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VANGUARD BALANCED INDEX FUND

Index fundAllocation (multi-asset)Tracks the CRSP US Total Market IndexOpen-end fund
VANGUARD VALLEY FORGE FUNDS: VBINX · VBIAX · VBAIXHoldings as of Jun 30, 2026Filed Aug 28, 2026

Aggressive allocation fund · tracks CRSP US Total Market Index

As of its 2026 Q2 report, VANGUARD BALANCED INDEX FUND held 16,317 positions with $63.72B in net assets. Its ten largest holdings made up 20.4% of the fund. The VBINX share class costs 0.18% a year. Over the 12 months to May 2026, VBINX returned 19.6%, with dividends reinvested. In 2026 Q2 it added 759 new positions and exited 475.

2026 Q2 holdings and allocationChanges are against the previous quarter, 2026 Q1Headline fees and returns use the VBINX share class
Expense ratio · VBINX
0.18%
$18 a year for every $10,000 invested
0.04% – 0.18% across the 3 classes
$63.72B
The whole fund, all share classes
16,317 holdings
20.4%in the top 10
Weight held in the ten largest holdings
Top 25 hold 29.4%
Return, 1 year · VBINX
+19.6%
With dividends, to May 2026
3 yr total +53.7% · 5 yr total +45.5%
What this fund is
Objective, as filed

With 60% of its assets, Vanguard Balanced Index Fund (the Fund) seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of the overall U.S. stock market. With 40% of its assets, the Fund seeks to track the performance of a broad, market-weighted bond index.

Strategy, summarised

The fund tracks two indexes by sampling: the CRSP US Total Market Index with 60% of assets and the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Float Adjusted Index with 40% of assets. The equity portion covers the full U.S. stock market across all capitalizations, while the bond portion spans investment-grade government, corporate, mortgage-backed, and asset-backed securities with maturities over one year. Because the fund samples rather than holds all index constituents, its returns may diverge from the indexes it seeks to track.

What you own

per cent of the fund
CompanyWeightValue
3.90%
$2.48B
3.60%
$2.29B
2.35%
$1.50B
1.96%
$1.25B
1.78%
$1.13B
Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund
1.72%
$1.09B
1.52%
$965.81M
1.40%
$890.88M
1.10%
$703.01M
1.05%
$668.07M
Showing 1–10 of 16,317 · the top 10 are 20.36% of the fund, the top 25 are 29.37%

Reported price is the fund's own reported value divided by its own reported shares at 2026-06-30 — not a live quote, and not what the fund paid.

The 200 largest of 16,317 holdings, with the share counts as filed, open with a free account.

What the fund is made of

Percentages are of fund net assets. Rounding, liabilities and short positions can make totals differ from 100%.

100.91%
of net assets
Stocks61.22%
Bonds29.87%
Securitized8.10%
Cash & short-term1.72%
Derivatives-0.00%

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.

By sector

Information Technology
22.3%
Government
19.3%
Financials
9.3%
Securitized
8.1%
12 other sectors
41.0%

How it has done

Total return, dividends reinvested · to May 2026

VBINX share class · total returns with dividends reinvested

1 year
+19.56%
3 years
+53.70%
Cumulative, not per year
5 years
+45.55%
Cumulative, not per year
Largest decline in 3 years
-7.38%
From a previous high to a later low
Cumulative return, last three years· Jul 2023 – May 2026

Volatility over the last 12 months: 8.37%. Past returns are a record, not a forecast.

Jun 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.

The 3 share classes hold the same portfolio

Share classExpense ratio1 year3 years5 yearsWorst fall
0.18%+19.56%+53.70%+45.55%-7.38%
0.07%+19.69%+54.18%+46.35%-7.33%
0.04%+19.70%+54.26%+46.42%-7.32%

These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 0.87pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 0.17pp a year — not a difference in what they own.

Fees & fund details

VANGUARD BALANCED INDEX FUND is an aggressive allocation fund that tracks the CRSP US Total Market Index. 22% of VBINX’s stock holdings are in companies whose revenue grew in the top quartile of U.S. companies over the last five fiscal years (covering 99% of the fund’s equity).

Asset class
Allocation (multi-asset)
Region
United States
Management
Index (passive)
Fund type
Open-end fund
Equity exposure
Aggressive
Expense ratio, by class
0.04% – 0.18%· VBINX 0.18%
Portfolio turnover
31.00% a year · as of 2026 Q2

Turnover is how much of the portfolio was replaced in a year.

Classified from what the fund holds, not from its name · 2026 Q2. The summary is a paraphrase of the prospectus; the objective is verbatim.

What changed this quarter

2026 Q2 vs 2026 Q1

Positions that entered or left the fund since its previous filing. Positions that were only resized are not listed.

759 new· the largest 1

United States Treasury Note/Bond
8 holdings

475 exited· the largest 1

United States Treasury Note/Bond
8 holdings

Debt profile

What this fund holds — value-weighted across its bond and securitized long positions · as of 2026-06-30

Avg coupon
3.91%
Avg maturity
11.70 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.

5%
floating
Fixed rate94.9%
Floating rate5.1%
Maturity ladder

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

<1y10y+
<1y1.4%
1-3y23.5%
3-5y16.8%
5-10y19.6%
10y+38.7%
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 2026Q2

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

2.20 yr
approx. move per 100bp
1.08 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.

≈ -3.5%
of value
Interest rates67%
Credit spreads33%

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.

+1.08
yrs total
Investment grade+1.07 yr
High yield+0.01 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 rate2.20 yr total
3 mo30 yr
3 mo0.00 yr0%
1 yr0.26 yr12%
5 yr0.62 yr28%
10 yr0.84 yr38%
30 yr0.47 yr22%
Credit spread1.08 yr total
3 mo30 yr
3 mo0.00 yr0%
1 yr0.10 yr10%
5 yr0.31 yr28%
10 yr0.45 yr42%
30 yr0.21 yr20%

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+0.00+0.00+0.00$20.4k$109
1 yr+0.26+0.10+0.00$648.9k$4.6k
5 yr+0.62+0.30+0.00$1.93m$15.9k
10 yr+0.84+0.45+0.00$2.86m$24.6k
30 yr+0.47+0.21+0.00$1.34m$12.3k

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

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