Vanguard Mutual Fund Evaluation
FIN/420
1/26/2014
The Vanguard Group The Vanguard Group offers an array of mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, brokerage, and asset management. When choosing and comparing mutual funds, there are characteristics that you need to first evaluate. This paper will review five different categories of mutual funds that Vanguard Group offers its investors.
Actively Managed Common Stock Fund The Selected Value (ticker VASVX) is an actively managed common stock fund with a 4 star Morningstar rating with a minimum investment of $3,000. This fund does not have a front or rear load fee. The total annual fund operating expenses are 0.41% which means that for every $100 you invest, $.41 goes to paying the
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The funds asset allocation will become more conservative over time, meaning that the percentage of assets allocated to stocks will decrease while the percentage of assets allocated to bonds and other fixed income investments will increase. This investment is superb for long-term investors like myself.
The fund inception occurred on October 27, 2003, and has been managed by Michael Buek since 2014. The fund inception date tells us that the mutual fund has been around for 23 years and the fund manager for one year. This fund has been up for ten years and down for one year which tells us that the new manager may have not been the correct choice.
International Fund Developed Markets Index Admiral Share (ticker VTMGX) is a Vanguard International Fund with a 3 star Morningstar rating and a $3,000 minimum balance. This fund does not have a front or rear load fee. The total annual fund operating expenses are 0.06% which means that for every dollar that you invest, $.06 goes to paying the person who sold you the fund. The expense ratio is also low at 0.09%. According to “Best Vanguard Index Funds 2014 (2009-2015), “the index fund provides investors low-cost diversified exposure to developed foreign markets. The fund invests in companies located in Europe, Asia, and Australia, which make up 75% of the non-U.S. equity market” (para. 2). There are five primary industries that this fund encompasses.
The Vanguard Group was founded by John C. Bogle in 1975 with one mission in mind—to build wealth for its clients and only for its clients [1]. It pioneered the industry first index fund and operated in a business model which was unheard of at the time.. low-cost investing for all investors. Its corporate structure is still unique among mutual fund providers. Since Vanguard is not publicly traded or privately owned, all profits are returned back to investors in the form of lowering investing costs. Every decision has the client’s best interest in mind. While Vanguard has $4.3 trillion in investment assets and cash flows continue to pour in year after year, it has historically invested very little in business intelligence and data analytics.
Since its inception, Vanguard has offered multi-channel services to all investors. This includes deferred compensation/benefit plans (401K, 403B, 457, pension), plans for children (529, UGMA/UTMA, ESA), and individual savings accounts (retail, IRA). Strategically, it does not offer high cost products like annuities and transactional funds. This is because these investments tend to be expensive for the client recurring commissions are paid to the broker who sold the products. In addition, they are difficult for the client to understand the fees and payout. As part of its commitment to all investors, which includes low income and finance illiterate individuals, Vanguard only offer products that it feels adds value to all types of portfolios.
Mid-Cap Equity Index Fund of State Street Global Advisors, with the same market index as that of the Amoco pre-merger plan.
The fund is managed by two different investment advisors, which are Wellington Management Company and Vanguard’s Quantitative Equity Group. So investment strategies are summarized on its 2016 annual report as follows
Vanguard is especially well known in the finance world because it created the first index fund in history. An index fund is basically a basket of a stock market, industry or sector. With the Vanguard 500 fund, you are basically buying a share in a basket of stocks from the S&P 500. This allows you to diversify your exposure in the United States stock market.
EISMX main objective is to seek long-term capital growth, it invests mostly in companies with small market capitalization. EISMX also strives to mirror the Russell 2000 stock index, in other words this is a passively managed fund.
investors. The primary strategy of this fund is to purchase stakes in public companies with the intention
This is an executive summary of Vanguard’s Group, Inc. which will provide a detailed analysis of its current financial condition and performance. It includes various calculated financial ratios and its comparison with previous years as well as with the industry average of the current year. The financial ratios have been divided into following subcategories: Liquidity Ratios, Activity Ratios, Debt ratios, Profitability ratios.
Many people don’t understand the process of investing; some people think you would have to work on Wall Street in order to understand the investing process. Even though the investing world has become more confusing than ever, Joe Mansueto saw an easier way of investing. Mr. Mansueto created an organization called Morning Inc. that would demonstrate an easier way of investing. Mansueto created a format that would cut around all unessassary information and aim directly for the relevant information. The company that Joe Mansueto established main focus is to research independent information for investments, financial advisor, and intuitional advisor (Ferrell, 2009). Morningstar’s mutual fund rating service is probably the most influential fund
FMIHX has none of deferred load. The ratio expense of FMIHX is of 0.93%. The expense ratio represent the percentage of assets deducted each fiscal year for fund expenses. The Morning Star rating for FMIHX is of 4 stars. The risk of FMIHX is low. The sectors that dominate FIMHX are financial services, industrials. Consumer defensive, technology and consumer cyclical. Financial services has a 20.59%, industrials has 17.70%, consumer defensive 14.66%, technology 13.06% and consumer cyclical has 11.95%. The top 5 holding
This fund consists of securities from mainly Canadian issuers. This aspect is a benefit on its own as there is no currency exchange risk and there will be more favourable tax treatment than interest income and
The Vanguard group offers some investment options that one can consider investing in. These investment options include; retirement planning services, brokerage services and educational information for individuals. The retirement planning services are more of the services that have grabbed a wide range of the company’s customer base. There are some costs associated to the long run investment which cannot be avoided by all mean.
As this mutual fund is ideal for long-term investing and invests in mid-cap companies, greater long-term growth with high risk-return is addressed by this mutual fund.
The mean of Vanguard is 0.57433 as compared to RJR and Hasbro whose means are significantly high at 1.87483333 and 1.18383. However, the standard deviations of the three variables indicate that Vanguard has the lowest standard deviation at 3.60171 as compared to 9.36645828 and 8.11583 for RJR and Hasbro respectively. The lowest standard deviation as in the case of Vanguard indicates that the data is more reliable and provides a more realistic data set than the other data sets. Thus, Vanguard provides the best investment opportunity. The median of the data may not provide a very accurate description of the variables although Vanguard’s
1. The fund deals with technology driven companies due to the expertise of its fund manager in that area; comfortable in prediction of individual stock