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Freddy Martino says Vanguard axing of crypto fund access relates to 'honing core priorities.'
April 23, 2022 at 1:44 AM

Tim Buckley: As Vanguard seeks to make our advice more accessible, we are excited to team up with the distinguished brand of American Express.
April 13, 2022 at 1:50 AM

Alec Lucas: Vanguard has an 'at cost' philosophy but that doesn’t mean every product is priced such that its revenues exactly match its costs.

Chronic fee chopper Vanguard Group raises prices on nine funds, showing 'ownership' cuts both ways, cutting fat is getting harder and Vanguard pricing is both art and algorithm

The $8.1 trillion in managed assets giant also cut fees on 32 funds, and kept fees at 109 funds unchanged, according to fiscal end-of-year reports, Sept. through Dec. 2021.

March 5, 2022 at 1:19 AM

Vanguard is working to modernize without taking its eyes off old-fashioned values

Vanguard Group restores check writing and printable PDFs, gets Tim Buckley off voicemail and preserves its funds' pristine reputation, yet also reignited investors predisposed to label it a digital bumbler

The Malvern, Pa.-based manager's glitches will mostly go down as no-harm, no-foul, yet fuels Vanguard's critics who find its high fiduciary standards for investing don't extend to service and software

January 6, 2022 at 2:34 AM

Tim Buckley: Your call is very important to us.

Vanguard's website snafu -- perhaps an unforced error, a CTO says -- has no ETA for a fix but it led to CEO Tim Buckley to read the automated message script to desperate callers

The Malvern, Pa., giant's mistake may have been chancing a code change in notoriously hazardous December, an IT expert says, though Vanguard points to a third party

December 30, 2021 at 1:52 AM

Vanguard is likely hoping that the millennial friendly software design know how that Tara Bunch (pictured) picked up over her 30 year career will rub off on the firm.

Vanguard makes mockery of 'digital' myth by reporting $1.3 trillion after its new mobile app's panned debut -- then makes Tara Bunch a director

The talent who made AppleCare work before Airbnb joins the $8.4 trillion AUM giant hot on the heels of two fresh software glitches that sparked industry debate over Vanguard's technology.

December 9, 2021 at 3:19 AM

Kaitlyn Caughlin: There is an opportunity for talented active managers to generate alpha in China’s large, but inefficient, equity market.

Vanguard Group reaches for more alpha and higher fees by filing to sell single-country 'China' fund and it likely ups its VPAS-related revenues in the bargain

After ending its physical presence in China, the Malvern, Pa. manager of $8.4-trillion is going headlong into the market with a new, 73-basis-point China fund that will be integrated into $260-billion AUM Vanguard Personal Advisor Services

November 30, 2021 at 11:35 PM

Mark McCombe: [We're] using our aggregation power to face off against the insurance company.

BlackRock's no longer secretive strategy to gain ground on Vanguard and Fidelity in $10.3 trillion DC market will now be tested on 120,000 employees at five US companies where it might work -- or not

BlackRock has about $1 trillion of defined contribution assets while Fidelity and Vanguard both administer multiple trillions, so the New York giant is dangling defined benefits as a way to win the defined contributions game.

October 29, 2021 at 11:54 PM

Tim Buckley: Vanguard will continue to innovate for clients.

After Fidelity and BlackRock target date funds attract bigger inflows, Vanguard promises to move a minor mountain next February to make its TDF prices more competitive

The Malvern, Pa., giant maintains a towering lead in managing 401(k) assets in TDFs, but it'll take a merger and not a flick of the pen to post prices that could keep it near 37% market share.

October 12, 2021 at 2:01 AM

Tom Rampulla: We are excited to integrate Just Invest’s personalized indexing offering into our intermediary business.

Ink dry on check, Vanguard Group is set to disrupt ETFs and other index funds-- using (mostly) RIAs that manage $3 trillion--to unleash its direct-indexing SMA subsidiary

Just a day after Franklin Templeton bought RIA DI software provider, Canvas, the $8.3-trillion Malvern, Pa., giant announced it closed on its purchase of Just Invest today.

October 2, 2021 at 8:51 PM

Robert Johnson: “Our industry must safeguard against retirement plan leakage, which particularly affects black and brown workers.

Vanguard Group becomes second domino to fall in 401(k) recordkeeper detente on plan portability, and the push is on to cajole Fidelity, the DC king, to follow suit

The $8 trillion Malvern, Pa., asset manager signed a deal with Retirement Clearinghouse to address its $1.8 billion of record-kept plan assets, which suffer universally despised pension 'leakage' that drains minority-held accounts.

September 24, 2021 at 1:21 AM

Since Tim Buckley took over as CEO in 2018, he has stretched Vanguard's business model to drive growth and slow profit-margin compression.

After freemium-like beginnings, Vanguard Group is priming its $243-billion RIA as a profit engine with high-octane, higher risk, higher-margin proprietary funds, tempered by an 'opt-in' for investors

The wealth management unit of the $8-trillion, Malvern, Pa., manager will exclusively distribute three active, high-conviction mutual funds with fees starting at 40 basis points

September 7, 2021 at 7:35 PM

Walt Bettinger is making sure the commissions and fees under the TD Ameritrade and Schwab brands harmonize -- and sends a signal to rivals that free recordkeeping has its price.

Charles Schwab & Co. jacks up mutual fund commissions 50% to $74.95 on retail investors to counter freeloading by Vanguard, Fidelity and Dodge & Cox funds -- but RIAs dodge the crossfire

The $7.6-trillion, Westlake, Texas, firm is also taking TD Ameritrade sell commissions to zero on mutual funds to harmonize with its own price schedule.

August 31, 2021 at 10:30 PM

Sara Devereux: When yields are low and you’re looking to enhance returns, it’s a good time to consider active management.

Vanguard Group shows up as 'alpha' disciple with two new fixed-income fund launches as it surpasses PIMCO's $2 trillion with ex-Goldman Sachs partner now calling the shots

The $8 trillion Malvern, Pa. manager owns beta investing, but RIAs are demanding higher income -- hence market timing and cherry picking -- from their fixed-income allocation.

August 10, 2021 at 11:46 PM

John Rekenthaler: I am concerned about the amount of power the [biggest fund managers] wield, even if they wield that power well.

Suddenly Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street not only have the assets but the power of ESG mandates, which make them a growing threat to shareholder democracy, critics say

A handful of super-charged fund managers control $34 trillion of assets and most of the ESG inflows, giving them 'carte blanche' to shape corporate policies.

July 28, 2021 at 10:35 PM

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