paribas.
BOANA—BankofAmerica,N.A.
CITNA—CitibankN.A.
CSFBI—Credit Suisse First Boston International.
DBAG—Deutsche Beteiligungs AG.
GSI—Goldman Sachs International.
JPMC—JP Morgan Chase Bank.

At September 30, 2018, the counterparties had deposited in segregated accounts securities with a value of $568,000 in connection with forward currency contracts and over-the-counter swap contracts.

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Centrally Cleared Interest Rate Swaps          
      Fixed Floating    
      Interest Interest    
      Rate Rate   Unrealized
  Future Notional Received Received   Appreciation
  Effective Amount (Paid)2 (Paid) 3 Value (Depreciation)
Termination Date Date ($000) (%) (%) ($000) ($000)
12/19/19 12/19/181 2,298 2.500 (0.000) (10) (1)
12/21/20 12/19/181 5,332 2.750 (0.000) (34) (6)
12/20/21 12/19/181 1,884 2.750 (0.000) (19) (4)
12/19/22 12/19/181 1,098 2.750 (0.000) (15) (2)
12/19/23 12/19/181 774 2.750 (0.000) (13) (3)
12/19/28 12/19/181 113 2.750 (0.000) (3)
            (16)

 

1 Forward interest rate swap. In a forward interest rate swap, the fund and the counterparty agree to make periodic net payments beginning on a specified future effective date.

2 Fixed interest payment received/paid semiannually.

3 Based on 3-month London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) as of the most recent payment date. Floating interest payment received/ paidquarterly.

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

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Statement of Operations

  Year Ended
  September 30, 2018
  ($000)
Investment Income  
Income  
Interest1 28,403
Total Income 28,403
Expenses  
The Vanguard Group—Note B  
Investment Advisory Services 118
Management and Administrative—Investor Shares 176
Management and Administrative—Admiral Shares 877
Marketing and Distribution—Investor Shares 19
Marketing and Distribution—Admiral Shares 67
Custodian Fees 29
Auditing Fees 44
Shareholders’ Reports and Proxy—Investor Shares 7
Shareholders’ Reports and Proxy—Admiral Shares 10
Trustees’ Fees and Expenses 1
Total Expenses 1,348
Net Investment Income 27,055
Realized Net Gain (Loss)  
Investment Securities Sold1 (14,566)
Futures Contracts (2,314)
Purchased Options (142)
Written Options 208
Swap Contracts (253)
Forward Currency Contracts 861
Foreign Currencies 42
Realized Net Gain (Loss) (16,164)
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)  
Investment Securities1 (21,288)
Futures Contracts (1,785)
Purchased Options 4
Written Options 11
Swap Contracts 149
Forward Currency Contracts 132
Foreign Currencies 14
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) (22,763)
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations (11,872)

 

1 Interest income, realized net gain (loss), and change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) from an affiliated company of the fund were $466,000, ($1,000), and ($5,000), respectively. Purchases and sales are for temporary cash investment purposes.

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

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Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  Year Ended September 30,
  2018 2017
  ($000) ($000)
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets    
Operations    
Net Investment Income 27,055 16,282
Realized Net Gain (Loss) (16,164) (3,532)
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) (22,763) (9,822)
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations (11,872) 2,928
Distributions    
Net Investment Income    
Investor Shares (2,501) (1,458)
Admiral Shares (25,700) (13,502)
Realized Capital Gain1    
Investor Shares (378)
Admiral Shares (3,414)
Total Distributions (28,201) (18,752)
Capital Share Transactions    
Investor Shares (7,025) 27,383
Admiral Shares 147,597 229,954
Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions 140,572 257,337
Total Increase (Decrease) 100,499 241,513
Net Assets    
Beginning of Period 884,407 642,894
End of Period2 984,906 884,407

 

1 Includes fiscal 2018 and 2017 short-term gain distributions totaling $0 and $3,792,000, respectively. Short-term gain distributions are treated as ordinary income dividends for tax purposes.

2 Net Assets—End of Period includes undistributed (overdistributed) net investment income of $637,000 and $404,000.

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

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Financial Highlights

Investor Shares      
    March 10,
  Year Ended 20161 to
  September 30, Sept. 30,
For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Period 2018 2017 2016
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period $10.00 $10.26 $10.00
Investment Operations      
Net Investment Income . 269 2 .2172 .097
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments (.400) (.219) .259
Total from Investment Operations (.131) (. 002) . 356
Distributions      
Dividends from Net Investment Income (. 279) (.197) (. 096)
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains (.061)
Total Distributions (. 279) (. 258) (. 096)
Net Asset Value, End of Period $9.59 $10.00 $10.26
 
Total Return3 -1.32% 0.03% 3.57%
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data      
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) $80 $91 $65
Ratio of Total Expenses to Average Net Assets 0.25% 0.25% 0.25%5
Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets 2.76% 2.18% 2.00%5
Portfolio Turnover Rate 4 263% 232% 229%

 

1 Subscription period for the fund was March 10, 2016, to March 24, 2016, during which time all assets were held in money market instruments. Performance measurement began March 28, 2016, the first business day after the subscription period, at a net asset value of $10.00.

2 Calculated based on average shares outstanding.

3 Total returns do not include account service fees that may have applied in the periods shown. Fund prospectuses provide information about any applicable account service fees.

4 Includes 60%, 81%, and 58% attributable to mortgage-dollar-roll activity.

5 Annualized.

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

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Financial Highlights

Admiral Shares      
    March 10,
  Year Ended 20161 to
  September 30, Sept. 30,
For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Period 2018 2017 2016
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period $20.00 $20.53 $20.00
Investment Operations      
Net Investment Income . 563 2 .4542 .205
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments (.800) (.445) .528
Total from Investment Operations (.237) .009 .733
Distributions      
Dividends from Net Investment Income (. 583) (. 417) (. 203)
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains (.122)
Total Distributions (. 583) (. 539) (. 203)
Net Asset Value, End of Period $19.18 $20.00 $20.53
 
Total Return3 -1.19% 0.10% 3.67%
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data      
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) $905 $794 $578
Ratio of Total Expenses to Average Net Assets 0.13% 0.15% 0.15%5
Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets 2.88% 2.28% 2.10%5
Portfolio Turnover Rate 4 263% 232% 229%

 

1 Subscription period for the fund was March 10, 2016, to March 24, 2016, during which time all assets were held in money market instruments. Performance measurement began March 28, 2016, the first business day after the subscription period, at a net asset value of $20.00.

2 Calculated based on average shares outstanding.

3 Total returns do not include account service fees that may have applied in the periods shown. Fund prospectuses provide information about any applicable account service fees.

4 Includes 60%, 81%, and 58% attributable to mortgage-dollar-roll activity.

5 Annualized.

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

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Notes to Financial Statements

Vanguard Core Bond Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. 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 invests in securities of foreign issuers, which may subject it to investment risks not normally associated with investing in securities of U.S. corporations. To minimize the currency risk associated with investment in bonds denominated in currencies other than the U.S. dollar, the fund attempts to hedge its currency exposures.

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, and account-size criteria.

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

1. Security Valuation: Securities are valued as of the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4 p.m., Eastern time) on the valuation date. Bonds and temporary cash investments 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. Structured debt securities, including mortgages and asset-backed securities, are valued using the latest bid prices or using valuations based on a matrix system that considers such factors as issuer, tranche, nominal or option-adjusted spreads, weighted average coupon, weighted average maturity, credit enhancements, and collateral. Investments in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund are valued at that fund’s net asset value. Securities for which market quotations are not readily available, or whose values have been affected by events occurring before the fund’s pricing time but after the close of the securities’ primary markets, are valued at their fair values calculated according to procedures adopted by the board of trustees. These procedures include obtaining quotations from an independent pricing service, monitoring news to identify significant market- or security-specific events, and evaluating changes in the values of foreign market proxies (for example, ADRs, futures contracts, or exchange-traded funds), between the time the foreign markets close and the fund’s pricing time. When fair-value pricing is employed, the prices of securities used by a fund to calculate its net asset value may differ from quoted or published prices for the same securities.

2. Foreign Currency: Securities and other assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars using exchange rates obtained from an independent third party as of the fund’s pricing time on the valuation date. Realized gains (losses) and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investment securities include the effects of changes in exchange rates since the securities were purchased, combined with the effects of changes in security prices. Fluctuations in the value of other assets and liabilities resulting from changes in exchange rates are recorded as unrealized foreign currency gains (losses) until the assets or liabilities are settled in cash, at which time they are recorded as realized foreign currency gains (losses).

3. 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

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possibility of an illiquid market. Counterparty risk involving futures is mitigated because a regulated clearinghouse is the counterparty instead of the clearing broker. To further mitigate counterparty risk, the fund trades futures contracts on an exchange, monitors the financial strength of its clearing brokers and clearinghouse, and has entered into clearing agreements with its clearing brokers. The clearinghouse imposes initial margin requirements to secure the fund’s performance and requires daily settlement of variation margin representing changes in the market value of each contract. Any assets pledged as initial margin for open contracts are noted in the Statement of Net Assets.

Futures contracts are valued at their quoted daily settlement prices. The notional 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 Assets and Liabilities 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).

During the year ended September 30, 2018, the fund’s average investments in long and short futures contracts represented 17% and 8% of net assets, respectively, based on the average of the notional amounts at each quarter-end during the period.

4. Forward Currency Contracts: The fund enters into forward currency contracts to protect the value of securities and related receivables and payables against changes in future foreign exchange rates. The fund’s risks in using these contracts include movement in the values of the foreign currencies relative to the U.S. dollar and the ability of the counterparties to fulfill their obligations under the contracts. The fund mitigates its counterparty risk by entering into forward currency contracts only with a diverse group of prequalified counterparties, monitoring their financial strength, entering into master netting arrangements with its counterparties, and requiring its counterparties to transfer collateral as security for their performance. In the absence of a default, the collateral pledged or received by the fund cannot be repledged, resold, or rehypothecated. The master netting arrangements provide that, in the event of a counterparty’s default (including bankruptcy), the fund may terminate the forward currency contracts, determine the net amount owed by either party in accordance with its master netting arrangements, and sell or retain any collateral held up to the net amount owed to the fund under the master netting arrangements. The forward currency contracts contain provisions whereby a counterparty may terminate open contracts if the fund’s net assets decline below a certain level, triggering a payment by the fund if the fund is in a net liability position at the time of the termination. The payment amount would be reduced by any collateral the fund has pledged. Any assets pledged as collateral for open contracts are noted in the Statement of Net Assets. The value of collateral received or pledged is compared daily to the value of the forward currency contracts exposure with each counterparty, and any difference, if in excess of a specified minimum transfer amount, is adjusted and settled within two business days.

Forward currency contracts are valued at their quoted daily prices obtained from an independent third party, adjusted for currency risk based on the expiration date of each contract. The notional 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 Assets and Liabilities 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 forward currency contract gains (losses).

During the year ended September 30, 2018, the fund’s average investment in forward currency contracts represented 4% of net assets, based on the average of notional amounts at each quarter-end during the period.

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5. Swap Contracts: The fund invests in credit default swaps to adjust the overall credit risk of the fund or to actively overweight or underweight credit risk to a specific issuer or group of issuers. The fund may sell credit protection through credit default swaps to simulate investments in long positions that are either unavailable or considered to be less attractively priced in the bond market. The fund may purchase credit protection through credit default swaps to reduce credit exposure to a given issuer or issuers. Under the terms of the swaps, an up-front payment may be exchanged between the seller and buyer. In addition, the seller of the credit protection receives a periodic payment of premium from the buyer that is a fixed percentage applied to a notional amount. If, for example, 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 seller agrees to either physically settle or cash settle the swap contract. If the swap is physically settled, the seller agrees to pay the buyer an amount equal to the notional amount and take delivery of a debt instrument of the reference issuer with a par amount equal to such notional amount. If the swap is cash settled, the seller agrees to pay the buyer the difference between the notional amount and the final price for the relevant debt instrument, as determined either in a market auction or pursuant to a pre-agreed-upon valuation procedure.

The fund enters into interest rate swap transactions to adjust the fund’s sensitivity to changes in interest rates and maintain the ability to generate income at prevailing market rates. Under the terms of the swaps, one party pays the other an amount that is a fixed percentage rate applied to a notional 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.

The notional amounts of swap contracts are not recorded in the Statement of Net Assets. Swaps are valued daily based on market quotations received from independent pricing services or recognized dealers and the change in value is recorded in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities as an asset (liability) and in the Statement of Operations as unrealized appreciation (depreciation) until the seller of credit protection is required to take delivery (or, in a cash settled swap, pay the settlement amount determined) upon occurrence of a credit event, 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) over the life of the contract.

The primary risk associated with selling credit protection is that, upon the occurrence of a defined credit event, the market value of the debt instrument received by the fund (or, in a cash settled swap, the debt instruments used to determine the settlement payment by the fund) will be significantly less than the amount paid by the fund and, in a physically settled swap, the fund may receive an illiquid debt instrument. A risk associated with all types of swaps is the possibility that a counterparty may default on its obligation to pay net amounts due to the fund. The fund’s maximum amount subject to counterparty risk is the unrealized appreciation on the swap contract. The fund mitigates its counterparty risk by entering into swaps only with a diverse group of prequalified counterparties, monitoring their financial strength, entering into master netting arrangements with its counterparties, and requiring its counterparties to transfer collateral as security for their performance. In the absence of a default, the collateral pledged or received by the fund cannot be repledged, resold, or rehypothecated. In the event of a counterparty’s default (including bankruptcy), the fund may terminate any swap contracts with that counterparty, determine the net amount owed by either party in accordance with its master netting arrangements, and sell or retain any collateral held up to the net amount owed to the fund under the master netting arrangements. The swap contracts contain provisions whereby a counterparty may terminate open contracts if the fund’s net assets

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decline below a certain level, triggering a payment by the fund if the fund is in a net liability position at the time of the termination. The payment amount would be reduced by any collateral the fund has pledged. Any securities pledged as collateral for open contracts are noted in the Statement of Net Assets. The value of collateral received or pledged is compared daily to the value of the swap contracts exposure with each counterparty, and any difference, if in excess of a specified minimum transfer amount, is adjusted and settled within two business days.

The fund enters into centrally cleared interest rate and credit default swaps to achieve the same objectives specified with respect to the equivalent over-the-counter swaps but with less counterparty risk because a regulated clearinghouse is the counterparty instead of the clearing broker or executing broker. The clearinghouse imposes initial margin requirements to secure the fund’s performance, and requires daily settlement of variation margin representing changes in the market value of each contract. To further mitigate counterparty risk, the fund trades with a diverse group of prequalified executing brokers; monitors the financial strength of its clearing brokers, executing brokers, and clearinghouse; and has entered into agreements with its clearing brokers and executing brokers.

During the year ended September 30, 2018, the fund’s average amounts of investments in credit protection sold and credit protection purchased represented 1% and 4% of net assets, respectively, based on the average of notional amounts at each quarter-end during the period. The average amount of investments in interest rate swaps represented 2% of net assets, based on the average of notional amounts at each quarter-end during the period.

6. Options: The fund invests in options contracts on futures and swaps to adjust its exposure to the underlying investments. The primary risk associated with purchasing options is that the value of the underlying investments may move in such a way that the option is out-of-the-money (the exercise price of the option exceeds the value of the underlying investment), the position is worthless at expiration, and the fund loses the premium paid. The primary risk associated with selling options is that the value of the underlying investments may move in such a way that the option is in-the-money (the exercise price of the option exceeds the value of the underlying investment), the counterparty exercises the option, and the fund loses an amount equal to the market value of the option written less the premium received.

The fund invests in options on futures, which are exchange-traded. Counterparty risk involving exchange-traded options on futures is mitigated because a regulated clearinghouse is the counterparty instead of the clearing broker. To further mitigate counterparty risk, the fund trades options on futures on an exchange, monitors the financial strength of its clearing brokers and clearinghouses, and has entered into clearing agreements with its clearing brokers.

The fund invests in options on swaps (swaptions), which are transacted over-the-counter (OTC) and not on an exchange. A receiver swaption gives the owner the right to receive the total return of a specified asset, reference rate, or index. A payer swaption gives the owner the right to pay the total return of a specified asset, reference rate, or index. Swaptions also include options that allow an existing swap to be terminated or extended by one of the counterparties. Unlike exchange-traded options, which are standardized with respect to the underlying instrument, expiration date, contract size, and strike price, the terms of OTC options generally are established through negotiation with the other party to the option contract. Although this type of arrangement allows the purchaser or writer greater flexibility to tailor an option to its needs, OTC options generally involve greater credit risk than exchange-traded options. Credit risk involves the possibility that a counterparty may default

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on its obligation to pay net amounts due to the fund. The fund mitigates its counterparty risk by entering into swaptions with a diverse group of prequalified counterparties and monitoring their financial strength.

Options on futures contracts are valued at their quoted daily settlement prices. Swaptions are valued daily based on market quotations received from independent pricing services or recognized dealers. The premium paid for a purchased option is recorded in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities as an asset that is subsequently adjusted daily to the current market value of the option purchased. The premium received for a written option is recorded in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities as an asset with an equal liability that is subsequently adjusted daily to the current market value of the option written. Fluctuations in the value of the options are recorded in the Statement of Operations as unrealized appreciation (depreciation) until expired, closed, or exercised, at which time realized gains (losses) are recognized.

During the year ended September 30, 2018, the fund’s average value of options purchased and options written each represented less than 1% of net assets, based on the average market values at each quarter-end during the period.

7. To Be Announced (TBA) Transactions: A TBA transaction is an agreement to buy or sell mortgage-backed securities with agreed-upon characteristics (face amount, coupon, maturity) for settlement at a future date. The fund may be a seller of TBA transactions to reduce its exposure to the mortgage-backed securities market or in order to sell mortgage-backed securities it owns under delayed-delivery arrangements. When the fund is a buyer of TBA transactions, it maintains cash or short-term investments in an amount sufficient to meet the purchase price at the settlement date of the TBA transaction. The primary risk associated with TBA transactions is that a counterparty may default on its obligations. The fund mitigates its counterparty risk by, among other things, performing a credit analysis of counterparties, allocating transactions among numerous counterparties, and monitoring its exposure to each counterparty. The fund may also enter into a Master Securities Forward Transaction Agreement (MSFTA) with certain counterparties and require them to transfer collateral as security for their performance. In the absence of a default, the collateral pledged or received by the fund cannot be repledged, resold, or rehypothecated. Under an MSFTA, upon a counterparty default (including bankruptcy), the fund may terminate any TBA transactions with that counterparty, determine the net amount owed by either party in accordance with its master netting arrangements, and sell or retain any collateral held up to the net amount owed to the fund under the master netting arrangements.

8. Mortgage Dollar Rolls: The fund enters into mortgage-dollar-roll transactions, in which the fund sells mortgage-backed securities to a dealer and simultaneously agrees to purchase similar securities in the future at a predetermined price. The proceeds of the securities sold in mortgage-dollar-roll transactions are typically invested in high-quality short-term fixed income securities. The fund forgoes principal and interest paid on the securities sold, and is compensated by interest earned on the proceeds of the sale and by a lower price on the securities to be repurchased. The fund has also entered into mortgage-dollar-roll transactions in which the fund buys mortgage-backed securities from a dealer pursuant to a TBA transaction and simultaneously agrees to sell similar securities in the future at a predetermined price. The securities bought in mortgage-dollar-roll transactions are used to cover an open TBA sell position. The fund continues to earn interest on mortgage-backed security pools already held and receives a lower price on the securities to be sold in the future. The fund accounts for mortgage-dollar-roll transactions as purchases and sales; as such, these transactions

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may increase the fund’s portfolio turnover rate. Amounts to be received or paid in connection with open mortgage dollar rolls are included in Receivables for Investment Securities Sold or Payables for Investment Securities Purchased in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities.

9. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken for all open federal income tax years (September 30, 2016–2018), and has concluded that no provision for federal income tax is required in the fund’s financial statements.

10. Distributions: Distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Distributions are determined on a tax basis and may differ from net investment income and realized capital gains for financial reporting purposes.

11. Credit Facility: The fund and certain other funds managed by The Vanguard Group (“Vanguard”) participate in a $3.1 billion committed credit facility provided by a syndicate of lenders pursuant to a credit agreement that may be renewed annually; each fund is individually liable for its borrowings, if any, under the credit facility. Borrowings may be utilized for temporary and emergency purposes, and are subject to the fund’s regulatory and contractual borrowing restrictions. The participating funds are charged administrative fees and an annual commitment fee of 0.10% of the undrawn amount of the facility; these fees are allocated to the funds based on a method approved by the fund’s board of trustees and included in Management and Administrative expenses on the fund’s Statement of Operations. Any borrowings under this facility bear interest at a rate based upon the higher of the one-month London Interbank Offered Rate, federal funds effective rate, or overnight bank funding rate plus an agreed-upon spread.

The fund had no borrowings outstanding at September 30, 2018, or at any time during the period then ended.

12. Other: 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), shareholder reporting, and the proxy. 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. In accordance with the terms of a Funds’ Service Agreement (the “FSA”) between Vanguard and the fund, Vanguard furnishes to the fund investment advisory, corporate management, administrative, marketing, and distribution services at Vanguard’s cost of operations (as defined by the FSA). These costs of operations are allocated to the fund based on methods and guidelines approved by the board of trustees. Vanguard does not require reimbursement in the current period for certain costs of operations (such as deferred compensation/benefits and risk/insurance costs); the fund’s liability for these costs of operations is included in Payables to Vanguard on the Statement of Net Assets. All other costs of operations payable to Vanguard are generally settled twice a month.

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Upon the request of Vanguard, the fund may invest up to 0.40% of its net assets as capital in Vanguard. At September 30, 2018, the fund had contributed to Vanguard capital in the amount of $50,000, representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 0.02% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and employees, respectively, of Vanguard.

C. Various inputs may be used to determine the value of the fund’s investments. These inputs are summarized in three broad levels for financial statement purposes. The inputs or methodologies used to value securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.

Level 1Quoted prices in active markets for identical securities.

Level 2Other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.).

Level 3Significant unobservable inputs (including the fund’s own assumptions used to determine the fair value of investments). Any investments valued with significant unobservable inputs are noted on the Statement of Net Assets.

The following table summarizes the market value of the fund’s investments as of September 30, 2018, based on the inputs used to value them:

  Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
Investments ($000) ($000) ($000)
U.S. Government and Agency Obligations 457,973
Asset-Backed/Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities 134,922
Corporate Bonds 240,829
Sovereign Bonds 71,306
Taxable Municipal Bonds 1,323
Temporary Cash Investments 61,577 624
Options Purchased 2
Options Written (92) (15)
Futures Contracts—Assets1 24
Futures Contracts—Liabilities1 (178)
Forward Currency Contracts—Assets 631
Forward Currency Contracts—Liabilities (213)
Swap Contracts—Assets 31 47
Swap Contracts—Liabilities (1)1 (148)
Total 61,335 907,279
1 Represents variation margin on the last day of the reporting period.      

 

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D. At September 30, 2018, the fair values of derivatives were reflected in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities as follows:

Interest Rate Currency Credit  
  Contracts Contracts Contracts Total
Statement of Assets and Liabilities Caption ($000) ($000) ($000) ($000)
Options Purchased 2 2
Variation Margin Receivable—Futures Contracts 24 24
Variation Margin Receivable—CC Swap Contracts 3 3
Unrealized Appreciation—Forwards Contracts 631 631
Unrealized Appreciation—OTC Swap Contracts 47 47
Total Assets 29 631 47 707
 
Options Written (92) (15) (107)
Variation Margin Payable—Futures Contracts (178) (178)
Variation Margin Payable—CC Swap Contracts (1) (1)
Unrealized Depreciation—Forwards Contracts (213) (213)
Unrealized Depreciation—OTC Swap Contracts (148) (148)
Total Liabilities (270) (213) (164) (647)

 

Realized net gain (loss) and the change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on derivatives for the year ended September 30, 2018, were:

  Interest Rate Currency Credit  
  Contracts Contracts Contracts Total
Realized Net Gain (Loss) on Derivatives ($000) ($000) ($000) ($000)
Futures Contracts (2,314) (2,314)
Options Purchased (120) (22) (142)
Options Written 109 99 208
Forward Currency Contracts 861 861
Swap Contracts (280) 27 (253)
Realized Net Gain (Loss) on Derivatives (2,605) 861 104 (1,640)
 
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) on Derivatives      
Futures Contracts (1,785) (1,785)
Options Purchased 3 1 4
Options Written 13 (2) 11
Forward Currency Contracts 132 132
Swap Contracts (5) 154 149
Change in Unrealized Appreciation        
(Depreciation) on Derivatives (1,774) 132 153 (1,489)

 

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E. Permanent differences between book-basis and tax-basis components of net assets are reclassified among capital accounts in the financial statements to reflect their tax character. These reclassifications have no effect on net assets or net asset value per share. As of period end, the following permanent differences primarily attributable to the accounting for foreign currency transactions and swap agreements were reclassified to the following accounts:

  Amount
  ($000)
Paid-in Capital
Undistributed (Overdistributed) Net Investment Income 1,379
Accumulated Net Realized Gains (Losses) (1,379)

 

Temporary differences between book-basis and tax-basis components of accumulated net earnings (losses) arise when certain items of income, gain, or loss are recognized in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes; these differences will reverse at some time in the future. The differences are primarily related to the tax deferral of losses on wash sales; the realization of unrealized gains or losses on certain futures contracts, forward currency contracts, and options and payables for distributions. As of period end, the tax-basis components of accumulated net earnings (losses) are detailed in the table as follows:

  Amount
  ($000)
Undistributed Ordinary Income 570
Undistributed Long-Term Gains
Capital Loss Carryforwards (Non-expiring) (22,525)
Net Unrealized Gains (Losses) (22,713)

 

As of September 30, 2018, gross unrealized appreciation and depreciation for investments and derivatives based on cost for U.S. federal income tax purposes were as follows:

  Amount
  ($000)
Tax Cost 990,815
Gross Unrealized Appreciation 1,435
Gross Unrealized Depreciation (24,165)
Net Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) (22,730)

 

F. During the year ended September 30, 2018, the fund purchased $923,296,000 of investment securities and sold $851,966,000 of investment securities, other than U.S. government securities and temporary cash investments. Purchases and sales of U.S. government securities were $1,448,692,000 and $1,556,577,000, respectively.

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G. Capital share transactions for each class of shares were:      
      Year Ended September 30,
    2018   2017
  Amount Shares Amount Shares
  ($000) (000) ($000) (000)
Investor Shares        
Issued 51,084 5,197 78,467 7,878
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 2,243 230 1,647 166
Redeemed (60,352) (6,161) (52,731) (5,298)
Net Increase (Decrease)—Investor Shares (7,025) (734) 27,383 2,746
Admiral Shares        
Issued 414,173 21,169 451,536 22,676
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 21,820 1,120 14,233 719
Redeemed (288,396) (14,775) (235,815) (11,869)
Net Increase (Decrease)—Admiral Shares 147,597 7,514 229,954 11,526

 

At September 30, 2018, one shareholder was the record or beneficial owner of 26% of the fund’s net assets. If the shareholder were to redeem its investment in the fund, the redemption might result in an increase in the fund’s expense ratio, cause the fund to incur higher transaction costs, or lead to the realization of taxable capital gains.

H. Management has determined that no events or transactions occurred subsequent to September 30, 2018, that would require recognition or disclosure in these financial statements.

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Board of Trustees of Vanguard Malvern Funds and Shareholders of Vanguard Core Bond Fund

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying statement of net assets and statement of assets and liabilities of Vanguard Core Bond Fund (one of the funds constituting Vanguard Malvern Funds, referred to hereafter as the “Fund”) as of September 30, 2018, the related statement of operations for the year ended September 30, 2018, the statement of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period ended September 30, 2018, including the related notes, and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated therein (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Fund as of September 30, 2018, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period ended September 30, 2018 and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated therein in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Fund’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Fund’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Fund in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of September 30, 2018 by correspondence with the custodians and brokers and by agreement to the underlying ownership records of the transfer agent; when replies were not received from brokers, we performed other auditing procedures. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
November 15, 2018

We have served as the auditor of one or more investment companies in The Vanguard Group of Funds since 1975.

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Special 2018 tax information (unaudited) for Vanguard Core Bond Fund

This information for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2018, is included pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

For nonresident alien shareholders, 100% of short-term capital gain dividends distributed by the fund are qualified short-term capital gains.

For nonresident alien shareholders, 75.4% 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 accompanying table 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 any purchase, redemption, or account service fees described in the fund 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 fund’s 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 September 30, 2018      
  Beginning Ending Expenses
  Account Value Account Value Paid During
Core Bond Fund 3/31/2018 9/30/2018 Period
Based on Actual Fund Return      
Investor Shares $1,000.00 $999.32 $1.25
Admiral Shares 1,000.00 1,000.01 0.60
Based on Hypothetical 5% Yearly Return      
Investor Shares $1,000.00 $1,023.82 $1.27
Admiral Shares 1,000.00 1,024.47 0.61

 

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 0.25% for Investor Shares and 0.12% 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 (183/365).

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Glossary

30-Day SEC Yield. A fund’s 30-day SEC yield is derived using a formula specified by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Under the formula, data related to the fund’s security holdings in the previous 30 days are used to calculate the fund’s hypothetical net income for that period, which is then annualized and divided by the fund’s estimated average net assets over the calculation period. For the purposes of this calculation, a security’s income is based on its current market yield to maturity (for bonds), its actual income (for asset-backed securities), or its projected dividend yield (for stocks). Because the SEC yield represents hypothetical annualized income, it will differ—at times significantly—from the fund’s actual experience. As a result, the fund’s income distributions may be higher or lower than implied by the SEC yield.

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.

Credit Quality. Credit-quality ratings are measured on a scale that generally ranges from AAA (highest) to D (lowest). U.S. Treasury, U.S. Agency, and U.S. Agency mortgage-backed securities appear under “U.S. Government.” Credit-quality ratings are obtained from Moody’s and S&P, and the higher rating for each issue is shown. ”Not Rated” is used to classify securities for which a rating is not available. Not rated securities include a fund’s investment in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund or Vanguard Municipal Cash Management Fund, each of which invests in high-quality money market instruments and may serve as a cash management vehicle for the Vanguard funds, trusts, and accounts.

Expense Ratio. A fund’s total annual operating expenses expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets. The expense ratio includes management and administrative expenses, but does not include the transaction costs of buying and selling portfolio securities.

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.

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

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. The independent board members have distinguished backgrounds in business, academia, and public service. Each of the trustees and executive officers oversees 211 Vanguard funds.

Information for each trustee and executive officer of the fund appears below. The mailing address of the trustees and officers is P.O. Box 876, Valley Forge, PA 19482. More information about the trustees is in the Statement of Additional Information, which can be obtained, without charge, by contacting Vanguard at 800-662-7447, or online at vanguard.com.

Interested Trustees1

F. William McNabb III

Born in 1957. Trustee since July 2009. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: chairman of the board (January 2010–present) of Vanguard and of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard, trustee (2009–present) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard, and director (2008–present) of Vanguard. Chief executive officer and president (2008–2017) of Vanguard and each of the investment companies served by Vanguard, managing director (1995–2008) of Vanguard, and director (1997–2018) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Director (2018–present) of UnitedHealth Group.

Mortimer J. Buckley

Born in 1969. Trustee since January 2018. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: chief executive officer (January 2018–present) of Vanguard; chief executive officer, president, and trustee (January 2018–present) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard; president and director (2017–present) of Vanguard; and president (February 2018–present) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Chief investment officer (2013–2017), managing director (2002–2017), head of the Retail Investor Group (2006–2012), and chief information officer (2001–2006) of Vanguard. Chairman of the board (2011–2017) of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Independent Trustees

Emerson U. Fullwood

Born in 1948. Trustee since January 2008. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: executive chief staff and marketing officer for North America and corporate vice president (retired 2008) of Xerox Corporation (document management products and services). Former president of the Worldwide Channels Group, Latin America, and Worldwide Customer Service and executive chief staff officer of Developing Markets of Xerox. Executive in residence and 2009–2010 Distinguished Minett Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Lead director of SPX FLOW, Inc. (multi-industry manufacturing). Director of the University of Rochester Medical Center, the Monroe Community College Foundation, the United Way of Rochester, North Carolina A&T University, and Roberts Wesleyan College. Trustee of the University of Rochester.

Amy Gutmann

Born in 1949. Trustee since June 2006. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: president (2004–present) of the University of Pennsylvania. Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences, and professor of communication, Annenberg School for Communication, with secondary faculty appointments in the Department of Philosophy, School of Arts and Sciences, and at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. Trustee of the National Constitution Center.

1 Mr. McNabb and Mr. Buckley are considered “interested persons,” as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, because they are officers of the Vanguard funds.


 

JoAnn Heffernan Heisen

Born in 1950. Trustee since July 1998. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: corporate vice president of Johnson & Johnson (pharmaceuticals/medical devices/consumer products) and member of its executive committee (1997–2008). Chief global diversity officer (retired 2008), vice president and chief information officer (1997–2006), controller (1995–1997), treasurer (1991–1995), and assistant treasurer (1989–1991) of Johnson & Johnson. Director of Skytop Lodge Corporation (hotels) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Member of the advisory board of the Institute for Women’s Leadership at Rutgers University.

F. Joseph Loughrey

Born in 1949. Trustee since October 2009. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: president and chief operating officer (retired 2009) and vice chairman of the board (2008–2009) of Cummins Inc. (industrial machinery). Chairman of the board of Hillenbrand, Inc. (specialized consumer services), Oxfam America, and the Lumina Foundation for Education. Director of the V Foundation for Cancer Research. Member of the advisory council for the College of Arts and Letters and chair of the advisory board to the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, both at the University of Notre Dame.

Mark Loughridge

Born in 1953. Trustee since March 2012. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: senior vice president and chief financial officer (retired 2013) of IBM (information technology services). Fiduciary member of IBM’s Retirement Plan Committee (2004–2013), senior vice president and general manager (2002–2004) of IBM Global Financing, vice president and controller (1998–2002) of IBM, and a variety of other prior management roles at IBM. Member of the Council on Chicago Booth.

Scott C. Malpass

Born in 1962. Trustee since March 2012. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: chief investment officer (1989–present) and vice president (1996–present) of the University of Notre Dame. Assistant professor of finance at the Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame, and member of the Notre Dame 403(b) Investment Committee. Chairman of the board of TIFF Advisory Services, Inc. Member of the board of Catholic Investment Services, Inc. (investment advisors), the board of advisors for Spruceview Capital Partners, and the board of superintendence of the Institute for the Works of Religion.

Deanna Mulligan

Born in 1963. Trustee since January 2018. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: president (2010–present) and chief executive officer (2011–present) of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. Chief operating officer (2010–2011) and executive vice president (2008–2010) of Individual Life and Disability of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. Member of the board of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, the American Council of Life Insurers, the Partnership for New York City (business leadership), and the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy. Trustee of the Economic Club of New York and the Bruce Museum (arts and science). Member of the Advisory Council for the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

André F. Perold

Born in 1952. Trustee since December 2004. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School (retired 2011). Chief investment officer and co-managing partner of HighVista Strategies LLC (private investment firm). Overseer of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

Sarah Bloom Raskin

Born in 1961. Trustee since January 2018. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: deputy secretary (2014–2017) of the United States Department of the Treasury. Governor (2010–2014) of the Federal Reserve Board. Commissioner (2007–2010) of financial regulation for the State of Maryland. Member of the board of directors (2012–2014) of Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. Director of i(x) Investments, LLC.

Peter F. Volanakis

Born in 1955. Trustee since July 2009. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: president and chief operating officer (retired 2010) of Corning Incorporated (communications equipment) and director of Corning Incorporated (2000–2010) and Dow Corning (2001–2010). Director (2012) of SPX Corporation (multi-industry manufacturing). Overseer of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College (2001–2013). Chairman of the board of trustees of Colby-Sawyer College. Member of the Board of Hypertherm Inc. (industrial cutting systems, software, and consumables).


 

Executive Officers

Glenn Booraem

Born in 1967. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard. Investment stewardship officer (2017–present), treasurer (2015–2017), controller (2010–2015), and assistant controller (2001–2010) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard.

Christine M. Buchanan

Born in 1970. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard and global head of Fund Administration at Vanguard. Treasurer (2017–present) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Partner (2005–2017) at KPMG LLP (audit, tax, and advisory services).

Brian Dvorak

Born in 1973. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard. Chief compliance officer (2017–present) of Vanguard and each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Assistant vice president (2017–present) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Vice president and director of Enterprise Risk Management (2011–2013) at Oppenheimer Funds, Inc.

Thomas J. Higgins

Born in 1957. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard. Chief financial officer (2008–present) and treasurer (1998–2008) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard.

Peter Mahoney

Born in 1974. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard. Controller (2015–present) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Head of International Fund Services (2008–2014) at Vanguard.

Anne E. Robinson

Born in 1970. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: general counsel (2016–present) of Vanguard. Secretary (2016–present) of Vanguard and of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Managing director (2016–present) of Vanguard. Director and senior vice president (2016–2018) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Managing director and general counsel of Global Cards and Consumer Services (2014–2016) at Citigroup. Counsel (2003–2014) at American Express.

Michael Rollings

Born in 1963. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: finance director (2017–present) and treasurer (2017) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Managing director (2016–present) of Vanguard. Chief financial officer (2016–present) of Vanguard. Director (2016–present) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Executive vice president and chief financial officer (2006–2016) of MassMutual Financial Group.

Vanguard Senior Management Team
 
Joseph Brennan Chris D. McIsaac
Mortimer J. Buckley James M. Norris
Gregory Davis Thomas M. Rampulla
John James Karin A. Risi
Martha G. King Anne E. Robinson
John T. Marcante Michael Rollings

 

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John J. Brennan
Chairman, 1996–2009
Chief Executive Officer and President, 1996–2008

Founder

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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, 1974–1996


 

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Annual Report | September 30, 2018

Vanguard Emerging Markets Bond Fund


 

Vanguard’s Principles for Investing Success

We want to give you the best chance of investment success. These principles, grounded in Vanguard’s research and experience, can put you on the right path.

Goals. Create clear, appropriate investment goals.

Balance. Develop a suitable asset allocation using broadly diversified funds. Cost. Minimize cost.

Discipline. Maintain perspective and long-term discipline.

A single theme unites these principles: Focus on the things you can control.

We believe there is no wiser course for any investor.

Contents  
Your Fund’s Performance at a Glance. 1
CEO’s Perspective. 2
Advisor’s Report. 4
Fund Profile. 7
Performance Summary. 9
Financial Statements. 11
About Your Fund’s Expenses. 37
Glossary. 39

 

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 front of this report. Of course, the risks of investing in your fund are spelled out in the prospectus.

See the Glossary for definitions of investment terms used in this report.


 

Your Fund’s Performance at a Glance

• For the 12 months ended September 30, 2018, Investor Shares of Vanguard Emerging Markets Bond Fund returned 2.39%. It outpaced its benchmark index by more than 4 percentage points and the average of its peer group by more than 6 percentage points. Admiral Shares returned 0.92% from their inception on December 6, 2017, through September 30, 2018.

• Emerging-market bonds had a strong start to the fiscal year, underpinned by robust synchronized global growth. As the year progressed, the pace of U.S. monetary tightening increased while growth outside the U.S. slowed, putting pressure on emerging markets. Countries most exposed to higher dollar-funding costs led the sell-off.

• The fund’s relative-value-driven strategy served investors well throughout the volatility. In addition to out-of-benchmark allocations to high-quality issuers from the Middle East, local-currency exposures in Brazil and Mexico and corporate exposure in Brazil added value.

Total Returns: Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2018      
  30-Day SEC Income Capital Total
  Yield Returns Returns Returns
Vanguard Emerging Markets Bond Fund        
Investor Shares 5.24% 4.20% -1.81% 2.39%
Admiral™ Shares (Inception: 12/6/2017) 5.39 3.70 -2.78 0.92
JP Morgan EMBI Global Diversified       -1.92
Emerging Markets Hard Currency Debt Funds        
Average       -4.04

 

Emerging Markets Hard Currency Debt Funds Average: Derived from data provided by Lipper, a Thomson Reuters Company.

Expense Ratios      
Your Fund Compared With Its Peer Group      
  Investor Admiral Peer Group
  Shares Shares Average
Emerging Markets Bond Fund 0.60% 0.45% 1.13%

 

The fund expense ratios shown are from the prospectus dated January 26, 2018, and represent estimated costs for the current fiscal year. For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2018, the fund’s expense ratios were 0.60% for Investor Shares and 0.45% for Admiral Shares. The peer-group expense ratio is derived from data provided by Lipper, a Thomson Reuters Company, and captures information through year-end 2017.

Peer group: Emerging Markets Hard Currency Debt Funds.

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CEO’s Perspective


Tim Buckley

President and Chief Executive Officer

Dear Shareholder,

Over the years, I’ve found that prudent investors exhibit a common trait: discipline. No matter how the markets move or what new investing fad hits the headlines, those who stay focused on their goals and tune out the noise are set up for long-term success.

The prime gateway to investing is saving, and you don’t usually become a saver without a healthy dose of discipline. Savers make the decision to sock away part of their income, which means spending less and delaying gratification, no matter how difficult that may be.

Of course, disciplined investing extends beyond diligent saving. The financial markets, in the short term especially, are unpredictable; I have yet to meet the investor who can time them perfectly. It takes discipline to resist the urge to go all-in when markets are frothy or to retreat when things look bleak.

Staying put with your investments is one strategy for handling volatility. Another, rebalancing, requires even more discipline because it means steering your money away from strong performers and toward poorer performers.

Patience—a form of discipline—is also the friend of long-term investors. Higher returns are the potential reward for weathering the market’s turbulence and uncertainty.

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We have been enjoying one of the longest bull markets in history, but it won’t continue forever. Prepare yourself now for how you will react when volatility comes back. Don’t panic. Don’t chase returns or look for answers outside the asset classes you trust. And be sure to rebalance periodically, even when there’s turmoil.

Whether you’re a master of self-control, get a boost from technology, or work with a professional advisor, know that discipline

is necessary to get the most out of your investment portfolio. And know that Vanguard is with you for the entire ride.

Thank you for your continued loyalty.


Mortimer J. Buckley
President and Chief Executive Officer
October 18, 2018

Market Barometer      
    Average Annual Total Returns
  Periods Ended September 30, 2018
  One Year Three Years Five Years
Stocks      
Russell 1000 Index (Large-caps) 17.76% 17.07% 13.67%
Russell 2000 Index (Small-caps) 15.24 17.12 11.07
Russell 3000 Index (Broad U.S. market) 17.58 17.07 13.46
FTSE All-World ex US Index (International) 2.13 10.18 4.51
 
Bonds      
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index      
(Broad taxable market) -1.22% 1.31% 2.16%
Bloomberg Barclays Municipal Bond Index      
(Broad tax-exempt market) 0.35 2.24 3.54
FTSE Three-Month U. S. Treasury Bill Index 1.57 0.80 0.48
 
CPI      
Consumer Price Index 2.28% 1.99% 1.52%

 

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Advisor’s Report

Investor Shares of Vanguard Emerging Markets Bond Fund returned 2.39% for the 12 months ended September 30, 2018. The fund’s benchmark, the JP Morgan EMBI Global Diversified, returned –1.92% for the same period. The average return of its peer group of emerging-market hard currency debt funds was –4.04%. (A “hard currency” is one that is issued by an economically and politically stable country and is widely used around the world as payment for goods and services.)

Admiral Shares of the fund were launched on December 6, 2017. They returned 0.92% from that date through September 30, 2018.

The 30-day SEC yield for Investor Shares climbed to 5.24% by the close of the period compared with 3.98% a year earlier.

The investment environment

After a good start to the fiscal year, some shifts in the macroeconomic landscape put emerging-market assets under pressure.

The pace of U.S. economic expansion accelerated, aided by tax cuts and a pickup in consumer spending and nonresidential fixed investment. That, along with a drop in unemployment to almost a 50-year low and an increase in inflation to near the 2% target, led the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates by a quarter percentage point four times during the period. The increases almost doubled short-term borrowing costs. Longer-term U.S. bond yields rose and, in the second half of the period, the dollar strengthened.

In October 2017, the Fed also began trimming its balance sheet, making it the first developed-market central bank since the 2008 global financial crisis to begin quantitative tightening. Both the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan are still in quantitative-easing mode.

For emerging markets, developments in the United States effectively tightened their financial conditions, raised the cost of borrowing in dollars, and precipitated capital outflows. The countries most affected were those with large short-term external funding needs, including Argentina, Turkey, and South Africa.

While the U.S. economy accelerated, momentum elsewhere weakened and regional divergences increased. In Europe, Brexit continued to breed uncertainty, as did the possibility of U.S. tariffs on European-made automobiles and concerns about the spending plans of Italy’s newly elected populist government.

More relevant for emerging markets was the slowdown in China, given its role as their most significant growth driver over the past decade. Trade tensions and tariffs added another layer of uncertainty for emerging markets. Those countries have been some of the biggest beneficiaries of the expansion of global trade in recent decades.

Management of the fund

Our investment strategy is driven by relative value selection among securities and countries. This tactical approach, rather than taking directional bets to be

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long or short the market, enabled the fund to significantly outpace its competitors during a volatile year.

Given the robust macroeconomic backdrop early in the fiscal year, when global growth was more synchronized, we held securities with yields that we believed had the most room to tighten.

Subsequently—as the calm in the bond market persisted even as the Fed continued raising rates while unwinding its balance sheet—we turned more defensive. Rather than moving up in credit quality to achieve that, we increased cash levels and reduced market value at risk by tilting the portfolio to bonds in the parts of the yield curve that had the best carry-to-volatility ratios. The timing worked out well as a bout of turbulence in February led emerging-market bonds to meaningfully reprice.

Although emerging-market valuations have become more attractive overall since that reset, we have remained cautious toward some of the weaker credits. To limit our exposure to those credits, we have bought bonds further out on the yield curve to reduce the market value at risk. That trade proved effective during the second and third quarters of 2018.

Another positive for the fund was our out-of-benchmark allocations. They included some high-quality Middle Eastern issuers, namely Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait. We felt they offered a better risk/reward profile than some of their Latin American counterparts included in the benchmark.

We added local-currency Mexican rates because its central bank is ahead of the U.S. Fed in tightening, so there is less need for further hikes. With the Mexican national election in the rearview mirror and a new North American free-trade agreement in the works, the level of risk associated with that market has lessened. We selectively added debt issued by Brazilian companies given the backdrop of corporate deleveraging. We also felt that long-dated local-currency Brazilian rates offered a good risk/reward profile ahead of the October general election.

In terms of detractors from relative performance, we probably weren’t wary enough about Turkey. On the other hand, we may have been overly pessimistic about some weaker countries, including Ecuador, Lebanon, and Bahrain.

Outlook

Emerging markets are going through a regime change as the easy monetary cycle experienced since the 2008 global financial crisis has shifted to tightening. The Fed is expected to continue raising interest rates this year and next while the pace of quantitative tightening gradually accelerates.

That said, we remain positive about emerging-market bonds, given the repricing that has taken place, as we are now getting paid more for the investment risk than a year ago. Moreover, the fundamentals of most major emerging markets remain sound and should be able to withstand additional volatility and macroeconomic headwinds. Many have acclimated to the

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more adverse external environment through currency adjustments, and additional risk premiums have been built into bond prices.

Major risks to the downside for emerging markets remain additional trade frictions and/or a hard landing for the Chinese economy, which would put a brake on global growth and weigh on commodity prices.

We acknowledge that volatility in emerging-market debt is likely to pick up again. For that reason, we are entering the fund’s new fiscal year tactically more defensive. Any upswing in volatility should provide better levels for active relative-value-driven managers like us to add value compared with competitors who count on getting directional outcomes right.

Daniel Shaykevich, Portfolio Manager Vanguard Fixed Income Group October 23, 2018

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Emerging Markets Bond Fund

Fund Profile
As of September 30, 2018

Share-Class Characteristics  
  Investor Admiral
  Shares Shares
Ticker Symbol VEMBX VEGBX
Expense Ratio1 0.60% 0.45%
30-Day SEC Yield 5.24% 5.39%

 

Financial Attributes    
    JP Morgan
    EMBI Global
    Diversified
  Fund Index
Number of Bonds 94 666
Yield to Maturity (before    
expenses) 5.7% 6.4%
Average Coupon -0.8% 6.0%
Average Duration 6.3 years 6.7 years
Average Effective    
Maturity 10.2 years 10.9 years
Short-Term Reserves 8.9%

 

Sector Diversification (% of portfolio)  
Foreign Government 94.4%
Industrial 2.5
Treasury/Agency 3.1

 

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

Distribution by Credit Quality (% of portfolio)
Aa 1.3%
A 10.8
Baa 40.4
Ba 16.1
B 22.0
Caa 0.8
C 0.3
Not Rated 8.3

 

Credit-quality ratings are obtained from Moody's and S&P, and the higher rating for each issue is shown. "Not Rated" is used to classify securities for which a rating is not available. Not rated securities include a fund's investment in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund or Vanguard Municipal Cash Management Fund, each of which invests in high-quality money market instruments and may serve as a cash management vehicle for the Vanguard funds, trusts, and accounts. For more information about these ratings, see the Glossary entry for Credit Quality.

Distribution by Effective Maturity  
(% of portfolio)  
Under 1 Year 11.3%
1 - 3 Years 9.0
3 - 5 Years 18.2
5 - 7 Years 17.7
7 - 10 Years 17.7
10 - 20 Years 5.6
20 - 30 Years 15.7
Over 30 Years 4.8

 

1 The expense ratios shown are from the prospectus dated January 26, 2018, and represent estimated costs for the current fiscal year. For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2018, the expense ratios were 0.60% for Investor Shares and 0.45% for Admiral Shares.

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Emerging Markets Bond Fund

Market Diversification (% of portfolio)  
  Fund
Indonesia 8.2%
Mexico 7.5
Argentina 7.3
Chile 6.3
Ukraine 5.2
Hungary 4.6
Brazil 3.7
Guatemala 3.7
Saudi Arabia 3.5
Russia 3.3
Philippines 3.2
Egypt 2.8
Kazakhstan 2.6
Turkey 2.5
Colombia 2.2
India 2.1
Dominican Republic 2.0
El Salvador 2.0
South Africa 1.6
Uruguay 1.6
Romania 1.6
Oman 1.6
Angola 1.4
Honduras 1.3
Sri Lanka 1.3
Peru 1.2
Panama 1.2
Bermuda 1.1
Venezuela 1.0
Paraguay 1.0
Trinidad and Tobago 1.0
Senegal 1.0
Other 9.4

 

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Emerging Markets Bond 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 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: March 10, 2016, Through September 30, 2018

Initial Investment of $10,000


  Average Annual Total Returns  
  Periods Ended September 30, 2018  
 
    Since Final Value
  One Inception of a $10,000
  Year (3/10/2016) Investment
Emerging Markets Bond FundInvestor      
Shares 2.39% 8.90% $12,437
 
JP Morgan EMBI Global Diversified -1.92 5.35 11,425
Emerging Markets Hard Currency Debt      
Funds Average -4.04 4.97 11,320

 

"Since Inception" performance is calculated from the Investor Shares’ inception date for both the fund and its comparative standards.

  Since Final Value
  Inception of a $50,000
  (12/6/2017) Investment
Emerging Markets Bond Fund Admiral Shares 0.92% $50,458
JP Morgan EMBI Global Diversified -2.69 48,657

 

"Since Inception" performance is calculated from the Admiral Shares’ inception date for both the fund and its comparative standards.

See Financial Highlights for dividend and capital gains information.

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Emerging Markets Bond Fund

Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): March 10, 2016, Through September 30, 2018  
        JP Morgan
        EMBI Global
      Investor Shares Diversified
Fiscal Year Income Returns Capital Returns Total Returns Total Returns
2016 2.81% 10.70% 13.51% 11.36%
2017 5.11 1.90 7.01 4.61
2018 4.20 -1.81 2.39 -1.92

 

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Emerging Markets Bond Fund

Financial Statements

Statement of Net Assets
As of September 30, 2018

The fund reports a complete list of its holdings in regulatory filings 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 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)
Angola (1.3%)        
Sovereign Bond (1.3%)        
Republic of Angola 9.375% 5/8/48 1,250 1,322
Total Angola (Cost $1,255)       1,322
Argentina (6.7%)        
Sovereign Bonds (6.7%)        
Argentine Republic 5.625% 1/26/22 600 541
Argentine Republic 4.625% 1/11/23 1,517 1,280
Argentine Republic 6.875% 1/26/27 4,742 4,031
1 Argentine Republic 2.500% 12/31/38 700 416
1 City of Buenos Aires 8.950% 2/19/21 500 502
Total Argentina (Cost $6,699)       6,770
Armenia (0.6%)        
Sovereign Bonds (0.6%)        
Republic of Armenia 6.000% 9/30/20 400 407
Republic of Armenia 7.150% 3/26/25 200 211
Total Armenia (Cost $627)       618
Bermuda (1.0%)        
Sovereign Bond (1.0%)        
Bermuda 4.854% 2/6/24 1,000 1,040
Total Bermuda (Cost $1,029)       1,040
Brazil (3.4%)        
Corporate Bonds (1.3%)        
Embraer Netherlands Finance BV 5.050% 6/15/25 500 501
2 Suzano Austria GmbH 6.000% 1/15/29 850 852
        1,353
Sovereign Bonds (2.1%)        
Federative Republic of Brazil 5.000% 1/27/45 850 702
Petrobras Global Finance BV 7.375% 1/17/27 1,400 1,416
        2,118
Total Brazil (Cost $3,492)       3,471

 

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Emerging Markets Bond Fund        
 
 
      Face Market
    Maturity Amount Value
  Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
Chile (5.8%)        
Corporate Bond (0.6%)        
Celulosa Arauco y Constitucion SA 5.500% 11/2/47 600 586
        586
Sovereign Bonds (5.2%)        
Corp. Nacional del Cobre de Chile 7.500% 1/15/19 800 809
Corp. Nacional del Cobre de Chile 4.500% 8/13/23 1,000 1,022
Corp. Nacional del Cobre de Chile 4.500% 9/16/25 1,500 1,524
Empresa de Transporte de Pasajeros        
Metro SA 5.000% 1/25/47 250 251
Empresa Nacional del Petroleo 3.750% 8/5/26 1,500 1,426
2 Empresa Nacional del Petroleo 4.500% 9/14/47 250 223
        5,255
Total Chile (Cost $5,867)       5,841
China (0.9%)        
Sovereign Bond (0.9%)        
2 Sinopec Group Overseas Development        
2018 Ltd. 4.250% 9/12/28 867 854
Total China (Cost $860)       854
Colombia (2.0%)        
Sovereign Bonds (2.0%)        
Republic of Colombia 4.375% 7/12/21 1,100 1,121
Republic of Colombia 10.375% 1/28/33 615 936
Total Colombia (Cost $2,076)       2,057
Costa Rica (0.7%)        
Sovereign Bond (0.7%)        
Republic of Costa Rica 7.158% 3/12/45 800 705
Total Costa Rica (Cost $761)       705
Cote d’Ivoire (0.4%)        
Sovereign Bond (0.4%)        
3 Republic of Cote d’Ivoire 6.625% 3/22/48 350 380
Total Cote d’Ivoire (Cost $431)       380
Croatia (0.6%)        
Sovereign Bond (0.6%)        
3 Republic of Croatia 3.000% 3/20/27 500 614
Total Croatia (Cost $610)       614
Dominican Republic (1.8%)        
Sovereign Bonds (1.8%)        
Dominican Republic 6.875% 1/29/26 500 534
Dominican Republic 6.500% 2/15/48 1,350 1,325
Total Dominican Republic (Cost $1,882)       1,859
Egypt (2.6%)        
Sovereign Bonds (2.6%)        
Arab Republic of Egypt 6.125% 1/31/22 800 800
Arab Republic of Egypt 7.500% 1/31/27 1,560 1,589
Arab Republic of Egypt 8.500% 1/31/47 250 250
Total Egypt (Cost $2,690)       2,639

 

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Emerging Markets Bond Fund        
 
 
      Face Market
    Maturity Amount Value
  Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
El Salvador (1.8%)        
Sovereign Bond (1.8%)        
Republic of El Salvador 7.750% 1/24/23 1,750 1,830
Total El Salvador (Cost $1,865)       1,830
Ghana (0.5%)        
Sovereign Bond (0.5%)        
1 Ghana Government International Bond 8.627% 6/16/49 500 501
Total Ghana (Cost $481)       501
Guatemala (3.4%)        
Sovereign Bond (3.4%)        
Republic of Guatemala 5.750% 6/6/22 3,300 3,424
Total Guatemala (Cost $3,448)       3,424
Honduras (1.2%)        
Sovereign Bond (1.2%)        
Republic of Honduras 6.250% 1/19/27 1,200 1,231
Total Honduras (Cost $1,237)       1,231
Hungary (4.2%)        
Sovereign Bonds (4.2%)        
Republic of Hungary 6.250% 1/29/20 1,500 1,558
Republic of Hungary 6.375% 3/29/21 600 641
Republic of Hungary 5.375% 2/21/23 1,000 1,060
3 Republic of Hungary 1.250% 10/22/25 850 979
Total Hungary (Cost $4,279)       4,238
India (2.0%)        
Sovereign Bonds (2.0%)        
Export-Import Bank of India 4.000% 1/14/23 1,500 1,483
2 Export-Import Bank of India 3.875% 2/1/28 565 524
Total India (Cost $2,067)       2,007
Indonesia (7.5%)        
Sovereign Bonds (7.5%)        
Republic of Indonesia 5.375% 10/17/23 4,750 5,010
Republic of Indonesia 5.875% 1/15/24 2,400 2,577
Total Indonesia (Cost $7,609)       7,587
Jordan (0.5%)        
Sovereign Bond (0.5%)        
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan 7.375% 10/10/47 500 469
Total Jordan (Cost $464)       469
Kazakhstan (2.4%)        
Sovereign Bonds (2.4%)        
Development Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 4.125% 12/10/22 1,000 984
Kazakhstan Temir Zholy Finance BV 6.950% 7/10/42 600 660
KazMunayGas National Co. JSC 6.375% 10/24/48 750 788
Total Kazakhstan (Cost $2,458)       2,432

 

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Emerging Markets Bond Fund        
 
 
      Face Market
    Maturity Amount Value
  Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
Kenya (0.7%)        
Sovereign Bond (0.7%)        
Republic of Kenya 7.250% 2/28/28 750 731
Total Kenya (Cost $703)       731
Latvia (0.2%)        
Sovereign Bond (0.2%)        
Republic of Latvia 2.750% 1/12/20 200 198
Total Latvia (Cost $199)       198
Lebanon (0.6%)        
Sovereign Bonds (0.6%)        
Republic of Lebanon 6.650% 11/3/28 400 303
Republic of Lebanon 7.250% 3/23/37 400 301
Total Lebanon (Cost $650)       604
Lithuania (0.7%)        
Sovereign Bonds (0.7%)        
Republic of Lithuania 6.125% 3/9/21 170 181
Republic of Lithuania 6.625% 2/1/22 500 551
Total Lithuania (Cost $731)       732
Mexico (6.9%)        
Corporate Bond (0.4%)        
1,2 Grupo Bimbo SAB de CV 5.950% 7/17/66 400 402
        402
Sovereign Bonds (6.5%)        
Petroleos Mexicanos 8.000% 5/3/19 323 332
Petroleos Mexicanos 6.000% 3/5/20 500 516
Petroleos Mexicanos 5.500% 1/21/21 1,250 1,290
Petroleos Mexicanos 6.875% 8/4/26 1,600 1,681
Petroleos Mexicanos 5.625% 1/23/46 1,000 848
4 United Mexican States 8.000% 12/7/23 34,500 1,861
        6,528
Total Mexico (Cost $6,919)       6,930
Mongolia (0.8%)        
Sovereign Bond (0.8%)        
Mongolia 10.875% 4/6/21 750 846
Total Mongolia (Cost $829)       846
Oman (1.5%)        
Sovereign Bond (1.5%)        
Sultanate of Oman 6.750% 1/17/48 1,500 1,459
Total Oman (Cost $1,467)       1,459
Panama (0.8%)        
Sovereign Bond (0.8%)        
Republic of Panama 9.375% 4/1/29 535 757
Total Panama (Cost $798)       757
Paraguay (1.0%)        
Republic of Paraguay 5.600% 3/13/48 1,000 997
Total Paraguay (Cost $1,021)       997

 

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Emerging Markets Bond Fund        
 
 
      Face Market
    Maturity Amount Value
  Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
Peru (1.1%)        
Sovereign Bonds (1.1%)        
Corp. Financiera de Desarrollo SA 4.750% 2/8/22 1,000 1,020
Republic of Peru 8.750% 11/21/33 50 74
Total Peru (Cost $1,094)       1,094
Philippines (3.0%)        
Sovereign Bonds (3.0%)        
Republic of the Philippines 4.200% 1/21/24 2,000 2,055
Republic of the Philippines 9.500% 2/2/30 650 962
Total Philippines (Cost $3,023)       3,017
Qatar (0.5%)        
Sovereign Bond (0.5%)        
State of Qatar 5.103% 4/23/48 500 520
Total Qatar (Cost $500)       520
Romania (1.5%)        
Sovereign Bonds (1.5%)        
Republic of Romania 5.125% 6/15/48 1,500 1,475
Total Romania (Cost $1,489)       1,475
Russia (3.0%)        
Sovereign Bonds (3.0%)        
Gazprom OAO Via Gaz Capital SA 9.250% 4/23/19 600 616
Russian Federation 5.000% 4/29/20 300 305
Russian Federation 4.250% 6/23/27 200 192
Russian Federation 5.250% 6/23/47 2,000 1,920
Total Russia (Cost $3,084)       3,033
Saudi Arabia (2.4%)        
Sovereign Bonds (2.4%)        
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 5.000% 4/17/49 2,400 2,434
Total Saudi Arabia (Cost $2,375)       2,434
Senegal (0.9%)        
Sovereign Bond (0.9%)        
1 Republic of Senegal 6.750% 3/13/48 1,000 893
Total Senegal (Cost $909)       893
Serbia, Republic of (0.6%)        
Sovereign Bond (0.6%)        
Republic of Serbia 4.875% 2/25/20 600 607
Total Serbia, Republic of (Cost $607)       607
South Africa (1.5%)        
Sovereign Bond (1.5%)        
Republic of South Africa 5.875% 9/16/25 1,500 1,524
Total South Africa (Cost $1,527)       1,524
Sri Lanka (1.2%)        
Sovereign Bond (1.2%)        
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka 6.850% 11/3/25 1,200 1,195
Total Sri Lanka (Cost $1,205)       1,195

 

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Emerging Markets Bond Fund        
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
Supranational (0.8%)        
Sovereign Bond (0.8%)        
2 Arab Petroleum Investments Corp. 4.125% 9/18/23 800 804
Total Supranational (Cost $799)       804
Trinidad and Tobago (0.9%)        
Sovereign Bond (0.9%)        
  Petroleum Co. of Trinidad & Tobago Ltd. 9.750% 8/14/19 1,000 930
Total Trinidad and Tobago (Cost $1,037)       930
Turkey (2.3%)        
Sovereign Bonds (2.3%)        
2 Export Credit Bank of Turkey 6.125% 5/3/24 421 377
  Republic of Turkey 5.750% 3/22/24 1,079 1,014
  Republic of Turkey 4.250% 4/14/26 850 712
  Republic of Turkey 5.750% 5/11/47 250 195
Total Turkey (Cost $2,364)       2,298
Ukraine (4.0%)        
Sovereign Bonds (4.8%)        
  Ukraine 7.750% 9/1/22 3,000 2,991
1 Ukraine Government International Bond 7.375% 9/25/32 1,200 1,043
1 Ukreximbank Via Biz Finance plc 9.625% 4/27/22 750 763
Total Ukraine (Cost $4,967)       4,797
Uruguay (1.5%)        
Sovereign Bond (1.5%)        
1 Oriental Republic of Uruguay 4.975% 4/20/55 1,500 1,500
Total Uruguay (Cost $1,438)       1,500
Venezuela (1.0%)        
Sovereign Bonds (1.0%)        
5 Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela 11.750% 10/21/26 640 179
5 Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela 7.000% 3/31/38 500 132
1,5 Petroleos de Venezuela SA 6.000% 11/15/26 2,850 613
5 Petroleos de Venezuela SA 5.375% 4/12/27 462 100
Total Venezuela (Cost $1,039)       1,024
 
        Shares  
Temporary Cash Investments (8.9%)        
Money Market Fund (8.9%)        
6 Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund (Cost $8,980) 2.209%   89,801 8,980
Total Temporary Cash Investments (Cost $8,980)     8,980

 

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      Notional Market
  Expiration Strike Amount Value
  Date Price ($000) ($000)
Options Purchased (0.0%)        
Foreign Currency Options        
Put Options        
ZAR 11/16/18 $14.3820 2,000 43
Total Options Purchased (Cost $39)       43
Total Investments (100.4%) (Cost $101,980)       101,311
Other Assets and Liabilities (-0.4%)        
Other Assets7       2,088
Liabilities       (2,541)
Net Assets (100%)       100,858
 
        Amount
        ($000)
Statement of Assets and Liabilities        
Assets        
Investments in Securities, at Value        
Unaffiliated Issuers       92,288
Affiliated Issuers       8,980
Options Purchased       43
Total Investments in Securities       101,311
Investment in Vanguard       5
Receivables for Accrued Income       1,277
Receivables for Capital Shares Issued       290
Variation Margin Receivable—Futures Contracts     1
Unrealized Appreciation—Forward Currency Contracts     75
Unrealized Appreciation—OTC Swap Contracts       75
Other Assets7       365
Total Assets       103,399
Liabilities        
Payables for Investment Securities Purchased       1,570
Payables for Capital Shares Redeemed       32
Payables for Distributions       88
Payables to Vanguard       22
Variation Margin Payable—CC Swap Contracts       5
Unrealized Depreciation—Forward Currency Contracts     54
Unrealized Depreciation—OTC Swap Contracts       76
Other Liabilities       694
Total Liabilities       2,541
Net Assets       100,858

 

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At September 30, 2018, net assets consisted of:  
  Amount
  ($000)
Paid-in Capital 102,757
Undistributed Net Investment Income 107
Accumulated Net Realized Losses (1,345)
Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)  
Investment Securities (673)
Futures Contracts (48)
Options on Foreign Currency 4
Swap Contracts 20
Forward Currency Contracts 21
Foreign Currencies 15
Net Assets 100,858
 
 
Investor Shares—Net Assets  
Applicable to 2,367,796 outstanding $.001 par value shares of  
beneficial interest (unlimited authorization) 24,534
Net Asset Value Per Share—Investor Shares $10.36
 
 
Admiral Shares—Net Assets  
Applicable to 3,166,192 outstanding $.001 par value shares of  
beneficial interest (unlimited authorization) 76,324
Net Asset Value Per Share—Admiral Shares $24.11

 

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 or the possibility of the issue being called.
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 September 30, 2018, the aggregate value of these securities
was $4,036,000, representing 4.0% of net assets.
3 Face amount denominated in euro.
4 Face amount denominated in Mexican peso.
5 Non-income-producing security—security in default.
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 Cash of $95,000 has been segregated as initial margin for open futures contracts and cash of $147,000 has been segregated as
initial margin for open cleared swap contracts.
ZAR—South African rand.
OTC—Over-the-Counter.
CC—Centrally Cleared.

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Derivative Financial Instruments Outstanding as of Period End    
 
Futures Contracts        
        ($000)
        Value and
    Number of   Unrealized
    Long (Short) Notional Appreciation
  Expiration Contracts Amount (Depreciation)
Long Futures Contracts        
Ultra 10-Year U.S. Treasury Note December 2018 36 4,536 (73)
5-Year U.S. Treasury Note December 2018 6 675 (6)
        (79)
 
Short Futures Contracts        
Euro-Bund December 2018 (16) (2,950) 26
Ultra Long U.S. Treasury Bond December 2018 (1) (154) 5
        31
        (48)

 

Forward Currency Contracts            
            Unrealized
  Contract         Appreciation
  Settlement   Contract Amount (000) (Depreciation)
Counterparty Date   Receive   Deliver ($000)
Toronto-Dominion Bank 11/20/18 ZAR 11,328 USD 800 (4)
BNP Paribas Securities, Inc. 10/17/18 RUB 52,050 USD 751 42
BNP Paribas Securites, Inc. 10/2/18 BRL 2,919 USD 700 23
Toronto Dominion Bank 10/2/18 BRL 455 USD 110 3
Goldman Sachs Bank AG 10/15/18 USD 1,817 MXN 34,367 (15)
Deutsche Bank AG 10/17/18 USD 1,443 PEN 4,822 (16)
Deutsche Bank AG 10/15/18 USD 907 EUR 775 7
HSBC Bank USA N.A. 10/2/18 USD 821 BRL 3,374 (15)
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. 10/17/18 USD 779 RUB 51,367 (4)
BNP Paribas Securities, Inc. 10/15/18 USD 7 EUR 6
            21
BRL—Brazilian real.            
EUR—Euro.            
MXN—Mexican peso.            
PEN—Peruvian sol.            
RUB—Russian ruble.            
USD—U.S. dollar.            
ZAR—South African rand.            

 

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Over-the-Counter Credit Default Swaps          
            Remaining  
        Periodic   Up-Front  
        Premium   Premium Unrealized
      Notional Received   Received Appreciation
Termination   Amount (Paid)1 Value (Paid) (Depreciation)
Reference Entity Date Counterparty ($000) (%) ($000) ($000) ($000)
Credit Protection Sold/              
Moody’s Rating              
Ministry of Finance              
Malaysia/A3 12/20/23 BARC 2,750 1.000 6 (2) 4
Petroleos Mexicanos/              
Baa3 12/20/23 DBAG 1,400 1.000 (87) 85 (2)
Republic of Indonesia/              
Baa2 12/20/23 BNPSW 650 1.000 (10) 14 4
Republic of Peru/A3 12/20/23 BOANA 5,700 1.000 67 (47) 20
Republic of Philippines/              
Baa2 12/20/23 BNPSW 1,400 1.000 14 (9) 5
Russian Federation/Ba1 12/20/23 GSI 1,150 1.000 (24) 33 9
Russian Federation/Ba1 12/20/23 JPMC 700 1.000 (15) 20 5
          (49) 94 45
1 Periodic premium received/paid quarterly.          
BARC—Barclays Bank plc.              
BNPSW—BNP Paribas.              
BOANA—Bank of America, N.A.            
DBAG—Deutsche Bank AG.              
GSI—Goldman Sachs International.            
JPMC—JP Morgan Chase Bank.            

 

The notional amount represents the maximum potential amount the fund could be required to pay as a seller of credit protection if the reference entity was subject to a credit event.

1 Fixed interest payment received/paid semiannually.

2 Based on 28-day Mexican Interbank Rate (TIIE) as of the most recent reset date and paid every 28 days.

3 Fixed interest payment received/paid annually.

4 Based on the 6-month Budapest Interbank Offered Rate and paid semiannually. HUF—Hungarian forint.

MXN—Mexican peso.

Centrally Cleared Interest Rate Swaps            
        Fixed Floating    
        Interest Interest    
        Rate Rate   Unrealized
  Future     Received Received   Appreciation
  Effective Notional Amount (Paid) (Paid) Value (Depreciation)
Termination Date Date   (000) (%) (%) ($000) ($000)
6/27/28 N/A MXN 27,750 8.0801 (8.102)2 (13) (13)
7/31/28 N/A HUF 300,000 (2.668)3 0.300 4 34 34
              21

 

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Over-the-Counter Interest Rate Swaps          
      Fixed Floating    
      Interest Interest    
      Rate Rate   Unrealized
      Received Received   Appreciation
    Notional Amount (Paid)1 (Paid)1,2 Value (Depreciation)
Termination Date Counterparty (000) (%) (%) ($000) ($000)
1/2/25 HSBC BRL 2,378 12.010 (6.390) 28 28
1/2/25 HSBC BRL 5,184 10.455 (6.390) (64) (64)
1/2/25 HSBC BRL 2,268 10.978 (6.390) (10) (10)
          (46) (46)

 

BRL—Brazilian real.

HSBC—HSBC Holdings plc.

1 Fixed and Floating interest payment received/paid at maturity of contract.

2 Based on 1 Day Overnight Brazil CETIP Interbank Deposit Rate.

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

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Statement of Operations

  Year Ended
  September 30, 2018
  ($000)
Investment Income  
Income  
Interest1 3,423
Total Income 3,423
Expenses  
The Vanguard Group—Note B  
Investment Advisory Services 2
Management and Administrative—Investor Shares 177
Management and Administrative—Admiral Shares 121
Marketing and Distribution—Investor Shares
Marketing and Distribution—Admiral Shares
Custodian Fees 21
Auditing Fees 46
Shareholders’ Reports and Proxy—Investor Shares 2
Shareholders’ Reports and Proxy—Admiral Shares 1
Total Expenses 370
Expenses Paid Indirectly (2)
Net Expenses 368
Net Investment Income 3,055
Realized Net Gain (Loss)  
Investment Securities Sold1 (1,771)
Futures Contracts 78
Purchased Options (19)
Swap Contracts 411
Forward Currency Contracts 379
Foreign Currencies (18)
Realized Net Gain (Loss) (940)
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)  
Investment Securities1 (941)
Futures Contracts (46)
Purchased Options 4
Swap Contracts 12
Forward Currency Contracts 10
Foreign Currencies 12
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) (949)
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations 1,166

 

1 Interest income, realized net gain (loss), and change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) from affiliated companies of the fund were $50,000, ($1,000), and ($1,000) respectively. Purchases and sales are for temporary cash investment purposes.

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

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Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  Year Ended September 30,
  2018 2017
  ($000) ($000)
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets    
Operations    
Net Investment Income 3,055 549
Realized Net Gain (Loss) (940) 569
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) (949) (318)
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations 1,166 800
Distributions    
Net Investment Income    
Investor Shares (1,458) (558)
Admiral Shares (1,797)
Realized Capital Gain    
Investor Shares1 (630) (501)
Admiral Shares
Total Distributions (3,885) (1,059)
Capital Share Transactions    
Investor Shares 14,419 1,059
Admiral Shares 77,011
Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions 91,430 1,059
Total Increase (Decrease) 88,711 800
Net Assets    
Beginning of Period 12,147 11,347
End of Period2 100,858 12,147

 

1 Includes fiscal 2018 and 2017 short-term gain distributions totaling $531,000 and $478,000, respectively. Short-term gain distributions are treated as ordinary income dividends for tax purposes.

2 Net Assets—End of Period includes undistributed (overdistributed) net investment income of $107,000 and ($13,000).

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

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Financial Highlights

Investor Shares      
    March 10,
  Year Ended 20161 to
  September 30, Sept. 30,
For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Period 2018 2017 2016
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period $10.76 $11.07 $10.00
Investment Operations      
Net Investment Income . 443 2 .5042 .286
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments (.193) .184 1.050
Total from Investment Operations .250 .688 1.336
Distributions      
Dividends from Net Investment Income (. 439) (. 514) (. 266)
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains (.211) (.484)
Total Distributions (. 650) (. 998) (. 266)
Net Asset Value, End of Period $10.36 $10.76 $11.07
 
Total Return3 2.39% 7.01% 13.51%
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data      
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) $25 $12 $11
Ratio of Total Expenses to Average Net Assets 0.60% 0.60% 0.60%4
Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets 4.29% 4.79% 4.85%4
Portfolio Turnover Rate 350% 261% 153%

 

1 Inception.
2 Calculated based on average shares outstanding.
3 Total returns do not include account service fees that may have applied in the periods shown. Fund prospectuses provide information
about any applicable account service fees.
4 Annualized.

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

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Financial Highlights

Admiral Shares  
  December 6, 20171 to
For a Share Outstanding Throughout the Period September 30, 2018
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period $24.80
Investment Operations  
Net Investment Income2 .875
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments (.659)
Total from Investment Operations .216
Distributions  
Dividends from Net Investment Income (.906)
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains
Total Distributions (. 906)
Net Asset Value, End of Period $24.11
 
Total Return3 0.92%
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data  
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) $76
Ratio of Total Expenses to Average Net Assets 0.45%4
Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets 4.44%4
Portfolio Turnover Rate 350%

 

1 Inception.
2 Calculated based on average shares outstanding.
3 Total returns do not include account service fees that may have applied in the periods shown. Fund prospectuses provide information
about any applicable account service fees.
4 Annualized.

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

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Notes to Financial Statements

Vanguard Emerging Markets Bond Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. 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 invests in securities of foreign issuers, which may subject it to investment risks not normally associated with investing in securities of U.S. corporations. To minimize the currency risk associated with investment in bonds denominated in currencies other than the U.S. dollar, the fund attempts to hedge its currency exposures. 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, and account-size criteria. Admiral Shares were issued on December 6, 2017.

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

1. Security Valuation: Securities are valued as of the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4 p.m., Eastern time) on the valuation date. Bonds and temporary cash investments 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. Securities for which market quotations are not readily available, or whose values have been affected by events occurring before the fund’s pricing time but after the close of the securities’ primary markets, are valued at their fair values calculated according to procedures adopted by the board of trustees. These procedures include obtaining quotations from an independent pricing service, monitoring news to identify significant market- or security-specific events, and evaluating changes in the values of foreign market proxies (for example, ADRs, futures contracts, or exchange-traded funds), between the time the foreign markets close and the fund’s pricing time. When fair-value pricing is employed, the prices of securities used by a fund to calculate its net asset value may differ from quoted or published prices for the same securities.

2. Foreign Currency: Securities and other assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars using exchange rates obtained from an independent third party as of the fund’s pricing time on the valuation date. Realized gains (losses) and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investment securities include the effects of changes in exchange rates since the securities were purchased, combined with the effects of changes in security prices. Fluctuations in the value of other assets and liabilities resulting from changes in exchange rates are recorded as unrealized foreign currency gains (losses) until the assets or liabilities are settled in cash, at which time they are recorded as realized foreign currency gains (losses).

3. 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. Counterparty risk involving futures is mitigated because a regulated clearinghouse is the counterparty instead of the clearing broker. To further mitigate counterparty risk, the fund trades futures contracts on an exchange, monitors the financial strength of its clearing

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brokers and clearinghouse, and has entered into clearing agreements with its clearing brokers. The clearinghouse imposes initial margin requirements to secure the fund’s performance and requires daily settlement of variation margin representing changes in the market value of each contract.

Futures contracts are valued at their quoted daily settlement prices. The notional 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 Assets and Liabilities 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).

During the year ended September 30, 2018, the fund’s average investments in long and short futures contracts each represented 4% of net assets, based on the average of the notional amounts at each quarter-end during the period.

4. Forward Currency Contracts: The fund enters into forward currency contracts to protect the value of securities and related receivables and payables against changes in future foreign exchange rates. The fund’s risks in using these contracts include movement in the values of the foreign currencies relative to the U.S. dollar and the ability of the counterparties to fulfill their obligations under the contracts. The fund mitigates its counterparty risk by entering into forward currency contracts only with a diverse group of prequalified counterparties, monitoring their financial strength, entering into master netting arrangements with its counterparties, and requiring its counterparties to transfer collateral as security for their performance. In the absence of a default, the collateral pledged or received by the fund cannot be repledged, resold, or rehypothecated. The master netting arrangements provide that, in the event of a counterparty’s default (including bankruptcy), the fund may terminate the forward currency contracts, determine the net amount owed by either party in accordance with its master netting arrangements, and sell or retain any collateral held up to the net amount owed to the fund under the master netting arrangements. The forward currency contracts contain provisions whereby a counterparty may terminate open contracts if the fund’s net assets decline below a certain level, triggering a payment by the fund if the fund is in a net liability position at the time of the termination. The payment amount would be reduced by any collateral the fund has pledged. Any assets pledged as collateral for open contracts are noted in the Statement of Net Assets. The value of collateral received or pledged is compared daily to the value of the forward currency contracts exposure with each counterparty, and any difference, if in excess of a specified minimum transfer amount, is adjusted and settled within two business days.

Forward currency contracts are valued at their quoted daily prices obtained from an independent third party, adjusted for currency risk based on the expiration date of each contract. The notional 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 Assets and Liabilities 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 forward currency contract gains (losses).

During the year ended September 30, 2018, the fund’s average investment in forward currency contracts represented 14% of net assets, based on the average of notional amounts at each quarter-end during the period.

5. Swap Contracts: The fund invests in credit default swaps to adjust the overall credit risk of the fund or to actively overweight or underweight credit risk to a specific issuer or group of issuers. The fund may sell credit protection through credit default swaps to simulate investments in long positions that are either unavailable or considered to be less attractively priced in the bond market.

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The fund may purchase credit protection through credit default swaps to reduce credit exposure to a given issuer or issuers. Under the terms of the swaps, an up-front payment may be exchanged between the seller and buyer. In addition, the seller of the credit protection receives a periodic payment of premium from the buyer that is a fixed percentage applied to a notional amount. If, for example, 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 seller agrees to either physically settle or cash settle the swap contract. If the swap is physically settled, the seller agrees to pay the buyer an amount equal to the notional amount and take delivery of a debt instrument of the reference issuer with a par amount equal to such notional amount. If the swap is cash settled, the seller agrees to pay the buyer the difference between the notional amount and the final price for the relevant debt instrument, as determined either in a market auction or pursuant to a pre-agreed-upon valuation procedure.

The fund enters into interest rate swap transactions to adjust the fund’s sensitivity to changes in interest rates and maintain the ability to generate income at prevailing market rates. Under the terms of the swaps, one party pays the other an amount that is a fixed percentage rate applied to a notional 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.

The notional amounts of swap contracts are not recorded in the Statement of Net Assets. Swaps are valued daily based on market quotations received from independent pricing services or recognized dealers and the change in value is recorded in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities as an asset (liability) and in the Statement of Operations as unrealized appreciation (depreciation) until the seller of credit protection is required to take delivery (or, in a cash settled swap, pay the settlement amount determined) upon occurrence of a credit event, 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) over the life of the contract.

The primary risk associated with selling credit protection is that, upon the occurrence of a defined credit event, the market value of the debt instrument received by the fund (or, in a cash settled swap, the debt instruments used to determine the settlement payment by the fund) will be significantly less than the amount paid by the fund and, in a physically settled swap, the fund may receive an illiquid debt instrument. A risk associated with all types of swaps is the possibility that a counterparty may default on its obligation to pay net amounts due to the fund. The fund’s maximum amount subject to counterparty risk is the unrealized appreciation on the swap contract. The fund mitigates its counterparty risk by entering into swaps only with a diverse group of prequalified counterparties, monitoring their financial strength, entering into master netting arrangements with its counterparties, and requiring its counterparties to transfer collateral as security for their performance. In the absence of a default, the collateral pledged or received by the fund cannot be repledged, resold, or rehypothecated. In the event of a counterparty’s default (including bankruptcy), the fund may terminate any swap contracts with that counterparty, determine the net amount owed by either party in accordance with its master netting arrangements, and sell or retain any collateral held up to the net amount owed to the fund under the master netting arrangements. The swap contracts contain provisions whereby a counterparty may terminate open contracts if the fund’s net assets decline below a certain level, triggering a payment by the fund if the fund is in a net liability position at the time of the termination. The payment amount would be reduced by any collateral the fund has pledged. Any securities pledged as collateral for open contracts are noted in the Statement of Net

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Assets. The value of collateral received or pledged is compared daily to the value of the swap contracts exposure with each counterparty, and any difference, if in excess of a specified minimum transfer amount, is adjusted and settled within two business days.

The fund enters into centrally cleared interest rate swaps to achieve the same objectives specified with respect to the equivalent over-the-counter swaps but with less counterparty risk because a regulated clearinghouse is the counterparty instead of the clearing broker or executing broker. The clearinghouse imposes initial margin requirements to secure the fund’s performance, and requires daily settlement of variation margin representing changes in the market value of each contract. To further mitigate counterparty risk, the fund trades with a diverse group of prequalified executing brokers; monitors the financial strength of its clearing brokers, executing brokers, and clearinghouse; and has entered into agreements with its clearing brokers and executing brokers.

During the year ended September 30, 2018, the fund’s average amounts of investments in credit protection sold and credit protection purchased represented 10% and 3% of net assets, respectively, based on the average of notional amounts at each quarter-end during the period. The average amount of investments in interest rate swaps represented 2% of net assets, based on the average of notional amounts at each quarter-end during the period.

6. Options: The fund invests in options on foreign currency, which are transacted over-the-counter (OTC) and not on an exchange. Unlike exchange-traded options, which are standardized with respect to the underlying instrument, expiration date, contract size, and strike price, the terms of OTC options generally are established through negotiation with the other party to the option contract. Although this type of arrangement allows the purchaser or writer greater flexibility to tailor an option to its needs, OTC options generally involve greater credit risk than exchange-traded options. Credit risk involves the possibility that a counterparty may default on its obligation to pay net amounts due to the fund. The fund mitigates its counterparty risk by entering into options with a diverse group of prequalified counterparties and monitoring their financial strength. The primary risk associated with purchasing options on foreign currency is that the value of the underlying foreign currencies may move in such a way that the option is out-of-the-money (the exercise price of the option exceeds the value of the underlying investment), the position is worthless at expiration, and the fund loses the premium paid. The primary risk associated with selling options on foreign currency is that the value of the underlying foreign currencies may move in such a way that the option is in-the-money (the exercise price of the option exceeds the value of the underlying investment), the counterparty exercises the option, and the fund loses an amount equal to the market value of the option written less the premium received. Options on foreign currency are valued daily based on market quotations received from independent pricing services or recognized dealers. The premium paid for a purchased option is recorded in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities as an asset that is subsequently adjusted daily to the current market value of the option purchased. The premium received for a written option is recorded in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities as an asset with an equal liability that is subsequently adjusted daily to the current market value of the option written. Fluctuations in the value of the options are recorded as unrealized appreciation (depreciation) until expired, closed, or exercised, at which time realized gains (losses) are recognized.

During the year ended September 30, 2018, the fund’s average value of options purchased and options written represented less than 1% and 0% of net assets, respectively, based on the average market values at each quarter-end during the period.

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7. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken for all open federal income tax years (September 30, 2016–2018), and has concluded that no provision for federal income tax is required in the fund’s financial statements.

8. Distributions: Distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Distributions are determined on a tax basis and may differ from net investment income and realized capital gains for financial reporting purposes.

9. Credit Facility: The fund and certain other funds managed by The Vanguard Group (“Vanguard”) participate in a $3.1 billion committed credit facility provided by a syndicate of lenders pursuant to a credit agreement that may be renewed annually; each fund is individually liable for its borrowings, if any, under the credit facility. Borrowings may be utilized for temporary and emergency purposes, and are subject to the fund’s regulatory and contractual borrowing restrictions. The participating funds are charged administrative fees and an annual commitment fee of 0.10% of the undrawn amount of the facility; these fees are allocated to the funds based on a method approved by the fund’s board of trustees and included in Management and Administrative expenses on the fund’s Statement of Operations. Any borrowings under this facility bear interest at a rate based upon the higher of the one-month London Interbank Offered Rate, federal funds effective rate, or overnight bank funding rate plus an agreed-upon spread.

The fund had no borrowings outstanding at September 30, 2018, or at any time during the period then ended.

10. Other: 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. Fees assessed on capital share transactions are credited to paid-in capital.

B. In accordance with the terms of a Funds’ Service Agreement (the “FSA”) between Vanguard and the fund, Vanguard furnishes to the fund investment advisory, corporate management, administrative, marketing, and distribution services at Vanguard’s cost of operations (as defined by the FSA). These costs of operations are allocated to the fund based on methods and guidelines approved by the board of trustees. Vanguard does not require reimbursement in the current period for certain costs of operations (such as deferred compensation/benefits and risk/insurance costs); the fund’s liability for these costs of operations is included in Payables to Vanguard on the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. All other costs of operations payable to Vanguard are generally settled twice a month.

Upon the request of Vanguard, the fund may invest up to 0.40% of its net assets as capital in Vanguard. At September 30, 2018, the fund had contributed to Vanguard capital in the amount of $5,000, representing 0.00% of the fund’s net assets and 0.00% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and employees, respectively, 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 September 30, 2018, custodian fee offset arrangements reduced the fund’s expenses by $2,000 (an annual rate of 0.00% of average net assets).

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D. Various inputs may be used to determine the value of the fund’s investments. These inputs are summarized in three broad levels for financial statement purposes. The inputs or methodologies used to value securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.

Level 1Quoted prices in active markets for identical securities.

Level 2Other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.).

Level 3Significant unobservable inputs (including the fund’s own assumptions used to determine the fair value of investments). Any investments valued with significant unobservable inputs are noted on the Statement of Net Assets.

The following table summarizes the market value of the fund’s investments as of September 30, 2018, based on the inputs used to value them:

  Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
Investments ($000) ($000) ($000)
Corporate Bonds 2,341
Sovereign Bonds 89,947  
Temporary Cash Investments 8,980
Options Purchased 43
Futures Contracts—Assets1 1
Forward Currency Contracts—Assets 75
Forward Currency Contracts— Liabilities (54)  
Swap Contracts—Assets 75
Swap Contracts—Liabilities (5)1 (76)  
Total 9,019 92,308
1 Represents variation margin on the last day of the reporting period.      

 

E. At September 30, 2018, the fair values of derivatives were reflected in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities as follows:

  Credit Currency Interest Rate  
  Contracts Contracts Contracts Total
Statement of Assets and Liabilities Caption ($000) ($000) ($000) ($000)
Purchased Options   43 43
Unrealized Appreciation—Forward Currency Contracts 75 75
Unrealized Appreciation—Swap Contracts   75 75
Variation Margin Receivable—Futures Contracts   1 1
Total Assets   75 118 1 194
 
Unrealized Depreciation—Forward Currency Contracts (54) (54)
Unrealized Depreciation —Swap Contracts   (76) (76)
Variation Margin Payable—Swap Contracts   (5) (5)
Total Liabilities   (76) (54) (5) (135)

 

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Realized net gain (loss) and the change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on derivatives for the year ended September 30, 2018, were:

  Credit Currency Interest Rate  
  Contracts Contracts Contracts Total
Realized Net Gain (Loss) on Derivatives ($000) ($000) ($000) ($000)
Options Purchased (19) (19)
Futures Contracts 78 78
Forward Currency Contracts 379 379
Swap Contracts 361 50 411
Realized Net Gain (Loss) on Derivatives 361 360 128 849

 

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) on Derivatives      
Options Purchased 4 4
Futures Contracts (46) (46)
Forward Currency Contracts 10 10
Swap Contracts 35 (23) 12
Change in Unrealized Appreciation        
(Depreciation) on Derivatives 35 14 (69) (20)

 

F. Permanent differences between book-basis and tax-basis components of net assets are reclassified among capital accounts in the financial statements to reflect their tax character. These reclassifications have no effect on net assets or net asset value per share. As of period end, the following permanent differences primarily attributable to the accounting for foreign currency transactions and swap agreements were reclassified to the following accounts:

 

Amount
($000)
Paid-in Capital
Undistributed (Overdistributed) Net Investment Income 320
Accumulated Net Realized Gains (Losses) (320)

 

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Temporary differences between book-basis and tax-basis components of accumulated net earnings (losses) arise when certain items of income, gain, or loss are recognized in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes; these differences will reverse at some time in the future. The differences are primarily related to the tax deferral of losses on wash sales and straddles; the realization of unrealized gains or losses on certain futures contracts, forward currency contracts, options, and swap agreements; payables for distributions and the deferral of post-October capital losses to future periods. As of period end, the tax-basis components of accumulated net earnings (losses) are detailed in the table as follows:

  Amount
  ($000)
Undistributed Ordinary Income 261
Undistributed Long-Term Gains
Capital Loss Carryforwards (Non-expiring)* (1,382)
Net Unrealized Gains (Losses) (634)

 

* Includes losses of $1,382,000 realized subsequent to October 31, 2017, which are deferred and will be treated as realized for tax purposes in the next fiscal year.

As of September 30, 2018, gross unrealized appreciation and depreciation for investments and derivatives based on cost for U.S. federal income tax purposes were as follows:

  Amount
  ($000)
Tax Cost 102,074
Gross Unrealized Appreciation 692
Gross Unrealized Depreciation (1,341)
Net Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) (649)

 

G. During the year ended September 30, 2018, the fund purchased $276,390,000 of investment securities and sold $196,157,000 of investment securities, other than U.S. government securities and temporary cash investments. Purchases and sales of U.S. government securities were $25,643,000 and 25,545,000 respectively.

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

      Year Ended September 30,
    2018   2017
  Amount Shares Amount Shares
  ($000) (000) ($000) (000)
Investor Shares        
Issued 53,674 5,051
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 1,989 189 1,059 103
Redeemed (41,244) (4,001)
Net Increase (Decrease)—Investor Shares 14,419 1,239 1,059 103
Admiral Shares1        
Issued 97,472 4,015
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 1,453 60
Redeemed (21,914) (909)
Net Increase (Decrease)—Admiral Shares 77,011 3,166
1 Inception was December 6, 2017, for Admiral Shares.        

 

I. Management has determined that no events or transactions occurred subsequent to September 30, 2018, that would require recognition or disclosure in these financial statements.

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Report of Independent Registered
Public Accounting Firm

To the Board of Trustees of Vanguard Malvern Funds and Shareholders of Vanguard Emerging
Markets Bond Fund

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying statement of net assets and statement of assets and liabilities of Vanguard Emerging Markets Bond Fund (one of the funds constituting Vanguard Malvern Funds, referred to hereafter as the “Fund”) as of September 30, 2018, the related statement of operations for the year ended September 30, 2018, the statement of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period ended September 30, 2018, including the related notes, and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated therein (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Fund as of September 30, 2018, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period ended September 30, 2018 and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated therein in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Fund’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Fund’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Fund in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of September 30, 2018 by correspondence with the custodians and brokers and by agreement to the underlying ownership records of the transfer agent; when replies were not received from brokers, we performed other auditing procedures. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
November 15, 2018

We have served as the auditor of one or more investment companies in The Vanguard Group of Funds since 1975.

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Special 2018 tax information (unaudited) for Vanguard Emerging Markets Bond Fund

This information for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2018, is included pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

The fund distributed $98,000 as capital gain dividends (20% rate gain distributions) to shareholders during the fiscal year.

For nonresident alien shareholders, 100% of short-term capital gain dividends distributed by the fund are qualified short-term capital gains.

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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 accompanying table 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 any purchase, redemption, or account service fees described in the fund 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 fund’s 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 September 30, 2018      
  Beginning Ending Expenses
  Account Value Account Value Paid During
Emerging Markets Bond Fund 3/31/2018 9/30/2018 Period
Based on Actual Fund Return      
Investor Shares $1,000.00 $1,007.57 $3.02
Admiral Shares 1,000.00 1,008.75 2.27
Based on Hypothetical 5% Yearly Return      
Investor Shares $1,000.00 $1,022.06 $3.04
Admiral Shares 1,000.00 1,022.81 2.28

 

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 0.60% for Investor Shares and 0.45% 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 (183/365).

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Glossary

30-Day SEC Yield. A fund’s 30-day SEC yield is derived using a formula specified by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Under the formula, data related to the fund’s security holdings in the previous 30 days are used to calculate the fund’s hypothetical net income for that period, which is then annualized and divided by the fund’s estimated average net assets over the calculation period. For the purposes of this calculation, a security’s income is based on its current market yield to maturity (for bonds), its actual income (for asset-backed securities), or its projected dividend yield (for stocks). Because the SEC yield represents hypothetical annualized income, it will differ—at times significantly—from the fund’s actual experience. As a result, the fund’s income distributions may be higher or lower than implied by the SEC yield.

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.

Credit Quality. Credit-quality ratings are measured on a scale that generally ranges from AAA (highest) to D (lowest). U.S. Treasury, U.S. Agency, and U.S. Agency mortgage-backed securities appear under “U.S. Government.” Credit-quality ratings are obtained from Moody’s and S&P, and the higher rating for each issue is shown. ”Not Rated” is used to classify securities for which a rating is not available. Not rated securities include a fund’s investment in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund or Vanguard Municipal Cash Management Fund, each of which invests in high-quality money market instruments and may serve as a cash management vehicle for the Vanguard funds, trusts, and accounts.

Expense Ratio. A fund’s total annual operating expenses expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets. The expense ratio includes management and administrative expenses, but does not include the transaction costs of buying and selling portfolio securities.

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.

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

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. The independent board members have distinguished backgrounds in business, academia, and public service. Each of the trustees and executive officers oversees 211 Vanguard funds.

Information for each trustee and executive officer of the fund appears below. The mailing address of the trustees and officers is P.O. Box 876, Valley Forge, PA 19482. More information about the trustees is in the Statement of Additional Information, which can be obtained, without charge, by contacting Vanguard at 800-662-7447, or online at vanguard.com.

Interested Trustees1

F. William McNabb III

Born in 1957. Trustee since July 2009. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: chairman of the board (January 2010–present) of Vanguard and of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard, trustee (2009–present) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard, and director (2008–present) of Vanguard. Chief executive officer and president (2008–2017) of Vanguard and each of the investment companies served by Vanguard, managing director (1995–2008) of Vanguard, and director (1997–2018) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Director (2018–present) of UnitedHealth Group.

Mortimer J. Buckley

Born in 1969. Trustee since January 2018. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: chief executive officer (January 2018–present) of Vanguard; chief executive officer, president, and trustee (January 2018–present) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard; president and director (2017–present) of Vanguard; and president (February 2018–present) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Chief investment officer (2013–2017), managing director (2002–2017), head of the Retail Investor Group (2006–2012), and chief information officer (2001–2006) of Vanguard. Chairman of the board (2011–2017) of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Independent Trustees

Emerson U. Fullwood

Born in 1948. Trustee since January 2008. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: executive chief staff and marketing officer for North America and corporate vice president (retired 2008) of Xerox Corporation (document management products and services). Former president of the Worldwide Channels Group, Latin America, and Worldwide Customer Service and executive chief staff officer of Developing Markets of Xerox. Executive in residence and 2009–2010 Distinguished Minett Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Lead director of SPX FLOW, Inc. (multi-industry manufacturing). Director of the University of Rochester Medical Center, the Monroe Community College Foundation, the United Way of Rochester, North Carolina A&T University, and Roberts Wesleyan College. Trustee of the University of Rochester.

Amy Gutmann

Born in 1949. Trustee since June 2006. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: president (2004–present) of the University of Pennsylvania. Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences, and professor of communication, Annenberg School for Communication, with secondary faculty appointments in the Department of Philosophy, School of Arts and Sciences, and at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. Trustee of the National Constitution Center.

1 Mr. McNabb and Mr. Buckley are considered “interested persons,” as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, because they are officers of the Vanguard funds.


 

JoAnn Heffernan Heisen

Born in 1950. Trustee since July 1998. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: corporate vice president of Johnson & Johnson (pharmaceuticals/medical devices/consumer products) and member of its executive committee (1997–2008). Chief global diversity officer (retired 2008), vice president and chief information officer (1997–2006), controller (1995–1997), treasurer (1991–1995), and assistant treasurer (1989–1991) of Johnson & Johnson. Director of Skytop Lodge Corporation (hotels) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Member of the advisory board of the Institute for Women’s Leadership at Rutgers University.

F. Joseph Loughrey

Born in 1949. Trustee since October 2009. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: president and chief operating officer (retired 2009) and vice chairman of the board (2008–2009) of Cummins Inc. (industrial machinery). Chairman of the board of Hillenbrand, Inc. (specialized consumer services), Oxfam America, and the Lumina Foundation for Education. Director of the V Foundation for Cancer Research. Member of the advisory council for the College of Arts and Letters and chair of the advisory board to the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, both at the University of Notre Dame.

Mark Loughridge

Born in 1953. Trustee since March 2012. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: senior vice president and chief financial officer (retired 2013) of IBM (information technology services). Fiduciary member of IBM’s Retirement Plan Committee (2004–2013), senior vice president and general manager (2002–2004) of IBM Global Financing, vice president and controller (1998–2002) of IBM, and a variety of other prior management roles at IBM. Member of the Council on Chicago Booth.

Scott C. Malpass

Born in 1962. Trustee since March 2012. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: chief investment officer (1989–present) and vice president (1996–present) of the University of Notre Dame. Assistant professor of finance at the Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame, and member of the Notre Dame 403(b) Investment Committee. Chairman of the board of TIFF Advisory Services, Inc. Member of the board of Catholic Investment Services, Inc. (investment advisors), the board of advisors for Spruceview Capital Partners, and the board of superintendence of the Institute for the Works of Religion.

Deanna Mulligan

Born in 1963. Trustee since January 2018. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: president (2010–present) and chief executive officer (2011–present) of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. Chief operating officer (2010–2011) and executive vice president (2008–2010) of Individual Life and Disability of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. Member of the board of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, the American Council of Life Insurers, the Partnership for New York City (business leadership), and the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy. Trustee of the Economic Club of New York and the Bruce Museum (arts and science). Member of the Advisory Council for the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

André F. Perold

Born in 1952. Trustee since December 2004. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School (retired 2011). Chief investment officer and co-managing partner of HighVista Strategies LLC (private investment firm). Overseer of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

Sarah Bloom Raskin

Born in 1961. Trustee since January 2018. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: deputy secretary (2014–2017) of the United States Department of the Treasury. Governor (2010–2014) of the Federal Reserve Board. Commissioner (2007–2010) of financial regulation for the State of Maryland. Member of the board of directors (2012–2014) of Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. Director of i(x) Investments, LLC.

Peter F. Volanakis

Born in 1955. Trustee since July 2009. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: president and chief operating officer (retired 2010) of Corning Incorporated (communications equipment) and director of Corning Incorporated (2000–2010) and Dow Corning (2001–2010). Director (2012) of SPX Corporation (multi-industry manufacturing). Overseer of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College (2001–2013). Chairman of the board of trustees of Colby-Sawyer College. Member of the Board of Hypertherm Inc. (industrial cutting systems, software, and consumables).


 

Executive Officers

Glenn Booraem

Born in 1967. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard. Investment stewardship officer (2017–present), treasurer (2015–2017), controller (2010–2015), and assistant controller (2001–2010) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard.

Christine M. Buchanan

Born in 1970. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard and global head of Fund Administration at Vanguard. Treasurer (2017–present) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Partner (2005–2017) at KPMG LLP (audit, tax, and advisory services).

Brian Dvorak

Born in 1973. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard. Chief compliance officer (2017–present) of Vanguard and each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Assistant vice president (2017–present) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Vice president and director of Enterprise Risk Management (2011–2013) at Oppenheimer Funds, Inc.

Thomas J. Higgins

Born in 1957. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard. Chief financial officer (2008–present) and treasurer (1998–2008) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard.

Peter Mahoney

Born in 1974. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard. Controller (2015–present) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Head of International Fund Services (2008–2014) at Vanguard.

Anne E. Robinson

Born in 1970. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: general counsel (2016–present) of Vanguard. Secretary (2016–present) of Vanguard and of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Managing director (2016–present) of Vanguard. Director and senior vice president (2016–2018) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Managing director and general counsel of Global Cards and Consumer Services (2014–2016) at Citigroup. Counsel (2003–2014) at American Express.

Michael Rollings

Born in 1963. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: finance director (2017–present) and treasurer (2017) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Managing director (2016–present) of Vanguard. Chief financial officer (2016–present) of Vanguard. Director (2016–present) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Executive vice president and chief financial officer (2006–2016) of MassMutual Financial Group.

Vanguard Senior Management Team
 
Joseph Brennan Chris D. McIsaac
Mortimer J. Buckley James M. Norris
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Annual Report | September 30, 2018

Vanguard Institutional Bond Funds

Vanguard Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund

Vanguard Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund


 

Vanguard’s Principles for Investing Success

We want to give you the best chance of investment success. These principles, grounded in Vanguard’s research and experience, can put you on the right path.

Goals. Create clear, appropriate investment goals.

Balance. Develop a suitable asset allocation using broadly diversified funds. Cost. Minimize cost.

Discipline. Maintain perspective and long-term discipline.

A single theme unites these principles: Focus on the things you can control.

We believe there is no wiser course for any investor.

Contents  
Your Fund’s Performance at a Glance. 1
CEO’s Perspective. 3
Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund. 5
Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund. 41
About Your Fund’s Expenses. 88
Glossary. 90

 

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 front of this report. Of course, the risks of investing in your fund are spelled out in the prospectus.

See the Glossary for definitions of investment terms used in this report.


 

Your Fund’s Performance at a Glance

• For the 12 months ended September 30, 2018, Vanguard Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund returned 0.67% and Vanguard Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund returned –0.75%. Both funds outpaced their benchmark indexes; the Short-Term Fund also did better than the average for its peer group.

• The bond market was marked by rising rates during the period. Short-term maturities moved higher as the Federal Reserve notched four federal funds rate increases, and longer-term rates rose on brighter prospects for growth and inflation.

• The Intermediate-Term Fund and, to a lesser extent, the Short-Term Fund had durations that were shorter than their benchmarks’, a positive given the rising rate environment. Both funds’ holdings in asset-backed securities also added to relative performance.

• Over the ten years ended September 30, the Short-Term Fund’s average annual return was 2.23% and the Intermediate-Term Fund’s return was 3.25%. Both funds surpassed their benchmark indexes.

Total Returns: Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2018      
  30-Day SEC Income Capital Total
  Yield Returns Returns Returns
Vanguard Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund        
Institutional Plus Shares 2.75% 2.12% -1.45% 0.67%
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. 1–3 Year Government/Credit        
ex Baa Index       0.12
1–5 Year Investment-Grade Debt Funds Average       0.35
1–5 Year Investment-Grade Debt Funds Average: Derived from data provided by Lipper, a Thomson Reuters Company.  
 
Vanguard Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund        
Institutional Plus Shares 3.06% 2.41% -3.16% -0.75%
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Intermediate Aggregate ex        
Baa Index       -0.98

 

Institutional Plus Shares are available to certain institutional investors who meet specific administrative, service, and account-size criteria.

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Total Returns: Ten Years Ended September 30, 2018  
  Average
  Annual Return
Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund Institutional Plus Shares 2.23%
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. 1–3 Year Government/Credit ex Baa Index 1.51
1–5 Year Investment-Grade Debt Funds Average 2.38
1–5 Year Investment-Grade Debt Funds Average: Derived from data provided by Lipper, a Thomson Reuters Company.  
Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund Institutional Plus Shares 3.25%
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Intermediate Aggregate ex Baa Index 3.09

 

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 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.

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CEO’s Perspective


Tim Buckley
President and Chief Executive Officer

Dear Shareholder,

Over the years, I’ve found that prudent investors exhibit a common trait: discipline. No matter how the markets move or what new investing fad hits the headlines, those who stay focused on their goals and tune out the noise are set up for long-term success.

The prime gateway to investing is saving, and you don’t usually become a saver without a healthy dose of discipline. Savers make the decision to sock away part of their income, which means spending less and delaying gratification, no matter how difficult that may be.

Of course, disciplined investing extends beyond diligent saving. The financial markets, in the short term especially, are unpredictable; I have yet to meet the investor who can time them perfectly. It takes discipline to resist the urge to go all-in when markets are frothy or to retreat when things look bleak.

Staying put with your investments is one strategy for handling volatility. Another, rebalancing, requires even more discipline because it means steering your money away from strong performers and toward poorer performers.

Patience—a form of discipline—is also the friend of long-term investors. Higher returns are the potential reward for weathering the market’s turbulence and uncertainty.

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We have been enjoying one of the longest bull markets in history, but it won’t continue forever. Prepare yourself now for how you will react when volatility comes back. Don’t panic. Don’t chase returns or look for answers outside the asset classes you trust. And be sure to rebalance periodically, even when there’s turmoil.

Whether you’re a master of self-control, get a boost from technology, or work with a professional advisor, know that discipline

is necessary to get the most out of your investment portfolio. And know that Vanguard is with you for the entire ride.

Thank you for your continued loyalty.


Mortimer J. Buckley

President and Chief Executive Officer
October 18, 2018

Market Barometer      
    Average Annual Total Returns
  Periods Ended September 30, 2018
  One Year Three Years Five Years
Stocks      
Russell 1000 Index (Large-caps) 17.76% 17.07% 13.67%
Russell 2000 Index (Small-caps) 15.24 17.12 11.07
Russell 3000 Index (Broad U.S. market) 17.58 17.07 13.46
FTSE All-World ex US Index (International) 2.13 10.18 4.51
 
Bonds      
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index      
(Broad taxable market) -1.22% 1.31% 2.16%
Bloomberg Barclays Municipal Bond Index      
(Broad tax-exempt market) 0.35 2.24 3.54
FTSE Three-Month U. S. Treasury Bill Index 1.57 0.80 0.48
 
CPI      
Consumer Price Index 2.28% 1.99% 1.52%

 

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Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund

Fund Profile
As of September 30, 2018

Financial Attributes    
    Bloomberg Bloomberg
    Barclays Barclays
    U.S. 1–3 U.S.
    Year Aggregate
    Gov/Credit Float
    ex Baa Adjusted
  Fund Index Index
Number of Bonds 805 984 10,112
Yield to Maturity      
(before expenses) 3.1% 2.9% 3.4%
Average Coupon 2.6% 2.1% 3.1%
Average Duration 1.9 years 1.9 years 6.1 years
Average Effective      
Maturity 2.1 years 2.0 years 8.4 years
Ticker Symbol VISTX
Expense Ratio1 0.02%
30-Day SEC Yield 2.75%
Short-Term      
Reserves 5.9%

 

Sector Diversification (% of portfolio)  
Asset-Backed 38.4%
Commercial Mortgage-Backed 2.9
Finance 22.1
Foreign 14.8
Industrial 6.0
Treasury/Agency 15.3
Utilities 0.4
Other 0.1

 

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

Volatility Measures    
  Bloomberg  
  Barclays Bloomberg
  U.S. 1–3 Year Barclays U.S.
  Gov/Credit Aggregate Float
  ex Baa Index Adjusted Index
R-Squared 0.94 0.75
Beta 0.95 0.23

 

These measures show the degree and timing of the fund’s fluctuations compared with the indexes over 36 months.

Distribution by Credit Quality (% of portfolio)
U.S. Government 14.8%
Aaa 44.1
Aa 16.7
A 19.2
Not Rated 5.2

 

Credit-quality ratings are obtained from Moody’s and S&P, and the higher rating for each issue is shown. “Not Rated” is used to classify securities for which a rating is not available. Not rated securities include a fund’s investment in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund or Vanguard Municipal Cash Management Fund, each of which invests in high-quality money market instruments and may serve as a cash management vehicle for the Vanguard funds, trusts, and accounts. For more information about these ratings, see the Glossary entry for Credit Quality.

Distribution by Effective Maturity  
(% of portfolio)  
Under 1 Year 28.5%
1 - 3 Years 51.5
3 - 5 Years 16.3
5 - 7 Years 2.6
7 - 10 Years 1.1

 

1 The expense ratio shown is from the prospectus dated January 26, 2018, and represents estimated costs for the current fiscal year. For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2018, the expense ratio was 0.02%.

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Institutional Short-Term Bond 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 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: September 30, 2008, Through September 30, 2018

Initial Investment of $10,000,000


  Average Annual Total Returns  
  Periods Ended September 30, 2018  
 
        Final Value
  One Five Ten of a $10,000,000
  Year Years Years Investment
Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund        
Institutional Plus Shares 0.67% 1.17% 2.23% $12,461,815
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. 1–3 Year        
         
Government/Credit ex Baa Index 0.12 0.72 1.51 11,616,272
 
1–5 Year Investment-Grade Debt Funds        
Average 0.35 1.18 2.38 12,650,554
Spliced Bloomberg Barclays U.S.        
Aggregate Float Adjusted Index -1.23 2.16 3.79 14,510,440

 

For a benchmark description, see the Glossary.

1–5 Year Investment-Grade Debt Funds Average: Derived from data provided by Lipper, a Thomson Reuters Company.

The fund is the successor to VFTC Short-Term Bond Trust (the predecessor trust), a collective trust managed by Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company, an affiliate of The Vanguard Group, Inc. The predecessor trust transferred its assets to the fund in connection with the fund’s commencement of operations on or about June 19, 2015. The performance of the fund’s Institutional Plus Shares includes the performance of the predecessor trust prior to the commencement of the fund’s operations. The performance of the predecessor trust has not been adjusted to reflect the expenses of the fund’s Institutional Plus Shares. If the performance of the predecessor trust had been adjusted to reflect the expenses of the fund’s Institutional Plus Shares, the predecessor trust’s performance would have been lower. The fund is managed with the same investment objective, strategies, policies, and risks as the predecessor trust. The predecessor trust was not an investment company and, therefore, was not subject to certain investment restrictions imposed on investment companies by the Investment Company Act of 1940. If the predecessor trust had been an investment company, its performance may have been different.

See Financial Highlights for dividend and capital gains information.

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Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund

Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): September 30, 2008, Through September 30, 2018

        Bloomberg
        Barclays
        U.S. 1–3 Year
        Gov/Credit
        ex Baa
    Institutional Plus Shares Index
Fiscal Year Income Returns Capital Returns Total Returns Total Returns
2009 0.00% 8.70% 8.70% 5.70%
2010 0.00 3.76 3.76 3.03
2011 0.00 1.31 1.31 1.23
2012 0.00 2.21 2.21 1.16
2013 0.00 0.67 0.67 0.50
2014 0.00 1.04 1.04 0.65
2015 0.35 0.95 1.30 1.24
2016 1.37 0.38 1.75 1.11
2017 1.67 -0.57 1.10 0.49
2018 2.12 -1.45 0.67 0.12

 

The fund is the successor to VFTC Short-Term Bond Trust (the predecessor trust), a collective trust managed by Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company, an affiliate of The Vanguard Group, Inc. The predecessor trust transferred its assets to the fund in connection with the fund’s commencement of operations on or about June 19, 2015. The performance of the fund’s Institutional Plus Shares includes the performance of the predecessor trust prior to the commencement of the fund’s operations. The performance of the predecessor trust has not been adjusted to reflect the expenses of the fund’s Institutional Plus Shares. If the performance of the predecessor trust had been adjusted to reflect the expenses of the fund’s Institutional Plus Shares, the predecessor trust’s performance would have been lower. The fund is managed with the same investment objective, strategies, policies, and risks as the predecessor trust. The predecessor trust was not an investment company and, therefore, was not subject to certain investment restrictions imposed on investment companies by the Investment Company Act of 1940. If the predecessor trust had been an investment company, its performance may have been different.

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Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund

Financial Statements

Statement of Net Assets
As of September 30, 2018

The fund reports a complete list of its holdings in regulatory filings 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 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 (14.5%)      
U. S. Government Securities (5.3%)        
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.500% 2/28/19 8,500 8,471
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.625% 3/31/19 46,000 45,820
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.000% 6/30/19 15,000 14,834
1,2 United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.375% 9/30/19 13,000 12,837
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.000% 10/15/19 50,000 49,148
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.750% 11/30/19 1,200 1,187
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.875% 12/31/19 10,850 10,738
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.000% 1/31/20 3,990 3,952
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.250% 2/29/20 1,000 993
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.375% 4/30/20 30,900 30,712
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.500% 5/31/20 15,000 14,930
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.625% 7/31/20 5,000 4,895
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.625% 7/31/20 126,661 126,245
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.000% 1/15/21 11,400 11,186
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.375% 1/31/21 14,000 13,534
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.625% 6/15/21 1,570 1,560
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.625% 8/31/22 1,600 1,523
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.500% 3/31/23 195 191
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.875% 7/31/25 60,000 59,494
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.625% 5/15/26 1,000 905
          413,155
Agency Bonds and Notes (9.2%)        
3 AID-Jordan 2.578% 6/30/22 15,000 14,722
4 Federal Home Loan Banks 0.875% 10/1/18 34,500 34,499
4 Federal Home Loan Banks 1.750% 12/14/18 28,000 27,971
4 Federal Home Loan Banks 1.375% 3/18/19 31,100 30,955
4 Federal Home Loan Banks 5.375% 5/15/19 25,250 25,692
4 Federal Home Loan Banks 0.875% 8/5/19 110,200 108,614
5 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. 0.875% 10/12/18 79,990 79,960
5 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. 2.375% 2/16/21 25,700 25,390
5 Federal National Mortgage Assn. 1.375% 1/28/19 17,000 16,946
5 Federal National Mortgage Assn. 0.875% 8/2/19 8,550 8,428
5 Federal National Mortgage Assn. 2.750% 6/22/21 64,700 64,424
5 Federal National Mortgage Assn. 2.875% 9/12/23 234,900 233,279
5 Federal National Mortgage Assn. 1.875% 9/24/26 15,250 13,852

 

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Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
4 Financing Corp. 0.000% 11/2/18 3,380 3,374
4 Tennessee Valley Authority 2.250% 3/15/20 30,100 29,843
          717,949
Conventional Mortgage-Backed Securities (0.0%)      
5,6 Freddie Mac Gold Pool 6.000% 4/1/28 7 8
Total U.S. Government and Agency Obligations (Cost $1,136,527)     1,131,112
Asset-Backed/Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (39.3%)      
6 Ally Auto Receivables Trust 2017-5 2.220% 10/17/22 3,780 3,703
6 Ally Auto Receivables Trust 2018-1 2.350% 6/15/22 5,600 5,547
6 Ally Auto Receivables Trust 2018-1 2.530% 2/15/23 1,490 1,467
6 Ally Master Owner Trust Series 2017-3 2.040% 6/15/22 18,110 17,770
6 Ally Master Owner Trust Series 2018-2 3.290% 5/15/23 44,820 44,808
6 Ally Master Owner Trust Series 2018-2 3.300% 7/17/23 33,960 33,924
7 American Tower Trust #1 3.652% 3/23/48 430 421
6,7 Americold 2010 LLC Trust Series 2010-ARTA 4.954% 1/14/29 3,145 3,257
6 AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust        
  2016-1 1.810% 10/8/20 114 113
6,7 Aventura Mall Trust 2013-AVM 3.743% 12/5/32 708 716
6,7 Aventura Mall Trust 2018-AVM 4.112% 7/5/40 740 753
6,7 Avis Budget Rental Car Funding AESOP LLC        
  2017-1A 3.070% 9/20/23 5,215 5,090
6,7 Avis Budget Rental Car Funding AESOP LLC        
  2017-2A 2.970% 3/20/24 6,090 5,898
6,7 Avis Budget Rental Car Funding AESOP LLC        
  2018-1A 3.700% 9/20/24 10,720 10,672
6 Banc of America Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-UBS7 3.429% 9/15/48 290 289
6 Banc of America Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-UBS7 3.705% 9/15/48 749 749
6 Banc of America Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2017-BNK3 3.574% 2/15/50 160 157
6 BANK 2017 - BNK4 3.625% 5/15/50 255 252
6 BANK 2017 - BNK5 3.390% 6/15/60 270 262
6 BANK 2017 - BNK6 3.254% 7/15/60 440 421
6 BANK 2017 - BNK6 3.518% 7/15/60 420 410
6 BANK 2017 - BNK6 3.741% 7/15/60 30 29
6 BANK 2017 - BNK7 3.435% 9/15/60 380 368
6 BANK 2017 - BNK8 3.488% 11/15/50 1,120 1,089
6 BANK 2017 - BNK9 3.538% 11/15/54 505 492
6 BANK 2018 - BN12 4.255% 5/15/61 500 516
6 BANK 2018 - BN13 4.217% 8/15/61 750 769
6 BANK 2018 - BNK10 3.641% 2/15/61 380 379
6 BANK 2018 - BNK10 3.688% 2/15/61 990 976
6 BANK 2018-BN14 4.185% 9/15/60 445 458
6 BANK 2018-BN14 4.231% 9/15/60 890 919
6,7,8 Bank of America Student Loan Trust 2010-1A 3.135% 2/25/43 2,815 2,828
  Bank of Nova Scotia 1.875% 4/26/21 23,910 23,093
6 Benchmark 2018-B1 Mortgage Trust 3.602% 1/15/51 110 110
6 Benchmark 2018-B1 Mortgage Trust 3.666% 1/15/51 590 584
6 Benchmark 2018-B1 Mortgage Trust 3.878% 1/15/51 60 60
6 Benchmark 2018-B2 Mortgage Trust 3.882% 2/15/51 1,750 1,761
6 Benchmark 2018-B3 Mortgage Trust 4.025% 4/10/51 580 587
6 Benchmark 2018-B5 Mortgage Trust 4.208% 7/15/51 590 607

 

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Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
6 Benchmark 2018-B6 Mortgage Trust 4.170% 11/10/51 788 815
6 Benchmark 2018-B6 Mortgage Trust 4.261% 11/10/51 680 704
6 BMW Vehicle Lease Trust 2017-2 2.070% 10/20/20 12,970 12,848
6 BMW Vehicle Lease Trust 2017-2 2.190% 3/22/21 4,040 3,984
6 BMW Vehicle Owner Trust 2018-A 2.510% 6/25/24 2,220 2,181
6,8 Brazos Higher Education Authority Inc. Series        
  2005-3 2.573% 6/25/26 1,799 1,788
6,8 Brazos Higher Education Authority Inc. Series        
  2011-1 3.111% 2/25/30 3,019 3,037
6 Cabela’s Credit Card Master Note Trust        
  2015-1A 2.260% 3/15/23 5,850 5,778
6,7 Canadian Pacer Auto Receivables Trust A        
  Series 2017 2.050% 3/19/21 1,400 1,389
6,7 Canadian Pacer Auto Receivables Trust A        
  Series 2017 2.286% 1/19/22 990 975
6,7 Canadian Pacer Auto Receivables Trust A        
  Series 2018 3.220% 9/19/22 4,920 4,903
6 Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2016-2 1.630% 1/20/21 630 626
6 Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2016-3 1.690% 3/20/21 130 129
6,7 Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2017-1 2.020% 8/20/21 240 238
6,7 Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2017-1 2.220% 3/21/22 170 167
6,7 Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2018-1 2.790% 1/20/22 7,030 7,004
6 Capital One Multi-Asset Execution Trust        
  2017-A4 1.990% 7/17/23 8,135 7,963
6,7 CARDS II Trust 2018-2A 3.047% 4/17/23 23,940 23,899
6 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2014-4 1.810% 7/15/20 5,272 5,261
6 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2015-2 1.800% 3/15/21 6,975 6,938
6 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2015-3 1.980% 2/16/21 5,435 5,398
6 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2016-1 1.880% 6/15/21 12,720 12,551
6 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2016-4 1.400% 8/15/21 21,642 21,393
6 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2016-4 1.600% 6/15/22 11,690 11,313
6 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2017-3 2.220% 11/15/22 13,510 13,169
6 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2017-4 2.110% 10/17/22 7,130 7,019
6 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2017-4 2.330% 5/15/23 4,040 3,941
6 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2018-1 2.230% 5/17/21 7,425 7,396
6 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2018-1 2.480% 11/15/22 10,620 10,490
6 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2018-1 2.640% 6/15/23 1,680 1,652
6 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2018-3 3.130% 6/15/23 29,670 29,661
6 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2018-3 3.270% 3/15/24 14,840 14,869
6 CD 2016-CD1 Commercial Mortgage Trust 2.724% 8/10/49 520 484
6 CD 2017-CD3 Commercial Mortgage Trust 3.631% 2/10/50 815 807
6 CD 2017-CD4 Commercial Mortgage Trust 3.514% 5/10/50 380 373
6 CD 2017-CD5 Commercial Mortgage Trust 3.431% 8/15/50 555 540
6 CD 2017-CD6 Commercial Mortgage Trust 3.456% 11/13/50 225 219
6 CenterPoint Energy Transition Bond Co. IV LLC        
  2012-1 2.161% 10/15/21 7,729 7,686
6,7 CFCRE Commercial Mortgage Trust 2011-C2 5.947% 12/15/47 2,072 2,193
6 CFCRE Commercial Mortgage Trust 2016-C4 3.283% 5/10/58 472 456
6,7 Chesapeake Funding II LLC 2018-1 3.040% 4/15/30 24,730 24,639
6,7 Chrysler Capital Auto Receivables Trust        
  2015-BA 2.260% 10/15/20 6,345 6,342
6,7 Chrysler Capital Auto Receivables Trust        
  2016-AA 1.960% 1/18/22 22,740 22,666
6,7 Chrysler Capital Auto Receivables Trust        
  2016-BA 1.640% 7/15/21 8,232 8,185

 

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Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
6,7 Chrysler Capital Auto Receivables Trust        
  2016-BA 1.870% 2/15/22 6,210 6,110
6 Citibank Credit Card Issuance Trust        
  2018-A1 2.490% 1/20/23 1,950 1,921
6,7 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2012-GC8 3.683% 9/10/45 450 450
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2013-GC11 3.093% 4/10/46 952 935
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2013-GC15 3.942% 9/10/46 279 282
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-GC19 4.023% 3/10/47 3,415 3,492
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-GC21 3.575% 5/10/47 1,207 1,214
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-GC21 3.855% 5/10/47 2,026 2,049
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-GC23 3.622% 7/10/47 756 756
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-GC23 3.863% 7/10/47 255 256
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-GC25 3.372% 10/10/47 591 582
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-GC25 3.635% 10/10/47 3,132 3,127
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-GC27 3.137% 2/10/48 50 48
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-GC31 3.762% 6/10/48 950 953
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-GC33 3.778% 9/10/58 3,505 3,525
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2016-C1 3.209% 5/10/49 1,456 1,403
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2016-P4 2.902% 7/10/49 240 226
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2017-C4 3.471% 10/12/50 520 505
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2017-P8 3.465% 9/15/50 1,035 1,005
6 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2018-C5 4.228% 6/10/51 230 237
6 CNH Equipment Trust 2016-B 1.970% 11/15/21 9,000 8,854
6 CNH Equipment Trust 2017-B 2.170% 4/17/23 5,460 5,330
6 COMM 2012-CCRE2 Mortgage Trust 3.147% 8/15/45 363 359
6 COMM 2012-CCRE2 Mortgage Trust 3.791% 8/15/45 901 895
6 COMM 2012-CCRE3 Mortgage Trust 2.822% 10/15/45 580 567
6,7 COMM 2012-CCRE3 Mortgage Trust 3.416% 10/15/45 340 335
6 COMM 2012-CCRE4 Mortgage Trust 2.853% 10/15/45 550 536
6 COMM 2012-CCRE5 Mortgage Trust 2.771% 12/10/45 291 284
6 COMM 2013-CCRE11 Mortgage Trust 3.983% 8/10/50 924 938
6 COMM 2013-CCRE11 Mortgage Trust 4.258% 8/10/50 813 840
6 COMM 2013-CCRE12 Mortgage Trust 3.623% 10/10/46 530 534
6 COMM 2013-CCRE12 Mortgage Trust 4.046% 10/10/46 1,152 1,179
6 COMM 2013-CCRE13 Mortgage Trust 4.194% 11/10/46 837 864
6 COMM 2013-CCRE8 Mortgage Trust 3.612% 6/10/46 20 20
6 COMM 2013-CCRE9 Mortgage Trust 4.375% 7/10/45 1,194 1,237

 

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Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
6,7 COMM 2013-CCRE9 Mortgage Trust 4.399% 7/10/45 3,169 3,253
6,7 COMM 2013-LC13 Mortgage Trust 3.774% 8/10/46 406 410
6 COMM 2013-LC13 Mortgage Trust 4.205% 8/10/46 150 155
6 COMM 2013-LC6 Mortgage Trust 2.941% 1/10/46 984 966
6,7 COMM 2013-SFS Mortgage Trust 3.086% 4/12/35 1,098 1,070
6 COMM 2014-CCRE14 Mortgage Trust 3.955% 2/10/47 20 20
6 COMM 2014-CCRE14 Mortgage Trust 4.236% 2/10/47 495 512
6 COMM 2014-CCRE15 Mortgage Trust 4.074% 2/10/47 30 31
6 COMM 2014-CCRE17 Mortgage Trust 3.977% 5/10/47 1,060 1,081
6 COMM 2014-CCRE17 Mortgage Trust 4.174% 5/10/47 350 356
6 COMM 2014-CCRE18 Mortgage Trust 3.550% 7/15/47 350 349
6 COMM 2014-CCRE18 Mortgage Trust 3.828% 7/15/47 3,106 3,143
6 COMM 2014-CCRE20 Mortgage Trust 3.326% 11/10/47 80 78
6 COMM 2014-CCRE20 Mortgage Trust 3.590% 11/10/47 2,492 2,489
6 COMM 2014-CCRE21 Mortgage Trust 3.528% 12/10/47 1,328 1,321
6 COMM 2014-LC17 Mortgage Trust 3.917% 10/10/47 1,987 2,017
6 COMM 2015-CCRE22 Mortgage Trust 3.309% 3/10/48 855 840
6 COMM 2015-CCRE24 Mortgage Trust 3.696% 8/10/48 855 855
6 COMM 2015-CCRE25 Mortgage Trust 3.759% 8/10/48 976 981
6 COMM 2015-CCRE27 Mortgage Trust 3.612% 10/10/48 487 484
6 COMM 2015-LC19 Mortgage Trust 3.183% 2/10/48 44 43
6,7 Core Industrial Trust 2015-TEXW 3.077% 2/10/34 496 492
6 CSAIL 2015-C4 Commercial Mortgage Trust 3.808% 11/15/48 1,944 1,952
6 CSAIL 2016-C7 Commercial Mortgage Trust 3.502% 11/15/49 1,240 1,209
6 CSAIL 2017-C8 Commercial Mortgage Trust 3.392% 6/15/50 520 501
6 CSAIL 2018-CX12 Commercial Mortgage Trust 4.224% 8/15/51 970 997
6,7 Daimler Trucks Retail Trust 2018-1 2.850% 7/15/21 42,760 42,682
6,7 Daimler Trucks Retail Trust 2018-1 3.030% 11/15/24 11,840 11,809
6 DBJPM 17-C6 Mortgage Trust 3.328% 6/10/50 740 715
6,7 Dell Equipment Finance Trust 2017-2 1.970% 2/24/20 6,800 6,776
6,7 Dell Equipment Finance Trust 2017-2 2.190% 10/24/22 5,940 5,875
6,7 Dell Equipment Finance Trust 2018-1 2.970% 10/22/20 12,152 12,155
6,7 DLL Securitization Trust Series 2018-1 3.100% 4/18/22 13,535 13,505
7 DNB Boligkreditt AS 2.500% 3/28/22 9,910 9,633
6,7,9 Edsouth Indenture No 9 LLC 2015-1 3.016% 10/25/56 674 674
6,7 Enterprise Fleet Financing LLC Series 2015-1 1.740% 9/20/20 212 212
6,7 Enterprise Fleet Financing LLC Series 2015-2 2.090% 2/22/21 11,028 11,002
6,7 Enterprise Fleet Financing LLC Series 2016-1 2.080% 9/20/21 1,480 1,473
5,6 Fannie Mae Grantor Trust 2017-T1 2.898% 6/25/27 13,006 12,290
6 Fifth Third Auto Trust 2017-1 2.030% 7/15/24 13,390 13,040
6,9 First National Master Note Trust 2017-1 2.558% 4/18/22 14,990 15,001
6,9 First National Master Note Trust 2017-2 2.598% 10/16/23 6,030 6,035
6 Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2017-B 2.030% 12/15/20 6,520 6,465
6 Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2017-B 2.170% 2/15/21 3,300 3,259
6 Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2018-A 2.930% 6/15/21 58,340 58,191
6 Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2018-A 3.050% 8/15/21 5,350 5,328
6 Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2018-B 3.190% 12/15/21 15,260 15,270
6 Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2018-B 3.300% 2/15/22 5,390 5,392
6,7 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2014-REV1 2.260% 11/15/25 15,479 15,428
6,7 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2014-REV2 2.310% 4/15/26 2,930 2,911
6,7 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2015-REV2 2.440% 1/15/27 39,000 38,520
6,7 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2016-REV1 2.310% 8/15/27 36,545 35,749
6,7 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2016-REV2 2.030% 12/15/27 33,000 31,938
6,7 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2017-1 2.620% 8/15/28 61,220 59,632
6,7 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2017-2 2.360% 3/15/29 30,610 29,373

 

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Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
6,7 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2018-2 3.470% 1/15/30 31,840 31,773
6 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2018-A 3.030% 11/15/22 26,200 26,171
6,7 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2018-REV1 3.190% 7/15/31 6,560 6,386
6 Ford Credit Floorplan Master Owner Trust A        
  Series 2015-5 2.390% 8/15/22 2,115 2,083
6 Ford Credit Floorplan Master Owner Trust A        
  Series 2017-1 2.070% 5/15/22 66,150 65,083
6 Ford Credit Floorplan Master Owner Trust A        
  Series 2017-2 2.160% 9/15/22 30,110 29,563
6 Ford Credit Floorplan Master Owner Trust A        
  Series 2018-1 2.950% 5/15/23 40,300 40,005
6 GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2017-1 2.260% 8/20/20 9,200 9,136
6 GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2017-2 2.180% 6/21/21 6,180 6,109
6 GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2017-3 1.720% 1/21/20 18,598 18,526
6 GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2017-3 2.010% 11/20/20 12,170 12,067
6 GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2017-3 2.120% 9/20/21 3,710 3,658
6 GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2018-1 2.610% 1/20/21 24,920 24,758
6 GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2018-2 3.060% 6/21/21 29,110 29,124
6 GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2018-3 3.180% 6/21/21 10,950 10,945
6 GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2018-3 3.300% 7/20/22 2,150 2,150
6,7 GM Financial Consumer Automobile 2017-3 2.130% 3/16/23 4,260 4,141
6 GM Financial Consumer Automobile 2018-2 3.020% 12/18/23 5,945 5,891
6 GM Financial Consumer Automobile 2018-3 3.020% 5/16/23 31,600 31,523
6 GM Financial Consumer Automobile 2018-3 3.160% 1/16/24 9,990 9,954
6,7 GMF Floorplan Owner Revolving Trust 2017-2 2.130% 7/15/22 29,660 28,981
6,7 GMF Floorplan Owner Revolving Trust 2018-2 3.130% 3/15/23 27,050 26,954
6,7 Golden Credit Card Trust 2015-2A 2.020% 4/15/22 940 924
6,7 Golden Credit Card Trust 2016-5A 1.600% 9/15/21 80,100 79,093
6,7,9 Golden Credit Card Trust 2017-4A 2.678% 7/15/24 20,690 20,714
6,7 Golden Credit Card Trust 2018-1A 2.620% 1/15/23 22,260 21,930
6,7 Golden Credit Card Trust 2018-4A 3.440% 10/15/25 31,290 31,168
6,7,8 Gosforth Funding 2016-1A plc 3.014% 2/15/58 13,219 13,243
6,7,8 Gosforth Funding 2018-1A plc 2.714% 8/25/60 19,820 19,824
6,7 GreatAmerica Leasing Receivables Funding        
  LLC Series 2015-1 2.020% 6/21/21 52 52
6,7 GreatAmerica Leasing Receivables Funding        
  LLC Series 2016-1 1.990% 4/20/22 1,100 1,092
6,7 GreatAmerica Leasing Receivables Funding        
  LLC Series 2018-1 2.600% 6/15/21 3,970 3,934
6,7 GreatAmerica Leasing Receivables Funding        
  LLC Series 2018-1 2.830% 6/17/24 2,580 2,545
6 GS Mortgage Securities Corporation II        
  2015-GC30 3.382% 5/10/50 5 5
6,7 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2012-GC6 4.948% 1/10/45 217 224
6 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2013-GC13 4.185% 7/10/46 1,338 1,373
6 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2013-GCJ12 3.135% 6/10/46 1,176 1,159
6 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2013-GCJ14 3.955% 8/10/46 60 61
6 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2014-GC20 3.998% 4/10/47 3,596 3,668
6 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2014-GC24 3.931% 9/10/47 110 111
6 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2014-GC24 4.162% 9/10/47 60 60
6 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2014-GC26 3.364% 11/10/47 620 608
6 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2014-GC26 3.629% 11/10/47 1,380 1,379
6 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2015-GC28 3.136% 2/10/48 460 448
6 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2015-GC28 3.396% 2/10/48 80 79
6 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2015-GC34 3.506% 10/10/48 1,170 1,150

 

13


 

Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
6 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2016-GS3 2.850% 10/10/49 550 516
6 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2018-GS10 4.155% 7/10/51 1,110 1,134
6,7 Hertz Vehicle Financing II LP 2015-3A 2.670% 9/25/21 10,525 10,338
6,7 Hertz Vehicle Financing II LP 2016-2A 2.950% 3/25/22 8,760 8,619
6,7 Hertz Vehicle Financing II LP 2016-3A 2.270% 7/25/20 2,865 2,848
6,7 Hertz Vehicle Financing II LP 2018-1A 3.290% 2/25/24 2,430 2,362
6,7 Hertz Vehicle Financing LLC 2017-2A 3.290% 10/25/23 1,503 1,464
6,7,8 Holmes Master Issuer plc 2018-1 2.699% 10/15/54 14,680 14,660
6,7,8 Holmes Master Issuer plc 2018-2A 2.561% 10/15/54 27,420 27,309
6 Honda Auto Receivables 2017-3 Owner Trust 1.980% 11/20/23 8,510 8,291
6 Honda Auto Receivables 2017-4 Owner Trust 2.050% 11/22/21 1,810 1,788
6 Honda Auto Receivables 2017-4 Owner Trust 2.210% 3/21/24 2,900 2,840
6 Honda Auto Receivables 2018-2 Owner Trust 3.010% 5/18/22 13,990 13,966
6 Honda Auto Receivables 2018-3 Owner Trust 2.950% 8/22/22 22,120 22,051
6 Honda Auto Receivables 2018-3 Owner Trust 3.070% 11/21/24 8,110 8,068
6,7 Houston Galleria Mall Trust 2015-HGLR 3.087% 3/5/37 960 921
6,7 Hyundai Auto Lease Securitization Trust 2017-B 2.130% 3/15/21 15,120 14,968
6,7 Hyundai Auto Lease Securitization Trust 2017-C 2.120% 2/16/21 11,080 10,994
6,7 Hyundai Auto Lease Securitization Trust 2017-C 2.210% 9/15/21 2,180 2,155
6,7 Hyundai Auto Lease Securitization Trust 2018-A 2.810% 4/15/21 26,050 25,956
6,7 Hyundai Auto Lease Securitization Trust 2018-A 2.890% 3/15/22 8,250 8,193
6,7 Hyundai Auto Lease Securitization Trust 2018-B 3.040% 10/15/21 25,740 25,696
6,7 Hyundai Auto Lease Securitization Trust 2018-B 3.200% 6/15/22 3,290 3,284
6 Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2017-B 1.960% 2/15/23 6,960 6,768
6,7 Hyundai Floorplan Master Owner Trust        
  Series 2016-1A 1.810% 3/15/21 8,360 8,327
6,8 Illinois Student Assistance Commission        
  Series 2010-1 3.385% 4/25/22 238 238
6,7 Irvine Core Office Trust 2013-IRV 3.279% 5/15/48 2,036 2,009
6 John Deere Owner Trust 2015-B 1.780% 6/15/22 1,965 1,961
6 John Deere Owner Trust 2016-B 1.490% 5/15/23 2,135 2,103
6 John Deere Owner Trust 2017-A 2.110% 12/15/23 11,350 11,208
6 John Deere Owner Trust 2017-B 2.110% 7/15/24 6,770 6,556
6 John Deere Owner Trust 2018-B 3.080% 11/15/22 36,300 36,223
6 John Deere Owner Trust 2018-B 3.230% 6/16/25 11,550 11,501
6,7 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2010-C1 4.608% 6/15/43 83 85
6,7 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2010-C2 4.070% 11/15/43 362 367
6,7 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2011-C3 4.717% 2/15/46 1,560 1,602
6,7 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2011-C5 5.586% 8/15/46 867 904
6,7 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2011-RR1 4.717% 3/16/46 4,957 5,054
6 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2012-C8 2.829% 10/15/45 381 373
6,7 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2012-C8 3.424% 10/15/45 1,627 1,610
6,7 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2012-HSBC 3.093% 7/5/32 1,124 1,115
6 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2013-C13 3.994% 1/15/46 2,283 2,333
6 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2013-C16 3.674% 12/15/46 363 366

 

14


 

Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
      Face Market
    Maturity Amount Value
  Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
6 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
Securities Trust 2013-C16 3.881% 12/15/46 264 268
6 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
Securities Trust 2013-C16 4.166% 12/15/46 1,250 1,287
6 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
Securities Trust 2013-LC11 2.960% 4/15/46 1,315 1,288
6 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
Securities Trust 2014-C20 3.461% 7/15/47 360 361
6 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
Securities Trust 2016-JP3 2.870% 8/15/49 1,650 1,550
6 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
Securities Trust 2016-JP4 3.648% 12/15/49 110 109
6 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
Securities Trust 2017-JP6 3.490% 7/15/50 310 303
6 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
Trust 2013-C12 3.664% 7/15/45 2,043 2,060
6 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
Trust 2013-C12 4.171% 7/15/45 1,835 1,857
6 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
Trust 2013-C14 3.761% 8/15/46 259 262
6 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
Trust 2013-C14 4.133% 8/15/46 277 285
6 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
Trust 2013-C15 3.659% 11/15/45 246 248
6 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
Trust 2013-C17 4.199% 1/15/47 2,947 3,038
6 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
Trust 2014-C18 4.079% 2/15/47 1,460 1,495
6 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
Trust 2014-C18 4.439% 2/15/47 700 719
6 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
Trust 2014-C19 3.997% 4/15/47 100 102
6 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
Trust 2014-C21 3.493% 8/15/47 240 239
6 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
Trust 2014-C24 3.639% 11/15/47 1,183 1,183
6 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
Trust 2014-C26 3.231% 1/15/48 390 382
6 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
Trust 2014-C26 3.494% 1/15/48 10 10
6 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
Trust 2015-C27 3.179% 2/15/48 330 321
6 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
Trust 2015-C30 3.822% 7/15/48 40 40
6 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
Trust 2015-C31 3.801% 8/15/48 220 221
6 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
Trust 2015-C32 3.598% 11/15/48 490 486
6 JPMCC Commercial Mortgage Securities        
Trust 2017-JP5 3.723% 3/15/50 860 855
6 JPMCC Commercial Mortgage Securities        
Trust 2017-JP7 3.454% 9/15/50 340 331
6 JPMDB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
Trust 2017-C7 3.409% 10/15/50 240 233

 

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Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
6 JPMDB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2018-C8 4.211% 6/15/51 230 237
6,7,8 Lanark Master Issuer plc 2018-1A 2.730% 12/22/69 4,409 4,405
6,7,9 Lanark Master Issuer plc 2018-2A 2.846% 12/22/69 16,090 16,079
6,7,9 Master Credit Card Trust II Series 2018-1A 2.672% 7/22/24 9,700 9,677
6 Mercedes-Benz Auto Lease Trust 2018-A 2.200% 4/15/20 6,620 6,607
6 Mercedes-Benz Auto Lease Trust 2018-A 2.410% 2/16/21 10,630 10,565
6 Mercedes-Benz Auto Lease Trust 2018-A 2.510% 10/16/23 1,060 1,048
6 Mercedes-Benz Auto Receivables Trust 2018-1 3.150% 10/15/24 12,310 12,290
6,7 MMAF Equipment Finance LLC 2012-AA 1.980% 6/10/32 237 237
6,7 MMAF Equipment Finance LLC 2013-AA 2.570% 6/9/33 7,239 7,218
6,7 MMAF Equipment Finance LLC 2015-AA 2.490% 2/19/36 1,170 1,148
6,7 MMAF Equipment Finance LLC 2016-AA 2.210% 12/15/32 8,390 8,034
6,7 MMAF Equipment Finance LLC 2017-A 2.410% 8/16/24 10,320 10,029
6,7 MMAF Equipment Finance LLC 2017-A 2.680% 7/16/27 5,160 4,962
6,7 MMAF Equipment Finance LLC 2018-A 3.390% 1/10/25 6,490 6,495
6,7 MMAF Equipment Finance LLC 2018-A 3.610% 3/10/42 3,550 3,541
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2012-C5 3.176% 8/15/45 879 872
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2012-C5 3.792% 8/15/45 694 689
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2012-C6 2.858% 11/15/45 459 450
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2013-C10 4.219% 7/15/46 3,023 3,086
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2013-C11 3.960% 8/15/46 1,068 1,078
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2013-C11 4.303% 8/15/46 70 72
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2013-C12 3.824% 10/15/46 305 309
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2013-C12 4.259% 10/15/46 70 72
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2013-C13 4.039% 11/15/46 150 153
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2014-C14 4.064% 2/15/47 250 255
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2014-C14 4.384% 2/15/47 250 257
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2014-C15 3.773% 4/15/47 1,724 1,737
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2014-C15 4.051% 4/15/47 2,065 2,111
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2014-C16 3.892% 6/15/47 2,028 2,058
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2014-C16 4.094% 6/15/47 465 468
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2014-C17 3.741% 8/15/47 70 70
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2014-C19 3.326% 12/15/47 200 199
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2014-C19 3.526% 12/15/47 20 20
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2015-C20 3.069% 2/15/48 250 247

 

16


 

Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2015-C20 3.249% 2/15/48 90 88
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2015-C23 3.451% 7/15/50 230 225
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2015-C24 3.732% 5/15/48 1,190 1,190
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2015-C25 3.635% 10/15/48 2,112 2,097
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2016-C29 3.325% 5/15/49 1,450 1,406
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2016-C32 3.720% 12/15/49 2,590 2,568
6 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2017-C34 3.536% 11/15/52 460 447
6,7 Morgan Stanley Capital I Trust 2012-STAR 3.201% 8/5/34 1,344 1,326
6 Morgan Stanley Capital I Trust 2015-UBS8 3.809% 12/15/48 6,630 6,621
6 Morgan Stanley Capital I Trust 2016-UB11 2.782% 8/15/49 650 604
6 Morgan Stanley Capital I Trust 2016-UBS9 3.594% 3/15/49 1,690 1,673
6 Morgan Stanley Capital I Trust 2017-HR2 3.509% 12/15/50 180 177
6 Morgan Stanley Capital I Trust 2017-HR2 3.587% 12/15/50 222 217
6,7,9 Motor plc 2017 1A 2.746% 9/25/24 15,600 15,587
6,9 Navient Student Loan Trust 2014-8 2.656% 4/25/23 9,374 9,385
6,9 Navient Student Loan Trust 2015-3 2.866% 6/26/56 16,175 16,244
6,7,9 Navient Student Loan Trust 2016-2 3.266% 6/25/65 6,230 6,289
6,7,9 Navient Student Loan Trust 2016-3 3.066% 6/25/65 5,437 5,465
6,7,9 Navient Student Loan Trust 2016-6A 2.966% 3/25/66 36,920 37,254
6,7,9 Navient Student Loan Trust 2017-1 2.966% 7/26/66 17,020 17,099
6,7,9 Navient Student Loan Trust 2017-3A 2.816% 7/26/66 9,825 9,895
6,7,9 Navient Student Loan Trust 2017-4A 2.716% 9/27/66 8,650 8,688
6,7,9 Navient Student Loan Trust 2018-1 2.406% 3/25/67 1,070 1,070
6,7,9 Navient Student Loan Trust 2018-1 2.566% 3/25/67 2,330 2,329
6,7,9 Navient Student Loan Trust 2018-1 2.936% 3/25/67 2,880 2,893
6,7,9 Navistar Financial Dealer Note Master        
  Trust II 2017-1A 2.996% 6/27/22 12,390 12,437
6,7 NextGear Floorplan Master Owner        
  Trust 2016-1A 2.740% 4/15/21 8,880 8,872
6 Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2017-A 1.910% 4/15/20 17,500 17,400
6 Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2017-A 2.040% 9/15/22 5,610 5,556
6 Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2017-B 2.050% 9/15/20 15,110 14,983
6 Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2017-B 2.170% 12/15/21 4,210 4,156
6 Nissan Auto Receivables 2016-A Owner Trust 1.590% 7/15/22 2,250 2,205
6 Nissan Auto Receivables 2017-C Owner Trust 2.120% 4/18/22 15,700 15,466
6 Nissan Auto Receivables 2017-C Owner Trust 2.280% 2/15/24 8,850 8,638
6 Nissan Auto Receivables 2018-B Owner Trust 3.160% 12/16/24 12,310 12,251
6,9 Nissan Master Owner Trust Receivables        
  Series 2017-C 2.478% 10/17/22 18,600 18,634
6,7 OBP Depositor LLC Trust 2010-OBP 4.646% 7/15/45 654 664
6,7 Palisades Center Trust 2016-PLSD 2.713% 4/13/33 510 497
6,7,9 Pepper Residential Securities Trust        
  2017A-A1UA 3.233% 3/10/58 349 349
6,7,9 Pepper Residential Securities Trust        
  2018A-A1UA 3.089% 3/12/47 121 121
6,7,9 Pepper Residential Securities Trust        
  2019A-A1U1 2.489% 10/12/18 570 570
6,7,9 Pepper Residential Securities Trust        
  2020A-A1U1 2.658% 3/16/19 730 727

 

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Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
6,7,9 Pepper Residential Securities        
  Trust 2021-A1U 3.038% 1/16/60 3,116 3,114
6,7,8 Permanent Master Issuer plc 2018-1A 2.747% 7/15/58 13,840 13,846
6,7 PFS Financing Corp 2017-B 2.220% 7/15/22 1,020 999
6,7,9 PFS Financing Corp. 2017-C 2.628% 10/15/21 1,440 1,440
6,7 PFS Financing Corp. 2017-D 2.400% 10/17/22 1,500 1,472
6,7 PFS Financing Corp. 2018-D 3.190% 4/17/23 640 636
6,7,9 PHEAA Student Loan Trust 2016-2A 3.166% 11/25/65 12,855 13,020
6 Public Service New Hampshire Funding        
  LLC 2018-1 3.094% 2/1/26 9,320 9,292
6 Public Service New Hampshire Funding        
  LLC 2018-1 3.506% 8/1/28 3,190 3,178
6 Public Service New Hampshire Funding        
  LLC 2018-1 3.814% 2/1/35 3,030 3,028
6,7,9 Resimac Premier Series 2016-1A 3.523% 10/10/47 2,048 2,062
6,7,9 Resimac Premier Series 2017-1A 3.081% 9/11/48 5,403 5,405
6,7,9 Resimac Premier Series 2018-1A 2.933% 11/10/49 2,502 2,500
6,7,9 Resimac Premier Series 2018-1NCA 2.987% 12/16/59 4,520 4,518
6 Royal Bank of Canada 1.875% 2/5/20 5,800 5,705
6 Santander Drive Auto Receivables        
  Trust 2017-1 1.770% 9/15/20 684 683
6 Santander Drive Auto Receivables        
  Trust 2017-3 1.670% 6/15/20 409 409
6 Santander Drive Auto Receivables        
  Trust 2017-3 1.870% 6/15/21 320 319
6 Santander Drive Auto Receivables        
  Trust 2018-1 2.100% 11/16/20 734 733
6 Santander Drive Auto Receivables        
  Trust 2018-1 2.320% 8/16/21 300 299
6,7 Santander Retail Auto Lease Trust 2017-A 2.370% 1/20/22 2,130 2,101
6,7 Santander Retail Auto Lease Trust 2018-A 2.930% 5/20/21 16,210 16,148
6,7 Santander Retail Auto Lease Trust 2018-A 3.060% 4/20/22 5,680 5,646
6,7 Securitized Term Auto Receivables Trust        
  2016-1A 1.524% 3/25/20 6,782 6,756
6,7 Securitized Term Auto Receivables Trust        
  2016-1A 1.794% 2/25/21 14,340 14,165
6,7 Securitized Term Auto Receivables Trust        
  2017-1A 1.890% 8/25/20 26,585 26,466
6,7 Securitized Term Auto Receivables Trust        
  2017-1A 2.209% 6/25/21 12,900 12,751
6,7 Securitized Term Auto Receivables Trust        
  2017-2A 2.040% 4/26/21 12,380 12,208
6,7 Securitized Term Auto Receivables Trust        
  2017-2A 2.289% 3/25/22 4,160 4,051
6,7 Securitized Term Auto Receivables Trust        
  2018-1A 3.068% 1/25/22 11,310 11,227
6,7 Securitized Term Auto Receivables Trust        
  2018-1A 3.298% 11/25/22 4,030 3,991
6,8 SLM Student Loan Trust 2003-14 2.565% 1/25/23 608 608
6 SMART ABS Series 2016-2US Trust 2.050% 12/14/22 2,330 2,264
6,7 SMB Private Education Loan Trust 2016-A 2.700% 5/15/31 489 480
6,7,9 SMB Private Education Loan Trust 2016-B 3.608% 2/17/32 398 407
6,7,9 SMB Private Education Loan Trust 2016-C 3.258% 9/15/34 680 689
6,7,9 SMB Private Education Loan Trust 2017-A 3.058% 9/15/34 3,110 3,130

 

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Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
6,7 SMB Private Education Loan Trust 2017-B 2.820% 10/15/35 790 766
6,7 SMB Private Education Loan Trust 2018-A 3.500% 2/15/36 2,320 2,301
6,7 SMB Private Education Loan Trust 2018-B 3.600% 1/15/37 1,370 1,366
6,7 SMB Private Education Loan Trust 2018-C 3.630% 11/15/35 2,530 2,529
6,7 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2017-A LLC 2.400% 3/26/40 3,500 3,386
6,7,9 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2017-A LLC 2.916% 3/26/40 2,368 2,374
6,7 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2017-B LLC 2.740% 5/25/40 890 873
6,7 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2017-D LLC 2.650% 9/25/40 600 581
6,7 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2017-E LLC 1.860% 11/26/40 967 953
6,7 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2017-E LLC 2.720% 11/26/40 350 339
6,7 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2017-F LLC 2.050% 1/25/41 1,149 1,138
6,7 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2017-F LLC 2.840% 1/25/41 580 562
6,7 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2018-A LLC 2.390% 2/25/42 454 450
6,7 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2018-A LLC 2.950% 2/25/42 230 224
6,7 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2018-B LLC 3.340% 8/25/47 1,600 1,583
6,7 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2018-C LLC 3.590% 1/25/48 3,590 3,582
6,7 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2018-D LLC 3.600% 2/25/48 2,000 1,993
6 Synchrony Card Issuance Trust 2018-A1 3.380% 9/15/24 13,520 13,528
6 Synchrony Credit Card Master Note Trust        
  2015-1 2.370% 3/15/23 14,730 14,580
6 Synchrony Credit Card Master Note Trust        
  2015-4 2.380% 9/15/23 24,190 23,800
6 Synchrony Credit Card Master Note Trust        
  2016-2 2.210% 5/15/24 210 204
6 Synchrony Credit Card Master Note Trust        
  2016-3 1.580% 9/15/22 20,540 20,277
6 Synchrony Credit Card Master Note Trust        
  2017-2 2.620% 10/15/25 5,240 5,079
6 Synchrony Credit Card Master Note Trust        
  Series 2012-2 2.220% 1/15/22 10,603 10,592
6,7 TMSQ 2014-1500 Mortgage Trust 3.680% 10/10/36 100 98
6 Toyota Auto Receivables 2017-D Owner Trust 2.120% 2/15/23 840 818
6 Toyota Auto Receivables 2018-A Owner Trust 2.350% 5/16/22 7,140 7,060
6 Toyota Auto Receivables 2018-A Owner Trust 2.520% 5/15/23 480 471
6 Toyota Auto Receivables 2018-B Owner Trust 3.110% 11/15/23 5,060 5,044
6 Toyota Auto Receivables 2018-C Owner Trust 3.020% 12/15/22 30,750 30,682
6 Toyota Auto Receivables 2018-C Owner Trust 3.130% 2/15/24 14,270 14,221
6,7 Trafigura Securitisation Finance plc 2017-1A 2.470% 12/15/20 2,350 2,304
6,7 Trafigura Securitisation Finance plc 2018-1A 3.730% 3/15/22 2,050 2,050
6 UBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2012-C1 4.171% 5/10/45 247 250
6 UBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2017-C7 3.679% 12/15/50 495 488
6,7 UBS-BAMLL Trust 2012-WRM 3.663% 6/10/30 2,364 2,332
6 UBS-Barclays Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2012-C4 2.850% 12/10/45 521 509
6 UBS-Barclays Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2013-C6 3.244% 4/10/46 100 99
6 UBS-Barclays Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2013-C6 3.469% 4/10/46 60 59
6 USAA Auto Owner Trust 2017-1 1.880% 9/15/22 7,560 7,426
6,7 Verizon Owner Trust 2016-2A 1.680% 5/20/21 6,620 6,573
6,7 Verizon Owner Trust 2017-1A 2.060% 9/20/21 20,500 20,301
6,7 Verizon Owner Trust 2017-2A 1.920% 12/20/21 27,610 27,245
6,7 Verizon Owner Trust 2017-3 2.060% 4/20/22 10,800 10,632
6,7 Verizon Owner Trust 2018-1 2.820% 9/20/22 35,740 35,498

 

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Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
6,7 VNDO 2012-6AVE Mortgage Trust 2.996% 11/15/30 2,236 2,191
6 Volkswagen Auto Loan Enhanced Trust        
  2018-1 3.020% 11/21/22 18,810 18,765
6 Volkswagen Auto Loan Enhanced Trust        
  2018-1 3.150% 7/22/24 8,520 8,493
6,7,9 Volvo Financial Equipment Master Owner        
  Trust 2017-A 2.658% 11/15/22 3,570 3,580
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2012-LC5 2.918% 10/15/45 531 521
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2012-LC5 3.539% 10/15/45 434 429
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2013-LC12 3.928% 7/15/46 312 316
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2013-LC12 4.218% 7/15/46 1,306 1,345
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2013-LC12 4.423% 7/15/46 350 357
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-LC16 3.548% 8/15/50 90 90
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-LC16 3.817% 8/15/50 20 20
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-LC18 3.405% 12/15/47 10 10
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-C26 3.166% 2/15/48 960 932
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-C27 3.190% 2/15/48 80 78
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-C27 3.451% 2/15/48 460 454
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-C29 3.637% 6/15/48 2,620 2,610
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-C30 3.664% 9/15/58 700 698
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-LC22 3.839% 9/15/58 1,241 1,251
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-SG1 3.789% 9/15/48 2,594 2,603
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2016-C32 3.560% 1/15/59 320 317
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2016-C37 3.525% 12/15/49 360 352
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2016-C37 3.794% 12/15/49 90 90
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2017-C38 3.453% 7/15/50 520 506
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2017-C39 3.157% 9/15/50 190 179
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2017-C39 3.418% 9/15/50 2,135 2,066
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2017-C40 3.581% 10/15/50 1,160 1,136
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2017-C41 3.472% 11/15/50 1,430 1,387

 

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Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2017-C42 3.589% 12/15/50 580 567
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2017-RC1 3.631% 1/15/60 176 174
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2018-C43 4.012% 3/15/51 660 666
6 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2018-C46 4.152% 8/15/51 470 480
7 Westpac Banking Corp. 2.100% 2/25/21 1,300 1,264
6,7 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2011-C3 4.375% 3/15/44 614 627
6 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2012-C7 3.431% 6/15/45 597 597
6 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2012-C7 4.090% 6/15/45 752 761
6 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2012-C8 3.001% 8/15/45 385 379
6 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2012-C9 2.870% 11/15/45 1,312 1,286
6 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2012-C9 3.388% 11/15/45 567 558
6 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2013-C15 3.720% 8/15/46 359 362
6 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2013-C15 4.153% 8/15/46 526 541
6 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2013-C17 3.558% 12/15/46 215 216
6 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2013-C18 3.676% 12/15/46 348 351
6 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2013-C18 4.162% 12/15/46 1,042 1,071
6 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-C19 3.829% 3/15/47 960 965
6 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-C19 4.101% 3/15/47 110 113
6 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-C20 3.995% 5/15/47 30 31
6 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-C21 3.410% 8/15/47 80 79
6 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-C21 3.678% 8/15/47 230 231
6 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-C23 3.650% 10/15/57 800 797
6 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-C23 3.917% 10/15/57 1,038 1,054
6 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-C24 3.607% 11/15/47 2,251 2,242
6 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-LC14 3.766% 3/15/47 60 60
6 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-LC14 4.045% 3/15/47 1,179 1,206
6,7 Wheels SPV 2 LLC 2016-1A 1.870% 5/20/25 2,145 2,122
6 World Financial Network Credit Card        
  Master Note Trust Series 2012-D 2.150% 4/17/23 22,000 21,888

 

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Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
      Face Market
    Maturity Amount Value
  Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
6 World Financial Network Credit Card Master        
Note Trust Series 2015-B 2.550% 6/17/24 3,270 3,228
6 World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2016-A 1.770% 9/15/21 10,456 10,394
6 World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2016-B 1.300% 2/15/22 23,491 23,211
6 World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2018-A 2.730% 2/15/24 5,280 5,199
6 World Omni Automobile Lease Securitization        
Trust 2017-A 2.320% 8/15/22 8,800 8,706
6 World Omni Automobile Lease Securitization        
Trust 2018-A 2.830% 7/15/21 23,020 22,919
6 World Omni Automobile Lease Securitization        
Trust 2018-A 2.940% 5/15/23 6,910 6,865
6 World Omni Automobile Lease Securitization        
Trust 2018-B 3.190% 12/15/21 23,160 23,151
6 World Omni Automobile Lease Securitization        
Trust 2018-B 3.300% 3/15/24 4,810 4,807
Total Asset-Backed/Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (Cost $3,090,568)   3,066,689
Corporate Bonds (25.8%)        
Finance (19.8%)        
Banking (17.4%)        
7 ABN AMRO Bank NV 3.400% 8/27/21 7,500 7,477
American Express Co. 2.200% 10/30/20 2,605 2,543
7 ANZ New Zealand International Ltd. 2.250% 2/1/19 15,000 14,975
7 ASB Bank Ltd. 3.750% 6/14/23 4,955 4,913
7 Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. 2.250% 12/19/19 15,855 15,700
Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. 2.625% 11/9/22 10,048 9,653
6 Bank of America Corp. 2.369% 7/21/21 1,515 1,488
6 Bank of America Corp. 2.328% 10/1/21 4,660 4,558
6 Bank of America Corp. 2.738% 1/23/22 30,000 29,483
Bank of Nova Scotia 2.228% 12/11/19 31,695 31,330
Bank of Nova Scotia 2.150% 7/14/20 1,990 1,957
Bank of Nova Scotia 2.350% 10/21/20 4,245 4,170
7 Banque Federative du Credit Mutuel SA 2.000% 4/12/19 19,300 19,186
7 Banque Federative du Credit Mutuel SA 2.200% 7/20/20 26,854 26,230
7 Banque Federative du Credit Mutuel SA 2.750% 10/15/20 14,000 13,767
7 Banque Federative du Credit Mutuel SA 2.500% 4/13/21 4,375 4,248
7 Banque Federative du Credit Mutuel SA 2.700% 7/20/22 22,303 21,452
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce 3.500% 9/13/23 8,150 8,105
Citibank NA 2.100% 6/12/20 9,225 9,057
Citibank NA 2.125% 10/20/20 28,095 27,435
Citibank NA 2.850% 2/12/21 31,060 30,695
7 Commonwealth Bank of Australia 5.000% 10/15/19 12,667 12,915
Commonwealth Bank of Australia 2.300% 3/12/20 1,100 1,084
7 Commonwealth Bank of Australia 2.050% 9/18/20 27,000 26,277
Commonwealth Bank of Australia 2.400% 11/2/20 2,045 2,000
7 Commonwealth Bank of Australia 2.000% 9/6/21 25,776 24,707
7 Commonwealth Bank of Australia 2.750% 3/10/22 5,215 5,062
7 Commonwealth Bank of Australia 3.450% 3/16/23 3,002 2,972
Cooperatieve Rabobank UA 2.500% 1/19/21 2,045 2,001
Cooperatieve Rabobank UA 3.875% 2/8/22 11,700 11,783
7 Danske Bank A/S 1.650% 9/6/19 9,062 8,928
7 Danske Bank A/S 2.750% 9/17/20 8,000 7,859
7 DNB Bank ASA 2.125% 10/2/20 17,000 16,555
7 Federation des Caisses Desjardins du Quebec 2.250% 10/30/20 11,220 10,925
Fifth Third Bank 2.200% 10/30/20 825 806

 

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Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
      Face Market
    Maturity Amount Value
  Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 2.550% 10/23/19 12,800 12,746
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 2.600% 12/27/20 6,415 6,312
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 2.875% 2/25/21 8,856 8,733
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 2.625% 4/25/21 2,250 2,202
HSBC Holdings plc 2.950% 5/25/21 600 591
HSBC Holdings plc 2.650% 1/5/22 36,300 35,165
6 HSBC Holdings plc 3.033% 11/22/23 7,020 6,777
6 HSBC Holdings plc 3.950% 5/18/24 19,410 19,264
HSBC USA Inc. 2.750% 8/7/20 3,125 3,098
Huntington National Bank 2.375% 3/10/20 5,300 5,234
7 ING Bank NV 2.000% 11/26/18 6,400 6,394
7 ING Bank NV 2.300% 3/22/19 9,520 9,497
7 ING Bank NV 2.500% 10/1/19 1,070 1,063
JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2.250% 1/23/20 13,950 13,808
JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2.750% 6/23/20 5,500 5,458
JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2.550% 10/29/20 28,960 28,539
JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2.550% 3/1/21 19,218 18,867
6 JPMorgan Chase & Co. 3.514% 6/18/22 16,310 16,319
JPMorgan Chase & Co. 3.250% 9/23/22 7,585 7,519
6 JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2.776% 4/25/23 9,070 8,809
6 JPMorgan Chase Bank NA 3.086% 4/26/21 93,000 92,739
Lloyds Bank plc 3.300% 5/7/21 25,000 24,905
6 Lloyds Banking Group plc 2.907% 11/7/23 10,010 9,547
Manufacturers & Traders Trust Co. 2.050% 8/17/20 4,815 4,714
Manufacturers & Traders Trust Co. 2.500% 5/18/22 2,440 2,352
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. 2.950% 3/1/21 5,278 5,211
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. 3.535% 7/26/21 2,500 2,497
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. 2.190% 9/13/21 1,930 1,857
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. 2.998% 2/22/22 2,480 2,423
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. 2.665% 7/25/22 12,900 12,435
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. 3.761% 7/26/23 26,465 26,285
7 Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp. 2.450% 10/16/19 2,710 2,691
7 Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp. 2.650% 10/19/20 18,515 18,223
Morgan Stanley 2.450% 2/1/19 4,378 4,375
Morgan Stanley 2.800% 6/16/20 808 802
Morgan Stanley 2.500% 4/21/21 14,738 14,388
Morgan Stanley 2.625% 11/17/21 21,292 20,701
Morgan Stanley 2.750% 5/19/22 35,295 34,217
8 Morgan Stanley 3.563% 5/8/24 4,695 4,776
7 MUFG Bank Ltd. 2.300% 3/10/19 5,350 5,337
7 MUFG Bank Ltd. 2.300% 3/5/20 2,030 2,000
7 MUFG Bank Ltd. 2.750% 9/14/20 10,775 10,560
7 MUFG Bank Ltd. 2.850% 9/8/21 3,990 3,904
National Australia Bank Ltd. 1.875% 7/12/21 15,000 14,339
National Bank of Canada 2.150% 6/12/20 7,000 6,842
National Bank of Canada 2.200% 11/2/20 2,485 2,413
7 Nordea Bank AB 3.750% 8/30/23 4,000 3,957
PNC Bank NA 2.550% 12/9/21 320 312
Royal Bank of Canada 2.150% 10/26/20 23,930 23,420
Santander UK plc 3.400% 6/1/21 24,000 23,907
7 Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB 2.375% 3/25/19 2,750 2,741
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. 2.450% 1/10/19 6,300 6,297
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. 2.250% 7/11/19 1,500 1,493
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. 2.092% 10/18/19 7,505 7,433
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. 2.514% 1/17/20 15,910 15,772
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. 3.748% 7/19/23 4,695 4,671

 

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Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
  Svenska Handelsbanken AB 2.250% 6/17/19 6,000 5,978
  Svenska Handelsbanken AB 2.450% 3/30/21 800 782
  Svenska Handelsbanken AB 1.875% 9/7/21 3,320 3,175
7 Swedbank AB 2.800% 3/14/22 5,145 5,008
  Toronto-Dominion Bank 1.900% 10/24/19 28,630 28,335
  Toronto-Dominion Bank 3.150% 9/17/20 26,935 27,003
  Toronto-Dominion Bank 3.250% 6/11/21 25,575 25,553
  Toronto-Dominion Bank 3.500% 7/19/23 15,085 15,082
7 UBS AG 2.200% 6/8/20 12,310 12,087
7 UBS AG 2.450% 12/1/20 21,355 20,885
7 UBS Group Funding Jersey Ltd. 3.000% 4/15/21 6,579 6,469
7 UBS Group Funding Switzerland AG 3.491% 5/23/23 3,400 3,332
6,7 UBS Group Funding Switzerland AG 2.859% 8/15/23 23,972 22,913
  Wells Fargo Bank NA 2.400% 1/15/20 38,900 38,592
6 Wells Fargo Bank NA 3.325% 7/23/21 37,575 37,525
  Wells Fargo Bank NA 3.550% 8/14/23 9,525 9,468
  Westpac Banking Corp. 2.600% 11/23/20 150 148
  Westpac Banking Corp. 2.650% 1/25/21 11,115 10,930
  Westpac Banking Corp. 2.000% 8/19/21 5,000 4,798
  Westpac Banking Corp. 2.750% 1/11/23 11,725 11,317
  Westpac Banking Corp. 3.650% 5/15/23 10,820 10,799
 
  Finance Companies (1.4%)        
  GE Capital International Funding Co.        
  Unlimited Co. 2.342% 11/15/20 111,436 108,636
 
  Insurance (1.0%)        
7 AIG Global Funding 2.700% 12/15/21 2,570 2,496
7 MassMutual Global Funding II 1.950% 9/22/20 5,770 5,632
7 Metropolitan Life Global Funding I 2.400% 1/8/21 16,660 16,323
7 Metropolitan Life Global Funding I 3.000% 1/10/23 1,000 975
7 Pricoa Global Funding I 3.450% 9/1/23 3,300 3,275
7 Principal Life Global Funding II 2.204% 12/11/19 27,685 27,356
7 Reliance Standard Life Global Funding II 2.150% 10/15/18 17,000 16,995
7 Reliance Standard Life Global Funding II 3.050% 1/20/21 1,770 1,745
          1,542,839
Industrial (5.6%)        
  Basic Industry (0.5%)        
7 Air Liquide Finance SA 1.375% 9/27/19 6,805 6,703
  Airgas Inc. 2.375% 2/15/20 12,470 12,349
7 Chevron Phillips Chemical Co LLC /        
  Chevron Phillips Chemical Co LP 2.450% 5/1/20 6,685 6,609
  EI du Pont de Nemours & Co. 2.200% 5/1/20 17,475 17,241
 
  Capital Goods (1.0%)        
  Caterpillar Financial Services Corp. 1.900% 3/22/19 20,000 19,942
  Caterpillar Financial Services Corp. 2.250% 12/1/19 15,025 14,861
  Caterpillar Financial Services Corp. 1.850% 9/4/20 20,000 19,459
  Caterpillar Financial Services Corp. 2.500% 11/13/20 4,850 4,772
  General Electric Co. 4.625% 1/7/21 16,000 16,482
 
  Communication (0.2%)        
  America Movil SAB de CV 5.000% 10/16/19 5,200 5,278
  America Movil SAB de CV 5.000% 3/30/20 1,375 1,406
7 NBCUniversal Enterprise Inc. 1.974% 4/15/19 9,965 9,921

 

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Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
      Face Market
    Maturity Amount Value
  Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
Consumer Cyclical (1.0%)        
American Honda Finance Corp. 3.000% 6/16/20 8,450 8,434
7 BMW US Capital LLC 3.250% 8/14/20 6,300 6,320
7 Harley-Davidson Financial Services Inc. 2.250% 1/15/19 16,092 16,068
7 Harley-Davidson Financial Services Inc. 2.400% 9/15/19 11,671 11,602
7 Harley-Davidson Financial Services Inc. 2.150% 2/26/20 6,512 6,399
7 Harley-Davidson Financial Services Inc. 2.400% 6/15/20 1,650 1,618
7 Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp. 2.000% 3/8/19 6,700 6,679
7 Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp. 2.150% 7/13/20 3,500 3,425
7 Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp. 2.150% 9/28/20 5,000 4,873
7 Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp. 3.650% 9/21/21 3,500 3,508
Toyota Motor Corp. 3.183% 7/20/21 6,600 6,609
 
Consumer Noncyclical (0.5%)        
Altria Group Inc. 9.250% 8/6/19 18,551 19,509
Gilead Sciences Inc. 1.850% 9/20/19 4,000 3,967
Gilead Sciences Inc. 2.350% 2/1/20 14,075 13,954
SSM Health Care Corp. 3.688% 6/1/23 6,485 6,457
 
Energy (1.7%)        
Baker Hughes a GE Co. LLC 3.200% 8/15/21 12,642 12,576
BP Capital Markets plc 4.750% 3/10/19 37,139 37,482
BP Capital Markets plc 1.676% 5/3/19 19,500 19,376
BP Capital Markets plc 2.521% 1/15/20 480 478
BP Capital Markets plc 2.315% 2/13/20 14,647 14,511
BP Capital Markets plc 4.500% 10/1/20 10,000 10,249
TransCanada PipeLines Ltd. 2.125% 11/15/19 17,190 16,995
8 TransCanada PipeLines Ltd. 2.589% 11/15/19 16,710 16,737
TransCanada PipeLines Ltd. 2.500% 8/1/22 1,557 1,491
 
Other Industrial (0.4%)        
7 CK Hutchison International 17 Ltd. 2.250% 9/29/20 12,480 12,182
7 Hutchison Whampoa International 09 Ltd. 7.625% 4/9/19 16,140 16,523
 
Technology (0.1%)        
Baidu Inc. 2.750% 6/9/19 6,228 6,204
 
Transportation (0.2%)        
Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC 4.700% 10/1/19 9,257 9,408
6 Delta Air Lines 2012-1 Class A Pass Through        
Trust 4.750% 11/7/21 6,679 6,787
6 Northwest Airlines 2007-1 Class A Pass        
Through Trust 7.027% 5/1/21 4,130 4,264
        439,708
Utilities (0.4%)        
Electric (0.3%)        
Arizona Public Service Co. 8.750% 3/1/19 830 849
Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co. 2.375% 1/15/21 3,325 3,266
Connecticut Light & Power Co. 5.500% 2/1/19 3,815 3,846
Duke Energy Florida LLC 4.550% 4/1/20 200 204
MidAmerican Energy Co. 2.400% 3/15/19 3,053 3,051
Public Service Electric & Gas Co. 3.500% 8/15/20 1,297 1,302
Southern California Edison Co. 2.900% 3/1/21 4,665 4,612
Western Massachusetts Electric Co. 3.500% 9/15/21 830 831

 

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        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
  Natural Gas (0.1%)        
  Atmos Energy Corp. 8.500% 3/15/19 8,990 9,215
          27,176
Total Corporate Bonds (Cost $2,030,546)       2,009,723
Sovereign Bonds (14.0%)        
  African Development Bank 1.000% 11/2/18 40,000 39,955
7 Avi Funding Co. Ltd. 2.850% 9/16/20 7,700 7,581
  Bermuda 5.603% 7/20/20 3,860 3,994
7 BNG Bank NV 1.500% 2/15/19 4,500 4,478
7 BNG Bank NV 1.750% 10/30/19 35,000 34,608
7 CDP Financial Inc. 4.400% 11/25/19 12,903 13,109
7 CDP Financial Inc. 3.150% 7/24/24 1,750 1,723
  CNOOC Finance 2015 Australia Pty Ltd. 2.625% 5/5/20 1,850 1,827
  Corp. Andina de Fomento 2.200% 7/18/20 3,026 2,962
7 Corp. Nacional del Cobre de Chile 3.875% 11/3/21 7,950 7,980
  Corp. Nacional del Cobre de Chile 3.875% 11/3/21 2,020 2,033
7 Corp. Nacional del Cobre de Chile 4.500% 8/13/23 9,538 9,727
  Corp. Nacional del Cobre de Chile 4.500% 8/13/23 4,600 4,699
7 CPPIB Capital Inc. 1.250% 9/20/19 39,785 39,170
7,10 Dexia Credit Local SA 1.875% 9/15/21 10,000 9,620
7 Dexia Credit Local SA 2.375% 9/20/22 10,290 9,925
7 Dexia Credit Local SA 3.250% 9/26/23 50,000 49,713
7 Electricite de France SA 6.500% 1/26/19 2,000 2,022
  Emirate of Abu Dhabi 2.500% 10/11/22 17,000 16,362
  Emirate of Abu Dhabi 3.125% 10/11/27 6,000 5,668
  Equinor ASA 3.150% 1/23/22 3,000 2,981
  Equinor ASA 2.650% 1/15/24 2,000 1,917
  European Investment Bank 1.875% 3/15/19 20,000 19,950
  Export-Import Bank of Korea 1.500% 10/21/19 19,500 19,106
  Export-Import Bank of Korea 2.250% 1/21/20 4,000 3,937
  Export-Import Bank of Korea 5.125% 6/29/20 1,500 1,538
  Export-Import Bank of Korea 4.000% 1/29/21 5,200 5,250
  Export-Import Bank of Korea 3.000% 11/1/22 2,400 2,339
  First Abu Dhabi Bank PJSC 3.000% 8/13/19 8,000 7,994
  FMS Wertmanagement AoeR 1.625% 11/20/18 10,000 9,987
7 Harvest Operations Corp. 4.200% 6/1/23 2,000 2,025
7 ICBCIL Finance Co. Ltd. 2.375% 5/19/19 7,000 6,939
8 Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. 3.093% 11/8/20 4,500 4,505
  Inter-American Development Bank 2.125% 11/9/20 150 148
  Inter-American Development Bank 1.250% 9/14/21 1,835 1,743
11 Japan Bank for International Cooperation 1.750% 11/13/18 8,250 8,243
11 Japan Bank for International Cooperation 2.125% 11/16/20 12,500 12,220
11 Japan Bank for International Cooperation 3.125% 7/20/21 24,300 24,230
7 Japan Finance Organization for Municipalities 2.125% 3/6/19 15,000 14,951
12 KFW 1.875% 4/1/19 5,000 4,981
  Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 2.375% 10/26/21 14,000 13,501
  Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 2.875% 3/4/23 7,600 7,330
  Kingdom of Sweden 1.500% 7/25/19 27,000 26,727
7 Kommunalbanken AS 1.375% 11/23/18 100,000 99,847
7 Kommunalbanken AS 2.125% 3/15/19 14,000 13,969
7 Kommunalbanken AS 1.750% 5/28/19 15,000 14,896
7 Kommunalbanken AS 1.500% 9/9/19 33,000 32,617
8 Korea Development Bank 3.014% 9/19/20 11,225 11,251

 

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Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
8 Korea Development Bank 2.884% 3/12/21 10,000 10,001
  Korea Development Bank 4.625% 11/16/21 2,315 2,387
7 Korea East-West Power Co. Ltd. 3.875% 7/19/23 10,900 10,885
7 Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. Ltd. 2.875% 10/2/18 4,000 4,000
7 Korea National Oil Corp. 2.750% 1/23/19 20,000 20,000
7 Nederlandse Waterschapsbank NV 1.875% 3/13/19 8,000 7,969
7 Nederlandse Waterschapsbank NV 1.250% 9/9/19 11,500 11,319
  North American Development Bank 2.300% 10/10/18 2,625 2,625
  Petronas Capital Ltd. 5.250% 8/12/19 5,840 5,940
  Petronas Capital Ltd. 5.250% 8/12/19 3,628 3,690
  Province of Alberta 1.900% 12/6/19 20,000 19,708
7 Province of Alberta 1.750% 8/26/20 9,350 9,115
  Province of Manitoba 9.625% 12/1/18 7,180 7,256
  Province of Manitoba 2.100% 9/6/22 1,400 1,335
  Province of Ontario 1.625% 1/18/19 38,000 37,872
  Province of Ontario 2.000% 1/30/19 29,500 29,423
  Province of Ontario 1.250% 6/17/19 60,000 59,255
  Province of Ontario 4.000% 10/7/19 2,575 2,603
  Province of Ontario 4.400% 4/14/20 19,500 19,887
9 Province of Quebec 2.483% 9/21/20 10,000 10,030
  Province of Quebec 2.750% 8/25/21 6,350 6,278
  Republic of Chile 2.250% 10/30/22 2,000 1,920
  Republic of Lithuania 7.375% 2/11/20 34,170 36,128
  Republic of Lithuania 6.125% 3/9/21 17,510 18,648
  Republic of Poland 6.375% 7/15/19 26,796 27,531
  Republic of Poland 5.125% 4/21/21 1,350 1,412
  Republic of Poland 5.000% 3/23/22 20,630 21,713
  Sinopec Group Overseas Development        
  2014 Ltd. 2.750% 4/10/19 9,200 9,180
7 State Grid Overseas Investment 2014 Ltd. 2.750% 5/7/19 10,000 9,975
  State of Israel 3.150% 6/30/23 2,000 1,973
  State of Qatar 5.250% 1/20/20 17,200 17,645
  State of Qatar 3.875% 4/23/23 12,500 12,584
7 Temasek Financial I Ltd. 4.300% 10/25/19 2,500 2,534
7 Temasek Financial I Ltd. 2.375% 1/23/23 5,000 4,791
Total Sovereign Bonds (Cost $1,097,099)       1,089,890
Taxable Municipal Bonds (0.1%)        
  Louisiana Local Government Environmental        
  Facilities & Community Development        
  Authority Revenue 2010-EGSL 3.220% 2/1/21 367 368
  Louisiana Local Government Environmental        
  Facilities & Community Development        
  Authority Revenue 2010-ELL 3.450% 2/1/22 4,831 4,835
  Princeton University New Jersey GO 4.950% 3/1/19 3,249 3,277
Total Taxable Municipal Bonds (Cost $8,530)       8,480
 
        Shares  
Temporary Cash Investments (5.9%)        
Money Market Fund (5.2%)        
13 Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund 2.209%   4,012,307 401,231

 

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Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
Commercial Paper (0.3%)        
14 Erp Operating LP 2.339% 10/1/18 1,525 1,525
14 JP Morgan Securities LLC 2.344% 1/28/19 21,950 21,764
          23,289
Certificates of Deposit (0.4%)        
  Cooperatieve Rabobank UA 1.980% 10/25/19 32,235 31,838
Total Temporary Cash Investments (Cost $456,764)     456,358
Total Investments (99.6%) (Cost $7,820,034)       7,762,252
Other Assets and Liabilities (0.4%)        
Other Assets       41,849
Liabilities       (8,011)
          33,838
Net Assets (100%)        
Applicable to 575,147,867 outstanding $.001 par value shares of      
beneficial interest (unlimited authorization)       7,796,090
Net Asset Value Per Share       $13.55
 
          Amount
          ($000)
Statement of Assets and Liabilities        
Assets        
Investments in Securities, at Value        
Unaffiliated Issuers       7,361,021
Affiliated Issuers       401,231
Total Investments in Securities       7,762,252
Investment in Vanguard       340
Receivables for Investment Securities Sold       8,192
Receivables for Accrued Income       31,028
Variation Margin Receivable—Futures Contracts       378
Variation Margin Receivable—CC Swap Contracts       16
Unrealized Appreciation—OTC Swap Contracts       41
Other Assets       1,854
Total Assets       7,804,101
Liabilities        
Payables for Investment Securities Purchased       6,110
Payables to Vanguard       1,221
Variation Margin Payable—Futures Contracts       244
Variation Margin Payable—CC Swap Contracts       155
Unrealized Depreciation—OTC Swap Contracts       281
Total Liabilities       8,011
Net Assets       7,796,090

 

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Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund  
 
 
 
At September 30, 2018, net assets consisted of:  
  Amount
  ($000)
Paid-in Capital 7,895,152
Overdistributed Net Investment Income (1)
Accumulated Net Realized Losses (38,811)
Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)  
Investment Securities (57,782)
Futures Contracts (3,307)
Swap Contracts 839
Net Assets 7,796,090

 

See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements.
1 Securities with a value of $4,108,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open futures contracts.
2 Securities with a value of $5,020,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open cleared swap contracts.
3 U.S. government-guaranteed.
4 The issuer operates under a congressional charter; its securities are generally neither guaranteed by the U.S. Treasury nor backed
by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.
5 The issuer was placed under federal conservatorship in September 2008; since that time, its daily operations have been managed
by the Federal Housing Finance Agency and it receives capital from the U.S. Treasury, as needed to maintain a positive net worth,
in exchange for senior preferred stock.
6 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.
7 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 September 30, 2018, the aggregate value of these
securities was $2,486,446,000, representing 31.9% of net assets.
8 Adjustable-rate security based upon 3-month USD LIBOR plus spread.
9 Adjustable-rate security based upon 1-month USD LIBOR plus spread.
10 Guaranteed by multiple countries.
11 Guaranteed by the Government of Japan.
12 Guaranteed by the Federal Republic of Germany.
13 Affiliated money market fund available only to Vanguard funds and certain trusts and accounts managed by Vanguard. Rate shown
is the 7-day yield.
14 Security exempt from registration under Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933. Such securities may be sold in transactions
exempt from registration only to dealers in that program or other “accredited investors.” At September 30, 2018, the aggregate
value of these securities was $23,289,000, representing 0.3% of net assets.
CC—Centraly Cleared.
GO—General Obligation Bond.
OTC — Over-the-Counter.

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Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
Derivative Financial Instruments Outstanding as of Period End    
Futures Contracts        
        ($000)
        Value and
    Number of   Unrealized
    Long (Short) Notional Appreciation
  Expiration Contracts Amount (Depreciation)
Long Futures Contracts        
2-Year U. S. Treasury Note December 2018 7,372 1,553,534 (3,416)
10-Year U. S. Treasury Note December 2018 139 16,511 (41)
30-Year U. S. Treasury Bond December 2018 63 8,852 (218)
Ultra 10-Year U. S. Treasury Note December 2018 69 8,694 31
        (3,644)

 

Short Futures Contracts        
5-Year U. S. Treasury Note December 2018 (2,567) (288,727) 332
Ultra Long U.S. Treasury Bond December 2018 (1) (154) 5
        337
        (3,307)

 

Over-the-Counter Credit Default Swaps          
            Remaining  
        Periodic   Up-Front  
        Premium   Premium Unrealized
      Notional Received   Received Appreciation
Termination   Amount (Paid)1 Value (Paid) (Depreciation)
Reference Entity Date Counterparty ($000) (%) ($000) ($000) ($000)
Credit Protection Sold/Moody’s Rating          
Republic of Chile/Aa3 12/20/23 BOANA 5,500 1.000 143 (128) 15
Republic of Chile/Aa3 12/20/23 GSI 7,750 1.000 200 (174) 26
          343 (302) 41

 

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Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund          
 
 
Over-the-Counter Credit Default Swaps (continued)        
            Remaining  
        Periodic   Up-Front  
        Premium   Premium Unrealized
      Notional Received   Received Appreciation
  Termination   Amount (Paid)1 Value (Paid) (Depreciation)
Reference Entity Date Counterparty ($000) (%) ($000) ($000) ($000)
Credit Protection Purchased            
EI du Pont de              
Nemours & Co. 12/20/20 JPMC 4,915 (1.000) (95) 53 (42)
State of Qatar 6/20/22 BOANA 2,720 (1.000) (57) (25) (82)
State of Qatar 6/20/22 CITNA 5,280 (1.000) (111) (46) (157)
          (263) (18) (281)
          80 (320) (240)

 

The notional amount represents the maximum potential amount the fund could be required to pay as a seller of credit protection if the reference entity was subject to a credit event.

1 Periodic premium received/paid quarterly.
BOANA—Bank of America, N.A.
CITNA—Citibank N.A.
GSI—Goldman Sachs International.
JPMC—JP Morgan Chase Bank.

Centrally Cleared Interest Rate Swaps          
      Fixed Floating    
      Interest Interest    
      Rate Rate   Unrealized
  Future Notional Received Received   Appreciation
  Effective Amount (Paid)2 (Paid) 3 Value (Depreciation)
Termination Date Date ($000) (%) (%) ($000) ($000)
11/21/19 N/A 14,600 1.891 (2.312) (153) (153)
12/19/19 12/19/181 70,582 2.500 (0.000) (303) (28)
12/21/20 12/19/181 11,758 2.750 (0.000) (74) (2)
12/20/21 12/19/181 88,393 (2.750) 0.000 900 140
12/19/22 12/19/181 110,503 (2.750) 0.000 1,488 282
12/19/23 12/19/181 58,644 (2.750) 0.000 974 196
12/19/25 12/19/181 112,711 (2.750) 0.000 2,661 644
          5,493 1,079

 

1 Forward interest rate swap. In a forward interest rate swap, the fund and the counterparty agree to make periodic net payments beginning on a specified future effective date.

2 Fixed interest payment received/paid semiannually.

3 Based on 3-month London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) as of the most recent payment date. Floating interest payment received/ paid quarterly.

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

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Statement of Operations

  Year Ended
  September 30, 2018
  ($000)
Investment Income  
Income  
Interest1 147,157
Total Income 147,157
Expenses  
The Vanguard Group—Note B  
Investment Advisory Services 210
Management and Administrative 1,009
Marketing and Distribution 49
Custodian Fees 49
Auditing Fees 37
Trustees’ Fees and Expenses 4
Total Expenses 1,358
Net Investment Income 145,799
Realized Net Gain (Loss)  
Investment Securities Sold1 (32,024)
Futures Contracts (9,045)
Swap Contracts 3,458
Realized Net Gain (Loss) (37,611)
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)  
Investment Securities1 (57,634)
Futures Contracts (2,314)
Swap Contracts 946
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) (59,002)
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations 49,186

 

1 Interest income, realized net gain (loss), and change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) from an affiliated company of the fund were $2,984,000, ($39,000), and ($18,000), respectively. Purchases and sales are for temporary cash investment purposes.

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

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Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  Year Ended September 30,
  2018 2017
  ($000) ($000)
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets    
Operations    
Net Investment Income 145,799 136,149
Realized Net Gain (Loss) (37,611) 4,351
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) (59,002) (62,412)
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations 49,186 78,088
Distributions    
Net Investment Income (145,766) (137,196)
Realized Capital Gain1 (8,272)
Total Distributions (145,766) (145,468)
Capital Share Transactions    
Issued 1,370,015 592,012
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 145,766 145,468
Redeemed (855,959) (3,834,694)
Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions 659,822 (3,097,214)
Total Increase (Decrease) 563,242 (3,164,594)
Net Assets    
Beginning of Period 7,232,848 10,397,442
End of Period2 7,796,090 7,232,848

 

1 Includes fiscal 2018 and 2017 short-term gain distributions totaling $0 and $1,244,000, respectively. Short-term gain distributions are treated as ordinary income dividends for tax purposes.

2 Net Assets—End of Period includes undistributed (overdistributed) net investment income of ($1,000) and $113,000.

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

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Financial Highlights

        June 19,
        20151 to
  Year Ended September 30, Sept. 30,
For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Period 2018 2017 2016 2015
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period $13.75 $13.84 $13.79 $13.79
Investment Operations        
Net Investment Income . 293 2 .2212 .188 .047
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments (.202) (.071) .052 .001
Total from Investment Operations .091 .150 . 240 .048
Distributions        
Dividends from Net Investment Income (. 291) (. 229) (.187) (. 048)
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains (.011) (.003)
Total Distributions (. 291) (. 240) (.190) (. 048)
Net Asset Value, End of Period $13.55 $13.75 $13.84 $13.79
 
Total Return 0.67% 1.10% 1.75% 0.35%
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data        
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) $7,796 $7,233 $10,397 $10,270
Ratio of Total Expenses to Average Net Assets 0.02% 0.02% 0.02% 0.02%3
Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets 2.15% 1.61% 1.37% 1.22%3
Portfolio Turnover Rate 118% 4 66% 119% 28%

 

1 Commencement of operations as a registered investment company.
2 Calculated based on average shares outstanding.
3 Annualized.
4 Excludes the value of portfolio securities received or delivered as a result of in-kind purchases or redemptions of the fund’s
capital shares.

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

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Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund

Notes to Financial Statements

Vanguard Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The fund has been established by Vanguard as an investment vehicle for certain collective trusts and other accounts managed by Vanguard or its affiliates, and qualifying education savings plans. The fund is offered to investors who meet certain administrative and service criteria and invest a minimum of $10 million. 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.

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

1. Security Valuation: Securities are valued as of the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4 p.m., Eastern time) on the valuation date. Bonds and temporary cash investments 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. Structured debt securities, including mortgages and asset-backed securities, are valued using the latest bid prices or using valuations based on a matrix system that considers such factors as issuer, tranche, nominal or option-adjusted spreads, weighted average coupon, weighted average maturity, credit enhancements, and collateral. Investments in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund are valued at that fund’s net asset value. Securities for which market quotations are not readily available, or whose values have been 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. Counterparty risk involving futures is mitigated because a regulated clearinghouse is the counterparty instead of the clearing broker. To further mitigate counterparty risk, the fund trades futures contracts on an exchange, monitors the financial strength of its clearing brokers and clearinghouse, and has entered into clearing agreements with its clearing brokers. The clearinghouse imposes initial margin requirements to secure the fund’s performance and requires daily settlement of variation margin representing changes in the market value of each contract. Any assets pledged as initial margin for open contracts are noted in the Statement of Net Assets.

Futures contracts are valued at their quoted daily settlement prices. The notional 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 Assets and Liabilities 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).

During the year ended September 30, 2018, the fund’s average investments in long and short futures contracts represented 20% and 5% of net assets, respectively, based on the average of the notional amounts at each quarter-end during the period.

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3. Swap Contracts: The fund invests in credit default swaps to adjust the overall credit risk of the fund or to actively overweight or underweight credit risk to a specific issuer or group of issuers. The fund may sell credit protection through credit default swaps to simulate investments in long positions that are either unavailable or considered to be less attractively priced in the bond market. The fund may purchase credit protection through credit default swaps to reduce credit exposure to a given issuer or issuers. Under the terms of the swaps, an up-front payment may be exchanged between the seller and buyer. In addition, the seller of the credit protection receives a periodic payment of premium from the buyer that is a fixed percentage applied to a notional amount. If, for example, 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 seller agrees to either physically settle or cash settle the swap contract. If the swap is physically settled, the seller agrees to pay the buyer an amount equal to the notional amount and take delivery of a debt instrument of the reference issuer with a par amount equal to such notional amount. If the swap is cash settled, the seller agrees to pay the buyer the difference between the notional amount and the final price for the relevant debt instrument, as determined either in a market auction or pursuant to a pre-agreed-upon valuation procedure.

The fund enters into interest rate swap transactions to adjust the fund’s sensitivity to changes in interest rates and maintain the ability to generate income at prevailing market rates. Under the terms of the swaps, one party pays the other an amount that is a fixed percentage rate applied to a notional 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.

The notional amounts of swap contracts are not recorded in the Statement of Net Assets. Swaps are valued daily based on market quotations received from independent pricing services or recognized dealers and the change in value is recorded in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities as an asset (liability) and in the Statement of Operations as unrealized appreciation (depreciation) until the seller of credit protection is required to take delivery (or, in a cash settled swap, pay the settlement amount determined) upon occurrence of a credit event, 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) over the life of the contract.

The primary risk associated with selling credit protection is that, upon the occurrence of a defined credit event, the market value of the debt instrument received by the fund (or, in a cash settled swap, the debt instruments used to determine the settlement payment by the fund) will be significantly less than the amount paid by the fund and, in a physically settled swap, the fund may receive an illiquid debt instrument. A risk associated with all types of swaps is the possibility that a counterparty may default on its obligation to pay net amounts due to the fund. The fund’s maximum amount subject o counterparty risk is the unrealized appreciation on the swap contract. The fund mitigates its counterparty risk by entering into swaps only with a diverse group of prequalified counterparties, monitoring their financial strength, entering into master netting arrangements with its counterparties, and requiring its counterparties to transfer collateral as security for their performance. In the absence of a default, the collateral pledged or received by the fund cannot be repledged, resold, or rehypothecated. In the event of a counterparty’s default (including bankruptcy), the fund may terminate any swap contracts with that counterparty, determine the net amount owed by either party in accordance with its master netting arrangements, and sell or retain any collateral held up to the net amount owed to the fund under the master netting arrangements. The swap contracts contain provisions whereby a counterparty may terminate open contracts if the fund’s net assets decline below a certain level, triggering a payment by the fund if the fund is in a net liability position at

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the time of the termination. The payment amount would be reduced by any collateral the fund has pledged. Any securities pledged as collateral for open contracts are noted in the Statement of Net Assets. The value of collateral received or pledged is compared daily to the value of the swap contracts exposure with each counterparty, and any difference, if in excess of a specified minimum transfer amount, is adjusted and settled within two business days.

The fund enters into centrally cleared interest rate swaps to achieve the same objectives specified with respect to the equivalent over-the-counter swaps but with less counterparty risk because a regulated clearinghouse is the counterparty instead of the clearing broker or executing broker. The clearinghouse imposes initial margin requirements to secure the fund’s performance, and requires daily settlement of variation margin representing changes in the market value of each contract.

To further mitigate counterparty risk, the fund trades with a diverse group of prequalified executing brokers; monitors the financial strength of its clearing brokers, executing brokers, and clearinghouse; and has entered into agreements with its clearing brokers and executing brokers.

During the year ended September 30, 2018, the fund’s average amounts of investments in credit protection sold and credit protection purchased each represented less than 1% of net assets, respectively, based on the average of notional amounts at each quarter-end during the period. The average amount of investments in interest rate swaps represented 3% of net assets, based on the average of notional amounts at each quarter-end during the period.

4. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken for all open federal income tax years (September 30, 2015–2018), and has concluded that no provision for federal income tax is required in the fund’s financial statements.

5. Distributions: Distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Distributions are determined on a tax basis and may differ from net investment income and realized capital gains for financial reporting purposes.

6. Credit Facility: The fund and certain other funds managed by The Vanguard Group (“Vanguard”) participate in a $3.1 billion committed credit facility provided by a syndicate of lenders pursuant to a credit agreement that may be renewed annually; each fund is individually liable for its borrowings, if any, under the credit facility. Borrowings may be utilized for temporary and emergency purposes, and are subject to the fund’s regulatory and contractual borrowing restrictions. The participating funds are charged administrative fees and an annual commitment fee of 0.10% of the undrawn amount of the facility; these fees are allocated to the funds based on a method approved by the fund’s board of trustees and included in Management and Administrative expenses on the fund’s Statement of Operations. Any borrowings under this facility bear interest at a rate based upon the higher of the one-month London Interbank Offered Rate, federal funds effective rate, or overnight bank funding rate plus an agreed-upon spread.

The fund had no borrowings outstanding at September 30, 2018, or at any time during the period then ended.

7. Other: 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.

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B. In accordance with the terms of a Funds’ Service Agreement (the “FSA”) between Vanguard and the fund, Vanguard furnishes to the fund investment advisory, corporate management, administrative, marketing, and distribution services at Vanguard’s cost of operations (as defined by the FSA). These costs of operations are allocated to the fund based on methods and guidelines approved by the board of trustees. Vanguard does not require reimbursement in the current period for certain costs of operations (such as deferred compensation/benefits and risk/insurance costs); the fund’s liability for these costs of operations is included in Payables to Vanguard on the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. All other costs of operations payable to Vanguard are generally settled twice a month.

Upon the request of Vanguard, the fund may invest up to 0.40% of its net assets as capital in Vanguard. At September 30, 2018, the fund had contributed to Vanguard capital in the amount of $340,000 representing 0.00% of the fund’s net assets and 0.14% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and employees, respectively, of Vanguard.

C. Various inputs may be used to determine the value of the fund’s investments. These inputs are summarized in three broad levels for financial statement purposes. The inputs or methodologies used to value securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.

Level 1Quoted prices in active markets for identical securities.

Level 2Other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.).

Level 3Significant unobservable inputs (including the fund’s own assumptions used to determine the fair value of investments). Any investments valued with significant unobservable inputs are noted on the Statement of Net Assets.

The following table summarizes the market value of the fund’s investments as of September 30, 2018, based on the inputs used to value them:

  Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
Investments ($000) ($000) ($000)
U.S. Government and Agency Obligations 1,131,112
Asset-Backed/Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities 3,066,689
Corporate Bonds 2,009,723
Sovereign Bonds 1,089,890
Taxable Municipal Bonds 8,480
Temporary Cash Investments 401,231 55,127
Futures Contracts—Assets1 378
Futures Contracts—Liabilities1 (244)
Swap Contracts—Assets 161 41
Swap Contracts—Liabilities (155)1 (281)
Total 401,226 7,360,781
1 Represents variation margin on the last day of the reporting period.      

 

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D. At September 30, 2018, the fair values of derivatives were reflected in the Statement of Net Assets and Liabilities as follows:

  Interest Rate Credit  
  Contracts Contracts Total
Statement of Assets and Liabilities Caption ($000) ($000) ($000)
Variation Margin Receivable—Futures Contracts 378 378
Variation Margin Receivable—Swap Contracts 16 16
Unrealized Appreciation—Swap Contracts 41 41
Total Assets 394 41 435
 
Variation Margin Payable—Futures Contracts (244) (244)
Variation Margin Payable—Swap Contracts (155) (155)
Unrealized Depreciation—Swap Contracts (281) (281)
Total Liabilities (399) (281) (680)

 

Realized net gain (loss) and the change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on derivatives for the year ended September 30, 2018, were:

Interest Rate Credit  
  Contracts Contracts Total
Realized Net Gain (Loss) on Derivatives ($000) ($000) ($000)
Futures Contracts (9,045) (9,045)
Swap Contracts 3,281 177 3,458
Realized Net Gain (Loss) on Derivatives (5,764) 177 (5,587)
 
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) on Derivatives      
Futures Contracts (2,314) (2,314)
Swap Contracts 989 (43) 946
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) on Derivatives (1,325) (43) (1,368)

 

E. Permanent differences between book-basis and tax-basis components of net assets are reclassified among capital accounts in the financial statements to reflect their tax character. These reclassifications have no effect on net assets or net asset value per share. As of period end, the following permanent differences primarily attributable to the accounting for swap agreements were reclassified to the following accounts:

  Amount
  ($000)
Paid-in Capital
Undistributed (Overdistributed) Net Investment Income (147)
Accumulated Net Realized Gains (Losses) 147

 

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Temporary differences between book-basis and tax-basis components of accumulated net earnings (losses) arise when certain items of income, gain, or loss are recognized in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes; these differences will reverse at some time in the future. The differences are primarily related to the tax deferral of losses on wash sales and the realization of unrealized gains or losses on certain futures contracts. As of period end, the tax-basis components of accumulated net earnings (losses) are detailed in the table as follows:

  Amount
  ($000)
Undistributed Ordinary Income 1,184
Undistributed Long-Term Gains
Capital Loss Carryforwards (Non-expiring) (42,148)
Net Unrealized Gains (Losses) (56,943)

 

As of September 30, 2018, gross unrealized appreciation and depreciation for investments and derivatives based on cost for U.S. federal income tax purposes were as follows:

  Amount
  ($000)
Tax Cost 7,820,354
Gross Unrealized Appreciation 4,079
Gross Unrealized Depreciation (61,022)
Net Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) (56,943)

 

F. During the year ended September 30, 2018, the fund purchased $3,633,301,000 of investment securities and sold $3,240,899,000 of investment securities, other than U.S. government securities and temporary cash investments. Purchases and sales of U.S. government securities were $4,830,334,000 and $5,275,887,000, respectively. Total purchases and sales include $774,125,000 and $0, respectively, in connection with in-kind purchases and redemptions of the fund’s capital shares.

G. Capital shares issued and redeemed were:    
  Year Ended September 30,
  2018 2017
  Shares Shares
  (000) (000)
Issued 100,885 43,012
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 10,716 10,577
Redeemed (62,628) (278,926)
Net Increase (Decrease) in Shares Outstanding 48,973 (225,337)

 

H. Management has determined that no events or transactions occurred subsequent to September 30, 2018, that would require recognition or disclosure in these financial statements.

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Fund Profile
As of September 30, 2018

Financial Attributes    
    Bloomberg Bloomberg
    Barclays Barclays
    U.S. U.S.
    Intermediate Aggregate
    Aggregate Bond
  Fund ex Baa Index Index
Number of Bonds 1,145 5,642 10,112
Yield to Maturity      
(before expenses) 3.4% 3.3% 3.5%
Average Coupon 3.1% 2.8% 3.2%
Average Duration 3.8 years 4.4 years 6.0 years
Average Effective      
Maturity 4.9 years 5.5 years 8.4 years
Ticker Symbol VIITX
Expense Ratio1 0.02%
30-Day SEC Yield 3.06%
Short-Term      
Reserves 1.9%

 

Sector Diversification (% of portfolio)  
Asset-Backed 12.7%
Commercial Mortgage-Backed 2.6
Finance 14.2
Foreign 9.5
Government Mortgage-Backed 31.3
Industrial 8.0
Treasury/Agency 20.9
Utilities 0.8

 

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

Volatility Measures    
  Bloomberg  
  Barclays U.S. Bloomberg
  Intermediate Barclays U.S.
  Aggregate ex Aggregate Bond
  Baa Index Index
R-Squared 0.98 0.95
Beta 0.93 0.68

 

These measures show the degree and timing of the fund’s fluctuations compared with the indexes over 36 months.

Distribution by Credit Quality (% of portfolio)
U.S. Government 50.9%
Aaa 18.1
Aa 7.5
A 22.9
Not Rated 0.6

 

Credit-quality ratings are obtained from Moody’s and S&P, and the higher rating for each issue is shown. “Not Rated” is used to classify securities for which a rating is not available. Not rated securities include a fund’s investment in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund or Vanguard Municipal Cash Management Fund, each of which invests in high-quality money market instruments and may serve as a cash management vehicle for the Vanguard funds, trusts, and accounts. For more information about these ratings, see the Glossary entry for Credit Quality.

Distribution by Effective Maturity  
(% of portfolio)  
Under 1 Year 3.3%
1 - 3 Years 28.0
3 - 5 Years 24.4
5 - 7 Years 15.3
7 - 10 Years 27.5
10 - 20 Years 1.5

 

1 The expense ratio shown is from the prospectus dated January 26, 2018, and represents estimated costs for the current fiscal year. For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2018, the expense ratio was 0.02%.

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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 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: September 30, 2008, Through September 30, 2018

Initial Investment of $10,000,000


  Average Annual Total Returns  
  Periods Ended September 30, 2018  
 
        Final Value
  One Five Ten of a $10,000,000
  Year Years Years Investment
Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond        
Fund Institutional Plus Shares -0.75% 1.67% 3.25% $13,770,532
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Intermediate        
Aggregate ex Baa Index -0.98 1.55 3.09 13,554,571
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate        
Bond Index -1.22 2.16 3.77 14,482,359

 

The fund is the successor to VFTC Intermediate-Term Bond Trust (the predecessor trust), a collective trust managed by Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company, an affiliate of The Vanguard Group, Inc. The predecessor trust transferred its assets to the fund in connection with the fund’s commencement of operations on or about June 19, 2015. The performance of the fund’s Institutional Plus Shares includes the performance of the predecessor trust prior to the commencement of the fund’s operations. The performance of the predecessor trust has not been adjusted to reflect the expenses of the fund’s Institutional Plus Shares. If the performance of the predecessor trust had been adjusted to reflect the expenses of the fund’s Institutional Plus Shares, the predecessor trust’s performance would have been lower. The fund is managed with the same investment objective, strategies, policies, and risks as the predecessor trust. The predecessor trust was not an investment company and, therefore, was not subject to certain investment restrictions imposed on investment companies by the Investment Company Act of 1940. If the predecessor trust had been an investment company, its performance may have been different.

See Financial Highlights for dividend and capital gains information.

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Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): September 30, 2008, Through September 30, 2018  
        Bloomberg
        Barclays
        U.S.
        Intermediate
        Aggregate
    Institutional Plus Shares ex Baa Index
Fiscal Year Income Returns Capital Returns Total Returns Total Returns
2009 0.00% 9.36% 9.36% 9.18%
2010 0.00 7.42 7.42 7.07
2011 0.00 3.96 3.96 4.24
2012 0.00 4.58 4.58 3.83
2013 0.00 -0.76 -0.76 -0.81
2014 0.00 2.50 2.50 2.46
2015 0.56 2.43 2.99 3.16
2016 2.06 1.64 3.70 3.24
2017 1.94 -1.93 0.01 -0.04
2018 2.41 -3.16 -0.75 -0.98

 

The fund is the successor to VFTC Intermediate-Term Bond Trust (the predecessor trust), a collective trust managed by Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company, an affiliate of The Vanguard Group, Inc. The predecessor trust transferred its assets to the fund in connection with the fund’s commencement of operations on or about June 19, 2015. The performance of the fund’s Institutional Plus Shares includes the performance of the predecessor trust prior to the commencement of the fund’s operations. The performance of the predecessor trust has not been adjusted to reflect the expenses of the fund’s Institutional Plus Shares. If the performance of the predecessor trust had been adjusted to reflect the expenses of the fund’s Institutional Plus Shares, the predecessor trust’s performance would have been lower. The fund is managed with the same investment objective, strategies, policies, and risks as the predecessor trust. The predecessor trust was not an investment company and, therefore, was not subject to certain investment restrictions imposed on investment companies by the Investment Company Act of 1940. If the predecessor trust had been an investment company, its performance may have been different.

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Financial Statements

Statement of Net Assets
As of September 30, 2018

The fund reports a complete list of its holdings in regulatory filings 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 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 (52.0%)      
U. S. Government Securities (18.4%)        
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.125% 2/28/19 5,000 4,975
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.500% 2/28/19 12,000 11,959
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.250% 3/31/19 100 99
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.250% 4/30/19 900 894
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.625% 4/30/19 4,827 4,804
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.875% 5/15/19 4,400 4,357
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.875% 6/15/19 1,200 1,186
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.625% 7/31/19 1,600 1,587
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.750% 8/15/19 2,865 2,819
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 3.625% 8/15/19 80 81
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.000% 8/31/19 1,266 1,247
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.250% 8/31/19 4,100 4,049
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.000% 10/15/19 130,000 127,786
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.500% 10/31/19 200 197
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 3.375% 11/15/19 15,086 15,197
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.750% 11/30/19 3,315 3,279
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.375% 12/15/19 400 394
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.875% 12/31/19 4,010 3,969
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.000% 1/31/20 490 485
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.375% 2/15/20 98,015 96,223
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.375% 2/29/20 34,000 33,357
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.250% 2/29/20 200 199
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.375% 4/30/20 16,800 16,698
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.375% 5/31/20 344,800 336,880
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.500% 5/31/20 200,000 195,812
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.500% 5/31/20 700 697
1 United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.625% 6/30/20 57,655 56,511
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.625% 7/31/20 7,200 7,176
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.625% 8/15/20 20,000 19,931
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.125% 8/31/20 43,000 42,442
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.375% 9/30/20 1,300 1,264
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.625% 11/15/20 28,115 27,988
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.000% 11/30/20 45,670 44,863
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.000% 1/15/21 300 294
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.125% 1/31/21 406 399
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.125% 2/28/21 176,030 168,961
2 United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.250% 3/31/21 188,000 185,238
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.375% 4/15/21 10,000 9,881

 

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        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.375% 4/30/21 43,990 42,368
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.125% 7/31/21 100 95
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.125% 8/15/21 46,699 45,729
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.125% 8/31/21 62,000 58,968
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.125% 9/30/21 356,285 348,546
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.000% 10/31/21 37,000 36,035
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.000% 12/31/21 278,000 270,269
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.125% 12/31/21 103,000 100,537
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.500% 1/31/22 10,000 9,556
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.875% 2/28/22 100,000 96,672
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.750% 3/31/22 27,115 26,073
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.750% 4/30/22 58,000 55,716
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.125% 6/30/22 12,175 11,834
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.625% 8/31/22 20,000 19,044
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.750% 9/30/22 26,500 25,328
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.875% 9/30/22 7,341 7,051
3 United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.625% 11/15/22 15,050 14,288
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.125% 12/31/22 18,215 17,626
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.750% 1/31/23 1,700 1,618
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.000% 2/15/23 20,000 19,234
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.625% 2/28/23 2,000 1,975
2 United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.750% 4/30/23 150,300 149,080
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.750% 5/15/23 41,300 39,177
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.750% 5/31/23 200 198
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.375% 6/30/23 14,500 13,499
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.500% 8/15/23 19,860 19,457
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.750% 11/15/23 20,000 19,809
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.125% 11/30/23 10,000 9,605
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.750% 2/15/24 28,820 28,518
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.375% 8/15/24 2,500 2,418
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.875% 8/31/24 12,000 11,284
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.250% 11/15/24 1,500 1,438
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.000% 2/15/25 49,065 46,221
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.125% 5/15/25 3,300 3,125
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.250% 11/15/25 40,050 38,079
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.250% 11/15/27 7,000 6,553
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.750% 2/15/28 71 69
  United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.875% 5/15/28 3,072 3,026
          3,034,296
Agency Bonds and Notes (0.9%)        
4 AID-Israel 5.500% 12/4/23 250 278
4 AID-Jordan 2.578% 6/30/22 26,500 26,008
5 Federal Home Loan Banks 0.875% 10/1/18 9,750 9,750
5 Federal Home Loan Banks 1.250% 1/16/19 15,550 15,500
5 Federal Home Loan Banks 0.875% 8/5/19 18,200 17,938
6 Federal National Mortgage Assn. 1.125% 10/19/18 205 205
6 Federal National Mortgage Assn. 1.875% 9/24/26 73,500 66,762
5 Tennessee Valley Authority 2.250% 3/15/20 6,500 6,445
5 Tennessee Valley Authority 2.875% 2/1/27 1,280 1,230
          144,116
Conventional Mortgage-Backed Securities (27.9%)      
6,7 Fannie Mae Pool 2.000% 5/1/28–1/1/32 39,403 36,969
6,7,8 Fannie Mae Pool 2.500% 9/1/27–9/1/46 136,271 131,418
6,7 Fannie Mae Pool 3.000% 2/1/27–10/1/48 274,661 264,850

 

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Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
6,7,8 Fannie Mae Pool 3.500% 8/1/20–11/1/48 457,078 452,007
6,7,8 Fannie Mae Pool 4.000% 11/1/18–11/1/48 624,909 632,215
6,7,8 Fannie Mae Pool 4.500% 10/1/18–11/1/48 336,864 348,474
6,7,8 Fannie Mae Pool 5.000% 10/1/18–11/1/48 243,222 255,816
6,7 Fannie Mae Pool 5.500% 11/1/18– 6/1/40 29,797 32,132
6,7 Fannie Mae Pool 6.000% 3/1/21–11/1/39 16,531 17,937
6,7 Fannie Mae Pool 6.500% 7/1/20–9/1/39 8,023 8,765
6,7 Fannie Mae Pool 7.000% 9/1/28–12/1/38 3,404 3,791
6,7 Fannie Mae Pool 7.500% 8/1/30– 6/1/32 250 271
6,7 Fannie Mae Pool 8.000% 7/1/30–1/1/31 13 15
6,7 Fannie Mae Pool 8.500% 12/1/30 9 10
6,7 Freddie Mac Gold Pool 2.000% 9/1/28–1/1/32 6,374 5,978
6,7 Freddie Mac Gold Pool 2.500% 4/1/27–4/1/43 77,152 74,367
6,7,8 Freddie Mac Gold Pool 3.000% 8/1/26–1/1/48 409,971 397,661
6,7,8 Freddie Mac Gold Pool 3.500% 8/1/20–10/1/48 440,936 435,725
6,7,8 Freddie Mac Gold Pool 4.000% 2/1/19–10/1/48 197,178 199,546
6,7 Freddie Mac Gold Pool 4.500% 10/1/18–10/1/47 59,845 62,063
6,7 Freddie Mac Gold Pool 5.000% 10/1/18–8/1/41 14,262 15,043
6,7 Freddie Mac Gold Pool 5.500% 2/1/19–2/1/40 12,906 13,943
6,7 Freddie Mac Gold Pool 6.000% 7/1/20–5/1/40 19,802 21,645
6,7 Freddie Mac Gold Pool 6.500% 2/1/29–9/1/38 3,537 3,865
6,7 Freddie Mac Gold Pool 7.000% 5/1/28– 6/1/38 1,905 2,130
6,7 Freddie Mac Gold Pool 7.500% 3/1/30–5/1/32 231 257
6,7 Freddie Mac Gold Pool 8.000% 4/1/30–1/1/31 17 19
7 Ginnie Mae I Pool 2.500% 1/15/43– 6/15/43 969 909
7 Ginnie Mae I Pool 3.000% 9/15/42–8/15/45 38,766 37,654
7 Ginnie Mae I Pool 3.500% 1/15/42– 6/15/47 56,552 56,471
7 Ginnie Mae I Pool 4.000% 4/15/39–1/15/45 4,543 4,636
7 Ginnie Mae I Pool 4.500% 9/15/33–12/15/46 32,074 33,498
7 Ginnie Mae I Pool 5.000% 9/15/33–9/15/41 15,643 16,678
7 Ginnie Mae I Pool 5.500% 3/15/31–2/15/41 9,358 10,055
7 Ginnie Mae I Pool 6.000% 12/15/28–3/15/41 4,194 4,523
7 Ginnie Mae I Pool 6.500% 12/15/27– 6/15/38 3,480 3,782
7 Ginnie Mae I Pool 7.000% 8/15/24–11/15/31 196 207
7 Ginnie Mae I Pool 7.500% 11/15/30–3/15/32 43 47
7 Ginnie Mae I Pool 8.000% 4/15/30–10/15/30 48 53
7 Ginnie Mae I Pool 8.500% 7/15/30 19 20
7 Ginnie Mae I Pool 9.000% 5/15/21–7/15/21 2 2
7 Ginnie Mae I Pool 9.500% 10/15/19
7 Ginnie Mae II Pool 2.500% 3/20/43–12/20/46 4,860 4,554
7 Ginnie Mae II Pool 3.000% 3/20/27–10/1/48 175,646 170,777
7 Ginnie Mae II Pool 3.500% 8/20/42–11/1/48 434,539 433,262
7,8 Ginnie Mae II Pool 4.000% 2/20/34–10/1/48 235,825 240,469
7,8 Ginnie Mae II Pool 4.500% 3/20/33–10/1/48 125,883 130,255
7 Ginnie Mae II Pool 5.000% 5/20/39–10/1/48 31,151 33,243
7 Ginnie Mae II Pool 5.500% 4/20/37–3/20/41 3,712 3,932
7 Ginnie Mae II Pool 6.000% 5/20/36–10/20/41 5,274 5,721
7 Ginnie Mae II Pool 6.500% 3/20/38–7/20/39 65 72
          4,607,732
Nonconventional Mortgage-Backed Securities (4.8%)      
6,7,9 Fannie Mae Pool 3.293% 12/1/32 6 6
6,7,9 Fannie Mae Pool 4.048% 12/1/40 2,694 2,837
6,7,9 Fannie Mae Pool 4.129% 5/1/33 50 52
6,7,10 Fannie Mae Pool 4.463% 5/1/33 11 12

 

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Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
6,7,10 Fannie Mae Pool 4.535% 8/1/33 49 51
6,7,10 Fannie Mae Pool 4.644% 7/1/33 100 103
6,7 Fannie Mae REMICS 3.000% 5/25/47–9/25/48 70,081 67,525
6,7,11 Fannie Mae REMICS 2005-45 2.586% 6/25/35 1,724 1,723
6,7,11 Fannie Mae REMICS 2005-95 2.626% 11/25/35 1,854 1,868
6,7,11 Fannie Mae REMICS 2006-46 2.536% 6/25/36 6,464 6,473
6,7,11 Fannie Mae REMICS 2007-4 2.661% 2/25/37 722 727
6,7,11 Fannie Mae REMICS 2012-122 2.616% 11/25/42 2,377 2,393
6,7,11 Fannie Mae REMICS 2013-19 2.516% 9/25/41 3,158 3,158
6,7,11 Fannie Mae REMICS 2013-39 2.566% 5/25/43 3,034 3,034
6,7,11 Fannie Mae REMICS 2015-22 2.516% 4/25/45 2,523 2,527
6,7,11 Fannie Mae REMICS 2016-55 2.716% 8/25/46 5,135 5,202
6,7,11 Fannie Mae REMICS 2016-60 2.466% 9/25/46 10,168 10,148
6,7,11 Fannie Mae REMICS 2016-62 2.616% 9/25/46 10,364 10,350
6,7,11 Fannie Mae REMICS 2016-93 2.566% 12/25/46 20,633 20,593
6,7 Fannie Mae REMICS 2017-109 3.500% 11/25/45 13,211 13,184
6,7 Fannie Mae REMICS 2018-13 3.000% 3/25/48 52,895 51,333
6,7 Fannie Mae REMICS 2018-15 3.500% 10/25/44 15,392 15,331
6,7 Fannie Mae REMICS 2018-58 3.000% 8/25/48 46,458 44,256
6,7 Fannie Mae REMICS 2018-65 3.000% 9/25/48 43,024 41,047
6,7,10 Freddie Mac Non Gold Pool 3.711% 10/1/32 14 15
6,7,10 Freddie Mac Non Gold Pool 3.777% 1/1/33 7 7
6,7,10 Freddie Mac Non Gold Pool 3.961% 2/1/33 22 22
6,7 Freddie Mac Non Gold Pool 4.060% 7/1/33 1,458 1,533
6,7,9 Freddie Mac Non Gold Pool 4.082% 9/1/37 8,747 9,209
6,7,9 Freddie Mac Non Gold Pool 4.448% 7/1/35 10,741 11,325
6,7,10 Freddie Mac Non Gold Pool 4.500% 8/1/37 66 68
6,7,11 Freddie Mac REMICS 2.508% 11/15/36–8/15/43 4,751 4,766
6,7,11 Freddie Mac REMICS 2.518% 11/15/36 1,702 1,713
6,7,11 Freddie Mac REMICS 2.608% 6/15/42 868 872
6,7 Freddie Mac REMICS 3.000% 11/25/47–12/15/47 45,147 43,869
6,7 Freddie Mac REMICS 6.500% 12/15/44–11/15/47 134,449 158,487
7 Ginnie Mae REMICS 3.000% 12/20/47 21,671 21,222
7 Ginnie Mae REMICS 6.500% 6/20/47–9/20/47 54,098 62,499
7 Government National Mortgage Association        
  GNR_18-14 3.000% 12/20/47 17,019 16,583
7 Government National Mortgage Association        
  GNR_18-92 3.500% 7/20/48 46,967 46,671
7 Government National Mortgage Association        
  GNR_18-94 3.000% 7/20/48 84,671 81,967
7 Government National Mortgage Association        
  GNR_18-97 3.500% 7/20/48 46,970 46,689
          811,450
Total U.S. Government and Agency Obligations (Cost $8,809,570)   8,597,594
Asset-Backed/Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (15.8%)    
7 Ally Auto Receivables Trust 2017-5 2.220% 10/17/22 4,470 4,379
7 Ally Auto Receivables Trust 2018-1 2.350% 6/15/22 6,610 6,548
7 Ally Auto Receivables Trust 2018-1 2.530% 2/15/23 1,770 1,742
7 Ally Master Owner Trust Series 2017-3 2.040% 6/15/22 11,360 11,147
7 Ally Master Owner Trust Series 2018-2 3.290% 5/15/23 32,620 32,612
7 Ally Master Owner Trust Series 2018-2 3.300% 7/17/23 25,780 25,753
12 American Tower Trust #1 3.652% 3/23/28 370 363
7,12 Americold 2010 LLC Trust Series 2010-ARTA 4.954% 1/14/29 5,406 5,598

 

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Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
7 AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust        
  2016-1 1.810% 10/8/20 49 49
7,12 Aventura Mall Trust 2013-AVM 3.867% 12/5/32 600 607
7,12 Aventura Mall Trust 2018-AVM 4.112% 7/5/40 460 468
7,12 Avis Budget Rental Car Funding AESOP LLC        
  2017-1A 3.070% 9/20/23 2,745 2,679
7,12 Avis Budget Rental Car Funding AESOP LLC        
  2017-2A 2.970% 3/20/24 7,090 6,867
7,12 Avis Budget Rental Car Funding AESOP LLC        
  2018-1A 3.700% 9/20/24 8,180 8,143
7 Banc of America Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-UBS7 3.429% 9/15/48 280 279
7 Banc of America Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-UBS7 3.705% 9/15/48 2,305 2,306
7 Banc of America Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2017-BNK3 3.574% 2/15/50 320 314
7 BANK 2017 - BNK4 3.625% 5/15/50 580 574
7 BANK 2017 - BNK5 3.390% 6/15/60 660 640
7 BANK 2017 - BNK6 3.254% 7/15/60 1,060 1,013
7 BANK 2017 - BNK6 3.518% 7/15/60 1,110 1,083
7 BANK 2017 - BNK6 3.741% 7/15/60 440 429
7 BANK 2017 - BNK7 3.435% 9/15/60 1,040 1,006
7 BANK 2017 - BNK8 3.488% 11/15/50 2,670 2,597
7 BANK 2017 - BNK9 3.538% 11/15/54 6,665 6,497
7 BANK 2018 - BN12 4.255% 5/15/61 780 804
7 BANK 2018 - BN13 4.217% 8/15/61 770 790
7 BANK 2018 - BNK10 3.641% 2/15/61 1,030 1,028
7 BANK 2018 - BNK10 3.688% 2/15/61 2,730 2,692
7 BANK 2018 - BN14 4.185% 9/15/60 160 165
7 BANK 2018 - BN14 4.231% 9/15/60 2,101 2,108
7,12,13 Bank of America Student Loan Trust 2010-1A 3.135% 2/25/43 3,191 3,206
  Bank of Nova Scotia 1.875% 4/26/21 19,140 18,486
7 BENCHMARK 2018-B1 Mortgage Trust 3.602% 1/15/51 640 637
7 BENCHMARK 2018-B1 Mortgage Trust 3.666% 1/15/51 1,530 1,516
7 BENCHMARK 2018-B1 Mortgage Trust 3.878% 1/15/51 1,360 1,351
7 BENCHMARK 2018-B2 Mortgage Trust 3.882% 2/15/51 8,730 8,785
7 BENCHMARK 2018-B3 Mortgage Trust 4.025% 4/10/51 1,590 1,609
7 BENCHMARK 2018-B5 Mortgage Trust 4.208% 7/15/51 600 618
7 BENCHMARK 2018-B6 Mortgage Trust 4.170% 11/10/51 46 48
7 BENCHMARK 2018-B6 Mortgage Trust 4.261% 11/10/51 1,870 1,937
7 BMW Vehicle Lease Trust 2017-2 2.070% 10/20/20 7,640 7,568
7 BMW Vehicle Lease Trust 2017-2 2.190% 3/22/21 2,380 2,347
7 BMW Vehicle Owner Trust 2018-A 2.510% 6/25/24 2,530 2,486
7,13 Brazos Higher Education Authority Inc. Series        
  2005-3 2.573% 6/25/26 1,965 1,953
7,13 Brazos Higher Education Authority Inc. Series        
  2011-1 3.111% 2/25/30 1,393 1,402
7 Cabela’s Credit Card Master Note Trust        
  2015-1A 2.260% 3/15/23 1,600 1,580
7,12 Canadian Pacer Auto Receivables Trust A        
  Series 2017 2.050% 3/19/21 2,290 2,272
7,12 Canadian Pacer Auto Receivables Trust A        
  Series 2017 2.286% 1/19/22 1,600 1,575

 

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Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
7,12 Canadian Pacer Auto Receivables Trust A        
  Series 2018 3.220% 9/19/22 4,080 4,066
7 Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2016-2 1.630% 1/20/21 380 377
7 Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2016-3 1.690% 3/20/21 80 79
7,12 Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2017-1 2.020% 8/20/21 290 288
7,12 Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2017-1 2.220% 3/21/22 200 197
7,12 Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2018-1 2.790% 1/20/22 5,720 5,699
7 Capital One Multi-Asset Execution Trust        
  2015-A2 2.080% 3/15/23 6,480 6,386
7 Capital One Multi-Asset Execution Trust        
  2017-A4 1.990% 7/17/23 15,755 15,423
7,12 CARDS II Trust 2018-2A 3.047% 4/17/23 23,010 22,970
7 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2014-4 1.810% 7/15/20 1,408 1,405
7 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2015-2 1.800% 3/15/21 1,900 1,890
7 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2015-3 1.980% 2/16/21 1,430 1,420
7 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2016-1 1.880% 6/15/21 3,480 3,434
7 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2016-4 1.400% 8/15/21 4,111 4,064
7 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2016-4 1.600% 6/15/22 2,230 2,158
7 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2017-3 2.220% 11/15/22 9,990 9,738
7 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2017-4 2.110% 10/17/22 4,190 4,125
7 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2017-4 2.330% 5/15/23 2,380 2,322
7 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2018-1 2.230% 5/17/21 8,485 8,451
7 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2018-1 2.480% 11/15/22 12,130 11,981
7 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2018-1 2.640% 6/15/23 1,910 1,878
7 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2018-3 3.130% 6/15/23 19,380 19,374
7 CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2018-3 3.270% 3/15/24 9,680 9,699
7 CCUBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2017-C1 3.283% 11/15/50 5,000 4,776
7 CD 2017-CD3 Commercial Mortgage Trust 3.631% 2/10/50 1,550 1,535
7 CD 2017-CD4 Commercial Mortgage Trust 3.514% 5/10/50 880 864
7 CD 2017-CD5 Commercial Mortgage Trust 3.431% 8/15/50 1,175 1,143
7 CD 2017-CD6 Commercial Mortgage Trust 3.456% 11/13/50 535 521
7 CenterPoint Energy Transition Bond Co. IV LLC        
  2012-1 2.161% 10/15/21 4,378 4,353
7,12 CFCRE Commercial Mortgage Trust 2011-C2 5.947% 12/15/47 2,298 2,432
7 CFCRE Commercial Mortgage Trust 2016-C4 3.283% 5/10/58 3,376 3,264
7,12 Chesapeake Funding II LLC 2018-1 3.040% 4/15/30 18,420 18,352
7,12 Chrysler Capital Auto Receivables Trust        
  2015-BA 2.260% 10/15/20 1,666 1,665
7,12 Chrysler Capital Auto Receivables Trust        
  2016-AA 1.960% 1/18/22 6,150 6,130
7,12 Chrysler Capital Auto Receivables Trust        
  2016-BA 1.640% 7/15/21 1,789 1,779
7,12 Chrysler Capital Auto Receivables Trust        
  2016-BA 1.870% 2/15/22 1,700 1,673
7 Citibank Credit Card Issuance Trust 2014-A1 2.880% 1/23/23 8,576 8,534
7 Citibank Credit Card Issuance Trust 2014-A6 2.150% 7/15/21 7,580 7,546
7 Citibank Credit Card Issuance Trust 2018-A1 2.490% 1/20/23 6,710 6,612
7,12 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2012-GC8 3.683% 9/10/45 500 500
7 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2013-GC11 3.093% 4/10/46 1,527 1,501
7 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2013-GC15 3.942% 9/10/46 373 378

 

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Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
7 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-GC19 3.753% 3/10/47 157 159
7 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-GC19 4.023% 3/10/47 8,659 8,853
7 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-GC21 3.575% 5/10/47 1,304 1,311
7 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-GC21 3.855% 5/10/47 4,082 4,129
7 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-GC23 3.622% 7/10/47 1,575 1,576
7 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-GC23 3.863% 7/10/47 275 276
7 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-GC25 3.372% 10/10/47 1,640 1,616
7 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-GC25 3.635% 10/10/47 4,442 4,435
7 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-GC27 3.137% 2/10/48 20 19
7 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-GC31 3.762% 6/10/48 620 622
7 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-GC33 3.778% 9/10/58 5,062 5,091
7 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-GC36 3.349% 2/10/49 2,600 2,529
7 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2016-C1 3.209% 5/10/49 1,453 1,400
7 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2016-C2 2.575% 8/10/49 3,500 3,236
7 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2016-GC37 3.314% 4/10/49 4,000 3,888
7 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2017-C4 3.471% 10/12/50 1,070 1,039
7 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2017-P8 3.203% 9/15/50 4,200 3,979
7 Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2017-P8 3.465% 9/15/50 2,445 2,374
7 CNH Equipment Trust 2016-B 1.970% 11/15/21 3,540 3,483
7 CNH Equipment Trust 2017-B 2.170% 4/17/23 4,040 3,944
7 COMM 2012-CCRE2 Mortgage Trust 3.147% 8/15/45 666 660
7 COMM 2012-CCRE2 Mortgage Trust 3.791% 8/15/45 999 993
7 COMM 2012-CCRE3 Mortgage Trust 2.822% 10/15/45 1,695 1,658
7,12 COMM 2012-CCRE3 Mortgage Trust 3.416% 10/15/45 770 758
7 COMM 2012-CCRE4 Mortgage Trust 2.853% 10/15/45 1,366 1,329
7 COMM 2012-CCRE4 Mortgage Trust 3.251% 10/15/45 50 49
7 COMM 2012-CCRE5 Mortgage Trust 2.771% 12/10/45 580 565
7,12 COMM 2013-300P Mortgage Trust 4.353% 8/10/30 910 943
7 COMM 2013-CCRE11 Mortgage Trust 3.983% 8/10/50 2,060 2,092
7 COMM 2013-CCRE11 Mortgage Trust 4.258% 8/10/50 922 953
7 COMM 2013-CCRE12 Mortgage Trust 3.623% 10/10/46 733 737
7 COMM 2013-CCRE12 Mortgage Trust 3.765% 10/10/46 390 394
7 COMM 2013-CCRE12 Mortgage Trust 4.046% 10/10/46 2,115 2,165
7 COMM 2013-CCRE13 Mortgage Trust 4.194% 11/10/46 7,500 7,744
7 COMM 2013-CCRE8 Mortgage Trust 3.612% 6/10/46 10 10
7 COMM 2013-CCRE9 Mortgage Trust 4.375% 7/10/45 1,910 1,978

 

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Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
7,12 COMM 2013-CCRE9 Mortgage Trust 4.399% 7/10/45 2,331 2,393
7,12 COMM 2013-LC13 Mortgage Trust 3.774% 8/10/46 546 552
7 COMM 2013-LC13 Mortgage Trust 4.205% 8/10/46 160 165
7 COMM 2013-LC6 Mortgage Trust 2.941% 1/10/46 933 915
7,12 COMM 2013-SFS Mortgage Trust 3.086% 4/12/35 600 584
7,12 COMM 2014-277P Mortgage Trust 3.732% 8/10/49 100 100
7 COMM 2014-CCRE14 Mortgage Trust 3.955% 2/10/47 4,000 4,061
7 COMM 2014-CCRE14 Mortgage Trust 4.236% 2/10/47 943 975
7 COMM 2014-CCRE15 Mortgage Trust 4.074% 2/10/47 10 10
7 COMM 2014-CCRE17 Mortgage Trust 3.977% 5/10/47 1,315 1,341
7 COMM 2014-CCRE17 Mortgage Trust 4.174% 5/10/47 330 336
7 COMM 2014-CCRE18 Mortgage Trust 3.550% 7/15/47 6,360 6,345
7 COMM 2014-CCRE18 Mortgage Trust 3.828% 7/15/47 3,812 3,857
7 COMM 2014-CCRE20 Mortgage Trust 3.326% 11/10/47 1,050 1,030
7 COMM 2014-CCRE20 Mortgage Trust 3.590% 11/10/47 3,917 3,912
7 COMM 2014-CCRE21 Mortgage Trust 3.528% 12/10/47 5,500 5,471
7 COMM 2014-LC17 Mortgage Trust 3.917% 10/10/47 1,540 1,563
7 COMM 2015-CCRE22 Mortgage Trust 3.309% 3/10/48 570 560
7 COMM 2015-CCRE24 Mortgage Trust 3.432% 8/10/48 2,600 2,565
7 COMM 2015-CCRE24 Mortgage Trust 3.696% 8/10/48 2,775 2,774
7 COMM 2015-CCRE25 Mortgage Trust 3.759% 8/10/48 1,800 1,808
7 COMM 2015-CCRE27 Mortgage Trust 3.612% 10/10/48 3,386 3,365
7 COMM 2015-LC19 Mortgage Trust 3.183% 2/10/48 125 122
7,12 Core Industrial Trust 2015-TEXW 3.077% 2/10/34 179 177
7 CSAIL 2015-C4 Commercial Mortgage Trust 3.808% 11/15/48 685 688
7 CSAIL 2016-C7 Commercial Mortgage Trust 3.210% 11/15/49 3,400 3,265
7 CSAIL 2016-C7 Commercial Mortgage Trust 3.502% 11/15/49 1,660 1,619
7 CSAIL 2017-C8 Commercial Mortgage Trust 3.392% 6/15/50 1,280 1,234
7 CSAIL 2018-CX12 Commercial Mortgage Trust 4.224% 8/15/51 1,010 1,038
7,12 Daimler Trucks Retail Trust 2018-1 2.850% 7/15/21 40,570 40,496
7,12 Daimler Trucks Retail Trust 2018-1 3.030% 11/15/24 11,230 11,201
7 DBJPM 17-C6 Mortgage Trust 3.328% 6/10/50 1,790 1,730
7,12 Dell Equipment Finance Trust 2017-2 1.970% 2/24/20 4,002 3,988
7,12 Dell Equipment Finance Trust 2017-2 2.190% 10/24/22 3,500 3,462
7,12 Dell Equipment Finance Trust 2018-1 2.970% 10/22/20 12,207 12,210
7 Discover Card Execution Note Trust 2012-A6 1.670% 1/18/22 13,138 13,025
7 Discover Card Execution Note Trust 2015-A4 2.190% 4/17/23 9,500 9,335
7,12 DLL Securitization Trust Series 2018-1 3.100% 4/18/22 12,465 12,438
12 DNB Boligkreditt AS 2.500% 3/28/22 20,740 20,160
7,11,12 Edsouth Indenture No 9 LLC 2015-1 3.016% 10/25/56 342 342
7,12 Enterprise Fleet Financing LLC Series 2015-1 1.740% 9/20/20 106 106
7,12 Enterprise Fleet Financing LLC Series 2015-2 2.090% 2/22/21 3,437 3,429
7,12 Enterprise Fleet Financing LLC Series 2016-1 2.080% 9/20/21 8,380 8,342
6,7 Fannie Mae Grantor Trust 2017-T1 2.898% 6/25/27 6,932 6,551
7 Fifth Third Auto Trust 2017-1 2.030% 7/15/24 13,110 12,767
7,11 First National Master Note Trust 2017-1 2.558% 4/18/22 8,010 8,016
7,11 First National Master Note Trust 2017-2 2.598% 10/16/23 6,240 6,246
7 Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2017-B 2.030% 12/15/20 9,280 9,201
7 Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2017-B 2.170% 2/15/21 4,700 4,641
7 Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2018-A 2.930% 6/15/21 41,660 41,554
7 Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2018-A 3.050% 8/15/21 3,820 3,804
7 Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2018-B 3.190% 12/15/21 12,010 12,018
7 Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2018-B 3.300% 2/15/22 4,230 4,232
7,12 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2014-REV1 2.260% 11/15/25 4,695 4,680

 

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Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
7,12 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2014-REV2 2.310% 4/15/26 920 914
7,12 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2015-REV2 2.440% 1/15/27 10,500 10,371
7,12 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2016-REV1 2.310% 8/15/27 13,230 12,942
7,12 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2016-REV2 2.030% 12/15/27 16,832 16,290
7,12 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2017-1 2.620% 8/15/28 39,440 38,417
7,12 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2017-2 2.360% 3/15/29 16,690 16,016
7 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2017-B 1.870% 9/15/22 7,500 7,286
7,12 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2018-2 3.470% 1/15/30 17,320 17,284
7 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2018-A 3.030% 11/15/22 26,760 26,730
7,12 Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2018-REV1 3.190% 7/15/31 7,750 7,545
7 Ford Credit Floorplan Master Owner Trust A        
  Series 2015-5 2.390% 8/15/22 9,260 9,122
7 Ford Credit Floorplan Master Owner Trust A        
  Series 2017-1 2.070% 5/15/22 38,780 38,154
7 Ford Credit Floorplan Master Owner Trust A        
  Series 2017-2 2.160% 9/15/22 18,630 18,291
7 Ford Credit Floorplan Master Owner Trust A        
  Series 2018-1 2.950% 5/15/23 47,010 46,666
7 GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2016-1 1.790% 3/20/20 3,134 3,132
7 GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2017-1 2.260% 8/20/20 5,000 4,965
7 GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2017-2 2.180% 6/21/21 3,720 3,678
7 GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2017-3 1.720% 1/21/20 13,461 13,409
7 GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2017-3 2.010% 11/20/20 7,410 7,347
7 GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2017-3 2.120% 9/20/21 1,970 1,942
7 GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2018-1 2.610% 1/20/21 38,580 38,329
7 GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2018-2 3.060% 6/21/21 19,200 19,209
7 GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2018-3 3.180% 6/21/21 8,620 8,616
7 GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2018-3 3.300% 7/20/22 1,700 1,700
7,12 GM Financial Consumer Automobile 2017-3 2.130% 3/16/23 4,430 4,306
7 GM Financial Consumer Automobile 2018-2 3.020% 12/18/23 4,430 4,390
7 GM Financial Consumer Automobile 2018-3 3.020% 5/16/23 18,400 18,355
7 GM Financial Consumer Automobile 2018-3 3.160% 1/16/24 5,820 5,799
7,11,12 GMF Floorplan Owner Revolving Trust 2017-1 2.728% 1/18/22 220 221
7,12 GMF Floorplan Owner Revolving Trust 2017-2 2.130% 7/15/22 21,600 21,105
7,12 GMF Floorplan Owner Revolving Trust 2018-2 3.130% 3/15/23 29,050 28,947
7,12 Golden Credit Card Trust 2015-2A 2.020% 4/15/22 695 683
7,12 Golden Credit Card Trust 2016-5A 1.600% 9/15/21 25,500 25,179
7,11,12 Golden Credit Card Trust 2017-4A 2.678% 7/15/24 19,310 19,332
7,12 Golden Credit Card Trust 2018-1A 2.620% 1/15/23 20,690 20,384
7,12 Golden Credit Card Trust 2018-4A 3.440% 10/15/25 29,270 29,156
7,12,13 Gosforth Funding GFUND_18-1A PLC 2.714% 8/25/60 14,500 14,503
7,12 GreatAmerica Leasing Receivables Funding        
  LLC Series 2015-1 2.020% 6/21/21 25 25
7,12 GreatAmerica Leasing Receivables Funding        
  LLC Series 2016-1 1.990% 4/20/22 4,320 4,290
7,12 GreatAmerica Leasing Receivables Funding        
  LLC Series 2018-1 2.600% 6/15/21 5,670 5,618
7,12 GreatAmerica Leasing Receivables Funding        
  LLC Series 2018-1 2.830% 6/17/24 3,690 3,640
7 GS Mortgage Securities Corporation II        
  2015-GC30 3.382% 5/10/50 5 5
7,12 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2012-GC6 4.948% 1/10/45 233 241
7 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2013-GCJ12 3.135% 6/10/46 1,055 1,041
7 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2013-GCJ14 3.955% 8/10/46 30 31

 

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Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
7 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2014-GC20 3.998% 4/10/47 5,545 5,656
7 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2014-GC24 3.931% 9/10/47 210 213
7 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2014-GC24 4.162% 9/10/47 140 140
7 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2014-GC26 3.364% 11/10/47 1,680 1,646
7 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2014-GC26 3.629% 11/10/47 3,630 3,629
7 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2015-GC28 3.136% 2/10/48 90 88
7 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2015-GC28 3.396% 2/10/48 40 39
7 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2015-GC32 3.498% 7/10/48 7,000 6,913
7 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2015-GC34 3.506% 10/10/48 2,520 2,478
7 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2016-GS3 2.850% 10/10/49 50 47
7 GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2018-GS10 4.155% 7/10/51 1,140 1,164
7,12 Hertz Vehicle Financing II LP 2015-3A 2.670% 9/25/21 2,790 2,740
7,12 Hertz Vehicle Financing II LP 2016-2A 2.950% 3/25/22 4,141 4,074
7,12 Hertz Vehicle Financing II LP 2016-3A 2.270% 7/25/20 1,600 1,590
7,12 Hertz Vehicle Financing II LP 2018-1A 3.290% 2/25/24 2,760 2,682
7,12 Hertz Vehicle Financing LLC 2017-2A 3.290% 10/25/23 2,111 2,056
7,12 Hilton USA Trust 2016-HHV 3.719% 11/5/38 30 29
7,12,13 Holmes Master Issuer PLC 2018-1 2.699% 10/15/54 17,850 17,825
7,12,13 Holmes Master Issuer PLC 2018-2A 2.561% 10/15/54 16,620 16,553
7 Honda Auto Receivables 2017-2 Owner Trust 1.870% 9/15/23 10,000 9,746
7 Honda Auto Receivables 2017-3 Owner Trust 1.980% 11/20/23 6,490 6,323
7 Honda Auto Receivables 2017-4 Owner Trust 2.050% 11/22/21 15,530 15,340
7 Honda Auto Receivables 2017-4 Owner Trust 2.210% 3/21/24 2,330 2,282
7 Honda Auto Receivables 2018-2 Owner Trust 3.010% 5/18/22 10,180 10,162
7 Honda Auto Receivables 2018-3 Owner Trust 2.950% 8/22/22 13,680 13,637
7 Honda Auto Receivables 2018-3 Owner Trust 3.070% 11/21/24 5,020 4,994
7,12 Houston Galleria Mall Trust 2015-HGLR 3.087% 3/5/37 13,080 12,551
7,12 Hyundai Auto Lease Securitization Trust 2017-B 2.130% 3/15/21 8,250 8,167
7,12 Hyundai Auto Lease Securitization Trust 2017-C 2.120% 2/16/21 12,600 12,502
7,12 Hyundai Auto Lease Securitization Trust 2017-C 2.210% 9/15/21 2,480 2,451
7,12 Hyundai Auto Lease Securitization Trust 2018-A 2.810% 4/15/21 25,590 25,498
7,12 Hyundai Auto Lease Securitization Trust 2018-A 2.890% 3/15/22 8,100 8,044
7,12 Hyundai Auto Lease Securitization Trust 2018-B 3.040% 10/15/21 22,090 22,052
7,12 Hyundai Auto Lease Securitization Trust 2018-B 3.200% 6/15/22 2,830 2,825
7 Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2017-B 1.960% 2/15/23 11,040 10,735
7,12 Hyundai Floorplan Master Owner Trust        
  Series 2016-1A 1.810% 3/15/21 2,090 2,082
7,13 Illinois Student Assistance Commission        
  Series 2010-1 3.385% 4/25/22 162 162
7,12 Irvine Core Office Trust 2013-IRV 3.279% 5/15/48 2,184 2,154
7 John Deere Owner Trust 2015-B 1.780% 6/15/22 540 539
7 John Deere Owner Trust 2016-B 1.490% 5/15/23 1,000 985
7 John Deere Owner Trust 2017-A 2.110% 12/15/23 7,650 7,554
7 John Deere Owner Trust 2017-B 2.110% 7/15/24 7,960 7,709
7 John Deere Owner Trust 2018-B 3.080% 11/15/22 23,700 23,650
7 John Deere Owner Trust 2018-B 3.230% 6/16/25 7,540 7,508
7,12 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2011-C3 4.717% 2/15/46 3,133 3,216
7,12 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2011-C5 5.586% 8/15/46 1,383 1,441
7,12 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2011-RR1 4.717% 3/16/46 9,826 10,018
7 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2012-C6 3.507% 5/15/45 401 402

 

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Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
7 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2012-C8 2.829% 10/15/45 975 954
7,12 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2012-C8 3.424% 10/15/45 1,523 1,506
7,12 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2012-HSBC 3.093% 7/5/32 1,686 1,672
7 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2013-C10 2.875% 12/15/47 431 422
7 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2013-C13 3.994% 1/15/46 2,948 3,012
7 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2013-C16 3.674% 12/15/46 499 503
7 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2013-C16 3.881% 12/15/46 185 188
7 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2013-C16 4.166% 12/15/46 1,250 1,287
7 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2013-LC11 2.960% 4/15/46 2,807 2,750
7 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2014-C20 3.461% 7/15/47 210 211
7 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2016-JP3 2.870% 8/15/49 1,480 1,390
7 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2016-JP4 3.648% 12/15/49 470 465
7 JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage        
  Securities Trust 2017-JP6 3.490% 7/15/50 750 733
7 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2013-C12 3.363% 7/15/45 1,598 1,587
7 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2013-C12 3.664% 7/15/45 3,137 3,162
7 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2013-C12 4.171% 7/15/45 1,465 1,484
7 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2013-C14 3.761% 8/15/46 386 390
7 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2013-C14 4.133% 8/15/46 490 504
7 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2013-C15 3.659% 11/15/45 196 198
7 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2013-C17 4.199% 1/15/47 4,238 4,369
7 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2014-C18 4.079% 2/15/47 5,130 5,252
7 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2014-C18 4.439% 2/15/47 450 462
7 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2014-C19 3.997% 4/15/47 10 10
7 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2014-C21 3.493% 8/15/47 190 189
7 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2014-C24 3.639% 11/15/47 1,090 1,090
7 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2014-C26 3.231% 1/15/48 90 88
7 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2014-C26 3.494% 1/15/48 10 10

 

54


 

Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
7 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2015-C27 3.179% 2/15/48 110 107
7 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2015-C30 3.822% 7/15/48 20 20
7 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2015-C31 3.801% 8/15/48 150 151
7 JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2015-C32 3.598% 11/15/48 3,403 3,374
7 JPMCC Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2017-JP5 3.723% 3/15/50 6,180 6,146
7 JPMCC Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2017-JP7 3.454% 9/15/50 895 871
7 JPMDB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2017-C7 3.409% 10/15/50 660 641
7 JPMDB Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2018-C8 4.211% 6/15/51 60 62
7,12,13 Lanark Master Issuer plc 2018-1A 2.730% 12/22/69 4,708 4,703
7,11,12 Lanark Master Issuer plc 2018-2A 2.846% 12/22/69 10,560 10,553
7,12 Master Credit Card Trust II Series 2017-1A 2.260% 7/21/21 20,000 19,789
7,11,12 Master Credit Card Trust II Series 2018-1A 2.672% 7/22/24 8,120 8,101
7 Mercedes-Benz Auto Lease Trust 2018-A 2.200% 4/15/20 7,565 7,549
7 Mercedes-Benz Auto Lease Trust 2018-A 2.410% 2/16/21 12,140 12,066
7 Mercedes-Benz Auto Lease Trust 2018-A 2.510% 10/16/23 1,210 1,197
7 Mercedes-Benz Auto Receivables Trust 2018-1 3.150% 10/15/24 6,700 6,689
7,12 MMAF Equipment Finance LLC 2012-AA 1.980% 6/10/32 39 39
7,12 MMAF Equipment Finance LLC 2013-AA 2.570% 6/9/33 963 961
7,12 MMAF Equipment Finance LLC 2015-AA 2.490% 2/19/36 570 559
7,12 MMAF Equipment Finance LLC 2016-AA 2.210% 12/15/32 6,130 5,870
7,12 MMAF Equipment Finance LLC 2017-A 2.410% 8/16/24 6,180 6,006
7,12 MMAF Equipment Finance LLC 2017-A 2.680% 7/16/27 3,090 2,972
7,12 MMAF Equipment Finance LLC 2018-A 3.390% 1/10/25 4,730 4,734
7,12 MMAF Equipment Finance LLC 2018-A 3.610% 3/10/42 2,580 2,573
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2012-C5 3.176% 8/15/45 2,605 2,584
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2012-C5 3.792% 8/15/45 1,116 1,108
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2012-C6 2.858% 11/15/45 1,266 1,241
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2013-C10 4.219% 7/15/46 5,387 5,499
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2013-C11 3.960% 8/15/46 1,290 1,302
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2013-C11 4.303% 8/15/46 190 195
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2013-C12 3.824% 10/15/46 420 425
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2013-C12 4.259% 10/15/46 150 154
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2013-C13 4.039% 11/15/46 85 87
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2014-C14 4.064% 2/15/47 400 408
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2014-C14 4.384% 2/15/47 200 205

 

55


 

Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2014-C15 3.773% 4/15/47 2,240 2,256
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2014-C15 4.051% 4/15/47 5,400 5,521
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  LynchTrust 2014-C16 3.892% 6/15/47 3,243 3,291
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2014-C16 4.094% 6/15/47 330 332
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2014-C17 3.741% 8/15/47 570 573
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2014-C18 3.923% 10/15/47 60 61
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2014-C19 3.326% 12/15/47 120 119
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  LynchTrust 2014-C19 3.526% 12/15/47 10 10
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2015-C20 3.069% 2/15/48 150 148
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2015-C20 3.249% 2/15/48 60 58
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2015-C23 3.451% 7/15/50 11,030 10,791
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2015-C23 3.719% 7/15/50 5,200 5,206
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2015-C24 3.732% 5/15/48 780 780
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2015-C25 3.372% 10/15/48 2,500 2,426
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2015-C25 3.635% 10/15/48 4,458 4,427
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2016-C29 3.325% 5/15/49 450 436
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2016-C32 3.459% 12/15/49 5,600 5,438
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2016-C32 3.720% 12/15/49 3,042 3,017
7 Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill        
  Lynch Trust 2017-C34 3.536% 11/15/52 1,250 1,214
7,12 Morgan Stanley Capital I Trust 2012-STAR 3.201% 8/5/34 2,251 2,221
7 Morgan Stanley Capital I Trust 2015-UBS8 3.809% 12/15/48 7,050 7,040
7 Morgan Stanley Capital I Trust 2016-UBS9 3.594% 3/15/49 5,000 4,950
7 Morgan Stanley Capital I Trust 2017-HR2 3.509% 12/15/50 1,260 1,242
7 Morgan Stanley Capital I Trust 2017-HR2 3.587% 12/15/50 4,257 4,155
7,11,12 Motor plc 2017 1A 2.746% 9/25/24 17,400 17,385
7,12 MSBAM Commercial Mortgage Securities        
  Trust 2012-CKSV 3.277% 10/15/30 110 106
7,11 Navient Student Loan Trust 2014-8 2.656% 4/25/23 2,733 2,736
7,11 Navient Student Loan Trust 2015-3 2.866% 6/26/56 5,164 5,186
7,11,12 Navient Student Loan Trust 2016-2 3.266% 6/25/65 1,650 1,666
7,11,12 Navient Student Loan Trust 2016-3 3.066% 6/25/65 2,093 2,103
7,11,12 Navient Student Loan Trust 2016-6A 2.966% 3/25/66 7,450 7,517
7,11,12 Navient Student Loan Trust 2017-1 2.966% 7/26/66 28,980 29,115
7,11,12 Navient Student Loan Trust 2017-3A 2.816% 7/26/66 5,175 5,212
7,11,12 Navient Student Loan Trust 2017-4A 2.716% 9/27/66 6,410 6,438

 

56


 

Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
7,11,12 Navient Student Loan Trust 2018-1 2.406% 3/25/67 1,260 1,260
7,11,12 Navient Student Loan Trust 2018-1 2.566% 3/25/67 2,760 2,759
7,11,12 Navient Student Loan Trust 2018-1 2.936% 3/25/67 3,410 3,426
7,11,12 Navistar Financial Dealer Note Master        
  Trust II 2017-1A 2.996% 6/27/22 7,510 7,538
7,12 NextGear Floorplan Master Owner Trust        
  2016-1A 2.740% 4/15/21 3,380 3,377
7 Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2017-A 1.910% 4/15/20 18,650 18,544
7 Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2017-A 2.040% 9/15/22 5,240 5,189
7 Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2017-B 2.050% 9/15/20 9,350 9,271
7 Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2017-B 2.170% 12/15/21 2,610 2,576
7 Nissan Auto Receivables 2016-A Owner Trust 1.590% 7/15/22 10,250 10,046
7 Nissan Auto Receivables 2017-C Owner Trust 2.120% 4/18/22 21,970 21,642
7 Nissan Auto Receivables 2017-C Owner Trust 2.280% 2/15/24 12,380 12,084
7 Nissan Auto Receivables 2018-B Owner Trust 3.160% 12/16/24 6,700 6,668
7,11 Nissan Master Owner Trust Receivables Series        
  2017-C 2.478% 10/17/22 19,325 19,361
7,12 Palisades Center Trust 2016-PLSD 2.713% 4/13/33 1,250 1,219
7,11,12 Pepper Residential Securities Trust        
  2017A-A1UA 3.233% 3/10/58 208 208
7,11,12 Pepper Residential Securities Trust        
  2018A-A1UA 3.089% 3/12/47 59 59
7,11,12 Pepper Residential Securities Trust        
  2019A-A1U1 2.489% 10/12/18 690 690
7,11,12 Pepper Residential Securities Trust        
  2020A-A1U1 2.658% 3/16/19 670 667
7,11,12 Pepper Residential Securities Trust        
  2021-A1U 3.038% 1/16/60 1,653 1,653
7,12,13 Permanent Master Issuer PLC 2018-1A 2.747% 7/15/58 9,060 9,064
7,12 PFS Financing Corp. 2017-B 2.220% 7/15/22 630 617
7,11,12 PFS Financing Corp. 2017-C 2.628% 10/15/21 840 840
7,12 PFS Financing Corp. 2017-D 2.400% 10/17/22 880 864
7,12 PFS Financing Corp. 2018-D 3.190% 4/17/23 440 437
7,11,12 PHEAA Student Loan Trust 2016-2A 3.166% 11/25/65 5,378 5,448
7 Public Service New Hampshire Funding LLC        
  2018-1 3.094% 2/1/26 7,220 7,198
7 Public Service New Hampshire Funding LLC        
  2018-1 3.506% 8/1/28 2,470 2,461
7 Public Service New Hampshire Funding LLC        
  2018-1 3.814% 2/1/35 2,350 2,348
7,11,12 Resimac Premier Series 2016-1A 3.523% 10/10/47 1,264 1,272
7,11,12 Resimac Premier Series 2017-1A 3.081% 9/11/48 2,701 2,702
7,11,12 Resimac Premier Series 2018-1A 2.933% 11/10/49 1,300 1,298
7,11,12 Resimac Premier Series 2018-1NCA 2.987% 12/16/59 2,500 2,499
7 Royal Bank of Canada 1.875% 2/5/21 5,400 5,311
7 Santander Drive Auto Receivables Trust 2017-1 1.770% 9/15/20 346 346
7 Santander Drive Auto Receivables Trust 2017-3 1.670% 6/15/20 428 427
7 Santander Drive Auto Receivables Trust 2017-3 1.870% 6/15/21 330 329
7 Santander Drive Auto Receivables Trust 2018-1 2.100% 11/16/20 411 410
7 Santander Drive Auto Receivables Trust 2018-1 2.320% 8/16/21 170 169
7,12 Santander Retail Auto Lease Trust 2017-A 2.370% 1/20/22 2,520 2,485
7,12 Santander Retail Auto Lease Trust 2018-A 2.930% 5/20/21 17,750 17,682
7,12 Santander Retail Auto Lease Trust 2018-A 3.060% 4/20/22 6,220 6,182

 

57


 

Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
7,12 Securitized Term Auto Receivables Trust        
  2016-1A 1.524% 3/25/20 2,018 2,010
7,12 Securitized Term Auto Receivables Trust        
  2016-1A 1.794% 2/25/21 3,980 3,931
7,12 Securitized Term Auto Receivables Trust        
  2017-1A 1.890% 8/25/20 12,035 11,981
7,12 Securitized Term Auto Receivables Trust        
  2017-1A 2.209% 6/25/21 4,600 4,547
7,12 Securitized Term Auto Receivables Trust        
  2017-2A 2.040% 4/26/21 11,190 11,034
7,12 Securitized Term Auto Receivables Trust        
  2017-2A 2.289% 3/25/22 3,750 3,652
7,12 Securitized Term Auto Receivables Trust        
  2018-1A 3.068% 1/25/22 8,690 8,626
7,12 Securitized Term Auto Receivables Trust        
  2018-1A 3.298% 11/25/22 3,100 3,070
7 SMART ABS Series 2016-2US Trust 2.050% 12/14/22 910 884
7,12 SMB Private Education Loan Trust 2016-A 2.700% 5/15/31 325 318
7,11,12 SMB Private Education Loan Trust 2016-B 3.608% 2/17/32 242 248
7,11,12 SMB Private Education Loan Trust 2016-C 3.258% 9/15/34 400 405
7,11,12 SMB Private Education Loan Trust 2017-A 3.058% 9/15/34 450 453
7,12 SMB Private Education Loan Trust 2017-B 2.820% 10/15/35 520 504
7,12 SMB Private Education Loan Trust 2018-A 3.500% 2/15/36 1,890 1,874
7,12 SMB Private Education Loan Trust 2018-B 3.600% 1/15/37 840 838
7,12 SMB Private Education Loan Trust 2018-C 3.630% 11/15/35 1,390 1,389
7,12 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2017-A LLC 2.400% 3/26/40 90 87
7,12 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2017-B LLC 2.740% 5/25/40 440 432
7,12 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2017-D LLC 2.650% 9/25/40 340 329
7,12 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2017-E LLC 1.860% 11/26/40 684 674
7,12 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2017-E LLC 2.720% 11/26/40 250 242
7,12 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2017-F LLC 2.050% 1/25/41 780 772
7,12 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2017-F LLC 2.840% 1/25/41 390 378
7,12 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2018-A LLC 2.390% 2/25/42 258 256
7,12 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2018-A LLC 2.950% 2/25/42 130 126
7,12 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2018-B LLC 3.340% 8/25/47 1,070 1,059
7,12 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2018-C LLC 3.590% 1/25/48 1,850 1,846
7,12 SoFi Professional Loan Program 2018-D LLC 3.600% 2/25/48 1,100 1,096
7 Synchrony Card Issuance Trust 2018-A1 3.380% 9/15/24 10,630 10,636
7 Synchrony Credit Card Master Note Trust        
  2015-1 2.370% 3/15/23 3,355 3,321
7 Synchrony Credit Card Master Note Trust        
  2015-4 2.380% 9/15/23 7,153 7,038
7 Synchrony Credit Card Master Note Trust        
  2016-2 2.210% 5/15/24 6,820 6,635
7 Synchrony Credit Card Master Note Trust        
  2016-3 1.580% 9/15/22 16,820 16,604
7 Synchrony Credit Card Master Note Trust        
  2017-2 2.620% 10/15/25 10,670 10,342
7 Synchrony Credit Card Master Note Trust        
  Series 2012-2 2.220% 1/15/22 1,997 1,995
7,12 TMSQ 2014-1500 Mortgage Trust 3.680% 10/10/36 100 98
7 Toyota Auto Receivables 2016-B Owner Trust 1.520% 8/16/21 2,470 2,437
7 Toyota Auto Receivables 2017-D Owner Trust 2.120% 2/15/23 955 930
7 Toyota Auto Receivables 2018-A Owner Trust 2.350% 5/16/22 8,430 8,336

 

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Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
7 Toyota Auto Receivables 2018-A Owner Trust 2.520% 5/15/23 540 530
7 Toyota Auto Receivables 2018-B Owner Trust 3.110% 11/15/23 4,160 4,147
7 Toyota Auto Receivables 2018-C Owner Trust 3.020% 12/15/22 23,180 23,129
7 Toyota Auto Receivables 2018-C Owner Trust 3.130% 2/15/24 10,070 10,035
7,12 Trafigura Securitisation Finance plc 2017-1A 2.470% 12/15/20 1,590 1,559
7,12 Trafigura Securitisation Finance plc 2018-1A 3.730% 3/15/22 1,130 1,130
7 UBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2012-C1 4.171% 5/10/45 273 276
7 UBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2017-C7 3.679% 12/15/50 1,235 1,217
7,12 UBS-BAMLL Trust 2012-WRM 3.663% 6/10/30 4,409 4,349
7 UBS-Barclays Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2012-C4 2.850% 12/10/45 1,499 1,464
7 UBS-Barclays Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2013-C6 3.244% 4/10/46 220 218
7 UBS-Barclays Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2013-C6 3.469% 4/10/46 150 148
7 USAA Auto Owner Trust 2017-1 1.880% 9/15/22 8,440 8,290
7,12 Verizon Owner Trust 2016-2A 1.680% 5/20/21 7,160 7,109
7,12 Verizon Owner Trust 2017-1A 2.060% 9/20/21 11,000 10,893
7,12 Verizon Owner Trust 2017-2A 1.920% 12/20/21 30,260 29,860
7,12 Verizon Owner Trust 2017-3 2.060% 4/20/22 10,080 9,923
7,12 Verizon Owner Trust 2018-1 2.820% 9/20/22 34,730 34,495
7,12 VNDO 2012-6AVE Mortgage Trust 2.996% 11/15/30 2,836 2,780
7 Volkswagen Auto Loan Enhanced Trust 2018-1 3.020% 11/21/22 12,330 12,301
7 Volkswagen Auto Loan Enhanced Trust 2018-1 3.150% 7/22/24 5,610 5,592
7,11,12 Volvo Financial Equipment Master Owner        
  Trust 2017-A 2.658% 11/15/22 3,320 3,329
7 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2012-LC5 2.918% 10/15/45 959 941
7 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2012-LC5 3.539% 10/15/45 626 620
7 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2013-LC12 3.928% 7/15/46 455 461
7 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2013-LC12 4.218% 7/15/46 311 320
7 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-LC16 3.548% 8/15/50 30 30
7 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-LC16 3.817% 8/15/50 10 10
7 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2014-LC18 3.405% 12/15/47 10 10
7 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-C26 3.166% 2/15/48 1,565 1,520
7 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-C27 3.190% 2/15/48 120 118
7 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-C27 3.451% 2/15/48 440 434
7 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-C29 3.637% 6/15/48 3,130 3,119
7 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-C30 3.664% 9/15/58 2,120 2,114
7 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-LC22 3.839% 9/15/58 4,415 4,452
7 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2015-SG1 3.789% 9/15/48 3,480 3,492

 

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Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
7 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2016-C32 3.560% 1/15/59 510 504
7 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2016-C37 3.525% 12/15/49 470 460
7 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2016-C37 3.794% 12/15/49 380 379
7 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2017-C38 3.453% 7/15/50 1,285 1,251
7 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2017-C39 3.157% 9/15/50 30 28
7 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2017-C39 3.418% 9/15/50 2,505 2,424
7 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2017-C40 3.581% 10/15/50 3,040 2,977
7 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2017-C41 3.472% 11/15/50 1,790 1,736
7 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2017-C42 3.589% 12/15/50 6,685 6,537
7 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2017-RC1 3.631% 1/15/60 396 391
7 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2018-C43 4.012% 3/15/51 1,800 1,816
7 Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust        
  2018-C46 4.152% 8/15/51 2,030 2,074
12 Westpac Banking Corp. 2.100% 2/25/21 950 924
7,12 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2011-C3 4.375% 3/15/44 1,366 1,394
7 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2012-C7 3.431% 6/15/45 1,199 1,199
7 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2012-C7 4.090% 6/15/45 683 691
7 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2012-C8 3.001% 8/15/45 233 230
7 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2012-C9 2.870% 11/15/45 2,705 2,651
7 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2012-C9 3.388% 11/15/45 633 623
7 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2013-C15 3.720% 8/15/46 526 531
7 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2013-C15 4.153% 8/15/46 255 262
7 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2013-C17 3.558% 12/15/46 180 181
7 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2013-C18 3.676% 12/15/46 666 672
7 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2013-C18 4.162% 12/15/46 1,665 1,712
7 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2014-C19 3.829% 3/15/47 2,540 2,554
7 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2014-C19 4.101% 3/15/47 1,215 1,247
7 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2014-C20 3.995% 5/15/47 30 31
7 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2014-C21 3.410% 8/15/47 20 20
7 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2014-C21 3.678% 8/15/47 80 80
7 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2014-C23 3.650% 10/15/57 5,500 5,482
7 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2014-C23 3.917% 10/15/57 925 939
7 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2014-C24 3.607% 11/15/47 3,030 3,017
7 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2014-LC14 3.766% 3/15/47 2,570 2,580
7 WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2014-LC14 4.045% 3/15/47 2,570 2,629
7,12 Wheels SPV 2 LLC 2016-1A 1.870% 5/20/25 865 856
7 World Financial Network Credit Card Master        
  Note Trust Series 2015-B 2.550% 6/17/24 1,520 1,500
7 World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2014-B 1.680% 12/15/20 2,853 2,848
7 World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2015-B 1.840% 1/17/22 15,000 14,881
7 World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2016-A 1.770% 9/15/21 1,337 1,330
7 World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2016-B 1.300% 2/15/22 6,479 6,402
7 World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2018-A 2.730% 2/15/24 3,590 3,535

 

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Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
7 World Omni Automobile Lease Securitization        
  Trust 2017-A 2.320% 8/15/22 4,670 4,620
7 World Omni Automobile Lease Securitization        
  Trust 2018-A 2.830% 7/15/21 22,380 22,282
7 World Omni Automobile Lease Securitization        
  Trust 2018-A 2.940% 5/15/23 6,720 6,676
7 World Omni Automobile Lease Securitization        
  Trust 2018-B 3.190% 12/15/21 16,800 16,794
7 World Omni Automobile Lease Securitization        
  Trust 2018-B 3.300% 3/15/24 3,490 3,487
Total Asset-Backed/Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (Cost $2,646,771)   2,617,237
Corporate Bonds (22.6%)        
Finance (14.0%)        
  Banking (11.7%)        
  American Express Co. 3.700% 8/3/23 37,405 37,246
  American Express Co. 3.000% 10/30/24 18,265 17,445
12 ASB Bank Ltd. 3.750% 6/14/23 10,575 10,486
  Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. 2.000% 11/16/18 3,880 3,878
  Banco Santander SA 4.379% 4/12/28 2,585 2,452
7 Bank of America Corp. 2.369% 7/21/21 3,005 2,952
7 Bank of America Corp. 2.328% 10/1/21 9,260 9,058
  Bank of America Corp. 3.004% 12/20/23 25,315 24,491
7 Bank of America Corp. 3.550% 3/5/24 142,215 140,520
7 Bank of America Corp. 3.366% 1/23/26 35,445 34,082
7 Bank of America Corp. 3.824% 1/20/28 28,026 27,286
  Bank of New York Mellon Corp. 4.150% 2/1/21 2,000 2,040
  Bank of New York Mellon Corp. 2.050% 5/3/21 3,685 3,572
  Bank of New York Mellon Corp. 3.450% 8/11/23 17,780 17,642
  Bank of New York Mellon Corp. 3.400% 5/15/24 2,100 2,070
  Bank of New York Mellon Corp. 3.000% 2/24/25 700 671
  Bank of Nova Scotia 2.150% 7/14/20 945 929
12 Banque Federative du Credit Mutuel SA 2.750% 10/15/20 8,345 8,206
12 Banque Federative du Credit Mutuel SA 2.500% 4/13/21 13,875 13,472
12 Banque Federative du Credit Mutuel SA 2.700% 7/20/22 37,330 35,906
12 Banque Federative du Credit Mutuel SA 3.750% 7/20/23 48,800 48,489
12 BNP Paribas SA 3.375% 1/9/25 18,980 17,958
12 BNP Paribas SA 4.400% 8/14/28 16,125 15,791
  BPCE SA 2.500% 12/10/18 8,325 8,325
  Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce 3.500% 9/13/23 17,320 17,225
  Comerica Inc. 3.700% 7/31/23 26,370 26,268
  Commonwealth Bank of Australia 2.300% 3/12/20 1,500 1,478
12 Commonwealth Bank of Australia 5.000% 3/19/20 3,300 3,373
  Commonwealth Bank of Australia 2.400% 11/2/20 3,090 3,022
12 Commonwealth Bank of Australia 2.000% 9/6/21 11,329 10,859
12 Commonwealth Bank of Australia 2.750% 3/10/22 10,060 9,765
12 Commonwealth Bank of Australia 3.450% 3/16/23 1,930 1,911
12 Commonwealth Bank of Australia 3.150% 9/19/27 12,000 11,166
  Cooperatieve Rabobank UA 2.250% 1/14/19 2,540 2,538
  Cooperatieve Rabobank UA 2.750% 1/10/23 16,410 15,763
12 Cooperatieve Rabobank UA 3.875% 9/26/23 19,200 19,147
  Credit Suisse AG 3.000% 10/29/21 3,000 2,956
12 Danske Bank A/S 2.750% 9/17/20 1,155 1,135
  Fifth Third Bank 2.250% 6/14/21 6,133 5,951

 

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Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
  First Republic Bank 2.500% 6/6/22 20,500 19,684
  Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 2.550% 10/23/19 13,317 13,260
  Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 2.300% 12/13/19 24,740 24,523
  Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 2.600% 12/27/20 9,715 9,559
  Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 5.750% 1/24/22 11,320 12,042
  Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 3.000% 4/26/22 16,015 15,677
7 Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 2.876% 10/31/22 14,170 13,818
  Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 3.625% 1/22/23 295 293
7 Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 2.908% 6/5/23 25,190 24,359
  Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 3.850% 7/8/24 2,100 2,089
  Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 3.750% 5/22/25 2,860 2,802
7 Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 3.272% 9/29/25 29,755 28,435
7 Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 3.691% 6/5/28 14,140 13,439
7 Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 3.814% 4/23/29 16,535 15,730
  HSBC Bank USA NA 4.875% 8/24/20 4,336 4,435
  HSBC Holdings plc 5.100% 4/5/21 780 810
  HSBC Holdings plc 2.650% 1/5/22 7,210 6,985
  HSBC Holdings plc 4.875% 1/14/22 2,030 2,103
7 HSBC Holdings plc 3.262% 3/13/23 22,350 21,878
  HSBC Holdings plc 3.600% 5/25/23 4,085 4,042
7 HSBC Holdings plc 3.033% 11/22/23 17,615 17,006
7 HSBC Holdings plc 3.950% 5/18/24 13,115 13,017
  HSBC Holdings plc 4.300% 3/8/26 550 546
  HSBC Holdings plc 4.375% 11/23/26 985 967
7 HSBC Holdings plc 4.041% 3/13/28 52,681 50,755
7 HSBC Holdings plc 4.583% 6/19/29 50,850 50,844
  HSBC USA Inc. 2.750% 8/7/20 3,623 3,591
  Huntington National Bank 2.375% 3/10/20 8,455 8,349
  Huntington National Bank 2.500% 8/7/22 4,685 4,486
  Huntington National Bank 3.550% 10/6/23 11,465 11,322
12 ING Bank NV 2.500% 10/1/19 3,040 3,020
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2.250% 1/23/20 18,479 18,291
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. 4.950% 3/25/20 4,385 4,494
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2.750% 6/23/20 5,255 5,215
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2.550% 10/29/20 21,890 21,572
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2.550% 3/1/21 11,356 11,149
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. 4.500% 1/24/22 5,296 5,459
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2.972% 1/15/23 27,933 27,192
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. 3.200% 1/25/23 1,955 1,923
7 JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2.776% 4/25/23 8,975 8,716
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2.700% 5/18/23 6,106 5,865
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. 3.875% 2/1/24 4,000 4,027
7 JPMorgan Chase & Co. 3.559% 4/23/24 20,590 20,390
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. 3.625% 5/13/24 6,500 6,441
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. 3.125% 1/23/25 8,856 8,459
7 JPMorgan Chase & Co. 3.220% 3/1/25 32,655 31,561
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. 3.900% 7/15/25 14,605 14,575
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. 3.300% 4/1/26 4,090 3,918
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. 3.200% 6/15/26 7,340 6,985
7 JPMorgan Chase & Co. 3.782% 2/1/28 18,655 18,132
7 JPMorgan Chase & Co. 3.540% 5/1/28 12,890 12,279
7 JPMorgan Chase & Co. 3.509% 1/23/29 11,075 10,454
7 JPMorgan Chase & Co. 4.005% 4/23/29 12,680 12,415
  KeyBank NA 2.500% 11/22/21 1,860 1,807

 

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Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
  Lloyds Banking Group plc 4.450% 5/8/25 15,000 14,962
  Manufacturers & Traders Trust Co. 2.500% 5/18/22 3,890 3,750
  Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. 2.950% 3/1/21 24,101 23,795
  Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. 2.190% 9/13/21 1,470 1,414
  Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. 2.998% 2/22/22 3,115 3,043
  Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. 2.665% 7/25/22 17,200 16,580
  Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. 3.761% 7/26/23 32,435 32,215
  Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. 2.527% 9/13/23 1,025 961
  Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. 3.777% 3/2/25 8,860 8,756
  Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. 3.677% 2/22/27 5,990 5,793
  Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. 4.050% 9/11/28 36,100 35,739
12 Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp. 2.650% 10/19/20 12,470 12,274
  Morgan Stanley 5.750% 1/25/21 7,650 8,038
  Morgan Stanley 2.625% 11/17/21 40,688 39,559
  Morgan Stanley 2.750% 5/19/22 8,140 7,891
  Morgan Stanley 3.125% 1/23/23 16,800 16,369
  Morgan Stanley 3.875% 4/29/24 4,030 4,012
13 Morgan Stanley 3.563% 5/8/24 7,555 7,685
  Morgan Stanley 3.700% 10/23/24 6,138 6,048
  Morgan Stanley 4.000% 7/23/25 1,355 1,344
  Morgan Stanley 3.875% 1/27/26 2,020 1,983
  Morgan Stanley 3.625% 1/20/27 8,470 8,106
7 Morgan Stanley 3.591% 7/22/28 19,180 18,159
  MUFG Americas Holdings Corp. 3.500% 6/18/22 7,000 6,962
  MUFG Americas Holdings Corp. 3.000% 2/10/25 2,000 1,899
12 MUFG Bank Ltd. 2.300% 3/5/20 715 704
12 MUFG Bank Ltd. 2.750% 9/14/20 8,500 8,330
12 MUFG Bank Ltd. 2.850% 9/8/21 3,010 2,945
12 Nordea Bank AB 3.750% 8/30/23 8,700 8,607
  PNC Bank NA 2.600% 7/21/20 5,735 5,672
  PNC Bank NA 2.150% 4/29/21 2,294 2,228
  PNC Bank NA 2.550% 12/9/21 5,135 5,003
  PNC Bank NA 2.625% 2/17/22 3,980 3,874
  PNC Bank NA 2.950% 2/23/25 5,360 5,114
  PNC Bank NA 3.250% 6/1/25 27 26
  PNC Financial Services Group Inc. 2.854% 11/9/22 1,335 1,292
  PNC Funding Corp. 5.125% 2/8/20 3,840 3,939
  Santander UK plc 3.400% 6/1/21 51,000 50,802
  Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. 2.784% 7/12/22 8,570 8,288
  Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. 2.778% 10/18/22 6,840 6,571
  Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. 3.748% 7/19/23 9,975 9,925
12 Swedbank AB 2.375% 2/27/19 4,200 4,200
12 Swedbank AB 2.800% 3/14/22 8,215 7,997
  Toronto-Dominion Bank 3.500% 7/19/23 32,065 32,058
  UBS AG 2.350% 3/26/20 700 690
12 UBS Group Funding Jersey Ltd. 3.000% 4/15/21 5,470 5,379
12 UBS Group Funding Jersey Ltd. 2.650% 2/1/22 24,139 23,280
12 UBS Group Funding Switzerland AG 3.491% 5/23/23 2,060 2,019
7,12 UBS Group Funding Switzerland AG 2.859% 8/15/23 26,640 25,463
  US Bancorp 2.350% 1/29/21 750 736
  US Bancorp 3.700% 1/30/24 1,735 1,745
  Wells Fargo & Co. 3.000% 1/22/21 2,240 2,222
  Wells Fargo & Co. 2.625% 7/22/22 19,530 18,848
  Wells Fargo & Co. 3.450% 2/13/23 8,300 8,127

 

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Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
  Wells Fargo & Co. 3.300% 9/9/24 8,943 8,649
  Wells Fargo & Co. 3.000% 2/19/25 8,170 7,739
  Wells Fargo Bank NA 3.550% 8/14/23 40,290 40,048
  Westpac Banking Corp. 2.300% 5/26/20 265 261
  Westpac Banking Corp. 2.100% 5/13/21 4,820 4,664
  Westpac Banking Corp. 2.000% 8/19/21 7,665 7,356
  Westpac Banking Corp. 2.750% 1/11/23 21,690 20,935
  Westpac Banking Corp. 3.350% 3/8/27 18,935 18,004
 
  Brokerage (0.1%)        
  Charles Schwab Corp. 3.850% 5/21/25 10,810 10,889
  Invesco Finance plc 3.125% 11/30/22 5,203 5,099
  Invesco Finance plc 4.000% 1/30/24 4,000 4,008
  Invesco Finance plc 3.750% 1/15/26 3,427 3,355
  TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. 3.625% 4/1/25 3,670 3,608
 
  Finance Companies (0.5%)        
  GE Capital International Funding Co.        
  Unlimited Co. 2.342% 11/15/20 27,211 26,527
  GE Capital International Funding Co.        
  Unlimited Co. 3.373% 11/15/25 55,037 52,378
 
  Insurance (1.3%)        
  Aetna Inc. 2.750% 11/15/22 1,700 1,637
  Aetna Inc. 2.800% 6/15/23 2,345 2,247
12 AIA Group Ltd. 3.200% 3/11/25 17,405 16,551
12 AIG Global Funding 2.700% 12/15/21 2,625 2,549
  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 2.750% 3/15/23 17,376 16,916
  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 3.125% 3/15/26 5,117 4,922
  Chubb INA Holdings Inc. 2.700% 3/13/23 2,940 2,836
  Chubb INA Holdings Inc. 3.350% 5/15/24 4,390 4,310
  Chubb INA Holdings Inc. 3.150% 3/15/25 1,264 1,222
  Chubb INA Holdings Inc. 3.350% 5/3/26 6,530 6,345
  Manulife Financial Corp. 4.900% 9/17/20 7,455 7,677
  Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc. 4.800% 7/15/21 5,500 5,663
  Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc. 2.750% 1/30/22 11,000 10,693
  Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc. 3.500% 6/3/24 2,370 2,322
  Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc. 3.500% 3/10/25 13,865 13,479
12 MassMutual Global Funding II 2.750% 6/22/24 14,920 14,147
12 Metropolitan Life Global Funding I 3.000% 1/10/23 9,594 9,351
12 Metropolitan Life Global Funding I 3.450% 12/18/26 8,725 8,467
12 Metropolitan Life Global Funding I 3.000% 9/19/27 17,995 16,723
12 New York Life Global Funding 2.900% 1/17/24 4,620 4,456
12 New York Life Global Funding 3.000% 1/10/28 25,140 23,610
  PartnerRe Finance B LLC 5.500% 6/1/20 1,940 1,995
12 Pricoa Global Funding I 2.550% 11/24/20 2,435 2,392
12 Pricoa Global Funding I 2.450% 9/21/22 4,300 4,121
12 Reliance Standard Life Global Funding II 3.050% 1/20/21 1,430 1,410
12 Swiss Re Treasury US Corp. 2.875% 12/6/22 7,330 7,052
  UnitedHealth Group Inc. 2.875% 3/15/23 3,000 2,921
  UnitedHealth Group Inc. 3.750% 7/15/25 5,915 5,924
  UnitedHealth Group Inc. 3.450% 1/15/27 7,500 7,345
 
  Real Estate Investment Trusts (0.4%)        
  AvalonBay Communities Inc. 3.350% 5/15/27 2,960 2,839
  AvalonBay Communities Inc. 3.200% 1/15/28 2,250 2,143

 

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Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
  Camden Property Trust 4.875% 6/15/23 435 453
  Camden Property Trust 4.250% 1/15/24 1,738 1,757
  Camden Property Trust 3.500% 9/15/24 435 421
  Federal Realty Investment Trust 3.000% 8/1/22 2,575 2,513
  Federal Realty Investment Trust 2.750% 6/1/23 5,330 5,089
  Federal Realty Investment Trust 3.250% 7/15/27 6,335 5,926
12 Scentre Group Trust 1 / Scentre Group Trust 2 3.750% 3/23/27 6,810 6,512
  Simon Property Group LP 4.375% 3/1/21 4,750 4,863
  Simon Property Group LP 3.500% 9/1/25 1,003 976
  Simon Property Group LP 3.375% 12/1/27 11,855 11,296
12 WEA Finance LLC 4.125% 9/20/28 20,070 19,894
          2,309,615
Industrial (7.9%)        
  Basic Industry (0.6%)        
12 Air Liquide Finance SA 1.750% 9/27/21 18,481 17,624
12 Air Liquide Finance SA 2.250% 9/27/23 14,180 13,324
  Airgas Inc. 2.900% 11/15/22 2,575 2,507
12 Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LLC / Chevron        
  Phillips Chemical Co. LP 3.400% 12/1/26 9,820 9,503
12 Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LLC / Chevron        
  Phillips Chemical Co. LP 3.700% 6/1/28 21,765 21,514
  EI du Pont de Nemours & Co. 2.200% 5/1/20 37,385 36,885
 
  Capital Goods (1.0%)        
  Caterpillar Financial Services Corp. 2.850% 6/1/22 7,100 6,979
  Caterpillar Financial Services Corp. 2.400% 6/6/22 13,610 13,195
  Caterpillar Financial Services Corp. 3.750% 11/24/23 6,005 6,079
  Caterpillar Inc. 3.900% 5/27/21 1,613 1,641
  Caterpillar Inc. 2.600% 6/26/22 1,755 1,709
  Deere & Co. 2.600% 6/8/22 5,825 5,681
  General Dynamics Corp. 2.625% 11/15/27 13,665 12,523
  General Dynamics Corp. 3.750% 5/15/28 14,340 14,393
  General Electric Co. 5.500% 1/8/20 5,000 5,131
  General Electric Co. 4.625% 1/7/21 29,656 30,549
  General Electric Co. 3.150% 9/7/22 26,095 25,747
  Illinois Tool Works Inc. 2.650% 11/15/26 12,675 11,712
  John Deere Capital Corp. 2.750% 3/15/22 5,830 5,719
  John Deere Capital Corp. 2.650% 6/24/24 10,000 9,510
  Parker-Hannifin Corp. 3.500% 9/15/22 1,885 1,885
12 Siemens Financieringsmaatschappij NV 2.700% 3/16/22 12,300 11,972
 
  Communication (0.8%)        
  America Movil SAB de CV 5.000% 10/16/19 13,000 13,197
  America Movil SAB de CV 5.000% 3/30/20 7,725 7,897
  America Movil SAB de CV 3.125% 7/16/22 1,160 1,136
  Comcast Cable Communications Holdings Inc. 9.455% 11/15/22 1,700 2,069
  Comcast Corp. 5.150% 3/1/20 4,425 4,550
  Comcast Corp. 1.625% 1/15/22 3,830 3,614
  Comcast Corp. 3.600% 3/1/24 9,390 9,278
  Comcast Corp. 3.375% 2/15/25 29,805 28,743
  Comcast Corp. 3.375% 8/15/25 23,444 22,634
  NBCUniversal Media LLC 5.150% 4/30/20 9,000 9,276
  NBCUniversal Media LLC 2.875% 1/15/23 27,000 26,180

 

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Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
  Consumer Cyclical (1.3%)        
  American Honda Finance Corp. 2.250% 8/15/19 7,340 7,306
  American Honda Finance Corp. 2.450% 9/24/20 2,375 2,348
12 BMW US Capital LLC 3.400% 8/13/21 14,100 14,072
12 BMW US Capital LLC 3.450% 4/12/23 22,000 21,776
12 BMW US Capital LLC 3.750% 4/12/28 19,000 18,680
  Costco Wholesale Corp. 2.750% 5/18/24 3,380 3,269
  Costco Wholesale Corp. 3.000% 5/18/27 4,225 4,010
12 Harley-Davidson Financial Services Inc. 2.250% 1/15/19 7,945 7,933
12 Harley-Davidson Financial Services Inc. 2.400% 9/15/19 1,655 1,645
12 Harley-Davidson Financial Services Inc. 2.150% 2/26/20 1,219 1,198
12 Harley-Davidson Financial Services Inc. 2.400% 6/15/20 5,000 4,902
12 Harley-Davidson Financial Services Inc. 3.350% 2/15/23 10,000 9,716
  Harley-Davidson Inc. 3.500% 7/28/25 8,000 7,655
  Lowe’s Cos. Inc. 4.625% 4/15/20 2,380 2,417
  Lowe’s Cos. Inc. 3.120% 4/15/22 5,005 4,973
  Lowe’s Cos. Inc. 3.375% 9/15/25 1,370 1,348
  Lowe’s Cos. Inc. 2.500% 4/15/26 23,025 21,145
  Lowe’s Cos. Inc. 3.100% 5/3/27 4,420 4,206
12 Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp. 2.550% 3/8/21 6,215 6,075
12 Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp. 2.600% 9/28/22 2,825 2,703
12 Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp. 3.875% 9/21/23 15,000 15,006
  TJX Cos. Inc. 2.500% 5/15/23 1,100 1,054
  TJX Cos. Inc. 2.250% 9/15/26 23,870 21,560
  Visa Inc. 3.150% 12/14/25 24,040 23,280
  Walmart Inc. 2.350% 12/15/22 4,165 4,023
  Walmart Inc. 2.650% 12/15/24 5,250 5,013
 
  Consumer Noncyclical (1.1%)        
  Anheuser-Busch InBev Finance Inc. 2.625% 1/17/23 5,660 5,439
  Anheuser-Busch InBev Finance Inc. 3.300% 2/1/23 5,165 5,100
  Anheuser-Busch InBev Finance Inc. 3.650% 2/1/26 30,160 29,300
  Coca-Cola Femsa SAB de CV 2.375% 11/26/18 1,455 1,451
  Coca-Cola Femsa SAB de CV 3.875% 11/26/23 1,500 1,496
  Covidien International Finance SA 4.200% 6/15/20 4,126 4,197
  Gilead Sciences Inc. 4.500% 4/1/21 3,000 3,082
  Gilead Sciences Inc. 3.700% 4/1/24 30,110 30,190
  Gilead Sciences Inc. 3.500% 2/1/25 27,725 27,223
  Gilead Sciences Inc. 3.650% 3/1/26 7,300 7,168
  Kaiser Foundation Hospitals 3.500% 4/1/22 1,235 1,236
  Kaiser Foundation Hospitals 3.150% 5/1/27 965 922
  Kimberly-Clark Corp. 3.625% 8/1/20 700 707
  Medtronic Inc. 3.150% 3/15/22 3,355 3,334
  Medtronic Inc. 3.625% 3/15/24 2,075 2,085
  Medtronic Inc. 3.500% 3/15/25 33,905 33,626
  Providence St. Joseph Health Obligated Group 2.746% 10/1/26 300 276
12 Roche Holdings Inc. 3.350% 9/30/24 8,200 8,114
  SSM Health Care Corp. 3.688% 6/1/23 13,650 13,593
 
  Energy (1.7%)        
  Baker Hughes a GE Co. LLC / Baker Hughes        
  Co-Obligor Inc. 3.337% 12/15/27 36,860 34,549
  BP Capital Markets America Inc. 3.796% 9/21/25 8,000 8,015
  BP Capital Markets plc 4.750% 3/10/19 8,500 8,579
  BP Capital Markets plc 4.500% 10/1/20 4,500 4,612

 

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Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
      Face Market
    Maturity Amount Value
  Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
BP Capital Markets plc 3.561% 11/1/21 2,387 2,400
BP Capital Markets plc 3.245% 5/6/22 10,875 10,790
BP Capital Markets plc 2.500% 11/6/22 3,500 3,381
BP Capital Markets plc 2.750% 5/10/23 11,575 11,182
BP Capital Markets plc 3.994% 9/26/23 1,000 1,018
BP Capital Markets plc 3.814% 2/10/24 35,250 35,590
BP Capital Markets plc 3.224% 4/14/24 8,400 8,228
BP Capital Markets plc 3.535% 11/4/24 8,740 8,660
BP Capital Markets plc 3.506% 3/17/25 8,000 7,887
BP Capital Markets plc 3.119% 5/4/26 19,465 18,533
ConocoPhillips Co. 4.950% 3/15/26 24,750 26,709
Shell International Finance BV 4.300% 9/22/19 1,575 1,597
Shell International Finance BV 4.375% 3/25/20 2,050 2,089
Shell International Finance BV 3.250% 5/11/25 23,255 22,788
Shell International Finance BV 2.875% 5/10/26 7,445 7,068
Total Capital International SA 2.875% 2/17/22 4,500 4,430
Total Capital SA 4.450% 6/24/20 9,160 9,365
Total Capital SA 4.125% 1/28/21 895 913
TransCanada PipeLines Ltd. 2.500% 8/1/22 1,375 1,317
TransCanada PipeLines Ltd. 3.750% 10/16/23 700 699
TransCanada PipeLines Ltd. 4.875% 1/15/26 21,348 22,197
TransCanada PipeLines Ltd. 4.250% 5/15/28 18,599 18,621
 
Technology (1.1%)        
Apple Inc. 3.000% 2/9/24 11,675 11,439
Apple Inc. 3.450% 5/6/24 6,000 5,998
Apple Inc. 2.850% 5/11/24 12,195 11,809
Apple Inc. 2.750% 1/13/25 10,240 9,814
Apple Inc. 2.500% 2/9/25 5,930 5,590
Apple Inc. 3.200% 5/13/25 1,430 1,400
Apple Inc. 3.250% 2/23/26 13,092 12,785
Apple Inc. 2.450% 8/4/26 3,245 2,987
Apple Inc. 3.350% 2/9/27 8,158 7,964
Microsoft Corp. 2.875% 2/6/24 19,090 18,662
Microsoft Corp. 2.700% 2/12/25 1,175 1,125
Microsoft Corp. 3.125% 11/3/25 3,365 3,286
Microsoft Corp. 2.400% 8/8/26 15,595 14,351
Oracle Corp. 2.500% 5/15/22 9,010 8,764
Oracle Corp. 3.400% 7/8/24 10,000 9,934
Oracle Corp. 2.950% 11/15/24 21,704 20,916
Oracle Corp. 2.950% 5/15/25 5,140 4,929
QUALCOMM Inc. 2.600% 1/30/23 4,815 4,624
QUALCOMM Inc. 2.900% 5/20/24 27,920 26,661
 
Transportation (0.3%)        
7 Continental Airlines 2012-2 Class A Pass        
Through Trust 4.000% 4/29/26 433 433
7 CSX Transportation Inc. 6.251% 1/15/23 1,188 1,282
7 Delta Air Lines 2007-1 Class A Pass Through        
Trust 6.821% 2/10/24 4,699 5,108
7 Northwest Airlines 2007-1 Class A Pass        
Through Trust 7.027% 5/1/21 3,314 3,421
7 Southwest Airlines Co. 2007-1 Pass Through        
Trust 6.150% 2/1/24 3,316 3,485

 

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Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
7 Spirit Airlines Class A Pass Through        
  Certificates Series 2015-1 4.100% 10/1/29 18,091 17,873
7 Spirit Airlines Pass Through Trust 2017-1A 3.650% 2/15/30 15,042 14,320
7 United Airlines 2013-1 Class A Pass Through        
  Trust 4.300% 2/15/27 1,232 1,247
          1,301,632
Utilities (0.7%)        
  Electric (0.7%)        
  AEP Transmission Co. LLC 3.100% 12/1/26 1,735 1,649
  Ameren Illinois Co. 2.700% 9/1/22 2,047 1,990
  Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. 2.800% 8/15/22 950 924
  Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co. 2.800% 1/15/23 4,455 4,325
  Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co. 3.750% 11/15/23 16,200 16,277
  Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co. 3.250% 4/15/28 8,975 8,484
  Commonwealth Edison Co. 3.400% 9/1/21 9,800 9,821
  Commonwealth Edison Co. 2.550% 6/15/26 880 806
  Connecticut Light & Power Co. 5.500% 2/1/19 2,125 2,142
  Duke Energy Florida LLC 4.550% 4/1/20 1,375 1,401
  Duke Energy Florida LLC 3.800% 7/15/28 725 723
  Entergy Arkansas Inc. 3.700% 6/1/24 1,603 1,606
  Entergy Arkansas Inc. 3.500% 4/1/26 10,288 10,112
  Entergy Louisiana LLC 3.300% 12/1/22 1,450 1,429
  Entergy Louisiana LLC 2.400% 10/1/26 5,560 5,015
  Entergy Louisiana LLC 3.120% 9/1/27 9,585 9,031
  Georgia Power Co. 2.400% 4/1/21 9,510 9,250
  Georgia Power Co. 2.850% 5/15/22 2,820 2,746
  PacifiCorp 5.500% 1/15/19 3,000 3,023
  Southern California Edison Co. 3.650% 3/1/28 10,620 10,344
  Southwestern Public Service Co. 3.300% 6/15/24 14,881 14,595
  Virginia Electric & Power Co. 2.950% 1/15/22 8,540 8,420
  Virginia Electric & Power Co. 2.750% 3/15/23 2,515 2,436
          126,549
Total Corporate Bonds (Cost $3,817,124)       3,737,796
Sovereign Bonds (10.1%)        
  Asian Development Bank 1.750% 1/10/20 10,000 9,862
12 Avi Funding Co. Ltd. 2.850% 9/16/20 10,950 10,781
12 BNG Bank NV 1.500% 2/15/19 20,500 20,400
12 BNG Bank NV 2.500% 2/28/20 30,000 29,810
12 BNG Bank NV 2.125% 12/14/20 13,001 12,757
  Bermuda 4.854% 2/6/24 12,685 13,189
12 Bermuda 4.854% 2/6/24 3,000 3,131
  CDP Financial Inc. 4.400% 11/25/19 12,455 12,658
12 CDP Financial Inc. 4.400% 11/25/19 30,475 30,961
12 CDP Financial Inc. 3.150% 7/24/24 1,519 1,496
  CNOOC Finance 2015 Australia Pty Ltd. 2.625% 5/5/20 2,294 2,265
  CNOOC Finance 2015 USA LLC 4.375% 5/2/28 8,000 8,032
  CNOOC Nexen Finance 2014 ULC 4.250% 4/30/24 9,000 9,078
12 CNPC General Capital Ltd. 3.400% 4/16/23 1,000 976
12 Corp Nacional del Cobre de Chile 4.500% 9/16/25 5,900 5,990
  Corp. Andina de Fomento 2.000% 5/10/19 1,080 1,073
  Corp. Andina de Fomento 2.200% 7/18/20 5,734 5,612
  Corp. Andina de Fomento 2.125% 9/27/21 2,000 1,925
  Corp. Andina de Fomento 4.375% 6/15/22 7,611 7,798

 

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Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
  Corp. Nacional del Cobre de Chile 3.875% 11/3/21 10,062 10,127
12 Corp. Nacional del Cobre de Chile 3.875% 11/3/21 3,150 3,162
  Corp. Nacional del Cobre de Chile 3.000% 7/17/22 5,000 4,866
  Corp. Nacional del Cobre de Chile 4.500% 8/13/23 23,349 23,850
  Corp. Nacional del Cobre de Chile 4.500% 9/16/25 37,400 38,006
  CPPIB Capital Inc. 1.250% 9/20/19 10,000 9,849
12 CPPIB Capital Inc. 1.250% 9/20/19 20,000 19,691
12 CPPIB Capital Inc. 2.250% 1/25/22 58,500 56,825
12,14Development Bank of Japan Inc. 3.125% 9/6/23 12,000 11,843
14 Development Bank of Japan Inc. 2.750% 9/16/25 8,500 8,129
12,15Dexia Credit Local SA 1.875% 9/15/21 15,000 14,431
12 Dexia Credit Local SA 2.375% 9/20/22 16,910 16,311
12 Dexia Credit Local SA 3.250% 9/26/23 70,000 69,598
12 Electricite de France SA 4.500% 9/21/28 10,250 10,096
  Emirate of Abu Dhabi 3.125% 10/11/27 14,000 13,225
  Equinor ASA 3.150% 1/23/22 8,000 7,949
  Equinor ASA 2.450% 1/17/23 2,000 1,926
  Equinor ASA 3.700% 3/1/24 7,000 7,052
  European Investment Bank 1.625% 12/15/20 15,000 14,584
  Export-Import Bank of China 3.625% 7/31/24 10,000 9,821
  Export-Import Bank of Korea 2.250% 1/21/20 6,000 5,905
  Export-Import Bank of Korea 5.125% 6/29/20 14,875 15,251
  Export-Import Bank of Korea 4.000% 1/29/21 2,800 2,827
  Export-Import Bank of Korea 2.500% 5/10/21 5,000 4,868
  Export-Import Bank of Korea 1.875% 10/21/21 10,000 9,507
13 Export-Import Bank of Korea 3.210% 1/25/22 10,000 10,062
  Export-Import Bank of Korea 5.000% 4/11/22 7,200 7,503
  Export-Import Bank of Korea 3.000% 11/1/22 2,000 1,949
12 Harvest Operations Corp. 4.200% 6/1/23 8,000 8,100
  Hydro-Quebec 8.050% 7/7/24 470 571
12 ICBCIL Finance Co. Ltd. 2.375% 5/19/19 9,600 9,516
  Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. 3.231% 11/13/19 1,250 1,243
14 Japan Bank for International Cooperation 1.750% 11/13/18 3,000 2,998
14 Japan Bank for International Cooperation 1.750% 11/13/18 10,000 9,993
14 Japan Bank for International Cooperation 2.125% 2/7/19 3,000 2,996
14 Japan Bank for International Cooperation 2.250% 2/24/20 29,500 29,202
14 Japan Bank for International Cooperation 2.125% 7/21/20 11,000 10,807
14 Japan Bank for International Cooperation 2.125% 11/16/20 27,100 26,494
14 Japan Bank for International Cooperation 3.125% 7/20/21 29,700 29,614
  Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 2.375% 10/26/21 6,500 6,268
  Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 2.875% 3/4/23 5,060 4,880
13 Korea Development Bank 3.014% 9/19/20 8,850 8,870
  Korea Development Bank 2.500% 1/13/21 6,000 5,878
  Korea Development Bank 4.625% 11/16/21 605 624
  Korea Development Bank 3.375% 3/12/23 30,000 29,499
  Korea East-West Power Co. Ltd. 2.625% 11/27/18 5,350 5,345
12 Korea East-West Power Co. Ltd. 3.875% 7/19/23 23,900 23,867
  KSA Sukuk Ltd. 2.894% 4/20/22 30,480 29,685
12 Nederlandse Waterschapsbank NV 1.875% 3/13/19 2,000 1,992
12 Nederlandse Waterschapsbank NV 1.250% 9/9/19 36,300 35,730
  North American Development Bank 2.300% 10/10/18 4,125 4,124
12 Ontario Teachers’ Cadillac Fairview Properties        
  Trust 3.125% 3/20/22 17,690 17,347

 

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Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
        Face Market
      Maturity Amount Value
    Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
12 Ontario Teachers’ Cadillac Fairview Properties        
  Trust 3.875% 3/20/27 6,600 6,558
12 Ontario Teachers’ Finance Trust 2.750% 4/16/21 45,000 44,500
12 Petronas Capital Ltd. 5.250% 8/12/19 25,750 26,200
  Petronas Capital Ltd. 5.250% 8/12/19 3,991 4,059
  Petronas Capital Ltd. 5.250% 8/12/19 389 396
  Petronas Global Sukuk Ltd. 2.707% 3/18/20 60,870 60,208
  Province of Alberta 1.900% 12/6/19 15,000 14,781
12 Province of Alberta 1.750% 8/26/20 1,650 1,608
  Province of Manitoba 2.100% 9/6/22 2,100 2,003
  Province of Ontario 1.625% 1/18/19 48,000 47,838
  Province of Ontario 4.000% 10/7/19 6,025 6,091
  Province of Ontario 4.400% 4/14/20 24,595 25,084
  Province of Ontario 2.550% 2/12/21 23,500 23,178
11 Province of Quebec 2.483% 9/21/20 20,000 20,060
  Province of Quebec 2.750% 8/25/21 10,150 10,035
  Province of Quebec 2.375% 1/31/22 15,700 15,309
  Province of Quebec 7.500% 7/15/23 2,065 2,421
  Province of Quebec 7.125% 2/9/24 2,674 3,131
  Province of Quebec 2.750% 4/12/27 5,730 5,455
7,12 Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Co. Ltd. II 5.298% 9/30/20 263 267
7 Republic of Chile 3.240% 2/6/28 8,605 8,246
  Republic of Korea 7.125% 4/16/19 23,910 24,448
  Republic of Latvia 2.750% 1/12/20 5,260 5,214
  Republic of Lithuania 7.375% 2/11/20 117,326 124,049
  Republic of Lithuania 6.125% 3/9/21 27,055 28,814
  Republic of Lithuania 6.625% 2/1/22 16,300 17,951
  Republic of Poland 6.375% 7/15/19 9,000 9,247
  Republic of Poland 5.125% 4/21/21 10,910 11,415
  Republic of Poland 5.000% 3/23/22 30,437 32,034
  Republic of Poland 4.000% 1/22/24 10,000 10,200
  Republic of Slovenia 5.500% 10/26/22 3,385 3,621
  Republic of Slovenia 5.250% 2/18/24 18,841 20,333
  Sinopec Group Overseas Development 2013        
  Ltd. 4.375% 10/17/23 4,600 4,668
  Sinopec Group Overseas Development 2014        
  Ltd. 4.375% 4/10/24 7,100 7,199
  Sinopec Group Overseas Development 2015        
  Ltd. 2.500% 4/28/20 6,000 5,908
12 Sinopec Group Overseas Development 2017        
  Ltd. 2.375% 4/12/20 9,000 8,840
12 Sinopec Group Overseas Development 2018        
  Ltd. 4.250% 9/12/28 17,767 17,498
12 Slovak Republic 4.375% 5/21/22 2,500 2,590
  State of Israel 4.000% 6/30/22 1,170 1,191
  State of Israel 2.875% 3/16/26 17,255 16,320
  State of Israel 3.250% 1/17/28 2,918 2,803
  State of Kuwait 2.750% 3/20/22 6,563 6,403
  State of Qatar 6.550% 4/9/19 22,000 22,404
  State of Qatar 5.250% 1/20/20 25,100 25,749
  State of Qatar 4.500% 4/23/28 9,000 9,264
12 Temasek Financial I Ltd. 2.375% 1/23/23 2,000 1,916
12 Temasek Financial I Ltd. 3.625% 8/1/28 20,000 19,900
Total Sovereign Bonds (Cost $1,685,330)       1,670,057

 

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Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund        
 
 
 
      Face Market
    Maturity Amount Value
  Coupon Date ($000) ($000)
Taxable Municipal Bonds (0.1%)        
California GO 6.200% 3/1/19 3,025 3,068
California GO 6.200% 10/1/19 170 176
Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund Finance        
Corp. Revenue 2.995% 7/1/20 2,250 2,249
Louisiana Local Government Environmental        
Facilities & Community Development        
Authority Revenue 2010-EGSL 3.220% 2/1/21 217 218
Louisiana Local Government Environmental        
Facilities & Community Development        
Authority Revenue 2010-ELL 3.450% 2/1/22 668 668
Regents of the University of California Revenue 3.063% 7/1/25 3,430 3,329
Total Taxable Municipal Bonds (Cost $9,870)       9,708

 

      Shares  
Temporary Cash Investments (1.9%)        
Money Market Fund (1.6%)        
16 Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, 2.209%     2,681,822 268,182
 
      Face  
      Amount  
      ($000)  
Commercial Paper (0.3%)        
17 JP Morgan Securities LLC 2.344% 1/28/19 50,390 49,964
Total Temporary Cash Investments (Cost $318,183)     318,146
Total Investments (102.5%) (Cost $17,286,848)     16,950,538
Other Assets and Liabilities (-2.5%)        
Other Assets       1,876,145
Liabilities       (2,300,166)
        (424,021)
Net Assets (100%)        
Applicable to 738,050,770 outstanding $.001 par value shares of      
beneficial interest (unlimited authorization)       16,526,517
Net Asset Value Per Share       $22.39

 

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  Amount
  ($000)
Statement of Assets and Liabilities  
Assets  
Investments in Securities, at Value  
Unaffiliated Issuers 16,682,356
Affiliated Issuers 268,182
Total Investments in Securities 16,950,538
Investment in Vanguard 772
Receivables for Investment Securities Sold 1,789,189
Receivables for Accrued Income 82,033
Variation Margin Receivable—Futures Contracts 246
Variation Margin Receivable—CC Swap Contracts 5
Unrealized Appreciation—OTC Swap Contracts 92
Other Assets 3,808
Total Assets 18,826,683
Liabilities  
Payables for Investment Securities Purchased 2,298,326
Payables to Vanguard 1,282
Variation Margin Payable—Futures Contracts 16
Variation Margin Payable—CC Swap Contracts 120
Unrealized Depreciation—OTC Swap Contracts 422
Total Liabilities 2,300,166
Net Assets 16,526,517

 

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At September 30, 2018, net assets consisted of:  
  Amount
  ($000)
Paid-in Capital 17,051,795
Undistributed Net Investment Income 99
Accumulated Net Realized Losses (189,482)
Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)  
Investment Securities (336,310)
Futures Contracts (236)
Swap Contracts 651
Net Assets 16,526,517

 

See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements.
1 Securities with a value of $3,051,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open futures contracts.
2 Securities with a value of $3,973,000 have been segregated as collateral for certain open To Be Announced (TBA) transactions.
3 Securities with a value of $4,097,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open cleared swap contracts.
4 U.S. government-guaranteed.
5 The issuer operates under a congressional charter; its securities are generally neither guaranteed by the U.S. Treasury nor backed
by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.
6 The issuer was placed under federal conservatorship in September 2008; since that time, its daily operations have been managed
by the Federal Housing Finance Agency and it receives capital from the U.S. Treasury, as needed to maintain a positive net worth,
in exchange for senior preferred stock.
7 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.
8 Includes securities purchased on a when-issued or delayed-delivery basis for which the fund has not taken delivery as of
September 30, 2018.
9 Adjustable-rate security based upon one-year Constant Maturity Treasury yield plus spread.
10 Adjustable-rate security based upon 12-month USD LIBOR plus spread.
11 Adjustable-rate security based upon 1-month USD LIBOR plus spread.
12 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 September 30, 2018, the aggregate value of these
securities was $2,248,334,000, representing 13.6% of net assets.
13 Adjustable-rate security based upon 3-month USD LIBOR plus spread.
14 Guaranteed by the Government of Japan.
15 Guaranteed by multiple countries.
16 Affiliated money market fund available only to Vanguard funds and certain trusts and accounts managed by Vanguard. Rate shown
is the 7-day yield.
17 Security exempt from registration under Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933. Such securities may be sold in transactions
exempt from registration only to dealers in that program or other “accredited investors.” At September 30, 2018, the value of this
security was $49,964,000, representing 0.3% of net assets.
GO—General Obligation Bond.
CC—Centrally Cleared
OTC—Over-the-Counter

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Derivative Financial Instruments Outstanding as of Period End    
Futures Contracts        
        ($000)
        Value and
    Number of   Unrealized
    Long (Short) Notional Appreciation
  Expiration Contracts Amount (Depreciation)
Long Futures Contracts        
2-Year U. S. Treasury Note December 2018 3,576 753,586 (1,124)
5-Year U. S. Treasury Note December 2018 1,862 209,431 26
10-Year U.S. Treasury Note December 2018 713 84,691 (73)
30-Year U.S. Treasury Bond December 2018 33 4,637 (1)
        (1,172)

 

Short Futures Contracts        
Ultra 10-Year U.S. Treasury Note December 2018 (1,105) (139,230) 826
Ultra Long U.S. Treasury Bond December 2018 (29) (4,474) 110
        936
        (236)

 

Over-the-Counter Credit Default Swaps          
            Remaining  
        Periodic   Up-Front  
        Premium   Premium Unrealized
      Notional Received   Received Appreciation
Termination   Amount (Paid)1 Value (Paid) (Depreciation)
Reference Entity Date Counterparty ($000) (%) ($000) ($000) ($000)
Credit Protection Sold/              
Moody’s Rating              
America Movil /A3 6/20/23 BARC 6,200 1.000 (64) 106 42
People’s Republic of              
China/A3 12/20/23 GSI 4,200 1.000 85 (77) 8
Republic of Chile/Aa3 12/20/23 CITNA 1,700 1.000 44 (38) 6
Republic of Chile/Aa3 12/20/23 BOANA 13,700 1.000 354 (318) 36
          419 (327) 92

 

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Over-the-Counter Credit Default Swaps (continued)        
            Remaining  
        Periodic   Up-Front  
        Premium   Premium Unrealized
      Notional Received   Received Appreciation
  Termination   Amount (Paid)1 Value (Paid) (Depreciation)
Reference Entity Date Counterparty ($000) (%) ($000) ($000) ($000)
Credit Protection Purchased            
EI du Pont de              
Nemours & Co. 12/20/20 JPMC 4,015 (1.000) (78) 43 (35)
State of Qatar 6/20/22 BOANA 4,080 (1.000) (85) (37) (122)
State of Qatar 6/20/22 CITNA 7,920 (1.000) (165) (70) (235)
Wells Fargo & Co. 9/20/20 BOANA 3,740 (1.000) (61) 31 (30)
          (389) (33) (422)
          30 (360) (330)

 

The notional amount represents the maximum potential amount the fund could be required to pay as a seller of credit protection if the reference entity was subject to a credit event.

1 Periodic premium received/paid quarterly.
BARC—Barclays Bank plc.
BOANA—Bank of America, N.A.
CITNA—Citibank N.A.
GSI—Goldman Sachs International.
JPMC—JP Morgan Chase Bank.

At September 30, 2018, the counterparties had deposited in a segregated account cash of $410,000 in connection with open open over-the-counter swap contracts.

Centrally Cleared Interest Rate Swaps            
      Fixed Floating    
      Interest Interest    
      Rate Rate   Unrealized
  Future Notional Received Received   Appreciation
  Effective Amount (Paid)2 (Paid) 3 Value (Depreciation)
Termination Date Date1 ($000) (%) (%) ($000) ($000)
12/19/19 12/19/18 35,195 2.500 (0.000) (151) (12)
12/21/20 12/19/18 1,802 (2.750) 0.000 11 2
12/20/21 12/19/18 59,380 (2.750) 0.000 605 96
12/19/22 12/19/18 84,428 (2.750) 0.000 1,137 222
12/19/23 12/19/18 52,728 (2.750) 0.000 876 179
12/19/25 12/19/18 83,890 (2.750) 0.000 1,981 494
          4,459 981

 

1 Forward interest rate swap. In a forward interest rate swap, the fund and the counterparty agree to make periodic net payments beginning on a specified future effective date.

2 Fixed interest payment received/paid semiannually.

3 Based on 3-month London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) as of the most recent payment date. Floating interest payment received/ paid quarterly.

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

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Statement of Operations

  Year Ended
  September 30, 2018
  ($000)
Investment Income  
Income  
Interest1 370,485
Total Income 370,485
Expenses  
The Vanguard Group—Note B  
Investment Advisory Services 462
Management and Administrative 2,221
Marketing and Distribution 127
Custodian Fees 103
Auditing Fees 49
Trustees’ Fees and Expenses 8
Total Expenses 2,970
Net Investment Income 367,515
Realized Net Gain (Loss)  
Investment Securities Sold1 (99,893)
Futures Contracts (54,035)
Swap Contracts 910
Realized Net Gain (Loss) (153,018)
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)  
Investment Securities1 (330,384)
Futures Contracts 4,940
Swap Contracts 991
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) (324,453)
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations (109,956)

 

1 Interest income, realized net gain (loss), and change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) from an affiliated company of the fund were $7,414,000, ($19,000), and ($106,000). Purchases and sales are for temporary cash investment purposes.

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

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Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  Year Ended September 30,
  2018 2017
  ($000) ($000)
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets    
Operations    
Net Investment Income 367,515 245,206
Realized Net Gain (Loss) (153,018) (34,873)
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) (324,453) (150,985)
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations (109,956) 59,348
Distributions    
Net Investment Income (367,615) (245,776)
Realized Capital Gain1 (94,306)
Total Distributions (367,615) (340,082)
Capital Share Transactions    
Issued 3,428,096 4,450,553
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 367,615 340,082
Redeemed (897,177) (225,161)
Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions 2,898,534 4,565,474
Total Increase (Decrease) 2,420,963 4,284,740
Net Assets    
Beginning of Period 14,105,554 9,820,814
End of Period2 16,526,517 14,105,554

 

1 Includes fiscal 2018 and 2017 short-term gain distributions totaling $0 and $47,560,000, respectively. Short-term gain distributions are treated as ordinary income dividends for tax purposes.

2 Net Assets—End of Period includes undistributed (overdistributed) net investment income of $99,000 and $251,000.

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

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Financial Highlights

        June 19,
        20151 to
  Year Ended September 30,  
For a Share Outstanding       Sept. 30,
Throughout Each Period 2018 2017 2016 2015
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period1 $23.12 $23.79 $23.46 $23.36
Investment Operations        
Net Investment Income . 5612 .462 2 .473 .126
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments (.736) (.470) .383 .101
Total from Investment Operations (.175) (. 008) . 856 . 227
Distributions        
Dividends from Net Investment Income (. 555) (. 454) (. 473) (.127)
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains (.208) (.053)
Total Distributions (. 555) (. 662) (. 526) (.127)
Net Asset Value, End of Period $22.39 $23.12 $23.79 $23.46
 
Total Return -0.75% 0.01% 3.70% 0.97%
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data        
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) $16,527 $14,106 $9,821 $8,035
Ratio of Total Expenses to Average Net Assets 0.02% 0.02% 0.02% 0.02%3
Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets 2.48% 1.99% 2.02% 1.92%3
Portfolio Turnover Rate 4 182% 253% 251% 45%

 

1 Commencement of operations as a registered investment company.
2 Calculated based on average shares outstanding.
3 Annualized.
4 Includes 67%, 111%, 67%, and 12% attributable to mortgage-dollar-roll activity.

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

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Notes to Financial Statements

Vanguard Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The fund has been established by Vanguard as an investment vehicle for certain collective trusts and other accounts managed by Vanguard or its affiliates and qualifying education savings plans. The fund is offered to investors who meet certain administrative and service criteria and invest a minimum of $10 million. 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.

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

1. Security Valuation: Securities are valued as of the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4 p.m., Eastern time) on the valuation date. Bonds and temporary cash investments 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. Structured debt securities, including mortgages and asset-backed securities, are valued using the latest bid prices or using valuations based on a matrix system that considers such factors as issuer, tranche, nominal or option-adjusted spreads, weighted average coupon, weighted average maturity, credit enhancements, and collateral. Investments in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund are valued at that fund’s net asset value. Securities for which market quotations are not readily available, or whose values have been 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. Counterparty risk involving futures is mitigated because a regulated clearinghouse is the counterparty instead of the clearing broker. To further mitigate counterparty risk, the fund trades futures contracts on an exchange, monitors the financial strength of its clearing brokers and clearinghouse, and has entered into clearing agreements with its clearing brokers. The clearinghouse imposes initial margin requirements to secure the fund’s performance and requires daily settlement of variation margin representing changes in the market value of each contract. Any assets pledged as initial margin for open contracts are noted in the Statement of Net Assets.

Futures contracts are valued at their quoted daily settlement prices. The notional 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 Assets and Liabilities 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).

During the year ended September 30, 2018, the fund’s average investments in long and short futures contracts represented 9% and 2% of net assets, respectively, based on the average of the notional amounts at each quarter-end during the period.

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3. Swap Contracts: The fund invests in credit default swaps to adjust the overall credit risk of the fund or to actively overweight or underweight credit risk to a specific issuer or group of issuers. The fund may sell credit protection through credit default swaps to simulate investments in long positions that are either unavailable or considered to be less attractively priced in the bond market. The fund may purchase credit protection through credit default swaps to reduce credit exposure to a given issuer or issuers. Under the terms of the swaps, an up-front payment may be exchanged between the seller and buyer. In addition, the seller of the credit protection receives a periodic payment of premium from the buyer that is a fixed percentage applied to a notional amount. If, for example, 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 seller agrees to either physically settle or cash settle the swap contract. If the swap is physically settled, the seller agrees to pay the buyer an amount equal to the notional amount and take delivery of a debt instrument of the reference issuer with a par amount equal to such notional amount. If the swap is cash settled, the seller agrees to pay the buyer the difference between the notional amount and the final price for the relevant debt instrument, as determined either in a market auction or pursuant to a pre-agreed-upon valuation procedure.

The fund enters into interest rate swap transactions to adjust the fund’s sensitivity to changes in interest rates and maintain the ability to generate income at prevailing market rates. Under the terms of the swaps, one party pays the other an amount that is a fixed percentage rate applied to a notional 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.

The notional amounts of swap contracts are not recorded in the Statement of Net Assets. Swaps are valued daily based on market quotations received from independent pricing services or recognized dealers and the change in value is recorded in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities as an asset (liability) and in the Statement of Operations as unrealized appreciation (depreciation) until the seller of credit protection is required to take delivery (or, in a cash settled swap, pay the settlement amount determined) upon occurrence of a credit event, 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) over the life of the contract.

The primary risk associated with selling credit protection is that, upon the occurrence of a defined credit event, the market value of the debt instrument received by the fund (or, in a cash settled swap, the debt instruments used to determine the settlement payment by the fund) will be significantly less than the amount paid by the fund and, in a physically settled swap, the fund may receive an illiquid debt instrument. A risk associated with all types of swaps is the possibility that a counterparty may default on its obligation to pay net amounts due to the fund. The fund’s maximum amount subject to counterparty risk is the unrealized appreciation on the swap contract. The fund mitigates its counterparty risk by entering into swaps only with a diverse group of prequalified counterparties, monitoring their financial strength, entering into master netting arrangements with its counterparties, and requiring its counterparties to transfer collateral as security for their performance. In the absence of a default, the collateral pledged or received by the fund cannot be repledged, resold, or rehypoth-ecated. In the event of a counterparty’s default (including bankruptcy), the fund may terminate any swap contracts with that counterparty, determine the net amount owed by either party in accordance with its master netting arrangements, and sell or retain any collateral held up to the net amount owed to the fund under the master netting arrangements. The swap contracts contain provisions whereby a counterparty may terminate open contracts if the fund’s net assets decline below a certain level, triggering a payment by the fund if the fund is in a net liability position at the time of the termination.

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The payment amount would be reduced by any collateral the fund has pledged. Any securities pledged as collateral for open contracts are noted in the Statement of Net Assets. The value of collateral received or pledged is compared daily to the value of the swap contracts exposure with each counterparty, and any difference, if in excess of a specified minimum transfer amount, is adjusted and settled within two business days.

The fund enters into centrally cleared interest rate and credit default swaps to achieve the same objectives specified with respect to the equivalent over-the-counter swaps but with less counterparty risk because a regulated clearinghouse is the counterparty instead of the clearing broker or executing broker. The clearinghouse imposes initial margin requirements to secure the fund’s performance, and requires daily settlement of variation margin representing changes in the market value of each contract. To further mitigate counterparty risk, the fund trades with a diverse group of prequalified executing brokers; monitors the financial strength of its clearing brokers, executing brokers, and clearinghouse; and has entered into agreements with its clearing brokers and executing brokers.

During the year ended September 30, 2018, the fund’s average amounts of investments in credit protection sold and credit protection purchased each represented less than 1% of net assets, respectively, based on the average of notional amounts at each quarter-end during the period. The average amount of investments in interest rate swaps represented 3% of net assets, based on the average of notional amounts at each quarter-end during the period.

4. To Be Announced (TBA) Transactions: A TBA transaction is an agreement to buy or sell mortgage-backed securities with agreed-upon characteristics (face amount, coupon, maturity) for settlement at a future date. The fund may be a seller of TBA transactions to reduce its exposure to the mortgage-backed securities market or in order to sell mortgage-backed securities it owns under delayed-delivery arrangements. When the fund is a buyer of TBA transactions, it maintains cash or short-term investments in an amount sufficient to meet the purchase price at the settlement date of the TBA transaction. The primary risk associated with TBA transactions is that a counterparty may default on its obligations. The fund mitigates its counterparty risk by, among other things, performing a credit analysis of counterparties, allocating transactions among numerous counterparties, and monitoring its exposure to each counterparty. The fund may also enter into a Master Securities Forward Transaction Agreement (MSFTA) with certain counterparties and require them to transfer collateral as security for their performance. In the absence of a default, the collateral pledged or received by the fund cannot be repledged, resold, or rehypothecated. Under an MSFTA, upon a counterparty default (including bankruptcy), the fund may terminate any TBA transactions with that counterparty, determine the net amount owed by either party in accordance with its master netting arrangements, and sell or retain any collateral held up to the net amount owed to the fund under the master netting arrangements. At September 30, 2018, counterparties had deposited in segregated accounts securities with a value of $1,445,000 and cash of $1,420,000 in connection with TBA transactions.

5. Mortgage Dollar Rolls: The fund enters into mortgage-dollar-roll transactions, in which the fund sells mortgage-backed securities to a dealer and simultaneously agrees to purchase similar securities in the future at a predetermined price. The proceeds of the securities sold in mortgage-dollar-roll transactions are typically invested in high-quality short-term fixed income securities. The fund forgoes principal and interest paid on the securities sold, and is compensated by interest earned on the proceeds of the sale and by a lower price on the securities to be repurchased. The fund has also entered into mortgage-dollar-roll transactions in which the fund buys mortgage-backed securities from a dealer pursuant to a TBA transaction and simultaneously agrees to sell similar securities in the future at a predetermined price. The securities bought in mortgage-dollar-

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roll transactions are used to cover an open TBA sell position. The fund continues to earn interest on mortgage-backed security pools already held and receives a lower price on the securities to be sold in the future. The fund accounts for mortgage-dollar-roll transactions as purchases and sales; as such, these transactions may increase the fund’s portfolio turnover rate. Amounts to be received or paid in connection with open mortgage dollar rolls are included in Receivables for Investment Securities Sold or Payables for Investment Securities Purchased in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities.

6. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken for all open federal income tax years (September 30, 2015–2018), and has concluded that no provision for federal income tax is required in the fund’s financial statements.

7. Distributions: Distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Distributions are determined on a tax basis and may differ from net investment income and realized capital gains for financial reporting purposes.

8. Credit Facility: The fund and certain other funds managed by The Vanguard Group (“Vanguard”) participate in a $3.1 billion committed credit facility provided by a syndicate of lenders pursuant to a credit agreement that may be renewed annually; each fund is individually liable for its borrowings, if any, under the credit facility. Borrowings may be utilized for temporary and emergency purposes, and are subject to the fund’s regulatory and contractual borrowing restrictions. The participating funds are charged administrative fees and an annual commitment fee of 0.10% of the undrawn amount of the facility; these fees are allocated to the funds based on a method approved by the fund’s board of trustees and included in Management and Administrative expenses on the fund’s Statement of Operations. Any borrowings under this facility bear interest at a rate based upon the higher of the one-month London Interbank Offered Rate, federal funds effective rate, or overnight bank funding rate plus an agreed-upon spread.

The fund had no borrowings outstanding at September 30, 2018, or at any time during the period then ended.

9. Other: 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.

B. In accordance with the terms of a Funds’ Service Agreement (the “FSA”) between Vanguard and the fund, Vanguard furnishes to the fund investment advisory, corporate management, administrative, marketing, and distribution services at Vanguard’s cost of operations (as defined by the FSA). These costs of operations are allocated to the fund based on methods and guidelines approved by the board of trustees. Vanguard does not require reimbursement in the current period for certain costs of operations (such as deferred compensation/benefits and risk/insurance costs); the fund’s liability for these costs of operations is included in Payables to Vanguard on the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. All other costs of operations payable to Vanguard are generally settled twice a month.

Upon the request of Vanguard, the fund may invest up to 0.40% of its net assets as capital in Vanguard. At September 30, 2018, the fund had contributed to Vanguard capital in the amount of $772,000, representing 0.00% of the fund’s net assets and 0.31% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and employees, respectively, of Vanguard.

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C. Various inputs may be used to determine the value of the fund’s investments. These inputs are summarized in three broad levels for financial statement purposes. The inputs or methodologies used to value securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.

Level 1Quoted prices in active markets for identical securities.

Level 2Other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.).

Level 3Significant unobservable inputs (including the fund’s own assumptions used to determine the fair value of investments). Any investments valued with significant unobservable inputs are noted on the Statement of Net Assets.

The following table summarizes the market value of the fund’s investments as of September 30, 2018, based on the inputs used to value them:

  Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
Investments ($000) ($000) ($000)
U.S. Government and Agency Obligations 8,597,594
Asset-Backed/Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities 2,617,237
Corporate Bonds 3,737,796
Sovereign Bonds 1,670,057
Taxable Municipal Bonds 9,708
Temporary Cash Investments 268,182 49,964
Futures Contracts—Assets1 246
Futures Contracts—Liabilities1 (16)
Swap Contracts—Assets 51 92
Swap Contracts—Liabilities (120)1 (422)
Total 268,297 16,682,026
1 Represents variation margin on the last day of the reporting period.      

 

D. At September 30, 2018, the fair values of derivatives were reflected in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities as follows:

  Interest Rate Credit  
  Contracts Contracts Total
Statement of Assets and Liabilities Caption ($000) ($000) ($000)
Variation Margin Receivable—Futures Contracts 246 246
Variation Margin Receivable—CC Swap Contracts 5 5
Unrealized Appreciation—OTC Swap Contracts 92 92
Total Assets 251 92 343
 
Variation Margin Payable—Futures Contracts (16) (16)
Variation Margin Payable—CC Swap Contracts (120) (120)
Unrealized Depreciation—OTC Swap Contracts (422) (422)
Total Liabilities (136) (422) (558)

 

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Realized net gain (loss) and the change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on derivatives for the year ended September 30, 2018, were:

Interest Rate Credit  
  Contracts Contracts Total
Realized Net Gain (Loss) on Derivatives ($000) ($000) ($000)
Futures Contracts (54,035) (54,035)
Swap Contracts 681 229 910
Realized Net Gain (Loss) on Derivatives (53,354) 229 (53,125)
 
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) on Derivatives      
Futures Contracts 4,940 4,940
Swap Contracts 1,002 (11) 991
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) on Derivatives 5,942 (11) 5,931

 

E. Permanent differences between book-basis and tax-basis components of net assets are reclassified among capital accounts in the financial statements to reflect their tax character. These reclassifications have no effect on net assets or net asset value per share. As of period end, the following permanent differences primarily attributable to the accounting for swap agreements were reclassified to the following accounts:

  Amount
  ($000)
Paid-in Capital
Undistributed (Overdistributed) Net Investment Income (52)
Accumulated Net Realized Gains (Losses) 52

 

Temporary differences between book-basis and tax-basis components of accumulated net earnings (losses) arise when certain items of income, gain, or loss are recognized in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes; these differences will reverse at some time in the future. The differences are primarily related to the tax deferral of losses on wash sales, the realization of unrealized gains or losses on certain futures contracts, and swap agreements. As of period end, the tax-basis components of accumulated net earnings (losses) are detailed in the table as follows:

  Amount
  ($000)
Undistributed Ordinary Income 1,236
Undistributed Long-Term Gains
Capital Loss Carryforwards (Non-expiring)* (189,718)
Net Unrealized Gains (Losses) (335,659)

 

* The fund used capital loss carryforwards of $41,023,000 to offset taxable capital gains realized during the year ended September 30, 2018, reducing the amount of capital gains that would otherwise be available to distribute to shareholders.

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Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund

As of September 30, 2018, gross unrealized appreciation and depreciation for investments and derivatives based on cost for U.S. federal income tax purposes were as follows:

  Amount
  ($000)
Tax Cost 17,286,487
Gross Unrealized Appreciation 21,277
Gross Unrealized Depreciation (356,936)
Net Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) (335,659)

 

F. During the year ended September 30, 2018, the fund purchased $5,466,038,000 of investment securities and sold $2,827,354,000 of investment securities, other than U.S. government securities and temporary cash investments. Purchases and sales of U.S. government securities were $24,525,400,000 and $23,448,839,000, respectively. Total purchases and sales include $2,701,937,000 and $0, respectively, in connection with in-kind purchases and redemptions of the fund’s capital shares.

G. Capital shares issued and redeemed were:    
  Year Ended September 30,
  2018 2017
  Shares Shares
  (000) (000)
Issued 150,754 192,265
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 16,255 14,746
Redeemed (39,041) (9,687)
Net Increase (Decrease) in Shares Outstanding 127,968 197,324

 

H. Management has determined that no events or transactions occurred subsequent to September 30, 2018, that would require recognition or disclosure in these financial statements.

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Report of Independent Registered
Public Accounting Firm

To the Board of Trustees of Vanguard Malvern Funds and Shareholders of Vanguard Institutional
Short-Term Bond Fund and Vanguard Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund

Opinions on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying statements of assets and liabilities and statements of net assets of Vanguard Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund and Vanguard Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund (two of the funds constituting Vanguard Malvern Funds, hereafter collectively referred to as the “Funds”) as of September 30, 2018, the related statements of operations for the year ended September 30, 2018, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period ended September 30, 2018, including the related notes, and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated therein (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of each of the Funds as of September 30, 2018, 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 ended September 30, 2018, and each of the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated therein in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Basis for Opinions

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Funds’ management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Funds’ financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Funds in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of September 30, 2018, by correspondence with the custodians and brokers and by agreement to the underlying ownership records of the transfer agent; when replies were not received from brokers, we performed other auditing procedures. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinions.

/s/PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
November 15, 2018

We have served as the auditor of one or more investment companies in The Vanguard Group of Funds since 1975.

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Special 2018 tax information (unaudited) for Vanguard Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund

This information for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2018, is included pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

For nonresident alien shareholders, 60.6% of income dividends are interest-related dividends.

Special 2018 tax information (unaudited) for Vanguard Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund

This information for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2018, is included pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

For nonresident alien shareholders, 77.9% 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 accompanying table 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 any purchase, redemption, or account service fees described in the fund 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 fund’s 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 September 30, 2018      
  Beginning Ending Expenses
  Account Value Account Value Paid During
  3/31/2018 9/30/2018 Period
Based on Actual Fund Return      
Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund $1,000.00 $1,009.20 $0.10
Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund $1,000.00 $1,004.10 $0.10
Based on Hypothetical 5% Yearly Return      
Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund $1,000.00 $1,024.97 $0.10
Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund $1,000.00 $1,024.97 $0.10

 

The calculations are based on expenses incurred in the most recent six-month period. The funds’ annualized six-month expense ratios for that period are: for the Institutional Short-Term Bond Fund Institutional Plus Shares, 0.02%, and for the Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund Institutional Plus Shares, 0.02%. 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 (183/365).

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Glossary

30-Day SEC Yield. A fund’s 30-day SEC yield is derived using a formula specified by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Under the formula, data related to the fund’s security holdings in the previous 30 days are used to calculate the fund’s hypothetical net income for that period, which is then annualized and divided by the fund’s estimated average net assets over the calculation period. For the purposes of this calculation, a security’s income is based on its current market yield to maturity (for bonds), its actual income (for asset-backed securities), or its projected dividend yield (for stocks). Because the SEC yield represents hypothetical annualized income, it will differ—at times significantly—from the fund’s actual experience. As a result, the fund’s income distributions may be higher or lower than implied by the SEC yield.

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.

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). 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.

Credit Quality. Credit-quality ratings are measured on a scale that generally ranges from AAA (highest) to D (lowest). U.S. Treasury, U.S. Agency, and U.S. Agency mortgage-backed securities appear under “U.S. Government.” Credit-quality ratings are obtained from Moody’s and S&P, and the higher rating for each issue is shown. ”Not Rated” is used to classify securities for which a rating is not available. Not rated securities include a fund’s investment in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund or Vanguard Municipal Cash Management Fund, each of which invests in high-quality money market instruments and may serve as a cash management vehicle for the Vanguard funds, trusts, and accounts.

Expense Ratio. A fund’s total annual operating expenses expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets. The expense ratio includes management and administrative expenses, but does not include the transaction costs of buying and selling portfolio securities.

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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 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.

Benchmark Information

Spliced Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Float Adjusted Index: Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index through December 31, 2009; Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Float Adjusted Index thereafter.

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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. The independent board members have distinguished backgrounds in business, academia, and public service. Each of the trustees and executive officers oversees 211 Vanguard funds.

Information for each trustee and executive officer of the fund appears below. The mailing address of the trustees and officers is P.O. Box 876, Valley Forge, PA 19482. More information about the trustees is in the Statement of Additional Information, which can be obtained, without charge, by contacting Vanguard at 800-662-7447, or online at vanguard.com.

Interested Trustees1

F. William McNabb III

Born in 1957. Trustee since July 2009. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: chairman of the board (January 2010–present) of Vanguard and of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard, trustee (2009–present) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard, and director (2008–present) of Vanguard. Chief executive officer and president (2008–2017) of Vanguard and each of the investment companies served by Vanguard, managing director (1995–2008) of Vanguard, and director (1997–2018) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Director (2018–present) of UnitedHealth Group.

Mortimer J. Buckley

Born in 1969. Trustee since January 2018. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: chief executive officer (January 2018–present) of Vanguard; chief executive officer, president, and trustee (January 2018–present) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard; president and director (2017–present) of Vanguard; and president (February 2018–present) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Chief investment officer (2013–2017), managing director (2002–2017), head of the Retail Investor Group (2006–2012), and chief information officer (2001–2006) of Vanguard. Chairman of the board (2011–2017) of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Independent Trustees

Emerson U. Fullwood

Born in 1948. Trustee since January 2008. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: executive chief staff and marketing officer for North America and corporate vice president (retired 2008) of Xerox Corporation (document management products and services). Former president of the Worldwide Channels Group, Latin America, and Worldwide Customer Service and executive chief staff officer of Developing Markets of Xerox. Executive in residence and 2009–2010 Distinguished Minett Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Lead director of SPX FLOW, Inc. (multi-industry manufacturing). Director of the University of Rochester Medical Center, the Monroe Community College Foundation, the United Way of Rochester, North Carolina A&T University, and Roberts Wesleyan College. Trustee of the University of Rochester.

Amy Gutmann

Born in 1949. Trustee since June 2006. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: president (2004–present) of the University of Pennsylvania. Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences, and professor of communication, Annenberg School for Communication, with secondary faculty appointments in the Department of Philosophy, School of Arts and Sciences, and at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. Trustee of the National Constitution Center.

1 Mr. McNabb and Mr. Buckley are considered “interested persons,” as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, because they are officers of the Vanguard funds.


 

JoAnn Heffernan Heisen

Born in 1950. Trustee since July 1998. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: corporate vice president of Johnson & Johnson (pharmaceuticals/medical devices/consumer products) and member of its executive committee (1997–2008). Chief global diversity officer (retired 2008), vice president and chief information officer (1997–2006), controller (1995–1997), treasurer (1991–1995), and assistant treasurer (1989–1991) of Johnson & Johnson. Director of Skytop Lodge Corporation (hotels) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Member of the advisory board of the Institute for Women’s Leadership at Rutgers University.

F. Joseph Loughrey

Born in 1949. Trustee since October 2009. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: president and chief operating officer (retired 2009) and vice chairman of the board (2008–2009) of Cummins Inc. (industrial machinery). Chairman of the board of Hillenbrand, Inc. (specialized consumer services), Oxfam America, and the Lumina Foundation for Education. Director of the V Foundation for Cancer Research. Member of the advisory council for the College of Arts and Letters and chair of the advisory board to the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, both at the University of Notre Dame.

Mark Loughridge

Born in 1953. Trustee since March 2012. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: senior vice president and chief financial officer (retired 2013) of IBM (information technology services). Fiduciary member of IBM’s Retirement Plan Committee (2004–2013), senior vice president and general manager (2002–2004) of IBM Global Financing, vice president and controller (1998–2002) of IBM, and a variety of other prior management roles at IBM. Member of the Council on Chicago Booth.

Scott C. Malpass

Born in 1962. Trustee since March 2012. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: chief investment officer (1989–present) and vice president (1996–present) of the University of Notre Dame. Assistant professor of finance at the Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame, and member of the Notre Dame 403(b) Investment Committee. Chairman of the board of TIFF Advisory Services, Inc. Member of the board of Catholic Investment Services, Inc. (investment advisors), the board of advisors for Spruceview Capital Partners, and the board of superintendence of the Institute for the Works of Religion.

Deanna Mulligan

Born in 1963. Trustee since January 2018. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: president (2010–present) and chief executive officer (2011–present) of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. Chief operating officer (2010–2011) and executive vice president (2008–2010) of Individual Life and Disability of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. Member of the board of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, the American Council of Life Insurers, the Partnership for New York City (business leadership), and the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy. Trustee of the Economic Club of New York and the Bruce Museum (arts and science). Member of the Advisory Council for the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

André F. Perold

Born in 1952. Trustee since December 2004. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School (retired 2011). Chief investment officer and co-managing partner of HighVista Strategies LLC (private investment firm). Overseer of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

Sarah Bloom Raskin

Born in 1961. Trustee since January 2018. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: deputy secretary (2014–2017) of the United States Department of the Treasury. Governor (2010–2014) of the Federal Reserve Board. Commissioner (2007–2010) of financial regulation for the State of Maryland. Member of the board of directors (2012–2014) of Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. Director of i(x) Investments, LLC.

Peter F. Volanakis

Born in 1955. Trustee since July 2009. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: president and chief operating officer (retired 2010) of Corning Incorporated (communications equipment) and director of Corning Incorporated (2000–2010) and Dow Corning (2001–2010). Director (2012) of SPX Corporation (multi-industry manufacturing). Overseer of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College (2001–2013). Chairman of the board of trustees of Colby-Sawyer College. Member of the Board of Hypertherm Inc. (industrial cutting systems, software, and consumables).


 

Executive Officers

Glenn Booraem

Born in 1967. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard. Investment stewardship officer (2017–present), treasurer (2015–2017), controller (2010–2015), and assistant controller (2001–2010) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard.

Christine M. Buchanan

Born in 1970. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard and global head of Fund Administration at Vanguard. Treasurer (2017–present) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Partner (2005–2017) at KPMG LLP (audit, tax, and advisory services).

Brian Dvorak

Born in 1973. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard. Chief compliance officer (2017–present) of Vanguard and each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Assistant vice president (2017–present) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Vice president and director of Enterprise Risk Management (2011–2013) at Oppenheimer Funds, Inc.

Thomas J. Higgins

Born in 1957. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard. Chief financial officer (2008–present) and treasurer (1998–2008) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard.

Peter Mahoney

Born in 1974. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: principal of Vanguard. Controller (2015–present) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Head of International Fund Services (2008–2014) at Vanguard.

Anne E. Robinson

Born in 1970. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: general counsel (2016–present) of Vanguard. Secretary (2016–present) of Vanguard and of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Managing director (2016–present) of Vanguard. Director and senior vice president (2016–2018) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Managing director and general counsel of Global Cards and Consumer Services (2014–2016) at Citigroup. Counsel (2003–2014) at American Express.

Michael Rollings

Born in 1963. Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and other experience: finance director (2017–present) and treasurer (2017) of each of the investment companies served by Vanguard. Managing director (2016–present) of Vanguard. Chief financial officer (2016–present) of Vanguard. Director (2016–present) of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Executive vice president and chief financial officer (2006–2016) of MassMutual Financial Group.

Vanguard Senior Management Team
 
Joseph Brennan Chris D. McIsaac
Mortimer J. Buckley James M. Norris
Gregory Davis Thomas M. Rampulla
John James Karin A. Risi
Martha G. King Anne E. Robinson
John T. Marcante Michael Rollings

 

Chairman Emeritus and Senior Advisor

John J. Brennan
Chairman, 1996–2009
Chief Executive Officer and President, 1996–2008

Founder

John C. Bogle
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, 1974–1996


 

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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. All members of the Audit Committee have been determined by the Registrant’s Board of Trustees to be Audit Committee Financial Experts and to be independent: JoAnn Heffernan Heisen, F. Joseph Loughrey, Mark Loughridge, Sarah Bloom Raskin, and Peter F. Volanakis.


 

Item 4: Principal Accountant Fees and Services.

(a) Audit Fees.

Audit Fees of the Registrant

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2018: $306,000
Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2017: $322,000

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

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2018: $9,734,277
Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2017: $8,424,459

Includes fees billed in connection with audits of the Registrant, other registered investment
companies in the Vanguard complex, The Vanguard Group, Inc. and Vanguard Marketing
Corporation.

(b) Audit-Related Fees.

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2018: $5,581,336
Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2017: $3,194,093

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

(c) Tax Fees.

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2018: $347,985
Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2017: $274,313

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

(d) All Other Fees.

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2018: $0
Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2017: $0

Includes fees billed for services related to tax reported information provided to the Registrant, other registered investment companies in the Vanguard complex, The Vanguard Group, Inc., and Vanguard Marketing Corporation.


 

(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: the Registrant, other registered investment companies in the Vanguard complex, The Vanguard Group, Inc., and entities controlled by The Vanguard Group, Inc. that provide ongoing services to the Registrant. 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: the Registrant, other registered investment companies in the Vanguard complex, The Vanguard Group, Inc., or other entities controlled by The Vanguard Group, Inc. that provide ongoing services to the Registrant.

     (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 September 30, 2018: $347,985
Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2017: $274,313

Includes fees billed for non-audit services provided to the Registrant, other registered investment companies in the Vanguard complex, The Vanguard Group, Inc., and Vanguard Marketing Corporation.

(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: Audit Committee of Listed Registrants.

The Registrant is a listed issuer as defined in rule 10A-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Exchange Act”). The Registrant has a separately-designated standing audit committee established in accordance with Section 3(a)(58)(A) of the Exchange Act. The Registrant’s audit committee members are: JoAnn Heffernan Heisen, F. Joseph Loughrey, Mark Loughridge, Sarah Bloom Raskin, and Peter F. Volanakis.

Item 6: Investments.

Not Applicable.

Item 7: Disclosure of Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures for Closed-End Management Investment Companies.

Not Applicable.

Item 8: Portfolio Managers of Closed-End Management Investment Companies.

Not Applicable.

Item 9: Purchase of Equity Securities by Closed-End Management Investment Company and Affiliated Purchasers.

Not Applicable.

Item 10: Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

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: Disclosure of Securities Lending Activities for Closed-End Management Investment Companies.

Not Applicable.


 

Item 13: 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 MALVERN FUNDS

 
 

/s/ MORTIMER J. BUCKLEY*

BY:

MORTIMER J. BUCKLEY
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

 

Date: November 16, 2018

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 MALVERN FUNDS

/s/ MORTIMER J. BUCKLEY *

BY:

MORTIMER J. BUCKLEY
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

 

Date: November 16, 2018

 

VANGUARD MALVERN FUNDS

/s/ THOMAS J. HIGGINS*

BY:

THOMAS J. HIGGINS
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

 

Date: November 16, 2018

* By: /s/ Anne E. Robinson

Anne E. Robinson, pursuant to a Power of Attorney filed on January 18, 2018 see file Number 33-32216, Incorporated by Reference.