The Portfolio seeks to track the performance of a broad, market-weighted bond index.
The Portfolio invests in Vanguard® Total Bond Market Index Fund, which employs a "passive management"—or indexing—investment strategy designed to track the performance of the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Float Adjusted Index. The Index measures a wide spectrum of public, investment-grade, taxable fixed income securities in the United States—including government, corporate, and international dollar-denominated bonds, as well as mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities—all with maturities of more than 1 year. The Fund invests by sampling the Index, meaning that it holds a broadly diversified collection of securities that, in the aggregate, approximate the full Index in terms of key risk factors and other characteristics. All of the Fund's investments will be selected through the sampling process, and at least 80% of the Fund's assets will be invested in bonds held in the Index. The Fund maintains a dollar-weighted average maturity consistent with that of the Index, which currently ranges between 5 and 10 years.
The Portfolio primarily is subject to moderate levels of interest rate risk, income risk, and call/prepayment risk, and low levels of credit risk, index sampling risk, and derivatives risk.
**The Spliced Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Float Adjusted Index consists of the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index through December 31, 2009; and the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Float Adjusted Index thereafter. Effective September 29, 2016, Barclays indexes were rebranded to Bloomberg Barclays indexes.
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Index performance is provided as a benchmark but is not illustrative of any particular investment. An investment cannot be made in an index.
The performance data shown represents past performance. Past performance - especially short-term past performance - is not a guarantee of future results. Investment returns and principal value will fluctuate, so that investors' units, when sold, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Current performance may be higher or lower than the performance data cited. For performance data current to the most recent quarter-end. Click here
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