VANGUARD WELLESLEY INCOME FUND

VANGUARD WELLESLEY INCOME FUND · Series S000004405 · 2 share classes

Bond fund · 61% debt· rate + credit risk filed
One fund, 2 share classes:VWINXVWIAX
$47.43B NAV
1,524 positions · as of 2026-03-31 · filed 2026-05-28
data updated 2026-08-17

Fund profile

As filed in the prospectus · 2026 Q1

Vanguard Wellesley Income Fund (the Fund) seeks to provide long-term growth of income and a high and sustainable level of current income, along with moderate long-term capital appreciation.

Strategy · summarised

The fund allocates approximately 60% to 65% of assets to investment-grade fixed income securities selected for current income, including corporate bonds, Treasuries, agency debt, and mortgage-backed securities, and the remainder to dividend-focused common stocks with a value orientation. Active management of security selection means fund holdings may diverge from any benchmark.

Expenses
0.15% 0.22%across 2 share classes
Share classExpense ratio
VWINX0.22%
VWIAX0.15%

Portfolio turnover 63.00% · as of 2026 Q1

Allocation

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

99.51%
of net assets
Bonds57.95%
Stocks37.19%
Securitized2.71%
Cash & short-term1.65%
Derivatives0.01%

Derivatives are shown at market value, not notional exposure.

Latest quarter

What changed since the fund's previous filing

2026Q1 vs 2025Q4: 145 new157 exited

Largest new: United States Treasury Note/Bond ×4, FANG, ICE, CMS, COF

Largest exited: United States Treasury Note/Bond ×2, JPM, MS, Coterra Energy Inc, Roche Holding AG, AstraZeneca PLC, IEX

Return profile

Chart:

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

Share class1-year3-year5-yearVolWorst 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
4.39%
Avg maturity
10.87 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.

16%
floating
Fixed rate83.8%
Floating rate16.2%
Maturity ladder

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

<1y10y+
<1y1.4%
1-3y17.3%
3-5y20.8%
5-10y25.6%
10y+34.9%
Flagged holdings
Defaulted: none reported
In arrears: none reported
Paid in kind: none reported

Based on what filers reported; a filer that never reported a flag also reads as none.

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
3.96 yr
approx. move per 100bp
Credit-spread duration
3.13 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.

≈ -7.0%
of value
Interest rates56%
Credit spreads44%

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.

+3.13
yrs total
Investment grade+3.12 yr
High yield+0.01 yr
Where the risk sits on the curve

Share of duration at each point, shortest first. A positive figure loses value when spreads widen; a negative one offsets — a credit hedge.

Interest rate3.96 yr total
3 mo30 yr
3 mo0.01 yr0%
1 yr0.35 yr9%
5 yr1.08 yr27%
10 yr1.58 yr40%
30 yr0.94 yr24%
Credit spread3.13 yr total
3 mo30 yr
3 mo0.01 yr0%
1 yr0.25 yr8%
5 yr0.82 yr26%
10 yr1.29 yr41%
30 yr0.76 yr24%

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$38.0k$64
1 yr+0.35+0.25+0.00$1.17m$2.1k
5 yr+1.08+0.82+0.00$3.90m$8.3k
10 yr+1.58+1.28+0.01$6.07m$31.1k
30 yr+0.94+0.76+0.00$3.61m$7.7k

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
Broadcom IncAVGO1.79%$848.95M
Merck & Co IncMRK1.18%$557.60M
United States Treasury Note/Bond3.50% · due 2031-02-281.06%$501.28M
Diamondback Energy IncFANG0.94%$446.77M
Johnson & JohnsonJNJ0.93%$442.59M
Bank of America CorpBAC0.86%$407.37M
Cisco Systems IncCSCO0.81%$381.70M
Unilever PLC0.76%$359.27M
United States Treasury Note/Bond4.13% · due 2036-02-150.73%$344.22M
T-Mobile US IncTMUS0.72%$341.25M
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Reported price is the fund's own reported value divided by its own reported shares at 2026-03-31 — not a live quote, and not what the fund paid.

Top 10 positions are 9.76% of net assets, top 25 18.39%, across 513 issuers.

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