NPORT-EX 2 vg_midcapindexfund.htm
Vanguard® Mid-Cap Index Fund
Schedule of Investments (unaudited)
As of September 30, 2022
The fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year as an exhibit to its reports on Form N-PORT. The fund’s Form N-PORT reports are available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
          Shares Market
Value
($000)
Common Stocks (99.2%)
Basic Materials (4.1%)
  Albemarle Corp.  2,702,123     714,549
  Nucor Corp.  6,039,037     646,116
  Fastenal Co. 13,256,770     610,342
  International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.  5,880,677     534,142
  LyondellBasell Industries NV Class A  6,016,878     452,951
  CF Industries Holdings Inc.  4,597,141     442,475
  Mosaic Co.  7,965,324     384,964
  FMC Corp.  2,905,936     307,157
  Avery Dennison Corp.  1,874,295     304,948
  International Paper Co.  8,350,839     264,722
  Celanese Corp. Class A  2,249,704     203,238
  Eastman Chemical Co.  2,834,672     201,403
  Westlake Corp. 368,632 32,027
            5,099,034
Consumer Discretionary (12.6%)
* Dollar Tree Inc. 4,907,779 667,949
* Trade Desk Inc. Class A 10,243,268 612,035
* Copart Inc. 4,938,307 525,436
* Aptiv plc 6,246,904 488,570
  Genuine Parts Co. 3,263,251 487,269
  DR Horton Inc. 7,214,571 485,901
* AutoZone Inc. 224,802 481,510
* Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. Class A 320,253 481,263
  Tractor Supply Co. 2,560,576 475,960
* Ulta Beauty Inc. 1,181,640 474,062
  eBay Inc. 12,673,130 466,498
  Lennar Corp. Class A 5,980,118 445,818
* Southwest Airlines Co. 13,697,647 422,435
* Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. 3,845,682 419,179
* Delta Air Lines Inc. 14,784,695 414,859
  Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. 3,163,879 381,627
  Darden Restaurants Inc. 2,827,410 357,158
* Expedia Group Inc. 3,507,085 328,579
  Omnicom Group Inc. 4,726,117 298,171
  Best Buy Co. Inc. 4,678,251 296,320
* Etsy Inc. 2,920,540 292,434
* NVR Inc. 71,998 287,062
  Garmin Ltd. 3,557,601 285,711
  LKQ Corp. 6,014,244 283,572
* Live Nation Entertainment Inc. 3,448,556 262,228
  Domino's Pizza Inc. 827,835 256,794

          Shares Market
Value
($000)
* ROBLOX Corp. Class A  6,920,572     248,033
* United Airlines Holdings Inc.  7,535,016     245,114
* CarMax Inc.  3,671,623     242,401
  VF Corp.  8,068,334     241,324
  Advance Auto Parts Inc.  1,385,907     216,673
  MGM Resorts International  7,252,671     215,549
  Fox Corp. Class A  7,004,073     214,885
1 Paramount Global Class B 11,280,031     214,772
  Hasbro Inc.  3,026,035     204,015
  PulteGroup Inc.  5,335,992     200,100
  Rollins Inc.  5,686,059     197,193
* Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.  5,001,208     189,546
*,1 Lucid Group Inc. 13,514,187     188,793
  BorgWarner Inc.  5,462,845     171,533
  News Corp. Class A 11,260,750 170,150
  Whirlpool Corp. 1,257,500 169,524
* Burlington Stores Inc. 1,512,916 169,280
* Carnival Corp. 22,769,600 160,070
* Caesars Entertainment Inc. 4,700,435 151,636
* Las Vegas Sands Corp. 3,966,308 148,816
  Pool Corp. 433,685 138,003
* Liberty Media Corp.-Liberty SiriusXM Class C 3,549,352 133,846
  Interpublic Group of Cos. Inc. 4,518,067 115,662
  Vail Resorts Inc. 465,066 100,287
* American Airlines Group Inc. 7,494,000 90,228
  Fox Corp. Class B 3,148,750 89,739
  Lear Corp. 685,928 82,099
  Bath & Body Works Inc. 2,500,947 81,531
*,1 GameStop Corp. Class A 2,982,099 74,940
* Liberty Media Corp.-Liberty SiriusXM Class A 1,681,872 64,029
1 Sirius XM Holdings Inc. 11,010,315 62,869
  Warner Music Group Corp. Class A 2,690,466 62,446
*,1 Chewy Inc. Class A 2,021,059 62,087
* Endeavor Group Holdings Inc. Class A 2,962,988 60,030
  Lennar Corp. Class B 212,879 12,668
  News Corp. Class B 355,310 5,479
1 Paramount Global Class A 188,051 4,051
            15,877,801
Consumer Staples (5.3%)
  Corteva Inc. 16,733,453 956,317
  Kroger Co. 14,855,815 649,942
  McKesson Corp. 1,658,045 563,520
  Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. 6,465,982 520,188
  AmerisourceBergen Corp. Class A 3,585,193 485,184
  Tyson Foods Inc. Class A 6,679,168 440,358
  McCormick & Co. Inc. (Non-Voting) 5,777,863 411,788
  Kellogg Co. 5,885,234 409,965
  Church & Dwight Co. Inc. 5,602,678 400,255
  Clorox Co. 2,840,672 364,714
  Conagra Brands Inc. 11,086,157 361,741
  J M Smucker Co. 2,335,127 320,870
  Hormel Foods Corp. 5,849,444 265,799
  Campbell Soup Co. 4,507,625 212,399
  Lamb Weston Holdings Inc. 1,658,223 128,313
  Molson Coors Beverage Co. Class B 2,083,194 99,973

          Shares Market
Value
($000)
  Albertsons Cos. Inc. Class A  3,683,392      91,569
* Olaplex Holdings Inc.  2,251,790      21,505
            6,704,400
Energy (6.3%)
  Cheniere Energy Inc.  5,762,714     956,092
  Devon Energy Corp. 15,105,351     908,285
* Enphase Energy Inc.  3,124,983     867,089
  Hess Corp.  6,428,356     700,627
  ONEOK Inc. 10,313,692     528,474
  Diamondback Energy Inc.  4,100,965     494,002
  Baker Hughes Co. Class A 23,337,871     489,162
  Valero Energy Corp.  4,543,923     485,518
  Halliburton Co. 18,827,302     463,528
  Coterra Energy Inc. 17,435,810     455,423
  Phillips 66 5,548,781 447,898
  Williams Cos. Inc. 14,048,756 402,216
* Plug Power Inc. 13,350,034 280,484
  Marathon Oil Corp. 7,816,245 176,491
  EQT Corp. 3,841,749 156,551
  Continental Resources Inc. 1,258,187 84,059
            7,895,899
Financials (12.7%)
  Arthur J Gallagher & Co. 4,851,943 830,750
  MSCI Inc. Class A 1,764,059 744,062
  M&T Bank Corp. 4,050,809 714,239
  Ameriprise Financial Inc. 2,494,724 628,546
  Discover Financial Services 6,300,788 572,868
  First Republic Bank 4,213,321 550,049
  Willis Towers Watson plc 2,535,998 509,583
  Fifth Third Bancorp 15,839,972 506,245
  Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. 7,451,630 461,554
* SVB Financial Group 1,362,742 457,582
  Nasdaq Inc. 7,930,966 449,527
  Raymond James Financial Inc. 4,480,016 442,715
  Huntington Bancshares Inc. 33,268,258 438,476
  Regions Financial Corp. 21,540,494 432,318
  American International Group Inc. 8,766,209 416,220
  Principal Financial Group Inc. 5,747,513 414,683
  Citizens Financial Group Inc. 11,438,459 393,025
  Northern Trust Corp. 4,566,046 390,671
  Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. 2,706,266 390,568
  Apollo Global Management Inc. 7,923,935 368,463
* Arch Capital Group Ltd. 8,087,965 368,326
  State Street Corp. 5,803,783 352,928
  FactSet Research Systems Inc. 876,139 350,552
  KeyCorp 21,502,807 344,475
* Markel Corp. 296,310 321,265
  Cincinnati Financial Corp. 3,487,771 312,400
  W R Berkley Corp. 4,590,008 296,423
  Cboe Global Markets Inc. 2,446,377 287,131
  T. Rowe Price Group Inc. 2,609,684 274,043
  Everest Re Group Ltd. 908,836 238,515
  Loews Corp. 4,742,659 236,374
  Equitable Holdings Inc. 8,666,386 228,359
  Fidelity National Financial Inc. 6,069,643 219,721
*,1 Coinbase Global Inc. Class A 3,264,332 210,517
  Ares Management Corp. Class A 3,372,307 208,914

          Shares Market
Value
($000)
  LPL Financial Holdings Inc.    874,258     191,008
  MarketAxess Holdings Inc.    824,717     183,491
  Ally Financial Inc.  6,403,430     178,207
1 Annaly Capital Management Inc. 10,029,831     172,112
  Brown & Brown Inc.  2,605,196     157,562
  Interactive Brokers Group Inc. Class A  2,252,130     143,934
  Tradeweb Markets Inc. Class A  2,476,619     139,731
  Franklin Resources Inc.  6,316,122     135,923
* Alleghany Corp.    147,468     123,780
  Globe Life Inc.  1,010,384     100,735
  Lincoln National Corp.  1,772,230      77,819
*,1 Corebridge Financial Inc.  1,485,470      29,249
1 Rocket Cos. Inc. Class A  2,530,681      15,994
            16,011,632
Health Care (10.4%)
* Centene Corp. 13,186,067 1,026,008
* IQVIA Holdings Inc. 4,302,622 779,377
  ResMed Inc. 3,377,891 737,394
* Dexcom Inc. 9,056,325 729,396
* Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. 2,769,120 554,267
* Veeva Systems Inc. Class A 3,231,245 532,768
  Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc. 4,839,266 505,945
* Seagen Inc. 3,191,109 436,639
  Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings 2,085,096 427,048
  West Pharmaceutical Services Inc. 1,708,089 420,326
  Cardinal Health Inc. 6,287,747 419,267
  STERIS plc 2,307,354 383,667
* Hologic Inc. 5,759,777 371,621
* Insulet Corp. 1,601,116 367,296
* BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. 4,279,105 362,740
* Align Technology Inc. 1,711,504 354,470
  PerkinElmer Inc. 2,911,964 350,397
  Royalty Pharma plc Class A 8,574,218 344,512
  Quest Diagnostics Inc. 2,689,050 329,919
* Horizon Therapeutics plc 5,314,472 328,913
* IDEXX Laboratories Inc. 960,064 312,789
  Cooper Cos. Inc. 1,138,003 300,319
* Incyte Corp. 4,362,554 290,721
* Catalent Inc. 3,927,519 284,195
* Avantor Inc. 13,995,233 274,307
* ABIOMED Inc. 1,049,120 257,727
  Viatris Inc. 27,949,176 238,127
* Molina Healthcare Inc. 670,184 221,053
  Teleflex Inc. 1,081,971 217,974
* Henry Schein Inc. 3,143,156 206,725
* Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. Class A 483,100 201,520
* Charles River Laboratories International Inc. 587,098 115,541
* DaVita Inc. 1,158,047 95,851
  DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc. 2,481,797 70,359
* Exact Sciences Corp. 2,040,861 66,308
* Elanco Animal Health Inc. 5,189,424 64,401
  Universal Health Services Inc. Class B 721,763 63,645
* agilon health Inc. 2,373,498 55,587
            13,099,119
Industrials (14.3%)
  Cintas Corp. 1,983,556 769,997
  Carrier Global Corp. 19,407,855 690,143

          Shares Market
Value
($000)
* Keysight Technologies Inc.  4,136,163     650,867
  TransDigm Group Inc.  1,188,727     623,868
  Verisk Analytics Inc. Class A  3,620,584     617,418
  PACCAR Inc.  7,218,077     604,081
  AMETEK Inc.  5,294,917     600,497
  Old Dominion Freight Line Inc.  2,320,199     577,196
  Rockwell Automation Inc.  2,662,850     572,806
* Mettler-Toledo International Inc.    519,169     562,841
  WW Grainger Inc.  1,056,232     516,698
  Equifax Inc.  2,823,201     483,981
  Fortive Corp.  8,206,888     478,462
  Martin Marietta Materials Inc.  1,438,941     463,468
  Vulcan Materials Co.  2,911,206     459,126
* United Rentals Inc.  1,613,800     435,920
  Ingersoll Rand Inc. 9,299,296 402,288
  Dover Corp. 3,312,989 386,228
* Waters Corp. 1,381,228 372,282
* Teledyne Technologies Inc. 1,081,047 364,821
  Xylem Inc. 4,159,364 363,362
  Ball Corp. 7,249,488 350,295
  Expeditors International of Washington Inc. 3,778,436 333,674
  Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp. 3,982,973 324,015
  Jacobs Solutions Inc. 2,943,063 319,293
  Synchrony Financial 11,113,954 313,302
* Zebra Technologies Corp. Class A 1,194,170 312,884
* Trimble Inc. 5,718,143 310,324
  Otis Worldwide Corp. 4,847,157 309,249
* Bill.com Holdings Inc. 2,297,546 304,126
  JB Hunt Transport Services Inc. 1,915,847 299,677
* FleetCor Technologies Inc. 1,643,948 289,614
  Textron Inc. 4,877,417 284,158
  CH Robinson Worldwide Inc. 2,856,530 275,112
  TransUnion 4,440,166 264,145
* Generac Holdings Inc. 1,472,799 262,364
  Stanley Black & Decker Inc. 3,407,554 256,282
  Snap-on Inc. 1,230,031 247,667
  Masco Corp. 5,201,189 242,844
  Packaging Corp. of America 2,160,106 242,558
  Crown Holdings Inc. 2,794,232 226,417
  Quanta Services Inc. 1,649,903 210,181
  HEICO Corp. Class A 1,684,792 193,111
  Westrock Co. 5,879,347 181,613
  Fortune Brands Home & Security Inc. 2,988,484 160,452
  Jack Henry & Associates Inc. 841,190 153,324
  Hubbell Inc. Class B 619,234 138,089
  HEICO Corp. 957,951 137,926
            17,939,046
Real Estate (9.3%)
  Realty Income Corp. 14,245,650 829,097
  SBA Communications Corp. Class A 2,488,670 708,400
  Welltower Inc. 10,687,928 687,448
  Digital Realty Trust Inc. 6,629,326 657,497
* CoStar Group Inc. 9,133,818 636,170
  AvalonBay Communities Inc. 3,224,871 593,989
  VICI Properties Inc. 19,567,483 584,089
  Equity Residential 8,240,297 553,913
  Extra Space Storage Inc. 3,089,183 533,533
  Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc. 3,762,209 527,424

          Shares Market
Value
($000)
  Weyerhaeuser Co. 17,078,117     487,751
  Invitation Homes Inc. 14,080,294     475,492
* CBRE Group Inc. Class A  7,037,556     475,105
  Mid-America Apartment Communities Inc.  2,661,672     412,745
  Sun Communities Inc.  2,844,354     384,926
  Ventas Inc.  9,223,699     370,516
  Essex Property Trust Inc.  1,502,450     363,938
  Simon Property Group Inc.  3,774,399     338,752
  UDR Inc.  7,500,081     312,828
  WP Carey Inc.  4,449,320     310,563
  Iron Mountain Inc.  6,706,207     294,872
  Camden Property Trust  2,456,275     293,402
  Healthpeak Properties Inc. 12,466,295     285,728
  Boston Properties Inc.  3,254,385     243,981
  Host Hotels & Resorts Inc. 8,246,075 130,948
  Regency Centers Corp. 1,989,975 107,160
* Zillow Group Inc. Class C 3,744,729 107,137
* Zillow Group Inc. Class A 863,539 24,723
  Duke Realty Corp. 809 39
            11,732,166
Technology (14.7%)
* Cadence Design Systems Inc. 6,318,267 1,032,594
  Amphenol Corp. Class A 13,720,739 918,741
  Microchip Technology Inc. 12,743,981 777,765
* Twitter Inc. 15,006,053 657,865
* ON Semiconductor Corp. 9,994,780 622,975
* Synopsys Inc. 1,764,022 538,926
* Datadog Inc. Class A 6,038,135 536,066
  Corning Inc. 17,549,099 509,275
  CDW Corp. 3,119,756 486,932
* Gartner Inc. 1,733,419 479,620
* EPAM Systems Inc. 1,257,220 455,353
* ANSYS Inc. 2,008,503 445,285
  Marvell Technology Inc. 9,801,147 420,567
* Paycom Software Inc. 1,176,982 388,392
* Fortinet Inc. 7,730,982 379,823
  Monolithic Power Systems Inc. 1,025,304 372,595
* VeriSign Inc. 2,103,649 365,404
  Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. 29,967,995 359,017
* Cloudflare Inc. Class A 6,202,268 343,047
* Tyler Technologies Inc. 959,236 333,334
* DoorDash Inc. Class A 6,605,766 326,655
* Zscaler Inc. 1,963,641 322,764
  Skyworks Solutions Inc. 3,703,804 315,823
  NetApp Inc. 5,068,595 313,493
* Pinterest Inc. Class A 13,446,326 313,299
* Match Group Inc. 6,528,190 311,721
* Palantir Technologies Inc. Class A 38,238,386 310,878
* ZoomInfo Technologies Inc. Class A 7,445,800 310,192
2 Citrix Systems Inc. 2,908,165 302,449
* MongoDB Inc. Class A 1,492,750 296,400
* Akamai Technologies Inc. 3,667,161 294,546
* HubSpot Inc. 1,052,339 284,258
* Splunk Inc. 3,711,949 279,139
* Twilio Inc. Class A 3,997,451 276,384
  Teradyne Inc. 3,617,863 271,882
* GoDaddy Inc. Class A 3,607,862 255,725
  NortonLifeLock Inc. 12,531,278 252,380

          Shares Market
Value
($000)
* DocuSign Inc. Class A  4,558,046     243,719
  Seagate Technology Holdings plc  4,574,174     243,483
  SS&C Technologies Holdings Inc.  5,000,355     238,767
* Snap Inc. Class A 24,130,200     236,959
* Western Digital Corp.  7,254,324     236,128
* Black Knight Inc.  3,420,243     221,392
* Okta Inc. Class A  3,478,471     197,821
* Qorvo Inc.  2,380,489     189,035
* Zoom Video Communications Inc. Class A  2,460,532     181,071
  Bentley Systems Inc. Class B  5,106,969     156,222
*,1 Unity Software Inc.  4,814,611     153,393
  Leidos Holdings Inc.  1,574,626     137,733
* Zendesk Inc.  1,424,421     108,398
* F5 Inc.    686,503      99,358
* UiPath Inc. Class A 6,931,294 87,404
*,1 AppLovin Corp. Class A 4,039,497 78,730
* Dropbox Inc. Class A 3,135,536 64,968
* Toast Inc. Class A 3,357,414 56,136
* IAC Inc. 913,725 50,602
* Qualtrics International Inc. Class A 1,121,827 11,420
* Palo Alto Networks Inc. 523 86
            18,454,389
Telecommunications (1.8%)
  Motorola Solutions Inc. 3,850,003 862,285
* Arista Networks Inc. 5,264,906 594,355
* Liberty Broadband Corp. Class C 2,889,541 213,248
  Lumen Technologies Inc. 23,880,473 173,850
* Roku Inc. Class A 2,786,547 157,162
  Juniper Networks Inc. 3,720,485 97,179
* DISH Network Corp. Class A 5,730,999 79,260
* Liberty Broadband Corp. Class A 388,661 28,994
            2,206,333
Utilities (7.7%)
  Waste Connections Inc. 5,932,390 801,644
  Consolidated Edison Inc. 8,178,632 701,400
  WEC Energy Group Inc. 7,272,891 650,415
  Constellation Energy Corp. 7,536,378 626,951
  Eversource Energy 7,988,299 622,768
* PG&E Corp. 48,338,993 604,237
  American Water Works Co. Inc. 4,199,316 546,583
  Edison International 8,797,656 497,771
  Ameren Corp. 5,936,942 478,221
  Entergy Corp. 4,691,303 472,086
  FirstEnergy Corp. 12,520,823 463,270
  DTE Energy Co. 4,019,566 462,451
  PPL Corp. 16,983,924 430,543
  CenterPoint Energy Inc. 14,549,460 410,004
  CMS Energy Corp. 6,691,206 389,696
  AES Corp. 15,407,491 348,209
  Evergy Inc. 5,295,979 314,581
  Alliant Energy Corp. 5,784,967 306,545
  NiSource Inc. 9,360,147 235,782
  Vistra Corp. 9,605,593 201,717
  Avangrid Inc. 1,804,929 75,266
            9,640,140
Total Common Stocks (Cost $101,531,014) 124,659,959

      Coupon   Shares Market
Value
($000)
Temporary Cash Investments (1.0%)
Money Market Fund (1.0%)
3,4 Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund
(Cost $1,249,162)
2.828%   12,497,291   1,249,354
Total Investments (100.2%) (Cost $102,780,176)   125,909,313
Other Assets and Liabilities—Net (-0.2%)   (269,871)
Net Assets (100%)   125,639,442
Cost is in $000.
* Non-income-producing security.
1 Includes partial security positions on loan to broker-dealers. The total value of securities on loan is $603,197,000.
2 Security value determined using significant unobservable inputs.
3 Affiliated money market fund available only to Vanguard funds and certain trusts and accounts managed by Vanguard. Rate shown is the 7-day yield.
4 Collateral of $628,090,000 was received for securities on loan.


Derivative Financial Instruments Outstanding as of Period End

Futures Contracts
      ($000)
  Expiration Number of
Long (Short)
Contracts
Notional
Amount
Value and
Unrealized
Appreciation
(Depreciation)
Long Futures Contracts
E-mini Russell 2000 Index December 2022 2,769 231,184 (13,436)
E-mini S&P 500 Index December 2022 2,259 406,789 (28,122)
E-mini S&P Mid-Cap 400 Index December 2022 1,383 305,394 (16,989)
        (58,547)
    
Over-the-Counter Total Return Swaps
Reference Entity Termination
Date
Counterparty Notional
Amount
($000)
Floating
Interest
Rate
Received
(Paid)1
(%)
Value and
Unrealized
Appreciation
($000)
Value and
Unrealized
(Depreciation)
($000)
Ameren Corp. 1/31/23 GSI 1,368 (2.998) (152)
CRSP US Mid Cap TR Index 8/31/23 BANA 84,233 (2.981) (9,442)
DocuSign Inc. Class A 8/31/23 BANA 3,144 (2.581) (263)
Hormel Foods Corp. 1/31/23 GSI 20,678 (2.998) (248)
Palantir Technologies Inc. Class A 8/31/23 BANA 2,069 (2.581) 106
Sirius XM Holdings Inc. 1/31/23 GSI 14,702 (2.998) (582)
State Street Corp. 8/30/24 BANA 5,410 (3.356) (810)
State Street Corp. 8/30/24 BANA 8,760 (3.315) (1,401)
State Street Corp. 8/30/24 BANA 140,118 (3.181) (14,519)
VICI Properties Inc. 8/31/23 BANA 87,424 (3.131) (7,504)
          106 (34,921)
1 Based on USD Overnight Bank Funding Rate as of the most recent payment date. Floating interest payment received/paid monthly.
  BANA—Bank of America, N.A.
  GSI—Goldman Sachs International.

A. Security Valuation: Securities are valued as of the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4 p.m., Eastern time) on the valuation date. Equity securities are valued at the latest quoted sales prices or official closing prices taken from the primary market in which each security trades; such securities not traded on the valuation date are valued at the mean of the latest quoted bid and asked prices. Securities for which market quotations are not readily available, or whose values have been materially affected by events occurring before the fund's pricing time but after the close of the securities’ primary markets, are valued by methods deemed by the valuation designee to represent fair value and subject to oversight by the board of trustees.
Investments in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund are valued at that fund's net asset value.
B. Futures Contracts: The fund uses index futures contracts to a limited extent, with the objectives of maintaining full exposure to the stock market, maintaining liquidity, and minimizing transaction costs. The fund may purchase futures contracts to immediately invest incoming cash in the market, or sell futures in response to cash outflows, thereby simulating a fully invested position in the underlying index while maintaining a cash balance for liquidity. 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. Counterparty risk involving futures is mitigated because a regulated clearinghouse is the counterparty instead of the clearing broker. To further mitigate counterparty risk, the fund trades futures contracts on an exchange, monitors the financial strength of its clearing brokers and clearinghouse, and has entered into clearing agreements with its clearing brokers. The clearinghouse imposes initial margin requirements to secure the fund’s performance and requires daily settlement of variation margin representing changes in the market value of each contract. Any securities pledged as initial margin for open contracts are noted in the Schedule of Investments.
Futures contracts are valued at their quoted daily settlement prices. Fluctuations in the value of the contracts are recorded as an asset (liability).
C. Swap Contracts: The fund has entered into equity swap contracts to earn the total return on selected reference stocks in the fund’s target index. Under the terms of the swaps, the fund receives the total return on the referenced stock (i.e., receiving the increase or paying the decrease in value of the selected reference stock and receiving the equivalent of any dividends in respect of the selected referenced stock) over a specified period of time, applied to a notional amount that represents the value of a designated number of shares of the selected reference stock at the beginning of the equity swap contract. The fund also pays a floating rate that is based on short-term interest rates, applied to the notional amount. At the same time, the fund generally invests an amount approximating the notional amount of the swap in high-quality temporary cash investments.
A risk associated with all types of swaps is the possibility that a counterparty may default on its obligation to pay net amounts due to the fund. The fund’s maximum amount subject to counterparty risk is the unrealized appreciation on the swap contract. The fund mitigates its counterparty risk by entering into swaps only with a diverse group of prequalified counterparties, monitoring their financial strength, entering into master netting arrangements with its counterparties, and requiring its counterparties to transfer collateral as security for their performance. In the absence of a default, the collateral pledged or received by the fund cannot be repledged, resold, or rehypothecated. In the event of a counterparty’s default (including bankruptcy), the fund may terminate any swap contracts with that counterparty, determine the net amount owed by either party in accordance with its master netting arrangements, and sell or retain any collateral held up to the net amount owed to the fund under the master netting arrangements. The swap contracts contain provisions whereby a counterparty may terminate open contracts if the fund's net assets decline below a certain level, triggering a payment by the fund if the fund is in a net liability position at the time of the termination. The payment amount would be reduced by any collateral the fund has pledged. Any securities pledged as collateral for open contracts are noted in the Schedule of Investments. The value of collateral received or pledged is compared daily

to the value of the swap contracts exposure with each counterparty, and any difference, if in excess of a specified minimum transfer amount, is adjusted and settled within two business days.
Swaps are valued daily based on market quotations received from independent pricing services or recognized dealers and the change in value is recorded as an asset (liability) and as unrealized appreciation (depreciation) until periodic payments are made or the termination of the swap, at which time realized gain (loss) is recorded.
D.  Various inputs may be used to determine the value of the fund’s investments and derivatives. 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 1—Quoted prices in active markets for identical securities.
Level 2—Other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.).
Level 3—Significant unobservable inputs (including the fund’s own assumptions used to determine the fair value of investments). Any investments and derivatives valued with significant unobservable inputs are noted on the Schedule of Investments.
The following table summarizes the market value of the fund's investments and derivatives as of September 30, 2022, based on the inputs used to value them:
  Level 1
($000)
Level 2
($000)
Level 3
($000)
Total
($000)
Investments        
Assets        
Common Stocks 124,357,510 302,449 124,659,959
Temporary Cash Investments 1,249,354 1,249,354
Total 125,606,864 302,449 125,909,313
Derivative Financial Instruments        
Assets        
Swap Contracts 106 106
Liabilities        
Futures Contracts1 58,547 58,547
Swap Contracts 34,921 34,921
Total 58,547 34,921 93,468
1 Includes cumulative appreciation (depreciation) on futures contracts and centrally cleared swaps, if any, as reported in the Schedule of Investments.