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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: 811-00834

Name of Registrant: Vanguard Windsor Funds
Address of Registrant:
P.O. Box 2600
Valley Forge, PA 19482

Name and address of agent for service:
Heidi Stam, Esquire
P.O. Box 876
Valley Forge, PA 19482

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (610) 669-1000

Date of fiscal year end: October 31

Date of reporting period: November 1, 2012 – April 30, 2013

Item 1: Reports to Shareholders


 

Semiannual Report | April 30, 2013

Vanguard WindsorTM Fund



 

> Vanguard Windsor Fund returned almost 18% for the six months ended April 30, 2013, ahead of its benchmark and the average return of peer funds.

> The broad U.S. stock market climbed about 15% as the economy slowly expanded and corporate profits remained solid.

> Financial stocks provided the largest portion of the fund’s return.

Contents  
Your Fund’s Total Returns. 1
Chairman’s Letter. 2
Advisors’ Report. 7
Fund Profile. 11
Performance Summary. 12
Financial Statements. 13
About Your Fund’s Expenses. 25
Trustees Approve Advisory Agreements. 27
Glossary. 29

 

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 front of this report. Of course, the risks of investing in your fund are spelled out in the prospectus.
See the Glossary for definitions of investment terms used in this report.
About the cover: Our cover photograph shows rigging on the HMSSurprise, a replica of an 18th-century Royal Navy frigate. It was featured in the 2003 movie Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, which was based on Patrick O’Brian’s sea novels, set amid the Napoleonic Wars. Vanguard was named for another ship of that era, the HMSVanguard, which was the flagship of British Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of the Nile.


 

Your Fund’s Total Returns

Six Months Ended April 30, 2013  
  Total
  Returns
Vanguard Windsor Fund  
Investor Shares 17.90%
Admiral™ Shares 17.96
Russell 1000 Value Index 16.31
Multi-Cap Value Funds Average 16.12
Multi-Cap Value Funds Average: Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.  
Admiral Shares carry lower expenses and are available to investors who meet certain account-balance requirements.

 

Your Fund’s Performance at a Glance
October 31, 2012, Through April 30, 2013

      Distributions Per Share
  Starting Ending Income Capital
  Share Price Share Price Dividends Gains
Vanguard Windsor Fund        
Investor Shares $14.66 $17.08 $0.179 $0.000
Admiral Shares 49.47 57.64 0.629 0.000

 

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Chairman’s Letter

Dear Shareholder,

Stocks of just about every type thrived in a favorable investment climate over the six months ended April 30, 2013, but value stocks fared better than their growth counterparts by several percentage points. And among value stocks, Vanguard Windsor Fund’s holdings performed better than those of many peers.

The fund returned nearly 18% for the period, eclipsing the return of its benchmark, the Russell 1000 Value Index, and the average return of multi-capitalization value funds.

The financial sector, by far the funds largest at roughly a quarter of assets during the period, drove Windsors performance. In fact, thanks to particularly astute stock-picking by the advisors, financial holdings were responsible for more than one-third of the overall return. The nine industry sectors held by the fund finished with gains; only energy, with a return of 9%, failed to reach double digits.

The stock rally persisted, but not without challenges
Global stocks delivered a vigorous performance, recording gains in five of the six months ended April 30. U.S. equities finished with a strong return of about 15%.

The Standard & Poors 500 Index closed April the same way it had March: at a record high amid solid corporate earnings and encouraging economic data. Also following a productive path were

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international equities, which returned almost 13% for the six months, helped by strength in Japan.

Despite the impressive results and relatively low volatility, the period had its share of potential pitfalls. Investors continued to worry about the pace of growth in China and the United States. And the deadly Boston Marathon bombing on April 15 triggered market anxiety.

Bonds notched a slight return as yields remained low

Bonds, after sputtering for most of the half year, finished it with a bit of a flourish. The broad U.S. taxable bond market returned 0.9% for the six months, following a 1.0% boost in April. The yield of the 10-year U.S. Treasury note closed the period at 1.67%, a couple of ticks below its starting level of 1.69%, and lower still than the 1.85% it registered at the end of March. (Bond yields and prices move in opposite directions.)

Municipal bonds delivered a return closer to 2%, with more than half the gain coming in April. The Federal Reserve’s target for short-term interest rates remained pegged between 0% and 0.25%, which kept a firm leash on returns from money market and savings accounts. In a May 1 statement, the Fed said it would continue buying $85 billion a month in U.S. Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities until the job market improves substantially.

Market Barometer      
 
      Total Returns
    Periods Ended April 30, 2013
  Six One Five Years
  Months Year (Annualized)
Stocks      
Russell 1000 Index (Large-caps) 15.05% 17.17% 5.49%
Russell 2000 Index (Small-caps) 16.58 17.69 7.27
Russell 3000 Index (Broad U.S. market) 15.16 17.21 5.63
MSCI All Country World Index ex USA (International) 12.78 14.15 -0.84
 
Bonds      
Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (Broad taxable market) 0.90% 3.68% 5.72%
Barclays Municipal Bond Index (Broad tax-exempt market) 1.78 5.19 6.09
Citigroup Three-Month U.S. Treasury Bill Index 0.05 0.08 0.28
 
CPI      
Consumer Price Index 0.52% 1.06% 1.60%

 

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Kenneth Volpert, head of our Taxable Bond Group, noted recently that the Feds extraordinary actions to stimulate growth may have, in effect, pulled what would have been future investment gains into the present. The trade-off, he said, is that once the Fed begins to unwind the stimulus, “future returns are likely to be lower than they otherwise would have been for both bonds and stocks.”

The financial sector shone during a broad-based rally
The Windsor Funds advisors follow a contrarian approach in their search for stocks, always on the lookout for downtrodden companies where the fall is only temporary and a rebound is in sight. This strategy requires an eye for the business cycle, and for which industries are strengthening and which are losing steam. Of course, succeeding with such a strategy is easier said than done.

Sometimes the economic climate and the market’s course aren’t aligned with the funds approach. After recent periods when its holdings were occasionally out of sync with market trends, the Windsor Fund connected over the half year with some of the market’s most fruitful areas.

As I mentioned earlier, the financial sectora traditional stronghold for value stocks—was the funds most productive by nearly any measure. Financialsreturns were broad-based, and the advisorsstock choices were superior. Insurance companies generated healthy results as their strong underwriting performance,

Expense Ratios      
Your Fund Compared With Its Peer Group      
  Investor Admiral Peer Group
  Shares Shares Average
Windsor Fund 0.41% 0.31% 1.25%

 

The fund expense ratios shown are from the prospectus dated February 27, 2013, and represent estimated costs for the current fiscal year. For the six months ended April 30, 2013, the fund’s annualized expense ratios were 0.37% for Investor Shares and 0.27% for Admiral Shares. The peer-group expense ratio is derived from data provided by Lipper Inc. and captures information through year-end 2012.

Peer group: Multi-Cap Value Funds.

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diversified business lines, and economies of scale offset a surge in claims over Hurricane Sandy damage. Diversified financial services corporations profited from higher capital levels, better lending conditions, and the recovering U.S. housing market. Asset managers thrived as the investing climate kept improving. The fund also benefited as the advisors steered clear of some underperforming commercial banks.

Windsors return was further boosted by the information technology sector, where the funds heavy weighting enabled it to take advantage of the industry’s overall strength despite some poorly performing stock picks. Although much has been said about the competitive pressures in the personal computer industry, some of its largest firms were helped by their global reach and multiple business areas, as well as by lower expectations.

Airlines, in the industrial sector, and pharmaceutical companies, in health care, also performed strongly. Disappointments were few, but in the consumer discretionary sector, Windsors lack of exposure to some of the nations largest movie and entertainment corporations dented returns.

You can find more information about Windsors performance and positioning in the Advisors’ Report, which follows this letter.

The wisdom of rebalancing holds true as stocks climb
More than four years have passed since the U.S. stock markets began an impressive recovery from the depths of the 2008–2009 global financial crisis. The S&P 500 Index has risen from a low of 677 on March 9, 2009, to a close of 1,598 on April 30, 2013, a cumulative total return of 158%. International stock markets, while not back to peak levels, have also rebounded strikingly.

Such a strong recovery is, of course, a welcome development that few would have predicted four years ago. And investors with the discipline to maintain their stock allocation as part of a balanced, diversified portfolio have been able to more than recoup their crisis-era losses.

Discipline is just as important in good times as in bad. At Vanguard, we have long counseled investors to “stay the course”—to maintain a long-term commitment to a sensible portfolio. But staying the course doesn’t mean you should avoid taking action altogether.

Over time, returns will shift the weighting of stocks and bonds in a portfolio, and its asset mix may become more aggressive than originally planned. To manage this risk, investors should periodically consider rebalancing, or adjusting their asset allocation to bring it back to its target.

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For example, you should consider rebalancing if you’ve established a 60%/40% stock/bond portfolio and you find that your target allocation is now off by 5 percentage points or more. (For more on this topic, see Best Practices for Portfolio Rebalancing, available at vanguard.com/research.)

I realize it’s not easy to contemplate rebalancing when stocks have surged and expectations for bond returns are very modest. However, we believe that bonds will continue to play a valuable role in helping to smooth out stocks’ volatility.

Without rebalancing, an investor could end up with a portfolio that’s very different from—and potentially riskier than—what he or she intended.

As always, thank you for investing with Vanguard.

Sincerely,


F. William McNabb III
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
May 10, 2013

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Advisors’ Report

For the fiscal half year ended April 30, 2013, the Investor Shares of Vanguard Windsor Fund returned 17.90%, while the lower-cost Admiral Shares returned 17.96%.

Your fund is managed by two independent advisors, a strategy that enhances the funds diversification by providing exposure to distinct, yet complementary, investment approaches. It is not uncommon for different advisors to have different views about individual securities or the broader investment environment.

The advisors, the percentage and amount of fund assets that each manages, and brief descriptions of their investment strategies are presented in the table below. The advisors have also prepared a discussion of the investment environment that existed during the period and of how their portfolio positioning reflects this assessment. These reports were prepared on May 16, 2013.

Wellington Management Company, LLP

Portfolio Manager:
James N. Mordy, Senior Vice President
and Equity Portfolio Manager

Equity markets climbed higher over the half year, with the Standard & Poors 500 Index returning 14.42% and value indexes faring better than growth ones. Our performance during this period was relatively favorable.

Typically, our relative results are derived from stock selection rather than sector positioning, and this period was no exception. Our best sector was financials,

Vanguard Windsor Fund Investment Advisors  
 
  Fund Assets Managed  
Investment Advisor % $ Million Investment Strategy
Wellington Management 70 9,993 Seeks to provide long-term total returns above both the
Company, LLP     S&P 500 and value-oriented indexes over a complete
      market cycle through bottom-up, fundamentally driven
      stock selection focused on undervalued securities.
Pzena Investment Management, 28 4,012 Uses a fundamental, bottom-up, deep-value-oriented
LLC     investment strategy. Seeks to buy good businesses at
      low prices, focusing exclusively on companies that are
      underperforming their historically demonstrated
      earnings power.
Cash Investments 2 327 These short-term reserves are invested by Vanguard in
      equity index products to simulate investment in stocks.
      Each advisor also may maintain a modest cash
      position.

 

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as several of our insurance names excelled; Unum, Ameriprise Financial, and Principal Financial each returned 30% or more. We were overweighted in financials relative to the S&P 500 Index but underweighted versus the Russell 1000 Value Index.

Information technology was the worst-performing sector in the S&P 500 Index. In addition to declines in traditional markets including PCs and notebook computers, investors worried about potential disruption from emerging forces such as cloud computing. We believe this has created a compelling buying opportunity for stocks like EMC and Intel, which have lagged the market in recent years.

Overall, technology was our most active area for new purchases. Our average weighting for the sector was a little over 15%, less than the 18.5% in the S&P 500 Index but well above the 6.5% in the Russell 1000 Value Index. We ended the period at 16.3%. We were significantly underweighted relative to the S&P 500 Index in Apple, whose shares dropped almost 25% over the six months as iPhone 5 sales failed to meet some analysts’ expectations. Now that Apple has a more appropriate capital allocation strategy, we believe its stock is a more appealing value, and we bought more shares during the period.

Another fruitful sector was industrials, led by Delta Air Lines, which returned 78%.

Airlines have remained disciplined in controlling capacity, and Delta is solidly profitable. In addition, its management announced a plan to return $1 billion of capital to shareholders, including an initial dividend, over the next three years. Pentair and Eaton were also solid contributors.

The energy sector in the S&P 500 Index lagged. Our relative results benefited from our decision not to invest in Exxon Mobil, which accounts for nearly 3% of the index. The stock’s return trailed that of the index by more than 15 percentage points as production volumes disappointed investors.

Consumer discretionary, the best performer in the S&P 500 Index, was our worst relative sector. We were too cautious, believing that federal tax increases in January and budget-sequester worries would keep a lid on spending. We also made a mistake with Kohls; we thought the company could improve results even in a challenging macroeconomic climate, but management’s strategy proved ineffective. We lost more than 18% on the stock and eliminated our holding.

Our materials stocks also produced mixed results. We have now sold our ill-timed holding of Barrick Gold. We tried to take advantage of increasingly bearish sentiment around gold miners and anticipated more focus on cost control.

We also viewed gold as a reasonable hedge against potentially higher inflation from global monetary easing. Instead, Barrick ran into new operating challenges, global inflationary pressures eased, and the price of gold fell almost $200 per ounce from our original estimates before a modest recent rebound. Although we don’t like taking the loss, we believe it

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is prudent to sell when our original investment case appears wrong; in so doing, we hope to avoid what could be a continuing value trap.

Economic data, after a healthy start to 2013, softened during March and April, reflecting the effects of higher taxes, sequestration worries, cool weather, further slowing in China, and the Eurozone recession. Investors sold off cyclical stocks in a repeat of the “sell in May” pattern of the prior three years. We believe the economic fears are overblown given the strengthening housing market, improved consumer net worth, and continued monetary easing by the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, and the Bank of Japan. The April U.S. employment report was encouraging.

Over the year ended April 30, the S&P 500 Index returned almost 17%, even as consensus earnings estimates for 2013 declined 7.5%. Thus, price/earnings expansion, to a current level of 14.7 times these earnings, has been the key driver of returns. The more cyclical sectors of the market performed well in the latter half of 2012, but for most of 2013, leadership has come from consumer staples, health care, and utilities. In general, these defensive sectors have looked quite extended to us, and recent weeks have seen the start of a rotation back into more cyclical fare.

As we sought to take advantage of this valuation disparity, our purchases over the six months were concentrated in information technology, energy, and industrials. We have been net sellers within financials, consumer staples, and health care. Relative to the S&P 500 Index, we are about eight percentage points overweight in the cyclical sectors, in aggregate, compared with five points six months ago and three points a year ago.

The portfolio retains its typical combination of attractive total return prospects at a significant price/earnings discount to the broad market.

Pzena Investment Management, LLC

Portfolio Managers:
Richard Pzena, Managing Principal
and co-Chief Investment Officer

John P. Goetz, Managing Principal
and co-Chief Investment Officer

Antonio DeSpirito, Managing Principal

Our portfolio’s strong performance over the half year was driven in large part by financial and information technology stocks––the portfolio’s largest absolute and relative allocations.

Hewlett-Packard, which has doubled in share price from its November 2012 low, showed better execution in this period, spurring investor confidence in the company’s restructuring and growth investments. It was the largest contributor, followed by TE Connectivity and Delphi Automotive. TE Connectivity continues to restructure and buy back shares. Delphi is moving to reduce costs and is generating strong cash flows; some of those are being applied to share repurchases and to Delphis first dividend since it emerged from bankruptcy and began trading again in November 2011.

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Utilities and consumer staples, in which the portfolio has little exposure, were its weakest sectors. The largest detractors were Kohls, Apache, and Apollo Group.

Although Apollo’s revenue and earnings exceeded consensus expectations, operating trends remained shaky, and management reaffirmed the weak 2013 outlook, implying that the negative trends are likely to persist in the near term. We continue to trim our Apollo holdings.

Investors’ continued appetite for low-volatility stocks has perpetuated an extraordinary paradox: Assets that are traditionally considered safe have become more risky as their valuations reach record highs, whereas economically sensitive stocks have arguably become less risky as earnings improve, balance sheets strengthen, and valuations lag. This anomaly is providing significant investment opportunities.

Deep discounts are also particularly evident in financial and mature technology stocks. Although financials have performed very well lately, they remain the cheapest sector in our investment universe. In fact, valuations for financial stocks are close to historic lows. This broad opportunity includes insurance, brokerage, wealth management, asset management, and banking. We see the deepest valuation discounts in universal banks, where regulations imposed after the 2008–2009 financial crisis have created the greatest uncertainty about long-term profitability.

The technology sector is at valuations last seen in the late 1980s, when the introduction of PCs was challenging mainframe computers. Today, tablets and “the cloudare the new mantras. Notwithstanding their roles in the future IT landscape, we think the fear of imminent obsolescence of leading franchises is greatly exaggerated.

Financials, technology, and certain cyclicals remain heavily discounted and are well-represented in the portfolio. At the periods end, the portfolio’s weighted average price/ earnings ratio of 7.4 times normal earnings was still compellingly low historically and compared favorably with the universe median of 13.5 times normal earnings.

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Windsor Fund

Fund Profile
As of April 30, 2013

Share-Class Characteristics    
  Investor Admiral
  Shares   Shares
Ticker Symbol VWNDX VWNEX
Expense Ratio1 0.41%   0.31%
30-Day SEC Yield 1.41%   1.51%
 
Portfolio Characteristics    
      DJ U.S.
    Russell Total
    1000 Market
    Value FA
  Fund Index Index
Number of Stocks 129 698 3,587
Median Market Cap $24.9B $40.7B $40.7B
Price/Earnings Ratio 16.6x 15.8x 18.1x
Price/Book Ratio 1.7x 1.7x 2.3x
Return on Equity 12.7% 12.2% 16.6%
Earnings Growth Rate 7.4% 4.4% 9.7%
Dividend Yield 1.8% 2.4% 2.0%
Foreign Holdings 14.7% 0.0% 0.0%
Turnover Rate      
(Annualized) 45%
Short-Term Reserves 1.1%

 

Sector Diversification (% of equity exposure)

      DJ U.S.
    Russell Total
    1000 Market
    Value FA
  Fund Index Index
Consumer Discretionary 10.4% 8.5% 12.6%
Consumer Staples 4.6 7.4 9.6
Energy 13.2 15.5 9.8
Financials 24.5 27.8 17.5
Health Care 12.2 11.9 12.3
Industrials 11.0 8.8 10.8
Information Technology 16.8 6.5 17.2
Materials 5.2 3.5 3.8
Telecommunication      
Services 0.1 3.2 2.7
Utilities 2.0 6.9 3.7

 

Volatility Measures    
    DJ U.S.
  Russell Total
  1000 Market
  Value FA
  Index Index
R-Squared 0.98 0.98
Beta 1.11 1.11

These measures show the degree and timing of the fund’s fluctuations compared with the indexes over 36 months.

Ten Largest Holdings (% of total net assets)

Citigroup Inc. Diversified Financial  
  Services 2.2%
Wells Fargo & Co. Diversified Banks 2.0
American International    
Group Inc. Multi-line Insurance 2.0
Cisco Systems Inc. Communications  
  Equipment 1.9
Eaton Corp. plc Electrical  
  Components &  
  Equipment 1.8
Baker Hughes Inc. Oil & Gas Equipment  
  & Services 1.7
Arrow Electronics Inc. Technology  
  Distributors 1.6
Roche Holding AG Pharmaceuticals 1.6
Bank of America Corp. Diversified Financial  
  Services 1.5
Japan Tobacco Inc. Tobacco 1.5
Top Ten   17.8%

The holdings listed exclude any temporary cash investments and equity index products.

Investment Focus


1 The expense ratios shown are from the prospectus dated February 27, 2013, and represent estimated costs for the current fiscal year. For the six months ended April 30, 2013, the annualized expense ratios were 0.37% for Investor Shares and 0.27% for Admiral Shares.

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Windsor 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 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 (%): October 31, 2002, Through April 30, 2013


Note: For 2013, performance data reflect the six months ended April 30, 2013.

Average Annual Total Returns: Periods Ended March 31, 2013
This table presents returns through the latest calendar quarter—rather than through the end of the fiscal period.
Securities and Exchange Commission rules require that we provide this information.

  Inception One Five Ten
  Date Year Years Years
Investor Shares 10/23/1958 17.93% 6.17% 8.73%
Admiral Shares 11/12/2001 18.04 6.29 8.85

 

See Financial Highlights for dividend and capital gains information.

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Windsor Fund

Financial Statements (unaudited)

Statement of Net Assets
As of April 30, 2013

The fund reports a complete list of its holdings in regulatory filings four times in each fiscal year, at the quarter-ends. For the second and fourth fiscal quarters, the lists appear in the funds 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 funds Forms N-Q on the SECs website at sec.gov. Forms N-Q may also be reviewed and copied at the SECs Public Reference Room (see the back cover of this report for further information).

      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
Common Stocks (97.6%)1    
Consumer Discretionary (10.1%)  
  Lowes Cos. Inc. 4,333,200 166,482
  Comcast Corp. 3,461,900 136,018
  Staples Inc. 9,814,150 129,939
  Nordstrom Inc. 2,263,100 128,069
  OmnicomGroup Inc. 1,967,075 117,572
* Toll Brothers Inc. 3,412,500 117,083
  Newell Rubbermaid Inc. 3,960,000 104,306
  GNCHoldings Inc.    
  Class A 2,297,100 104,128
  Ford Motor Co. 6,922,200 94,903
  Delphi Automotive plc 1,973,000 91,172
* General Motors Co. 2,199,250 67,825
  Lennar Corp. Class A 1,093,800 45,086
* Apollo Group Inc. Class A 2,239,561 41,141
  Kohls Corp. 786,975 37,035
  TJXCos. Inc. 737,600 35,973
*,2 Buck Holdings LP Private    
  Placement NA 28,002
      1,444,734
Consumer Staples (4.3%)    
  Japan Tobacco Inc. 5,671,600 214,394
  Bunge Ltd. 2,294,500 165,686
  CVS Caremark Corp. 2,021,900 117,634
  Dr Pepper Snapple    
  Group Inc. 1,128,000 55,080
  Molson Coors Brewing Co.    
  Class B 761,800 39,309
  Ingredion Inc. 231,300 16,656
      608,759
Energy (12.8%)    
  Baker Hughes Inc. 5,243,150 237,987
* Cobalt International    
  Energy Inc. 7,319,700 204,512
  Anadarko Petroleum Corp. 1,978,400  167,689
* Southwestern Energy Co. 4,466,600 167,140
  Royal Dutch Shell plc    
  ADR 2,450,834 166,583

 

      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
  BP plc ADR 3,642,700 158,822
  Halliburton Co. 2,785,500 119,136
  Canadian Natural    
  Resources Ltd. 4,002,600 117,436
  Pioneer Natural    
  Resources Co. 844,800 103,260
  National Oilwell Varco Inc. 1,357,700 88,549
  ExxonMobil Corp. 880,825 78,385
  Apache Corp. 786,475 58,105
  Statoil ASA ADR 1,997,400 48,936
  CONSOL Energy Inc. 1,386,659 46,647
  Valero Energy Corp. 1,028,500 41,469
  Inpex Corp. 7,046 34,098
      1,838,754
Exchange-Traded Fund (0.9%)  
3 Vanguard Value ETF 1,839,100 123,183
 
Financials (23.8%)    
  Citigroup Inc. 6,737,950 314,393
  Wells Fargo & Co. 7,541,800 286,438
* AmericanInternational    
  Group Inc. 6,912,800 286,328
  Bank of America Corp. 17,870,700 219,988
  Unum Group 6,790,800 189,395
  AmeripriseFinancial Inc. 2,537,900 189,150
  MetLife Inc. 4,819,475 187,911
  PNC Financial Services    
  Group Inc. 2,469,900 167,657
  XLGroup plc Class A 4,754,500 148,055
  Principal Financial    
  Group Inc. 4,011,000 144,797
* IntercontinentalExchange    
  Inc. 687,100 111,949
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2,110,150 103,418
  UBS AG 5,399,650 96,060
  Invesco Ltd. 2,910,350 92,375
  ACE Ltd. 973,700 86,796
  Willis Group Holdings plc 2,013,100 79,880
  Morgan Stanley 3,575,916 79,207
  State Street Corp. 1,338,850 78,283

 

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Windsor Fund

      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
  Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 520,425 76,018
  AxisCapital Holdings Ltd. 1,456,304 64,995
  Franklin Resources Inc. 416,800 64,462
  Allstate Corp. 1,265,375 62,332
  Comerica Inc. 1,672,700 60,635
  KeyCorp 5,830,900 58,134
  EverestRe Group Ltd. 339,400 45,816
  Regions Financial Corp. 4,739,400 40,237
  Fifth Third Bancorp 2,283,800 38,893
  Hartford Financial    
  Services Group Inc. 829,400 23,298
  Torchmark Corp. 335,750 20,840
      3,417,740
Health Care (11.8%)    
  Roche Holding AG 919,675 230,232
  UnitedHealth Group Inc. 2,782,100 166,731
  Cigna Corp. 2,451,600 162,222
  Sanofi 1,303,448 140,923
  Covidien plc 2,201,100 140,518
  Medtronic Inc. 2,982,600 139,228
  Merck & Co. Inc. 2,471,100 116,142
  McKesson Corp. 945,000 100,000
  Daiichi Sankyo Co. Ltd. 4,757,600 93,091
^ Eisai Co. Ltd. 1,731,300 79,006
  Becton Dickinson and Co. 820,275 77,352
  Aetna Inc. 1,010,106 58,021
* Laboratory Corp. of    
  America Holdings 446,125 41,650
  AbbottLaboratories 1,031,775 38,093
  Quest Diagnostics Inc. 642,875 36,213
* Hospira Inc. 1,020,850 33,811
* Forest Laboratories Inc. 890,000 33,295
      1,686,528
Industrials (10.7%)    
  Eaton Corp. plc 4,156,300 255,238
  Pentair Ltd. 3,045,900 165,545
* Delta Air Lines Inc. 9,374,700 160,682
  Dover Corp. 2,143,300 147,845
  Honeywell    
  International Inc. 2,010,100 147,823
^ Fiat Industrial SPA 12,091,491 136,541
  KBR Inc. 3,466,460 104,271
  ChicagoBridge    
  & Iron Co. NV 1,521,700 81,852
  Northrop Grumman Corp. 1,007,150 76,282
  Masco Corp. 3,729,198 72,496
  L-3 Communications    
  Holdings Inc. 881,400 71,614
  Rexel SA 2,327,676 51,267
  General Dynamics Corp. 549,600 40,648
  FedEx Corp. 216,300 20,334
      1,532,438

 

      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
Information Technology (16.3%)  
  Cisco Systems Inc. 13,271,400 277,638
*,4 Arrow Electronics Inc. 6,020,650 236,190
  Hewlett-Packard Co. 9,316,150 191,913
^ ASML Holding NV 2,157,104 160,424
* Google Inc. Class A 192,100 158,400
  AvagoTechnologies Ltd.    
  Class A 4,901,700 156,658
* SanDisk Corp. 2,858,500 149,900
* CheckPoint Software    
  Technologies Ltd. 2,491,000 116,130
  Microsoft Corp. 3,362,950 111,314
  Oracle Corp. 3,317,950 108,762
* EMC Corp. 4,845,000 108,673
  Intel Corp. 4,472,900 107,126
  TE Connectivity Ltd. 2,352,485 102,451
  Analog Devices Inc. 2,288,500 100,671
  Accenture plc Class A 885,900 72,148
* Lam Research Corp. 1,412,100 65,267
  Apple Inc. 142,400 63,048
  Dell Inc. 3,596,900 48,198
      2,334,911
Materials (5.0%)    
  International Paper Co. 4,483,100 210,616
  Mosaic Co. 1,726,340 106,325
  Celanese Corp. Class A 2,139,100 105,693
  LyondellBasell Industries    
  NV Class A 1,395,600 84,713
  Rexam plc 6,307,281 50,645
  Dow Chemical Co. 1,300,000 44,083
  PPG Industries Inc. 293,500 43,186
  Potash Corp. of    
  Saskatchewan Inc. 974,300 41,018
* Owens-IllinoisInc. 1,411,200 37,086
      723,365
Utilities (1.9%)    
  PG&E Corp. 2,286,900 110,777
  Entergy Corp. 1,168,925 83,263
  Edison International 962,400 51,777
  Northeast Utilities 623,700 28,272
      274,089
Total Common Stocks    
(Cost $11,431,566)   13,984,501

 

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    Market
    Valuet
  Shares ($000)
Temporary Cash Investments (4.6%)1  
Money Market Fund (3.6%)  
5,6 Vanguard Market    
Liquidity Fund,    
0.142% 512,702,920 512,703
 
  Face  
  Amount  
  ($000)  
Repurchase Agreement (0.9%)  
Bankof America    
Securities, LLC 0.170%,  
5/1/13 (Dated 4/30/13,  
Repurchase Value    
$134,201,000,    
collateralized by Federal  
Home Loan Mortgage Corp.  
4.000%, 9/1/41, and Federal  
National Mortgage Assn.  
3.000%-4.500%,    
9/1/27-8/1/42) 134,200 134,200

 

U.S. Government and Agency Obligations (0.1%)

7,8 Fannie Mae    
  Discount Notes,    
  0.085%-0.110%, 8/21/13 11,000 10,995
7,8 Freddie Mac Discount Notes,    
  0.130%, 9/16/13 6,500 6,495
      17,490
Total Temporary Cash Investments  
(Cost $664,397)   664,393
Total Investments (102.2%)    
(Cost $12,095,963)   14,648,894

 

  Market
  Valuet
  ($000)
Other Assets and Liabilities (-2.2%)  
Other Assets 72,998
Liabilities6 (389,653)
  (316,655)
Net Assets (100%) 14,332,239

 

At April 30, 2013, net assets consisted of:

  Amount
  ($000)
Paid-in Capital 13,306,837
Overdistributed Net Investment Income (2,394)
Accumulated Net Realized Losses (1,528,237)
Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)  
InvestmentSecurities 2,552,931
Futures Contracts 3,184
Foreign Currencies (82)
Net Assets 14,332,239
 
 
Investor Shares—Net Assets  
Applicable to 428,855,898 outstanding  
$.001 par value shares of beneficial  
interest (unlimited authorization) 7,326,055
Net Asset Value Per Share—  
Investor Shares $17.08
 
 
Admiral Shares—Net Assets  
Applicable to 121,543,791 outstanding  
$.001 par value shares of beneficial  
interest (unlimited authorization) 7,006,184
Net Asset Value Per Share—  
Admiral Shares $57.64

 

t See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements.
* Non-income-producing security.
^ Part of security position is on loan to broker-dealers. The total value of securities on loan is $279,300,000.
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 99.0% and 3.2%, respectively, of net assets.
2 Restricted security represents 0.2% of net assets. Shares not applicable for this private placement.
3 Considered an affiliated company of the fund as the issuer is another member of The Vanguard Group.
4 Considered an affiliated company of the fund as the fund owns more than 5% of the outstanding voting securities of such company.
5 Affiliated money market fund available only to Vanguard funds and certain trusts and accounts managed by Vanguard. Rate shown is the 7-day yield.
6 Includes $302,538,000 of collateral received for securities on loan.
7 The issuer was placed under federal conservatorship in September 2008; since that time, its daily operations have been managed by the Federal Housing Finance Agency and it receives capital from the U.S. Treasury, as needed to maintain a positive net worth, in exchange for senior preferred stock.
8 Securities with a value of $9,894,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open futures contracts.
ADR—American Depositary Receipt.
See accompanying Notes, which are an integral part of the Financial Statements.

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Statement of Operations

  SixMonths Ended
  April 30, 2013
  ($000)
Investment Income  
Income  
Dividends1,2 129,464
Interest2 289
Security Lending 1,525
Total Income 131,278
Expenses  
Investment Advisory Fees—Note B  
Basic Fee 8,660
Performance Adjustment 434
The Vanguard Group—Note C  
Management and Administrative—Investor Shares 7,284
Management and Administrative—Admiral Shares 3,637
Marketing and Distribution—Investor Shares 562
Marketing and Distribution—Admiral Shares 447
Custodian Fees 91
Shareholders’ Reports—Investor Shares 36
Shareholders’ Reports—Admiral Shares 14
TrusteesFees and Expenses 22
Total Expenses 21,187
Expenses Paid Indirectly (67)
Net Expenses 21,120
Net Investment Income 110,158
Realized Net Gain (Loss)  
Investment Securities Sold2 635,252
Futures Contracts 15,575
Foreign Currencies (464)
Realized Net Gain (Loss) 650,363
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)  
Investment Securities 1,433,979
Futures Contracts 6,795
Foreign Currencies 76
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) 1,440,850
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations 2,201,371

1 Dividends are net of foreign withholding taxes of $3,159,000.
2 Dividend income, interest income, and realized net gain (loss) from affiliated companies of the fund were $1,615,000, $154,000, and $20,154,000, respectively.

See accompanying Notes, which are an integral part of the Financial Statements.

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Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  Six Months Ended Year Ended
  April 30, October 31,
  2013 2012
  ($000) ($000)
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets    
Operations    
Net Investment Income 110,158 225,936
Realized Net Gain (Loss) 650,363 1,175,592
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) 1,440,850 362,543
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations 2,201,371 1,764,071
Distributions    
Net Investment Income    
Investor Shares (78,582) (118,284)
Admiral Shares (74,908) (100,323)
Realized Capital Gain    
Investor Shares
Admiral Shares
Total Distributions (153,490) (218,607)
Capital Share Transactions    
Investor Shares (447,551) (881,080)
Admiral Shares 226,109 111,269
Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions (221,442) (769,811)
Total Increase (Decrease) 1,826,439 775,653
Net Assets    
Beginning of Period 12,505,800 11,730,147
End of Period1 14,332,239 12,505,800

1 Net Assets—End of Period includes undistributed (overdistributed) net investment income of ($2,394,000) and $41,402,000.

See accompanying Notes, which are an integral part of the Financial Statements.

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Financial Highlights

Investor Shares            
Six Months          
  Ended          
For a Share Outstanding April 30,     Year Ended October 31,
Throughout Each Period 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period $14.66 $12.92 $12.56 $10.97 $9.51 $19.52
Investment Operations            
Net Investment Income .128 .252 .184 .1901 .197 .279
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)            
on Investments 2.471 1.729 .346 1.586 1.486 (7.985)
Total from Investment Operations 2.599 1.981 .530 1.776 1.683 (7.706)
Distributions            
Dividends from Net Investment Income (.179) (.241) (.170) (.186) (.223) (.289)
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains — (2.015)
Total Distributions (.179) (.241) (.170) (.186) (.223) (2.304)
Net Asset Value, End of Period $17.08 $14.66 $12.92 $12.56 $10.97 $9.51
 
Total Return2 17.90% 15.56% 4.15% 16.31% 18.22% -43.88%
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data            
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) $7,326 $6,711 $6,736 $7,999 $7,610 $7,041
Ratio of Total Expenses to            
Average Net Assets3 0.37% 0.35% 0.39% 0.33% 0.33% 0.30%
Ratio of Net Investment Income to            
Average Net Assets 1.63% 1.80% 1.34% 1.59%1 2.03% 1.91%
Portfolio Turnover Rate 45% 68% 49% 50% 61% 4 55%

The expense ratio, net income ratio, and turnover rate for the current period have been annualized.
1 Net investment income per share and the ratio of net investment income to average net assets include $.036 and 0.29%, respectively, resulting from a cash payment received in connection with the merger of Schering-Plough Corp. and Merck & Co. in November 2009.
2 Total returns do not include account service fees that may have applied in the periods shown. Fund prospectuses provide information about any applicable account service fees.
3 Includes performance-based investment advisory fee increases (decreases) of 0.01%, (0.01%), 0.03%, (0.03%), (0.05%), and (0.03%).
4 Excludes the value of portfolio securities received or delivered as a result of in-kind purchases or redemptions of the funds capital shares.

See accompanying Notes, which are an integral part of the Financial Statements.

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Financial Highlights

Admiral Shares            
Six Months          
  Ended          
For a Share Outstanding April 30,     Year Ended October 31,
Throughout Each Period 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period $49.47 $43.59 $42.37 $37.01 $32.08 $65.90
Investment Operations            
Net Investment Income .460 .900 .664 .6851 .701 .999
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)            
on Investments 8.339 5.844 1.171 5.348 5.020 (26.974)
Total from Investment Operations 8.799 6.744 1.835 6.033 5.721 (25.975)
Distributions            
Dividends from Net Investment Income (.629) (.864) (.615) (.673) (.791) (1.047)
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains — (6.798)
Total Distributions (.629) (.864) (.615) (.673) (.791) (7.845)
Net Asset Value, End of Period $57.64 $49.47 $43.59 $42.37 $37.01 $32.08
 
Total Return2 17.96% 15.71% 4.26% 16.44% 18.38% -43.85%
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data            
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) $7,006 $5,795 $4,994 $4,680 $4,203 $4,723
Ratio of Total Expenses to            
Average Net Assets3 0.27% 0.25% 0.29% 0.22% 0.20% 0.17%
Ratio of Net Investment Income to            
Average Net Assets 1.73% 1.90% 1.44% 1.70%1 2.16% 2.04%
Portfolio Turnover Rate 45% 68% 49% 50% 61% 4 55%

 

The expense ratio, net income ratio, and turnover rate for the current period have been annualized.
1 Net investment income per share and the ratio of net investment income to average net assets include $.120 and 0.29%, respectively, resulting from a cash payment received in connection with the merger of Schering-Plough Corp. and Merck & Co. in November 2009.
2 Total returns do not include account service fees that may have applied in the periods shown. Fund prospectuses provide information about any applicable account service fees.
3 Includes performance-based investment advisory fee increases (decreases) of 0.01%, (0.01%), 0.03%, (0.03%), (0.05%), and (0.03%).
4 Excludes the value of portfolio securities received or delivered as a result of in-kind purchases or redemptions of the funds capital shares.

See accompanying Notes, which are an integral part of the Financial Statements.

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Notes to Financial Statements

Vanguard Windsor Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The fund offers two classes of shares: Investor Shares and Admiral Shares. Investor Shares are available to any investor who meets the funds minimum purchase requirements. Admiral Shares are designed for investors who meet certain administrative, service, 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 affected by events occurring before the funds pricing time but after the close of the securitiesprimary markets, are valued at their fair values calculated according to procedures adopted by the board of trustees. These procedures include obtaining quotations from an independent pricing service, monitoring news to identify significant market- or security-specific events, and evaluating changes in the values of foreign market proxies (for example, ADRs, futures contracts, or exchange-traded funds), between the time the foreign markets close and the funds pricing time. When fair-value pricing is employed, the prices of securities used by a fund to calculate its net asset value may differ from quoted or published prices for the same securities. Investments in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund are valued at that funds 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. Foreign Currency: Securities and other assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars using exchange rates obtained from an independent third party as of the funds pricing time on the valuation date. Realized gains (losses) and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investment securities include the effects of changes in exchange rates since the securities were purchased, combined with the effects of changes in security prices. Fluctuations in the value of other assets and liabilities resulting from changes in exchange rates are recorded as unrealized foreign currency gains (losses) until the assets or liabilities are settled in cash, at which time they are recorded as realized foreign currency gains (losses).

3. 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).

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During the six months ended April 30, 2013, the funds average investments in long and short futures contracts represented 1% and 0% of net assets, respectively, based on quarterly average aggregate settlement values.

4. Repurchase Agreements: The fund may enter into repurchase agreements. Securities pledged as collateral for repurchase agreements are held by a custodian bank until the agreements mature. Each agreement requires that the market value of the collateral be sufficient to cover payments of interest and principal. In the event of default or bankruptcy by the other party to the agreement, the fund may sell or retain the collateral; however, such action may be subject to legal proceedings.

5. 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 funds tax positions taken for all open federal income tax years (October 31, 2009–2012), and for the period ended April 30, 2013, and has concluded that no provision for federal income tax is required in the funds financial statements.

6. Distributions: Distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date.

7. 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. Daily market fluctuations could cause the value of loaned securities to be more or less than the value of the collateral received. When this occurs, the collateral is adjusted and settled on the next business day. 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 fees charged to borrowers plus income earned on investing cash collateral, less expenses associated with the loan.

8. 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. Wellington Management Company, LLP, and Pzena Investment Management, LLC, each provide investment advisory services to a portion of the fund for a fee calculated at an annual percentage rate of average net assets managed by the advisor. The basic fee of Wellington Management Company, LLP, is subject to quarterly adjustments based on performance for the preceding three years relative to the S&P 500 Index. In accordance with the advisory contract entered into with Pzena Investment Management, LLC, beginning August 1, 2013, the investment advisory fee will be subject to quarterly adjustments based on performance since October 31, 2012, relative to the Russell 1000 Value Index.

The Vanguard Group manages the cash reserves of the fund on an at-cost basis.

For the six months ended April 30, 2013, the aggregate investment advisory fee represented an effective annual basic rate of 0.13% of the funds average net assets, before an increase of $434,000 (0.01%) based on performance.

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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 April 30, 2013, the fund had contributed capital of $1,785,000 to Vanguard (included in Other Assets), representing 0.01% of the funds net assets and 0.71% of Vanguards capitalization. The funds trustees and officers are also directors and officers of Vanguard.

D. The fund has asked its investment advisors 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 funds management and administrative expenses. For the six months ended April 30, 2013, these arrangements reduced the funds expenses by $67,000 (an annual rate of 0.00% of average net assets).

E. Various inputs may be used to determine the value of the funds investments. These inputs are summarized in three broad levels for financial statement purposes. The inputs or methodologies used to value securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.

Level 1Quoted prices in active markets for identical securities.
Level 2Other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.).
Level 3Significant unobservable inputs (including the funds own assumptions used to determine the fair value of investments).

The following table summarizes the market value of the funds investments as of April 30, 2013, based on the inputs used to value them:

  Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
Investments ($000) ($000) ($000)
Common Stocks 12,926,303 1,030,196 28,002
Temporary Cash Investments 512,703 151,690
Futures Contracts—Assets1 516
Total 13,439,522 1,181,886 28,002
1 Represents variation margin on the last day of the reporting period.

 

F. At April 30, 2013, the aggregate settlement value of open futures contracts and the related unrealized appreciation (depreciation) were:

        ($000)
      Aggregate  
    Number of Settlement Unrealized
    Long (Short) Value Appreciation
Futures Contracts Expiration Contracts Long (Short) (Depreciation)
E-mini S&P 500 Index June 2013 1,410 112,250 733
S&P 500 Index June 2013 234 93,144 2,451

 

Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on open futures contracts is required to be treated as realized gain (loss) for tax purposes.

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G. 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.

During the six months ended April 30, 2013, the fund realized net foreign currency losses of $464,000, which decreased distributable net income for tax purposes; accordingly, such losses have been reclassified from accumulated net realized losses to overdistributed net investment income.

The funds tax-basis capital gains and losses are determined only at the end of each fiscal year. For tax purposes, at October 31, 2012, the fund had available capital losses totaling $2,182,559,000 to offset future net capital gains through October 31, 2017. The fund will use these capital losses to offset net taxable capital gains, if any, realized during the year ending October 31, 2013; should the fund realize net capital losses for the year, the losses will be added to the loss carryforward balance above.

At April 30, 2013, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $12,095,963,000. Net unrealized appreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $2,552,931,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $2,748,048,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $195,117,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.

H. During the six months ended April 30, 2013, the fund purchased $2,935,591,000 of investment securities and sold $3,160,038,000 of investment securities, other than temporary cash investments.

I. Capital share transactions for each class of shares were:

  Six Months Ended   Year Ended
    April 30, 2013 October 31, 2012
  Amount Shares Amount Shares
  ($000) (000) ($000) (000)
Investor Shares        
Issued 289,023 18,189 416,456 30,475
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 76,752 5,110 115,463 8,790
Redeemed (813,326) (52,148) (1,412,999) (103,043)
Net Increase (Decrease)Investor Shares (447,551) (28,849) (881,080) (63,778)
Admiral Shares        
Issued 542,167 10,302 680,468 14,748
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 68,265 1,348 90,751 2,045
Redeemed (384,323) (7,234) (659,950) (14,224)
Net Increase (Decrease)—Admiral Shares 226,109 4,416 111,269 2,569

 

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J. The fund has invested in a company that is considered to be an affiliated company of the fund because the fund owns more than 5% of the outstanding voting securities of the company. Transactions during the period in securities of this company were as follows:

      Current Period Transactions  
  Oct. 31, 2012   Proceeds from   Apr. 30, 2013
  Market Purchases Securities Dividend Market
  Value at Cost Sold Income Value
  ($000) ($000) ($000) ($000) ($000)
Arrow Electronics Inc. 243,462 4,589 38,064 236,190

 

K. In preparing the financial statements as of April 30, 2013, management considered the impact of subsequent events for potential recognition or disclosure in these financial statements.

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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 accompanying table 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 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 any purchase, redemption, or account service fees described in the fund prospectus. If such fees were applied to your account, your costs would be higher. Your fund does not 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 April 30, 2013      
  Beginning Ending Expenses
  Account Value Account Value Paid During
Windsor Fund 10/31/2012 4/30/2013 Period
Based on Actual Fund Return      
Investor Shares $1,000.00 $1,178.96 $2.00
Admiral Shares 1,000.00 1,179.62 1.46
Based on Hypothetical 5% Yearly Return      
Investor Shares $1,000.00 $1,022.96 $1.86
Admiral Shares 1,000.00 1,023.46 1.35

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 0.37% for Investor Shares and 0.27% 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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Trustees Approve Advisory Agreements

The board of trustees of Vanguard Windsor Fund has renewed the funds investment advisory agreements with Pzena Investment Management, LLC (Pzena), and Wellington Management Company, LLP (Wellington Management). The board determined that the retention of the advisors was in the best interests of the fund and its shareholders.

The board based its decision upon an evaluation of each advisors investment staff, portfolio management process, and performance. The trustees considered the factors discussed below, among others. However, no single factor determined whether the board approved the agreements. Rather, it was the totality of the circumstances that drove the boards decision.

Nature, extent, and quality of services
The board considered the quality of the funds investment management services over both the short and long term, and took into account the organizational depth and stability of each advisor. The board noted the following:

Pzena. Founded in 1995, Pzena is a global investment management firm that employs a classic value investment approach. Pzena seeks to buy good businesses at low prices, focusing exclusively on companies that are underperforming their historically demonstrated earnings power. Pzena conducts intensive fundamental research, buying companies only when the problems are judged to be temporary, management has a viable strategy to generate earnings recovery, and there is meaningful downside protection in case earnings do not recover. Pzena has advised a portion of the fund since 2012.

Wellington Management. Founded in 1928, Wellington Management is among the nations oldest and most respected institutional investment managers. Using a bottom-up, fundamentally driven approach, Wellington Management invests in out-of-favor stocks that offer the combination of attractive valuations and underappreciated longer-term earnings growth projections. The advisor has the ability to seek undervalued stocks across the capitalization spectrum. The research-intensive approach is supported by the team’s deep and tenured analytical staff, which may also make use of the firm’s extensive industry research capabilities. Wellington Management has advised the fund since its inception in 1958.

The board concluded that the advisors experience, stability, depth, and performance, among other factors, warranted approval of the advisory agreements.

Investment performance
The board considered the short- and long-term performance of the fund and each advisor, including any periods of outperformance or underperformance relative to a benchmark index and peer group. The board concluded that the performance was such that the advisory arrangement should continue. Information about the funds most recent performance can be found in the Performance Summary section of this report.

Cost
The board concluded that the funds expense ratio was well below the average expense ratio charged by funds in its peer group and that the funds advisory fee rate was also well below the peer-group average. Information about the funds expenses appears in the About Your Funds Expenses section of this report as well as in the Financial Statements section, which also includes information about the funds advisory fee rate.

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The board did not consider profitability of Pzena and Wellington Management in determining whether to approve the advisory fees, because the firms are independent of Vanguard and the advisory fees are the result of arm’s length negotiations.

The benefit of economies of scale
The board concluded that the funds shareholders will benefit from economies of scale because of breakpoints in the advisory fee schedules for Pzena and Wellington Management. The breakpoints reduce the effective rate of the fees as the funds assets managed by each advisor increase.

The board will consider whether to renew the advisory agreement again after a one-year period.

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Glossary

30-Day SEC 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 (for bonds), its actual income (for asset-backed securities), 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.

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). 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.

Dividend Yield. Dividend income earned by stocks, expressed as a percentage of the aggregate market value (or of net asset value, for a fund). The yield is determined by dividing the amount of the annual dividends by the aggregate value (or net asset value) at the end of the period. For a fund, the dividend yield is based solely on stock holdings and does not include any income produced by other investments.

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. A fund’s total annual operating expenses expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets. The expense ratio includes management and administrative expenses, but does not include the transaction costs of buying and selling portfolio securities.

Foreign Holdings. The percentage of a fund represented by securities 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.

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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.

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.

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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 funds 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 Vanguards 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. The independent board members have distinguished backgrounds in business, academia, and public service. Each of the trustees and executive officers oversees 180 Vanguard funds.

The following table provides information for each trustee and executive officer of the fund. More information about the trustees is in the Statement of Additional Information, which can be obtained, without charge, by contacting Vanguard at 800-662-7447, or online at vanguard.com.

InterestedTrustee1 and Delphi Automotive LLP (automotive components);
  Senior Advisor at New Mountain Capital; Trustee of
F. William McNabb III The Conference Board.
Born 1957. Trustee Since July 2009. Chairman of the  
Board. Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Amy Gutmann
Years: Chairman of the Board of The Vanguard Group, Born 1949. Trustee Since June 2006. Principal
Inc., and of each of the investment companies served Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: President
by The Vanguard Group, since January 2010; Director of the University of Pennsylvania; Christopher H.
of The Vanguard Group since 2008; Chief Executive Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Officer and President of The Vanguard Group and of in the School of Arts and Sciences with secondary
each of the investment companies served by The appointments at the Annenberg School for
Vanguard Group since 2008; Director of Vanguard Communication and the Graduate School of Education
Marketing Corporation; Managing Director of The of the University of Pennsylvania; Member of the
Vanguard Group (1995–2008). National Commission on the Humanities and Social
  Sciences; Trustee of Carnegie Corporation of New
  York and of the National Constitution Center; Chair
IndependentTrustees of the U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study 
  of Bioethical Issues.
Emerson U. Fullwood
Born 1948. Trustee Since January 2008. Principal JoAnn Heffernan Heisen
Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Executive Born 1950. Trustee Since July 1998. Principal 
Chief Staff and Marketing Officer for North America Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Corporate 
and Corporate Vice President (retired 2008) of Xerox Vice President and Chief Global Diversity Officer 
Corporation (document management products and (retired 2008) and Member of the Executive 
services); Executive in Residence and 2010  Committee (1997–2008) of Johnson & Johnson
Distinguished Minett Professor at the Rochester (pharmaceuticals/medical devices/consumer 
Institute of Technology; Director of SPX Corporation products); Director of Skytop Lodge Corporation 
(multi-industry manufacturing), the United Way of (hotels), the University Medical Center at Princeton, 
Rochester, Amerigroup Corporation (managed health the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Center 
care), the University of Rochester Medical Center, for Talent Innovation; Member of the Advisory Board 
Monroe Community College Foundation, and North of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs 
Carolina A&T University. at Syracuse University. 
 
Rajiv L. Gupta  F. Joseph Loughrey
Born 1945. Trustee Since December 2001. 2 Born 1949. Trustee Since October 2009. Principal 
Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: President 
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (retired 2009) and Chief Operating Officer (retired 2009) of Cummins 
and President (2006–2008) of Rohm and Haas Co. Inc. (industrial machinery); Chairman of the Board of 
(chemicals); Director of Tyco International, Ltd. Hillenbrand, Inc. (specialized consumer services); 
(diversified manufacturing and services), Hewlett- Director of SKF AB (industrial machinery), the Lumina 
Packard Co. (electronic computer manufacturing),  

 


 

Foundation for Education, and Oxfam America; Executive Officers  
Chairman of the Advisory Council for the College of    
Arts and Letters and Member of the Advisory Board to Glenn Booraem  
the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the Born 1967. Controller Since July 2010. Principal
University of Notre Dame. Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Principal
  of The Vanguard Group, Inc.; Controller of each of
Mark Loughridge the investment companies served by The Vanguard
Born 1953. Trustee Since March 2012. Principal Group; Assistant Controller of each of the investment
Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Senior Vice companies served by The Vanguard Group (2001–2010).
President and Chief Financial Officer at IBM (information    
technology services); Fiduciary Member of IBMs Thomas J. Higgins  
Retirement Plan Committee. Born 1957. Chief Financial Officer Since September
  2008. Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five
Scott C. Malpass Years: Principal of The Vanguard Group, Inc.; Chief
Born 1962. Trustee Since March 2012. Principal Financial Officer of each of the investment companies
Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Chief served by The Vanguard Group; Treasurer of each of
Investment Officer and Vice President at the University the investment companies served by The Vanguard
of Notre Dame; Assistant Professor of Finance at the Group (1998–2008).  
Mendoza College of Business at Notre Dame; Member    
of the Notre Dame 403(b) Investment Committee; Kathryn J. Hyatt  
Director of TIFF Advisory Services, Inc. (investment Born 1955. Treasurer Since November 2008. Principal
advisor); Member of the Investment Advisory Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Principal of
Committees of the Financial Industry Regulatory The Vanguard Group, Inc.; Treasurer of each of the
Authority (FINRA) and of Major League Baseball. investment companies served by The Vanguard
  Group; Assistant Treasurer of each of the investment
André F. Perold companies served by The Vanguard Group (1988–2008).
Born 1952. Trustee Since December 2004. Principal    
Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: George Heidi Stam  
Gund Professor of Finance and Banking at the Harvard Born 1956. Secretary Since July 2005. Principal
Business School (retired 2011); Chief Investment Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Managing
Officer and Managing Partner of HighVista Strategies Director of The Vanguard Group, Inc.; General Counsel
LLC (private investment firm); Director of Rand of The Vanguard Group; Secretary of The Vanguard
Merchant Bank; Overseer of the Museum of Fine Group and of each of the investment companies
Arts Boston. served by The Vanguard Group; Director and Senior
  Vice President of Vanguard Marketing Corporation.
   
Alfred M. Rankin, Jr.    
Born 1941. Trustee Since January 1993. Principal  Vanguard Senior ManagementTeam
Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Chairman,    
President, and Chief Executive Officer of NACCO Mortimer J. Buckley Chris D. McIsaac
Industries, Inc. (housewares/lignite) and of Hyster-Yale Kathleen C. Gubanich Michael S. Miller
Materials Handling, Inc. (forklift trucks); Director of Paul A. Heller James M. Norris
the National Association of Manufacturers; Chairman Martha G. King Glenn W. Reed
of the Board of University Hospitals of Cleveland; John T. Marcante  
Advisory Chairman of the Board of The Cleveland    
Museum of Art.    
 
Chairman Emeritus and Senior Advisor
Peter F. Volanakis  John J. Brennan  
Born 1955. Trustee Since July 2009. Principal Chairman, 1996–2009   
Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: President Chief Executive Officer and President, 1996–2008
and Chief Operating Officer (retired 2010) of Corning    
Incorporated (communications equipment); Director    
of SPX Corporation (multi-industry manufacturing); Founder  
Overseer of the Amos Tuck School of Business John C. Bogle   
Administration at Dartmouth College; Advisor to the  Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, 1974–1996
Norris Cotton Cancer Center.    
   

 

1 Mr. McNabb is considered an “interested person,” as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, because he is an officer of the Vanguard funds.
2 December 2002 for Vanguard Equity Income Fund, Vanguard Growth Equity Fund, the Vanguard Municipal Bond Funds, and the Vanguard State Tax-Exempt Funds.


 

 

 
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Semiannual Report | April 30, 2013

Vanguard WindsorTM II Fund



 

> For the six months ended April 30, 2013, Vanguard Windsor II Fund returned more than 14%.

> The fund’s result trailed that of its benchmark index and the average return of its large-capitalization value fund peers.

> The advisors’ choices among energy stocks fared well, but setbacks among technology holdings hurt performance.

Contents  
Your Fund’s Total Returns. 1
Chairman’s Letter. 2
Advisors’ Report. 7
Fund Profile. 12
Performance Summary. 13
Financial Statements. 14
About Your Fund’s Expenses. 28
Trustees Approve Advisory Arrangements. 30
Glossary. 32

 

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 front of this report. Of course, the isks of investing in your fund are spelled out in the prospectus.
See the Glossary for definitions of investment terms used in this report.
About the cover: Our cover photograph shows rigging on the HMSSurprise, a replica of an 18th-century Royal Navy frigate. It as featured in the 2003 movie Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, which was based on Patrick O’Brian’s sea ovels, set amid the Napoleonic Wars. Vanguard was named for another ship of that era, the HMSVanguard, which was the flagship of British Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of the Nile.


 

Your Fund’s Total Returns

Six Months Ended April 30, 2013  
  Total
  Returns
Vanguard Windsor II Fund  
Investor Shares 14.36%
Admiral™ Shares 14.40
Russell 1000 Value Index 16.31
Large-Cap Value Funds Average 15.23

Large-Cap Value Funds Average: Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.

Admiral Shares carry lower expenses and are available to investors who meet certain account-balance requirements.

Your Fund’s Performance at a Glance
October 31, 2012, Through April 30, 2013

      Distributions Per Share
  Starting Ending Income Capital
  Share Price Share Price Dividends Gains
Vanguard Windsor II Fund        
Investor Shares $29.33 $33.12 $0.373 $0.000
Admiral Shares 52.06 58.78 0.685 0.000

 

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Chairman’s Letter

Dear Shareholder,

For a six-month period that was marked by robust stock performance, Vanguard Windsor II Fund delivered double-digit returns but nonetheless finished behind its comparative standards. The fund returned 14.36% for Investor Shares and 14.40% for Admiral Shares for the half year ended April 30, 2013. That compares with 16.31% for the benchmark Russell 1000 Value Index and 15.23% for the average return of peer funds. Setbacks for certain of the fund’s technology holdings hurt results, while the advisors’ choices among oil refiners boosted performance.

On a separate note, you’ll see that in the Advisors’ Report that follows this letter, two associate portfolio managers are listed from Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss, LLC: Jeff Fahrenbruch and David Ganucheau. Previously analysts for the portfolio, they are named along with James Barrow, who has advised the fund since its inception in 1985. Jeff and David have expanded their responsibilities in recent years, and that’s reflected in their inclusion on the report. Jim Barrow remains portfolio manager, and the fund’s investment strategy is unchanged.

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The stock rally persisted, but not without challenges
Global stocks delivered a vigorous performance, recording positive results in five of the six months ended April 30. U.S. equities finished with a strong return of about 15% for the half year.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index closed April the same way it had March: at a record high amid solid corporate earnings and encouraging economic data. Also following a productive path were international equities, which returned almost 13% for the half year, helped by strength in Japan.

Despite the impressive results and relatively low volatility, the period had its share of potential pitfalls. Investors continued to worry about the pace of economic growth in China and the United States. And the deadly Boston Marathon bombing on April 15 triggered market anxiety.

Bonds notched a slight return as yields remained low
Bonds, after sputtering for most of the half year, finished it with a bit of a flourish. The broad U.S. taxable bond market returned 0.9% for the six months, following a 1.0% boost in April. The yield of the 10-year U.S. Treasury note closed the period at 1.67%,

Market Barometer      
 
      Total Returns
    Periods Ended April 30, 2013
  Six One Five Years
  Months Year (Annualized)
Stocks      
Russell 1000 Index (Large-caps) 15.05% 17.17% 5.49%
Russell 2000 Index (Small-caps) 16.58 17.69 7.27
Russell 3000 Index (Broad U.S. market) 15.16 17.21 5.63
MSCI All Country World Index ex USA (International) 12.78 14.15 -0.84
 
Bonds      
Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (Broad taxable market) 0.90% 3.68% 5.72%
Barclays Municipal Bond Index (Broad tax-exempt market) 1.78 5.19 6.09
Citigroup Three-Month U.S. Treasury Bill Index 0.05 0.08 0.28
 
CPI      
Consumer Price Index 0.52% 1.06% 1.60%

 

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a couple of ticks lower than its starting level of 1.69%, and lower still than the 1.85% it registered at the end of March. (Bond yields and prices move in opposite directions.)

Municipal bonds delivered a return closer to 2%, with more than half the gain coming in April. The Federal Reserve’s target for short-term interest rates remained pegged between 0% and 0.25%, which kept a firm leash on returns from money market and savings accounts. In a May 1 statement, the Fed said it would continue buying $85 billion a month in U.S. Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities until the job market improves substantially.

Kenneth Volpert, head of our Taxable Bond Group, noted recently that the Fed’s extraordinary actions to stimulate growth may have, in effect, pulled what would have been future investment gains into the present. The trade-off, he said, is that once the Fed begins to unwind the stimulus, “future returns are likely to be lower than they otherwise would have been for both bonds and stocks.”

Tech shares disappointed, but energy stocks shone
The six advisors that manage your fund focus on large-capitalization value stocks. This means they strive to identify shares of major companies that they believe to be inexpensive in relation to company earnings or other metrics.

Expense Ratios
Your Fund Compared With Its Peer Group

  Investor Admiral Peer Group
  Shares Shares Average
Windsor II Fund 0.35% 0.27% 1.19%

The fund expense ratios shown are from the prospectus dated February 27, 2013, and represent estimated costs for the current fiscal year. For the six months ended April 30, 2013, the fund’s annualized expense ratios were 0.35% for Investor Shares and 0.27% for Admiral Shares. The peer-group expense ratio is derived from data provided by Lipper Inc. and captures information through year-end 2012.

Peer group: Large-Cap Value Funds.

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Large-cap value stocks were in favor during the six months, and the Russell 1000 Value Index outpaced its growth counterpart by more than 2 percentage points. Value stocks, which generally provide higher dividends than growth stocks, appeared to benefit from investors’ appetite for yield. But the Windsor II Fund, hurt by some setbacks in its technology holdings, didn’t fully capitalize on value stocks’ advance.

The fund’s technology holdings generated half the return posted by their counterparts in the benchmark (14% compared with 28%). Intense competition has cut into the profitability of some of the leading companies in the industry, in which smartphones and tablets have powered growth the past few years; the fund’s return suffered as a result.

On the whole, however, the Windsor II Fund delivered a solid performance. All ten of its industry sectors registered positive returns. Shares of oil refiners did particularly well. Margins in refining traditionally tend to be quite low, but recent expansion in domestic oil production helped lower costs, which translated into higher profits.

The fund’s largest sector—financials, which accounted for a little more than a fifth of assets on average—was also its biggest contributor. Banking giants benefited from higher capital levels, improved lending conditions, and the recovering U.S. housing market. Banks’ robust showing was a striking turnaround from the days of the 2008–2009 financial crisis, when the survival of even the largest institutions was threatened.

For more about the advisors’ strategy and the fund’s positioning during the six months, please see the Advisors’ Report.

The wisdom of rebalancing holds true as stocks climb

More than four years have passed since the U.S. stock markets began an impressive recovery from the depths of the global financial crisis. The S&P 500 Index has risen from a low of 677 on March 9, 2009, to a close of 1,598 on April 30, 2013—a cumulative total return of 158%. International stock markets, while not back to peak levels, have also rebounded strikingly.

Such a strong recovery is, of course, a welcome development that few would have predicted several years ago. And investors with the discipline to maintain their stock allocation as part of a balanced, diversified portfolio have been able to more than recoup their crisis-era losses.

Discipline is just as important in good times as in bad. At Vanguard, we have long counseled investors to “stay the course”—to maintain a long-term commitment to a sensible portfolio. But staying the course doesn’t mean you should avoid taking action altogether.

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Over time, returns will shift the weighting of stocks and bonds in a portfolio, and its asset mix may become more aggressive than originally planned. To manage this risk, investors should periodically consider rebalancing, or adjusting their asset allocation to bring it back to its target.

For example, you should consider rebalancing if you’ve established a 60%/40% stock/bond portfolio and you find that your target allocation is now off by 5 percentage points or more. (For more on this topic, see Best Practices for Portfolio Rebalancing, available at vanguard.com/research.)

I realize it’s not easy to contemplate rebalancing when stocks have surged and expectations for bond returns are very modest. However, we believe that bonds will continue to play a valuable role in helping to smooth out stocks’ volatility. Without rebalancing, an investor could end up with a portfolio that’s very different from—and potentially riskier than—he or she intended.

As always, thank you for investing with Vanguard.

Sincerely,


F. William McNabb III
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
May 10, 2013

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Advisors’ Report

For the six months ended April 30, 2013, Vanguard Windsor II Fund returned 14.36% for Investor Shares and 14.40% for Admiral Shares. Your fund is managed by six independent advisors, a strategy that enhances its diversification by providing exposure to distinct, yet complementary, investment approaches. It’s not uncommon for different advisors to have different views about individual securities or the broader investment environment.

The table below lists the advisors, the amount and percentage of fund assets each manages, and brief descriptions of their investment strategies. The advisors

Vanguard Windsor II Fund Investment Advisors  
 
  Fund Assets Managed  
Investment Advisor % $ Million Investment Strategy
Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & 60 25,283 Conducts fundamental research on individual stocks
Strauss, LLC     exhibiting traditional value characteristics:
      price/earnings and price/book ratios below the broad
      market average and dividend yields above the broad
      market average.
Lazard Asset Management LLC 17 7,009 Employs a relative-value approach that seeks a
      combination of attractive valuation and high financial
      productivity. The process is research-driven, relying
      upon bottom-up stock analysis performed by the firm’s
      global sector analysts.
Sanders Capital, LLC 10 3,994 Employs a traditional, bottom-up, fundamental research
      approach to identifying securities that are undervalued
      relative to their expected total return.
Hotchkis and Wiley Capital 7 2,810 Uses a disciplined investment approach, focusing on
Management, LLC     such investment parameters as a company’s tangible
      assets, sustainable cash flow, and potential for
      improving business performance.
Armstrong Shaw Associates Inc. 4 1,699 Uses a bottom-up approach, employing fundamental
      and qualitative criteria to identify individual companies
      for potential investment.
Vanguard Equity Investment 0 189 Employs a quantitative fundamental management
Group     approach, using models that assess valuation, market
      sentiment, earnings quality and growth, and
      management decisions of companies versus their
      peers.
Cash Investments 2 885 These short-term reserves are invested by Vanguard in
      equity index products to simulate investment in stocks.
      Each advisor may also maintain a modest cash
      position.

 

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have provided the following assessment of the investment environment during the past six months and the notable successes and shortfalls in their portfolios. These comments were prepared on May 16, 2013.

Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney &
Strauss, LLC

Portfolio Manager:
James P. Barrow, Executive Director

Associate Portfolio Managers:
Jeff Fahrenbruch, Managing Director

David Ganucheau, Managing Director

Investment environment. Although absolute returns were good for the six months ended April 30, the fund underperformed the benchmark Russell 1000 Value Index. In general, although equities are not overpriced, the performance disparity has been significant between stocks in the highest price/earnings quartile and those in the lowest. The smallest companies—which are too small for the fund—have strongly outperformed large companies, providing a challenge for portfolio returns.

Successes and shortfalls. Long-term holding Imperial Tobacco detracted from returns; the significant economic weakness in Europe hampered consumer spending on tobacco products, particularly in Spain, affecting the company. Carnival Cruise Lines’ trouble with fleet reliability led to both bad publicity and discounting of cruise packages. Neither company is represented in the benchmark index.

The negative impact from these underperformers was somewhat offset by strong returns from energy holdings Phillips 66 and Marathon Petroleum and from pharmaceutical company Merck.

We expect continued profit improvement for the year, and, with funds flowing from cash to stocks as investors seek higher returns, stocks could well rise. Most investors are significantly behind the average market returns.

Lazard Asset Management LLC

Portfolio Managers:
Andrew Lacey, Deputy Chairman

Christopher Blake, Managing Director

Investment environment. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index advanced in each of the six months ended April 30, hitting record-high levels, as investors were encouraged by signs of a U.S. economic recovery. Housing data kept improving, and the unemployment rate declined to 7.6%, its lowest level in more than four years. Not all trends have been positive, however; taxes have risen and the budget cuts known as sequestration have begun. In Europe, political and fiscal uncertainty continued to weigh on the market, as the Cyprus bailout and Italian elections proved to be flashpoints.

Successes. Our portfolio benefited from stock selection in the information technology sector, where Cisco was a top contributor. Selection in industrials also

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helped; top contributors included Boeing and Parker-Hannifin. We sold Parker-Hannifin during the first quarter of 2013.

Shortfalls. Stock selection in energy, including Devon Energy and Consol Energy, detracted from performance, as did selection in materials, including Walter Energy and Eastman Chemical.

Sanders Capital, LLC

Portfolio Managers:
Lewis A. Sanders, CFA,
Chief Executive Officer and
Co-Chief Investment Officer

John P. Mahedy, CPA,
Director of Research and
Co-Chief Investment Officer

Investment environment. Investment opportunity in equities remains good, despite recent gains. The improved housing market and lower debt-service burdens have greatly improved the financial position of U.S. households; that should soon translate to faster economic growth.

Successes and shortfalls. Our investments in banks and insurers are positioned to benefit from such growth and the normalization of interest rates that will eventually follow. Although our holding of information technology companies is based on new product innovation, stronger growth will be a plus. Our investments in health care companies, which have performed well, remain attractive and offer ballast should the economy not respond as expected. Investments in the energy sector, however, have hurt returns, and we have reduced our holdings in that area, as we believe that oil may be moving from shortage to surplus. Any resulting decline in the real (after-inflation) price of oil will help economic growth and should benefit equities broadly.

Hotchkis and Wiley Capital
Management, LLC

Portfolio Managers:
George H. Davis, Jr.,
Chief Executive Officer

Sheldon J. Lieberman, Principal

Investment environment. Equities rose considerably over the six months despite the frustrating federal budget impasse in the United States, continued uncertainty about European sovereign debt, and worries over the prospects for global economic growth. Housing markets and employment in the United States, meanwhile, showed encouraging signs of recovery. The engine driving the stock market’s rise, however, has been resilient corporate earnings. Because earnings have kept pace with stock price increases, valuation opportunities remain available for diligent investors. Balance sheets have improved, and strong cash flows are being deployed to shareholders.

Successes. Stock selection was positive or neutral in nine of the ten industry sectors over the six months, with energy, financials, and health care leading the way. The largest individual contributors to

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relative performance were Hewlett-Packard, Cobalt International Energy, and Unum Group.

Shortfalls. Stock selection in the consumer discretionary sector detracted from performance; J.C. Penney was the largest individual detractor from relative performance.

Armstrong Shaw Associates Inc.

Portfolio Manager:
Jeffrey M. Shaw, Chairman and
Chief Investment Officer

Investment environment. Equities rallied strongly over the six months, pushing most major stock indexes to record highs. Similar highs reached in March 2000 and October 2007 each marked a top in the market. This time, stocks are in a much stronger place fundamentally, and we expect further gains over the balance of the year. Based on earnings, sales, and dividends, stocks are cheaper now than they were at the previous two peaks. Additionally, there appears to be no obvious bubble in one sector of the market, as was the case in 2000 (technology) and in 2007 (financials and housing). We remain positive on the prospects for the U.S. stock market and remain focused on companies with dominant franchises, strong balance sheets, and high free-cash-flow generation.

Successes. Our portfolio performed strongly over the six months, with double-digit returns in eight of the ten sectors. Our top-performing sectors were consumer staples, led by CVS Caremark, and utilities, led by Calpine. Stock selection in energy, materials, and industrials also contributed to returns.

Shortfalls. Weak relative returns in information technology and consumer discretionary detracted from performance. EMC, in information technology, under-performed because of soft spending in enterprise IT.

Vanguard Equity Investment Group

Portfolio Managers:
James D. Troyer, CFA, Principal

James P. Stetler, Principal

Michael R. Roach, CFA

Investment environment. For the six months, equities experienced above-average returns, with the broad market up about 15%. However, the market fluctuations over the not-too-distant past reinforce our conviction that trying to time our investments is not profitable. Our aim, instead, is to identify individual stocks with characteristics that will outperform over the long run. The results of our model, which ranks stocks based on key fundamentals across a variety of themes,

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allow us to construct our portfolio with the goal of minimizing exposure to risks that our research indicates do not improve returns. Our risk-control process then neutralizes our exposure to market-capitalization, volatility, and industry risks relative to our benchmark. In our view, the rewards available do not justify such risk exposures.

Successes. For the half year, stock selection results were best in energy and information technology. In energy, overweight positions in Tesoro and Marathon Petroleum contributed the most, while in IT the top contributors were Computer Sciences and Western Digital.

Shortfalls. Unfortunately, our stock selection in consumer staples and health care detracted from relative performance. Underweight positions in Walgreen, Mondele¯ z International, and Bristol-Myers Squibb lowered our relative performance.

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Windsor II Fund

Fund Profile
As of April 30, 2013

Share-Class Characteristics    
  Investor Admiral
  Shares   Shares
Ticker Symbol VWNFX VWNAX
Expense Ratio1 0.35%   0.27%
30-Day SEC Yield 2.21%   2.29%
 
Portfolio Characteristics    
      DJ U.S.
    Russell Total
    1000 Market
    Value FA
  Fund Index Index
Number of Stocks 267 698 3,587
Median Market Cap $57.3B $40.7B $40.7B
Price/Earnings Ratio 15.5x 15.8x 18.1x
Price/Book Ratio 1.9x 1.7x 2.3x
Return on Equity 16.3% 12.2% 16.6%
Earnings Growth Rate 6.6% 4.4% 9.7%
Dividend Yield 2.7% 2.4% 2.0%
Foreign Holdings 8.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Turnover Rate      
(Annualized) 27%
Short-Term Reserves 3.8%

 

Sector Diversification (% of equity exposure)

      DJ U.S.
    Russell Total
    1000 Market
    Value FA
  Fund Index Index
Consumer Discretionary 7.9% 8.5% 12.6%
Consumer Staples 10.3 7.4 9.6
Energy 14.0 15.5 9.8
Financials 20.6 27.8 17.5
Health Care 17.1 11.9 12.3
Industrials 11.6 8.8 10.8
Information Technology 9.1 6.5 17.2
Materials 1.6 3.5 3.8
Telecommunication      
Services 2.9 3.2 2.7
Utilities 4.9 6.9 3.7

 

Volatility Measures    
    DJ U.S.
  Russell Total
  1000 Market
  Value FA
  Index Index
R-Squared 0.98 0.98
Beta 0.99 0.99

These measures show the degree and timing of the fund’s fluctuations compared with the indexes over 36 months.

Ten Largest Holdings (% of total net assets)

Pfizer Inc. Pharmaceuticals 3.0%
Philip Morris    
International Inc. Tobacco 2.9
Microsoft Corp. Systems Software 2.7
Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals 2.7
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Diversified Financial  
  Services 2.5
Wells Fargo & Co. Diversified Banks 2.3
WellPoint Inc. Managed Health  
  Care 2.2
American Express Co. Consumer Finance 2.2
Raytheon Co. Aerospace &  
  Defense 2.1
Medtronic Inc. Health Care  
  Equipment 2.0
Top Ten   24.6%

The holdings listed exclude any temporary cash investments and equity index products.

Investment Focus


1 The expense ratios shown are from the prospectus dated February 27, 2013, and represent estimated costs for the current fiscal year. For the six months ended April 30, 2013, the annualized expense ratios were 0.35% for Investor Shares and 0.27% for Admiral Shares.

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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 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 (%): October 31, 2002, Through April 30, 2013


Note: For 2013, performance data reflect the six months ended April 30, 2013.

Average Annual Total Returns: Periods Ended March 31, 2013
This table presents returns through the latest calendar quarter—rather than through the end of the fiscal period.
Securities and Exchange Commission rules require that we provide this information.

  Inception One Five Ten
  Date Year Years Years
Investor Shares 6/24/1985 14.58% 5.78% 9.35%
Admiral Shares 5/14/2001 14.67 5.88 9.46

 

See Financial Highlights for dividend and capital gains information.

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Financial Statements (unaudited)

Statement of Net Assets
As of April 30, 2013

The fund reports a complete list of its holdings in regulatory filings 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 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 (95.6%)1    
Consumer Discretionary (7.3%)  
  Target Corp. 7,978,200 562,942
  Carnival Corp. 11,895,686 410,520
  Comcast Corp. 5,555,684 218,283
  Viacom Inc. Class B 3,169,700 202,829
  Service Corp.    
  International 9,222,323 155,673
  Omnicom Group Inc. 2,299,300 137,429
  Advance Auto Parts Inc. 1,494,400 125,350
* General Motors Co. 3,950,100 121,821
  American Eagle    
  Outfitters Inc. 5,472,273 106,436
  Lowe’s Cos. Inc. 2,598,539 99,836
  Genuine Parts Co. 1,285,348 98,111
  Macy’s Inc. 1,877,600 83,741
* Big Lots Inc. 2,216,695 80,732
  Delphi Automotive plc 1,631,225 75,379
  Hasbro Inc. 1,576,500 74,679
* AutoZone Inc. 177,262 72,516
  Renault SA 985,171 67,991
  Johnson Controls Inc. 1,719,300 60,193
  Wyndham Worldwide    
  Corp. 846,363 50,849
  Ford Motor Co. 3,574,259 49,003
  Volkswagen AG 226,980 44,224
  Hyundai Motor Co. 222,182 40,344
  Magna International Inc. 650,500 39,141
  Interpublic Group of    
  Cos. Inc. 2,766,100 38,283
  Volkswagen AG Prior    
  Pfd. 139,400 28,309
  Time Warner Cable Inc. 285,800 26,834
  Time Warner Inc. 30,699 1,835
  Foot Locker Inc. 29,000 1,011
  Brinker International Inc. 23,150 901
  Newell Rubbermaid Inc. 23,500 619
  Gannett Co. Inc. 28,400 573

 

      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
* Liberty Media Corp.    
  Class A 2,900 333
* Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. 2,936 202
  Expedia Inc. 2,500 140
  Whirlpool Corp. 1,000 114
      3,077,176
Consumer Staples (9.7%)    
  Philip Morris    
  International Inc. 12,627,653 1,207,077
  Diageo plc ADR 5,253,620 641,992
  Imperial Tobacco Group    
  plc ADR 8,734,425 628,966
  Altria Group Inc. 12,357,232 451,163
  Wal-Mart Stores Inc. 4,507,000 350,284
  CVS Caremark Corp. 4,055,593 235,955
  Molson Coors Brewing    
  Co. Class B 3,907,100 201,606
  Sysco Corp. 4,862,341 169,501
  PepsiCo Inc. 1,161,600 95,797
  Mondelez International    
  Inc. Class A 1,442,961 45,381
  Procter & Gamble Co. 59,790 4,590
  General Mills Inc. 26,500 1,336
  Reynolds American Inc. 27,500 1,304
  Kimberly-Clark Corp. 12,200 1,259
  JM Smucker Co. 11,800 1,218
  Ingredion Inc. 15,300 1,102
  Clorox Co. 10,700 923
  HJ Heinz Co. 7,300 529
  Energizer Holdings Inc. 4,800 464
  Tyson Foods Inc. Class A 16,000 394
  ConAgra Foods Inc. 9,100 322
  Safeway Inc. 10,700 241
      4,041,404
Energy (13.3%)    
  Phillips 66 12,324,494 751,178
  Occidental Petroleum    
  Corp. 8,147,407 727,238
  ConocoPhillips 11,927,889 721,041

 

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Windsor II Fund    
 
 
 
      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
  BP plc ADR 16,207,070 706,628
^ Seadrill Ltd. 10,969,707 422,224
  Spectra Energy Corp. 9,950,311 313,733
  Marathon Petroleum    
  Corp. 3,889,248 304,761
  Chevron Corp. 2,104,010 256,710
  CONSOL Energy Inc. 3,991,520 134,275
  Anadarko Petroleum    
  Corp. 1,561,900 132,387
* Transocean Ltd. 2,370,415 122,005
  Halliburton Co. 2,688,243 114,976
  Devon Energy Corp. 2,015,500 110,973
  Apache Corp. 1,273,870 94,114
  Royal Dutch Shell plc    
  ADR 1,225,100 85,500
  Total SA ADR 1,597,000 80,233
* Cobalt International    
  Energy Inc. 2,684,500 75,005
  Noble Corp. 1,825,078 68,440
  Kinder Morgan Inc. 1,354,225 52,950
  Ensco plc Class A 831,303 47,950
  Valero Energy Corp. 1,182,700 47,686
* Cameron International    
  Corp. 761,653 46,880
* Dresser-Rand Group Inc. 773,210 42,998
  Marathon Oil Corp. 789,600 25,796
  Murphy Oil Corp. 301,200 18,702
  Royal Dutch Shell plc    
  ADR 232,905 15,831
  Hess Corp. 203,950 14,721
  Gazprom OAO ADR 1,553,600 12,373
  Exxon Mobil Corp. 117,982 10,499
* Kosmos Energy Ltd. 624,200 6,860
  Tesoro Corp. 20,000 1,068
  HollyFrontier Corp. 5,100 252
  Chesapeake Energy Corp. 6,500 127
      5,566,114
Exchange-Traded Funds (1.5%)  
2 Vanguard Total Stock    
  Market ETF 3,197,800 263,051
  SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust 1,114,000 177,884
^,2 Vanguard Value ETF 2,511,200 168,200
      609,135
Financials (19.6%)    
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. 21,498,653 1,053,649
  Wells Fargo & Co. 24,870,941 944,598
  American Express Co. 13,335,096 912,254
  Citigroup Inc. 17,779,644 829,598
  PNC Financial Services    
  Group Inc. 11,137,368 756,004
  Bank of America Corp. 59,860,895 736,888
  Capital One Financial    
  Corp. 12,128,706 700,797
  XL Group plc Class A 12,711,132 395,825
  SLM Corp. 15,720,252 324,623

 

      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
  MetLife Inc. 4,277,879 166,794
* American International    
  Group Inc. 4,000,664 165,707
  SunTrust Banks Inc. 4,379,267 128,094
  Goldman Sachs    
  Group Inc. 838,644 122,501
  Lincoln National Corp. 3,286,761 111,783
  Morgan Stanley 4,406,800 97,611
  Unum Group 3,436,600 95,847
  Regions Financial Corp. 8,961,700 76,085
  Barclays plc 15,114,616 67,450
  Vornado Realty Trust 685,000 59,979
  Corrections Corp. of    
  America 1,649,680 59,718
  BNP Paribas SA 1,039,600 57,966
  Hartford Financial    
  Services Group Inc. 1,910,500 53,666
  Janus Capital Group Inc. 5,876,815 52,421
  Ameriprise Financial Inc. 675,200 50,323
  Prudential Financial Inc. 785,200 47,442
  ACE Ltd. 475,422 42,379
  Allstate Corp. 850,600 41,901
  Bank of New York    
  Mellon Corp. 943,400 26,623
  Travelers Cos. Inc. 20,400 1,742
  State Street Corp. 26,600 1,555
  Fifth Third Bancorp 78,200 1,332
  US Bancorp 36,049 1,200
  Everest Re Group Ltd. 8,600 1,161
  PartnerRe Ltd. 12,000 1,132
* Berkshire Hathaway Inc.    
  Class B 10,000 1,063
  Ventas Inc. 13,300 1,059
  Huntington    
  Bancshares Inc. 145,300 1,042
  HCP Inc. 19,500 1,039
  Discover Financial    
  Services 22,400 980
  Realty Income Corp. 14,500 739
  Kimco Realty Corp. 29,900 711
  Public Storage 4,200 693
  Weyerhaeuser Co. 19,500 595
  Piedmont Office Realty    
  Trust Inc. Class A 27,100 556
  Simon Property    
  Group Inc. 3,100 552
  Weingarten Realty    
  Investors 16,100 548
  Aflac Inc. 9,725 529
  Torchmark Corp. 7,500 465
  HCC Insurance    
  Holdings Inc. 9,500 405
  BlackRock Inc. 1,100 293
  Regency Centers Corp. 2,000 112
      8,198,029

 

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Windsor II Fund    
 
 
 
      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
Health Care (16.2%)    
  Pfizer Inc. 42,761,301 1,243,071
  Johnson & Johnson 13,023,550 1,109,997
  WellPoint Inc. 12,742,324 929,170
  Medtronic Inc. 17,969,600 838,821
  Merck & Co. Inc. 14,427,629 678,099
  Baxter International Inc. 5,028,169 351,318
  UnitedHealth Group Inc. 4,981,098 298,517
  McKesson Corp. 2,006,000 212,275
* CareFusion Corp. 5,392,500 180,325
* Gilead Sciences Inc. 2,899,200 146,816
  Zoetis Inc. 3,861,754 127,515
  Covidien plc 1,250,772 79,849
  St. Jude Medical Inc. 1,892,216 77,997
  AbbVie Inc. 1,589,991 73,219
  Aetna Inc. 1,171,800 67,308
  Sanofi 594,100 64,232
  Sanofi ADR 774,900 41,341
  Thermo Fisher    
  Scientific Inc. 505,011 40,744
* Express Scripts    
  Holding Co. 671,653 39,876
  Amgen Inc. 340,499 35,483
  Abbott Laboratories 888,114 32,789
  Novartis AG ADR 413,100 30,470
  Humana Inc. 289,700 21,470
  Quest Diagnostics Inc. 296,800 16,719
  AstraZeneca plc ADR 293,200 15,223
  Zimmer Holdings Inc. 186,000 14,220
  Eli Lilly & Co. 41,000 2,271
  Cigna Corp. 15,300 1,012
  Omnicare Inc. 15,500 679
  Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. 14,733 585
* Charles River    
  Laboratories    
  International Inc. 5,850 255
* Covance Inc. 2,900 216
* Actavis Inc. 1,100 116
      6,771,998
Industrials (10.9%)    
  Raytheon Co. 14,095,100 865,157
  Honeywell International    
  Inc. 10,756,998 791,070
  Emerson Electric Co. 10,379,000 576,138
  General Electric Co. 20,750,307 462,524
  Illinois Tool Works Inc. 6,615,930 427,125
3 Xylem Inc. 9,950,502 276,126
  Tyco International Ltd. 5,806,609 186,508
3 Exelis Inc. 12,321,102 137,627
  General Dynamics Corp. 1,724,300 127,529
  ITT Corp. 4,384,551 121,014
  Boeing Co. 1,307,200 119,491
  Republic Services Inc.    
  Class A 2,237,400 76,251
  Caterpillar Inc. 588,900 49,862

 

      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
  Lockheed Martin Corp. 439,900 43,590
  ADT Corp. 975,272 42,561
  Cummins Inc. 395,600 42,088
  FedEx Corp. 441,000 41,458
  United Technologies    
  Corp. 446,925 40,800
  PACCAR Inc. 699,800 34,836
  United Parcel Service Inc.    
  Class B 402,054 34,512
  Stanley Black &    
  Decker Inc. 371,100 27,762
* WABCO Holdings Inc. 305,405 22,059
  Embraer SA ADR 463,600 16,194
  Northrop Grumman Corp. 189,176 14,328
  L-3 Communications    
  Holdings Inc. 13,800 1,121
* Delta Air Lines Inc. 61,700 1,058
* Hertz Global Holdings Inc. 24,600 592
  Avery Dennison Corp. 12,600 522
  Cintas Corp. 7,700 346
  Rockwell Collins Inc. 2,500 157
      4,580,406
Information Technology (8.4%)  
  Microsoft Corp. 33,746,790 1,117,019
  Intel Corp. 16,495,100 395,058
  Cisco Systems Inc. 13,457,400 281,529
  Oracle Corp. 6,423,636 210,567
  International Business    
  Machines Corp. 1,000,555 202,652
* EMC Corp. 7,514,081 168,541
  Corning Inc. 11,519,400 167,031
  Hewlett-Packard Co. 7,742,050 159,486
  Samsung Electronics    
  Co. Ltd. 110,400 152,685
  QUALCOMM Inc. 2,086,300 128,558
  Apple Inc. 289,002 127,956
* Google Inc. Class A 139,342 114,897
  Texas Instruments Inc. 2,624,000 95,015
  Western Digital Corp. 982,900 54,335
  TE Connectivity Ltd. 907,375 39,516
  Mastercard Inc. Class A 68,052 37,628
* SanDisk Corp. 695,900 36,493
  CA Inc. 786,028 21,199
  Seagate Technology plc 35,450 1,301
  Fidelity National    
  Information Services    
  Inc. 28,800 1,211
  Computer Sciences Corp. 23,900 1,120
* Flextronics International    
  Ltd. 146,400 1,047
  NVIDIA Corp. 50,600 697
  Applied Materials Inc. 19,800 287
  Maxim Integrated    
  Products Inc. 6,900 213
      3,516,041

 

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      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
Materials (1.4%)    
  EI du Pont de Nemours    
  & Co. 5,309,138 289,401
  Eastman Chemical Co. 1,444,400 96,269
  Mosaic Co. 1,535,662 94,582
  Carpenter Technology    
  Corp. 1,201,051 53,999
  Praxair Inc. 304,444 34,798
  Walter Energy Inc. 998,000 17,884
  LyondellBasell Industries    
  NV Class A 22,820 1,385
  Rock Tenn Co. Class A 11,000 1,102
  CF Industries Holdings Inc.  5,900 1,101
  Dow Chemical Co. 30,000 1,017
* Owens-Illinois Inc. 38,700 1,017
  Westlake Chemical Corp. 10,800 898
  Huntsman Corp. 22,500 424
  Axiall Corp. 3,420 179
  International Paper Co. 1,100 52
      594,108
Telecommunication Services (2.7%)  
  AT&T Inc. 14,308,307 535,989
  Verizon    
  Communications Inc. 9,835,809 530,248
  Vodafone Group plc ADR 2,492,500 76,246
  CenturyLink Inc. 32,600 1,225
* Sprint Nextel Corp. 35,400 250
      1,143,958
Utilities (4.6%)    
  Public Service Enterprise    
  Group Inc. 17,875,058 654,406
3 CenterPoint Energy Inc. 25,765,313 635,888
  Entergy Corp. 5,427,878 386,628
  Sempra Energy 843,700 69,901
  Exelon Corp. 1,707,100 64,033
* Calpine Corp. 2,811,933 61,103
  NRG Energy Inc. 1,538,000 42,864
  Edison International 423,300 22,773
  PG&E Corp. 30,500 1,477
  DTE Energy Co. 17,600 1,283
  AES Corp. 89,200 1,236
  Pinnacle West Capital    
  Corp. 18,400 1,121

 

      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
  NV Energy Inc. 49,300 1,066
  American Water    
  Works Co. Inc. 20,200 846
  American Electric    
  Power Co. Inc. 12,000 617
  CMS Energy Corp. 15,300 458
  Duke Energy Corp. 3,600 271
  Southern Co. 800 39
      1,946,010
Total Common Stocks    
(Cost $30,681,618)   40,044,379
Temporary Cash Investments (5.1%)1  
Money Market Fund (5.0%)    
4,5 Vanguard Market    
  Liquidity Fund,    
  0.142% 2,069,550,259 2,069,550
 
    Face  
    Amount  
    ($000)  
U.S. Government and Agency Obligations (0.1%)
6,7 Fannie Mae Discount    
  Notes, 0.120%, 6/5/13 6,000 5,999
6,7 Fannie Mae Discount    
  Notes, 0.110%, 8/21/13 5,000 4,998
6,7 Fannie Mae Discount    
  Notes, 0.130%, 9/18/13 30,000 29,979
6,7 Freddie Mac Discount    
  Notes, 0.130%, 9/16/13 1,000 999
      41,975
Total Temporary Cash Investments  
(Cost $2,111,532)   2,111,525
Total Investments (100.7%)    
(Cost $32,793,150)   42,155,904
Other Assets and Liabilities (-0.7%)  
Other Assets   238,466
Liabilities5   (525,514)
      (287,048)
Net Assets (100%)   41,868,856

 

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At April 30, 2013, net assets consisted of:
  Amount
  ($000)
Paid-in Capital 32,596,456
Undistributed Net Investment Income 198,318
Accumulated Net Realized Losses (303,534)
Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)  
Investment Securities 9,362,754
Futures Contracts 14,855
Foreign Currencies 7
Net Assets 41,868,856
 
 
Investor Shares—Net Assets  
Applicable to 577,366,242 outstanding  
$.001 par value shares of beneficial  
interest (unlimited authorization) 19,120,763
Net Asset Value Per Share—  
Investor Shares $33.12
 
 
Admiral Shares—Net Assets  
Applicable to 386,980,258 outstanding  
$.001 par value shares of beneficial  
interest (unlimited authorization) 22,748,093
Net Asset Value Per Share—  
Admiral Shares $58.78

 

See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements.
* Non-income-producing security.
^ Part of security position is on loan to broker-dealers. The total value of securities on loan is $54,741,000.
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 96.7% and 4.0%, respectively, of net assets.
2 Considered an affiliated company of the fund as the issuer is another member of The Vanguard Group.
3 Considered an affiliated company of the fund as the fund owns more than 5% of the outstanding voting securities of such company.
4 Affiliated money market fund available only to Vanguard funds and certain trusts and accounts managed by Vanguard. Rate shown is the 7-day yield.
5 Includes $56,339,000 of collateral received for securities on loan.
6 The issuer was placed under federal conservatorship in September 2008; since that time, its daily operations have been managed by the Federal Housing Finance Agency and it receives capital from the U.S. Treasury, as needed to maintain a positive net worth, in exchange for senior preferred stock.
7 Securities with a value of $20,888,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open futures contracts.
ADR—American Depositary Receipt.
See accompanying Notes, which are an integral part of the Financial Statements.

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Statement of Operations

  Six Months Ended
  April 30, 2013
  ($000)
Investment Income  
Income  
Dividends1,2 517,478
Interest2 943
Security Lending 265
Total Income 518,686
Expenses  
Investment Advisory Fees—Note B  
Basic Fee 28,479
Performance Adjustment (2,426)
The Vanguard Group—Note C  
Management and Administrative—Investor Shares 18,299
Management and Administrative—Admiral Shares 12,404
Marketing and Distribution—Investor Shares 1,576
Marketing and Distribution—Admiral Shares 1,656
Custodian Fees 146
Shareholders’ Reports—Investor Shares 76
Shareholders’ Reports—Admiral Shares 77
Trustees’ Fees and Expenses 61
Total Expenses 60,348
Expenses Paid Indirectly (270)
Net Expenses 60,078
Net Investment Income 458,608
Realized Net Gain (Loss)  
Investment Securities Sold2 1,600,718
Futures Contracts 32,251
Foreign Currencies (155)
Realized Net Gain (Loss) 1,632,814
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)  
Investment Securities 3,181,207
Futures Contracts 20,445
Foreign Currencies 9
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) 3,201,661
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations 5,293,083

1 Dividends are net of foreign withholding taxes of $1,106,000.
2 Dividend income, interest income, and realized net gain (loss) from affiliated companies of the fund were $19,862,000, $926,000, and $46,185,000, respectively.

See accompanying Notes, which are an integral part of the Financial Statements.

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Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  Six Months Ended Year Ended
  April 30, October 31,
  2013 2012
  ($000) ($000)
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets    
Operations    
Net Investment Income 458,608 837,220
Realized Net Gain (Loss) 1,632,814 2,325,818
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) 3,201,661 2,378,206
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations 5,293,083 5,541,244
Distributions    
Net Investment Income    
Investor Shares (225,295) (425,313)
Admiral Shares (253,268) (386,642)
Realized Capital Gain    
Investor Shares
Admiral Shares
Total Distributions (478,563) (811,955)
Capital Share Transactions    
Investor Shares (1,391,835) (3,249,876)
Admiral Shares 1,158,630 2,027,815
Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions (233,205) (1,222,061)
Total Increase (Decrease) 4,581,315 3,507,228
Net Assets    
Beginning of Period 37,287,541 33,780,313
End of Period1 41,868,856 37,287,541

1 Net Assets—End of Period includes undistributed net investment income of $198,318,000 and $218,428,000.

See accompanying Notes, which are an integral part of the Financial Statements.

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Financial Highlights

Investor Shares            
Six Months          
  Ended          
For a Share Outstanding April 30,     Year Ended October 31,
Throughout Each Period 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period $29.33 $25.68 $24.37 $22.22 $20.56 $37.84
Investment Operations            
Net Investment Income .358 .644 .557 .495 .580 .777
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)            
on Investments 3.805 3.627 1.276 2.151 1.750 (13.804)
Total from Investment Operations 4.163 4.271 1.833 2.646 2.330 (13.027)
Distributions            
Dividends from Net Investment Income (.373) (.621) (.523) (.496) (.670) (.799)
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains — (3.454)
Total Distributions (.373) (.621) (.523) (.496) (.670) (4.253)
Net Asset Value, End of Period $33.12 $29.33 $25.68 $24.37 $22.22 $20.56
 
Total Return1 14.36% 16.90% 7.48% 12.05% 11.96% -38.02%
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data            
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) $19,121 $18,255 $19,010 $20,921 $20,695 $19,400
Ratio of Total Expenses to            
Average Net Assets2 0.35% 0.35% 0.35% 0.35% 0.38% 0.32%
Ratio of Net Investment Income to            
Average Net Assets 2.33% 2.30% 2.11% 2.08% 2.96% 2.66%
Portfolio Turnover Rate 27% 22% 23% 29% 41% 37%

The expense ratio, net income ratio, and turnover rate for the current period have been annualized.
1 Total returns do not include account service fees that may have applied in the periods shown. Fund prospectuses provide information about any applicable account service fees.
2 Includes performance-based investment advisory fee increases (decreases) of (0.01%), (0.02%), (0.01%), (0.01%), (0.01%), and (0.01%).

See accompanying Notes, which are an integral part of the Financial Statements.

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Financial Highlights

Admiral Shares            
Six Months          
  Ended          
For a Share Outstanding April 30,     Year Ended October 31,
Throughout Each Period 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period $52.06 $45.59 $43.26 $39.46 $36.51 $67.18
Investment Operations            
Net Investment Income .658 1.188 1.025 .914 1.064 1.431
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)            
on Investments 6.747 6.424 2.264 3.811 3.112 (24.497)
Total from Investment Operations 7.405 7.612 3.289 4.725 4.176 (23.066)
Distributions            
Dividends from Net Investment Income (.685) (1.142) (.959) (.925) (1.226) (1.473)
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains — (6.131)
Total Distributions (.685) (1.142) (.959) (.925) (1.226) (7.604)
Net Asset Value, End of Period $58.78 $52.06 $45.59 $43.26 $39.46 $36.51
 
Total Return1 14.40% 16.98% 7.56% 12.12% 12.09% -37.94%
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data            
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) $22,748 $19,032 $14,771 $13,381 $12,060 $11,611
Ratio of Total Expenses to            
Average Net Assets2 0.27% 0.27% 0.27% 0.27% 0.27% 0.22%
Ratio of Net Investment Income to            
Average Net Assets 2.41% 2.38% 2.19% 2.16% 3.07% 2.76%
Portfolio Turnover Rate 27% 22% 23% 29% 41% 37%

The expense ratio, net income ratio, and turnover rate for the current period have been annualized.
1 Total returns do not include account service fees that may have applied in the periods shown. Fund prospectuses provide information about any applicable account service fees.
2 Includes performance-based investment advisory fee increases (decreases) of (0.01%), (0.02%), (0.01%), (0.01%), (0.01%), and (0.01%).

See accompanying Notes, which are an integral part of the Financial Statements.

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Notes to Financial Statements

Vanguard Windsor II Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. 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, 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 affected by events occurring before the fund’s pricing time but after the close of the securities’ primary markets, are valued at their fair values calculated according to procedures adopted by the board of trustees. These procedures include obtaining quotations from an independent pricing service, monitoring news to identify significant market- or security-specific events, and evaluating changes in the values of foreign market proxies (for example, ADRs, futures contracts, or exchange-traded funds), between the time the foreign markets close and the fund’s pricing time. When fair-value pricing is employed, the prices of securities used by a fund to calculate its net asset value may differ from quoted or published prices for the same securities. 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. Foreign Currency: Securities and other assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars using exchange rates obtained from an independent third party as of the fund’s pricing time on the valuation date. Realized gains (losses) and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investment securities include the effects of changes in exchange rates since the securities were purchased, combined with the effects of changes in security prices. Fluctuations in the value of other assets and liabilities resulting from changes in exchange rates are recorded as unrealized foreign currency gains (losses) until the assets or liabilities are settled in cash, at which time they are recorded as realized foreign currency gains (losses).

3. 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).

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During the six months ended April 30, 2013, the fund’s average investments in long and short futures contracts represented less than 1% and 0% of net assets, respectively, based on quarterly average aggregate settlement values.

4. 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 for all open federal income tax years (October 31, 2009–2012), and for the period ended April 30, 2013, and has concluded that no provision for federal income tax is required in the fund’s financial statements.

5. Distributions: Distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date.

6. 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. Daily market fluctuations could cause the value of loaned securities to be more or less than the value of the collateral received. When this occurs, the collateral is adjusted and settled on the next business day. 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 fees charged to borrowers plus income earned on investing cash collateral, less expenses associated with the loan.

7. 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. Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss, LLC; Lazard Asset Management LLC; Hotchkis and Wiley Capital Management, LLC; Armstrong Shaw Associates Inc.; and Sanders Capital, LLC, each provide investment advisory services to a portion of the fund for a fee calculated at an annual percentage rate of average net assets managed by the advisor. The basic fee of Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss, LLC, is subject to quarterly adjustments based on performance for the preceding three years relative to the MSCI US Prime Market 750 Index. The basic fee of Lazard Asset Management LLC is subject to quarterly adjustments based on performance for the preceding three years relative to the S&P 500 Index. The basic fee of Hotchkis and Wiley Capital Management, LLC, is subject to quarterly adjustments based on performance for the preceding five years relative to the MSCI US Investable Market 2500 Index. The basic fee of Armstrong Shaw Associates Inc. is subject to quarterly adjustments based on performance for the preceeding five years relative to the Russell 1000 Value Index. The basic fee of Sanders Capital, LLC, is subject to quarterly adjustments based on performance since January 31, 2010, relative to the Russell 3000 Index.

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The Vanguard Group provides investment advisory services to a portion of the fund on an at-cost basis; the fund paid Vanguard advisory fees of $65,000 for the six months ended April 30, 2013.

For the six months ended April 30, 2013, the aggregate investment advisory fee represented an effective annual basic rate of 0.15% of the fund’s average net assets, before a decrease of $2,426,000 (0.01%) 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 April 30, 2013, the fund had contributed capital of $5,150,000 to Vanguard (included in Other Assets), representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 2.06% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and officers of Vanguard.

D. The fund has asked its investment advisors 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. For the six months ended April 30, 2013, these arrangements reduced the fund’s expenses by $270,000 (an annual rate of 0.00% of average net assets).

E. Various inputs may be used to determine the value of the fund’s investments. These inputs are summarized in three broad levels for financial statement purposes. The inputs or methodologies used to value securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.

Level 1Quoted prices in active markets for identical securities.
Level 2Other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.).
Level 3Significant unobservable inputs (including the fund’s own assumptions used to determine the fair value of investments).

The following table summarizes the market value of the fund’s investments as of April 30, 2013, based on the inputs used to value them:

  Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
Investments ($000) ($000) ($000)
Common Stocks 39,508,804 535,575
Temporary Cash Investments 2,069,550 41,975
Futures Contracts—Assets1 1,162
Futures Contracts—Liabilities1 (16)
Total 41,579,500 577,550
1 Represents variation margin on the last day of the reporting period.

 

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F. At April 30, 2013, the aggregate settlement value of open futures contracts and the related unrealized appreciation (depreciation) were:

        ($000)
      Aggregate  
    Number of Settlement Unrealized
    Long (Short) Value Appreciation
Futures Contracts Expiration Contracts Long (Short) (Depreciation)
S&P 500 Index June 2013 639 254,354 9,039
E-mini S&P 500 Index June 2013 2,465 196,239 5,816

 

Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on open futures contracts is required to be treated as realized gain (loss) for tax purposes.

G. 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.

During the six months ended April 30, 2013, the fund realized net foreign currency losses of $155,000, which decreased distributable net income for tax purposes; accordingly, such losses have been reclassified from accumulated net realized losses to undistributed net investment income.

The fund’s tax-basis capital gains and losses are determined only at the end of each fiscal year. For tax purposes, at October 31, 2012, the fund had available capital losses totaling $1,941,763,000 to offset future net capital gains of $128,122,000 through October 31, 2016, $1,639,579,000 through October 31, 2017, and $174,062,000 through October 31, 2018. The fund will use these capital losses to offset net taxable capital gains, if any, realized during the year ending October 31, 2013; should the fund realize net capital losses for the year, the losses will be added to the loss carryforward balance above.

At April 30, 2013, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $32,793,150,000. Net unrealized appreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $9,362,754,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $12,165,361,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $2,802,607,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.

H. During the six months ended April 30, 2013, the fund purchased $5,047,480,000 of investment securities and sold $6,154,640,000 of investment securities, other than temporary cash investments.

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I. Capital share transactions for each class of shares were:

  Six Months Ended   Year Ended
    April 30, 2013 October 31, 2012
  Amount Shares Amount Shares
  ($000) (000) ($000) (000)
Investor Shares        
Issued 546,472 17,912 1,360,965 49,432
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 220,082 7,519 415,018 15,662
Redeemed (2,158,389) (70,460) (5,025,859) (182,888)
Net Increase (Decrease)—Investor Shares (1,391,835) (45,029) (3,249,876) (117,794)
Admiral Shares        
Issued 2,102,015 38,609 3,988,960 81,728
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 239,632 4,615 364,718 7,738
Redeemed (1,183,017) (21,792) (2,325,863) (47,911)
Net Increase (Decrease)—Admiral Shares 1,158,630 21,432 2,027,815 41,555

 

J. Certain of the fund’s investments are in companies that are considered to be affiliated companies of the fund because the fund owns more than 5% of the outstanding voting securities of the company. Transactions during the period in securities of these companies were as follows:

      Current Period Transactions  
  Oct. 31, 2012   Proceeds from   April 30, 2013
  Market Purchases Securities Dividend Market
  Value at Cost Sold Income Value
  ($000) ($000) ($000) ($000) ($000)
CenterPoint Energy Inc. 557,491 952 10,548 635,888
Exelis Inc. 136,271 2,546 137,627
Service Corp. International 292,496 166,724 1,546 NA1
Xylem Inc. 241,399 1,158 276,126
  1,227,657       1,049,641

1 Not applicable—At April 30, 2013, the security was still held, but the issuer was no longer an affiliated company of the fund.

K. In preparing the financial statements as of April 30, 2013, management considered the impact of subsequent events for potential recognition or disclosure in these financial statements.

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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 accompanying table 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 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 any purchase, redemption, or account service fees described in the fund prospectus. If such fees were applied to your account, your costs would be higher. Your fund does not 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 April 30, 2013      
  Beginning Ending Expenses
  Account Value Account Value Paid During
Windsor II Fund 10/31/2012 4/30/2013 Period
Based on Actual Fund Return      
Investor Shares $1,000.00 $1,143.61 $1.86
Admiral Shares 1,000.00 1,143.98 1.44
Based on Hypothetical 5% Yearly Return      
Investor Shares $1,000.00 $1,023.06 $1.76
Admiral Shares 1,000.00 1,023.46 1.35

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 0.35% for Investor Shares and 0.27% 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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Trustees Approve Advisory Arrangements

The board of trustees of Vanguard Windsor II Fund has renewed the fund’s investment advisory arrangements with Armstrong Shaw Associates Inc. (Armstrong Shaw); Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss, LLC (Barrow Hanley); Hotchkis and Wiley Capital Management, LLC (Hotchkis and Wiley); Lazard Asset Management LLC (Lazard); Sanders Capital, LLC (Sanders Capital); and The Vanguard Group, Inc. (Vanguard) (through its Equity Investment Group). The board determined that the retention of the advisors was in the best interests of the fund and its shareholders.

The board based its decision upon an evaluation of each advisor’s investment staff, portfolio management process, and performance. The trustees considered the factors discussed below, among others. However, no single factor determined whether the board approved the arrangements. 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 the fund’s investment management services over both the short and long term, and took into account the organizational depth and stability of each advisor. The board noted the following:

Armstrong Shaw. Founded in 1984, Armstrong Shaw is an employee-owned firm that manages large-cap value products. The firm constructs a portfolio of large-cap stocks using a bottom-up, fundamentally driven process to identify individual companies for potential investment. The firm’s disciplined, absolute value-based approach determines the intrinsic value of a company through analysis of its cash flow or an appraisal of its assets. Candidates for purchase are stocks selling at a substantial discount to their intrinsic value from companies that have a sound business and capable management team. Armstrong Shaw has managed a portion of the fund since 2006.

Barrow Hanley. Founded in 1979, Barrow Hanley is known for its commitment to value investing. A subsidiary of Old Mutual Asset Managers, Barrow Hanley remains independently managed. Using a combination of in-depth fundamental research and valuation forecasts, Barrow Hanley seeks stocks offering strong fundamentals and price appreciation potential, with below-average price/earnings ratios and price/book value ratios, and above-average current yields. Barrow Hanley has advised the fund since the fund’s inception in 1985.

Hotchkis and Wiley. Founded in 1980, Hotchkis and Wiley is a value-oriented firm that invests mainly in mid- and large-cap stocks with value-oriented characteristics. Hotchkis and Wiley follows a disciplined investment approach, focusing on such investment parameters as a company’s tangible assets, sustainable cash flow, and potential for improving business performance. Hotchkis and Wiley has managed a portion of the fund since 2003.

Lazard. Lazard provides investment management services for clients around the world in a variety of investment mandates, including international equities, domestic equities, and fixed income securities. The investment team at Lazard employs a bottom-up stock-selection process to identify stocks with sustainable financial productivity and attractive valuations. The investment process incorporates three types of research: financial screening, fundamental analysis, and accounting validation. Lazard is a subsidiary of Lazard Freres & Co., LLC, and has managed a portion of the fund since 2007.

Sanders Capital. Founded in 2009, Sanders Capital employs a traditional bottom-up, fundamental research-driven approach to identify securities that are undervalued relative to their expected total return. Sanders Capital has managed a portion of the fund since 2010.

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Vanguard. Vanguard has been managing investments for more than three decades. The Equity Investment Group adheres to a sound, disciplined investment management process; the team has considerable experience, stability, and depth. Vanguard has managed a portion of the fund since 1991.

The board concluded that each advisor’s experience, stability, depth, and performance, among other factors, warranted continuation of the advisory arrangements.

Investment performance
The board considered the short- and long-term performance of the fund and each advisor, including any periods of outperformance or underperformance relative to a benchmark index and peer group. The board concluded that the performance was such that the advisory arrangement should continue. Information about the fund’s most recent performance can be found in the Performance Summary section of this report.

Cost
The board concluded that the fund’s expense ratio was well below the average expense ratio charged by funds in its peer group and that the fund’s advisory fee rate was also well below the peer-group average. Information about the fund’s expenses appears in the About Your Fund’s Expenses section of this report as well as in the Financial Statements section, which also includes information about the fund’s advisory fee rate.

The board did not consider profitability of Armstrong Shaw, Barrow Hanley, Hotchkis and Wiley, Lazard, and Sanders Capital in determining whether to approve the advisory fees, because the firms are independent of Vanguard and the advisory fees are the result of arm’s-length negotiations. 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 the fund’s shareholders benefit from economies of scale because of breakpoints in the advisory fee schedules for Armstrong Shaw, Barrow Hanley, Hotchkis and Wiley, Lazard, and Sanders Capital. The breakpoints reduce the effective rate of the fees as the fund’s assets managed by each advisor increase.

The board also concluded that the fund’s at-cost arrangement with Vanguard ensures that the fund will realize economies of scale as it grows, with the cost to shareholders declining as the fund’s assets managed by Vanguard increase.

The board will consider whether to renew the advisory arrangements again after a one-year period.

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Glossary

30-Day SEC 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 (for bonds), its actual income (for asset-backed securities), 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.

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). 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.

Dividend Yield. Dividend income earned by stocks, expressed as a percentage of the aggregate market value (or of net asset value, for a fund). The yield is determined by dividing the amount of the annual dividends by the aggregate value (or net asset value) at the end of the period. For a fund, the dividend yield is based solely on stock holdings and does not include any income produced by other investments.

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. A fund’s total annual operating expenses expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets. The expense ratio includes management and administrative expenses, but does not include the transaction costs of buying and selling portfolio securities.

Foreign Holdings. The percentage of a fund represented by securities 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.

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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.

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.

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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. The independent board members have distinguished backgrounds in business, academia, and public service. Each of the trustees and executive officers oversees 180 Vanguard funds.

The following table provides information for each trustee and executive officer of the fund. More information about the trustees is in the Statement of Additional Information, which can be obtained, without charge, by contacting Vanguard at 800-662-7447, or online at vanguard.com.

InterestedTrustee1 and Delphi Automotive LLP (automotive components);
  Senior Advisor at New Mountain Capital; Trustee of
F. William McNabb III The Conference Board.
Born 1957. Trustee Since July 2009. Chairman of the  
Board. Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Amy Gutmann
Years: Chairman of the Board of The Vanguard Group, Born 1949. Trustee Since June 2006. Principal
Inc., and of each of the investment companies served Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: President
by The Vanguard Group, since January 2010; Director of the University of Pennsylvania; Christopher H.
of The Vanguard Group since 2008; Chief Executive Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Officer and President of The Vanguard Group and of in the School of Arts and Sciences with secondary
each of the investment companies served by The appointments at the Annenberg School for
Vanguard Group since 2008; Director of Vanguard Communication and the Graduate School of Education
Marketing Corporation; Managing Director of The of the University of Pennsylvania; Member of the
Vanguard Group (1995–2008). National Commission on the Humanities and Social
  Sciences; Trustee of Carnegie Corporation of New
  York and of the National Constitution Center; Chair
IndependentTrustees of the U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study 
  of Bioethical Issues.
Emerson U. Fullwood
Born 1948. Trustee Since January 2008. Principal  
Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Executive JoAnn Heffernan Heisen 
Chief Staff and Marketing Officer for North America  Born 1950. Trustee Since July 1998. Principal
and Corporate Vice President (retired 2008) of Xerox  Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Corporate
Corporation (document management products and  Vice President and Chief Global Diversity Officer
services); Executive in Residence and 2010  (retired 2008) and Member of the Executive
Distinguished Minett Professor at the Rochester  Committee (1997–2008) of Johnson & Johnson
Institute of Technology; Director of SPX Corporation  (pharmaceuticals/medical devices/consumer
(multi-industry manufacturing), the United Way of  products); Director of Skytop Lodge Corporation
Rochester, Amerigroup Corporation (managed health  (hotels), the University Medical Center at Princeton,
care), the University of Rochester Medical Center,  the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Center
Monroe Community College Foundation, and North  for Talent Innovation; Member of the Advisory Board
Carolina A&T University.  of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
  at Syracuse University.
Rajiv L. Gupta  
Born 1945. Trustee Since December 2001.2  F. Joseph Loughrey
Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years:  Born 1949. Trustee Since October 2009. Principal
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (retired 2009)  Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: President
and President (2006–2008) of Rohm and Haas Co.  and Chief Operating Officer (retired 2009) of Cummins
(chemicals); Director of Tyco International, Ltd.  Inc. (industrial machinery); Chairman of the Board of
(diversified manufacturing and services), Hewlett-  Hillenbrand, Inc. (specialized consumer services);
Packard Co. (electronic computer manufacturing),  Director of SKF AB (industrial machinery), the Lumina
 

 


 

Foundation for Education, and Oxfam America; Executive Officers  
Chairman of the Advisory Council for the College of    
Arts and Letters and Member of the Advisory Board to Glenn Booraem  
the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the Born 1967. Controller Since July 2010. Principal
University of Notre Dame. Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Principal
  of The Vanguard Group, Inc.; Controller of each of
Mark Loughridge the investment companies served by The Vanguard
Born 1953. Trustee Since March 2012. Principal Group; Assistant Controller of each of the investment
Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Senior Vice companies served by The Vanguard Group (2001–2010).
President and Chief Financial Officer at IBM (information    
technology services); Fiduciary Member of IBM’s Thomas J. Higgins  
Retirement Plan Committee. Born 1957. Chief Financial Officer Since September
  2008. Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five
Scott C. Malpass Years: Principal of The Vanguard Group, Inc.; Chief
Born 1962. Trustee Since March 2012. Principal Financial Officer of each of the investment companies
Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Chief served by The Vanguard Group; Treasurer of each of
Investment Officer and Vice President at the University the investment companies served by The Vanguard
of Notre Dame; Assistant Professor of Finance at the Group (1998–2008).  
Mendoza College of Business at Notre Dame; Member    
of the Notre Dame 403(b) Investment Committee; Kathryn J. Hyatt  
Director of TIFF Advisory Services, Inc. (investment Born 1955. Treasurer Since November 2008. Principal
advisor); Member of the Investment Advisory Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Principal of
Committees of the Financial Industry Regulatory The Vanguard Group, Inc.; Treasurer of each of the
Authority (FINRA) and of Major League Baseball. investment companies served by The Vanguard
  Group; Assistant Treasurer of each of the investment
André F. Perold companies served by The Vanguard Group (1988–2008).
Born 1952. Trustee Since December 2004. Principal    
Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: George Heidi Stam  
Gund Professor of Finance and Banking at the Harvard Born 1956. Secretary Since July 2005. Principal
Business School (retired 2011); Chief Investment Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Managing
Officer and Managing Partner of HighVista Strategies Director of The Vanguard Group, Inc.; General Counsel
LLC (private investment firm); Director of Rand of The Vanguard Group; Secretary of The Vanguard
Merchant Bank; Overseer of the Museum of Fine Group and of each of the investment companies
Arts Boston. served by The Vanguard Group; Director and Senior
  Vice President of Vanguard Marketing Corporation.
Alfred M. Rankin, Jr.    
Born 1941. Trustee Since January 1993. Principal    
  Vanguard Senior ManagementTeam
Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Chairman,    
President, and Chief Executive Officer of NACCO Mortimer J. Buckley Chris D. McIsaac
Industries, Inc. (housewares/lignite) and of Hyster-Yale Kathleen C. Gubanich Michael S. Miller
Materials Handling, Inc. (forklift trucks); Director of Paul A. Heller James M. Norris
the National Association of Manufacturers; Chairman Martha G. King Glenn W. Reed
of the Board of University Hospitals of Cleveland; John T. Marcante  
Advisory Chairman of the Board of The Cleveland    
Museum of Art.    
 
Peter F. Volanakis Chairman Emeritus and Senior Advisor
Born 1955. Trustee Since July 2009. Principal John J. Brennan   
Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: President  Chairman, 1996–2009  
and Chief Operating Officer (retired 2010) of Corning Chief Executive Officer and President, 1996–2008
Incorporated (communications equipment); Director    
of SPX Corporation (multi-industry manufacturing); Founder  
Overseer of the Amos Tuck School of Business John C. Bogle   
Administration at Dartmouth College; Advisor to the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, 1974–1996
Norris Cotton Cancer Center.    

 

1 Mr. McNabb is considered an “interested person,” as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, because he is an officer of the Vanguard funds.
2 December 2002 for Vanguard Equity Income Fund, Vanguard Growth Equity Fund, the Vanguard Municipal Bond Funds, and the Vanguard State Tax-Exempt Funds.


 

 

 
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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.

  VANGUARD WINDSOR FUNDS
 
By: /s/ F. WILLIAM MCNABB III*
  F. WILLIAM MCNABB III
  CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
 
Date: June 19, 2013

 

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 WINDSOR FUNDS
 
By: /s/ F. WILLIAM MCNABB III*
  F. WILLIAM MCNABB III
  CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
 
Date: June 19, 2013

 

  VANGUARD WINDSOR FUNDS
 
By: /s/ THOMAS J. HIGGINS*
  THOMAS J. HIGGINS
  CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
 
Date: June 19, 2013

 

* By: /s/ Heidi Stam

Heidi Stam, pursuant to a Power of Attorney filed on March 27, 2012 see file Number 2-11444, Incorporated by Reference.