VANGUARD WELLESLEY INCOME FUND
Conservative allocation fund
As of its 2026 Q2 report, VANGUARD WELLESLEY INCOME FUND held 1,513 positions with $47.53B in net assets. Its ten largest holdings made up 10.8% of the fund. The VWINX share class costs 0.22% a year. Over the 12 months to May 2026, VWINX returned 11.4%, with dividends reinvested. In 2026 Q2 it added 83 new positions and exited 94.
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.
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.
What you own
| Company | Weight | Value | Shares | Reported price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
AVGOBroadcom Inc | 3.04% | $1.45B | 3.8M | $377.75 |
1.14% | $541.00M | 4.2M | $128.50 | |
1.10% | $523.62M | 3.0M | $175.78 | |
United States Treasury Note/Bond 3.88% · due 2031-04-30 | 0.93% | $439.79M | — | — |
0.85% | $405.67M | 1.6M | $253.97 | |
0.84% | $398.84M | 7.0M | $56.98 | |
0.78% | $368.92M | 20.8M | $17.73 | |
0.76% | $361.40M | 1.8M | $201.61 | |
Unilever PLC | 0.73% | $346.01M | 5.8M | $60.12 |
0.68% | $322.27M | 9.8M | $32.73 |
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 1,513 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 | 58.89% |
| Stocks | 36.44% |
| Securitized | 2.52% |
| Cash & short-term | 1.59% |
| Derivatives | -0.01% |
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
- Government
- 17.1%
- Other
- 15.2%
- Financials
- 15.2%
- International
- 9.2%
- 12 other sectors
- 43.4%
- Government
- 17.1%
- Other
- 15.2%
- Financials
- 15.2%
- International
- 9.2%
- Utilities
- 8.6%
- Health Care
- 7.4%
- Information Technology
- 6.7%
- Industrials
- 4.1%
- Consumer Staples
- 3.5%
- Energy
- 3.2%
- Communication Services
- 2.8%
- Securitized
- 2.5%
- Real Estate
- 1.9%
- Consumer Discretionary
- 1.6%
- Materials
- 1.0%
- Cash
- 0.0%
How it has done
VWINX 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.22% | +11.43% | +30.12% | +22.83% | -6.46% | |
| 0.15% | +11.54% | +30.40% | +23.26% | -6.46% |
These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 0.43pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 0.09pp a year — not a difference in what they own.
Fees & fund details
VANGUARD WELLESLEY INCOME FUND is a conservative allocation fund. 15% of VWINX’s stock holdings are in companies whose revenue grew in the top quartile of U.S. companies over the last five fiscal years (covering 90% of the fund’s equity).
- Asset class
- Allocation (multi-asset)
- Region
- United States
- Management
- Actively managed
- Fund type
- Open-end fund
- Equity exposure
- Conservative
- Expense ratio, by class
- 0.15% – 0.22%· VWINX 0.22%
- Portfolio turnover
- 63.00% 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.
83 new· the largest 4
94 exited· the largest 7
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 | 83.0% |
| Floating rate | 17.0% |
Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.
| <1y | 1.4% |
| 1-3y | 19.8% |
| 3-5y | 19.0% |
| 5-10y | 25.5% |
| 10y+ | 34.2% |
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.
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 | 57% |
| Credit spreads | 43% |
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 | +3.03 yr |
| High yield | +0.00 yr |
Share of duration at each point, shortest first. A positive figure loses value when spreads widen; a negative one offsets — a credit hedge.
| 1 yr | 0.36 yr | 9% |
| 5 yr | 1.06 yr | 27% |
| 10 yr | 1.58 yr | 40% |
| 30 yr | 0.97 yr | 24% |
3 mo is NEGATIVE (-0.01 yr) — a deliberate hedge at that point on the curve, so it is not part of the band above.
| 3 mo | 0.01 yr | 0% |
| 1 yr | 0.24 yr | 8% |
| 5 yr | 0.78 yr | 26% |
| 10 yr | 1.26 yr | 41% |
| 30 yr | 0.75 yr | 25% |
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 | -0.01 | +0.01 | +0.00 | $41.2k | $35 |
| 1 yr | +0.36 | +0.24 | +0.00 | $1.15m | $1.5k |
| 5 yr | +1.06 | +0.78 | +0.00 | $3.69m | $5.9k |
| 10 yr | +1.58 | +1.26 | +0.00 | $5.98m | $10.1k |
| 30 yr | +0.97 | +0.75 | +0.00 | $3.56m | $515 |
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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