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About Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF
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Inception date
Nov 19, 2009
Structure
Open-Ended Fund
Distributes
Capital Gains
Max ST capital gains rate
39.60%
Max LT capital gains rate
20.00%
Tax on distributions
Ordinary income
Primary advisor
The Vanguard Group, Inc.
Distributor
Vanguard Marketing Corp.
The fund is passively managed to provide exposure to the investment grade segment of the US corporate bond space. It defines short-term bonds as bonds that mature within the next 1 to 5 years. This definition extends beyond many of its competitors 1- to 3-year coverage, but is still a reasonable take on the short-term space. Unsurprisingly, the fund has a weighted average maturity thats typically about 1 year longer than its peers. It usually has a higher effective duration too, meaning its more sensitive to changes in interest rates. The fund utilizes a sampling strategy to track its index. which means it will invest in a sample of securities that collectively have an investment profile similar to that of the underlying index.
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Returns
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What's in the fund
Exposure type
Corporate
Stocks0.02%
Finance0.02%
Bonds, Cash & Other99.98%
Corporate99.86%
Government0.10%
Cash0.03%
Top 10 holdings
Dividends
Dividend payout history