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Vanguard Group, The
100 Vanguard Blvd
Malvern, PA  19355
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Main Phone: 800-523-1036
Web Site: http://vanguard.com/

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    • Background:
    The only mutually-owned mutual fund firm, the Vanguard Group of Mutual Funds is known for its index funds and low-cost actively managed funds. Typically, its actively managed funds rely on subadvisors for their portfolio management. Its ownership structure, use of subadvisors and scale as an indexer have enabled Vanguard to build a reputation as the lowest cost mutual fund provider while propelling it to become (by 2015, if not earlier), in the words of one industry watcher, "the most dominant fund company in history." As of the end of 2016, that dominance shows now signs of slowing down.

    That low-cost philosophy has dictated aspects of Vanguard's strategic evolution. Because its funds carry no distribution fees or 12b-1 charges, it does not pay revenue sharing to distribution partners. In the 401(k) market, Vanguard traditionally limited offering its recordkeeping services to the large plan market where plans are sold directly. Yet Vanguard now also partners with Ascensus to reach small market 401(k) plans via TPAs and advisors.

    On the retail side of its business, its funds carry larger-than-average minimum purchase requirements as its low revenue per dollar of AUM make very small accounts unprofitable.

    Vanguard's roots date to 1928 when Walter L. Morgan founded the Wellington Fund. Vanguard itself was founded by John "Jack" Bogle in September 1974 to act as the advisor to the Wellington Fund. In January of that year Wellington Management had fired Bogle as its CEO and president. However, the independent board of the Wellington Funds had voted to retain Bogle as the mutual funds chairman.

    Bogle brought his vision of low cost investing and indexing along with an innovative ownership structure to what he called his "Vanguard experiment". Since its founding Vanguard has been mutually owned by the shareholders in the mutual funds that it sponsors. That ownership structure remains unique among major fund firms.

    Its first mutual fund was the Vanguard Wellington Fund for which Wellington served as the subadvisor.

    Vanguard did not launch its first index fund -- First Index Investment Trust (now Index 500) -- until 1976, nearly two years after its founding.

    Vanguard hires subadvisors to manage its non-indexed funds.

    In 1977 Vanguard dropped sales-loads on its funds and adopted a direct-sold distribution strategy. That year it also adopted a "defined maturity" structure for its bond funds, dividing its funds into short, intermediate and long-term portfolios. A year later it began managing a portion of its fixed income investments in-house rather than through a subadvisor.

    In 2000, Vanguard created the Admiral share class to pass on the lower costs of administering large balance accounts to those shareholders.

    Jack Brennan took the CEO reins from Bogle in 1999. William McNabb succeeded Brennan as CEO at the end of August 2008.

    Employees at Vanguard are known as "crew" members and the fund firm's headquarters is known as the "shipyard" and even the dining rooms are known as "galleys". The motif and Vanguard's name derives from Lord Horatio Nelson's fleet at the battle of the Nile. Nelson's flagship at the battle was theHMS Vanguard.

    The low-cost juggernaut now manages over $3.5 trillion as of June 30, 2016.
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    Tim Buckley
    President, CEO, Director, The Vanguard Group
    Bill McNabb
    Chairman, The Vanguard Group
    Tom Rampulla
    Managing Director, Head of U.S. Financial Intermediaries Business, Vanguard
    Martha King
    Managing Director, Head of Institutional Investor Group, Vanguard
    Chris McIsaac
    Managing Director, Planning and Development Group, Vanguard Group, The
    Karin Risi
    Managing Director, Retail Investor Group, Vanguard Group, The
    Greg Davis
    Chief Investment Officer, Managing Director, Vanguard Group, The
    Anne Robinson
    General Counsel, Vanguard Group, The
    Mike Rollings
    Chief Financial Officer, Managing Director of the Finance Division, Vanguard Group, The
    Jim Norris
    Managing Director of International Operations, The Vanguard Group
    Glenn Reed
    Managing Director, Strategy Division, The Vanguard Group
    Kathy Gubanich
    Managing Director, Human Resources, The Vanguard Group
    Pauline Scalvino
    Head of Corporate Strategy, Vanguard
    Melissa Nassar
    Principal, Retail Investor Services: Business Development Group, Vanguard
    John Marcante
    Head of Information Technology, Vanguard Group, The
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    3/16/2020 Inflows Plunge By 69 Percent MFWire.com
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    2/6/2020 A Trillion-Dollar Fund? MFWire.com
    1/23/2020 JPMAM Keeps Its Lead MFWire.com
    1/22/2020 Industry Inflows Proportionately Doubled In 2019 MFWire.com
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    10/18/2019 A Focused Growth Shop Wins in September MFWire.com
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    8/12/2019 One Fund Firm's Inflows Fall $38B In a Month MFWire.com
    8/1/2019 A Vanguard Marketer Shifts MFWire.com
    7/22/2019 Pimco and BlackRock Win In June MFWire.com
    7/15/2019 The Three ETF Titans Crushed It In June MFWire.com
    6/28/2019 The $1T ETF AUM Club Doubles MFWire.com
    6/25/2019 Will the Low-Cost Leviathan Retry This Next? MFWire.com
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    6/13/2019 The Leviathan Recovers the Pole Position MFWire.com
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    5/20/2019 Fidelity Both Won and Lost Last Month MFWire.com
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    4/16/2019 Fidelity and T. Rowe Lead This New Old Awards Race MFWire.com
    4/15/2019 The Largest Firms Gobble 98 Percent of Flows MFWire.com
    3/29/2019 BlackRock and a Top BlackRock Alum Both Win Big MFWire.com
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    3/18/2019 A $100B Family Office Takes the Fund Flows Lead MFWire.com
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    3/8/2019 T. Rowe, Fidelity, Pimco and OpFunds Crush It In Gotham MFWire.com
    2/21/2019 Flows Rebound, and Vanguard Retakes the Lead MFWire.com
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    1/29/2019 Bridge Builder Won Proportionately Last Year, But Not In December MFWire.com
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    1/18/2019 Only Five Behemoths Netted December Inflows MFWire.com
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    11/19/2018 Two-Thirds of the Giants Suffer Outflows MFWire.com
    11/1/2018 McNabb Finishes Passing the Vanguard Baton MFWire.com
    10/17/2018 New Lens: Active vs Passive Winners MFWire.com
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    8/13/2018 Flows Brighten, and Passive Titans Lead MFWire.com
    8/7/2018 Richard Bernstein Takes the Lead Proportionately MFWire.com
    7/26/2018 When FAs Want Portfolio Construction Help, They Turn to ... MFWire.com
    7/16/2018 Vanguard Retakes the Lead as Flows Plunge MFWire.com
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    6/29/2018 There's a New Reigning Champ Among Fund Firms MFWire.com
    6/25/2018 Week In Preview, June 25-July 1 MFWire.com
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    5/18/2018 The Fund Firm With the Best Advisor Rep Is ... MFWire.com
    4/27/2018 As Long-Term Flows Rebound, Vanguard Keeps the Lead MFWire.com
    4/20/2018 UBS Led This Pack As Vanguard Retook Another Crown MFWire.com
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    3/13/2018 Natixis and Vanguard Win Active Praise MFWire.com
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    2/26/2018 Despite a Shift, Passive Titans Still Dominated January Flows MFWire.com
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    2/16/2018 After Passing the Vanguard Reins, McNabb Adds a Midwestern Hat MFWire.com
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    1/25/2018 Two Fund Firms, One $555B Year MFWire.com
    1/25/2018 SSgA Had a Great December MFWire.com
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    1/12/2018 T. Rowe, Fido, and Pimco Lead This Awards Race MFWire.com
    1/5/2018 Buckley Took Over Vanguard. What's Next? MFWire.com
    1/3/2018 A 30-Year Columbia Vet Helps Launch a Private Wealth Group MFWire.com
    12/21/2017 Even Vanguard and BlackRock Slowed Down a Bit MFWire.com
    11/27/2017 Guggenheim Rocks October as Two Titans Keep Gobbling MFWire.com
    10/30/2017 Week In Preview, October 30-November 5 MFWire.com
    10/24/2017 Despite a Delay, Nally Sticks to His NTF ETF Guns MFWire.com
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    9/11/2017 Filings For Fundsters - September 11, 2017 MFWire.com
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    8/25/2017 Filings For Fundsters - August 25, 2017 MFWire.com
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    8/21/2017 Vanguard and BlackRock Eclipse the Competition, Again MFWire.com
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    7/18/2017 Follow the Fundsters - July 18, 2017 MFWire.com
    7/14/2017 The $4.4T Man Exits As the Good Times Keep Rolling MFWire.com
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