VANGUARD EMERGING MARKETS BOND FUND
Actively managed global bond fund
As of its 2026 Q2 report, VANGUARD EMERGING MARKETS BOND FUND held 291 positions with $5.84B in net assets. Its ten largest holdings made up 23.3% of the fund. The VEGBX share class costs 0.35% a year. Over the 12 months to May 2026, VEGBX returned 13.6%, with dividends reinvested. In 2026 Q2 it added 96 new positions and exited 95.
Vanguard Emerging Markets Bond Fund (the Fund) seeks to provide total return while generating a moderate level of current income.
The fund actively manages a portfolio of bonds issued by or tied to emerging market countries, including sovereign debt and corporate bonds of any maturity or quality, with the ability to hold unhedged foreign currency exposure. Because the fund may invest a large percentage of assets in issuers of a single country or small number of countries, concentration risk is material. The fund uses derivatives including futures, swaps, and forwards to adjust interest rate, currency, and market exposures rather than as direct investments.
What you own
| Company | Weight | Value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|
Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund | 3.26% | $190.54M | — |
United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.38% · due 2031-11-15 | 3.24% | $189.54M | — |
Saudi Government International Bond 5.88% · due 2056-01-12 | 2.83% | $165.36M | — |
Turkiye Government International Bond 6.38% · due 2031-05-22 | 2.48% | $144.68M | — |
Petroleos Mexicanos 8.75% · due 2029-06-02 | 2.43% | $141.84M | — |
Argentine Republic Government International Bond 0.75% floating · due 2030-07-09 | 2.18% | $127.19M | — |
Republic of Kenya Government International Bond 7.88% · due 2034-02-26 | 1.87% | $109.38M | — |
Indonesia Government International Bond 3.75% · due 2033-10-16 | 1.85% | $108.03M | — |
Ukraine Government International Bond 4.00% floating · due 2032-02-01 | 1.57% | $91.61M | — |
Dominican Republic International Bond 7.05% · due 2031-02-03 | 1.56% | $91.01M | — |
The 200 largest of 291 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%.
| Bonds | 95.67% |
| Cash & short-term | 3.26% |
| Derivatives | 0.03% |
Derivatives are shown at market value, not notional exposure.
How it has done
VEGBX share class · total returns with dividends reinvested
Volatility over the last 12 months: 5.47%. 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 2 share classes hold the same portfolio
| Share class | Expense ratio | 1 year | 3 years | 5 years | Worst fall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.35% | +13.64% | +39.58% | +23.70% | -4.33% | |
| 0.50% | +13.43% | +39.01% | +22.79% | -4.39% |
These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 0.91pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 0.18pp a year — not a difference in what they own.
Fees & fund details
VANGUARD EMERGING MARKETS BOND FUND is an actively managed global bond fund.
- Asset class
- Bonds
- Region
- Global
- Management
- Actively managed
- Fund type
- Open-end fund
- Credit quality
- Mixed credit
- Rate sensitivity
- Intermediate duration
- Features
- Non-diversified
- Expense ratio, by class
- 0.35% – 0.50%· VEGBX 0.35%
- Portfolio turnover
- 119.00% a year · as of 2026 Q1
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
Positions that entered or left the fund since its previous filing. Positions that were only resized are not listed.
96 new· the largest 8
95 exited· the largest 8
Debt profile
What this fund holds — value-weighted across its bond and securitized long positions · as of 2026-06-30
Share of the fund's debt by how its coupon behaves — the fact that decides whether a rate move reaches this portfolio at all.
| Fixed rate | 87.7% |
| Floating rate | 10.9% |
| Zero-coupon or unclassified | 1.4% |
Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.
| <1y | 2.7% |
| 1-3y | 10.3% |
| 3-5y | 18.9% |
| 5-10y | 41.4% |
| 10y+ | 26.6% |
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 2026Q2
Most of this fund’s sensitivity is to interest rates, with credit spreads carrying nearly as much.
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.
| Interest rates | 52% |
| Credit spreads | 48% |
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.
Share of the fund's spread duration carried by each credit tier.
| Investment grade | +2.67 yr |
| High yield | +2.57 yr |
Share of duration at each point, shortest first. A positive figure loses value when spreads widen; a negative one offsets — a credit hedge.
| 3 mo | 0.06 yr | 1% |
| 1 yr | 0.45 yr | 8% |
| 5 yr | 1.92 yr | 34% |
| 10 yr | 2.09 yr | 37% |
| 30 yr | 1.16 yr | 20% |
| 3 mo | 0.01 yr | 0% |
| 1 yr | 0.44 yr | 8% |
| 5 yr | 1.79 yr | 34% |
| 10 yr | 2.00 yr | 38% |
| 30 yr | 1.00 yr | 19% |
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
| Tenor | Rate yrs | IG yrs | HY yrs | IG $/bp | HY $/bp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | +0.06 | +0.01 | +0.01 | $3.0k | $5.2k |
| 1 yr | +0.45 | +0.12 | +0.32 | $69.8k | $187.1k |
| 5 yr | +1.92 | +0.87 | +0.92 | $507.1k | $538.1k |
| 10 yr | +2.09 | +1.06 | +0.94 | $619.1k | $547.5k |
| 30 yr | +1.16 | +0.62 | +0.38 | $361.9k | $223.4k |
Dollar change per 1bp of spread movement, as filed and sign-anchored. A blank cell was not filed; a zero was.
Duration contribution in years, summing to the fund's 5.68 yr.
This is where the fund's rate exposure sits, not its currency risk — most international bond funds hedge the currency back to dollars, and the size of those hedges is not in the filing. Tenors are also summed across curves, so a 5-year JPY point and a 5-year USD point are added together.
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