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48.62 -1.83 -3.63%

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Total Assets: 47.65B

Type: Fund

Market: United States

Issuer: Vanguard

Underlying: CRSP US Total Market TR

Asset Class: Equity

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VBIAX Overview

On this page you'll find an in-depth profile of Vanguard Balanced Index Fund Admiral Shares. Learn about the key management, total assets, investment strategy and contact information of VBIAX among other information.

Investment Strategy

The investment seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of the overall U.S. stock market with 60% of its assets; the fund seeks to track the performance of a broad, market-weighted bond index with 40% of its assets. The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of two benchmark indexes. With approximately 60% of its assets, the fund seeks to track the investment performance of the CRSP US Total Market Index. With approximately 40% of its assets, the fund seeks to track the investment performance of the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Float Adjusted Index.

Contact Information

Address 100 Vanguard Boulevard
Malvern,PA 19355
United States

Phone +1 8776627447

Web www.vanguard.com

Top Executives

Name	Title	Since	Until
Michael R. Roach	Portfolio Manager	2023	Now
Biography	Michael R. Roach, CFA, Portfolio Manager. He has been with the Vanguard Group, Inc. since 1998; has worked in investment management since 2001. Education: B.S., Bloomsburg University; M.S., Drexel University.
Aurélie Denis	Portfolio Manager	2023	Now
Biography	Aurélie Denis, CFA, Portfolio Manager at Vanguard. She has been with Vanguard since 2016, has worked in investment management since 2017, has managed investment portfolios since 2023, and has co-managed the Fund since February 2023. Education: B.S., Pennsylvania State University.
Tara Talone	-	2022	Now
Biography	Tara Talone, CFA, Portfolio Manager at Vanguard. She has been with Vanguard since 2006, has managed investment portfolios since 2018, and has co-managed the Fund since September 2022. Education: B.S., Saint Josephs University; M.B.A., The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Gerard C. O’Reilly	Portfolio Manager	2016	Now
Biography	Gerard C. O’Reilly, Principal of Vanguard Group, Inc. Gerard has been with Vanguard since 1992, has managed investment portfolios since 1994, O'Reilly has managed stock index portfolios since 1994. Education: B.S., Villanova University.
Joshua C. Barrickman	Principal	2013	Now
Biography	Joshua C. Barrickman, CFA, Principal of Vanguard and head of Vanguard’s Fixed Income Indexing Americas. He has been with Vanguard since 1998, has worked in investment management since 1999, has managed investment portfolios since 2005, and has co-managed the Fund since 2013. He has managed the Vanguard Variable Insurance Funds Global Bond Index Portfolio since its inception in 2017. Education: B.S., Ohio Northern University; M.B.A., Lehigh University.
William A. Coleman	Portfolio Manager	2016	2023
Biography	William A. Coleman, CFA, Portfolio Manager at Vanguard. He has worked in investment management since joining Vanguard in 2006 and has co-managed the Conservative Allocation and Moderate Allocation Portfolios since 2013. Education: B.S., King’s College; M.S., Saint Joseph’s University.
Christopher E. Wrazen	Portfolio Manager	2015	2018
Biography	Christopher E. Wrazen, CFP, Portfolio Manager at Vanguard. He has been with Vanguard since 2004, has worked in investment management since 2008, has managed investment portfolios since 2015. Education: B.S., West Chester University; M.B.A., Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business.
Christine D. Franquin	Portfolio Manager	2013	2016
Biography	Christine has been with Vanguard since 2000. She received her B.A. from Universitaire Faculteiten Sint Ignatius Antwerpen Belgium and also her Master Degree in Finance from Clark University in Massachusetts. She currently manages Vanguard European Stock Index and Switzerland Stock Index. Education: B.A., Universitaire Faculteiten Sint-Ignatius Antwerpen, Belgium; J.D., University of Liege, Belgium; M.S., Clark University.
Paul M. Malloy	Portfolio Manager	2013	2015
Biography	Paul M. Malloy, CFA, Portfolio Manager at Vanguard. He has worked in investment management since joining Vanguard in 2005 and has co-managed the Short-Term Corporate, Intermediate-Term Corporate, and Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Funds since 2013. Education: B.S., Saint Francis University.
Gregory Davis	-	2005	2013
Biography	Gregory Davis is Vanguard's chief investment officer, overseeing approximately $5 trillion managed by Vanguard Fixed Income, Equity Index, and Quantitative Equity Groups. Previously, Mr. Davis was principal and global head of Vanguard Fixed Income Group, responsible for its portfolio management, strategy, credit research, trading, and planning functions. He also served as the company's Asia-Pacific chief investment officer and a director of Vanguard Investments Australia. Mr. Davis is a member of the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He earned a B.S. in insurance from Pennsylvania State University and an M.B.A. in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a CFA® charterholder and a member of the CFA Society of Philadelphia.

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