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VANGUARD INSTITUTIONAL INTERMEDIATE-TERM BOND FUND

Actively managedBondsOpen-end fund
VANGUARD MALVERN FUNDS: VIITXHoldings as of Jun 30, 2026Filed Aug 28, 2026

Actively managed U.S. bond fund

As of its 2026 Q2 report, VANGUARD INSTITUTIONAL INTERMEDIATE-TERM BOND FUND held 2,809 positions with $31.17B in net assets. Its ten largest holdings made up 5.7% of the fund. The VIITX share class costs 0.02% a year. Over the 12 months to May 2026, VIITX returned 5.0%, with dividends reinvested. In 2026 Q2 it added 355 new positions and exited 145.

2026 Q2 holdings and allocationChanges are against the previous quarter, 2026 Q1Headline fees and returns use the VIITX share class
Expense ratio · VIITX
0.02%
$2 a year for every $10,000 invested
one share class
$31.17B
The whole fund, all share classes
2,809 holdings
5.7%in the top 10
Weight held in the ten largest holdings
Top 25 hold 10.7%
Return, 1 year · VIITX
+5.0%
With dividends, to May 2026
3 yr total +15.0% · 5 yr total +7.4%
What this fund is
Objective, as filed

Vanguard Institutional Intermediate-Term Bond Fund (the Fund) seeks to provide a high level of current income consistent with the maintenance of principal and liquidity.

Strategy, summarised

The fund is actively managed and invests primarily in a diversified portfolio of short- and intermediate-term bonds rated A3 or better, maintaining a dollar-weighted average maturity of 3 to 10 years. It may use derivatives including interest rate swaps, credit default swaps, and fixed income futures, as well as take short positions in mortgage-backed securities. Because the fund's returns depend on the manager's security selection and use of derivatives, performance will diverge from any benchmark.

What you own

per cent of the fund
CompanyWeightValue
United States Treasury Note/Bond
3.50% · due 2028-01-31
0.82%
$254.28M
United States Treasury Note/Bond
3.50% · due 2027-10-31
0.67%
$208.22M
United States Treasury Note/Bond
3.50% · due 2028-11-15
0.63%
$196.99M
United States Treasury Note/Bond
4.25% · due 2029-06-30
0.56%
$172.90M
Freddie Mac Pool
2.00% · due 2051-03-01
0.54%
$167.67M
United States Treasury Note/Bond
4.50% · due 2029-05-31
0.53%
$165.87M
United States Treasury Note/Bond
1.00% · due 2028-07-31
0.49%
$152.54M
United States Treasury Note/Bond
3.88% · due 2029-04-15
0.49%
$152.01M
Ginnie Mae II Pool
2.00% · due 2051-08-20
0.49%
$151.54M
United States Treasury Note/Bond
3.50% · due 2029-09-30
0.48%
$149.91M
Showing 1–10 of 2,809 · the top 10 are 5.68% of the fund, the top 25 are 10.72%

The 200 largest of 2,809 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%.

97.82%
of net assets
Securitized58.04%
Bonds39.84%
Cash & short-term0.01%
Derivatives-0.08%

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

Securitized
60.1%
Financials
9.5%
Government
9.1%
Other
5.9%
12 other sectors
15.3%

How it has done

Total return, dividends reinvested · to May 2026

VIITX share class · total returns with dividends reinvested

1 year
+5.01%
3 years
+14.99%
Cumulative, not per year
5 years
+7.35%
Cumulative, not per year
Largest decline in 3 years
-2.45%
From a previous high to a later low
Cumulative return, last three years· Jul 2023 – May 2026

Volatility over the last 12 months: 2.36%. 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.

Fees & fund details

VANGUARD INSTITUTIONAL INTERMEDIATE-TERM BOND FUND is an actively managed U.S. bond fund.

Asset class
Bonds
Region
United States
Management
Actively managed
Fund type
Open-end fund
Credit quality
Investment grade
Rate sensitivity
Intermediate duration
Expense ratio, by class
0.02%· VIITX 0.02%
Portfolio turnover
169.00% 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

2026 Q2 vs 2026 Q1

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

355 new· the largest 2

Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac
2 holdings
United States Treasury Note/Bond
6 holdings

145 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
4.28%
Avg maturity
12.99 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.

23%
floating
Fixed rate77.0%
Floating rate23.0%
Maturity ladder

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

<1y10y+
<1y1.5%
1-3y14.9%
3-5y21.2%
5-10y20.8%
10y+41.6%
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 nearly as much.

3.61 yr
approx. move per 100bp
3.03 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 rates54%
Credit spreads46%

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.

+3.03
yrs total
Investment grade+3.03 yr
High yield+0.00 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 rate3.61 yr total
1 yr30 yr
1 yr0.89 yr24%
5 yr1.52 yr42%
10 yr1.02 yr28%
30 yr0.22 yr6%

3 mo is NEGATIVE (-0.04 yr) — a deliberate hedge at that point on the curve, so it is not part of the band above.

Credit spread3.03 yr total
3 mo30 yr
3 mo0.02 yr1%
1 yr0.54 yr18%
5 yr1.30 yr43%
10 yr1.02 yr34%
30 yr0.15 yr5%

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-0.04+0.02+0.00$73.3k$46
1 yr+0.89+0.53+0.00$1.67m$732
5 yr+1.52+1.30+0.00$4.05m$87
10 yr+1.02+1.02+0.00$3.17m$0
30 yr+0.22+0.15+0.00$464.4k$0

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

Rate exposure by currency

Duration contribution in years, summing to the fund's 3.61 yr.

USD+3.61 yr
EUR-0.00 yr
GBP-0.00 yr
AUD+0.00 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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