VANGUARD TAX-MANAGED BALANCED FUND

VANGUARD TAX-MANAGED FUNDS · Series S000004383 · 1 share classes

Bond fund · 57% debt· rate + credit risk filed
One fund, 1 share classes:VTMFX
$11.33B NAV
4,704 positions · as of 2026-03-31 · filed 2026-05-28
data updated 2026-08-10

Fund profile

As filed in the prospectus · 2026 Q2

Vanguard Tax-Managed Balanced Fund (the Fund) seeks to provide a tax-efficient return consisting of federally tax-exempt income, long-term capital appreciation, and a modest amount of taxable current income.

Strategy · summarised

The fund invests approximately 50% to 55% of assets in high-quality municipal securities with a dollar-weighted average maturity of 6 to 12 years, and allocates the remainder primarily to common stocks sampled from the Russell 1000 Index to approximate its risk factors and characteristics while minimizing capital gains and income taxes. Because the fund must maintain at least 50% of assets in tax-exempt obligations at quarter-end to distribute tax-exempt income, it may be required to sell equity securities to meet this threshold, which can trigger capital gains distributions. The fund's use of statistical sampling means its equity holdings may diverge from the Russell 1000 Index.

Expenses
0.05%one share class
Share classExpense ratio
VTMFX0.05%

Portfolio turnover 15.00% · as of 2026 Q2

Allocation

Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q1

99.41%
of net assets
Bonds57.13%
Stocks42.15%
Securitized0.22%
Derivatives-0.10%

The outer band is exposure held short — written against the portfolio rather than part of it, which is why it sits outside the ring and why the two are never netted into one figure.

Derivatives are shown at market value, not notional exposure.

Latest quarter

What changed since the fund's previous filing

vs 2025Q4: 394 new189 exited

Largest new: Harris County Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corp, New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority, Pennsylvania Higher Educational Facilities Authority, City of New York NY, Illinois Finance Authority, City of Minneapolis MN, Black Belt Energy Gas District, Missouri Development Finance Board

Largest exited: University of California ×2, Bay Area Toll Authority, Connecticut State Health & Educational Facilities Authority ×3, District of Columbia Water & Sewer Authority, Harris County Health Facilities Development Corp

Return profile

Total return as filed — price change plus distributions reinvested · trailing figures to Feb 2026

1-year
3-year
5-year
Volatility
Worst 3-yr fall
Cumulative return· Apr 2023 – Feb 2026

Mar 2026 has been filed since the trailing figures were struck, so it is not in the table above or the curve — every figure here shares one cut-off, which is what makes them comparable with other funds.

Debt profile

What this fund holds — value-weighted across its bond and securitized long positions · as of 2026-03-31

Avg coupon
4.45%
Avg maturity
14.28 yr
Coupon type

Share of the fund's debt by how its coupon behaves — the fact that decides whether a rate move reaches this portfolio at all.

24%
floating
Fixed rate73.5%
Floating rate24.4%
Zero-coupon or unclassified2.1%
Maturity ladder

Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.

<1y10y+
<1y1.8%
1-3y4.2%
3-5y5.7%
5-10y24.7%
10y+63.6%
Flagged holdings
Defaulted: 0.00% · $0.02M · 5 positions
In arrears: 0.00% · $0.02M · 4 positions
Paid in kind: none reported

These three overlap — one holding can be in arrears and paying in kind at once — so they are shown separately and never summed.

Risk profile

Interest-rate and credit-spread sensitivity, both in years · as of 2026Q1

Most of this fund’s sensitivity is to interest rates, with credit spreads carrying nearly as much.

Interest-rate duration
3.51 yr
approx. move per 100bp
Credit-spread duration
2.90 yr
approx. move per 100bp
If rates and spreads both rise 100bp

Where the loss would come from. The two shocks are the same size, so this is the balance of the fund's two sensitivities rather than a bet on one moving more.

≈ -6.5%
of value
Interest rates55%
Credit spreads45%

Filers report the impact of a 0.01% move only, so the total is our own scaling of that one number and overstates the loss on most bonds — read it as approximate, never as precise. The two sensitivities overlap rather than add up: they measure the same positions against different shocks, which is why the durations above are shown side by side and never summed.

Credit risk by quality

Share of the fund's spread duration carried by each credit tier.

+2.90
yrs total
Investment grade+2.88 yr
High yield+0.03 yr
Where the risk sits on the curve

Share of duration at each point, shortest first. This filer signs its rate and credit disclosures differently; the direction shown follows its interest-rate filing, and a negative reading is the least-supported figure here.

Interest rate3.51 yr total
3 mo30 yr
3 mo0.01 yr0%
1 yr0.22 yr6%
5 yr0.88 yr25%
10 yr1.90 yr54%
30 yr0.49 yr14%
Credit spread2.90 yr total
3 mo30 yr
3 mo0.01 yr0%
1 yr0.18 yr6%
5 yr0.71 yr24%
10 yr1.59 yr55%
30 yr0.42 yr15%

The two bands measure the same positions against different shocks and do not add — a Treasury carries rate duration and no spread duration, a floating-rate credit the reverse. Rate tenors are also summed across every currency the fund discloses.

Show the numbers
TenorRate yrsIG yrsHY yrsIG $/bpHY $/bp
3 mo+0.01+0.01+0.00$11.8k$111
1 yr+0.22+0.18+0.00$200.4k$2.3k
5 yr+0.88+0.70+0.01$791.1k$8.9k
10 yr+1.90+1.57+0.01$1.78m$16.8k
30 yr+0.49+0.42+0.00$476.3k$1.7k

Dollar change per 1bp of spread movement, as filed and sign-anchored. A blank cell was not filed; a zero was.

Holdings

By % of NAV · equity positions carry filed share counts · every resolvable issuer links to its company page

Issuer%NAVValue
NVIDIA CorpNVDA2.87%$325.07M
Apple IncAAPL2.58%$292.69M
Microsoft CorpMSFT1.93%$218.73M
Amazon.com IncAMZN1.41%$159.38M
Alphabet IncGOOG1.19%$135.05M
Broadcom IncAVGO1.00%$113.73M
Alphabet IncGOOGL0.94%$106.50M
Meta Platforms IncMETA0.88%$99.69M
Tesla IncTSLA0.74%$84.02M
Berkshire Hathaway IncBRK/B0.64%$72.75M
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Top 10 positions are 14.19% of net assets, top 25 19.58%, across 2.0K issuers.

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