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Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Portfolio

Overview

Unit Price as of 10/21/2024 $10.17
Change -$0.07 -0.68%
Expense Ratio as of 10/21/2024 0.59%
Inception Date 05/10/2019

Investment Objective

The Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Portfolio seeks to track the performance of a broad, market-weighted index.

Investment Strategy

The Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Portfolio invests all of its assets in Vanguard® Total Bond Market Index Fund. The Fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Float Adjusted Index. This Index measures a wide spectrum of public, investment grade, taxable fixed income securities in the United States-including government, corporate, and international dollar-denominated bonds, as well as mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities-all with maturities of more than one year. The Fund invests by sampling the Index, meaning that it holds a broadly diversified collection of securities that, in the aggregate, approximates the full Index in terms of key risk factors and other characteristics. All of the Fund's investments will be selected through the sampling process, and at least 80% of the Fund's assets will be invested in bonds in the index. The Fund maintains a dollar-weighted average maturity consistent with that of the Index, which generally ranges between five and ten years.

Investment Risks

Because it invests entirely in a bond fund, the Portfolio primarily is subject to moderate levels of interest rate risk, income risk, call risk, prepayment risk, and extension risk, and low levels of credit risk, index sampling risk and derivatives risk.

Average Annual Returns - Updated Monthly as of 09/30/2024

Name 1 year 3 year 5 year 10 year Since Inception 05/10/2019
Name Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Portfolio 1 year 10.66% 3 year -2.03% 5 year -0.19% 10 year — Since Inception 05/10/2019 0.69%
Name Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Float Adjusted Index 1 year 11.47% 3 year -1.38% 5 year 0.36% 10 year — Since Inception 05/10/2019 1.30%

Annual Investment Returns

Year Ended Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Portfolio
Year Ended 2023 Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Portfolio 5.05%
Year Ended 2022 Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Portfolio -13.71%
Year Ended 2021 Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Portfolio -2.31%
Year Ended 2020 Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Portfolio 8.05%
Year Ended 2019 *** Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Portfolio 4.30%

*** Since inception on 05/10/2019

Historical Prices

10/21/2024 $10.17
10/18/2024 $10.24
10/17/2024 $10.24
10/16/2024 $10.28
10/15/2024 $10.27

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Index performance is provided as a benchmark but is not illustrative of any particular investment. An investment cannot be made in an index.

The performance data shown represents past performance. Past performance - especially short-term past performance - is not a guarantee of future results. Investment returns and principal value will fluctuate, so investors' units, when sold, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Current performance may be higher or lower than the performance data cited. For performance data current to the most recent month-end click here.

You could lose money by investing in the Income and Money Market Portfolio's investments in the Vanguard Federal Money Market Fund. Although the money market fund in which your investment option invests (the "underlying fund") seeks to preserve its value at $1.00 per share, the underlying fund cannot guarantee it will do so. An investment in this investment option is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The underlying fund's sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to the underlying fund, and you should not expect that the sponsor will provide financial support to the underlying fund at any time.