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Vanguard Co.

A collection of 63 posts

Weekly Brief

Don’t Rush for the Exit

Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failures | Money Market funds | Is Vanguard Safe? (Yes) | Inflation check-in | Supplemental distributions ahead

| 11 min read
Quick Take

Proxy Pilot

An update on Vanguard's pilot proxy voting program.

| 2 min read
Quick Take

Alternative Costs

Did Alternative Strategies (VASFX) run into some trouble earlier this year? Some time between November 2021 and April 2022 Vanguard paid $637,000 into the fund to cover “higher-than-anticipated costs associated with short sale transactions.” As you may recall, the fund uses a variety of strategies to achieve a goal

| 2 min read
IVA Research

Who Are Vanguard’s Pros?

Vanguard has increasingly turned to outside help, and it’s costing shareholders millions.

| 1 min read
Quick Take

No More Cuts

Prices of goods and services of all shapes and sizes shot higher last year. Not even Vanguard, historically a cost-cutting machine, was able to buck the trend. Yes, costs (read, expense ratios) rose at Vanguard in 2022.

| 2 min read
IVA Research

How Clear Is Vanguard’s Crystal Ball?

Vanguard’s annual economic and market outlook has just been published and will no doubt garner some interest in part because it runs to almost 60 pages—long enough to suggest that it must be right. But quantity doesn’t always equal quality or accuracy!  So, if you’re going

| 5 min read