Archive for the 'Vanguard Mutual Funds' Category

Vanguard REIT Index VIPERS (VNQ)

The Vanguard REIT Index VIPERS (VNQ) is a domestic stock type fund that makes investments in the sector of real estate only. This fund cannot be purchased by individuals, but can be obtained thru a broker. This is considered a middle size value blend type of fund that has long term high returns with moderate [...]

Vanguard STAR Fund (VGSTX)

The Vanguard STAR Fund (VGSTX) is a diversified fund that has shown to be a solid long term investment as a large blend type of investment. The investment strategy of this fund is to have a balanced allocation of investments with 60% to 70% of the fund being in stocks, 20% to 30% being in [...]

Vanguard GNMA Fund Investor Shares (VFIIX)

The Vanguard GNMA Fund Investor Shares (VFIIX) is an intermediate term bond fund to help provide a moderate level of income. This is mainly a government national mortgage association securities that are backed by the US government to help ensure on time payments of the principals and interest.
This fund has total net assets of $36.2 [...]

Vanguard Short-Term Tax-Exempt Fund Investor Shares (VFSTX)

The Vanguard Short-Term Tax-Exempt Fund Investor Shares (VFSTX) is just like the name implies, a short-term, fixed-income, midquality investment grade securities. The manager of this fund is Bob Auwaerter. He has been a part of this fund since 1983. In May of 2008, Gregory Nassour was appointed to assist Bob and became a co-manager at [...]

Vanguard Mid-Cap Value Index Fund Investor Shares (VMVIX)

The Vanguard Mid-Cap Value Index Fund Investor Shares (VMVIX) is a mutual fund that was designed to track and mirror the performance of the MSCI® US Mid Cap Value Index. This is done by investing in stocks that have a mid-capitalization value in the domestic market.
The fund manager is Donald Butler and has been since [...]

Vanguard High-Yield Corporate Fund (VWEHX)

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Vanguard PRIMECAP Mutual Fund (VPMCX)

The Vanguard PRIMECAP Mutual Fund (VPMCX) is a large cap large growth fund that is considered a positive stand out amongst the other mutual funds. The investments made by the fund managers us a strategy of acquire long term capital appreciation from company stocks that show above average growth potential. There are six different fund [...]

Vanguard Money Market

There are 9 Vanguard Money Market funds for investors to place their money in with minimal risk. 6 of these funds are tax exempt and 3 are taxable.
There is the Admiral Treasury Money Market fund that has all of its $22.2 billion in assets in US Treasury Bills. Since its inception, this fund has had [...]

Emerging Markets Stock ETF (VWO)

The Emerging Markets Stock ETF or VWO has investments in the emerging large-cap markets. With a majority of the holdings in foreign stocks, the developing markets are fully covered with explosive potential like China.
There are 766 different stocks in this funds holding with the top 10 accounting for 14.67% of the total assets. Of those [...]

Vanguard Mega Cap 300 Growth ETF (MGK)

The Vanguard Mega Cap 300 Growth ETF (MGK) is a large growth, large market cap fund. This fund has 100% of all of the assets investing in stocks. The current stock price of this fund is at $42.54 on January 19, 2010. This fund has a total of $382.9 million in assets.
The top five holdings [...]