UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM N-CSR
CERTIFIED SHAREHOLDER REPORT
OF
REGISTERED MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES
Investment Company Act file number: 811-4526
Name of Registrant: Vanguard Quantitative Funds
Address of Registrant: | P.O. Box 2600 |
| Valley Forge, PA 19482 |
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Name and address of agent for service: | Heidi Stam, Esquire |
| P.O. Box 876 |
| Valley Forge, PA 19482 |
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Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (610) 669-1000
Date of fiscal year end: September 30
Date of reporting period: October 1, 2007–March 31, 2008
Item 1: Reports to Shareholders |
> | Vanguard Growth and Income Fund returned –14.3% for the fiscal half-year ended March 31, 2008. |
> | The fund lagged both the return of its benchmark, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, and the average return of competing funds. |
> | The financials, energy, and consumer-oriented sectors weighed heavily on the six-month performance. |
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Your Fund’s Total Returns | 1 |
Chairman’s Letter | 2 |
Advisor’s Report | 6 |
Fund Profile | 8 |
Performance Summary | 10 |
Financial Statements | 11 |
About Your Fund’s Expenses | 23 |
Glossary | 25 |
Please note: The opinions expressed in this report are just that—informed opinions. They should not be considered promises or advice. Also, please keep in mind that the information and opinions cover the period through the date on the cover of this report. Of course, the risks of investing in your fund are spelled out in the prospectus.
Your Fund’s Total Returns
Six Months Ended March 31, 2008 |
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Vanguard Growth and Income Fund |
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Investor Shares | VQNPX | –14.3% |
Admiral™ Shares1 | VGIAX | –14.3 |
S&P 500 Index |
| –12.5 |
Average Large-Cap Core Fund2 |
| –13.0 |
Your Fund’s Performance at a Glance |
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September 30, 2007–March 31, 2008 |
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| Distributions Per Share | |
| Starting | Ending | Income | Capital |
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Vanguard Growth and Income Fund |
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Investor Shares | $38.62 | $29.10 | $0.320 | $4.008 |
Admiral Shares | 63.08 | 47.53 | 0.556 | 6.545 |
1 A lower-cost class of shares available to many longtime shareholders and to those with significant investments in the fund.
2 Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.
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Chairman’s Letter
Dear Shareholder,
Vanguard Growth and Income Fund returned –14.3% for the fiscal six months ended March 31, 2008. As the markets turned treacherous, the fund fell a few steps behind the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index and its peers among large-capitalization core funds, as shown in the table on page 1.
Strong performance in the information technology sector offset some of the fund’s missteps in the financials, energy, and consumer-oriented sectors.
Stocks of all sorts sank amid credit-market concerns
The broad U.S. stock market declined –12.4% for the six months ended March 31 as investor sentiment turned bearish amid fears of a U.S. recession, the weakening U.S. dollar, and the tightening of global credit markets in reaction to the subprime-mortgage crisis that began in midsummer 2007.
Large-capitalization stocks fared a bit better than small-caps, growth stocks generally outpaced their value-oriented counterparts, and international stocks again outperformed U.S. stocks over the six months; nonetheless, each stock group posted a negative return.
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Bond markets were roiled by subprime-mortgage woes
Credit markets seized up as trouble spread from subprime-mortgage-backed securities to other issues. Investors flocked to higher-quality government and corporate bonds, driving U.S. Treasury bond prices higher.
Unlike stocks, the broad taxable bond market pushed forward, posting a total return of 5.2% for the fiscal half-year as lower interest rates depressed yields and bumped up prices. By contrast, tax-exempt municipal bonds returned only 0.7% as fixed income investors moved in droves to Treasuries in search of the highest-quality, most-liquid securities. This, combined with concerns about the financial strength of the insurers backing the highest-quality municipal bonds, pushed municipal yields above those of Treasuries.
In response to the tumult in the credit markets and the deteriorating economic outlook, the Federal Reserve Board reduced its target for the federal funds rate aggressively. The Fed continued a series of rate cuts that began late last summer, ending with a 0.75 percentage point cut in March. The target rate stood at 2.25% at the end of the period, the lowest level since early 2005.
Poor stock selection depressed fund’s returns
The Growth and Income Fund’s advisor, Franklin Portfolio Associates, LLC, uses computer models to select a broadly
Market Barometer |
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| Six Months | One Year | Five Years1 |
Stocks |
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Russell 1000 Index (Large-caps) | –12.4% | –5.4% | 11.9% |
Russell 2000 Index (Small-caps) | –14.0 | –13.0 | 14.9 |
Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index (Entire market) | –12.4 | –5.8 | 12.5 |
MSCI All Country World Index ex USA (International) | –9.6 | 2.6 | 24.0 |
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Bonds |
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Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (Broad taxable market) | 5.2% | 7.7% | 4.6% |
Lehman Municipal Bond Index | 0.7 | 1.9 | 3.9 |
Citigroup 3-Month Treasury Bill Index | 1.7 | 4.2 | 3.0 |
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Consumer Price Index | 2.4% | 4.0% | 3.0% |
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diversified group of stocks with the goal of outpacing the S&P 500 Index. The fund struggled to achieve its objective in the first half of fiscal 2008, facing its biggest challenges in the financials, energy, and consumer-oriented sectors. Even though it had a bit less exposure to the poorly performing financials sector than the S&P 500 Index did, its subpar stock selection offset this potential benefit. The fund held some of the companies worst hit by the recent credit-market crisis, such as Citigroup (–53%), American International Group (–36%), and Wachovia (–44%).
Inferior stock picks also hurt the fund in the energy sector. For example, the fund had a larger position than the index in Valero Energy, a large U.S. refiner, which returned –27% as its profit margin got squeezed by the rising cost of crude oil and declining consumer demand for gasoline.
The consumer staples and consumer discretionary sectors also were among the fund’s weaker performers. The fund held larger stakes than the index in several poorly performing stocks, such as food distribution giant Sysco, which returned –17%. Making matters worse, the overall softening of the U.S. economy and cutbacks in consumer and business spending slashed the returns of media, retail, and home improvement outlets such as Time Warner, Amazon.com, and Sherwin-Williams.
Annualized Expense Ratios1 |
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Your Fund Compared With Its Peer Group |
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Growth and Income Fund | 0.29% | 0.16% | 1.29% |
1 Fund expense ratios reflect the six months ended March 31, 2008. Peer-group expense ratio is derived from data provided by Lipper Inc. and captures information through year-end 2007.
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On the positive side of the ledger, the information technology and industrials sectors were bright spots in the fund’s otherwise lackluster performance. The fund managed to sidestep some of the damage in the tech sector by limiting its exposure to dismal performers such as Cisco Systems, which had a –27% return.
Maintain a diversified portfolio and focus on the long term
Vanguard Growth and Income Fund’s performance during the most recent fiscal half-year was disappointing, but it would be a mistake to accord much importance to it. In volatile markets, short-term performance can be an especially unreliable indicator of an investment strategy’s long-term prospects. We recommend that you take a long-term view of your individual investments and understand the role each fund plays in your portfolio.
A balanced, diversified, and low-cost portfolio of stocks, bonds, and money market funds can help you capture market returns over the long term regardless of short-term volatility. The Growth and Income Fund, with its broad, low-cost exposure to large-cap U.S. stocks, can play an important role in the stock portion of such a portfolio.
As I close this report to you, I would like to thank John Cone, of Franklin Portfolio Associates, who has done an admirable job advising the Growth and Income Fund. John plans to retire in July of this year, leaving the fund in the capable hands of Oliver Buckley, Franklin’s chief investment officer.
It’s also my pleasure to introduce the fund’s new president, F. William McNabb III. Bill is a man of great character and integrity who is intimately familiar with all aspects of Vanguard—from how we serve our clients to how we invest for our clients.
Bill and I have worked together very closely for more than two decades. I’m thrilled that the fund’s board elected him president, effective March 1, and designated him to succeed me as chief executive officer, a role he will assume within a year, after an orderly transition. Bill and the rest of our team will serve you and our other clients extremely well in the years ahead.
Thank you for entrusting your assets to Vanguard.
Sincerely,
John J. Brennan
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
April 14, 2008
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Advisor’s Report
The S&P 500 Index fell more than –12% over the six months ended March 31. While painful to live through, the decline may in the long run be healthy for the market as excessive valuations are wrung out and more realistic expectations for earnings growth are factored into prices. Given the rather disorderly de-leveraging of the credit markets since August, and the very real possibility that the U.S. economy is slipping into a recession, the case could be made that the magnitude of the equity market drop has not been unreasonable.
One of the largest uncertainties has to do with the nature and extent of any proactive policy response during this election year. Although lawmakers’ intentions may be good, it is likely that any relief for the housing market (especially when it comes to foreclosures) may arrive after the market begins to clear and may actually prolong the contraction. Serious questions remain about housing-sector weakness, the subprime mortgage market, and the surge in risk avoidance broadly defined. But if one believes in the soundness of the U.S. economy over the long run, as we do, then investors who maintain a long-term perspective may find a buying opportunity in this environment.
Our fund’s successes
Stock selection was strong during the six months in the technology sector—in particular, for holdings related to computer hardware, semiconductors, and electronic equipment. Examples include Apple (computers and iPods), QUALCOMM (wireless telecom equipment), Applied Materials (semiconductor fabrication equipment), XTO Energy (oil and gas exploration and production), and CSX (freight transportation). In addition, the fund’s performance relative to the S&P 500 Index benefited from not holding, or underweighting, poorly performing stocks such as Motorola (–49%) and Cisco (–27%).
While sector tilts (measured as the difference between the portfolio weight and the S&P 500 Index weight in a particular sector) are deliberately minimized in the Growth and Income Fund, they are not forced to zero. During the last six months, the fund’s modest underweighting in financials and telecommunications helped the relative return of the portfolio. In addition, the fund’s tilt toward stocks with near-term positive price momentum helped performance.
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Our fund’s shortfalls
While the fund outperformed its benchmark over the final three months of the period, it was unable to overcome its under-performance from October through December of 2007. The stock-selection factors in our investment process that focused on positive momentum were modestly successful during the period, but other factors that focused on valuation were ineffective and served as a brake on returns.
Holdings that negatively affected results included Citigroup (banking), Valero Energy (oil refining and marketing), Sysco (food-service marketing and distribution), PG&E (natural gas and electric utility), and Sherwin-Williams (paints, coatings, other related products). In addition, not holding U.S. Bancorp and Monsanto, strong performers over the six months, had a negative impact on results.
The fund’s positioning
We continue to remain focused on our investment discipline as it applies to stock selection, portfolio construction, and implementation. We believe the Growth and Income Fund is well-positioned to achieve its long-run goal of outperforming the S&P 500 Index. Our disciplined process leads us to favor reasonably priced stocks with good potential for future earnings growth. The fund will remain fully invested in those stocks we consider most attractive, and the portfolio risk will be focused to minimize exposure to characteristics we believe are unrewarded. In recent months, there has been a measurable increase in individual stock volatility, which increases the potential, though not the certitude, of outperforming the benchmark. Uncertainty in the broader economy has had an impact on the effectiveness of our stock-ranking process, but we remain highly confident in its long-term efficacy. We continue to believe that the Growth and Income Fund is an excellent choice for those seeking a diversified exposure to large-cap U.S. equities.
John S. Cone, CFA, President and Chief Executive Officer
Franklin Portfolio Associates, LLC
April 10, 2008
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Fund Profile
As of March 31, 2008
Portfolio Characteristics |
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Number of Stocks | 115 | 500 | 4,811 |
Median Market Cap | $41.9B | $48.2B | $33.8B |
Price/Earnings Ratio | 14.2x | 16.3x | 16.9x |
Price/Book Ratio | 2.3x | 2.5x | 2.4x |
Yield3 |
| 2.2% | 2.0% |
Investor Shares | 2.0% |
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Admiral Shares | 2.1% |
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Return on Equity | 20.1% | 20.6% | 19.5% |
Earnings Growth Rate | 24.9% | 20.0% | 20.0% |
Foreign Holdings | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
Turnover Rate | 107%4 | — | — |
Expense Ratio |
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Investor Shares | 0.29%4 |
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Admiral Shares | 0.16%4 |
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Short-Term Reserves | 0.3% | — | — |
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Consumer Discretionary | 10.4% | 8.7% | 9.4% |
Consumer Staples | 10.8 | 11.1 | 9.6 |
Energy | 13.6 | 13.3 | 12.7 |
Financials | 15.2 | 16.7 | 17.7 |
Health Care | 12.7 | 11.7 | 11.7 |
Industrials | 12.8 | 12.2 | 12.2 |
Information Technology | 15.7 | 15.7 | 15.6 |
Materials | 2.7 | 3.6 | 4.1 |
Telecommunication Services | 2.9 | 3.4 | 3.1 |
Utilities | 3.2 | 3.6 | 3.9 |
Volatility Measures5 |
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| Comparative Index1 | Broad Index2 |
R-Squared | 0.95 | 0.94 |
Beta | 1.00 | 0.94 |
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Ten Largest Holdings6 (% of total net assets) | ||
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ExxonMobil Corp. | integrated oil and gas | 5.0% |
General Electric Co. | industrial conglomerates | 4.2 |
Apple Inc. | computer hardware | 3.2 |
Procter & Gamble Co. | household products | 2.8 |
Bank of America Corp. | diversified financial services | 2.5 |
International Business Machines Corp. | computer hardware | 2.2 |
Time Warner, Inc. | movies and entertainment | 2.2 |
The Boeing Co. | aerospace and defense | 2.2 |
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. | hypermarkets and supercenters | 2.1 |
ConocoPhillips Co. | integrated oil and gas | 2.0 |
Top Ten |
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Investment Focus
1 S&P 500 Index.
2 Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index.
3 30-day SEC yield for the fund; annualized dividend yield for the indexes. See Glossary on pages 22–23.
4 Annualized.
5 For an explanation of R-squared, beta, and other terms used here, see the Glossary on pages 22–23.
6 The holdings listed exclude any temporary cash investments and equity index products.
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Performance Summary
All of the returns in this report represent past performance, which is not a guarantee of future results that may be achieved by the fund. (Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data cited. For performance data current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at www.vanguard.com/performance.) Note, too, that both investment returns and principal value can fluctuate widely, so an investor’s shares, when sold, could be worth more or less than their original cost. The returns shown do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or on the sale of fund shares.
Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): September 30, 1997–March 31, 2008
Average Annual Total Returns: Periods Ended March 31, 2008 | ||||
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| Inception Date | One Year | Five Years | Ten Years |
Investor Shares2 | 12/10/1986 | –8.58% | 10.90% | 3.51% |
Admiral Shares | 5/14/2001 | –8.47 | 11.07 | 2.613 |
1 Six months ended March 31, 2008.
2 Total returns do not include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.
3 Return since inception.
Note: See Financial Highlights tables on pages 15 and 16 for dividend and capital gains information.
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Financial Statements (unaudited)
Statement of Net Assets
As of March 31, 2008
The fund provides a complete list of its holdings four times in each fiscal year, at the quarter-ends. For the second and fourth fiscal quarters, the lists appear in the fund’s semiannual and annual reports to shareholders. For the first and third fiscal quarters, the fund files the lists with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form N-Q. Shareholders can look up the fund’s Forms N-Q on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Forms N-Q may also be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room (see the back cover of this report for further information).
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Common Stocks (98.7%)1 |
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Consumer Discretionary (10.3%) |
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| Time Warner, Inc. | 10,471,300 | 146,808 |
| The Walt Disney Co. | 3,845,985 | 120,687 |
| Sherwin-Williams Co. | 1,340,300 | 68,409 |
* | Amazon.com, Inc. | 880,200 | 62,758 |
| Best Buy Co., Inc. | 1,416,100 | 58,712 |
| NIKE, Inc. Class B | 765,000 | 52,020 |
* | Big Lots Inc. | 2,216,200 | 49,421 |
* | GameStop Corp. Class A | 753,300 | 38,953 |
| Omnicom Group Inc. | 536,300 | 23,694 |
| News Corp., Class A | 1,166,700 | 21,876 |
| Family Dollar Stores, Inc. | 1,088,400 | 21,224 |
* | The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. | 525,700 | 13,563 |
| Hasbro, Inc. | 209,700 | 5,851 |
| Wyndham Worldwide Corp. | 278,400 | 5,757 |
| Tiffany & Co. | 65,400 | 2,736 |
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Consumer Staples (10.7%) |
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| The Procter & Gamble Co. | 2,674,600 | 187,409 |
| Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. | 2,704,900 | 142,494 |
| Sysco Corp. | 4,361,000 | 126,556 |
| The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. | 2,564,800 | 86,972 |
| Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. | 1,888,500 | 45,702 |
| The Kroger Co. | 1,631,900 | 41,450 |
| Philip Morris International Inc. | 697,100 | 35,259 |
| PepsiCo, Inc. | 485,400 | 35,046 |
| Altria Group, Inc. | 697,100 | 15,476 |
| SuperValu Inc. | 147,800 | 4,431 |
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Energy (13.5%) |
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| ExxonMobil Corp. | 3,979,736 | 336,606 |
| ConocoPhillips Co. | 1,799,719 | 137,157 |
* | National Oilwell Varco Inc. | 2,110,500 | 123,211 |
| Valero Energy Corp. | 2,423,900 | 119,038 |
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* | Transocean, Inc. | 530,800 | 71,764 |
| Chevron Corp. | 781,200 | 66,683 |
| Anadarko Petroleum Corp. | 834,900 | 52,624 |
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Financials (15.0%) |
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| Bank of America Corp. | 4,375,499 | 165,875 |
| American Express Co. | 2,317,700 | 101,330 |
| Prudential Financial, Inc. | 1,267,000 | 99,143 |
| ProLogis REIT | 1,678,400 | 98,791 |
| Franklin Resources Corp. | 764,400 | 74,139 |
| Wachovia Corp. | 2,727,650 | 73,647 |
| The Chubb Corp. | 1,445,500 | 71,523 |
| Citigroup, Inc. | 2,761,800 | 59,158 |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 1,330,400 | 57,141 |
| Fifth Third Bancorp | 2,432,500 | 50,888 |
| Cincinnati Financial Corp. | 1,111,208 | 42,270 |
| Safeco Corp. | 755,500 | 33,151 |
| MetLife, Inc. | 395,500 | 23,833 |
| The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | 116,600 | 19,284 |
^ | American Capital Strategies, Ltd. | 430,100 | 14,692 |
| State Street Corp. | 113,400 | 8,959 |
| Host Hotels & Resorts Inc. REIT | 555,400 | 8,842 |
| American International Group, Inc. | 198,700 | 8,594 |
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Health Care (12.6%) |
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| Pfizer Inc. | 6,540,727 | 136,897 |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. | 5,464,200 | 116,387 |
* | Biogen Idec Inc. | 1,622,900 | 100,117 |
| Aetna Inc. | 1,860,800 | 78,321 |
| CIGNA Corp. | 1,772,800 | 71,923 |
| Stryker Corp. | 1,083,800 | 70,501 |
* | Express Scripts Inc. | 1,070,800 | 68,874 |
* | Celgene Corp. | 995,000 | 60,984 |
| Eli Lilly & Co. | 1,012,000 | 52,209 |
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| Merck & Co., Inc. | 903,500 | 34,288 |
| Medtronic, Inc. | 458,500 | 22,178 |
| Baxter International, Inc. | 210,600 | 12,177 |
* | Humana Inc. | 213,200 | 9,564 |
| Schering-Plough Corp. | 387,800 | 5,588 |
* | Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. | 96,200 | 5,468 |
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Industrials (12.6%) |
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| General Electric Co. | 7,652,500 | 283,219 |
| The Boeing Co. | 1,946,600 | 144,769 |
| Northrop Grumman Corp. | 1,012,200 | 78,759 |
| Ingersoll-Rand Co. | 1,633,000 | 72,799 |
| CSX Corp. | 984,000 | 55,173 |
| Precision Castparts Corp. | 428,600 | 43,752 |
| Fluor Corp. | 297,800 | 42,037 |
* | Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. | 569,400 | 41,902 |
* | Allied Waste Industries, Inc. | 3,636,000 | 39,305 |
| L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. | 202,400 | 22,130 |
| Dover Corp. | 127,400 | 5,323 |
| W.W. Grainger, Inc. | 54,300 | 4,148 |
| Parker Hannifin Corp. | 52,800 | 3,657 |
| Rockwell Automation, Inc. | 61,900 | 3,554 |
| Goodrich Corp. | 56,600 | 3,255 |
| Caterpillar, Inc. | 41,500 | 3,249 |
| Rockwell Collins, Inc. | 55,500 | 3,172 |
| Cummins Inc. | 13,100 | 613 |
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Information Technology (15.4%) |
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* | Apple Inc. | 1,489,400 | 213,729 |
| International Business Machines Corp. | 1,310,100 | 150,845 |
* | Oracle Corp. | 5,599,600 | 109,528 |
* | Computer Sciences Corp. | 1,997,200 | 81,466 |
* | Juniper Networks, Inc. | 2,763,800 | 69,095 |
| Texas Instruments, Inc. | 2,360,200 | 66,723 |
| Intel Corp. | 2,818,900 | 59,704 |
| Microsoft Corp. | 1,820,100 | 51,654 |
* | Google Inc. | 103,700 | 45,677 |
* | EMC Corp. | 2,734,400 | 39,211 |
| Xerox Corp. | 2,494,900 | 37,349 |
| Hewlett-Packard Co. | 790,100 | 36,076 |
* | Autodesk, Inc. | 745,000 | 23,453 |
| Corning, Inc. | 746,200 | 17,939 |
* | ADC Telecommunications, Inc. | 1,383,900 | 16,718 |
* | MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. | 127,900 | 9,068 |
* | NVIDIA Corp. | 208,700 | 4,130 |
* | Adobe Systems, Inc. | 74,500 | 2,651 |
| Applied Materials, Inc. | 65,900 | 1,286 |
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Materials (2.7%) |
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| Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc. Class B | 1,035,096 | 99,597 |
| E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. | 964,400 | 45,095 |
| Dow Chemical Co. | 989,700 | 36,470 |
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Telecommunication Services (2.8%) |
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| AT&T Inc. | 2,756,200 | 105,562 |
| CenturyTel, Inc. | 2,123,400 | 70,582 |
| Embarq Corp. | 306,600 | 12,295 |
| Windstream Corp. | 296,700 | 3,546 |
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Utilities (3.1%) |
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| Public Service Enterprise Group, Inc. | 3,049,800 | 122,571 |
| PG&E Corp. | 835,300 | 30,756 |
| Duke Energy Corp. | 1,508,600 | 26,929 |
| PPL Corp. | 314,100 | 14,423 |
| Consolidated Edison Inc. | 355,200 | 14,101 |
| CenterPoint Energy Inc. | 143,400 | 2,046 |
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Total Common Stocks |
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(Cost $6,651,991) |
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Temporary Cash Investments (1.5%)1 |
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Money Market Fund (1.4%) |
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2 | Vanguard Market |
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| Liquidity Fund, 2.800% | 82,531,529 | 82,532 |
2 | Vanguard Market |
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| Liquidity Fund, |
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| 2.800%—Note G | 13,597,200 | 13,597 |
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U.S. Government Obligation (0.1%) |
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| U.S. Treasury Bill |
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3 | 0.721%, 6/19/08 | 3,900 | 3,889 |
Total Temporary Cash Investments |
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(Cost $100,023) |
| 100,018 | |
Total Investments (100.2%) |
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(Cost $6,752,014) |
| 6,748,192 | |
Other Assets and Liabilities (–0.2%) |
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Receivables for Investment |
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| Securities Sold |
| 170,034 |
Other Assets—Note C |
| 25,208 | |
Payables for Investment |
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| Securities Purchased |
| (170,968) |
Other Liabilities—Note G |
| (40,902) | |
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Net Assets (100%) |
| 6,731,564 |
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At March 31, 2008, net assets consisted of:4 | |
| Amount |
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Paid-in Capital | 6,885,501 |
Undistributed Net Investment Income | 14,342 |
Overdistributed Net Realized Gains | (165,128) |
Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) |
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Investment Securities | (3,822) |
Futures Contracts | 671 |
Net Assets | 6,731,564 |
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Investor Shares—Net Assets |
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Applicable to 154,833,136 outstanding |
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$.001 par value shares of beneficial |
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interest (unlimited authorization) | 4,505,882 |
Net Asset Value Per Share— |
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Investor Shares | $29.10 |
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Admiral Shares—Net Assets |
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Applicable to 46,822,317 outstanding |
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$.001 par value shares of beneficial |
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interest (unlimited authorization) | 2,225,682 |
Net Asset Value Per Share— |
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Admiral Shares | $47.53 |
• | See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements. |
* | Non-income-producing security. |
^ | Part of security position is on loan to broker-dealers. See Note G in Notes to Financial Statements. |
1 The fund invests a portion of its cash reserves in equity markets through the use of index futures contracts. After giving effect to futures investments, the fund’s effective common stock and temporary cash investment positions represent 99.8% and 0.4%, respectively, of net assets. See Note E in Notes to Financial Statements.
2 Affiliated money market fund available only to Vanguard funds and certain trusts and accounts managed by Vanguard. Rate shown is the 7-day yield.
3 Securities with a value of $3,889,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open futures contracts.
4 See Note E in Notes to Financial Statements for the tax-basis components of net assets.
REIT—Real Estate Investment Trust.
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Statement of Operations
| Six Months Ended |
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Investment Income |
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Income |
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Dividends | 69,693 |
Interest1 | 2,043 |
Security Lending | 226 |
Total Income | 71,962 |
Expenses |
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Investment Advisory Fees—Note B |
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Basic Fee | 3,190 |
Performance Adjustment | (965) |
The Vanguard Group—Note C |
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Management and Administrative |
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Investor Shares | 5,096 |
Admiral Shares | 931 |
Marketing and Distribution |
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Investor Shares | 482 |
Admiral Shares | 233 |
Custodian Fees | 28 |
Shareholders’ Reports |
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Investor Shares | 57 |
Admiral Shares | 6 |
Trustees’ Fees and Expenses | 5 |
Total Expenses | 9,063 |
Expenses Paid Indirectly—Note D | (836) |
Net Expenses | 8,227 |
Net Investment Income | 63,735 |
Realized Net Gain (Loss) |
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Investment Securities Sold | (32,106) |
Futures Contracts | (10,286) |
Realized Net Gain (Loss) | (42,392) |
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) |
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Investment Securities | (1,179,684) |
Futures Contracts | (1,403) |
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | (1,181,087) |
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations | (1,159,744) |
1 Interest income from an affiliated company of the fund was $1,985,000.
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Statement of Changes in Net Assets
| Six Months Ended | Year Ended |
| March 31, | September 30, |
| 2008 | 2007 |
| ($000) | ($000) |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets |
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Operations |
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Net Investment Income | 63,735 | 132,725 |
Realized Net Gain (Loss) | (42,392) | 912,849 |
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | (1,181,087) | 134,840 |
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations | (1,159,744) | 1,180,414 |
Distributions |
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Net Investment Income |
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Investor Shares | (45,056) | (88,650) |
Admiral Shares | (24,140) | (46,594) |
Realized Capital Gain1 |
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Investor Shares | (564,334) | — |
Admiral Shares | (284,167) | — |
Total Distributions | (917,697) | (135,244) |
Capital Share Transactions—Note H |
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Investor Shares | 424,358 | (333,115) |
Admiral Shares | 126,147 | 138,269 |
Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions | 550,505 | (194,846) |
Total Increase (Decrease) | (1,526,936) | 850,324 |
Net Assets |
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Beginning of Period | 8,258,500 | 7,408,176 |
End of Period2 | 6,731,564 | 8,258,500 |
1 Includes fiscal 2008 short-term gain distributions totaling $89,570,000. Short-term gain distributions are treated as ordinary income dividends for tax purposes.
2 Net Assets—End of Period includes undistributed net investment income of $14,342,000 and $19,803,000.
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Financial Highlights
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Throughout Each Period | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 |
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | $38.62 | $33.79 | $31.29 | $28.31 | $24.91 | $20.68 |
Investment Operations |
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Net Investment Income | .289 | .60 | .55 | .46 | .37 | .318 |
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) |
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on Investments | (5.481) | 4.84 | 2.47 | 2.98 | 3.39 | 4.227 |
Total from Investment Operations | (5.192) | 5.44 | 3.02 | 3.44 | 3.76 | 4.545 |
Distributions |
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Dividends from Net Investment Income | (.320) | (.61) | (.52) | (.46) | (.36) | (.315) |
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains | (4.008) | — | — | — | — | — |
Total Distributions | (4.328) | (.61) | (.52) | (.46) | (.36) | (.315) |
Net Asset Value, End of Period | $29.10 | $38.62 | $33.79 | $31.29 | $28.31 | $24.91 |
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Total Return1 | –14.33% | 16.20% | 9.76% | 12.20% | 15.12% | 22.09% |
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Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) | $4,506 | $5,465 | $5,088 | $5,202 | $5,780 | $5,119 |
Ratio of Total Expenses to |
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Average Net Assets2 | 0.29%* | 0.32% | 0.38% | 0.40% | 0.42% | 0.46% |
Ratio of Net Investment Income to |
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Average Net Assets | 1.65%* | 1.61% | 1.65% | 1.53% | 1.35% | 1.39% |
Portfolio Turnover Rate | 107%* | 100% | 93% | 84% | 79%3 | 88% |
1 Total returns do not include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.
2 Includes performance-based investment advisory fee increases (decreases) of (0.03%), 0.00%, 0.01%, 0.01%, 0.01%, and 0.00%.
3 Excludes the value of portfolio securities received or delivered as a result of in-kind purchases or redemptions of the fund’s capital shares.
* | Annualized. |
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Admiral Shares |
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Throughout Each Period | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 |
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | $63.08 | $55.20 | $51.12 | $46.25 | $40.70 | $33.78 |
Investment Operations |
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Net Investment Income | .508 | 1.070 | .997 | .849 | .683 | .567 |
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) |
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on Investments | (8.957) | 7.903 | 4.036 | 4.853 | 5.530 | 6.920 |
Total from Investment Operations | (8.449) | 8.973 | 5.033 | 5.702 | 6.213 | 7.487 |
Distributions |
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Dividends from Net Investment Income | (.556) | (1.093) | (.953) | (.832) | (.663) | (.567) |
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains | (6.545) | — | — | — | — | — |
Total Distributions | (7.101) | (1.093) | (.953) | (.832) | (.663) | (.567) |
Net Asset Value, End of Period | $47.53 | $63.08 | $55.20 | $51.12 | $46.25 | $40.70 |
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Total Return | –14.28% | 16.37% | 9.97% | 12.39% | 15.29% | 22.29% |
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Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) | $2,226 | $2,794 | $2,321 | $2,039 | $843 | $812 |
Ratio of Total Expenses to |
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Average Net Assets1 | 0.16%* | 0.18% | 0.20% | 0.23% | 0.25% | 0.31% |
Ratio of Net Investment Income to |
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Average Net Assets | 1.78%* | 1.75% | 1.83% | 1.68% | 1.51% | 1.54% |
Portfolio Turnover Rate | 107%* | 100% | 93% | 84% | 79%2 | 88% |
1 Includes performance-based investment advisory fee increases (decreases) of (0.03%), 0.00%, 0.01%, 0.01%, 0.01%, and 0.00%.
2 Excludes the value of portfolio securities received or delivered as a result of in-kind purchases or redemptions of the fund’s capital shares.
* | Annualized. |
See accompanying Notes, which are an integral part of the Financial Statements.
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Notes to Financial Statements
Vanguard Growth and Income Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The fund files reports with the SEC under the company name Vanguard Quantitative Funds. The fund offers two classes of shares, Investor Shares and Admiral Shares. Investor Shares are available to any investor who meets the fund’s minimum purchase requirements. Admiral Shares are designed for investors who meet certain administrative, service, tenure, and account-size criteria.
A. The following significant accounting policies conform to generally accepted accounting principles for U.S. mutual funds. The fund consistently follows such policies in preparing its financial statements.
1. Security Valuation: Securities are valued as of the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4 p.m., Eastern time) on the valuation date. Equity securities are valued at the latest quoted sales prices or official closing prices taken from the primary market in which each security trades; such securities not traded on the valuation date are valued at the mean of the latest quoted bid and asked prices. Securities for which market quotations are not readily available, or whose values have been materially affected by events occurring before the fund’s pricing time but after the close of the securities’ primary markets, are valued by methods deemed by the board of trustees to represent fair value. Investments in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund are valued at that fund’s net asset value. Temporary cash investments acquired over 60 days to maturity are valued using the latest bid prices or using valuations based on a matrix system (which considers such factors as security prices, yields, maturities, and ratings), both as furnished by independent pricing services. Other temporary cash investments are valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value.
2. Futures Contracts: The fund uses index futures contracts to a limited extent, with the objective of maintaining full exposure to the stock market while maintaining liquidity. The fund may purchase or sell futures contracts to achieve a desired level of investment, whether to accommodate portfolio turnover or cash flows from capital share transactions. The primary risks associated with the use of futures contracts are imperfect correlation between changes in market values of stocks held by the fund and the prices of futures contracts, and the possibility of an illiquid market.
Futures contracts are valued at their quoted daily settlement prices. The aggregate principal amounts of the contracts are not recorded in the Statement of Net Assets. Fluctuations in the value of the contracts are recorded in the Statement of Net Assets as an asset (liability) and in the Statement of Operations as unrealized appreciation (depreciation) until the contracts are closed, when they are recorded as realized futures gains (losses).
3. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken on federal income tax returns for all open tax years (tax years ended September 30, 2004–2007) and for the period ended March 31, 2008, and has concluded that no provision for federal income tax is required in the fund’s financial statements.
4. Distributions: Distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date.
5. Security Lending: The fund may lend its securities to qualified institutional borrowers to earn additional income. Security loans are required to be secured at all times by collateral at least equal to the market value of securities loaned. The fund invests cash collateral received in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, and records a liability for the return of the collateral, during the period the securities are on loan. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less expenses associated with the loan.
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6. Other: Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date. Interest income includes income distributions received from Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund and is accrued daily. Security transactions are accounted for on the date securities are bought or sold. Costs used to determine realized gains (losses) on the sale of investment securities are those of the specific securities sold.
Each class of shares has equal rights as to assets and earnings, except that each class separately bears certain class-specific expenses related to maintenance of shareholder accounts (included in Management and Administrative expenses) and shareholder reporting. Marketing and distribution expenses are allocated to each class of shares based on a method approved by the board of trustees. Income, other non-class-specific expenses, and gains and losses on investments are allocated to each class of shares based on its relative net assets.
B. Franklin Portfolio Associates, LLC, provides investment advisory services to the fund for a fee calculated at an annual percentage rate of average net assets. The basic fee is subject to quarterly adjustments based on the fund’s performance for the preceding three years relative to the S&P 500 Index. For the six months ended March 31, 2008, the investment advisory fee represented an effective annual basic rate of 0.09% of the fund’s average net assets before a decrease of $965,000 (0.03%) based on performance.
C. The Vanguard Group furnishes at cost corporate management, administrative, marketing, and distribution services. The costs of such services are allocated to the fund under methods approved by the board of trustees. The fund has committed to provide up to 0.40% of its net assets in capital contributions to Vanguard. At March 31, 2008, the fund had contributed capital of $586,000 to Vanguard (included in Other Assets), representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 0.59% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and officers of Vanguard.
D. The fund has asked its investment advisor to direct certain security trades, subject to obtaining the best price and execution, to brokers who have agreed to rebate to the fund part of the commissions generated. Such rebates are used solely to reduce the fund’s management and administrative expenses. The fund’s custodian bank has also agreed to reduce its fees when the fund maintains cash on deposit in the non-interest-bearing custody account. For the six months ended March 31, 2008, these arrangements reduced the fund’s management and administrative expenses by $835,000 and custodian fees by $1,000. The total expense reduction represented an effective annual rate of 0.02% of the fund’s average net assets.
E. Distributions are determined on a tax basis and may differ from net investment income and realized capital gains for financial reporting purposes. Differences may be permanent or temporary. Permanent differences are reclassified among capital accounts in the financial statements to reflect their tax character. Temporary differences arise when certain items of income, expense, gain, or loss are recognized in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes; these differences will reverse at some time in the future. Differences in classification may also result from the treatment of short-term gains as ordinary income for tax purposes. The fund’s tax-basis capital gains and losses are determined only at the end of each fiscal year.
At March 31, 2008, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $6,752,014,000. Net unrealized depreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $3,822,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $623,201,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $627,023,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.
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At March 31, 2008, the aggregate settlement value of open futures contracts expiring in June 2008 and the related unrealized appreciation (depreciation) were:
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| Number of | Settlement | Appreciation |
Futures Contracts | Long Contracts | Value | (Depreciation) |
S&P 500 Index | 207 | 68,517 | 671 |
Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on open futures contracts is required to be treated as realized gain (loss) for tax purposes.
F. During the six months ended March 31, 2008, the fund purchased $3,963,958,000 of investment securities and sold $4,253,969,000 of investment securities, other than U.S. government securities and temporary cash investments.
G. The market value of securities on loan to broker-dealers at March 31, 2008, was $12,902,000, for which the fund received cash collateral of $13,597,000.
H. Capital share transactions for each class of shares were:
| Six Months Ended | Year Ended | ||
| March 31, 2008 | September 30, 2007 | ||
| Amount | Shares | Amount | Shares |
| ($000) | (000) | ($000) | (000) |
Investor Shares |
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Issued | 322,954 | 9,719 | 581,626 | 15,817 |
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions | 586,889 | 18,578 | 84,713 | 2,312 |
Redeemed | (485,485) | (14,961) | (999,454) | (27,194) |
Net Increase (Decrease)—Investor Shares | 424,358 | 13,336 | (333,115) | (9,065) |
Admiral Shares |
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Issued | 139,093 | 2,594 | 491,880 | 8,143 |
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions | 287,239 | 5,568 | 42,270 | 706 |
Redeemed | (300,185) | (5,626) | (395,881) | (6,600) |
Net Increase (Decrease)—Admiral Shares | 126,147 | 2,536 | 138,269 | 2,249 |
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About Your Fund’s Expenses
As a shareholder of the fund, you incur ongoing costs, which include costs for portfolio management, administrative services, and shareholder reports (like this one), among others. Operating expenses, which are deducted from a fund’s gross income, directly reduce the investment return of the fund.
A fund’s expenses are expressed as a percentage of its average net assets. This figure is known as the expense ratio. The following examples are intended to help you understand the ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in your fund and to compare these costs with those of other mutual funds. The examples are based on an investment of $1,000 made at the beginning of the period shown and held for the entire period.
The table below illustrates your fund’s costs in two ways:
• Based on actual fund return. This section helps you to estimate the actual expenses that you paid over the period. The “Ending Account Value” shown is derived from the fund’s actual return, and the third column shows the dollar amount that would have been paid by an investor who started with $1,000 in the fund. You may use the information here, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period.
To do so, simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number given for your fund under the heading “Expenses Paid During Period.”
• Based on hypothetical 5% yearly return. This section is intended to help you compare your fund’s costs with those of other mutual funds. It assumes that the fund had a yearly return of 5% before expenses, but that the expense ratio is unchanged. In this case—because the return used is not the fund’s actual return—the results do not apply to your investment. The example is useful in making comparisons because the Securities and Exchange Commission requires all mutual funds to calculate expenses based on a 5% return. You can assess your fund’s costs by comparing this hypothetical example with the hypothetical examples that appear in shareholder reports of other funds.
Six Months Ended March 31, 2008 |
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Growth and Income Fund | 9/30/2007 | 3/31/2008 | Period1 |
Based on Actual Fund Return |
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Investor Shares | $1,000.00 | $856.73 | $1.35 |
Admiral Shares | 1,000.00 | 857.20 | 0.74 |
Based on Hypothetical 5% Yearly Return |
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Investor Shares | $1,000.00 | $1,023.55 | $1.47 |
Admiral Shares | 1,000.00 | 1,024.20 | 0.81 |
1 The calculations are based on expenses incurred in the most recent six-month period. The fund’s annualized six-month expense ratios for that period are 0.29% for Investor Shares and 0.16% for Admiral Shares. The dollar amounts shown as “Expenses Paid” are equal to the annualized expense ratio multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by the number of days in the most recent six-month period, then divided by the number of days in the most recent 12-month period.
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Note that the expenses shown in the table on page 20 are meant to highlight and help you compare ongoing costs only and do not reflect transaction costs incurred by the fund for buying and selling securities. Further, the expenses do not include the account service fee described in the prospectus. If such a fee were applied to your account, your costs would be higher. Your fund does not charge transaction fees, such as purchase or redemption fees, nor does it carry a “sales load.”
The calculations assume no shares were bought or sold during the period. Your actual costs may have been higher or lower, depending on the amount of your investment and the timing of any purchases or redemptions.
You can find more information about the fund’s expenses, including annual expense ratios, in the Financial Statements section of this report. For additional information on operating expenses and other shareholder costs, please refer to your fund’s current prospectus.
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Glossary
Beta. A measure of the magnitude of a fund’s past share-price fluctuations in relation to the ups and downs of a given market index. The index is assigned a beta of 1.00. Compared with a given index, a fund with a beta of 1.20 typically would have seen its share price rise or fall by 12% when the index rose or fell by 10%. For this report, beta is based on returns over the past 36 months for both the fund and the index. Note that a fund’s beta should be reviewed in conjunction with its R-squared (see definition below). The lower the R-squared, the less correlation there is between the fund and the index, and the less reliable beta is as an indicator of volatility.
Earnings Growth Rate. The average annual rate of growth in earnings over the past five years for the stocks now in a fund.
Equity Exposure. A measure that reflects a fund’s investments in stocks and stock futures. Any holdings in short-term reserves are excluded.
Expense Ratio. The percentage of a fund’s average net assets used to pay its annual administrative and advisory expenses. These expenses directly reduce returns to investors.
Foreign Holdings. The percentage of a fund represented by stocks or depositary receipts of companies based outside the United States.
Inception Date. The date on which the assets of a fund (or one of its share classes) are first invested in accordance with the fund’s investment objective. For funds with a subscription period, the inception date is the day after that period ends. Investment performance is measured from the inception date.
Median Market Cap. An indicator of the size of companies in which a fund invests; the midpoint of market capitalization (market price x shares outstanding) of a fund’s stocks, weighted by the proportion of the fund’s assets invested in each stock. Stocks representing half of the fund’s assets have market capitalizations above the median, and the rest are below it.
Price/Book Ratio. The share price of a stock divided by its net worth, or book value, per share. For a fund, the weighted average price/book ratio of the stocks it holds.
Price/Earnings Ratio. The ratio of a stock’s current price to its per-share earnings over the past year. For a fund, the weighted average P/E of the stocks it holds. P/E is an indicator of market expectations about corporate prospects; the higher the P/E, the greater the expectations for a company’s future growth.
R-Squared. A measure of how much of a fund’s past returns can be explained by the returns from the market in general, as measured by a given index. If a fund’s total returns were precisely synchronized with an index’s returns, its R-squared would be 1.00. If the fund’s returns bore no relationship to the index’s returns, its R-squared would be 0. For this report, R-squared is based on returns over the past 36 months for both the fund and the index.
Return on Equity. The annual average rate of return generated by a company during the past five years for each dollar of shareholder’s equity (net income divided by shareholder’s equity). For a fund, the weighted average return on equity for the companies whose stocks it holds.
Short-Term Reserves. The percentage of a fund invested in highly liquid, short-term securities that can be readily converted to cash.
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Turnover Rate. An indication of the fund’s trading activity. Funds with high turnover rates incur higher transaction costs and may be more likely to distribute capital gains (which may be taxable to investors). The turnover rate excludes in-kind transactions, which have minimal impact on costs.
Yield. A fund’s 30-day SEC yield is derived using a formula specified by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Under the formula, data related to the fund’s security holdings in the previous 30 days are used to calculate the fund’s hypothetical net income for that period, which is then annualized and divided by the fund’s estimated average net assets over the calculation period. For the purposes of this calculation, a security’s income is based on its current market yield to maturity (in the case of bonds) or its projected dividend yield (for stocks). Because the SEC yield represents hypothetical annualized income, it will differ—at times significantly—from the fund’s actual experience. As a result, the fund’s income distributions may be higher or lower than implied by the SEC yield.
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The People Who Govern Your Fund
The trustees of your mutual fund are there to see that the fund is operated and managed in your best interests since, as a shareholder, you are a part owner of the fund. Your fund’s trustees also serve on the board of directors of The Vanguard Group, Inc., which is owned by the Vanguard funds and provides services to them on an at-cost basis.
A majority of Vanguard’s board members are independent, meaning that they have no affiliation with Vanguard or the funds they oversee, apart from the sizable personal investments they have made as private individuals.
Our independent board members bring distinguished backgrounds in business, academia, and public service to their task of working with Vanguard officers to establish the policies and oversee the activities of the funds. Among board members’ responsibilities are selecting investment advisors for the funds; monitoring fund operations, performance, and costs; reviewing contracts; nominating and selecting new trustees/directors; and electing Vanguard officers.
Each trustee serves a fund until its termination; or until the trustee’s retirement, resignation, or death; or otherwise as specified in the fund’s organizational documents. Any trustee may be removed at a shareholders’ meeting by a vote representing two-thirds of the net asset value of all shares of the fund together with shares of other Vanguard funds organized within the same trust. The table on these two pages shows information for each trustee and executive officer of the fund. The mailing address of the trustees and officers is P.O. Box 876, Valley Forge, PA 19482.
Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and Trustee | |
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John J. Brennan1 |
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Born 1954 | Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive |
Trustee since May 1987; | Officer, and Director/Trustee of The Vanguard Group, Inc., and of each of the investment |
Chairman of the Board and | companies served by The Vanguard Group; Director of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. |
Chief Executive Officer |
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155 Vanguard Funds Overseen |
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Independent Trustees |
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Charles D. Ellis |
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Born 1937 | Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Applecore Partners (pro bono ventures |
Trustee since January 2001 | in education); Senior Advisor to Greenwich Associates (international business strategy |
155 Vanguard Funds Overseen | consulting); Successor Trustee of Yale University; Overseer of the Stern School of Business |
| at New York University; Trustee of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. |
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Emerson U. Fullwood |
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Born 1948 | Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Executive Chief Staff and Marketing |
Trustee since January 2008 | Officer for North America since 2004 and Corporate Vice President of Xerox Corporation |
155 Vanguard Funds Overseen | (photocopiers and printers); Director of SPX Corporation (multi-industry manufacturing), |
| of the United Way of Rochester, and of the Boy Scouts of America. |
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Rajiv L. Gupta |
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Born 1945 | Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Chairman, President, and |
Trustee since December 20012 | Chief Executive Officer of Rohm and Haas Co. (chemicals); Board Member of |
155 Vanguard Funds Overseen | the American Chemistry Council; Director of Tyco International, Ltd. (diversified |
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Trustee since June 2006 | Pennsylvania since 2004; Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences, Annenberg School |
155 Vanguard Funds Overseen | for Communication, and Graduate School of Education of the University of Pennsylvania |
| since 2004; Provost (2001–2004) and Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and |
| the University Center for Human Values (1990–2004), Princeton University; Director of |
| Carnegie Corporation of New York since 2005 and of Schuylkill River Development |
| Corporation and Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce since 2004; Trustee of |
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JoAnn Heffernan Heisen |
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Trustee since July 1998 | Chief Global Diversity Officer since 2006, Vice President and Chief Information |
155 Vanguard Funds Overseen | Officer (1997–2005), and Member of the Executive Committee of Johnson & |
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Trustee since December 2004 | and Banking, Harvard Business School; Senior Associate Dean and Director of Faculty |
155 Vanguard Funds Overseen | Recruiting, Harvard Business School; Director and Chairman of UNX, Inc. (equities |
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Trustee since January 1993 | Officer, and Director of NACCO Industries, Inc. (forklift trucks/housewares/lignite); Director |
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155 Vanguard Funds Overseen | AmerisourceBergen Corp. (pharmaceutical distribution); Trustee of Vanderbilt University |
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> | During a particularly volatile six months, the broad U.S. stock market returned –12.4%. |
> | For the fiscal half-year ended March 31, 2008, returns of the Institutional Plus Shares of the Vanguard Structured Equity portfolios ranged from –11.8% for the Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund to –14.1% for the Structured Large-Cap Value Fund. |
> | The funds’ success versus their respective benchmarks was mixed: The Structured Large-Cap Equity and Structured Large-Cap Value Funds performed fairly in line with their indexes, while the other two funds each lagged their respective indexes by up to 1 percentage point. |
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Your Fund’s Total Returns | 1 |
Chairman’s Letter | 2 |
Advisor’s Report | 7 |
Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund | 9 |
Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund | 27 |
Structured Large-Cap Value Fund | 45 |
Structured Broad Market Fund | 60 |
About Your Fund’s Expenses | 82 |
Trustees Approve Advisory Arrangement | 84 |
Glossary | 85 |
Please note: The opinions expressed in this report are just that—informed opinions. They should not be considered promises or advice. Also, please keep in mind that the information and opinions cover the period through the date on the cover of this report. Of course, the risks of investing in your fund are spelled out in the prospectus.
Your Fund’s Total Returns
Six Months Ended March 31, 2008 |
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Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund |
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Institutional Shares | VSLIX | –12.3% |
Institutional Plus Shares | VSLPX | –12.2 |
S&P 500 Index |
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Average Large-Cap Core Fund1 |
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Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund |
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Institutional Shares | VSTLX | –11.9% |
Institutional Plus Shares | VSGPX | –11.8 |
Russell 1000 Growth Index |
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Average Large-Cap Growth Fund1 |
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Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Value Fund |
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Institutional Plus Shares | VSLVX | –14.1% |
Russell 1000 Value Index |
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Average Large-Cap Value Fund1 |
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Vanguard Structured Broad Market Fund |
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Institutional Shares | VSBMX | –13.2% |
Institutional Plus Shares | VSBPX | –13.2 |
Russell 3000 Index |
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Average Multi-Cap Core Fund1 |
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1 Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.
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Chairman’s Letter
Dear Shareholder,
During the first half of your fund’s fiscal-year 2008, the broad U.S. stock market experienced a sharp downturn, retreating more than –12%. In that challenging environment, the Institutional Plus Shares of the four Vanguard Structured Equity portfolios posted negative double-digit returns, ranging from –11.8% for the Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund to –14.1% for the Structured Large-Cap Value Fund.
From an absolute-performance standpoint, the funds had a disappointing period. The funds recorded declines in each of the final five months of the fiscal half-year. On a relative basis, however, the funds performed respectably. As the stock market declined in fits and starts, the funds hewed fairly closely to the results of their benchmark indexes. (The Structured Large-Cap Growth and Structured Broad Market Funds lagged their indexes a bit, but by no more than 1 percentage point each.) At the same time, all the funds remained within their tightly defined risk parameters.
Stocks of all sorts sank amid credit-market concerns
The broad U.S. stock market declined –12.4% for the six months ended March 31 as investor sentiment turned bearish amid fears of a U.S. recession, the weakening U.S. dollar, and the tightening of global credit markets in reaction to the subprime-mortgage crisis that began in midsummer 2007.
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Large-capitalization stocks fared a bit better than small-caps, growth stocks generally outpaced their value-oriented counterparts, and international stocks again outperformed U.S. stocks over the six months; nonetheless, each stock group posted a negative return.
Bond markets were roiled by subprime-mortgage woes
Credit markets seized up as trouble spread from subprime-mortgage-backed securities to other issues. Investors flocked to higher-quality government and corporate bonds, driving U.S. Treasury bond prices higher.
Unlike stocks, the broad taxable bond market pushed forward, posting a total return of 5.2% for the fiscal half-year as lower interest rates depressed yields and bumped up prices. By contrast, tax-exempt municipal bonds returned only 0.7% as fixed income investors moved in droves to Treasuries in search of the highest-quality, most-liquid securities. This, combined with concerns about the financial strength of the insurers backing certain municipal bonds, pushed municipal yields above those of Treasuries.
In response to the tumult in the credit markets and the deteriorating economic outlook, the Federal Reserve Board reduced its target for the federal funds rate aggressively. The Fed continued a series of rate cuts that began late last summer, ending with a 0.75-percentage-point cut in March. The target rate stood at 2.25% at the end of the period, the lowest level since early 2005.
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Russell 1000 Index (Large-caps) | –12.4% | –5.4% | 11.9% |
Russell 2000 Index (Small-caps) | –14.0 | –13.0 | 14.9 |
Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index (Entire market) | –12.4 | –5.8 | 12.5 |
MSCI All Country World Index ex USA (International) | –9.6 | 2.6 | 24.0 |
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Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (Broad taxable market) | 5.2% | 7.7% | 4.6% |
Lehman Municipal Bond Index | 0.7 | 1.9 | 3.9 |
Citigroup 3-Month Treasury Bill Index | 1.7 | 4.2 | 3.0 |
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Consumer Price Index | 2.4% | 4.0% | 3.0% |
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Market’s negative tide hampered funds’ performance
The results of the four Vanguard Structured Equity Funds largely reflected the performance of their respective market segments during the fiscal six months. The growth-oriented fund posted the best results; the value fund had the worst. As expected, the performance of the large-cap equity “blend” fund (with a mix of growth and value stocks) landed between the two. Meanwhile, the broad-market fund’s exposure to the poorer performing small-and mid-capitalization market segments kept the fund a few steps behind its large-cap blend counterpart.
The Institutional Plus Shares of the
Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund returned –12.2%, slightly outpacing the performance of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index. The fund—and the index—posted negative returns in nine out of ten industry sectors. Not surprisingly, the financials sector, which was reeling from the effects of the subprime-lending crisis, was a significant detractor from fund performance, a trend that echoed through all four funds. The consumer staples sector was the only group with a positive return. Stock selection aided the fund’s relative performance in industrials and information technology, but restrained performance in health care.
The Institutional Plus Shares of the Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund returned –11.8%, trailing the return of the Russell 1000 Growth Index by almost 1 percentage point. The large information technology sector detracted the most from performance, although the advisor’s stock picking helped stem declines in that area. The fund’s health care and energy stocks hampered performance relative to the benchmark.
The Institutional Plus Shares of the Structured Large-Cap Value Fund returned –14.1%, just behind the return of the Russell 1000 Value Index. All ten of the fund’s industry sectors suffered declines, ranging from –0.4% in materials to –25.9% in financials. Fine stock selection in information technology and materials was largely offset by poor relative performance in energy and utilities.
The Institutional Plus Shares of the Structured Broad Market Fund posted a –13.2% return, lagging the performance of the Russell 3000 Index by 0.7%. The fund had strong relative performance in the consumer discretionary and materials sectors, and poor relative performance in health care and industrials.
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Advisor navigated funds through choppy waters
We often counsel in our letters to shareholders—and especially in our semiannual reports—that a six-month span is not enough time to judge the performance of any investment. Rather, such a short period is best viewed as a snapshot in time. But a more ungainly snapshot of the financial markets would be difficult to find in recent years. Indeed, the period ended March 31, 2008, was the worst six-month span for the Vanguard Structured Equity portfolios—and their respective benchmarks—in the short history of each of these funds. And it was the worst six-month period for the overall U.S. stock market since 2002.
The unstable market environment of the past six months has truly tested investors and investment managers alike. The Vanguard Structured Equity Funds, despite their negative absolute results, performed respectably over the period relative to their market benchmarks. The funds’ performance was a testament to the quantitative modeling and skilled portfolio management of Vanguard Quantitative Equity Group. Over extended periods, the funds aim to outperform their benchmarks while keeping risk levels in check. We believe the Vanguard Structured Equity Funds can play an integral role in an organization’s long-term investment strategy.
Bill McNabb recently named president of Vanguard
As I close this report to you, it’s my pleasure to introduce the funds’ new president, F. William McNabb III. Bill is a man of great character and integrity who is intimately familiar with all aspects of Vanguard—from how we serve our clients to how we invest for our clients.
Bill and I have worked together very closely for more than two decades. I’m thrilled that the funds’ board elected him president, effective March 1, and designated him to succeed me as chief executive officer, a role he will assume within a year, after an orderly transition. Bill and the rest of our team will serve you and our other clients extremely well in the years ahead.
Thank you for investing with Vanguard.
Sincerely,
John J. Brennan
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
April 14, 2008
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Your Fund’s Performance at a Glance |
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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund |
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Institutional Shares | $29.98 | $25.54 | $0.430 | $0.391 |
Institutional Plus Shares | 60.02 | 51.10 | 0.920 | 0.782 |
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Institutional Shares | $29.93 | $25.64 | $0.270 | $0.571 |
Institutional Plus Shares | 59.60 | 51.05 | 0.564 | 1.137 |
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Institutional Plus Shares | $63.87 | $50.02 | $1.370 | $3.980 |
Structured Broad Market Fund |
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Institutional Shares | $28.67 | $24.25 | $0.280 | $0.429 |
Institutional Plus Shares | 57.39 | 48.50 | 0.621 | 0.858 |
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Advisor’s Report
The six months ended March 31, 2008, was a mixed period for the Vanguard Structured Equity Funds.
The Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund returned –12.3% for Institutional Shares and –12.2% for Institutional Plus Shares, edging out the –12.5% return of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.
The Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund returned –11.9% for Institutional Shares and –11.8% for Institutional Plus Shares, trailing the –10.9% return of the Russell 1000 Growth Index.
The Structured Large-Cap Value Fund’s
Institutional Plus Shares returned –14.1%, just behind the –14.0% return of the Russell 1000 Value Index.
The Structured Broad Market Fund’s
Institutional and Institutional Plus Shares returned –13.2%, lagging by a bit the –12.5% return of the Russell 3000 Index.
The investment environment
Growth stocks continued to outperform value stocks during the period. The Russell 1000 Growth Index outperformed the Russell 1000 Value Index by more than 3%. Financials stocks were the worst-performing sector in the Russell 3000 Index, dropping almost –24%. Because financials stocks made up roughly 19% of the index at the beginning of the period, these losses represented more than one-third of the loss for the Russell 3000, which declined –12.5%. The market’s decline was the largest six-month decline since late 2002.
Although we are disappointed that three of the Structured Equity Funds trailed their benchmarks, we are satisfied that our tight risk-control policies were successful in such a volatile market. All four funds remained below their expected tracking error for the period.
We actively manage all four of the funds using a combination of computer models. Our stock-selection model has three components: valuation, market sentiment, and earnings quality. We evaluate each stock relative to its market cap and industry peers based on the three components. Then we combine these three elements into a composite signal. When combined with our risk-control process, the resulting portfolio matches the benchmark’s exposure to industry, market capitalization, and other style risk factors. Relative to the benchmark, the stocks in our portfolio generally have a lower price/earning ratio, slightly higher returns-on-equity, and a similar dividend yield. We attempt to add value by taking many small positions across several hundred stocks, without tilting toward specific industries or timing changes in market leadership.
The following are brief reviews of each fund’s performance:
Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund
Our model had a positive fiscal half-year. Market sentiment was a positive indicator, while the valuation model was slightly negative. We enjoyed relative success in the information technology sector. The
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industrials sector also performed well. Our positions in health care and consumer staples restrained performance.
Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund
Our sentiment and value indicators were both positive in the model, but we realized an implementation shortfall for the period. Information technology delivered the best relative returns, while the health care sector dragged down performance.
Structured Large-Cap Value Fund
The valuation indicator reduced a positive contribution from our market-sentiment model. The materials sector was our best relative performer. Offsetting these gains were our holdings in energy.
Structured Broad Market Fund
Sentiment contributed positive performance, while valuation reduced performance. Consumer discretionary stocks produced our best relative performance, while health care reduced our return.
Conclusion
Our funds’ performance depends on our model’s stock-picking ability, which was reasonably positive in the first half of fiscal 2008, but restrained by implementation issues. These shortfalls can arise for two reasons. The first is risk-control constraints; the second is turnover constraints. In our Structured Equity portfolios, we deliberately maintain very tight risk-control parameters. The goal is to moderate short-term volatility while trying to maintain long-run excess return. This means that we will not gain as much as more aggressive funds in “good” times, but we won’t lose as much in “bad” times.
Given the publicly disclosed poor performance of many quantitative managers, we believe that our risk-control process worked as intended. Some of our portfolios did underperform, but our balance between risk and return expectations moderated the losses significantly. The turnover constraint is a similar trade-off. We do not manage the portfolios with unlimited turnover, because transaction costs will eat away at our model’s outperformance. By limiting turnover, we cannot capture all of our model’s information, but the marginal benefit of that extra information is less than the cost of higher portfolio turnover.
It has been a rocky six months for equity market investors, but we are confident that our portfolios offer an appealing combination of low costs, tight tracking error, and excess return potential. We thank you for your investment.
Joel M. Dickson
Principal
James. D. Troyer, CFA
Principal and Portfolio Manager
James P. Stetler
Principal and Portfolio Manager
Vanguard Quantitative Equity Group
April 17, 2008
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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund
Fund Profile
As of March 31, 2008
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Number of Stocks | 257 | 500 | 4,811 |
Median Market Cap | $50.1B | $48.2B | $33.8B |
Price/Earnings Ratio | 15.2x | 16.3x | 16.9x |
Price/Book Ratio | 2.4x | 2.5x | 2.4x |
Yield3 |
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Institutional Shares | 2.0% |
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Return on Equity | 20.4% | 20.6% | 19.5% |
Earnings Growth Rate | 21.7% | 20.0% | 20.0% |
Foreign Holdings | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
Turnover Rate | 102%4 | — | — |
Expense Ratio |
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Institutional Shares | 0.22%4 |
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Consumer Discretionary | 8.7% | 8.7% | 9.4% |
Consumer Staples | 11.1 | 11.1 | 9.6 |
Energy | 13.3 | 13.3 | 12.7 |
Financials | 16.7 | 16.7 | 17.7 |
Health Care | 11.6 | 11.7 | 11.7 |
Industrials | 12.2 | 12.2 | 12.2 |
Information Technology | 15.7 | 15.7 | 15.6 |
Materials | 3.6 | 3.6 | 4.1 |
Telecommunication Services | 3.5 | 3.4 | 3.1 |
Utilities | 3.6 | 3.6 | 3.9 |
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ExxonMobil Corp. | integrated oil and gas | 3.9% |
General Electric Co. | industrial conglomerate | 3.1 |
AT&T Inc. | integrated telecommunication services | 2.1 |
Microsoft Corp. | systems software | 2.1 |
The Procter & Gamble Co. | household products | 2.0 |
Johnson & Johnson | pharmaceuticals | 1.7 |
International Business Machines Corp. | computer hardware | 1.5 |
Chevron Corp. | integrated oil and gas | 1.5 |
Bank of America Corp. | diversified financial services | 1.4 |
JPMorgan Chase & Co. | diversified financial services | 1.3 |
Top Ten |
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Investment Focus
1 S&P 500 Index.
2 Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index.
3 30-day SEC yield for the fund; annualized dividend yield for the indexes. See the Glossary on page 64.
4 Annualized.
5 The fund invested a portion of its cash reserves in equity markets through the use of index futures contracts. After the effect of the futures investments, the fund’s temporary cash position was negative.
6 “Ten Largest Holdings” excludes any temporary cash investments and equity index products.
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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund
Performance Summary
All of the returns in this report represent past performance, which is not a guarantee of future results that may be achieved by the fund. (Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data cited. For performance data current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at www.vanguard.com/performance.) Note, too, that both investment returns and principal value can fluctuate widely, so an investor’s shares, when sold, could be worth more or less than their original cost. The returns shown do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or on the sale of fund shares.
Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): May 15, 2006–March 31, 2008
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Institutional Shares | 5/16/2006 | –5.58% | 3.18% |
Institutional Plus Shares | 5/15/2006 | –5.49 | 3.19 |
1 May 15, 2006, through September 30, 2006.
2 Six months ended March 31, 2008.
Note: See Financial Highlights tables on pages 17–18 for dividend and capital gains information.
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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund
Financial Statements (unaudited)
Statement of Net Assets
As of March 31, 2008
The fund provides a complete list of its holdings four times in each fiscal year, at the quarter-ends. For the second and fourth fiscal quarters, the lists appear in the fund’s semiannual and annual reports to shareholders. For the first and third fiscal quarters, the fund files the lists with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form N-Q. Shareholders can look up the fund’s Forms N-Q on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Forms N-Q may also be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room (see the back cover of this report for further information).
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| McDonald’s Corp. | 105,668 | 5,893 |
| Comcast Corp. Class A | 277,795 | 5,373 |
| The Walt Disney Co. | 170,263 | 5,343 |
| Time Warner, Inc. | 332,180 | 4,657 |
| CBS Corp. | 166,749 | 3,682 |
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| Resorts Worldwide, Inc. | 69,000 | 3,571 |
| Whirlpool Corp. | 39,290 | 3,410 |
* | AutoZone Inc. | 28,700 | 3,267 |
| Black & Decker Corp. | 47,100 | 3,113 |
| Sherwin-Williams Co. | 59,141 | 3,019 |
* | Big Lots Inc. | 135,200 | 3,015 |
| Wyndham Worldwide Corp. | 137,566 | 2,845 |
* | Viacom Inc. Class B | 71,450 | 2,831 |
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| Home Depot, Inc. | 96,660 | 2,704 |
| The Gap, Inc. | 124,800 | 2,456 |
| News Corp., Class A | 125,044 | 2,345 |
| Target Corp. | 46,093 | 2,336 |
* | Amazon.com, Inc. | 28,000 | 1,996 |
| Best Buy Co., Inc. | 46,750 | 1,938 |
| Johnson Controls, Inc. | 54,200 | 1,832 |
| Lowe’s Cos., Inc. | 73,458 | 1,685 |
| Pulte Homes, Inc. | 73,200 | 1,065 |
| NIKE, Inc. Class B | 14,800 | 1,006 |
| TJX Cos., Inc. | 26,200 | 866 |
| Carnival Corp. | 19,407 | 786 |
| Newell Rubbermaid, Inc. | 24,200 | 553 |
| The McGraw-Hill Cos., Inc. | 12,500 | 462 |
* | DIRECTV Group, Inc. | 14,300 | 354 |
| Tiffany & Co. | 5,100 | 213 |
| Omnicom Group Inc. | 1,700 | 75 |
| E.W. Scripps Co. Class A | 1,300 | 55 |
|
|
| 75,489 |
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|
| Market |
|
| Value• |
| Shares | ($000) |
Consumer Staples (11.0%) |
|
|
The Procter & Gamble Co. | 246,899 | 17,300 |
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. | 197,364 | 10,397 |
Philip Morris International Inc. | 171,440 | 8,671 |
The Coca-Cola Co. | 136,393 | 8,302 |
PepsiCo, Inc. | 108,499 | 7,834 |
The Kroger Co. | 159,742 | 4,057 |
Colgate-Palmolive Co. | 50,054 | 3,900 |
Altria Group, Inc. | 171,440 | 3,806 |
CVS/Caremark Corp. | 86,626 | 3,509 |
Molson Coors Brewing Co. |
|
|
Class B | 65,700 | 3,454 |
H.J. Heinz Co. | 65,700 | 3,086 |
Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. | 127,200 | 3,078 |
Costco Wholesale Corp. | 47,054 | 3,057 |
Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. | 68,500 | 2,819 |
Kraft Foods Inc. | 88,276 | 2,737 |
ConAgra Foods, Inc. | 89,700 | 2,148 |
Kimberly-Clark Corp. | 31,849 | 2,056 |
Walgreen Co. | 48,099 | 1,832 |
Anheuser-Busch Cos., Inc. | 36,586 | 1,736 |
The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. | 47,100 | 1,597 |
SuperValu Inc. | 17,900 | 537 |
The Clorox Co. | 7,400 | 419 |
Sysco Corp. | 700 | 20 |
|
| 96,352 |
Energy (13.2%) |
|
|
ExxonMobil Corp. | 399,955 | 33,828 |
Chevron Corp. | 150,357 | 12,834 |
ConocoPhillips Co. | 130,982 | 9,982 |
Schlumberger Ltd. | 80,055 | 6,965 |
Occidental Petroleum Corp. | 75,286 | 5,509 |
Hess Corp. | 50,800 | 4,480 |
Chesapeake Energy Corp. | 95,700 | 4,417 |
Devon Energy Corp. | 42,034 | 4,385 |
Murphy Oil Corp. | 50,744 | 4,168 |
Apache Corp. | 33,583 | 4,057 |
ENSCO International, Inc. | 54,800 | 3,432 |
Noble Corp. | 68,600 | 3,407 |
Noble Energy, Inc. | 46,400 | 3,378 |
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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund
|
|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
| Valero Energy Corp. | 56,321 | 2,766 |
* | Transocean, Inc. | 17,677 | 2,390 |
* | Weatherford International Ltd. | 29,800 | 2,160 |
| Marathon Oil Corp. | 39,976 | 1,823 |
| Halliburton Co. | 40,138 | 1,579 |
| XTO Energy, Inc. | 22,000 | 1,361 |
| Anadarko Petroleum Corp. | 19,770 | 1,246 |
* | National Oilwell Varco Inc. | 16,700 | 975 |
| Baker Hughes, Inc. | 10,900 | 747 |
|
|
| 115,889 |
Financials (16.8%) |
|
| |
| Bank of America Corp. | 313,093 | 11,869 |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 274,506 | 11,790 |
| Wells Fargo & Co. | 279,011 | 8,119 |
| Citigroup, Inc. | 353,512 | 7,572 |
| American International Group, Inc. | 172,083 | 7,443 |
| The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | 34,977 | 5,785 |
| U.S. Bancorp | 159,902 | 5,174 |
| Wachovia Corp. | 175,582 | 4,741 |
| Bank of New York Mellon Corp. | 107,863 | 4,501 |
| ACE Ltd. | 74,550 | 4,105 |
| BB&T Corp. | 125,787 | 4,033 |
| The Chubb Corp. | 80,536 | 3,985 |
| Ameriprise Financial, Inc. | 71,020 | 3,682 |
| Northern Trust Corp. | 53,300 | 3,543 |
| AFLAC Inc. | 50,769 | 3,297 |
| State Street Corp. | 41,527 | 3,281 |
| The Travelers Cos., Inc. | 67,851 | 3,247 |
| Morgan Stanley | 64,598 | 2,952 |
| American Express Co. | 67,243 | 2,940 |
| Fannie Mae | 104,296 | 2,745 |
| The Hartford Financial |
|
|
| Services Group Inc. | 35,302 | 2,675 |
| Simon Property Group, Inc. |
|
|
| REIT | 28,036 | 2,605 |
| Unum Group | 117,200 | 2,580 |
| PNC Financial Services Group | 36,451 | 2,390 |
| MetLife, Inc. | 39,081 | 2,355 |
| Discover Financial Services | 140,299 | 2,297 |
| Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. | 53,312 | 2,172 |
| Lehman Brothers |
|
|
| Holdings, Inc. | 57,077 | 2,148 |
| ProLogis REIT | 35,900 | 2,113 |
| Prudential Financial, Inc. | 23,482 | 1,837 |
| Regions Financial Corp. | 88,600 | 1,750 |
| Janus Capital Group Inc. | 64,900 | 1,510 |
| Plum Creek Timber Co. Inc. |
|
|
| REIT | 36,000 | 1,465 |
| Safeco Corp. | 33,346 | 1,463 |
| Freddie Mac | 53,969 | 1,366 |
* | CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. | 58,600 | 1,268 |
| General Growth |
|
|
| Properties Inc. REIT | 32,600 | 1,244 |
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|
|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
| The Allstate Corp. | 24,606 | 1,183 |
| CME Group, Inc. | 2,400 | 1,126 |
| T. Rowe Price Group Inc. | 21,100 | 1,055 |
| Boston Properties, Inc. REIT | 10,200 | 939 |
| Capital One Financial Corp. | 15,098 | 743 |
| NYSE Euronext | 11,900 | 734 |
| Charles Schwab Corp. | 35,700 | 672 |
| SunTrust Banks, Inc. | 10,354 | 571 |
| Cincinnati Financial Corp. | 14,600 | 555 |
| Loews Corp. | 12,143 | 488 |
| Franklin Resources Corp. | 4,133 | 401 |
| Apartment Investment & Management Co. Class A REIT | 9,371 | 336 |
| Kimco Realty Corp. REIT | 6,500 | 255 |
| Ambac Financial Group, Inc. | 25,100 | 144 |
* | E*TRADE Financial Corp. | 28,600 | 110 |
| XL Capital Ltd. Class A | 3,300 | 98 |
| Washington Mutual, Inc. | 8,046 | 83 |
| Leucadia National Corp. | 900 | 41 |
|
|
| 147,576 |
Health Care (11.6%) |
|
| |
| Johnson & Johnson | 229,469 | 14,886 |
| Pfizer Inc. | 553,169 | 11,578 |
| Merck & Co., Inc. | 183,001 | 6,945 |
| Abbott Laboratories | 99,139 | 5,468 |
| Eli Lilly & Co. | 91,756 | 4,734 |
* | Gilead Sciences, Inc. | 90,146 | 4,645 |
* | Biogen Idec Inc. | 71,211 | 4,393 |
* | Express Scripts Inc. | 58,932 | 3,791 |
| McKesson Corp. | 68,181 | 3,571 |
* | Amgen, Inc. | 81,597 | 3,409 |
| Wyeth | 80,639 | 3,367 |
| Medtronic, Inc. | 66,334 | 3,209 |
* | Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings | 40,600 | 2,991 |
| CIGNA Corp. | 70,730 | 2,870 |
| UnitedHealth Group Inc. | 81,312 | 2,794 |
* | Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. | 47,400 | 2,694 |
* | WellPoint Inc. | 57,555 | 2,540 |
| Aetna Inc. | 55,913 | 2,353 |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. | 110,117 | 2,345 |
* | Humana Inc. | 49,100 | 2,203 |
| Baxter International, Inc. | 32,864 | 1,900 |
* | King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 158,800 | 1,382 |
| AmerisourceBergen Corp. | 33,069 | 1,355 |
| Schering-Plough Corp. | 81,457 | 1,174 |
* | St. Jude Medical, Inc. | 26,000 | 1,123 |
* | Celgene Corp. | 16,800 | 1,030 |
* | Medco Health Solutions, Inc. | 20,500 | 898 |
* | Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 26,300 | 771 |
| Cardinal Health, Inc. | 11,004 | 578 |
| Stryker Corp. | 3,650 | 237 |
* | Forest Laboratories, Inc. | 1,400 | 56 |
|
|
| 101,290 |
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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund
|
|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
Industrials (12.1%) |
|
| |
| General Electric Co. | 733,911 | 27,162 |
| United Parcel Service, Inc. | 91,527 | 6,683 |
| The Boeing Co. | 70,285 | 5,227 |
| CSX Corp. | 83,800 | 4,699 |
| United Technologies Corp. | 61,954 | 4,264 |
| Waste Management, Inc. | 114,100 | 3,829 |
| Parker Hannifin Corp. | 54,600 | 3,782 |
| Textron, Inc. | 67,320 | 3,731 |
| Deere & Co. | 45,000 | 3,620 |
| Lockheed Martin Corp. | 34,647 | 3,440 |
| 3M Co. | 42,432 | 3,358 |
| Raytheon Co. | 47,805 | 3,089 |
| Cooper Industries, Inc. Class A | 76,300 | 3,063 |
| Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. | 32,391 | 2,987 |
| Northrop Grumman Corp. | 38,221 | 2,974 |
| Caterpillar, Inc. | 35,775 | 2,801 |
| Precision Castparts Corp. | 26,400 | 2,695 |
| Tyco International, Ltd. | 59,913 | 2,639 |
| Honeywell International Inc. | 45,487 | 2,566 |
| Union Pacific Corp. | 19,398 | 2,432 |
* | Terex Corp. | 38,700 | 2,419 |
| The Manitowoc Co., Inc. | 57,100 | 2,330 |
| Emerson Electric Co. | 40,458 | 2,082 |
| General Dynamics Corp. | 18,444 | 1,538 |
| FedEx Corp. | 13,344 | 1,237 |
| Illinois Tool Works, Inc. | 11,808 | 569 |
| Danaher Corp. | 6,100 | 464 |
* | Allied Waste Industries, Inc. | 37,713 | 408 |
| L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. | 1,300 | 142 |
| R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. | 2,200 | 67 |
|
|
| 106,297 |
Information Technology (15.6%) |
|
| |
| Microsoft Corp. | 637,533 | 18,093 |
| International Business |
|
|
| Machines Corp. | 112,345 | 12,935 |
* | Cisco Systems, Inc. | 461,389 | 11,115 |
* | Apple Inc. | 72,846 | 10,453 |
| Intel Corp. | 454,168 | 9,619 |
| Hewlett-Packard Co. | 208,615 | 9,525 |
* | Google Inc. | 15,555 | 6,852 |
* | Oracle Corp. | 343,337 | 6,716 |
| QUALCOMM Inc. | 102,492 | 4,202 |
| Corning, Inc. | 161,761 | 3,889 |
* | Symantec Corp. | 231,800 | 3,853 |
| Texas Instruments, Inc. | 132,163 | 3,736 |
* | EMC Corp. | 214,250 | 3,072 |
* | NVIDIA Corp. | 154,800 | 3,063 |
* | BMC Software, Inc. | 91,233 | 2,967 |
* | MEMC Electronic |
|
|
| Materials, Inc. | 40,900 | 2,900 |
* | Yahoo! Inc. | 96,945 | 2,805 |
* | Lexmark International, Inc. | 86,700 | 2,663 |
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|
|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
* | Dell Inc. | 125,064 | 2,491 |
* | Sun Microsystems, Inc. | 157,525 | 2,446 |
* | Novell, Inc. | 374,500 | 2,356 |
| Automatic Data Processing, Inc. | 51,220 | 2,171 |
* | Intuit, Inc. | 70,600 | 1,907 |
* | eBay Inc. | 55,346 | 1,652 |
| Applied Materials, Inc. | 57,934 | 1,130 |
| CA, Inc. | 49,700 | 1,118 |
| National Semiconductor Corp. | 55,700 | 1,020 |
| Motorola, Inc. | 83,989 | 781 |
* | Adobe Systems, Inc. | 20,500 | 730 |
| Xerox Corp. | 16,700 | 250 |
* | Computer Sciences Corp. | 1,600 | 65 |
|
|
| 136,575 |
Materials (3.6%) |
|
| |
| Monsanto Co. | 49,670 | 5,538 |
| United States Steel Corp. | 32,706 | 4,149 |
| PPG Industries, Inc. | 54,800 | 3,316 |
| Eastman Chemical Co. | 51,400 | 3,210 |
| Alcoa Inc. | 87,400 | 3,152 |
| E.I. du Pont de |
|
|
| Nemours & Co. | 65,970 | 3,085 |
| Nucor Corp. | 41,500 | 2,811 |
| Freeport-McMoRan |
|
|
| Copper & Gold, Inc. Class B | 27,300 | 2,627 |
| Dow Chemical Co. | 47,758 | 1,760 |
| Praxair, Inc. | 11,600 | 977 |
| Allegheny Technologies Inc. | 4,900 | 350 |
| Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. | 2,600 | 239 |
|
|
| 31,214 |
Telecommunication Services (3.4%) |
|
| |
| AT&T Inc. | 482,372 | 18,475 |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | 193,880 | 7,067 |
| Windstream Corp. | 148,500 | 1,775 |
| Embarq Corp. | 24,300 | 974 |
| Sprint Nextel Corp. | 141,682 | 948 |
* | American Tower Corp. |
|
|
| Class A | 10,300 | 404 |
| CenturyTel, Inc. | 9,900 | 329 |
| Qwest Communications |
|
|
| International Inc. | 41,648 | 189 |
|
|
| 30,161 |
Utilities (3.5%) |
|
| |
| PPL Corp. | 86,000 | 3,949 |
| Edison International | 77,700 | 3,809 |
| Consolidated Edison Inc. | 84,800 | 3,367 |
| Exelon Corp. | 37,675 | 3,062 |
| DTE Energy Co. | 78,400 | 3,049 |
| Southern Co. | 82,512 | 2,938 |
| Dominion Resources, Inc. | 64,860 | 2,649 |
| Duke Energy Corp. 144,170 |
| 2,573 |
| Public Service Enterprise |
|
|
| Group, Inc. | 59,000 | 2,371 |
| Xcel Energy, Inc. | 91,568 | 1,827 |
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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund
|
|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
| FPL Group, Inc. | 16,100 | 1,010 |
| Progress Energy, Inc. | 7,900 | 329 |
| Questar Corp. | 2,100 | 119 |
|
|
| 31,052 |
Total Common Stocks |
|
| |
(Cost $876,375) |
| 871,895 | |
Temporary Cash Investments (0.5%)1 |
|
| |
Money Market Fund (0.4%) |
|
| |
2 | Vanguard Market |
|
|
| Liquidity Fund, 2.800% | 3,550,708 | 3,551 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Face |
|
|
| Amount |
|
|
| ($000) |
|
U.S. Agency Obligations (0.1%) |
|
| |
3 | Federal Home Loan Bank |
|
|
4 | 2.748%, 5/9/08 | 200 | 200 |
3 | Federal Home Loan |
|
|
| Mortgage Corp. |
|
|
4 | 1.740%, 8/29/08 | 300 | 297 |
|
|
| 497 |
Total Temporary Cash Investments |
|
| |
(Cost $4,048) |
| 4,048 | |
Total Investments (99.9%) |
|
| |
(Cost $880,423) |
| 875,943 | |
Other Assets and Liabilities (0.1%) |
|
| |
Other Assets—Note B |
| 1,564 | |
Liabilities |
| (581) | |
|
|
| 983 |
Net Assets (100%) |
| 876,926 |
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At March 31, 2008, net assets consisted of:5 | |
| Amount |
| ($000) |
Paid-in Capital | 919,909 |
Undistributed Net Investment Income | 3,986 |
Accumulated Net Realized Losses | (42,495) |
Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) |
|
Investment Securities | (4,480) |
Futures Contracts | 6 |
Net Assets | 876,926 |
|
|
Institutional Shares—Net Assets |
|
Applicable to 6,049,328 outstanding |
|
$.001 par value shares of beneficial |
|
interest (unlimited authorization) | 154,487 |
Net Asset Value Per Share— |
|
Institutional Shares | $25.54 |
|
|
Institutional Plus Shares—Net Assets |
|
Applicable to 14,137,874 outstanding |
|
$.001 par value shares of beneficial |
|
interest (unlimited authorization) | 722,439 |
Net Asset Value Per Share— |
|
Institutional Plus Shares | $51.10 |
• | See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements. |
* Non-income-producing security.
1 The fund invests a portion of its cash reserves in equity markets through the use of index futures contracts. After giving effect to futures investments, the fund’s effective common stock and temporary cash investment positions represent 100.0% and (0.1%), respectively, of net assets. See Note C in Notes to Financial Statements.
2 Affiliated money market fund available only to Vanguard funds and certain trusts and accounts managed by Vanguard. Rate shown is the 7-day yield.
3 The issuer operates under a congressional charter; its securities are neither issued nor guaranteed by the U.S. government. If needed, access to additional funding from the U.S. Treasury (beyond the issuer’s line of credit) would require congressional action.
4 Securities with a value of $497,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open futures contracts.
5 See Note C in Notes to Financial Statements for the tax-basis components of net assets.
REIT—Real Estate Investment Trust.
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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund
Statement of Operations
| Six Months Ended |
| March 31, 2008 |
| ($000) |
Investment Income |
|
Income |
|
Dividends | 9,570 |
Interest1 | 24 |
Security Lending | 2 |
Total Income | 9,596 |
Expenses |
|
The Vanguard Group—Note B |
|
Investment Advisory Services | 161 |
Management and Administrative |
|
Institutional Shares | 118 |
Institutional Plus Shares | 239 |
Marketing and Distribution |
|
Institutional Shares | 24 |
Institutional Plus Shares | 106 |
Custodian Fees | 29 |
Shareholders’ Reports |
|
Institutional Shares | 6 |
Institutional Plus Shares | 3 |
Total Expenses | 686 |
Net Investment Income | 8,910 |
Realized Net Gain (Loss) |
|
Investment Securities Sold | (37,133) |
Futures Contracts | (337) |
Realized Net Gain (Loss) | (37,470) |
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) |
|
Investment Securities | (94,668) |
Futures Contracts | 6 |
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | (94,662) |
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations | (123,222) |
1 Interest income from an affiliated company of the fund was $21,000.
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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
| Six Months Ended | Year Ended |
| March 31, | September 30, |
| 2008 | 2007 |
| ($000) | ($000) |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets |
|
|
Operations |
|
|
Net Investment Income | 8,910 | 13,509 |
Realized Net Gain (Loss) | (37,470) | 8,336 |
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | (94,662) | 77,834 |
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations | (123,222) | 99,679 |
Distributions |
|
|
Net Investment Income |
|
|
Institutional Shares | (2,670) | (940) |
Institutional Plus Shares | (12,716) | (3,704) |
Realized Capital Gain1 |
|
|
Institutional Shares | (2,428) | (67) |
Institutional Plus Shares | (10,809) | (218) |
Total Distributions | (28,623) | (4,929) |
Capital Share Transactions—Note E |
|
|
Institutional Shares | (4,718) | 36,315 |
Institutional Plus Shares | 27,455 | 544,425 |
Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions | 22,737 | 580,740 |
Total Increase (Decrease) | (129,108) | 675,490 |
Net Assets |
|
|
Beginning of Period | 1,006,034 | 330,544 |
End of Period2 | 876,926 | 1,006,034 |
1 Includes fiscal 2008 and 2007 short-term gain distributions totaling $9,615,000 and $285,000, respectively. Short-term gain distributions are treated as ordinary income dividends for tax purposes.
2 Net Assets—End of Period includes undistributed net investment income of $3,986,000 and $10,462,000.
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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund
Financial Highlights
Institutional Shares |
|
|
|
| Six Months | Year | May 16, |
| Ended | Ended | 20061 to |
| March 31, | Sept. 30, | Sept. 30, |
For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Period | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 |
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | $29.98 | $26.03 | $24.96 |
Investment Operations |
|
|
|
Net Investment Income | .249 | .4762 | .13 |
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments | (3.868) | 3.657 | .94 |
Total from Investment Operations | (3.619) | 4.133 | 1.07 |
Distributions |
|
|
|
Dividends from Net Investment Income | (.430) | (.172) | — |
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains | (.391) | (.011) | — |
Total Distributions | (.821) | (.183) | — |
Net Asset Value, End of Period | $25.54 | $29.98 | $26.03 |
|
|
|
|
Total Return | –12.28% | 15.94% | 4.29% |
|
|
|
|
Ratios/Supplemental Data |
|
|
|
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) | $154 | $187 | $127 |
Ratio of Total Expenses to Average Net Assets | 0.22%* | 0.25% | 0.25%* |
Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets | 1.82%* | 1.69% | 1.67%* |
Portfolio Turnover Rate | 102%* | 54%3 | 30% |
1 Inception.
2 Calculated based on average shares outstanding.
3 Excludes the value of portfolio securities received or delivered as a result of in-kind purchases or redemptions of the fund’s capital shares.
* | Annualized. |
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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund
Institutional Plus Shares |
|
|
|
| Six Months | Year | May 15, |
| Ended | Ended | 20061 to |
| March 31, | Sept. 30, | Sept. 30, |
For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Period | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 |
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | $60.02 | $52.07 | $50.00 |
Investment Operations |
|
|
|
Net Investment Income | .521 | 1.0182 | .25 |
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments | (7.739) | 7.317 | 1.82 |
Total from Investment Operations | (7.218) | 8.335 | 2.07 |
Distributions |
|
|
|
Dividends from Net Investment Income | (.920) | (.363) | — |
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains | (.782) | (.022) | — |
Total Distributions | (1.702) | (.385) | — |
Net Asset Value, End of Period | $51.10 | $60.02 | $52.07 |
|
|
|
|
Total Return | –12.25% | 16.07% | 4.14% |
|
|
|
|
Ratios/Supplemental Data |
|
|
|
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) | $722 | $819 | $203 |
Ratio of Total Expenses to Average Net Assets | 0.13%* | 0.15% | 0.15%* |
Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets | 1.91%* | 1.79% | 1.77%* |
Portfolio Turnover Rate | 102%* | 54%3 | 30% |
1 Inception.
2 Calculated based on average shares outstanding.
3 Excludes the value of portfolio securities received or delivered as a result of in-kind purchases or redemptions of the fund’s capital shares.
* | Annualized. |
See accompanying Notes, which are an integral part of the Financial Statements.
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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund
Notes to Financial Statements
Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The fund files reports with the SEC under the company name Vanguard Quantitative Funds. The fund offers two classes of shares, Institutional Shares and Institutional Plus Shares. Institutional Shares are available to investors who invest a minimum amount of $5 million. Institutional Plus Shares are available to investors who invest a minimum amount of $200 million ($100 million for investors with total Vanguard investments of at least $1 billion).
A. The following significant accounting policies conform to generally accepted accounting principles for U.S. mutual funds. The fund consistently follows such policies in preparing its financial statements.
1. Security Valuation: Securities are valued as of the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4 p.m., Eastern time) on the valuation date. Equity securities are valued at the latest quoted sales prices or official closing prices taken from the primary market in which each security trades; such securities not traded on the valuation date are valued at the mean of the latest quoted bid and asked prices. Securities for which market quotations are not readily available, or whose values have been materially affected by events occurring before the fund’s pricing time but after the close of the securities’ primary markets, are valued by methods deemed by the board of trustees to represent fair value. Investments in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund are valued at that fund’s net asset value. Temporary cash investments acquired over 60 days to maturity are valued using the latest bid prices or using valuations based on a matrix system (which considers such factors as security prices, yields, maturities, and ratings), both as furnished by independent pricing services. Other temporary cash investments are valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value.
2. Futures Contracts: The fund uses index futures contracts to a limited extent, with the objective of maintaining full exposure to the stock market while maintaining liquidity. The fund may purchase or sell futures contracts to achieve a desired level of investment, whether to accommodate portfolio turnover or cash flows from capital share transactions. The primary risks associated with the use of futures contracts are imperfect correlation between changes in market values of stocks held by the fund and the prices of futures contracts, and the possibility of an illiquid market.
Futures contracts are valued at their quoted daily settlement prices. The aggregate principal amounts of the contracts are not recorded in the Statement of Net Assets. Fluctuations in the value of the contracts are recorded in the Statement of Net Assets as an asset (liability) and in the Statement of Operations as unrealized appreciation (depreciation) until the contracts are closed, when they are recorded as realized futures gains (losses).
3. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken on federal income tax returns for all open tax years (tax years ended September 30, 2006–2007) and for the period ended March 31, 2008, and has concluded that no provision for federal income tax is required in the fund’s financial statements.
4. Distributions: Distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date.
5. Security Lending: The fund may lend its securities to qualified institutional borrowers to earn additional income. Security loans are required to be secured at all times by collateral at least equal to the market value of securities loaned. The fund invests cash collateral received in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, and records a liability for the return of the collateral, during the period the securities are on loan. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less expenses associated with the loan.
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6. Other: Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date. Interest income includes income distributions received from Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund and is accrued daily. Security transactions are accounted for on the date securities are bought or sold. Costs used to determine realized gains (losses) on the sale of investment securities are those of the specific securities sold.
Each class of shares has equal rights as to assets and earnings, except that each class separately bears certain class-specific expenses related to maintenance of shareholder accounts (included in Management and Administrative expenses) and shareholder reporting. Marketing and distribution expenses are allocated to each class of shares based on a method approved by the board of trustees. Income, other non-class-specific expenses, and gains and losses on investments are allocated to each class of shares based on its relative net assets.
B. The Vanguard Group furnishes at cost investment advisory, corporate management, administrative, marketing, and distribution services. The costs of such services are allocated to the fund under methods approved by the board of trustees. The fund has committed to provide up to 0.40% of its net assets in capital contributions to Vanguard. At March 31, 2008, the fund had contributed capital of $76,000 to Vanguard (included in Other Assets), representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 0.08% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and officers of Vanguard.
C. Distributions are determined on a tax basis and may differ from net investment income and realized capital gains for financial reporting purposes. Differences may be permanent or temporary. Permanent differences are reclassified among capital accounts in the financial statements to reflect their tax character. Temporary differences arise when certain items of income, expense, gain, or loss are recognized in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes; these differences will reverse at some time in the future. Differences in classification may also result from the treatment of short-term gains as ordinary income for tax purposes. The fund’s tax-basis capital gains and losses are determined only at the end of each fiscal year.
At March 31, 2008, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $880,423,000. Net unrealized depreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $4,480,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $66,528,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $71,008,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.
At March 31, 2008, the aggregate settlement value of open futures contracts expiring in June 2008 and the related unrealized appreciation (depreciation) were:
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| ($000) |
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| Aggregate | Unrealized |
| Number of | Settlement | Appreciation |
Futures Contracts | Long Contracts | Value | (Depreciation) |
E-mini S&P 500 Index | 44 | 2,913 | 9 |
S&P 500 Index | 6 | 1,986 | (3) |
Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on open futures contracts is required to be treated as realized gain (loss) for tax purposes.
D. During the six months ended March 31, 2008, the fund purchased $485,936,000 of investment securities and sold $488,536,000 of investment securities, other than temporary cash investments.
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E. Capital share transactions for each class of shares were:
| Six Months Ended | Year Ended | ||
| March 31, 2008 | September 30, 2007 | ||
| Amount | Shares | Amount | Shares |
| ($000) | (000) | ($000) | (000) |
Institutional Shares |
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|
Issued | 2,460 | 94 | 43,142 | 1,567 |
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions | 958 | 35 | 34 | 1 |
Redeemed | (8,136) | (310) | (6,861) | (234) |
Net Increase (Decrease)—Institutional Shares | (4,718) | (181) | 36,315 | 1,334 |
Institutional Plus Shares |
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|
|
Issued | 9,965 | 172 | 540,496 | 9,679 |
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions | 17,490 | 316 | 3,929 | 71 |
Redeemed | — | — | — | — |
Net Increase (Decrease)—Institutional Plus Shares | 27,455 | 488 | 544,425 | 9,750 |
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Fund Profile
As of March 31, 2008
Portfolio Characteristics |
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| Comparative | Broad |
| Fund | Index1 | Index2 |
Number of Stocks | 257 | 687 | 4,811 |
Median Market Cap | $38.0B | $37.8B | $33.8B |
Price/Earnings Ratio | 16.9x | 18.4x | 16.9x |
Price/Book Ratio | 3.4x | 3.7x | 2.4x |
Yield3 |
| 1.3% | 2.0% |
Institutional Shares | 1.1% |
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Institutional Plus Shares | 1.1% |
|
|
Return on Equity | 21.9% | 22.3% | 19.5% |
Earnings Growth Rate | 23.7% | 22.4% | 20.0% |
Foreign Holdings | 0.6% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
Turnover Rate | 63%4 | — | — |
Expense Ratio |
| — | — |
Institutional Shares | 0.22%4 |
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Institutional Plus Shares | 0.15%4 |
|
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Short-Term Reserves | 0.0% | — | — |
Sector Diversification (% of equity exposure) | |||
|
| Comparative | Broad |
| Fund | Index1 | Index2 |
Consumer Discretionary | 11.6% | 11.4% | 9.4% |
Consumer Staples | 11.3 | 11.3 | 9.6 |
Energy | 9.1 | 9.1 | 12.7 |
Financials | 6.7 | 6.6 | 17.7 |
Health Care | 15.4 | 15.5 | 11.7 |
Industrials | 13.3 | 13.4 | 12.2 |
Information Technology | 26.8 | 26.9 | 15.6 |
Materials | 3.8 | 3.7 | 4.1 |
Telecommunication Services | 0.6 | 0.6 | 3.1 |
Utilities | 1.4 | 1.5 | 3.9 |
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Ten Largest Holdings5 (% of total net assets) | ||
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Microsoft Corp. | systems software | 3.5% |
Cisco Systems, Inc. | communications equipment | 2.0 |
International Business Machines Corp. | computer hardware | 1.9 |
Apple Inc. | computer hardware | 1.9 |
Intel Corp. | semiconductors | 1.9 |
Hewlett-Packard Co. | computer hardware | 1.9 |
PepsiCo, Inc. | soft drinks | 1.7 |
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. | hypermarkets and super centers | 1.5 |
The Coca-Cola Co. | soft drinks | 1.4 |
Google Inc. | internet software and services | 1.4 |
Top Ten |
| 19.1% |
Investment Focus
1 Russell 1000 Growth Index.
2 Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index.
3 30-day SEC yield for the fund; annualized dividend yield for the indexes. See the Glossary on page 64.
4 Annualized.
5 “Ten Largest Holdings” excludes any temporary cash investments and equity index products.
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Performance Summary
All of the returns in this report represent past performance, which is not a guarantee of future results that may be achieved by the fund. (Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data cited. For performance data current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at www.vanguard.com/performance.) Note, too, that both investment returns and principal value can fluctuate widely, so an investor’s shares, when sold, could be worth more or less than their original cost. The returns shown do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or on the sale of fund shares.
Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): January 19, 2006–March 31, 2008
Total Returns: Periods Ended March 31, 2008 |
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|
|
| Since |
| Inception Date | One Year | Inception |
Institutional Shares | 6/22/2007 | — | –9.15% |
Institutional Plus Shares | 1/19/2006 | –2.68% | 2.823 |
1 The fund commenced operations as a registered investment company on October 3, 2006. The fund’s performance includes the performance of a predecessor trust, Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company Structured Large-Cap Growth Trust, from January 19, 2006, to October 3, 2006.
2 Six months ended March 31, 2008.
3 Annualized.
Note: See Financial Highlights tables on pages 30–31 for dividend and capital gains information.
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Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund
Financial Statements (unaudited)
Statement of Net Assets
As of March 31, 2008
The fund provides a complete list of its holdings four times in each fiscal year, at the quarter-ends. For the second and fourth fiscal quarters, the lists appear in the fund’s semiannual and annual reports to shareholders. For the first and third fiscal quarters, the fund files the lists with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form N-Q. Shareholders can look up the fund’s Forms N-Q on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Forms N-Q may also be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room (see the back cover of this report for further information).
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|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
Common Stocks (99.5%)1 |
|
| |
Consumer Discretionary (11.5%) |
|
| |
| Target Corp. | 7,320 | 371 |
| Comcast Corp. Class A | 18,429 | 356 |
| Yum! Brands, Inc. | 8,718 | 324 |
| Omnicom Group Inc. | 6,902 | 305 |
| Home Depot, Inc. | 10,659 | 298 |
| The Walt Disney Co. | 9,442 | 296 |
* | GameStop Corp. Class A | 5,100 | 264 |
| NIKE, Inc. Class B | 3,728 | 253 |
* | Amazon.com, Inc. | 3,400 | 242 |
| Lowe’s Cos., Inc. | 10,423 | 239 |
| Whirlpool Corp. | 2,721 | 236 |
* | AutoZone Inc. | 2,000 | 228 |
* | The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. | 8,400 | 217 |
| News Corp., Class A | 11,334 | 213 |
* | DISH Network Corp. | 7,286 | 209 |
* | Dollar Tree, Inc. | 7,541 | 208 |
| Sherwin-Williams Co. | 4,070 | 208 |
| Burger King Holdings Inc. | 7,308 | 202 |
| McDonald’s Corp. | 3,364 | 188 |
| Best Buy Co., Inc. | 4,473 | 185 |
| Darden Restaurants Inc. | 5,684 | 185 |
* | Big Lots Inc. | 7,000 | 156 |
| Choice Hotels International, Inc. | 4,500 | 153 |
* | Viacom Inc. Class B | 3,859 | 153 |
| Garmin Ltd. | 2,400 | 130 |
| Johnson Controls, Inc. | 3,700 | 125 |
| Time Warner, Inc. | 8,449 | 118 |
| Tiffany & Co. | 2,500 | 105 |
| Carnival Corp. | 2,485 | 101 |
* | ITT Educational Services, Inc. | 2,100 | 96 |
| TJX Cos., Inc. | 2,900 | 96 |
* | DIRECTV Group, Inc. | 3,660 | 91 |
| RadioShack Corp. | 3,600 | 58 |
* | Liberty Global, Inc. Class A | 1,700 | 58 |
| Wynn Resorts Ltd. | 500 | 50 |
| The McGraw-Hill Cos., Inc. | 1,027 | 38 |
* | Crocs, Inc. | 1,300 | 23 |
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|
|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
| Wendy’s International, Inc. | 800 | 18 |
* | NutriSystem, Inc. | 1,100 | 17 |
* | Las Vegas Sands Corp. | 130 | 10 |
* | Clear Channel Outdoor |
|
|
| Holdings, Inc. Class A | 500 | 9 |
* | MGM Mirage, Inc. | 110 | 6 |
|
|
| 6,838 |
Consumer Staples (11.3%) |
|
| |
| PepsiCo, Inc. | 13,811 | 997 |
| Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. | 16,457 | 867 |
| The Coca-Cola Co. | 14,083 | 857 |
| The Procter & Gamble Co. | 11,549 | 809 |
| Philip Morris International Inc. | 11,069 | 560 |
| Colgate-Palmolive Co. | 4,805 | 374 |
| The Kroger Co. | 10,900 | 277 |
| Walgreen Co. | 6,810 | 259 |
| Altria Group, Inc. | 11,069 | 246 |
| CVS/Caremark Corp. | 5,184 | 210 |
| Costco Wholesale Corp. | 3,175 | 206 |
* | NBTY, Inc. | 6,200 | 186 |
| Carolina Group | 2,500 | 181 |
| The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. | 4,000 | 136 |
| Anheuser-Busch Cos., Inc. | 2,789 | 132 |
| Herbalife Ltd. | 2,700 | 128 |
| H.J. Heinz Co. | 2,100 | 99 |
| Sara Lee Corp. | 5,371 | 75 |
| Sysco Corp. | 1,894 | 55 |
| Kimberly-Clark Corp. | 679 | 44 |
|
|
| 6,698 |
Energy (9.0%) |
|
| |
| Schlumberger Ltd. | 9,400 | 818 |
| ExxonMobil Corp. | 9,273 | 784 |
* | Transocean, Inc. | 3,057 | 413 |
* | National Oilwell Varco Inc. | 6,048 | 353 |
| Chesapeake Energy Corp. | 6,582 | 304 |
| Noble Corp. | 5,852 | 291 |
| ENSCO International, Inc. | 4,197 | 263 |
| Halliburton Co. | 6,090 | 240 |
| Valero Energy Corp. | 4,753 | 233 |
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|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
* | FMC Technologies Inc. | 4,000 | 228 |
| XTO Energy, Inc. | 3,193 | 198 |
| Noble Energy, Inc. | 2,700 | 197 |
| Tidewater Inc. | 3,200 | 176 |
| Sunoco, Inc. | 2,870 | 151 |
| Baker Hughes, Inc. | 1,839 | 126 |
| Frontier Oil Corp. | 4,000 | 109 |
* | Pride International, Inc. | 3,100 | 108 |
| Williams Cos., Inc. | 3,000 | 99 |
* | Weatherford International Ltd. | 1,100 | 80 |
* | Unit Corp. | 1,400 | 79 |
* | Denbury Resources, Inc. | 2,300 | 66 |
* | Cameron International Corp. | 1,000 | 42 |
|
|
| 5,358 |
Financials (6.6%) |
|
| |
| American Express Co. | 7,427 | 325 |
| The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | 1,845 | 305 |
| State Street Corp. | 3,566 | 282 |
| Northern Trust Corp. | 4,130 | 275 |
| Invesco, Ltd. | 10,100 | 246 |
* | TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. | 12,800 | 211 |
| Bank of New York Mellon Corp. | 4,530 | 189 |
| CME Group, Inc. | 402 | 189 |
| Franklin Resources Corp. | 1,886 | 183 |
| AFLAC Inc. | 2,769 | 180 |
| ProLogis REIT | 3,029 | 178 |
| Janus Capital Group Inc. | 7,500 | 175 |
| Simon Property Group, Inc. REIT | 1,791 | 166 |
| Charles Schwab Corp. | 5,515 | 104 |
| Freddie Mac | 4,090 | 104 |
| XL Capital Ltd. Class A | 3,000 | 89 |
| The Macerich Co. REIT | 1,200 | 84 |
| Transatlantic Holdings, Inc. | 1,200 | 80 |
| Forest City Enterprise Class A | 2,140 | 79 |
| Taubman Co. REIT | 1,500 | 78 |
| NYSE Euronext | 1,200 | 74 |
| Federated Investors, Inc. | 1,700 | 67 |
| ACE Ltd. | 1,100 | 61 |
| Discover Financial Services | 3,300 | 54 |
| Bank of Hawaii Corp. | 799 | 40 |
| Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. | 678 | 28 |
| CNA Financial Corp. | 900 | 23 |
| General Growth Properties Inc. REIT | 500 | 19 |
| Lazard Ltd. Class A | 200 | 8 |
| Prudential Financial, Inc. | 97 | 8 |
| American International |
|
|
| Group, Inc. | 62 | 3 |
|
|
| 3,907 |
Health Care (15.4%) |
|
| |
| Abbott Laboratories | 11,969 | 660 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9,812 | 636 |
| Merck & Co., Inc. | 16,403 | 622 |
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|
|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
| UnitedHealth Group Inc. | 12,149 | 417 |
| Medtronic, Inc. | 8,440 | 408 |
| Baxter International, Inc. | 6,642 | 384 |
* | Gilead Sciences, Inc. | 6,670 | 344 |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. | 14,218 | 303 |
* | Express Scripts Inc. | 4,678 | 301 |
| McKesson Corp. | 5,440 | 285 |
* | Forest Laboratories, Inc. | 6,994 | 280 |
| Eli Lilly & Co. | 5,279 | 272 |
* | Medco Health Solutions, Inc. | 5,990 | 262 |
* | Genentech, Inc. | 3,155 | 256 |
| CIGNA Corp. | 6,200 | 252 |
* | Amgen, Inc. | 5,418 | 226 |
* | Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 14,000 | 216 |
* | Warner Chilcott Ltd. | 11,600 | 209 |
* | St. Jude Medical, Inc. | 4,700 | 203 |
* | Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings, Inc. | 8,392 | 201 |
| Aetna Inc. | 4,717 | 199 |
| Schering-Plough Corp. | 13,632 | 196 |
* | Cephalon, Inc. | 3,038 | 196 |
| Wyeth | 4,653 | 194 |
| AmerisourceBergen Corp. | 4,730 | 194 |
* | Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings | 2,550 | 188 |
* | Humana Inc. | 4,100 | 184 |
* | Celgene Corp. | 2,500 | 153 |
* | WellPoint Inc. | 2,928 | 129 |
| Stryker Corp. | 1,627 | 106 |
| Cardinal Health, Inc. | 1,980 | 104 |
* | Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3,500 | 103 |
* | Kinetic Concepts, Inc. | 2,000 | 92 |
* | PDL BioPharma Inc. | 6,700 | 71 |
* | Lincare Holdings, Inc. | 1,800 | 51 |
* | DaVita, Inc. | 1,000 | 48 |
* | Techne Corp. | 700 | 47 |
* | Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. | 700 | 40 |
| Becton, Dickinson & Co. | 341 | 29 |
* | Biogen Idec Inc. | 431 | 27 |
* | WellCare Health Plans Inc. | 600 | 23 |
|
|
| 9,111 |
Industrials (13.2%) |
|
| |
| The Boeing Co. | 7,504 | 558 |
| Caterpillar, Inc. | 6,325 | 495 |
| United Parcel Service, Inc. | 6,647 | 485 |
| 3M Co. | 4,926 | 390 |
| Honeywell International Inc. | 6,780 | 383 |
| Lockheed Martin Corp. | 3,554 | 353 |
| Burlington Northern |
|
|
| Santa Fe Corp. | 3,400 | 314 |
| General Electric Co. | 8,051 | 298 |
| United Technologies Corp. | 4,282 | 295 |
| Textron, Inc. | 5,278 | 292 |
| CSX Corp. | 4,235 | 237 |
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|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
| Cummins Inc. | 5,070 | 237 |
| Union Pacific Corp. | 1,883 | 236 |
| Manpower Inc. | 4,150 | 233 |
| Waste Management, Inc. | 6,858 | 230 |
| Precision Castparts Corp. | 2,247 | 229 |
| The Manitowoc Co., Inc. | 5,612 | 229 |
| Emerson Electric Co. | 4,446 | 229 |
| Harsco Corp. | 3,800 | 210 |
* | AGCO Corp. | 3,200 | 192 |
| Raytheon Co. | 2,904 | 188 |
| Cooper Industries, Inc. Class A | 4,609 | 185 |
* | First Solar, Inc. | 700 | 162 |
* | Allied Waste Industries, Inc. | 14,409 | 156 |
| UAL Corp. | 6,700 | 144 |
| FedEx Corp. | 1,484 | 138 |
| Goodrich Corp. | 2,200 | 127 |
| Danaher Corp. | 1,300 | 99 |
| Illinois Tool Works, Inc. | 1,958 | 94 |
| Northrop Grumman Corp. | 982 | 76 |
| Deere & Co. | 900 | 72 |
| GATX Corp. | 1,616 | 63 |
| Fluor Corp. | 400 | 56 |
| L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. | 500 | 55 |
| Joy Global Inc. | 800 | 52 |
| Dover Corp. | 1,100 | 46 |
* | Northwest Airlines Corp. | 1,900 | 17 |
|
|
| 7,855 |
Information Technology (26.7%) |
|
| |
| Communications Equipment (3.6%) |
|
|
* | Cisco Systems, Inc. | 49,550 | 1,194 |
| QUALCOMM Inc. | 12,603 | 517 |
| Corning, Inc. | 15,907 | 382 |
* | JDS Uniphase Corp. | 1,500 | 20 |
|
|
|
|
| Computers & Peripherals (7.3%) |
|
|
| International Business Machines Corp. | 9,807 | 1,129 |
* | Apple Inc. | 7,812 | 1,121 |
| Hewlett-Packard Co. | 24,177 | 1,104 |
* | Dell Inc. | 16,881 | 336 |
| Seagate Technology | 9,900 | 207 |
* | EMC Corp. | 14,094 | 202 |
* | Western Digital Corp. | 6,800 | 184 |
* | Lexmark International, Inc. | 1,700 | 52 |
* | Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. | 3,203 | 23 |
|
|
|
|
| Electronic Equipment & Instruments (0.5%) |
| |
* | Avnet, Inc. | 5,440 | 178 |
* | Dolby Laboratories Inc. | 1,533 | 56 |
* | Arrow Electronics, Inc. | 1,252 | 42 |
|
|
|
|
| Internet Software & Services (2.6%) |
|
|
* | Google Inc. | 1,875 | 826 |
* | eBay Inc. | 11,356 | 339 |
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|
|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
* | Yahoo! Inc. | 10,357 | 300 |
* | WebMD Health Corp. Class A | 3,200 | 75 |
|
|
|
|
| IT Services (2.2%) |
|
|
| MasterCard, Inc. Class A | 1,590 | 355 |
| Accenture Ltd. | 7,035 | 247 |
* | NeuStar, Inc. Class A | 7,600 | 201 |
| Automatic Data Processing, Inc. | 3,700 | 157 |
| Broadridge Financial Solutions LLC | 7,100 | 125 |
* | Hewitt Associates, Inc. | 2,200 | 87 |
| Electronic Data Systems Corp. | 4,465 | 74 |
| Western Union Co. | 2,559 | 54 |
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|
|
|
| Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment (4.3%) |
|
|
| Intel Corp. | 52,420 | 1,110 |
| Texas Instruments, Inc. | 14,261 | 403 |
* | NVIDIA Corp. | 13,100 | 259 |
| National Semiconductor Corp. | 11,802 | 216 |
| Applied Materials, Inc. | 8,699 | 170 |
* | LAM Research Corp. | 4,260 | 163 |
* | Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. | 5,421 | 153 |
* | MEMC Electronic |
|
|
| Materials, Inc. | 1,291 | 92 |
|
|
|
|
| Software (6.2%) |
|
|
| Microsoft Corp. | 72,385 | 2,054 |
* | Oracle Corp. | 36,196 | 708 |
* | Intuit, Inc. | 9,302 | 251 |
* | BMC Software, Inc. | 7,610 | 247 |
* | Symantec Corp. | 11,600 | 193 |
* | Adobe Systems, Inc. | 5,083 | 181 |
* | Compuware Corp. | 4,900 | 36 |
* | Citrix Systems, Inc. | 700 | 21 |
|
|
| 15,844 |
Materials (3.8%) |
|
| |
| Monsanto Co. | 5,227 | 583 |
| Freeport-McMoRan |
|
|
| Copper & Gold, Inc. Class B | 2,971 | 286 |
* | Owens-Illinois, Inc. | 4,800 | 271 |
| Celanese Corp. Series A | 5,470 | 214 |
| Steel Dynamics, Inc. | 5,026 | 166 |
| Lubrizol Corp. | 2,983 | 166 |
| Praxair, Inc. | 1,900 | 160 |
| Allegheny Technologies Inc. | 2,000 | 143 |
| AK Steel Holding Corp. | 1,700 | 93 |
| Southern Peru Copper Corp. |
|
|
| (U.S. Shares) | 636 | 66 |
| E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. | 1,100 | 51 |
| Ball Corp. | 500 | 23 |
|
|
| 2,222 |
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| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
Telecommunication Services (0.6%) |
|
| |
| Telephone & |
|
|
| Data Systems, Inc. | 3,591 | 141 |
| Windstream Corp. | 10,985 | 131 |
* | U.S. Cellular Corp. | 1,592 | 88 |
|
|
| 360 |
Utilities (1.4%) |
|
| |
* | Mirant Corp. | 6,800 | 247 |
* | NRG Energy, Inc. | 4,400 | 172 |
| Questar Corp. | 2,800 | 158 |
| Exelon Corp. | 1,772 | 144 |
| PPL Corp. | 2,600 | 119 |
|
|
| 840 |
Total Common Stocks |
|
| |
(Cost $57,860) |
| 59,033 | |
Temporary Cash Investments (0.4%)1 |
|
| |
Money Market Fund (0.2%) |
|
| |
2 | Vanguard Market |
|
|
| Liquidity Fund, 2.800% | 146,454 | 146 |
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|
|
|
|
|
| Face |
|
|
| Amount |
|
|
| ($000) |
|
U.S. Agency Obligation (0.2%) |
|
| |
3 | Federal Home Loan |
|
|
| Mortgage Corp. |
|
|
4 | 3.607%, 4/7/08 | 100 | 100 |
Total Temporary Cash Investments |
|
| |
(Cost $246) |
| 246 | |
Total Investments (99.9%) |
|
| |
(Cost $58,106) |
| 59,279 | |
Other Assets and Liabilities (0.1%) |
|
| |
Other Assets—Note B |
| 86 | |
Liabilities |
| (51) | |
|
|
| 35 |
Net Assets (100%) |
| 59,314 |
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At March 31, 2008, net assets consisted of:5 | |
| Amount |
| ($000) |
Paid-in Capital | 59,058 |
Undistributed Net Investment Income | 150 |
Accumulated Net Realized Losses | (1,061) |
Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) |
|
Investment Securities | 1,173 |
Futures Contracts | (6) |
Net Assets | 59,314 |
|
|
Institutional Shares—Net Assets |
|
Applicable to 305,025 outstanding |
|
$.001 par value shares of beneficial |
|
interest (unlimited authorization) | 7,820 |
Net Asset Value Per Share— |
|
Institutional Shares | $25.64 |
|
|
Institutional Plus Shares—Net Assets |
|
Applicable to 1,008,669 outstanding |
|
$.001 par value shares of beneficial |
|
interest (unlimited authorization) | 51,494 |
Net Asset Value Per Share— |
|
Institutional Plus Shares | $51.05 |
• | See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements. |
* | Non-income-producing security. |
1 The fund invests a portion of its cash reserves in equity markets through the use of index futures contracts. After giving effect to futures investments, the fund’s effective common stock and temporary cash investment positions represent 99.9% and 0%, respectively, of net assets. See Note C in Notes to Financial Statements.
2 Affiliated money market fund available only to Vanguard funds and certain trusts and accounts managed by Vanguard. Rate shown is the 7-day yield.
3 The issuer operates under a congressional charter; its securities are neither issued nor guaranteed by the U.S. government. If needed, access to additional funding from the U.S. Treasury (beyond the issuer’s line of credit) would require congressional action.
4 Securities with a value of $100,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open futures contracts.
5 See Note C in Notes to Financial Statements for the tax-basis components of net assets.
REIT—Real Estate Investment Trust.
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Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund
Statement of Operations
| Six Months Ended |
| March 31, 2008 |
| ($000) |
Investment Income |
|
Income |
|
Dividends | 384 |
Interest1 | 3 |
Security Lending | 1 |
Total Income | 388 |
Expenses |
|
The Vanguard Group—Note B |
|
Investment Advisory Services | 29 |
Management and Administrative |
|
Institutional Shares | 3 |
Institutional Plus Shares | 6 |
Marketing and Distribution |
|
Institutional Shares | 1 |
Institutional Plus Shares | 6 |
Custodian Fees | 5 |
Shareholders’ Reports |
|
Institutional Shares | — |
Institutional Plus Shares | 1 |
Total Expenses | 51 |
Net Investment Income | 337 |
Realized Net Gain (Loss) |
|
Investment Securities Sold | (848) |
Futures Contracts | (41) |
Realized Net Gain (Loss) | (889) |
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) |
|
Investment Securities | (7,404) |
Futures Contracts | (6) |
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | (7,410) |
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations | (7,962) |
1 Interest income from an affiliated company of the fund was $3,000.
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Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
|
| October 3, |
| Six Months Ended | 20061 to |
| March 31, | September 30, |
| 2008 | 2007 |
| ($000) | ($000) |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets |
|
|
Operations |
|
|
Net Investment Income | 337 | 592 |
Realized Net Gain (Loss) | (889) | 1,163 |
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | (7,410) | 8,104 |
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations | (7,962) | 9,859 |
Distributions |
|
|
Net Investment Income |
|
|
Institutional Shares | (80) | — |
Institutional Plus Shares | (553) | (146) |
Realized Capital Gain2 |
|
|
Institutional Shares | (169) | — |
Institutional Plus Shares | (1,114) | (52) |
Total Distributions | (1,916) | (198) |
Capital Share Transactions—Note E |
|
|
Institutional Shares | 250 | 8,608 |
Institutional Plus Shares | 1,668 | 49,005 |
Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions | 1,918 | 57,613 |
Total Increase (Decrease) | (7,960) | 67,274 |
Net Assets |
|
|
Beginning of Period | 67,274 | — |
End of Period3 | 59,314 | 67,274 |
1 Commencement of operations as a registered investment company.
2 Includes fiscal 2008 and 2007 short-term gain distributions totaling $540,000 and $52,000, respectively. Short-term gain distributions are treated as ordinary income dividends for tax purposes.
3 Net Assets—End of Period includes undistributed net investment income of $150,000 and $446,000.
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Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund
Financial Highlights
Institutional Shares |
|
|
| Six Months | June 22, |
| Ended | 20071 to |
| March 31, | Sept. 30, |
For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Period | 2008 | 2007 |
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | $29.93 | $29.04 |
Investment Operations |
|
|
Net Investment Income | .139 | .05 |
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments | (3.588) | .84 |
Total from Investment Operations | (3.449) | .89 |
Distributions |
|
|
Dividends from Net Investment Income | (.270) | — |
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains | (.571) | — |
Total Distributions | (.841) | — |
Net Asset Value, End of Period | $25.64 | $29.93 |
|
|
|
Total Return | –11.85% | 3.06% |
|
|
|
Ratios/Supplemental Data |
|
|
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) | $8 | $9 |
Ratio of Total Expenses to Average Net Assets | 0.22%* | 0.25%* |
Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets | 1.00%* | 0.84%* |
Portfolio Turnover Rate | 63%* | 56% |
1 Inception.
* | Annualized. |
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Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund
Institutional Plus Shares |
|
|
| Six Months | Oct. 3, |
| Ended | 20061 to |
| March 31, | Sept. 30, |
For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Period | 2008 | 2007 |
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | $59.60 | $50.00 |
Investment Operations |
|
|
Net Investment Income | .297 | .547 |
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments | (7.146) | 9.256 |
Total from Investment Operations | (6.849) | 9.803 |
Distributions |
|
|
Dividends from Net Investment Income | (.564) | (.150) |
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains | (1.137) | (.053) |
Total Distributions | (1.701) | (.203) |
Net Asset Value, End of Period | $51.05 | $59.60 |
|
|
|
Total Return | –11.83% | 19.66% |
|
|
|
Ratios/Supplemental Data |
|
|
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) | $51 | $58 |
Ratio of Total Expenses to Average Net Assets | 0.15%* | 0.15%* |
Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets | 1.07%* | 0.94%* |
Portfolio Turnover Rate | 63%* | 56% |
1 Commencement of operations as a registered investment company.
* | Annualized. |
See accompanying Notes, which are an integral part of the Financial Statements.
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Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund
Notes to Financial Statements
Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The fund files reports with the SEC under the company name Vanguard Quantitative Funds. The fund offers two classes of shares, Institutional Shares and Institutional Plus Shares. Institutional Shares are available to investors who invest a minimum amount of $5 million. Institutional Plus Shares are available to investors who invest a minimum amount of $200 million ($100 million for investors with total Vanguard investments of at least $1 billion).
A. The following significant accounting policies conform to generally accepted accounting principles for U.S. mutual funds. The fund consistently follows such policies in preparing its financial statements.
1. Security Valuation: Securities are valued as of the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4 p.m., Eastern time) on the valuation date. Equity securities are valued at the latest quoted sales prices or official closing prices taken from the primary market in which each security trades; such securities not traded on the valuation date are valued at the mean of the latest quoted bid and asked prices. Securities for which market quotations are not readily available, or whose values have been materially affected by events occurring before the fund’s pricing time but after the close of the securities’ primary markets, are valued by methods deemed by the board of trustees to represent fair value. Investments in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund are valued at that fund’s net asset value. Temporary cash investments acquired over 60 days to maturity are valued using the latest bid prices or using valuations based on a matrix system (which considers such factors as security prices, yields, maturities, and ratings), both as furnished by independent pricing services. Other temporary cash investments are valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value.
2. Futures Contracts: The fund uses index futures contracts to a limited extent, with the objective of maintaining full exposure to the stock market while maintaining liquidity. The fund may purchase or sell futures contracts to achieve a desired level of investment, whether to accommodate portfolio turnover or cash flows from capital share transactions. The primary risks associated with the use of futures contracts are imperfect correlation between changes in market values of stocks held by the fund and the prices of futures contracts, and the possibility of an illiquid market.
Futures contracts are valued at their quoted daily settlement prices. The aggregate principal amounts of the contracts are not recorded in the Statement of Net Assets. Fluctuations in the value of the contracts are recorded in the Statement of Net Assets as an asset (liability) and in the Statement of Operations as unrealized appreciation (depreciation) until the contracts are closed, when they are recorded as realized futures gains (losses).
3. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Management has analyzed the fund’s federal tax positions for the period ended September 30, 2007, and for the period ended March 31, 2008, and has concluded that no provision for federal income tax is required in the fund’s financial statements.
4. Distributions: Distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date.
5. Security Lending: The fund may lend its securities to qualified institutional borrowers to earn additional income. Security loans are required to be secured at all times by collateral at least equal to the market value of securities loaned. The fund invests cash collateral received in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, and records a liability for the return of the collateral, during the period the securities are on loan. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less expenses associated with the loan.
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Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund
6. Other: Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date. Interest income includes income distributions received from Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund and is accrued daily. Security transactions are accounted for on the date securities are bought or sold. Costs used to determine realized gains (losses) on the sale of investment securities are those of the specific securities sold.
Each class of shares has equal rights as to assets and earnings, except that each class separately bears certain class-specific expenses related to maintenance of shareholder accounts (included in Management and Administrative expenses) and shareholder reporting. Marketing and distribution expenses are allocated to each class of shares based on a method approved by the board of trustees. Income, other non-class-specific expenses, and gains and losses on investments are allocated to each class of shares based on its relative net assets.
B. The Vanguard Group furnishes at cost investment advisory, corporate management, administrative, marketing, and distribution services. The costs of such services are allocated to the fund under methods approved by the board of trustees. The fund has committed to provide up to 0.40% of its net assets in capital contributions to Vanguard. At March 31, 2008, the fund had contributed capital of $6,000 to Vanguard (included in Other Assets), representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 0.01% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and officers of Vanguard.
C. Distributions are determined on a tax basis and may differ from net investment income and realized capital gains for financial reporting purposes. Differences may be permanent or temporary. Permanent differences are reclassified among capital accounts in the financial statements to reflect their tax character. Temporary differences arise when certain items of income, expense, gain, or loss are recognized in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes; these differences will reverse at some time in the future. Differences in classification may also result from the treatment of short-term gains as ordinary income for tax purposes. The fund’s tax-basis capital gains and losses are determined only at the end of each fiscal year.
At March 31, 2008, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $58,106,000. Net unrealized appreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $1,173,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $5,658,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $4,485,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.
At March 31, 2008, the aggregate settlement value of open futures contracts expiring in June 2008 and the related unrealized appreciation (depreciation) were:
|
|
| ($000) |
|
| Aggregate | Unrealized |
| Number of | Settlement | Appreciation |
Futures Contracts | Long Contracts | Value | (Depreciation) |
E-mini S&P 500 Index | 4 | 265 | (6) |
Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on open futures contracts is required to be treated as realized gain (loss) for tax purposes.
D. During the six months ended March 31, 2008, the fund purchased $20,272,000 of investment securities and sold $20,142,000 of investment securities, other than temporary cash investments.
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Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund
E. Capital share transactions for each class of shares were:
| Six Months Ended | October 3, 20061 to | ||
| March 31, 2008 | September 30, 2007 | ||
| Amount | Shares | Amount | Shares |
| ($000) | (000) | ($000) | (000) |
Institutional Shares |
|
|
|
|
Issued | — | — | 8,608 | 296 |
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions | 250 | 9 | — | — |
Redeemed | — | — | — | — |
Net Increase (Decrease)—Institutional Shares | 250 | 9 | 8,608 | 296 |
Institutional Plus Shares |
|
|
|
|
Issued | — | — | 48,807 | 976 |
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions | 1,668 | 29 | 198 | 4 |
Redeemed | — | — | — | — |
Net Increase (Decrease)—Institutional Plus Shares | 1,668 | 29 | 49,005 | 980 |
1 Commencement of operations as a registered investment company.
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Structured Large-Cap Value Fund
Fund Profile
As of March 31, 2008
Portfolio Characteristics |
|
| |
|
| Comparative | Broad |
| Fund | Index1 | Index2 |
Number of Stocks | 229 | 618 | 4,811 |
Median Market Cap | $47.3B | $47.3B | $33.8B |
Price/Earnings Ratio | 13.5x | 14.7x | 16.9x |
Price/Book Ratio | 1.8x | 1.8x | 2.4x |
Yield — Institutional Plus Shares3 | 2.8% | 2.9% | 2.0% |
Return on Equity | 18.3% | 18.1% | 19.5% |
Earnings Growth Rate | 20.3% | 18.7% | 20.0% |
Foreign Holdings | 0.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
Turnover Rate | 106%4 | — | — |
Expense Ratio |
| — | — |
Institutional Plus Shares | 0.13%4 |
|
|
Short-Term Reserves | 0.2% | — | — |
Sector Diversification (% of equity exposure) | |||
|
| Comparative | Broad |
| Fund | Index1 | Index2 |
Consumer Discretionary | 7.0% | 7.1% | 9.4% |
Consumer Staples | 9.2 | 9.2 | 9.6 |
Energy | 16.9 | 17.0 | 12.7 |
Financials | 28.1 | 27.9 | 17.7 |
Health Care | 7.3 | 7.4 | 11.7 |
Industrials | 11.2 | 11.3 | 12.2 |
Information Technology | 3.2 | 3.1 | 15.6 |
Materials | 4.4 | 4.3 | 4.1 |
Telecommunication Services | 6.1 | 6.1 | 3.1 |
Utilities | 6.6 | 6.6 | 3.9 |
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Ten Largest Holdings5 (% of total net assets) | ||
|
|
|
ExxonMobil Corp. | integrated oil and gas | 6.0% |
General Electric Co. | industrial conglomerate | 5.2 |
AT&T Inc. | integrated telecommunication services | 3.8 |
Chevron Corp. | integrated oil and gas | 2.8 |
Bank of America Corp. | diversified financial services | 2.5 |
JPMorgan Chase & Co. | diversified financial services | 2.4 |
Pfizer Inc. | pharmaceuticals | 2.4 |
The Procter & Gamble Co. | household products | 2.2 |
ConocoPhillips Co. | integrated oil and gas | 2.0 |
Johnson & Johnson | pharmaceuticals | 1.8 |
Top Ten |
| 31.1% |
Investment Focus
1 Russell 1000 Value Index.
2 Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index.
3 30-day SEC yield for the fund; annualized dividend yield for the indexes. See the Glossary on page 64.
4 Annualized.
5 “Ten Largest Holdings” excludes any temporary cash investments and equity index products.
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Structured Large-Cap Value Fund
Performance Summary
All of the returns in this report represent past performance, which is not a guarantee of future results that may be achieved by the fund. (Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data cited. For performance data current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at www.vanguard.com/performance.) Note, too, that both investment returns and principal value can fluctuate widely, so an investor’s shares, when sold, could be worth more or less than their original cost. The returns shown do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or on the sale of fund shares.
Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): December 15, 2005–March 31, 2008
Average Annual Total Returns: Periods Ended March 31, 2008 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Since |
| Inception Date | One Year | Inception |
Institutional Plus Shares | 12/15/2005 | –10.12% | 4.12% |
1 The fund commenced operations as a registered investment company on January 18, 2007. The fund’s performance includes the performance of a predecessor trust, Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company Large-Cap Value Trust, from December 15, 2005, to January 18, 2007.
2 Six months ended March 31, 2008.
Note: See Financial Highlights table on page 43 for dividend and capital gains information.
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Structured Large-Cap Value Fund
Financial Statements (unaudited)
Statement of Net Assets
As of March 31, 2008
The fund provides a complete list of its holdings four times in each fiscal year, at the quarter-ends. For the second and fourth fiscal quarters, the lists appear in the fund’s semiannual and annual reports to shareholders. For the first and third fiscal quarters, the fund files the lists with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form N-Q. Shareholders can look up the fund’s Forms N-Q on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Forms N-Q may also be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room (see the back cover of this report for further information).
|
|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
Common Stocks (99.8%)1 |
|
| |
Consumer Discretionary (7.0%) |
|
| |
| McDonald’s Corp. | 11,504 | 642 |
| Time Warner, Inc. | 39,520 | 554 |
| The Walt Disney Co. | 14,290 | 448 |
| CBS Corp. | 16,150 | 357 |
| The Gap, Inc. | 17,500 | 344 |
| Comcast Corp. Class A | 16,675 | 323 |
| Home Depot, Inc. | 10,600 | 297 |
| Whirlpool Corp. | 3,000 | 260 |
| The Stanley Works | 5,000 | 238 |
* | Ford Motor Co. | 37,300 | 213 |
| Black & Decker Corp. | 3,100 | 205 |
| Regal Entertainment Group Class A | 9,200 | 177 |
| Wyndham Worldwide Corp. | 7,848 | 162 |
| Johnson Controls, Inc. | 4,300 | 145 |
* | Liberty Media Corp. | 5,800 | 131 |
| Ryland Group, Inc. | 3,100 | 102 |
| Barnes & Noble, Inc. | 2,900 | 89 |
| News Corp., Class A | 4,610 | 86 |
| Sherwin-Williams Co. | 1,400 | 71 |
* | Expedia, Inc. | 2,000 | 44 |
| Idearc Inc. | 11,200 | 41 |
| Carnival Corp. | 1,000 | 41 |
| Autoliv, Inc. | 200 | 10 |
|
|
| 4,980 |
Consumer Staples (9.2%) |
|
| |
| The Procter & Gamble Co. | 22,390 | 1,569 |
| Kraft Foods Inc. | 19,601 | 608 |
| Philip Morris International Inc. | 11,130 | 563 |
| The Coca-Cola Co. | 7,490 | 456 |
| Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. | 8,600 | 453 |
| Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. | 8,900 | 366 |
| Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. | 12,300 | 298 |
| The Kroger Co. | 11,400 | 290 |
| Molson Coors Brewing Co. Class B | 5,400 | 284 |
| Reynolds American Inc. | 4,440 | 262 |
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|
|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
| Altria Group, Inc. | 11,130 | 247 |
| CVS/Caremark Corp. | 5,700 | 231 |
| The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. | 6,500 | 220 |
| H.J. Heinz Co. | 4,600 | 216 |
| SuperValu Inc. | 4,300 | 129 |
| Kimberly-Clark Corp. | 1,570 | 101 |
| Colgate-Palmolive Co. | 1,100 | 86 |
| Anheuser-Busch Cos., Inc. | 1,690 | 80 |
| Corn Products International, Inc. | 2,100 | 78 |
| Costco Wholesale Corp. | 300 | 20 |
| Alberto-Culver Co. | 300 | 8 |
|
|
| 6,565 |
Energy (16.9%) |
|
| |
| ExxonMobil Corp. | 50,910 | 4,306 |
| Chevron Corp. | 23,190 | 1,980 |
| ConocoPhillips Co. | 19,174 | 1,461 |
| Occidental Petroleum Corp. | 10,320 | 755 |
| Devon Energy Corp. | 5,700 | 595 |
| Apache Corp. | 4,400 | 532 |
| Hess Corp. | 5,500 | 485 |
| Marathon Oil Corp. | 7,800 | 356 |
| Noble Energy, Inc. | 4,700 | 342 |
| Helmerich & Payne, Inc. | 5,900 | 277 |
| Anadarko Petroleum Corp. | 3,950 | 249 |
* | Unit Corp. | 3,200 | 181 |
| Cimarex Energy Co. | 2,500 | 137 |
| Murphy Oil Corp. | 1,500 | 123 |
| EOG Resources, Inc. | 900 | 108 |
| Chesapeake Energy Corp. | 2,100 | 97 |
| Frontier Oil Corp. | 2,700 | 74 |
| Valero Energy Corp. | 120 | 6 |
|
|
| 12,064 |
Financials (28.0%) |
|
| |
| Capital Markets (3.7%) |
|
|
| The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | 2,960 | 490 |
| Morgan Stanley | 9,490 | 434 |
| Bank of New York Mellon Corp. | 9,643 | 402 |
| Ameriprise Financial, Inc. | 6,000 | 311 |
| Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. | 6,400 | 261 |
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Structured Large-Cap Value Fund
|
|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
| Invesco, Ltd. | 8,800 | 214 |
| Northern Trust Corp. | 2,900 | 193 |
| Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. | 4,560 | 172 |
| State Street Corp. | 1,800 | 142 |
|
|
|
|
| Commercial Banks (6.6%) |
|
|
| Wells Fargo & Co. | 40,500 | 1,179 |
| U.S. Bancorp | 21,770 | 705 |
| Wachovia Corp. | 24,640 | 665 |
| BB&T Corp. | 13,250 | 425 |
| PNC Financial Services Group | 5,100 | 334 |
| Regions Financial Corp. | 16,700 | 330 |
| Associated Banc-Corp. | 10,400 | 277 |
| Bank of Hawaii Corp. | 4,030 | 200 |
| Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc. | 3,100 | 164 |
| SunTrust Banks, Inc. | 2,660 | 147 |
| TCF Financial Corp. | 6,200 | 111 |
| Popular, Inc. | 8,295 | 97 |
| East West Bancorp, Inc. | 2,200 | 39 |
|
|
|
|
| Consumer Finance (0.6%) |
|
|
| Discover Financial Services | 18,945 | 310 |
| Capital One Financial Corp. | 2,840 | 140 |
|
|
|
|
| Diversified Financial Services (6.7%) |
|
|
| Bank of America Corp. | 47,892 | 1,816 |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 40,080 | 1,721 |
| Citigroup, Inc. | 54,690 | 1,171 |
* | Liberty Media Corp.– |
|
|
| Capital Series A | 3,400 | 54 |
|
|
|
|
| Insurance (7.3%) |
|
|
| American International |
|
|
| Group, Inc. | 21,640 | 936 |
| The Chubb Corp. | 8,500 | 421 |
| The Travelers Cos., Inc. | 8,600 | 412 |
| ACE Ltd. | 7,418 | 408 |
| The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. | 4,400 | 333 |
| Everest Re Group, Ltd. | 2,900 | 260 |
* | Arch Capital Group Ltd. | 3,700 | 254 |
| RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. | 4,700 | 244 |
| MetLife, Inc. | 3,910 | 236 |
| Axis Capital Holdings Ltd. | 6,900 | 234 |
| The Allstate Corp. | 4,850 | 233 |
| Prudential Financial, Inc. | 2,950 | 231 |
| Endurance Specialty |
|
|
| Holdings Ltd. | 6,100 | 223 |
| American National |
|
|
| Insurance Co. | 2,000 | 213 |
| XL Capital Ltd. Class A | 6,300 | 186 |
| Loews Corp. | 3,100 | 125 |
| PartnerRe Ltd. | 1,600 | 122 |
| MBIA, Inc. | 5,200 | 64 |
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|
|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
| Cincinnati Financial Corp. | 1,200 | 46 |
| Unum Group | 1,900 | 42 |
| Allied World Assurance Holdings, Ltd. | 400 | 16 |
|
|
|
|
| Real Estate Investment Trusts (2.4%) |
|
|
| Simon Property Group, Inc. REIT | 1,970 | 183 |
| Plum Creek Timber Co. Inc. REIT | 3,600 | 147 |
| AMB Property Corp. REIT | 2,500 | 136 |
| Annaly Mortgage Management Inc. REIT | 8,400 | 129 |
| General Growth Properties Inc. REIT | 3,200 | 122 |
| Host Hotels & Resorts Inc. REIT | 7,500 | 119 |
| Hospitality Properties Trust REIT | 3,400 | 116 |
| Apartment Investment & Management Co. Class A REIT | 2,912 | 104 |
| Federal Realty |
|
|
| Investment Trust REIT | 1,300 | 101 |
| ProLogis REIT | 1,700 | 100 |
| Douglas Emmett, Inc. REIT | 4,500 | 99 |
| Colonial Properties Trust REIT | 3,900 | 94 |
| Vornado Realty Trust REIT | 1,000 | 86 |
| CapitalSource Inc. REIT | 5,200 | 50 |
| Equity Residential REIT | 880 | 37 |
| iStar Financial Inc. REIT | 1,600 | 22 |
| Boston Properties, Inc. REIT | 200 | 18 |
| Public Storage, Inc. REIT | 200 | 18 |
| Avalonbay Communities, Inc. |
|
|
| REIT | 150 | 15 |
| Kimco Realty Corp. REIT | 312 | 12 |
| Thornburg Mortgage, Inc. |
|
|
| REIT | 10,700 | 11 |
|
|
|
|
| Real Estate Management & Development (0.0%) |
| |
* | Forestar Real Estate Group, Inc. | 400 | 10 |
|
|
|
|
| Thrifts & Mortgage Finance (0.7%) |
|
|
| Fannie Mae | 12,127 | 319 |
| Freddie Mac | 5,470 | 139 |
| Washington Mutual, Inc. | 4,590 | 47 |
* | Guaranty Financial Group, Inc. | 400 | 4 |
|
|
| 19,981 |
Health Care (7.3%) |
|
| |
| Pfizer Inc. | 81,820 | 1,713 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 19,990 | 1,297 |
* | Biogen Idec Inc. | 6,400 | 395 |
| Eli Lilly & Co. | 6,830 | 352 |
| Wyeth | 5,350 | 223 |
| Merck & Co., Inc. | 5,680 | 216 |
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|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
* | Tenet Healthcare Corp. | 36,600 | 207 |
* | WellPoint Inc. | 4,390 | 194 |
| Beckman Coulter, Inc. | 1,800 | 116 |
| AmerisourceBergen Corp. | 2,600 | 107 |
| Aetna Inc. | 2,500 | 105 |
* | Kinetic Concepts, Inc. | 2,100 | 97 |
* | Amgen, Inc. | 1,900 | 79 |
* | Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. | 900 | 51 |
* | Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2,100 | 32 |
| Covidien Ltd. | 475 | 21 |
|
|
| 5,205 |
Industrials (11.2%) |
|
| |
| General Electric Co. | 100,350 | 3,714 |
| Deere & Co. | 5,600 | 450 |
| Parker Hannifin Corp. | 5,250 | 364 |
| SPX Corp. | 2,700 | 283 |
| Northrop Grumman Corp. | 3,350 | 261 |
* | United Rentals, Inc. | 13,600 | 256 |
| General Dynamics Corp. | 2,980 | 248 |
| Raytheon Co. | 3,600 | 233 |
| CSX Corp. | 4,100 | 230 |
| United Technologies Corp. | 3,300 | 227 |
| Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. | 5,100 | 220 |
* | AGCO Corp. | 3,600 | 216 |
* | Allied Waste Industries, Inc. | 17,700 | 191 |
| Cooper Industries, Inc. Class A | 4,600 | 185 |
| Tyco International, Ltd. | 3,725 | 164 |
| Honeywell International Inc. | 2,500 | 141 |
| Kennametal, Inc. | 3,300 | 97 |
| Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. | 1,000 | 92 |
| L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. | 800 | 87 |
| Union Pacific Corp. | 620 | 78 |
* | US Airways Group Inc. | 8,500 | 76 |
| Waste Management, Inc. | 1,500 | 50 |
| Textron, Inc. | 800 | 44 |
* | Gardner Denver Inc. | 1,000 | 37 |
* | Northwest Airlines Corp. | 3,700 | 33 |
* | Shaw Group, Inc. | 400 | 19 |
|
|
| 7,996 |
Information Technology (3.2%) |
|
| |
| International Business |
|
|
| Machines Corp. | 3,760 | 433 |
| Xerox Corp. | 25,600 | 383 |
* | Symantec Corp. | 22,100 | 367 |
* | Sun Microsystems, Inc. | 20,800 | 323 |
| Tyco Electronics Ltd. | 5,575 | 191 |
* | Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. | 14,600 | 174 |
| Motorola, Inc. | 18,580 | 173 |
| Western Union Co. | 5,800 | 123 |
* | Western Digital Corp. | 1,900 | 51 |
* | International Rectifier Corp. | 1,600 | 34 |
|
|
| 2,252 |
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|
|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
Materials (4.4%) |
|
| |
| E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. | 8,800 | 412 |
| Dow Chemical Co. | 8,510 | 314 |
| United States Steel Corp. | 2,300 | 292 |
| Eastman Chemical Co. | 4,600 | 287 |
| Steel Dynamics, Inc. | 8,400 | 278 |
| Alcoa Inc. | 7,620 | 275 |
| PPG Industries, Inc. | 4,400 | 266 |
* | Owens-Illinois, Inc. | 4,500 | 254 |
| Celanese Corp. Series A | 6,288 | 246 |
* | The Mosaic Co. | 1,700 | 174 |
| Nucor Corp. | 2,100 | 142 |
| Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. | 2,200 | 132 |
| Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc. Class B | 500 | 48 |
|
|
| 3,120 |
Telecommunication Services (6.1%) |
|
| |
| AT&T Inc. | 71,113 | 2,724 |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | 30,440 | 1,110 |
| Sprint Nextel Corp. | 23,820 | 159 |
| Windstream Corp. | 13,000 | 155 |
| CenturyTel, Inc. | 2,900 | 96 |
| Qwest Communications International Inc. | 15,100 | 68 |
| Embarq Corp. | 1,150 | 46 |
|
|
| 4,358 |
Utilities (6.5%) |
|
| |
| American Electric |
|
|
| Power Co., Inc. | 9,700 | 404 |
| Edison International | 8,000 | 392 |
| Dominion Resources, Inc. | 7,868 | 321 |
| Southern Co. | 8,739 | 311 |
* | Reliant Energy, Inc. | 13,000 | 307 |
| Consolidated Edison Inc. | 7,600 | 302 |
| DTE Energy Co. | 7,200 | 280 |
| Alliant Energy Corp. | 7,400 | 259 |
| ONEOK, Inc. | 5,700 | 254 |
| Exelon Corp. | 3,100 | 252 |
* | Mirant Corp. | 6,800 | 247 |
| Duke Energy Corp. | 13,304 | 238 |
| Atmos Energy Corp. | 9,100 | 232 |
| UGI Corp. Holding Co. | 9,300 | 232 |
| Public Service Enterprise Group, Inc. | 5,500 | 221 |
| FPL Group, Inc. | 3,300 | 207 |
| SCANA Corp. | 3,000 | 110 |
| Ameren Corp. | 1,800 | 79 |
| Entergy Corp. | 100 | 11 |
| FirstEnergy Corp. | 100 | 7 |
|
|
| 4,666 |
Total Common Stocks |
|
| |
(Cost $71,154) |
| 71,187 |
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Structured Large-Cap Value Fund
| Face | Market |
| Amount | Value• |
| ($000) | ($000) |
Temporary Cash Investment (0.3%)1 |
|
|
U.S. Agency Obligation |
|
|
2 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. |
|
|
3 3.607%, 4/7/08 |
|
|
(Cost $200) | 200 | 200 |
Total Investments (100.1%) |
|
|
(Cost $71,354) |
| 71,387 |
Other Assets and Liabilities (–0.1%) |
|
|
Other Assets—Note B |
| 141 |
Liabilities |
| (242) |
|
| (101) |
Net Assets (100%) |
|
|
Applicable to 1,425,154 outstanding |
|
|
$.001 par value shares of beneficial |
|
|
interest (unlimited authorization) |
| 71,286 |
Net Asset Value Per Share |
| $50.02 |
At March 31, 2008, net assets consisted of:4 |
| |
| Amount | Per |
| ($000) | Share |
Paid-in Capital | 73,566 | $51.62 |
Undistributed Net |
|
|
Investment Income | 466 | .33 |
Accumulated Net |
|
|
Realized Losses | (2,778) | (1.95) |
Unrealized Appreciation |
|
|
(Depreciation) |
|
|
Investment Securities | 33 | .02 |
Futures Contracts | (1) | — |
Net Assets | 71,286 | $50.02 |
• | See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements. |
* | Non-income-producing security. |
1 The fund invests a portion of its cash reserves in equity markets through the use of index futures contracts. After giving effect to futures investments, the fund’s effective common stock and temporary cash investment positions represent 99.9% and 0.2%, respectively, of net assets. See Note C in Notes to Financial Statements.
2 The issuer operates under a congressional charter; its securities are neither issued nor guaranteed by the U.S. government. If needed, access to additional funding from the U.S. Treasury (beyond the issuer’s line of credit) would require congressional action.
3 Securities with a value of $200,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open futures contracts.
4 See Note C in Notes to Financial Statements for the tax-basis components of net assets.
REIT—Real Estate Investment Trust.
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Structured Large-Cap Value Fund
Statement of Operations
| Six Months Ended |
| March 31, 2008 |
| ($000) |
Investment Income |
|
Income |
|
Dividends | 980 |
Interest1 | 3 |
Total Income | 983 |
Expenses |
|
The Vanguard Group—Note B |
|
Investment Advisory Services | 34 |
Management and Administrative | 5 |
Custodian Fees | 8 |
Shareholders’ Reports | 1 |
Total Expenses | 48 |
Net Investment Income | 935 |
Realized Net Gain (Loss) |
|
Investment Securities Sold | (2,439) |
Futures Contracts | (32) |
Realized Net Gain (Loss) | (2,471) |
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) |
|
Investment Securities | (9,769) |
Futures Contracts | (2) |
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | (9,771) |
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations | (11,307) |
1 Interest income from an affiliated company of the fund was $3,000.
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Structured Large-Cap Value Fund
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
|
| January 18, |
| Six Months Ended | 20071 to |
| March 31, | September 30, |
| 2008 | 2007 |
| ($000) | ($000) |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets |
|
|
Operations |
|
|
Net Investment Income | 935 | 1,263 |
Realized Net Gain (Loss) | (2,471) | 4,724 |
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | (9,771) | (1,054) |
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations | (11,307) | 4,933 |
Distributions |
|
|
Net Investment Income | (1,732) | — |
Realized Capital Gain2 | (5,031) | — |
Total Distributions | (6,763) | — |
Capital Share Transactions—Note E |
|
|
Issued | 4,000 | 78,660 |
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions | 6,763 | — |
Redeemed | — | (5,000) |
Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions | 10,763 | 73,660 |
Total Increase (Decrease) | (7,307) | 78,593 |
Net Assets |
|
|
Beginning of Period | 78,593 | — |
End of Period3 | 71,286 | 78,593 |
1 Commencement of operations as a registered investment company.
2 Includes fiscal 2008 short-term gain distributions totaling $1,651,000. Short-term gain distributions are treated as ordinary income dividends for tax purposes.
3 Net Assets—End of Period includes undistributed net investment income of $466,000 and $1,263,000.
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Structured Large-Cap Value Fund
Financial Highlights
Institutional Plus Shares |
|
|
| Six Months | Jan. 18, |
| Ended | 20071 to |
| March 31, | Sept. 30, |
For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Period | 2008 | 2007 |
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | $63.87 | $60.09 |
Investment Operations |
|
|
Net Investment Income | .67 | 1.03 |
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments | (9.17) | 2.75 |
Total from Investment Operations | (8.50) | 3.78 |
Distributions |
|
|
Dividends from Net Investment Income | (1.37) | — |
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains | (3.98) | — |
Total Distributions | (5.35) | — |
Net Asset Value, End of Period | $50.02 | $63.87 |
|
|
|
Total Return | –14.13% | 6.29% |
|
|
|
Ratios/Supplemental Data |
|
|
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) | $71 | $79 |
Ratio of Total Expenses to Average Net Assets | 0.13%* | 0.15%* |
Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets | 2.52%* | 2.29%* |
Portfolio Turnover Rate | 106%* | 48% |
1 Commencement of operations as a registered investment company.
* | Annualized. |
See accompanying Notes, which are an integral part of the Financial Statements.
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Structured Large-Cap Value Fund
Notes to Financial Statements
Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Value Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The fund files reports with the SEC under the company name Vanguard Quantitative Funds. The fund offers two classes of shares, Institutional Shares and Institutional Plus Shares. Institutional Shares are available to investors who invest a minimum amount of $5 million. Institutional Plus Shares are available to investors who invest a minimum amount of $200 million ($100 million for investors with total Vanguard investments of at least $1 billion). The fund has not issued any Institutional Shares through March 31, 2008.
A. The following significant accounting policies conform to generally accepted accounting principles for U.S. mutual funds. The fund consistently follows such policies in preparing its financial statements.
1. Security Valuation: Securities are valued as of the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4 p.m., Eastern time) on the valuation date. Equity securities are valued at the latest quoted sales prices or official closing prices taken from the primary market in which each security trades; such securities not traded on the valuation date are valued at the mean of the latest quoted bid and asked prices. Securities for which market quotations are not readily available, or whose values have been materially affected by events occurring before the fund’s pricing time but after the close of the securities’ primary markets, are valued by methods deemed by the board of trustees to represent fair value. Investments in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund are valued at that fund’s net asset value. Temporary cash investments acquired over 60 days to maturity are valued using the latest bid prices or using valuations based on a matrix system (which considers such factors as security prices, yields, maturities, and ratings), both as furnished by independent pricing services. Other temporary cash investments are valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value.
2. Futures Contracts: The fund uses index futures contracts to a limited extent, with the objective of maintaining full exposure to the stock market while maintaining liquidity. The fund may purchase or sell futures contracts to achieve a desired level of investment, whether to accommodate portfolio turnover or cash flows from capital share transactions. The primary risks associated with the use of futures contracts are imperfect correlation between changes in market values of stocks held by the fund and the prices of futures contracts, and the possibility of an illiquid market.
Futures contracts are valued at their quoted daily settlement prices. The aggregate principal amounts of the contracts are not recorded in the Statement of Net Assets. Fluctuations in the value of the contracts are recorded in the Statement of Net Assets as an asset (liability) and in the Statement of Operations as unrealized appreciation (depreciation) until the contracts are closed, when they are recorded as realized futures gains (losses).
3. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Management has analyzed the fund’s federal tax positions for the period ended September 30, 2007, and for the period ended March 31, 2008, and has concluded that no provision for federal income tax is required in the fund’s financial statements.
4. Distributions: Distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date.
5. Other: Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date. Interest income includes income distributions received from Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund and is accrued daily. Security transactions are accounted for on the date securities are bought or sold. Costs used to determine realized gains (losses) on the sale of investment securities are those of the specific securities sold.
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B. The Vanguard Group furnishes at cost investment advisory, corporate management, administrative, marketing, and distribution services. The costs of such services are allocated to the fund under methods approved by the board of trustees. The fund has committed to provide up to 0.40% of its net assets in capital contributions to Vanguard. At March 31, 2008, the fund had contributed capital of $6,000 to Vanguard (included in Other Assets), representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 0.01% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and officers of Vanguard.
C. Distributions are determined on a tax basis and may differ from net investment income and realized capital gains for financial reporting purposes. Differences may be permanent or temporary. Permanent differences are reclassified among capital accounts in the financial statements to reflect their tax character. Temporary differences arise when certain items of income, expense, gain, or loss are recognized in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes; these differences will reverse at some time in the future. Differences in classification may also result from the treatment of short-term gains as ordinary income for tax purposes. The fund’s tax-basis capital gains and losses are determined only at the end of each fiscal year.
At March 31, 2008, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $71,354,000. Net unrealized appreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $33,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $7,376,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $7,343,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.
At March 31, 2008, the aggregate settlement value of open futures contracts expiring in June 2008 and the related unrealized appreciation (depreciation) were:
|
|
| ($000) |
|
| Aggregate | Unrealized |
| Number of | Settlement | Appreciation |
Futures Contracts | Long Contracts | Value | (Depreciation) |
E-mini S&P 500 Index | 1 | 66 | (1) |
Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on open futures contracts is required to be treated as realized gain (loss) for tax purposes.
D. During the six months ended March 31, 2008, the fund purchased $45,143,000 of investment securities and sold $39,893,000 of investment securities, other than temporary cash investments.
E. Capital shares issued and redeemed were:
| Six Months Ended | January 18, 20071 to |
| March 31, 2008 | September 30, 2007 |
| Shares | Shares |
| (000) | (000) |
Issued | 72 | 1,309 |
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions | 122 | — |
Redeemed | — | (78) |
Net Increase (Decrease) in Shares Outstanding | 194 | 1,231 |
1 Commencement of operations as a registered investment company.
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Structured Broad Market Fund
Fund Profile
As of March 31, 2008
Portfolio Characteristics |
|
| |
|
| Comparative | Broad |
| Fund | Index1 | Index2 |
Number of Stocks | 453 | 2,899 | 4,811 |
Median Market Cap | $36.0B | $34.5B | $33.8B |
Price/Earnings Ratio | 14.6x | 16.7x | 16.9x |
Price/Book Ratio | 2.3x | 2.4x | 2.4x |
Yield3 |
| 2.0% | 2.0% |
Institutional Shares | 1.9% |
|
|
Institutional Plus Shares | 1.9% |
|
|
Return on Equity | 19.1% | 19.7% | 19.5% |
Earnings Growth Rate | 21.3% | 20.2% | 20.0% |
Foreign Holdings | 0.6% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
Turnover Rate | 68%4 | — | — |
Expense Ratio |
| — | — |
Institutional Shares | 0.22%4 |
|
|
Institutional Plus Shares | 0.14%4 |
|
|
Short-Term Reserves | –0.1%5 | — | — |
Sector Diversification (% of equity exposure) | |||
|
| Comparative | Broad |
| Fund | Index1 | Index2 |
Consumer Discretionary | 9.8% | 9.7% | 9.4% |
Consumer Staples | 9.8 | 9.8 | 9.6 |
Energy | 12.5 | 12.5 | 12.7 |
Financials | 17.0 | 16.9 | 17.7 |
Health Care | 11.6 | 11.7 | 11.7 |
Industrials | 12.5 | 12.6 | 12.2 |
Information Technology | 15.6 | 15.6 | 15.6 |
Materials | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.1 |
Telecommunication Services | 3.1 | 3.1 | 3.1 |
Utilities | 3.9 | 3.9 | 3.9 |
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Ten Largest Holdings6 (% of total net assets) | ||
|
|
|
ExxonMobil Corp. | integrated oil and gas | 3.2% |
General Electric Co. | industrial conglomerate | 2.5 |
AT&T Inc. | integrated telecommunication services | 1.7 |
Microsoft Corp. | systems software | 1.7 |
The Procter & Gamble Co. | household products | 1.6 |
Chevron Corp. | integrated oil and gas | 1.3 |
Johnson & Johnson | pharmaceuticals | 1.3 |
International Business Machines Corp. | computer hardware | 1.2 |
Pfizer Inc. | pharmaceuticals | 1.1 |
JPMorgan Chase & Co. | diversified financial services | 1.1 |
Top Ten |
| 16.7% |
Investment Focus
1 Russell 3000 Index.
2 Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index.
3 30-day SEC yield for the fund; annualized dividend yield for the indexes. See the Glossary on page 64.
4 Annualized.
5 The fund invested a portion of its cash reserves in equity markets through the use of index futures contracts. After the effect of the futures investments, the fund's temporary cash position was negative.
6 “Ten Largest Holdings” excludes any temporary cash investments and equity index products.
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Structured Broad Market Fund
Performance Summary
All of the returns in this report represent past performance, which is not a guarantee of future results that may be achieved by the fund. (Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data cited. For performance data current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at www.vanguard.com/performance.) Note, too, that both investment returns and principal value can fluctuate widely, so an investor’s shares, when sold, could be worth more or less than their original cost. The returns shown do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or on the sale of fund shares.
Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): May 3, 2004–March 31, 2008
Average Annual Total Returns: Periods Ended March 31, 2008 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Since |
| Inception Date | One Year | Inception |
Institutional Shares | 11/30/2006 | –8.29% | –4.29% |
Institutional Plus Shares | 5/3/2004 | –8.20 | 6.81 |
1 The fund commenced operations as a registered investment company on October 3, 2006. The fund’s performance includes the performance of a predecessor trust, Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company Structured Broad Market Trust, from May 3, 2004, to October 3, 2006.
2 Six months ended March 31, 2008.
Note: See Financial Highlights tables on pages 56–57 for dividend and capital gains information.
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Structured Broad Market Fund
Financial Statements (unaudited)
Statement of Net Assets
As of March 31, 2008
The fund provides a complete list of its holdings four times in each fiscal year, at the quarter-ends. For the second and fourth fiscal quarters, the lists appear in the fund’s semiannual and annual reports to shareholders. For the first and third fiscal quarters, the fund files the lists with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form N-Q. Shareholders can look up the fund’s Forms N-Q on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Forms N-Q may also be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room (see the back cover of this report for further information).
|
|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
Common Stocks (99.5%)1 |
|
| |
Consumer Discretionary (9.8%) |
|
| |
| McDonald’s Corp. | 27,360 | 1,526 |
| The Walt Disney Co. | 46,090 | 1,446 |
| Comcast Corp. Class A | 68,865 | 1,332 |
| Home Depot, Inc. | 41,920 | 1,172 |
| Time Warner, Inc. | 79,690 | 1,117 |
| Lowe’s Cos., Inc. | 40,070 | 919 |
| Johnson Controls, Inc. | 24,700 | 835 |
| Omnicom Group Inc. | 18,460 | 816 |
| Best Buy Co., Inc. | 18,990 | 787 |
| CBS Corp. | 35,055 | 774 |
| Whirlpool Corp. | 8,900 | 772 |
| NIKE, Inc. Class B | 11,220 | 763 |
| The Gap, Inc. | 37,200 | 732 |
* | Viacom Inc. Class B | 18,395 | 729 |
* | AutoZone Inc. | 5,800 | 660 |
* | Hanesbrands Inc. | 22,300 | 651 |
* | Ford Motor Co. | 112,700 | 645 |
| Burger King Holdings Inc. | 22,900 | 633 |
* | Expedia, Inc. | 28,400 | 622 |
| Carnival Corp. | 15,100 | 611 |
| Sherwin-Williams Co. | 11,900 | 607 |
* | Entravision |
|
|
| Communications Corp. | 90,200 | 601 |
* | Amazon.com, Inc. | 8,200 | 585 |
| Yum! Brands, Inc. | 15,220 | 566 |
* | Aeropostale, Inc. | 19,950 | 541 |
* | NVR, Inc. | 900 | 538 |
| Target Corp. | 10,590 | 537 |
| Darden Restaurants Inc. | 16,200 | 527 |
| News Corp., Class A | 26,490 | 497 |
| Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd. | 13,600 | 447 |
| Wyndham Worldwide Corp. | 19,694 | 407 |
* | Jack in the Box Inc. | 13,100 | 352 |
* | Clear Channel Outdoor |
|
|
| Holdings, Inc. Class A | 16,710 | 318 |
| RadioShack Corp. | 19,000 | 309 |
| Black & Decker Corp. | 4,200 | 278 |
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|
|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
| Regal Entertainment Group Class A | 9,900 | 191 |
| Clear Channel Communications, Inc. | 6,000 | 175 |
| Ross Stores, Inc. | 5,800 | 174 |
*^ | Jos. A. Bank Clothiers, Inc. | 8,300 | 170 |
| Regis Corp. | 5,500 | 151 |
| Men’s Wearhouse, Inc. | 5,650 | 131 |
| UniFirst Corp. | 3,500 | 130 |
| Oxford Industries, Inc. | 5,200 | 117 |
* | The Goodyear Tire & |
|
|
| Rubber Co. | 2,900 | 75 |
| CSS Industries, Inc. | 2,000 | 70 |
* | Las Vegas Sands Corp. | 900 | 66 |
* | Dollar Tree, Inc. | 2,200 | 61 |
* | Nexstar Broadcasting |
|
|
| Group, Inc. | 9,600 | 57 |
| Gannett Co., Inc. | 1,900 | 55 |
* | Lear Corp. | 2,100 | 54 |
| CBRL Group, Inc. | 1,500 | 54 |
* | Perry Ellis International Corp. | 2,400 | 52 |
* | DIRECTV Group, Inc. | 1,970 | 49 |
| Sonic Automotive, Inc. | 2,300 | 47 |
* | GameStop Corp. Class A | 900 | 47 |
* | Source Interlink Cos., Inc. | 17,511 | 33 |
| The Stanley Works | 600 | 29 |
| Polaris Industries, Inc. | 600 | 25 |
| DeVry, Inc. | 500 | 21 |
| American Greetings Corp. |
|
|
| Class A | 1,000 | 19 |
| Macy’s Inc. | 600 | 14 |
* | DISH Network Corp. | 450 | 13 |
* | Valassis Communications, Inc. | 1,100 | 12 |
|
|
| 26,744 |
Consumer Staples (9.7%) |
|
| |
| The Procter & Gamble Co. | 63,420 | 4,444 |
| Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. | 50,710 | 2,671 |
| The Coca-Cola Co. | 42,790 | 2,605 |
| Philip Morris International Inc. | 43,050 | 2,177 |
| PepsiCo, Inc. | 26,630 | 1,923 |
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Structured Broad Market Fund
|
|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
| Kraft Foods Inc. | 38,529 | 1,195 |
| Colgate-Palmolive Co. | 13,330 | 1,039 |
| Altria Group, Inc. | 43,050 | 956 |
| The Kroger Co. | 34,600 | 879 |
| CVS/Caremark Corp. | 20,136 | 816 |
| ConAgra Foods, Inc. | 33,200 | 795 |
| Molson Coors Brewing Co. Class B | 14,300 | 752 |
* | Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. | 18,000 | 655 |
| The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. | 17,300 | 587 |
| Corn Products International, Inc. | 15,610 | 580 |
| SuperValu Inc. | 17,900 | 537 |
* | NBTY, Inc. | 16,200 | 485 |
| Walgreen Co. | 10,630 | 405 |
| Anheuser-Busch Cos., Inc. | 8,090 | 384 |
| Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. | 8,300 | 342 |
| Reynolds American Inc. | 5,640 | 333 |
| General Mills, Inc. | 5,400 | 323 |
| Nash-Finch Co. | 9,389 | 319 |
| Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. | 12,000 | 290 |
| Costco Wholesale Corp. | 4,270 | 277 |
| Kimberly-Clark Corp. | 3,770 | 243 |
| Alberto-Culver Co. | 8,200 | 225 |
| Safeway, Inc. | 7,100 | 208 |
* | Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. | 3,847 | 69 |
| Coca-Cola Bottling Co. | 200 | 12 |
|
|
| 26,526 |
Energy (12.4%) |
|
| |
| ExxonMobil Corp. | 103,020 | 8,713 |
| Chevron Corp. | 42,665 | 3,642 |
| ConocoPhillips Co. | 33,954 | 2,588 |
| Schlumberger Ltd. | 18,900 | 1,644 |
| Occidental Petroleum Corp. | 19,540 | 1,430 |
* | Transocean, Inc. | 7,960 | 1,076 |
| Apache Corp. | 8,740 | 1,056 |
| Chesapeake Energy Corp. | 22,400 | 1,034 |
| Hess Corp. | 11,700 | 1,032 |
* | National Oilwell Varco Inc. | 15,800 | 922 |
| Devon Energy Corp. | 8,513 | 888 |
| Marathon Oil Corp. | 18,740 | 855 |
| Murphy Oil Corp. | 10,200 | 838 |
| Noble Energy, Inc. | 11,400 | 830 |
| Noble Corp. | 15,600 | 775 |
| ENSCO International, Inc. | 11,930 | 747 |
| Valero Energy Corp. | 13,892 | 682 |
* | Pride International, Inc. | 19,200 | 671 |
* | Bristow Group, Inc. | 11,400 | 612 |
* | Whiting Petroleum Corp. | 8,800 | 569 |
| Helmerich & Payne, Inc. | 11,600 | 544 |
* | Gulfmark Offshore, Inc. | 9,300 | 509 |
| Tidewater Inc. | 8,200 | 452 |
* | Bois d’Arc Energy, Inc. | 17,400 | 374 |
| Halliburton Co. | 9,270 | 365 |
| XTO Energy, Inc. | 4,200 | 260 |
| Anadarko Petroleum Corp. | 3,940 | 248 |
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|
|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
* | Swift Energy Co. | 4,500 | 202 |
| Baker Hughes, Inc. | 2,060 | 141 |
| Frontier Oil Corp. | 4,000 | 109 |
| Pioneer Natural Resources Co. | 1,500 | 74 |
* | Superior Energy Services, Inc. | 1,100 | 44 |
|
|
| 33,926 |
Financials (16.9%) |
|
| |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 70,746 | 3,039 |
| Bank of America Corp. | 76,382 | 2,896 |
| Wells Fargo & Co. | 72,910 | 2,122 |
| Citigroup, Inc. | 85,120 | 1,823 |
| American International Group, Inc. | 35,800 | 1,548 |
| The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | 9,230 | 1,527 |
| U.S. Bancorp | 41,550 | 1,345 |
| Morgan Stanley | 25,250 | 1,154 |
| Wachovia Corp. | 40,616 | 1,097 |
| ACE Ltd. | 15,800 | 870 |
| The Travelers Cos., Inc. | 18,040 | 863 |
| State Street Corp. | 10,900 | 861 |
| BB&T Corp. | 26,580 | 852 |
| MetLife, Inc. | 13,500 | 814 |
| Northern Trust Corp. | 12,000 | 798 |
| Ameriprise Financial, Inc. | 15,300 | 793 |
| The Allstate Corp. | 16,470 | 792 |
| Discover Financial Services | 47,500 | 778 |
| Simon Property Group, Inc. REIT | 7,596 | 706 |
| The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. | 9,070 | 687 |
| Bank of New York Mellon Corp. | 15,912 | 664 |
| Capital One Financial Corp. | 13,060 | 643 |
| Everest Re Group, Ltd. | 7,100 | 636 |
| Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc. | 11,500 | 610 |
| Bank of Hawaii Corp. | 12,300 | 610 |
| Axis Capital Holdings Ltd. | 17,400 | 591 |
| American Express Co. | 13,220 | 578 |
| ProLogis REIT | 9,800 | 577 |
| Charles Schwab Corp. | 30,300 | 571 |
| PartnerRe Ltd. | 7,400 | 565 |
| Pacific Capital Bancorp | 25,580 | 550 |
| Endurance Specialty |
|
|
| Holdings Ltd. | 15,000 | 549 |
| Franklin Resources Corp. | 5,610 | 544 |
| Cash America |
|
|
| International Inc. | 14,700 | 535 |
| Invesco, Ltd. | 21,300 | 519 |
| Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. | 12,140 | 495 |
| Unum Group | 21,600 | 475 |
| General Growth |
|
|
| Properties Inc. REIT | 12,300 | 469 |
| Associated Banc-Corp. | 17,300 | 461 |
| HCP, Inc. REIT | 13,100 | 443 |
| Comerica, Inc. | 12,200 | 428 |
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Structured Broad Market Fund
|
|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
| Prudential Financial, Inc. | 5,440 | 426 |
| The Chubb Corp. | 7,770 | 384 |
| The St. Joe Co. | 8,300 | 356 |
| Highwood Properties, Inc. REIT | 11,200 | 348 |
| Raymond James Financial, Inc. | 15,100 | 347 |
* | Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. | 8,800 | 340 |
| WSFS Financial Corp. | 6,800 | 335 |
| Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, Inc. REIT | 8,500 | 327 |
| Douglas Emmett, Inc. REIT | 14,700 | 324 |
| Hospitality Properties Trust REIT | 9,300 | 316 |
| City Bank Lynnwood (WA) | 13,900 | 310 |
| SL Green Realty Corp. REIT | 3,700 | 301 |
| AFLAC Inc. | 4,540 | 295 |
| Senior Housing Properties Trust REIT | 12,300 | 291 |
| CNA Financial Corp. | 10,600 | 273 |
| Host Hotels & Resorts Inc. REIT | 15,900 | 253 |
| Fannie Mae | 9,590 | 252 |
| CME Group, Inc. | 500 | 235 |
| Colonial Properties Trust REIT | 9,300 | 224 |
| Plum Creek Timber Co. Inc. REIT | 5,300 | 216 |
| Nationwide Health Properties, Inc. REIT | 5,500 | 186 |
| Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. | 4,780 | 180 |
| UnionBanCal Corp. | 3,483 | 171 |
| Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd. | 6,400 | 169 |
| RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. | 3,200 | 166 |
| Regions Financial Corp. | 7,900 | 156 |
| PNC Financial Services Group | 2,040 | 134 |
| Assurant, Inc. | 2,188 | 133 |
* | Arch Capital Group Ltd. | 1,900 | 130 |
| Odyssey Re Holdings Corp. | 3,400 | 125 |
| WesBanco, Inc. | 4,700 | 116 |
| Marshall & Ilsley Corp. | 5,000 | 116 |
* | First Federal Financial Corp. | 4,200 | 114 |
| Associated Estates |
|
|
| Realty Corp. REIT | 9,500 | 109 |
| Federal Realty |
|
|
| Investment Trust REIT | 1,300 | 101 |
| SunTrust Banks, Inc. | 1,790 | 99 |
| The First Marblehead Corp. | 12,819 | 96 |
| New York Community |
|
|
| Bancorp, Inc. | 4,900 | 89 |
| Freddie Mac | 3,300 | 84 |
| American National |
|
|
| Insurance Co. | 700 | 75 |
* | CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. | 3,100 | 67 |
| FirstMerit Corp. | 3,100 | 64 |
| Advanta Corp. Class B | 7,803 | 55 |
| Loews Corp. | 1,310 | 53 |
| Taubman Co. REIT | 1,000 | 52 |
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|
|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
| Great Southern Bancorp, Inc. | 3,200 | 50 |
| Post Properties, Inc. REIT | 1,300 | 50 |
^ | Sierra Bancorp | 2,000 | 43 |
| Oriental Financial Group Inc. | 2,100 | 41 |
| BOK Financial Corp. | 700 | 37 |
| The Macerich Co. REIT | 500 | 35 |
* | MF Global Ltd. | 1,900 | 19 |
| Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. | 200 | 15 |
| Baldwin & Lyons, Inc. Class B | 500 | 13 |
|
|
| 46,174 |
Health Care (11.6%) |
|
| |
| Johnson & Johnson | 55,105 | 3,575 |
| Pfizer Inc. | 146,080 | 3,057 |
| Merck & Co., Inc. | 45,010 | 1,708 |
| Abbott Laboratories | 23,800 | 1,313 |
| Eli Lilly & Co. | 24,320 | 1,255 |
| Wyeth | 25,240 | 1,054 |
| Baxter International, Inc. | 17,060 | 986 |
| UnitedHealth Group Inc. | 24,150 | 830 |
* | Express Scripts Inc. | 12,400 | 798 |
| Medtronic, Inc. | 15,530 | 751 |
* | Medco Health Solutions, Inc. | 16,700 | 731 |
| CIGNA Corp. | 17,850 | 724 |
* | WellPoint Inc. | 16,250 | 717 |
* | Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings | 9,600 | 707 |
* | Forest Laboratories, Inc. | 17,600 | 704 |
| AmerisourceBergen Corp. | 16,700 | 684 |
* | Humana Inc. | 14,900 | 668 |
| Aetna Inc. | 15,880 | 668 |
* | Biogen Idec Inc. | 10,600 | 654 |
| Perrigo Co. | 16,800 | 634 |
* | Warner Chilcott Ltd. | 35,000 | 630 |
* | Gilead Sciences, Inc. | 11,380 | 586 |
* | Amgen, Inc. | 13,815 | 577 |
* | Kinetic Concepts, Inc. | 11,700 | 541 |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. | 24,430 | 520 |
| Schering-Plough Corp. | 35,410 | 510 |
* | Cynosure Inc. | 23,100 | 492 |
* | St. Jude Medical, Inc. | 10,700 | 462 |
* | AMERIGROUP Corp. | 16,400 | 448 |
* | Myriad Genetics, Inc. | 11,100 | 447 |
* | K-V Pharmaceutical Co. Class A | 16,700 | 417 |
* | Genentech, Inc. | 5,120 | 416 |
* | OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 10,200 | 381 |
| Becton, Dickinson & Co. | 4,420 | 379 |
* | Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 25,530 | 360 |
* | Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. | 5,300 | 301 |
* | Obagi Medical Products, Inc. | 33,000 | 286 |
| Chemed Corp. | 6,600 | 279 |
* | PDL BioPharma Inc. | 24,200 | 256 |
* | Pediatrix Medical Group, Inc. | 3,600 | 243 |
* | Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7,500 | 218 |
* | Celgene Corp. | 2,800 | 172 |
| Cardinal Health, Inc. | 1,710 | 90 |
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Structured Broad Market Fund
|
|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
| Stryker Corp. | 1,200 | 78 |
* | Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5,800 | 53 |
* | Xenoport Inc. | 1,247 | 50 |
* | MedCath Corp. | 1,900 | 35 |
* | Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings, Inc. | 1,400 | 34 |
* | Gentiva Health Services, Inc. | 1,300 | 28 |
* | Apria Healthcare Group Inc. | 1,350 | 27 |
* | Invitrogen Corp. | 300 | 26 |
* | eResearch Technology, Inc. | 1,200 | 15 |
* | PharMerica Corp. | 800 | 13 |
|
|
| 31,588 |
Industrials (12.4%) |
|
| |
| General Electric Co. | 185,980 | 6,883 |
| The Boeing Co. | 18,160 | 1,351 |
| Caterpillar, Inc. | 16,120 | 1,262 |
| United Parcel Service, Inc. | 16,080 | 1,174 |
| Honeywell International Inc. | 19,570 | 1,104 |
| CSX Corp. | 19,300 | 1,082 |
| United Technologies Corp. | 15,340 | 1,056 |
| Deere & Co. | 12,000 | 965 |
| Lockheed Martin Corp. | 9,350 | 928 |
| Union Pacific Corp. | 7,400 | 928 |
| Waste Management, Inc. | 25,700 | 862 |
| Ingersoll-Rand Co. | 19,100 | 851 |
| Raytheon Co. | 12,700 | 821 |
| Parker Hannifin Corp. | 11,800 | 817 |
| Northrop Grumman Corp. | 10,130 | 788 |
| Textron, Inc. | 14,188 | 786 |
| 3M Co. | 9,830 | 778 |
* | Terex Corp. | 10,800 | 675 |
| Harsco Corp. | 11,300 | 626 |
| The Manitowoc Co., Inc. | 15,300 | 624 |
| Cooper Industries, Inc. Class A | 15,400 | 618 |
| Manpower Inc. | 10,400 | 585 |
| Robbins & Myers, Inc. | 16,200 | 529 |
| Cummins Inc. | 11,120 | 521 |
* | Allied Waste Industries, Inc. | 45,320 | 490 |
| GATX Corp. | 12,320 | 481 |
* | Gardner Denver Inc. | 12,600 | 467 |
| Emerson Electric Co. | 9,040 | 465 |
| UAL Corp. | 18,800 | 405 |
| Belden Inc. | 10,400 | 367 |
| Trinity Industries, Inc. | 13,600 | 362 |
| Genco Shipping and Trading Ltd. | 6,400 | 361 |
* | Northwest Airlines Corp. | 39,100 | 351 |
| FedEx Corp. | 3,660 | 339 |
| General Dynamics Corp. | 4,050 | 338 |
* | AGCO Corp. | 5,500 | 329 |
| Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. | 3,370 | 311 |
| L-3 Communications |
|
|
| Holdings, Inc. | 2,300 | 251 |
* | Volt Information Sciences Inc. | 14,331 | 243 |
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|
|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
| A.O. Smith Corp. | 7,200 | 237 |
* | RSC Holdings Inc. | 15,900 | 173 |
| Illinois Tool Works, Inc. | 3,380 | 163 |
| Kennametal, Inc. | 4,800 | 141 |
* | Perini Corp. | 3,600 | 130 |
| CompX International Inc. | 13,500 | 124 |
| Tyco International, Ltd. | 2,450 | 108 |
* | GrafTech International Ltd. | 6,500 | 105 |
* | United Stationers, Inc. | 2,200 | 105 |
| Precision Castparts Corp. | 800 | 82 |
* | McDermott International, Inc. | 1,300 | 71 |
| R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. | 2,300 | 70 |
| Danaher Corp. | 800 | 61 |
| Bowne & Co., Inc. | 3,800 | 58 |
| Twin Disc, Inc. | 3,500 | 55 |
| Hubbell Inc. Class B | 600 | 26 |
* | Tecumseh Products Co. Class A | 500 | 15 |
| Mueller Industries Inc. | 500 | 14 |
| The Toro Co. | 300 | 12 |
* | TBS International Ltd. | 400 | 12 |
|
|
| 33,936 |
Information Technology (15.5%) |
|
| |
| Microsoft Corp. | 164,598 | 4,671 |
| International Business Machines Corp. | 28,210 | 3,248 |
| Hewlett-Packard Co. | 56,330 | 2,572 |
| Intel Corp. | 119,490 | 2,531 |
* | Cisco Systems, Inc. | 102,850 | 2,478 |
* | Apple Inc. | 15,820 | 2,270 |
* | Oracle Corp. | 85,800 | 1,678 |
* | Google Inc. | 3,660 | 1,612 |
| QUALCOMM Inc. | 28,920 | 1,186 |
| Texas Instruments, Inc. | 36,570 | 1,034 |
| Corning, Inc. | 41,470 | 997 |
| MasterCard, Inc. Class A | 4,470 | 997 |
* | Symantec Corp. | 46,900 | 779 |
* | EMC Corp. | 52,430 | 752 |
| Seagate Technology | 35,400 | 741 |
* | BMC Software, Inc. | 22,500 | 732 |
| Automatic Data Processing, Inc. | 16,980 | 720 |
| Accenture Ltd. | 20,000 | 703 |
* | NVIDIA Corp. | 34,950 | 692 |
| Xerox Corp. | 45,700 | 684 |
| Electronic Data Systems Corp. | 39,140 | 652 |
* | Intuit, Inc. | 24,000 | 648 |
* | Sun Microsystems, Inc. | 40,650 | 631 |
* | SPSS, Inc. | 15,100 | 586 |
* | Dell Inc. | 28,480 | 567 |
* | Avnet, Inc. | 17,200 | 563 |
* | Yahoo! Inc. | 17,870 | 517 |
* | AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc. | 42,300 | 459 |
* | MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. | 6,420 | 455 |
* | eBay Inc. | 13,910 | 415 |
* | Pericom Semiconductor Corp. | 27,400 | 402 |
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Structured Broad Market Fund
|
|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
* | LAM Research Corp. | 10,200 | 390 |
* | Multi-Fineline Electronix, Inc. | 18,900 | 355 |
* | Cadence Design Systems, Inc. | 32,600 | 348 |
* | Skyworks Solutions, Inc. | 46,100 | 336 |
* | Blue Coat Systems, Inc. | 12,483 | 275 |
* | Computer Sciences Corp. | 6,500 | 265 |
| Applied Materials, Inc. | 13,000 | 254 |
* | CommScope, Inc. | 6,700 | 233 |
* | Novatel Wireless, Inc. | 22,200 | 215 |
* | Western Digital Corp. | 7,800 | 211 |
| Tyco Electronics Ltd. | 5,850 | 201 |
* | S1 Corp. | 27,700 | 197 |
* | Vignette Corp. | 14,900 | 197 |
* | Interwoven Inc. | 18,100 | 193 |
| National Semiconductor Corp. | 10,300 | 189 |
| Motorola, Inc. | 16,530 | 154 |
| Xilinx, Inc. | 6,400 | 152 |
* | Cymer, Inc. | 5,300 | 138 |
* | Dolby Laboratories Inc. | 3,800 | 138 |
* | Amkor Technology, Inc. | 12,790 | 137 |
* | Adobe Systems, Inc. | 2,800 | 100 |
* | Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. | 2,900 | 82 |
| United Online, Inc. | 7,600 | 80 |
* | Amdocs Ltd. | 2,700 | 77 |
| ^Imergent, Inc. | 6,300 | 72 |
* | Metavante Technologies | 2,000 | 40 |
* | Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc. | 5,600 | 27 |
* | Emulex Corp. | 1,500 | 24 |
* | Greenfield Online, Inc. | 1,900 | 23 |
* | Sybase, Inc. | 700 | 18 |
* | Ciber, Inc. | 3,200 | 16 |
| Methode Electronics, Inc. Class A | 1,300 | 15 |
| Integral Systems, Inc. | 500 | 15 |
* | Immersion Corp. | 1,600 | 11 |
|
|
| 42,150 |
Materials (4.2%) |
|
| |
| Monsanto Co. | 12,726 | 1,419 |
| United States Steel Corp. | 7,500 | 952 |
| Dow Chemical Co. | 23,220 | 856 |
* | Owens-Illinois, Inc. | 14,500 | 818 |
| Alcoa Inc. | 22,310 | 804 |
| Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc. Class B | 8,200 | 789 |
| AK Steel Holding Corp. | 12,500 | 680 |
| International Paper Co. | 24,300 | 661 |
| Lubrizol Corp. | 11,500 | 638 |
* | The Mosaic Co. | 5,900 | 605 |
* | Terra Industries, Inc. | 14,700 | 522 |
| E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. | 10,780 | 504 |
| Celanese Corp. Series A | 11,500 | 449 |
| CF Industries Holdings, Inc. | 3,600 | 373 |
| Allegheny Technologies Inc. | 5,000 | 357 |
* | OM Group, Inc. | 5,400 | 295 |
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|
|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
| Praxair, Inc. | 2,400 | 202 |
| Southern Peru Copper Corp. (U.S. Shares) | 1,320 | 137 |
| Rock-Tenn Co. | 4,200 | 126 |
| PPG Industries, Inc. | 1,600 | 97 |
| Ball Corp. | 1,802 | 83 |
| Eastman Chemical Co. | 1,300 | 81 |
|
|
| 11,448 |
Telecommunication Services (3.1%) |
|
| |
| AT&T Inc. | 123,529 | 4,731 |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | 46,930 | 1,711 |
* | American Tower Corp. Class A | 15,700 | 616 |
* | Cincinnati Bell Inc. | 97,500 | 415 |
| Qwest Communications International Inc. | 87,400 | 396 |
| Embarq Corp. | 8,100 | 325 |
| Sprint Nextel Corp. | 21,289 | 142 |
| Alaska Communications Systems Holdings, Inc. | 6,300 | 77 |
| Telephone & Data Systems, Inc. | 1,900 | 75 |
| Windstream Corp. | 900 | 11 |
|
|
| 8,499 |
Utilities (3.9%) |
|
| |
| Edison International | 16,540 | 811 |
* | Mirant Corp. | 20,700 | 753 |
| Exelon Corp. | 9,040 | 735 |
| Consolidated Edison Inc. | 18,000 | 715 |
| Duke Energy Corp. | 38,990 | 696 |
| Public Service Enterprise Group, Inc. | 16,400 | 659 |
| Energen Corp. | 10,200 | 635 |
| DTE Energy Co. | 16,000 | 622 |
| Atmos Energy Corp. | 24,200 | 617 |
| Pepco Holdings, Inc. | 24,200 | 598 |
| Alliant Energy Corp. | 16,000 | 560 |
| American Electric Power Co., Inc. | 12,800 | 533 |
| Southern Union Co. | 21,200 | 493 |
| Portland General Electric Co. | 20,600 | 465 |
| Southern Co. | 10,660 | 380 |
| ONEOK, Inc. | 5,800 | 259 |
| Progress Energy, Inc. | 5,100 | 213 |
| WGL Holdings Inc. | 6,100 | 196 |
| FPL Group, Inc. | 3,033 | 190 |
| Dominion Resources, Inc. | 4,200 | 172 |
| SCANA Corp. | 1,600 | 59 |
| Questar Corp. | 800 | 45 |
* | Reliant Energy, Inc. | 1,900 | 45 |
| UGI Corp. Holding Co. | 1,300 | 32 |
|
|
| 10,483 |
Total Common Stocks |
|
| |
(Cost $285,584) |
| 271,474 |
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Structured Broad Market Fund
|
|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
Temporary Cash Investments (0.5%)1 |
|
| |
Money Market Fund (0.3%) |
|
| |
2 | Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, 2.800% | 545,784 | 546 |
2 | Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund,2.800%—Note E | 141,600 | 142 |
|
|
| 688 |
|
| Face |
|
|
| Amount |
|
|
| ($000) |
|
U.S. Agency Obligation (0.2%) |
|
| |
3 | Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. |
|
|
4 | 3.607%, 4/7/08 | 200 | 200 |
4 | 1.740%, 8/29/08 | 300 | 297 |
|
|
| 497 |
Total Temporary Cash Investments |
|
| |
(Cost $1,185) |
| 1,185 | |
Total Investments (100.0%) |
|
| |
(Cost $286,769) |
| 272,659 | |
Other Assets and Liabilities (0.0%) |
|
| |
Other Assets—Note B |
| 474 | |
Liabilities—Note E |
| (375) | |
|
|
| 99 |
Net Assets (100%) |
| 272,758 |
73
At March 31, 2008, net assets consisted of:5 | |
| Amount |
| ($000) |
Paid-in Capital | 298,570 |
Undistributed Net Investment Income | 1,196 |
Accumulated Net Realized Losses | (12,911) |
Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) |
|
Investment Securities | (14,110) |
Futures Contracts | 13 |
Net Assets | 272,758 |
|
|
Institutional Shares—Net Assets |
|
Applicable to 501,376 outstanding |
|
$.001 par value shares of beneficial |
|
interest (unlimited authorization) | 12,158 |
Net Asset Value Per Share— |
|
Institutional Shares | $24.25 |
|
|
Institutional Plus Shares—Net Assets |
|
Applicable to 5,373,159 outstanding |
|
$.001 par value shares of beneficial |
|
interest (unlimited authorization) | 260,600 |
Net Asset Value Per Share— |
|
Institutional Plus Shares | $48.50 |
• | See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements. |
^ | Part of security position is on loan to broker-dealers. See Note E in Notes to Financial Statements. |
* | Non-income-producing security. |
1 The fund invests a portion of its cash reserves in equity markets through the use of index futures contracts. After giving effect to futures investments, the fund’s effective common stock and temporary cash investment positions represent 100.0% and 0%, respectively, of net assets. See Note C in Notes to Financial Statements.
2 Affiliated money market fund available only to Vanguard funds and certain trusts and accounts managed by Vanguard. Rate shown is the 7-day yield.
3 The issuer operates under a congressional charter; its securities are neither issued nor guaranteed by the U.S. government. If needed, access to additional funding from the U.S. Treasury (beyond the issuer’s line of credit) would require congressional action.
4 Securities with a value of $497,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open futures contracts.
5 See Note C in Notes to Financial Statements for the tax-basis components of net assets.
REIT—Real Estate Investment Trust.
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Structured Broad Market Fund
Statement of Operations
| Six Months Ended |
| March 31, 2008 |
| ($000) |
Investment Income |
|
Income |
|
Dividends | 2,701 |
Interest1 | 21 |
Security Lending | 6 |
Total Income | 2,728 |
Expenses |
|
The Vanguard Group—Note B |
|
Investment Advisory Services | 75 |
Management and Administrative |
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Institutional Shares | 8 |
Institutional Plus Shares | 82 |
Marketing and Distribution |
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Institutional Shares | 2 |
Institutional Plus Shares | 22 |
Custodian Fees | 10 |
Shareholders’ Reports |
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Institutional Shares | 1 |
Institutional Plus Shares | 1 |
Total Expenses | 201 |
Net Investment Income | 2,527 |
Realized Net Gain (Loss) |
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Investment Securities Sold | (12,401) |
Futures Contracts | 46 |
Realized Net Gain (Loss) | (12,355) |
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) |
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Investment Securities | (30,622) |
Futures Contracts | (10) |
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | (30,632) |
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations | (40,460) |
1 Interest income from an affiliated company of the fund was $21,000.
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Statement of Changes in Net Assets
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| October 3, |
| Six Months Ended | 20061 to |
| March 31, | September 30, |
| 2008 | 2007 |
| ($000) | ($000) |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets |
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Operations |
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Net Investment Income | 2,527 | 2,500 |
Realized Net Gain (Loss) | (12,355) | 4,491 |
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | (30,632) | 8,183 |
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations | (40,460) | 15,174 |
Distributions |
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Net Investment Income |
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Institutional Shares | (137) | (22) |
Institutional Plus Shares | (3,225) | (447) |
Realized Capital Gain2 |
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Institutional Shares | (210) | (18) |
Institutional Plus Shares | (4,456) | (363) |
Total Distributions | (8,028) | (850) |
Capital Share Transactions—Note F |
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Institutional Shares | 346 | 13,025 |
Institutional Plus Shares | 22,127 | 271,424 |
Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions | 22,473 | 284,449 |
Total Increase (Decrease) | (26,015) | 298,773 |
Net Assets |
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Beginning of Period | 298,773 | — |
End of Period3 | 272,758 | 298,773 |
1 Commencement of operations as a registered investment company.
2 Includes fiscal 2008 and 2007 short-term gain distributions totaling $239,000 and $216,000, respectively. Short-term gain distributions are treated as ordinary income dividends for tax purposes.
3 Net Assets—End of Period includes undistributed net investment income of $1,196,000 and $2,031,000.
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Financial Highlights
Institutional Shares |
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| Six Months | Nov. 30, |
| Ended | 20061 to |
| March 31, | Sept. 30, |
For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Period | 2008 | 2007 |
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | $28.67 | $26.59 |
Investment Operations |
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Net Investment Income | .210 | .3612 |
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments | (3.921) | 1.930 |
Total from Investment Operations | (3.711) | 2.291 |
Distributions |
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Dividends from Net Investment Income | (.280) | (.116) |
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains | (.429) | (.095) |
Total Distributions | (.709) | (.211) |
Net Asset Value, End of Period | $24.25 | $28.67 |
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Total Return | –13.21% | 8.68% |
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Ratios/Supplemental Data |
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Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) | $12 | $14 |
Ratio of Total Expenses to Average Net Assets | 0.22%* | 0.25%* |
Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets | 1.68%* | 1.55%* |
Portfolio Turnover Rate | 68%* | 66% |
1 Inception.
2 Calculated based on average shares outstanding.
* | Annualized. |
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Institutional Plus Shares |
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| Six Months | Oct. 3, |
| Ended | 20061 to |
| March 31, | Sept. 30, |
For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Period | 2008 | 2007 |
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | $57.39 | $50.00 |
Investment Operations |
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Net Investment Income | .441 | .9042 |
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments | (7.852) | 6.910 |
Total from Investment Operations | (7.411) | 7.814 |
Distributions |
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Dividends from Net Investment Income | (.621) | (.234) |
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains | (.858) | (.190) |
Total Distributions | (1.479) | (.424) |
Net Asset Value, End of Period | $48.50 | $57.39 |
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Total Return | –13.19% | 15.69% |
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Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) | $261 | $285 |
Ratio of Total Expenses to Average Net Assets | 0.14%* | 0.15%* |
Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets | 1.76%* | 1.65%* |
Portfolio Turnover Rate | 68%* | 66% |
1 Commencement of operations as a registered investment company.
2 Calculated based on average shares outstanding.
* | Annualized. |
See accompanying Notes, which are an integral part of the Financial Statements.
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Notes to Financial Statements
Vanguard Structured Broad Market Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The fund files reports with the SEC under the company name Vanguard Quantitative Funds. The fund offers two classes of shares, Institutional Shares and Institutional Plus Shares. Institutional Shares are available to investors who invest a minimum amount of $5 million. Institutional Plus Shares are available to investors who invest a minimum amount of $200 million ($100 million for investors with total Vanguard investments of at least $1 billion).
A. The following significant accounting policies conform to generally accepted accounting principles for U.S. mutual funds. The fund consistently follows such policies in preparing its financial statements.
1. Security Valuation: Securities are valued as of the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4 p.m., Eastern time) on the valuation date. Equity securities are valued at the latest quoted sales prices or official closing prices taken from the primary market in which each security trades; such securities not traded on the valuation date are valued at the mean of the latest quoted bid and asked prices. Securities for which market quotations are not readily available, or whose values have been materially affected by events occurring before the fund’s pricing time but after the close of the securities’ primary markets, are valued by methods deemed by the board of trustees to represent fair value. Investments in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund are valued at that fund’s net asset value. Temporary cash investments acquired over 60 days to maturity are valued using the latest bid prices or using valuations based on a matrix system (which considers such factors as security prices, yields, maturities, and ratings), both as furnished by independent pricing services. Other temporary cash investments are valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value.
2. Futures Contracts: The fund uses index futures contracts to a limited extent, with the objective of maintaining full exposure to the stock market while maintaining liquidity. The fund may purchase or sell futures contracts to achieve a desired level of investment, whether to accommodate portfolio turnover or cash flows from capital share transactions. The primary risks associated with the use of futures contracts are imperfect correlation between changes in market values of stocks held by the fund and the prices of futures contracts, and the possibility of an illiquid market.
Futures contracts are valued at their quoted daily settlement prices. The aggregate principal amounts of the contracts are not recorded in the Statement of Net Assets. Fluctuations in the value of the contracts are recorded in the Statement of Net Assets as an asset (liability) and in the Statement of Operations as unrealized appreciation (depreciation) until the contracts are closed, when they are recorded as realized futures gains (losses).
3. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Management has analyzed the fund’s federal tax positions for the period ended September 30, 2007, and for the period ended March 31, 2008, and has concluded that no provision for federal income tax is required in the fund’s financial statements.
4. Distributions: Distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date.
5. Security Lending: The fund may lend its securities to qualified institutional borrowers to earn additional income. Security loans are required to be secured at all times by collateral at least equal to the market value of securities loaned. The fund invests cash collateral received in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, and records a liability for the return of the collateral, during the period the securities are on loan. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less expenses associated with the loan.
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6. Other: Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date. Interest income includes income distributions received from Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund and is accrued daily. Security transactions are accounted for on the date securities are bought or sold. Costs used to determine realized gains (losses) on the sale of investment securities are those of the specific securities sold.
Each class of shares has equal rights as to assets and earnings, except that each class separately bears certain class-specific expenses related to maintenance of shareholder accounts (included in Management and Administrative expenses) and shareholder reporting. Marketing and distribution expenses are allocated to each class of shares based on a method approved by the board of trustees. Income, other non-class-specific expenses, and gains and losses on investments are allocated to each class of shares based on its relative net assets.
B. The Vanguard Group furnishes at cost investment advisory, corporate management, administrative, marketing, and distribution services. The costs of such services are allocated to the fund under methods approved by the board of trustees. The fund has committed to provide up to 0.40% of its net assets in capital contributions to Vanguard. At March 31, 2008, the fund had contributed capital of $24,000 to Vanguard (included in Other Assets), representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 0.02% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and officers of Vanguard.
C. Distributions are determined on a tax basis and may differ from net investment income and realized capital gains for financial reporting purposes. Differences may be permanent or temporary. Permanent differences are reclassified among capital accounts in the financial statements to reflect their tax character. Temporary differences arise when certain items of income, expense, gain, or loss are recognized in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes; these differences will reverse at some time in the future. Differences in classification may also result from the treatment of short-term gains as ordinary income for tax purposes. The fund’s tax-basis capital gains and losses are determined only at the end of each fiscal year.
At March 31, 2008, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $286,769,000. Net unrealized depreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $14,110,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $15,677,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $29,787,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.
At March 31, 2008, the aggregate settlement value of open futures contracts expiring in June 2008 and the related unrealized appreciation (depreciation) were:
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Futures Contracts | Long Contracts | Value | (Depreciation) |
S&P 500 Index | 2 | 662 | 1 |
E-mini S&P 500 Index | 9 | 596 | 12 |
Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on open futures contracts is required to be treated as realized gain (loss) for tax purposes.
D. During the six months ended March 31, 2008, the fund purchased $115,340,000 of investment securities and sold $98,443,000 of investment securities, other than temporary cash investments.
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E. The market value of securities on loan to broker-dealers at March 31, 2008, was $126,000, for which the fund received cash collateral of $142,000.
F. Capital share transactions for each class of shares were:
| Six Months Ended | October 3, 20061 to | ||
| March 31, 2008 | September 30, 2007 | ||
| Amount | Shares | Amount | Shares |
| ($000) | (000) | ($000) | (000) |
Institutional Shares |
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Issued | — | — | 12,985 | 488 |
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions | 346 | 12 | 40 | 1 |
Redeemed | — | — | — | — |
Net Increase (Decrease)—Institutional Shares | 346 | 12 | 13,025 | 489 |
Institutional Plus Shares |
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Issued | 18,985 | 353 | 278,615 | 5,086 |
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions | 3,142 | 58 | 809 | 15 |
Redeemed | — | — | (8,000) | (139) |
Net Increase (Decrease)—Institutional Plus Shares | 22,127 | 411 | 271,424 | 4,962 |
1 Commencement of operations as a registered investment company.
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About Your Fund’s Expenses
As a shareholder of the fund, you incur ongoing costs, which include costs for portfolio management, administrative services, and shareholder reports (like this one), among others. Operating expenses, which are deducted from a fund’s gross income, directly reduce the investment return of the fund.
A fund’s expenses are expressed as a percentage of its average net assets. This figure is known as the expense ratio. The following examples are intended to help you understand the ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in your fund and to compare these costs with those of other mutual funds. The examples are based on an investment of $1,000 made at the beginning of the period shown and held for the entire period.
The table on page 62 illustrates your fund’s costs in two ways:
• Based on actual fund return. This section helps you to estimate the actual expenses that you paid over the period. The “Ending Account Value” shown is derived from the fund’s actual return, and the third column shows the dollar amount that would have been paid by an investor who started with $1,000 in the fund. You may use the information here, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period.
To do so, simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number given for your fund under the heading “Expenses Paid During Period.”
• Based on hypothetical 5% yearly return. This section is intended to help you compare your fund’s costs with those of other mutual funds. It assumes that the fund had a yearly return of 5% before expenses, but that the expense ratio is unchanged. In this case—because the return used is not the fund’s actual return—the results do not apply to your investment. The example is useful in making comparisons because the Securities and Exchange Commission requires all mutual funds to calculate expenses based on a 5% return. You can assess your fund’s costs by comparing this hypothetical example with the hypothetical examples that appear in shareholder reports of other funds.
Note that the expenses shown in the table on page 62 are meant to highlight and help you compare ongoing costs only and do not reflect transaction costs incurred by the fund for buying and selling securities. Your fund does not charge transaction fees, such as purchase or redemption fees, nor does it carry a “sales load.”
The calculations assume no shares were bought or sold during the period. Your actual costs may have been higher or lower, depending on the amount of your investment and the timing of any purchases or redemptions.
You can find more information about the fund’s expenses, including annual expense ratios, in the Financial Statements section of this report. For additional information on operating expenses and other shareholder costs, please refer to your fund’s current prospectus.
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Six Months Ended March 31, 2008 |
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| Account Value | Account Value | Paid During |
| 9/30/2007 | 3/31/2008 | Period1 |
Based on Actual Fund Return |
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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund |
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Institutional Shares | $1,000.00 | $877.16 | $1.03 |
Institutional Plus Shares | 1,000.00 | 877.55 | 0.61 |
Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund |
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Institutional Shares | $1,000.00 | $881.46 | $1.03 |
Institutional Plus Shares | 1,000.00 | 881.72 | 0.71 |
Structured Large-Cap Value Fund |
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Institutional Plus Shares | $1,000.00 | $858.67 | $0.60 |
Structured Broad Market Fund |
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Institutional Shares | $1,000.00 | $867.88 | $1.03 |
Institutional Plus Shares | 1,000.00 | 868.07 | 0.65 |
Based on Hypothetical 5% Yearly Return |
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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund |
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Institutional Shares | $1,000.00 | $1,023.90 | $1.11 |
Institutional Plus Shares | 1,000.00 | 1,024.35 | 0.66 |
Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund |
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Institutional Shares | $1,000.00 | $1,023.90 | $1.11 |
Institutional Plus Shares | 1,000.00 | 1,024.25 | 0.76 |
Structured Large-Cap Value Fund |
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Institutional Plus Shares | $1,000.00 | $1,024.35 | $0.66 |
Structured Broad Market Fund |
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Institutional Shares | $1,000.00 | $1,023.90 | $1.11 |
Institutional Plus Shares | 1,000.00 | 1,024.30 | 0.71 |
1 The calculations are based on expenses incurred in the most recent six-month period. The fund’s annualized six-month expense ratios for that period are 0.22% for the Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund Institutional Shares, 0.13% for the Institutional Plus Shares; 0.22% for the Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund Institutional Shares, 0.15% for the Institutional Plus Shares; 0.13% for the Structured Large-Cap Value Fund Institutional Plus Shares; 0.22% for the Structured Broad Market Fund Institutional Shares, 0.14% for the Institutional Plus Shares. The dollar amounts shown as “Expenses Paid” are equal to the annualized expense ratio multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by the number of days in the most recent six-month period, then divided by the number of days in the most recent 12-month period.
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Trustees Approve Advisory Arrangement
The board of trustees of Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund, Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund, Structured Large-Cap Value Fund, and Structured Broad Market Fund has renewed the funds’ investment advisory arrangement with The Vanguard Group, Inc. Vanguard—through its Quantitative Equity Group—serves as the investment advisor for the funds. The board determined that continuing the funds’ internalized management structure was in the best interests of the funds and their shareholders.
The board based its decision upon an evaluation of the advisor’s investment staff, portfolio management process, and performance. The trustees considered the factors discussed below, among others. However, no single factor determined whether or not the board approved the arrangement. Rather, it was the totality of the circumstances that drove the board’s decision.
Nature, extent, and quality of services
The board considered the quality of each fund’s investment management since its inception, and took into account the organizational depth and stability of the advisor. Vanguard has been managing investments for more than two decades. George U. Sauter, Vanguard managing director and chief investment officer, has been in the investment management business since 1985 and has led the Quantitative Equity Group since 1987. James D. Troyer and James P. Stetler, the managers primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the funds, have worked in investment management since 1979 and 1996, respectively. The Quantitative Equity Group adheres to a sound, disciplined investment management process; the team has considerable experience, stability, and depth.
The board concluded that Vanguard’s experience, stability, depth, and performance, among other factors, warranted continuation of each fund’s advisory arrangement.
Investment performance
The board considered the performance of each fund since its inception, including any periods of outperformance or underperformance of the relevant benchmark and peer group. The board concluded that the advisor has carried out each fund’s investment strategy in disciplined fashion, and that the performance results have been within competitive norms. Information about the funds’ most recent performance can be found on the Performance Summary pages of this report.
Cost
The board concluded that each fund’s expense ratio was significantly below the average expense ratio charged by each fund’s respective peer group. The board noted that each fund’s advisory expenses were also well below the respective peer-group average. Information about the funds’ expenses appears in the About Your Fund’s Expenses section of this report as well as in the Financial Statements sections.
The board does not conduct a profitability analysis of Vanguard, because of Vanguard’s unique “at-cost” structure. Unlike most other mutual fund management companies, Vanguard is owned by the funds it oversees, and produces “profits” only in the form of reduced expenses for fund shareholders.
The benefit of economies of scale
The board concluded that each fund’s low-cost arrangement with Vanguard ensures that the fund will realize economies of scale as it grows, with the cost to shareholders declining as fund assets increase.
The board will consider whether to renew each advisory arrangement again after a one-year period.
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Glossary
Earnings Growth Rate. The average annual rate of growth in earnings over the past five years for the stocks now in a fund.
Equity Exposure. A measure that reflects a fund’s investments in stocks and stock futures. Any holdings in short-term reserves are excluded.
Expense Ratio. The percentage of a fund’s average net assets used to pay its annual administrative and advisory expenses. These expenses directly reduce returns to investors.
Foreign Holdings. The percentage of a fund represented by stocks or depositary receipts of companies based outside the United States.
Inception Date. The date on which the assets of a fund (or one of its share classes) are first invested in accordance with the fund’s investment objective. For funds with a subscription period, the inception date is the day after that period ends. Investment performance is measured from the inception date.
Median Market Cap. An indicator of the size of companies in which a fund invests; the midpoint of market capitalization (market price x shares outstanding) of a fund’s stocks, weighted by the proportion of the fund’s assets invested in each stock. Stocks representing half of the fund’s assets have market capitalizations above the median, and the rest are below it.
Price/Book Ratio. The share price of a stock divided by its net worth, or book value, per share. For a fund, the weighted average price/book ratio of the stocks it holds.
Price/Earnings Ratio. The ratio of a stock’s current price to its per-share earnings over the past year. For a fund, the weighted average P/E of the stocks it holds. P/E is an indicator of market expectations about corporate prospects; the higher the P/E, the greater the expectations for a company’s future growth.
Return on Equity. The annual average rate of return generated by a company during the past five years for each dollar of shareholder’s equity (net income divided by shareholder’s equity). For a fund, the weighted average return on equity for the companies whose stocks it holds.
Short-Term Reserves. The percentage of a fund invested in highly liquid, short-term securities that can be readily converted to cash.
Turnover Rate. An indication of the fund’s trading activity. Funds with high turnover rates incur higher transaction costs and may be more likely to distribute capital gains (which may be taxable to investors). The turnover rate excludes in-kind transactions, which have minimal impact on costs.
Yield. A fund’s 30-day SEC yield is derived using a formula specified by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Under the formula, data related to the fund’s security holdings in the previous 30 days are used to calculate the fund’s hypothetical net income for that period, which is then annualized and divided by the fund’s estimated average net assets over the calculation period. For the purposes of this calculation, a security’s income is based on its current market yield to maturity (in the case of bonds) or its projected dividend yield (for stocks). Because the SEC yield represents hypothetical annualized income, it will differ—at times significantly—from the fund’s actual experience. As a result, the fund’s income distributions may be higher or lower than implied by the SEC yield.
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The People Who Govern Your Fund
The trustees of your mutual fund are there to see that the fund is operated and managed in your best interests since, as a shareholder, you are a part owner of the fund. Your fund’s trustees also serve on the board of directors of The Vanguard Group, Inc., which is owned by the Vanguard funds and provides services to them on an at-cost basis.
A majority of Vanguard’s board members are independent, meaning that they have no affiliation with Vanguard or the funds they oversee, apart from the sizable personal investments they have made as private individuals.
Our independent board members bring distinguished backgrounds in business, academia, and public service to their task of working with Vanguard officers to establish the policies and oversee the activities of the funds. Among board members’ responsibilities are selecting investment advisors for the funds; monitoring fund operations, performance, and costs; reviewing contracts; nominating and selecting new trustees/directors; and electing Vanguard officers.
Each trustee serves a fund until its termination; or until the trustee’s retirement, resignation, or death; or otherwise as specified in the fund’s organizational documents. Any trustee may be removed at a shareholders’ meeting by a vote representing two-thirds of the net asset value of all shares of the fund together with shares of other Vanguard funds organized within the same trust. The table on these two pages shows information for each trustee and executive officer of the fund. The mailing address of the trustees and officers is P.O. Box 876, Valley Forge, PA 19482.
Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and Trustee | |
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John J. Brennan1 |
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Born 1954 | Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive |
Trustee since May 1987; | Officer, and Director/Trustee of The Vanguard Group, Inc., and of each of the investment |
Chairman of the Board and | companies served by The Vanguard Group; Director of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. |
Chief Executive Officer |
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155 Vanguard Funds Overseen |
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Independent Trustees |
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Charles D. Ellis |
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Born 1937 | Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Applecore Partners (pro bono ventures |
Trustee since January 2001 | in education); Senior Advisor to Greenwich Associates (international business strategy |
155 Vanguard Funds Overseen | consulting); Successor Trustee of Yale University; Overseer of the Stern School of Business |
| at New York University; Trustee of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. |
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Emerson U. Fullwood |
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Born 1948 | Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Executive Chief Staff and Marketing |
Trustee since January 2008 | Officer for North America since 2004 and Corporate Vice President of Xerox Corporation |
155 Vanguard Funds Overseen | (photocopiers and printers); Director of SPX Corporation (multi-industry manufacturing), |
| of the United Way of Rochester, and of the Boy Scouts of America. |
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Rajiv L. Gupta |
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Born 1945 | Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Chairman, President, and |
Trustee since December 20012 | Chief Executive Officer of Rohm and Haas Co. (chemicals); Board Member of |
155 Vanguard Funds Overseen | the American Chemistry Council; Director of Tyco International, Ltd. (diversified |
| manufacturing and services) since 2005. |
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Amy Gutmann |
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Born 1949 | Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: President of the University of |
Trustee since June 2006 | Pennsylvania since 2004; Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences, Annenberg School |
155 Vanguard Funds Overseen | for Communication, and Graduate School of Education of the University of Pennsylvania |
| since 2004; Provost (2001–2004) and Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and |
| the University Center for Human Values (1990–2004), Princeton University; Director of |
| Carnegie Corporation of New York since 2005 and of Schuylkill River Development |
| Corporation and Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce since 2004; Trustee of |
| the National Constitution Center since 2007. |
JoAnn Heffernan Heisen |
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Born 1950 | Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Corporate Vice President and |
Trustee since July 1998 | Chief Global Diversity Officer since 2006, Vice President and Chief Information |
155 Vanguard Funds Overseen | Officer (1997–2005), and Member of the Executive Committee of Johnson & |
| Johnson (pharmaceuticals/consumer products); Director of the University Medical |
| Center at Princeton and Women’s Research and Education Institute. |
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André F. Perold |
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Born 1952 | Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: George Gund Professor of Finance |
Trustee since December 2004 | and Banking, Harvard Business School; Senior Associate Dean and Director of Faculty |
155 Vanguard Funds Overseen | Recruiting, Harvard Business School; Director and Chairman of UNX, Inc. (equities |
| trading firm); Chair of the Investment Committee of HighVista Strategies LLC (private |
| investment firm) since 2005. |
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Alfred M. Rankin, Jr. |
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Born 1941 | Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Chairman, President, Chief Executive |
Trustee since January 1993 | Officer, and Director of NACCO Industries, Inc. (forklift trucks/housewares/lignite); Director |
155 Vanguard Funds Overseen | of Goodrich Corporation (industrial products/aircraft systems and services). |
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J. Lawrence Wilson |
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Born 1936 | Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Retired Chairman and Chief Executive |
Trustee since April 1985 | Officer of Rohm and Haas Co. (chemicals); Director of Cummins Inc. (diesel engines) and |
155 Vanguard Funds Overseen | AmerisourceBergen Corp. (pharmaceutical distribution); Trustee of Vanderbilt University |
| and of Culver Educational Foundation. |
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Executive Officers1 |
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Thomas J. Higgins |
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Born 1957 | Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Principal of The Vanguard Group, Inc.; |
Treasurer since July 1998 | Treasurer of each of the investment companies served by The Vanguard Group. |
155 Vanguard Funds Overseen |
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F. William McNabb III |
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Born 1957 | Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: President of The Vanguard Group, Inc., |
President since March 2008 | and of each of the investment companies served by The Vanguard Group since 2008; |
155 Vanguard Funds Overseen | Director of Vanguard Marketing Corporation; Managing Director of The Vanguard Group |
| (1995–2008). |
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Heidi Stam |
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Born 1956 | Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Managing Director of The Vanguard |
Secretary since July 2005 | Group, Inc., since 2006; General Counsel of The Vanguard Group since 2005; Secretary of |
155 Vanguard Funds Overseen | The Vanguard Group, and of each of the investment companies served by The Vanguard |
| Group, since 2005; Director and Senior Vice President of Vanguard Marketing Corporation |
| since 2005; Principal of The Vanguard Group (1997–2006). |
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R. Gregory Barton | Kathleen C. Gubanich | Michael S. Miller | George U. Sauter |
Mortimer J. Buckley | Paul A. Heller | Ralph K. Packard |
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John C. Bogle |
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, 1974–1996 |
1 Officers of the funds are “interested persons” as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940.
2 December 2002 for Vanguard Equity Income Fund, Vanguard Growth Equity Fund, the Vanguard Municipal Bond Funds, and the Vanguard State Tax-Exempt Funds.
More information about the trustees is in the Statement of Additional Information, available from The Vanguard Group.
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This material may be used in conjunction | guidelines by visiting our website, www.vanguard.com, |
with the offering of shares of any Vanguard | and searching for “proxy voting guidelines,” or by |
fund only if preceded or accompanied by | calling Vanguard at 800-662-2739. The guidelines are |
the fund’s current prospectus. | also available from the SEC’s website, www.sec.gov. |
| In addition, you may obtain a free report on how your |
| fund voted the proxies for securities it owned during |
| the 12 months ended June 30. To get the report, visit |
| either www.vanguard.com or www.sec.gov. |
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Item 11: Controls and Procedures.
(a) Disclosure Controls and Procedures. The Principal Executive and Financial Officers concluded that the Registrant's Disclosure Controls and Procedures are effective based on their evaluation of the Disclosure Controls and Procedures as of a date within 90 days of the filing date of this report.
(b) Internal Control Over Financial Reporting. There were no significant changes in Registrant’s Internal Control Over Financial Reporting or in other factors that could significantly affect this control subsequent to the date of the evaluation, including any corrective actions with regard to significant deficiencies and material weaknesses.
Item 12: Exhibits.
| (a) | Certifications. |
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
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By: | (signature) |
| (HEIDI STAM) |
| JOHN J. BRENNAN* |
| CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER |
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Date: May 13, 2008 |
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
| VANGUARD QUANTITATIVE FUNDS |
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By: | (signature) |
| (HEIDI STAM) |
| JOHN J. BRENNAN* |
| CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER |
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Date: May 13, 2008 |
| VANGUARD QUANTITATIVE FUNDS |
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By: | (signature) |
| (HEIDI STAM) |
| THOMAS J. HIGGINS* |
| TREASURER |
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Date: May 13, 2008 |
*By Power of Attorney. Filed on January 18, 2008, see File Number 2-29601. Incorporated by Reference.