N-CSR 1 quantfinal.htm 2007 QUANTITATIVE ANNUAL

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: 811-4526

 

Name of Registrant: Vanguard Quantitative 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: September 30

 

Date of reporting period: October 1, 2006–September 30, 2007

 

Item 1: Reports to Shareholders

 



 

 


>  In a tough 12 months for quantitative equity strategies, Vanguard Growth and Income Fund returned more than 16%, in line with the return of its benchmark index.

>  The fund earned especially strong returns from its holdings in the technology and materials sectors.

>  Health care and industrials stocks were among the weak spots.

 

 

Contents

 

 

 

Your Fund’s Total Returns

1

Chairman’s Letter

2

Advisor’s Report

7

Fund Profile

9

Performance Summary

10

Financial Statements

12

Your Fund’s After-Tax Returns

23

About Your Fund’s Expenses

24

Trustees Approve Advisory Agreement

26

Glossary

27

 

 

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 cover of this report. Of course, the risks of investing in your fund are spelled out in the prospectus.

 

 


Your Fund’s Total Returns

 

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2007

 

 

 

Ticker

Total

 

Symbol

Returns

Vanguard Growth and Income Fund

 

 

Investor Shares

VQNPX

16.2%

Admiral™ Shares1

VGIAX

16.4   

S&P 500 Index

 

16.4   

Average Large-Cap Core Fund2

 

16.0   

 

Your Fund’s Performance at a Glance

September 30, 2006–September 30, 2007

 

 

 

Distributions Per Share

 

Starting

Ending

Income

Capital

 

Share Price

Share Price

Dividends

Gains

Vanguard Growth and Income Fund

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$33.79

$38.62

$0.610

$0.000

Admiral Shares

55.20

63.08

1.093

0.000

 

 

1  A lower-cost class of shares available to many longtime shareholders and to those with significant investments in the fund.

2  Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.

 

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Chairman’s Letter

 

Dear Shareholder,

During the fiscal year ended September 30, the Investor Shares of Vanguard Growth and Income Fund returned 16.2%, while the lower-cost Admiral Shares matched the 16.4% return of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, the fund’s primary benchmark. The fund’s results were a bit above the peer-group average return.

Benchmark-matching performance might seem unremarkable, particularly for a fund with the explicit goal of outperforming the S&P 500 Index. It’s worth noting, however, that the past 12 months were an especially challenging time for actively managed quantitative strategies, which seek to match market levels of risk while outperforming their indexes with superior stock selection. Many of the stocks favored by these methodologies came under intense pressure, particularly in the final months of the period. In this environment, limiting shortfalls relative to the index was a notable success.

If you own the Growth and Income Fund in a taxable account, see page 23 for a report on the fund’s after-tax returns for the 12 months ended September 30. Please note: Our preliminary estimates suggest that the fund will distribute capital gains of roughly $3.40 per share for Investor Shares and $5.55 per share for Admiral Shares in December 2007.

 

Strong returns for U.S. stocks; even better for markets abroad

U.S. stocks produced excellent returns for the fiscal year. The gains came despite a midsummer shakeup brought on by problems in the subprime mortgage-loan market. Financials stocks—which represent a sizable share of the U.S. market’s value—were hardest hit, as investment banking and consumer lending businesses throttled back.

The broad U.S. equity market returned 17.1% for the year. Returns from large-capitalization stocks outpaced those of small-caps, and growth-oriented stocks outperformed their value-oriented counterparts. As investors took account of risk, they seemed to exhibit a preference for large-cap growth stocks, which seem better positioned to thrive in a period of economic uncertainty.

Although not immune from the effects of the turmoil in U.S. credit markets, international stocks handily surpassed the returns of domestic stocks over the 12 months. The dollar’s ongoing weakness further enhanced foreign market gains for U.S.-based investors.

 

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The bond market was shaken, but regained ground in the end

Turmoil in the corporate bond and subprime lending markets caused a “flight to quality” that drove prices of U.S. Treasury bonds sharply higher, particularly toward the end of the fiscal period. As the bonds’ prices rose, their yields fell. The declines were greatest among Treasury securities with the shortest maturities. The yield of the 3-month Treasury bill, which started the fiscal year at 4.89%, dropped more than a full percentage point to 3.81%.

 

Market Barometer

 

 

 

 

Average Annual Total Returns

 

Periods Ended September 30, 2007

 

One Year

Three Years

Five Years

Stocks

 

 

 

Russell 1000 Index (Large-caps)

16.9%

13.8%

16.0%

Russell 2000 Index (Small-caps)

12.3   

13.4   

18.8   

Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index (Entire market)

17.1   

14.0   

16.5   

MSCI All Country World Index ex USA (International)

31.1   

26.5   

26.3   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bonds

 

 

 

Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (Broad taxable market)

5.1%

3.9%

4.1%

Lehman Municipal Bond Index

3.1   

3.9   

4.0   

Citigroup 3-Month Treasury Bill Index

5.0   

4.0   

2.8   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CPI

 

 

 

Consumer Price Index

2.8%

3.2%

2.9%

 

As short-term yields fell, the yield curve—which illustrates the relationship between short- and long-term bond yields—returned to its usual, upward-sloping pattern. The curve had been mildly inverted at the start of the period, with yields of shorter-term bonds above those of longer-term issues. For the year ended September 30, the broad taxable bond market returned 5.1%.

Returns from tax-exempt bonds were lower, as these issues did not benefit from the late-summer rally in Treasuries.

Fund held up well in a challenging market

During the past 12 months, Vanguard Growth and Income Fund returned more than 16%, an excellent return on an absolute basis. Like most actively managed quantitative strategies, however, the fund seeks to beat its index without assuming greater-than-index levels of risk. In fiscal year 2007, the Growth and Income Fund’s Investor Shares fell just shy of this goal.

 

Expense Ratios1

 

 

 

Your fund compared with its peer group

 

 

 

 

 

 

Average

 

Investor

Admiral

Large-Cap

 

Shares

Shares

Core Fund

Growth and Income Fund

0.32%

0.18%

1.35%

 

 

1  Fund expense ratios reflect the 12 months ended September 30, 2007. Peer-group expense ratio is derived from data provided by Lipper Inc. and captures information through year-end 2006.

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The context for evaluating the fund’s performance doesn’t end there, however. In general, active quantitative strategies favor the market’s less highly valued stocks. At year-end, for example, the stocks in Vanguard Growth and Income Fund’s portfolio carried an average price/earnings ratio of 15.2, compared with 17 for the S&P 500 Index.

This “value bias” created significant challenges for many quantitative strategies, as value-oriented stocks trailed their growth-oriented counterparts. The difference was especially pronounced during the final three months of the year, when problems in subprime mortgage loans reverberated through the global financial markets. The cause-and-effect relationship wasn’t entirely clear, but many quantitative funds were hit hard, at least on a relative basis.

Your fund avoided much of the fallout. Over the full year, the return of its Admiral Shares matched that of the S&P 500 Index, at 16.4%, while the Investor Shares fell just behind. This sturdy performance reflected excellent stock selection among information technology stocks. Like the index sector’s weighting, the fund’s weighting in tech was about 15%, but the fund managed to squeeze almost one full percentage point of additional return from its position. The fund also held some of the better-performing stocks in the materials sector.

 

Total Returns

 

Ten Years Ended September 30, 2007

 

 

Average

 

Annual Return

Growth and Income Fund

6.7%

S&P 500 Index

6.6   

Average Large-Cap Core Fund1

5.5   

 

The figures shown represent past performance, which is not a guarantee of future results. (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 www.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.

 

 

1  Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.

 

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Disciplined management has kept fund on track

Over the past ten years, a period that includes one of the worst stock market downturns in modern financial history, the Growth and Income Fund has returned an annualized 6.7%, a tad better than the return of its index and 1.2 percentage points higher than the average return of large-cap core mutual funds. The Growth and Income Fund Investor Shares would have transformed an initial investment of $10,000 into $19,063 in wealth for the decade. The same investment compounded at the peer group’s average return would be worth $17,023, about $2,000 less.

The fund has achieved its benchmark-beating result with the same disciplined strategy that helped limit the damage of the stock market’s turmoil during the last three months of the fund’s 2007 fiscal year. The fund has also benefited from low operating costs, which have helped to maximize investors’ share of fund returns.

Uncertainty is par for the course

After several years of unusual calm, the financial markets experienced a jolt in the third quarter. Stock market volatility increased sharply, and several other long-established trends seemed to shift into reverse. The changes were dramatic, but a long-term perspective suggests that these occasional—and unpredictable—dislocations are an enduring feature of the financial markets.

A prudent response to this uncertainty is diversification both within and across asset classes, which is why we counsel investors to hold a broadly diversified portfolio of stocks and fixed income investments in proportions consistent with their goals, risk tolerance, and time horizons. Vanguard Growth and Income Fund can play a valuable role in such a portfolio.

Thank you for entrusting your assets to Vanguard.

Sincerely,

 


 

John J. Brennan

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

October 17, 2007

 

5

 


Advisor’s Report

 

The U.S. stock market has performed extraordinarily well in the face of considerable uncertainty over the housing sector recession, the subprime loan debacle, the direction of interest rates and the U.S. dollar, and the potential for a broad U.S. economic recession in the near future. In the second week of August, the markets experienced a liquidity-driven upheaval as quantitatively managed hedge funds sharply deleveraged, although there was a significant rebound by the month-end. In September, the markets reacted favorably to the first cut in the federal funds target rate since 2003, and indications were that a serious liquidity crisis was averted.

In the spirit of “silver linings,” it is possible the recent financial stresses triggered by the sharp downturn in the housing sector may extend the ultimate duration of the current economic expansion, albeit at a slower pace. By slowing credit leverage now (in housing and private-equity deals, for example), and reinforcing the need to properly price risk into the cost and extension of credit, we may have avoided a more severe correction later in the economic cycle. And as non-U.S. economies (in emerging as well as developed countries) continue to expand and the U.S. dollar remains weak, corporations may increase their profits by relying on demand outside the United States to compensate for weak domestic demand.

 

Thus the growth slowdown in the United States, which began in spring 2006, may not lead to a wider recession, so long as the rest of the world economy remains in a moderate growth upswing. In my letter to shareholders one year ago I thought it possible that“global economic expansion could continue through the end of 2007, given current conditions. U.S. stocks, in particular large-capitalization growth and ‘quality’ issues, could continue to rise well into next year as continued corporate profitability has kept valuations reasonable.” I would now change “2007” to “2008” and reiterate that assessment, though perhaps with the caveat that there may be more risk or uncertainty surrounding this year’s prediction.

Our successes

Stock selection in the Growth and Income Fund during the 12 months ended September 30 was particularly good in technology, consumer durables, and basic materials. Specific stocks that generated positive active returns (that is, superior to the average return of their industries) included International Business Machines (computer software and services), Apple (computers and iPods), Goldman Sachs Group (investment banking and brokerage), Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (metals and mining), Walgreen (specialty retail), PACCAR (trucks), and General Electric (industrial conglomerate). In addition, the fund’s performance relative to the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index benefited from not holding or from underweighting certain poorly performing stocks, including Motorola (wireless and broadband communications, down –25%), Countrywide Financial (mortgage lending, –45%), and Starbucks (coffee retailing/roasting, –23%).

Although sector and industry tilts (measured as the difference between the portfolio weighting and the S&P 500 Index weighting in a particular sector) are deliberately minimized in the Growth and Income Fund, they are not forced to zero. During the 2007 fiscal year, the fund’s small overweighting in mining & metals and energy reserves, and its underweighting in thrifts, helped the portfolio’s relative return. In addition, the fund’s tilt toward stocks with near-term positive price momentum aided performance.

 

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Our shortfalls

The fund’s performance closely tracked that of the S&P 500 Index for the full fiscal year, but did not beat the index. The portfolio’s relative performance was good from October through March, lagged from April through July, and rebounded in August and September. Although the momentum and growth stock-selection factors were modestly successful, factors focused on valuation were ineffective and served as a brake on returns during fiscal 2007.

Holdings that had a negative impact on results included Valero Energy (oil refining), Lehman Brothers (investment banking and brokerage), Texas Utilities (electric utility taken private), National City Corp (bank), and Novellus Systems (semiconductor equipment). In addition, not holding Intel and Monsanto—strong performers over the past 12 months—had a negative impact on results.

The fund’s positioning

We continue to remain focused on our investment discipline as it applies to stock selection, portfolio construction, and implementation. We believe the Growth and Income Fund is well positioned to achieve its long-run goal of outperforming the S&P 500 Index. Our disciplined process leads us to favor reasonably priced stocks with good potential for future earnings growth. The fund will remain fully invested in those stocks we consider most attractive, and the portfolio risk will be focused to minimize exposure to characteristics we believe are unrewarded. In recent months there has been a measurable increase in individual stock volatility that increases the potential, though not the certitude, of outperforming the benchmark. We continue to believe the Growth and Income Fund is an excellent choice for those seeking a diversified exposure to large-cap U.S. equities.

John S. Cone, CFA, President and

Chief Executive Officer

Franklin Portfolio Associates, LLC

October 16, 2007

 

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Fund Profile

As of September 30, 2007

 

Portfolio Characteristics

 

 

 

 

Comparative

Broad

 

Fund

Index1

Index2

Number of Stocks

110

500

4,887

Median Market Cap

$47.1B

$59.2B

$36.1B

Price/Earnings Ratio

15.2x

17.0x

18.1x

Price/Book Ratio

2.8x

2.9x

2.8x

Yield

 

1.9%

1.7%

Investor Shares

1.6%

 

 

Admiral Shares

1.7%

 

 

Return on Equity

21.2%

19.9%

18.8%

Earnings Growth Rate

27.8%

21.8%

21.6%

Foreign Holdings

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

Turnover Rate

100%

Expense Ratio

 

Investor Shares

0.32%

 

 

Admiral Shares

0.18%

 

 

Short-Term Reserves

0.5%

 

Sector Diversification (% of equity exposure)

 

 

Comparative

Broad

 

Fund

Index1

Index2

Consumer Discretionary

9.0%

9.2%

10.4%

Consumer Staples

9.3

9.5

8.2

Energy

12.5

11.7

11.2

Financials

20.0

19.9

20.0

Health Care

13.0

11.6

11.6

Industrials

12.5

11.5

11.8

Information Technology

15.4

16.2

16.0

Materials

2.2

3.2

3.7

Telecommunication

 

 

 

Services

2.5

3.8

3.5

Utilities

3.6

3.4

3.6

 

Volatility Measures3

 

 

Fund Versus

Fund Versus

 

Comparative Index1

Broad Index2

R-Squared

0.95

0.94

Beta

1.02

0.94

 

 

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Ten Largest Holdings4 (% of total net assets)

 

 

 

General Electric Co.

industrial

 

 

conglomerates

4.1%

ExxonMobil Corp.

integrated oil

 

 

and gas

3.7   

Citigroup, Inc.

diversified

 

 

financial services

3.5   

The Procter & Gamble Co.

household products

3.0   

Apple Inc.

computer hardware

3.0   

Bank of America Corp.

diversified

 

 

financial services

2.9   

American

 

 

International Group, Inc.

multi-line insurance

2.8   

Johnson & Johnson

pharmaceuticals

2.6   

International Business

 

 

Machines Corp.

computer hardware

2.4   

QUALCOMM Inc.

communications

 

 

equipment

2.4   

Top Ten

 

30.4%

 

Investment Focus

 


 

 

 

1  S&P 500 Index.

2  Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index.

3  For an explanation of R-squared, beta, and other terms used here, see the Glossary on page 29.

4  “Ten Largest Holdings” excludes any temporary cash investments and equity index products.

 

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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 www.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.

 

Cumulative Performance: September 30, 1997–September 30, 2007

Initial Investment of $10,000

 


 

 

Average Annual Total Returns

Final Value

 

Periods Ended September 30, 2007

of a $10,000

 

One Year

Five Years

Ten Years

Investment

Growth and Income Fund Investor Shares1

16.20%

15.00%

6.66%

$19,063

Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index

17.08   

16.53   

6.85   

19,399

S&P 500 Index

16.44   

15.45   

6.57   

18,896

Average Large-Cap Core Fund2

15.96   

13.37   

5.46   

17,023

 

 

 

 

 

Final Value

 

 

 

Since

of a $100,000

 

One Year

Five Years

Inception3

Investment

Growth and Income Fund Admiral Shares

16.37%

15.19%

5.33%

$139,324

Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index

17.08   

16.53   

6.33   

147,956

S&P 500 Index

16.44   

15.45   

5.01   

136,638

 

 

1  Total return figures do not include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

2  Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.

3  Performance for the fund’s Admiral Shares and comparative standards is calculated since the Admiral Shares’ inception: May 14, 2001.

 

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Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): September 30, 1997–September 30, 2007

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note: See Financial Highlights tables on pages 19 and 20 for dividend and capital gains information.

 

 

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Financial Statements

 

Statement of Net Assets

As of September 30, 2007

 

The fund provides a complete list of its holdings 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 www.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 (98.7%)1

 

 

Consumer Discretionary (8.9%)

 

 

 

Sherwin-Williams Co.

1,859,000

122,155

 

News Corp., Class A

5,033,100

110,678

 

Time Warner, Inc.

5,279,000

96,922

*

Big Lots Inc.

3,011,600

89,866

 

Mattel, Inc.

2,871,600

67,368

 

Harley-Davidson, Inc.

971,800

44,907

 

NIKE, Inc. Class B

726,500

42,616

*

Kohl’s Corp.

602,800

34,559

 

J.C. Penney Co., Inc.

 

 

 

(Holding Co.)

464,100

29,410

*

Amazon.com, Inc.

301,400

28,075

 

The McGraw-Hill Cos., Inc.

278,000

14,153

 

Omnicom Group Inc.

229,000

11,013

 

TJX Cos., Inc.

282,200

8,204

 

Gannett Co., Inc.

179,900

7,862

*

AutoZone Inc.

50,500

5,865

 

Hasbro, Inc.

209,700

5,846

 

Tribune Co.

169,028

4,618

*

Viacom Inc. Class B

103,500

4,033

 

Family Dollar Stores, Inc.

151,300

4,019

 

 

 

732,169

Consumer Staples (9.2%)

 

 

 

The Procter & Gamble Co.

3,531,400

248,399

 

Sysco Corp.

3,858,800

137,335

 

Walgreen Co.

2,830,800

133,727

 

The Kroger Co.

2,656,300

75,758

 

PepsiCo, Inc.

911,100

66,747

 

UST, Inc.

696,700

34,556

 

Altria Group, Inc.

357,400

24,850

 

McCormick & Co., Inc.

652,300

23,463

 

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

346,500

15,125

 

 

 

759,960

 

 

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Market

 

 

 

Value

 

 

Shares

($000)

Energy (12.4%)

 

 

 

ExxonMobil Corp.

3,324,236

307,691

 

XTO Energy, Inc.

2,846,800

176,046

 

Valero Energy Corp.

2,466,600

165,706

*

National Oilwell Varco Inc.

1,051,000

151,869

 

Chevron Corp.

903,400

84,540

 

Chesapeake Energy Corp.

1,924,500

67,858

 

Marathon Oil Corp.

933,600

53,234

 

ConocoPhillips Co.

159,519

14,001

 

 

 

1,020,945

Financials (19.7%)

 

 

 

Citigroup, Inc.

6,269,500

292,598

 

Bank of America Corp.

4,753,299

238,948

 

American International

 

 

 

Group, Inc.

3,423,800

231,620

 

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

3,087,700

141,478

 

Wachovia Corp.

2,806,050

140,723

 

Prudential Financial, Inc.

1,323,700

129,167

 

ProLogis REIT

1,436,400

95,305

 

Safeco Corp.

1,116,400

68,346

 

Wells Fargo & Co.

1,453,100

51,759

 

Cincinnati Financial Corp.

868,608

37,619

 

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

456,600

32,546

 

CIT Group Inc.

792,900

31,875

 

Ambac Financial Group, Inc.

454,900

28,618

 

MetLife, Inc.

407,200

28,394

 

Morgan Stanley

440,100

27,726

 

Boston Properties, Inc. REIT

241,100

25,050

 

The Allstate Corp.

232,400

13,291

 

The Chubb Corp.

183,000

9,816

 

Moody’s Corp.

66,800

3,367

 

 

 

1,628,246

Health Care (12.8%)

 

 

 

Johnson & Johnson

3,251,500

213,624

 

Pfizer Inc.

6,795,527

166,015

*

Zimmer Holdings, Inc.

1,924,500

155,865

 

Aetna Inc.

2,551,600

138,475

 

CIGNA Corp.

1,711,400

91,200

 

AmerisourceBergen Corp.

1,682,100

76,250

 

Stryker Corp.

1,089,500

74,914

*

Celgene Corp.

985,400

70,269

*

Humana Inc.

495,400

34,619

 

Baxter International, Inc.

373,000

20,992

 

Schering-Plough Corp.

387,800

12,266

*

Genzyme Corp.

98,900

6,128

 

 

 

1,060,617

 

 

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Market

 

 

 

Value

 

 

Shares

($000)

Industrials (12.3%)

 

 

 

General Electric Co.

8,177,600

338,553

 

Lockheed Martin Corp.

1,789,900

194,186

 

Tyco International, Ltd.

2,142,500

94,998

 

CSX Corp.

1,702,000

72,726

 

PACCAR, Inc.

852,000

72,633

*

Allied Waste Industries, Inc.

3,747,500

47,781

 

Precision Castparts Corp.

316,500

46,836

 

ITT Industries, Inc.

646,500

43,917

 

Norfolk Southern Corp.

757,400

39,317

 

Northrop Grumman Corp.

302,800

23,618

 

L-3 Communications

 

 

 

Holdings, Inc.

202,400

20,673

 

Eaton Corp.

111,400

11,033

 

Raytheon Co.

169,200

10,798

 

 

 

1,017,069

Information Technology (15.2%)

 

 

*

Apple Inc.

1,603,000

246,125

 

International Business

 

 

 

Machines Corp.

1,674,700

197,280

 

QUALCOMM Inc.

4,662,400

197,033

 

Applied Materials, Inc.

7,756,800

160,566

*

Oracle Corp.

5,879,000

127,280

*

Google Inc.

113,900

64,612

 

Microsoft Corp.

1,998,700

58,882

*

Xerox Corp.

2,604,300

45,159

 

Hewlett-Packard Co.

851,200

42,381

*

Novellus Systems, Inc.

1,099,700

29,978

*

ADC

 

 

 

Telecommunications, Inc.

1,383,900

27,138

*

Dell Inc.

818,100

22,580

 

Electronic Data

 

 

 

Systems Corp.

582,900

12,731

*

NCR Corp.

199,700

9,945

*

Cisco Systems, Inc.

232,800

7,708

*

MEMC Electronic

 

 

 

Materials, Inc.

107,100

6,304

*

Verigy Ltd.

1

 

 

 

1,255,702

Materials (2.1%)

 

 

 

Freeport-McMoRan Copper

 

 

 

& Gold, Inc. Class B

579,396

60,773

 

Dow Chemical Co.

799,300

34,418

*

Pactiv Corp.

979,100

28,061

 

Ball Corp.

432,500

23,247

 

United States Steel Corp.

202,100

21,410

 

Sealed Air Corp.

392,800

10,040

 

 

 

177,949

 

 

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Market

 

 

 

Value

 

 

Shares

($000)

Telecommunication Services (2.5%)

 

 

 

AT&T Inc.

2,560,000

108,314

*

Qwest Communications

 

 

 

International Inc.

10,728,100

98,269

 

 

 

206,583

Utilities (3.6%)

 

 

 

PG&E Corp.

3,411,300

163,060

 

CenterPoint Energy Inc.

3,709,400

59,462

 

Duke Energy Corp.

1,519,400

28,398

 

DTE Energy Co.

471,400

22,835

 

TXU Corp.

298,900

20,466

 

 

 

294,221

Total Common Stocks

 

 

(Cost $6,977,599)

 

8,153,461

Temporary Cash Investments (1.6%)1

 

 

Money Market Fund (1.6%)

 

 

2

Vanguard Market Liquidity

 

 

 

Fund, 5.153%

128,263,439

128,263

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Face

 

 

 

Amount

 

 

 

($000)

 

U.S. Government Obligations (0.0%)

 

 

 

U.S. Treasury Bills

 

 

3

3.641%–3.887%, 12/20/07

3,385

3,357

Total Temporary Cash Investments

 

 

(Cost $131,620)

 

131,620

Total Investments (100.3%)

 

 

(Cost $7,109,219)

 

8,285,081

Other Assets and Liabilities (–0.3%)

 

 

Receivables for Investment

 

 

 

Securities Sold

 

207,699

Other Assets—Note C

 

12,688

Payables for Investment

 

 

 

Securities Purchased

 

(220,735)

Other Liabilities

 

(26,233)

 

 

 

(26,581)

Net Assets (100%)

 

8,258,500

 

 

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At September 30, 2007, net assets consisted of:4

 

Amount

 

($000)

Paid-in Capital

6,334,996

Undistributed Net Investment Income

19,803

Accumulated Net Realized Gains

725,765

Unrealized Appreciation

 

Investment Securities

1,175,862

Futures Contracts

2,074

Net Assets

8,258,500

 

 

 

 

Investor Shares—Net Assets

 

Applicable to 141,497,103 outstanding

 

$.001 par value shares of beneficial

 

interest (unlimited authorization)

5,464,916

Net Asset Value Per Share—

 

Investor Shares

$38.62

 

 

 

 

Admiral Shares—Net Assets

 

Applicable to 44,286,054 outstanding

 

$.001 par value shares of beneficial

 

interest (unlimited authorization)

2,793,584

Net Asset Value Per Share—

 

Admiral Shares

$63.08

 

 

•  See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements.

*  Non-income-producing security.

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 99.7% and 0.6%, respectively, of net assets, see Note E in Notes to Financial Statements.

2  Affiliated money market fund available only to Vanguard funds and certain trusts and accounts managed by Vanguard. Rate shown is the 7-day yield.

3  Securities with a value of $3,357,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open futures contracts.

4  See Note E in Notes to Financial Statements for the tax-basis components of net assets.

REIT—Real Estate Investment Trust.

 

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Statement of Operations

 

 

Year Ended

 

September 30, 2007

 

($000)

Investment Income

 

Income

 

Dividends

149,460

Interest1

3,763

Security Lending

1

Total Income

153,224

Expenses

 

Investment Advisory Fees—Note B

 

Basic Fee

6,681

Performance Adjustment

The Vanguard Group—Note C

 

Management and Administrative—Investor Shares

11,635

Management and Administrative—Admiral Shares

2,125

Marketing and Distribution—Investor Shares

953

Marketing and Distribution—Admiral Shares

415

Custodian Fees

67

Auditing Fees

24

Shareholders’ Reports—Investor Shares

148

Shareholders’ Reports—Admiral Shares

9

Trustees’ Fees and Expenses

12

Total Expenses

22,069

Expenses Paid Indirectly—Note D

(1,570)

Net Expenses

20,499

Net Investment Income

132,725

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

 

Investment Securities Sold

911,180

Futures Contracts

1,669

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

912,849

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

 

Investment Securities

133,545

Futures Contracts

1,295

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

134,840

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

1,180,414

 

 

1  Interest income from an affiliated company of the fund was $3,653,000.

 

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Statement of Changes in Net Assets

 

 

Year Ended September 30,

 

2007

2006

 

($000)

($000)

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

 

Operations

 

 

Net Investment Income

132,725

126,813

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

912,849

621,107

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

134,840

(60,523)

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

1,180,414

687,397

Distributions

 

 

Net Investment Income

 

 

Investor Shares

(88,650)

(81,854)

Admiral Shares

(46,594)

(39,539)

Realized Capital Gain

 

 

Investor Shares

Admiral Shares

Total Distributions

(135,244)

(121,393)

Capital Share Transactions—Note G

 

 

Investor Shares

(333,115)

(509,343)

Admiral Shares

138,269

110,294

Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions

(194,846)

(399,049)

Total Increase (Decrease)

850,324

166,955

Net Assets

 

 

Beginning of Period

7,408,176

7,241,221

End of Period1

8,258,500

7,408,176

 

 

1  Net Assets—End of Period includes undistributed net investment income of $19,803,000 and $22,322,000.

 

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Financial Highlights

 

Investor Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year Ended September 30,

For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Period

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period

$33.79

$31.29

$28.31

$24.91

$20.68

Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net Investment Income

.60

.55

.46

.37

.318

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

 

 

 

 

 

on Investments

4.84

2.47

2.98

3.39

4.227

Total from Investment Operations

5.44

3.02

3.44

3.76

4.545

Distributions

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends from Net Investment Income

(.61)

(.52)

(.46)

(.36)

(.315)

Distributions from Realized Capital Gains

Total Distributions

(.61)

(.52)

(.46)

(.36)

(.315)

Net Asset Value, End of Period

$38.62

$33.79

$31.29

$28.31

$24.91

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Return1

16.20%

9.76%

12.20%

15.12%

22.09%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ratios/Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net Assets, End of Period (Millions)

$5,465

$5,088

$5,202

$5,780

$5,119

Ratio of Total Expenses to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets2

0.32%

0.38%

0.40%

0.42%

0.46%

Ratio of Net Investment Income to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

1.61%

1.65%

1.53%

1.35%

1.39%

Portfolio Turnover Rate

100%

93%

84%

79%3

88%

 

 

1  Total returns do not include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

2  Includes performance-based investment advisory fee increases (decreases) of 0.00%, 0.01%, 0.01%, 0.01%, and 0.00%.

3  Excludes the value of portfolio securities received or delivered as a result of in-kind purchases or redemptions of the fund’s capital shares.

 

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Admiral Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year Ended September 30,

For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Period

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period

$55.20

$51.12

$46.25

$40.70

$33.78

Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net Investment Income

1.070

.997

.849

.683

.567

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

 

 

 

 

 

on Investments

7.903

4.036

4.853

5.530

6.920

Total from Investment Operations

8.973

5.033

5.702

6.213

7.487

Distributions

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends from Net Investment Income

(1.093)

(.953)

(.832)

(.663)

(.567)

Distributions from Realized Capital Gains

Total Distributions

(1.093)

(.953)

(.832)

(.663)

(.567)

Net Asset Value, End of Period

$63.08

$55.20

$51.12

$46.25

$40.70

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Return

16.37%

9.97%

12.39%

15.29%

22.29%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ratios/Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net Assets, End of Period (Millions)

$2,794

$2,321

$2,039

$843

$812

Ratio of Total Expenses to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets1

0.18%

0.20%

0.23%

0.25%

0.31%

Ratio of Net Investment Income to

 

 

 

 

 

Average Net Assets

1.75%

1.83%

1.68%

1.51%

1.54%

Portfolio Turnover Rate

100%

93%

84%

79%2

88%

 

 

1  Includes performance-based investment advisory fee increases (decreases) of 0.00%, 0.01%, 0.01%, 0.01%, and 0.00%.

2  Excludes the value of portfolio securities received or delivered as a result of in-kind purchases or redemptions of the fund’s capital shares.

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

 

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Notes to Financial Statements

 

Vanguard Growth and Income Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The fund files reports with the SEC under the company name Vanguard Quantitative Funds. 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, tenure, 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 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 board of trustees to represent fair value. 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. 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).

3. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Accordingly, no provision for federal income taxes is required in the financial statements.

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

5. 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. 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 the income earned on investing cash collateral, less expenses associated with the loan.

6. 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.

 

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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. Franklin Portfolio Associates, LLC, provides investment advisory services to the fund for a fee calculated at an annual percentage rate of average net assets. The basic fee is subject to quarterly adjustments based on the fund’s performance for the preceding three years relative to the S&P 500 Index. For the year ended September 30, 2007, the investment advisory fee represented an effective annual basic rate of 0.08% of the fund’s average net assets, with no adjustment required 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 September 30, 2007, the fund had contributed capital of $690,000 to Vanguard (included in Other Assets), representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 0.69% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and officers of Vanguard.

D. The fund has asked its investment advisor 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. The fund’s custodian bank has also agreed to reduce its fees when the fund maintains cash on deposit in the non-interest-bearing custody account. For the year ended September 30, 2007, these arrangements reduced the fund’s management and administrative expenses by $1,558,000 and custodian fees by $12,000. The total expense reduction represented an effective annual rate of 0.02% of the fund’s average net assets.

E. 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.

The fund used a tax accounting practice to treat a portion of the price of capital shares redeemed during the year as distributions from realized capital gains. Accordingly, the fund has reclassified $53,362,000 from accumulated net realized gains to paid-in capital.

The fund used a capital loss carryforward of $130,065,000 to offset taxable capital gains realized during the year ended September 30, 2007, reducing the amount of capital gains that would otherwise be available to distribute to shareholders. For tax purposes, at September 30, 2007, the fund had $111,355,000 of ordinary income and $651,369,000 of long-term capital gains available for distribution.

 

At September 30, 2007, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $7,109,219,000. Net unrealized appreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $1,175,862,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $1,332,194,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $156,332,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.

At September 30, 2007, the aggregate settlement value of open futures contracts expiring in December 2007 and the related unrealized appreciation (depreciation) were:

 

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($000)

 

 

Aggregate

Unrealized

 

Number of

Settlement

Appreciation

Futures Contracts

Long Contracts

Value

(Depreciation)

S&P 500 Index

207

79,597

2,074

 

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

F. During the year ended September 30, 2007, the fund purchased $7,802,119,000 of investment securities and sold $8,033,314,000 of investment securities, other than U.S. government securities and temporary cash investments.

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

 

 

Year Ended September 30,

 

 

2007

 

 

2006

 

Amount

Shares

 

Amount

Shares

 

($000)

(000)

 

($000)

(000)

Investor Shares

 

 

 

 

 

Issued

581,626

15,817

 

551,404

17,017

Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions

84,713

2,312

 

77,996

2,451

Redeemed

(999,454)

(27,194)

 

(1,138,743)

(35,170)

Net Increase (Decrease)—Investor Shares

(333,115)

(9,065)

 

(509,343)

(15,702)

Admiral Shares

 

 

 

 

 

Issued

491,880

8,143

 

428,118

8,127

Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions

42,270

706

 

35,887

691

Redeemed

(395,881)

(6,600)

 

(353,711)

(6,672)

Net Increase (Decrease)—Admiral Shares

138,269

2,249

 

110,294

2,146

 

H. In June 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Interpretation No. 48 (“FIN 48”), “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes.” FIN 48 establishes the minimum threshold for recognizing, and a system for measuring, the benefits of tax-return positions in financial statements, and is effective for the fund’s fiscal year beginning October 1, 2007. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken on federal income tax returns for all open tax years (tax years ended September 30, 2004–2007) for purposes of implementing FIN 48, and has concluded that as of September 30, 2007, no provision for income tax would be required in the fund’s financial statements.

 

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Report of Independent Registered

Public Accounting Firm

 

To the Trustees of Vanguard Quantitative Funds and the Shareholders of Vanguard Growth and Income Fund:

 

In our opinion, the accompanying statement of net assets and the related statements of operations and of changes in net assets and the financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Vanguard Growth and Income Fund (the “Fund”) at September 30, 2007, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements and financial highlights (hereafter referred to as “financial statements”) are the responsibility of the Fund’s management; our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), which require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits, which included confirmation of securities at September 30, 2007 by correspondence with the custodian and broker, and by agreement to the underlying ownership records for Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

 

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

November 7, 2007

 

 

 


Special 2007 tax information (unaudited) for Vanguard Growth and Income Fund

This information for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, is included pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

The fund distributed $135,244,000 of qualified dividend income to shareholders during the fiscal year.

For corporate shareholders, 66.9% of investment income (dividend income plus short-term gains, if any) qualifies for the dividends-received deduction.

 

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Your Fund’s After-Tax Returns

 

This table presents returns for your fund both before and after taxes. The after-tax returns are shown in two ways: (1) assuming that an investor owned the fund during the entire period and paid taxes on the fund’s distributions, and (2) assuming that an investor paid taxes on the fund’s distributions and sold all shares at the end of each period.

Calculations are based on the highest individual federal income tax and capital gains tax rates in effect at the times of the distributions and the hypothetical sales. State and local taxes were not considered. After-tax returns reflect any qualified dividend income, using actual prior-year figures and estimates for 2007. (In the example, returns after the sale of fund shares may be higher than those assuming no sale. This occurs when the sale would have produced a capital loss. The calculation assumes that the investor received a tax deduction for the loss.)

The table shows returns for Investor Shares only; returns for other share classes will differ. Please note that your actual after-tax returns will depend on your tax situation and may differ from those shown. Also note that if you own the fund in a tax-deferred account, such as an individual retirement account or a 401(k) plan, this information does not apply to you. Such accounts are not subject to current taxes.

Finally, keep in mind that a fund’s performance—whether before or after taxes—does not guarantee future results.

 

Average Annual Total Returns: Growth and Income Fund Investor Shares1

Periods Ended September 30, 2007

 

 

 

 

One

Five

Ten

 

Year

Years

Years

Returns Before Taxes

16.20%

15.00%

6.66%

Returns After Taxes on Distributions

15.92   

14.71   

5.72   

Returns After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

10.88   

13.12   

5.31   

 

 

1  Total return figures do not include the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000.

 

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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 table below 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.

 

Six Months Ended September 30, 2007

 

 

 

 

Beginning

Ending

Expenses

 

Account Value

Account Value

Paid During

Growth and Income Fund

3/31/2007

9/30/2007

Period1

Based on Actual Fund Return

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$1,000.00

$1,067.09

$1.50

Admiral Shares

1,000.00

1,067.76

0.93

Based on Hypothetical 5% Yearly Return

 

 

 

Investor Shares

$1,000.00

$1,023.61

$1.47

Admiral Shares

1,000.00

1,024.17

0.91

 

1  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 0.29% for Investor Shares and 0.18% 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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Note that the expenses shown in the table on page 24 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 the account service fee described in the prospectus. If such a fee were applied to your account, your costs would be higher. Your fund does not charge transaction fees, such as purchase or redemption fees, nor does it 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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Trustees Approve Advisory Agreement

 

The board of trustees of Vanguard Growth and Income Fund has renewed the fund’s investment advisory agreement with Franklin Portfolio Associates, LLC. The board determined that the retention of Franklin was in the best interests of the fund and its shareholders.

The board based its decision upon an evaluation of Franklin’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 agreement. 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 investment management to the fund over both the short and long term and the organizational depth and stability of the advisory firm. The board noted that Franklin, founded in 1982, is known for quantitative equity management combining investment experience, financial databases, and computer modeling. The firm has advised the Growth and Income Fund since its inception in 1986. The investment team at Franklin employs a quantitative investment strategy that seeks to provide a total return greater than that of the S&P 500 Index by investing in U.S. large- and mid-capitalization stocks. Stock selection is driven by a series of more than 40 computer models covering a broad range of public data.

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

Investment performance

The board considered the short- and long-term performance of the fund, including any periods of outperformance or underperformance of a relevant benchmark and peer group. The board noted that the advisor has carried out the fund’s investment strategy in disciplined fashion, and that the results have been solid. 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 far below the average expense ratio charged by funds in its peer group. The board noted that the fund’s advisory fee rate was also well below the peer-group average. Information about the fund’s expense ratio 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 advisory fee rate. The board did not consider profitability of Franklin in determining whether to approve the advisory fee, because Franklin is independent of Vanguard, and the advisory fee is the result of arm’s-length negotiations.

The benefit of economies of scale

The board concluded that the fund’s shareholders benefit from economies of scale because of breakpoints in the fund’s advisory fee schedule. The breakpoints reduce the effective rate of the fee as the fund’s assets increase.

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

 

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Glossary

 

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%. A fund’s beta should be reviewed in conjunction with its R-squared (see definition below). 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.

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. The percentage of a fund’s average net assets used to pay its annual administrative and advisory expenses. These expenses directly reduce returns to investors.

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

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.

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.

Yield. A snapshot of a fund’s income from interest and dividends. The yield, expressed as a percentage of the fund’s net asset value, is based on income earned over the past 30 days and is annualized, or projected forward for the coming year. The index yield is based on the current annualized rate of income provided by securities in the index.


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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.

Our independent board members bring distinguished backgrounds in business, academia, and public service to their task of working with Vanguard officers to establish the policies and oversee the activities of the funds. Among board members’ responsibilities are selecting investment advisors for the funds; monitoring fund operations, performance, and costs; reviewing contracts; nominating and selecting new trustees/directors; and electing Vanguard officers.

Each trustee serves a fund until its termination; or until the trustee’s retirement, resignation, or death; or otherwise as specified in the fund’s organizational documents. Any trustee may be removed at a shareholders’ meeting by a vote representing two-thirds of the net asset value of all shares of the fund together with shares of other Vanguard funds organized within the same trust. The table on these two pages shows information for each trustee and executive officer of the fund. The mailing address of the trustees and officers is P.O. Box 876, Valley Forge, PA 19482.

 

Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and Trustee

 

 

John J. Brennan1

 

Born 1954

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive

Trustee since May 1987;

Officer, and Director/Trustee of The Vanguard Group, Inc., and of each of the investment

Chairman of the Board and

companies served by The Vanguard Group.

Chief Executive Officer

 

148 Vanguard Funds Overseen

 

 

 

Independent Trustees

 

 

 

Charles D. Ellis

 

Born 1937

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Applecore Partners (pro bono ventures

Trustee since January 2001

in education); Senior Advisor to Greenwich Associates (international business strategy

148 Vanguard Funds Overseen

consulting); Successor Trustee of Yale University; Overseer of the Stern School of Business

 

at New York University; Trustee of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.

 

 

Rajiv L. Gupta

 

Born 1945

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Chairman, President, and

Trustee since December 20012

Chief Executive Officer of Rohm and Haas Co. (chemicals); Board Member of

148 Vanguard Funds Overseen

the American Chemistry Council; Director of Tyco International, Ltd. (diversified

 

manufacturing and services) since 2005; Trustee of Drexel University and of the

 

Chemical Heritage Foundation.

 

 

Amy Gutmann

 

Born 1949

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: President of the University of

Trustee since June 2006

Pennsylvania since 2004; Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences, Annenberg School

148 Vanguard Funds Overseen

for Communication, and Graduate School of Education of the University of Pennsylvania

 

since 2004; Provost (2001–2004) and Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and

 

the University Center for Human Values (1990–2004), Princeton University; Director of

 

Carnegie Corporation of New York since 2005 and of Schuylkill River Development

 

Corporation and Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce since 2004.

 

 

 


JoAnn Heffernan Heisen

 

Born 1950

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Corporate Vice President and

Trustee since July 1998

Chief Global Diversity Officer since 2006, Vice President and Chief Information

148 Vanguard Funds Overseen

Officer (1997–2005), and Member of the Executive Committee of Johnson &

 

Johnson (pharmaceuticals/consumer products); Director of the University Medical

 

Center at Princeton and Women’s Research and Education Institute.

 

 

André F. Perold

 

Born 1952

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: George Gund Professor of Finance

Trustee since December 2004

and Banking, Harvard Business School; Senior Associate Dean, Director of Faculty

148 Vanguard Funds Overseen

Recruiting, and Chair of Finance Faculty, Harvard Business School; Director and Chairman

 

of UNX, Inc. (equities trading firm) since 2003; Chair of the Investment Committee of

 

HighVista Strategies LLC (private investment firm) since 2005.

 

 

Alfred M. Rankin, Jr.

 

Born 1941

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Chairman, President, Chief Executive

Trustee since January 1993

Officer, and Director of NACCO Industries, Inc. (forklift trucks/housewares/lignite); Director

148 Vanguard Funds Overseen

of Goodrich Corporation (industrial products/aircraft systems and services).

 

 

 

 

J. Lawrence Wilson

 

Born 1936

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Retired Chairman and Chief Executive

Trustee since April 1985

Officer of Rohm and Haas Co. (chemicals); Director of Cummins Inc. (diesel engines) and

148 Vanguard Funds Overseen

AmerisourceBergen Corp. (pharmaceutical distribution); Trustee of Vanderbilt University

 

and of Culver Educational Foundation.

 

 

Executive Officers1

 

 

 

Thomas J. Higgins

 

Born 1957

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Principal of The Vanguard Group, Inc.;

Treasurer since July 1998

Treasurer of each of the investment companies served by The Vanguard Group.

148 Vanguard Funds Overseen

 

 

 

 

 

Heidi Stam

 

Born 1956

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Managing Director of The Vanguard

Secretary since July 2005

Group, Inc., since 2006; General Counsel of The Vanguard Group since 2005; Secretary of

148 Vanguard Funds Overseen

The Vanguard Group, and of each of the investment companies served by The Vanguard

 

Group, since 2005; Principal of The Vanguard Group (1997–2006).

 

 

 

 

Vanguard Senior Management Team

 

 

R. Gregory Barton

Kathleen C. Gubanich

F. William McNabb, III

Ralph K. Packard

Mortimer J. Buckley

Paul A. Heller

Michael S. Miller

George U. Sauter

 

 

 

 

Founder

 

 

 

John C. Bogle

 

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, 1974–1996

 

 

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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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>  During the 12 months ended September 30, 2007, the broad U.S. stock market returned 17.1%. The market climbed steadily until August, when it dipped sharply before rallying in September.

>  For the 12 months, the returns of the Institutional Plus Shares of the Vanguard Structured Equity portfolios ranged from 19.3% for the Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund to 14.5% for the Structured Large-Cap Value Fund.

>  The funds’ returns adhered closely to the results of their index benchmarks.

 

Contents

 

 

 

Your Fund’s Total Returns

1

Chairman’s Letter

2

Advisor’s Report

6

Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund

8

Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund

22

Structured Large-Cap Value Fund

36

Structured Broad Market Fund

48

About Your Fund’s Expenses

67

Glossary

69

 

 

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 cover of this report. Of course, the risks of investing in your fund are spelled out in the prospectus.

 

 


Your Fund’s Total Returns

 

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2007

 

 

 

Ticker

Total

 

Symbol

Returns

Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund

 

 

Institutional Shares

VSLIX

15.9%

Institutional Plus Shares

VSLPX

16.1   

S&P 500 Index

 

16.4   

Average Large-Cap Core Fund1

 

16.0   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund

 

 

Institutional Shares

VSTLX

3.1%2

Institutional Plus Shares

VSGPX

19.3   

Russell 1000 Growth Index

 

19.4   

Average Large-Cap Growth Fund1

 

20.4   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Value Fund

 

 

Institutional Plus Shares

VSLVX

14.5%

Russell 1000 Value Index

 

14.4   

Average Large-Cap Value Fund1

 

14.6   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vanguard Structured Broad Market Fund

 

 

Institutional Shares

VSBMX

8.7%3

Institutional Plus Shares

VSBPX

15.4   

Russell 3000 Index

 

16.5   

Average Multi-Cap Core Fund1

 

17.0   

 

 

1  Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.

2  Return since the share-class inception on June 22, 2007.

3  Return since the share-class inception on November 30, 2006.

 

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Chairman’s Letter

 

Dear Shareholder,

During the 2007 fiscal year, returns for the Institutional Plus Shares of the Vanguard Structured Equity portfolios ranged from 19.3% for the Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund to 14.5% for the Structured Large-Cap Value Fund.

As you know, these funds employ a quantitative strategy in seeking stocks that can supply above-market returns. During the fiscal year, the portfolio managers were challenged by a surge in market volatility in late July and August. Returns for all four of the funds remained very much in line with the performance of their benchmark indexes.

The Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund and Structured Broad Market Fund each introduced a new class of Institutional Shares during the period. These recent introductions mark the latest step in our efforts to develop a broad range of active quantitative strategies for a variety of institutional clients. These efforts began with the creation of investment trusts that were later reorganized as mutual funds. As both trusts and mutual funds, the portfolios have been managed by our Quantitative Equity Group, with the same investment objectives, strategies, policies, and risks. Because there was no change in the portfolios' strategies or advisors, funds that began as trusts adopted the performance history of the trusts.

 

Strong returns for U.S. stocks; even better for markets abroad

Overall, U.S. stocks produced excellent returns for the fiscal year. The gains came despite the midsummer shake-up brought on by problems in the subprime mortgage-loan market. Financials stocks—which represent a sizable share of the U.S. market’s value—were hardest hit, as investment banking and consumer lending businesses throttled back.

The broad U.S. equity market returned 17.1% for the year. Returns from large-capitalization stocks outpaced those of small-caps, and growth-oriented stocks outperformed their value-oriented counterparts. As investors took account of risk, they seemed to exhibit a preference for large-cap growth stocks, which appeared better positioned to thrive in a period of economic uncertainty.

 

Although not immune to the effects of the turmoil in U.S. credit markets, international stocks handily surpassed the returns of domestic stocks over the 12 months. The dollar’s ongoing weakness further enhanced foreign market gains for U.S.-based investors.

 

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The bond market was shaken, but it regained ground in the end

The turbulence in the corporate bond and subprime lending markets caused a “flight to quality” that drove prices of U.S. Treasury bonds sharply higher, particularly toward the end of the fiscal period. As the bonds’ prices rose, their yields fell. The declines were greatest among Treasury securities with the shortest maturities. The yield of the 3-month Treasury bill, which started the fiscal year at 4.89%, dropped more than a full percentage point to 3.81%.

 

Market Barometer

 

 

 

 

Average Annual Total Returns

 

Periods Ended September 30, 2007

 

One Year

Three Years

Five Years

Stocks

 

 

 

Russell 1000 Index (Large-caps)

16.9%

13.8%

16.0%

Russell 2000 Index (Small-caps)

12.3   

13.4   

18.8   

Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index (Entire market)

17.1   

14.0   

16.5   

MSCI All Country World Index ex USA (International)

31.1   

26.5   

26.3   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bonds

 

 

 

Lehman U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (Broad taxable market)

5.1%

3.9%

4.1%

Lehman Municipal Bond Index

3.1   

3.9   

4.0   

Citigroup 3-Month Treasury Bill Index

5.0   

4.0   

2.8   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CPI

 

 

 

Consumer Price Index

2.8%

3.2%

2.9%

 

As short-term yields fell, the yield curve—which illustrates the relationship between short- and long-term bond yields—returned to its usual, upward-sloping pattern. The curve had been mildly inverted at the start of the period, with yields of shorter-term bonds above those of longer-term issues. For the year ended September 30, the broad taxable bond market returned 5.1%. Returns from tax-exempt bonds were lower, as these issues did not benefit from the late-summer rally in Treasuries.

The funds held up well during an unsettled year

As I noted earlier, the four Vanguard Structured Equity Funds performed in line with their benchmark indexes during the fiscal year. Within each fund, sector performance versus the benchmark was mixed.

The Institutional Plus Shares of the Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund returned 16.1%, a bit behind the return of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index. The fund outperformed the benchmark in six of ten sectors, and did especially well in the consumer discretionary, consumer staples, energy, and industrials sectors. In the consumer discretionary sector, a number of restaurants and apparel retailers had strong returns. In the beleaguered financials sector—the fund’s largest—the advisor steered the fund to a performance that was largely in line with the benchmark’s gain. In the information technology sector, on the other hand, the fund’s stock selections failed to match the benchmark’s return.

 

For the 12 months, the Institutional Plus Shares of the Structured Large-Cap Value Fund returned 14.5%, slightly ahead of the return of the Russell 1000 Value Index. The fund led the benchmark in four sectors—consumer discretionary, energy, industrials, and materials—each of which produced healthy gains. Compared with the benchmark, however, the fund’s stock selections in the information technology sector were disappointing.

 

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The Institutional Plus Shares of the Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund earned 19.3%, slightly behind the return of the Russell 1000 Growth Index. The fund outperformed the benchmark in six sectors, achieving particularly strong returns in the consumer discretionary, industrials, and materials sectors. In the information technology sector, the fund’s largest, performance was similar to that of the index group.

 

The Institutional Plus Shares of the Structured Broad Market Fund returned 15.4%, behind the 16.5% return of the Russell 3000 Index. The fund topped the benchmark return in three sectors: consumer discretionary, materials, and telecommunication services. However, the fund’s performance in other sectors caused it to lag the benchmark’s overall gain.

 

The funds seek to outperform without increasing risk

Institutional investors often have very long time horizons, which allow them to tune out the market’s daily noise to focus on the enduring principles that can help their organizations reach their financial goals. The Vanguard Structured Equity portfolios embody many of these principles.

We believe that these funds’ broad diversification helps position your organization to benefit from the U.S. economy’s long-term potential. The funds benefit from the established expertise of Vanguard Quantitative Equity Group, which employs proprietary stock-selection models in seeking to outperform its benchmark indexes while keeping risk in check. The group’s stock-selection model factors in investor sentiment, valuation, and the quality of earnings for individual stocks, while maintaining sector weightings that are essentially the same as those in the benchmarks. The funds seek outperformance by slightly overweighting or underweighting individual stocks.

 

Although relative performance will go through periods of weakness and strength, we’re confident that the advisor’s experience and approach make these portfolios an excellent choice for a long-term investment program.

Thank you for investing with Vanguard.

 


 

Sincerely,

John J. Brennan

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

October 17, 2007

 

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Your Fund’s Performance at a Glance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Distributions Per Share

 

Starting

Ending

Income

Capital

 

Share Price1

Share Price

Dividends

Gains

Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund

 

 

 

 

Institutional Shares

$26.03

$29.98

$0.172

$0.011

Institutional Plus Shares

52.07

60.02

0.363

0.022

Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund

 

 

 

 

Institutional Shares

$29.04

$29.93

$0.000

$0.000

Institutional Plus Shares

50.00

59.60

0.150

0.053

Structured Large-Cap Value Fund

 

 

 

 

Institutional Plus Shares

$60.09

$63.87

$0.000

$0.000

Structured Broad Market Fund

 

 

 

 

Institutional Shares

$26.59

$28.67

$0.116

$0.095

Institutional Plus Shares

50.00

57.39

0.234

0.190

 

 

1  For the Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund, starting price is as of September 30, 2006. For the three funds that were converted from trusts, the Institutional Plus Shares’ starting price is as of the conversion dates: October 3, 2006, for the Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund; January 18, 2007, for the Structured Large-Cap Value Fund; and October 3, 2006, for the Structured Broad Market Fund. For the Institutional Shares of the Structured Broad Market Fund and Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund, the starting prices are as of the share-class inceptions: respectively, November 30, 2006, and June 22, 2007.

 

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Advisor’s Report

 

The 12 months ended September 30, 2007, was a mixed one for the Vanguard Structured Equity Funds.

The Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund returned 15.9% for Institutional Shares and 16.1% for Institutional Plus Shares, lagging the S&P 500 Index by, respectively, 0.5 and 0.3 percentage point.

The Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund’s Institutional Plus Shares returned 19.3%, close to the performance of the Russell 1000 Growth Index.

 

The Structured Large-Cap Value Fund’s Institutional Plus Shares returned 14.5%, in line with the gain of the Russell 1000 Value Index.

 

The Structured Broad Market Fund’s Institutional Plus Shares returned 15.4%, ending 1.1 percentage points behind the Russell 3000 Index.

 

The investment environment

In a departure from the trend of the past few years, growth stocks outperformed value stocks across the capitalization spectrum. The Russell 1000 Growth Index led the Russell 1000 Value Index by five percentage points, 19.4% to 14.4%. To place that change in context: For the three years ended September 30, 2006, the Russell 1000 Value Index topped its growth counterpart by almost nine percentage points annually.

This shift in the market’s leadership contributed to our mixed performance, even though we try to balance valuations against growth opportunities. In 2007, the negative impact of our valuation models offset the advantages of our other models. Since our model is attracted to stocks with reasonable valuations, strong growth markets, such as we experienced over the past six months, will be a journey uphill.

Our model, however, has more to it than valuation signals. We do not want to outperform only when the market prefers value stocks, so we diversify the model by including two additional signals: earnings quality and market sentiment. Ideally, the combination of the three indicators allows our model to identify attractive stocks regardless of market environment.

We begin our process by evaluating each stock in a fund’s benchmark index relative to peers based on the three component measures. We then draw upon the stocks with the most attractive evaluations to construct a portfolio that matches the benchmark’s exposure to industry, market capitalization, and other risk factors. In comparison with the respective benchmarks, the stocks in our portfolios generally have lower P/E ratios, slightly higher returns-on-equity, generally superior earnings, and similar dividend yields. We attempt to add value by taking many small positions across several hundred stocks, without tilting toward specific industries.

Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund

For this fund, our model had a slightly negative year. The market sentiment indicator was helpful, but it could not overcome the drag on performance stemming from our valuation indicator.

The fund’s best performance came from stocks in the capital goods industries, where Cummins Inc. was up 116%. Our energy and health care positions also performed well; however, holdings in the software industry and in technology were detractors.

 

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Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund

The positive contribution of our sentiment indicator was exactly offset by the results from our valuation indicator. Stocks in the capital goods industries provided the fund’s best performance, paced by Cummins. Pharmaceuticals and financials dragged down the overall return.

Structured Large-Cap Value Fund

The valuation indicator reduced a positive contribution from our market sentiment indicator. The materials sector was one of the fund’s best performers, with Celanese up 119%. Offsetting these gains were our holdings in technology.

Structured Broad Market Fund

The subpar performance of our valuation indicator overwhelmed the positive influence of the market sentiment indicator. The materials sector was the fund’s strongest, with AK Steel Holdings leading the way. Pharmaceuticals holdings underperformed the benchmark sector.

Conclusion

In the end, our fund performance depends upon our model’s stock-picking ability, which was disappointing during the past 12 months. Our valuation indicator did not add value for any of the funds. Although our sentiment indicator did contribute, neither this measure nor our earnings quality signals proved sufficient to overcome the drag from the valuation measure.

Given that our sentiment indicator was successful, one might question why we did not increase our reliance on that signal during the year. We feel that doing so would be counterproductive, because we are trying to provide stock selection, not style timing. Betting relatively small amounts on a large number of stocks provides more diversification than making bets on broad-market style changes. Additionally, betting on style requires that you be right two times—first on when to make the bet and then on when to remove it. Being wrong either time can wreck the return of the portfolio.

Quantitative models, just like traditional portfolio management, will always encounter periods in which they fail to add value, and we have had similar periods in the past. Over the long run, our process has demonstrated its ability to add value, and we believe that our combination of reasonable valuations, high earnings quality, market acceptance, and disciplined risk control offers attractive portfolios to serve as part of a diversified investment plan.

 

Joel M. Dickson, Principal

 

James P. Stetler, Principal and

Portfolio Manager

 

James D. Troyer, CFA

Principal and Portfolio Manager

 

Vanguard Quantitative Equity Group

 

October 19, 2007

 

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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund

 

Fund Profile

As of September 30, 2007

 

Portfolio Characteristics

 

 

 

 

Comparative

Broad

 

Fund

Index1

Index2

Number of Stocks

265

500

4,887

Median Market Cap

$59.2B

$59.2B

$36.1B

Price/Earnings Ratio

16.1x

17.0x

18.1x

Price/Book Ratio

2.9x

2.9x

2.8x

Yield

 

1.9%

1.7%

Institutional Shares

1.6%

 

 

Institutional

 

 

 

Plus Shares

1.7%

 

 

Return on Equity

19.5%

19.9%

18.8%

Earnings Growth Rate

21.9%

21.8%

21.6%

Foreign Holdings

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

Turnover Rate

54%

Expense Ratio

 

Institutional Shares

0.25%

 

 

Institutional

 

 

 

Plus Shares

0.15%

 

 

Short-Term Reserves

0.1%

 

Sector Diversification (% of equity exposure)

 

 

Comparative

Broad

 

Fund

Index1

Index2

Consumer Discretionary

9.5%

9.2%

10.4%

Consumer Staples

9.5   

9.5   

8.2   

Energy

11.5   

11.7   

11.2   

Financials

19.8   

19.9   

20.0   

Health Care

11.5   

11.6   

11.6   

Industrials

11.6   

11.5   

11.8   

Information Technology

16.2   

16.2   

16.0   

Materials

3.2   

3.2   

3.7   

Telecommunication

 

 

 

Services

3.7   

3.8   

3.5   

Utilities

3.5   

3.4   

3.6   

 

 

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Ten Largest Holdings3 (% of total net assets)

 

 

 

ExxonMobil Corp.

integrated oil

 

 

and gas

3.8%

General Electric Co.

industrial

 

 

conglomerates

3.0   

AT&T Inc.

integrated

 

 

telecommunication

 

 

services

1.9   

Microsoft Corp.

systems software

1.9   

Citigroup, Inc.

diversified financial

 

 

services

1.8   

Bank of America Corp.

diversified financial

 

 

services

1.5   

The Procter & Gamble Co.

household products

1.5   

Chevron Corp.

integrated oil

 

 

and gas

1.5   

Cisco Systems, Inc.

communications

 

 

equipment

1.4   

Pfizer Inc.

pharmaceuticals

1.3   

Top Ten

 

19.6%

 

Investment Focus

 


 

 

1  S&P 500 Index.

2  Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index.

3  “Ten Largest Holdings” excludes any temporary cash investments and equity index products. See page 92 for a glossary of investment terms.

 

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Structured Large-Cap Equity 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 www.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.

 

Cumulative Performance: May 15, 2006–September 30, 2007

Initial Investment of $200,000,000

 


 

 

Average Annual Total Returns

Final Value of a

 

Periods Ended September 30, 2007

$200,000,000

 

One Year

Since Inception1

Investment

Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund

 

 

 

Institutional Plus Shares

16.07%

14.75%

$241,756,901

Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index

17.08   

14.28   

240,393,268

S&P 500 Index

16.44   

14.84   

242,026,812

Average Large-Cap Core Fund2

15.96   

13.68   

238,661,860

 

 

 

 

Final Value of

 

 

Since

a $5,000,000

 

One Year

Inception1

Investment

Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund

 

 

 

Institutional Shares

15.94%

14.80%

$6,045,501

Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index

17.08   

14.42   

6,017,906

S&P 500 Index

16.44   

15.03   

6,061,927

 

 

 

1  Performance for the fund and its comparative standards is calculated since the following inception dates: May 15, 2006, for Institutional Plus Shares; May 16, 2006, for Institutional Shares.

2  Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.

 

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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund

 

 

 

Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): May 15, 2006–September 30, 2007

 


 

1  May 15, 2006, through September 30, 2006.

Note: See Financial Highlights tables on pages 22 and 23 for dividend and capital gains information.

 

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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund

 

Financial Statements

 

Statement of Net Assets

As of September 30, 2007

 

The fund provides a complete list of its holdings 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 www.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 (100.0%)

 

 

Consumer Discretionary (9.4%)

 

 

The Walt Disney Co.

175,963

6,051

Time Warner, Inc.

329,580

6,051

McDonald’s Corp.

107,968

5,881

Target Corp.

75,993

4,831

General Motors Corp.

130,986

4,807

*Comcast Corp. Class A

189,395

4,580

Lowe’s Cos., Inc.

144,558

4,051

Omnicom Group Inc.

81,736

3,931

J.C. Penney Co., Inc.

 

 

(Holding Co.)

61,055

3,869

Home Depot, Inc.

116,360

3,775

Wyndham Worldwide Corp.

109,766

3,596

Sherwin-Williams Co.

53,141

3,492

*Amazon.com, Inc.

36,800

3,428

Whirlpool Corp.

36,090

3,216

*Viacom Inc. Class B

75,150

2,929

News Corp., Class A

125,044

2,750

CBS Corp.

84,749

2,670

Carnival Corp.

53,507

2,591

Wendy’s International, Inc.

73,000

2,548

Newell Rubbermaid, Inc.

86,837

2,503

NIKE, Inc. Class B

41,800

2,452

*Kohl’s Corp.

38,200

2,190

RadioShack Corp.

102,500

2,118

Polo Ralph Lauren Corp.

21,571

1,677

Johnson Controls, Inc.

12,800

1,512

Mattel, Inc.

62,300

1,462

Yum! Brands, Inc.

42,000

1,421

Marriott International, Inc.

 

 

Class A

24,100

1,048

*Big Lots Inc.

29,900

892

*DIRECTV Group, Inc.

32,500

789

*Starbucks Corp.

16,271

426

The McGraw-Hill Cos., Inc.

7,700

392

 

 

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Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

Best Buy Co., Inc.

6,150

283

Abercrombie & Fitch Co.

3,153

254

Meredith Corp.

3,500

201

Nordstrom, Inc.

3,128

147

*Ford Motor Co.

11,900

101

Eastman Kodak Co.

2,500

67

 

 

94,982

Consumer Staples (9.5%)

 

 

The Procter & Gamble Co.

217,399

15,292

Altria Group, Inc.

169,640

11,795

The Coca-Cola Co.

166,493

9,568

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

200,164

8,737

PepsiCo, Inc.

104,199

7,634

Kraft Foods Inc.

147,576

5,093

Walgreen Co.

95,899

4,530

The Kroger Co.

156,442

4,462

Sara Lee Corp.

237,700

3,967

ConAgra Foods, Inc.

148,000

3,867

Molson Coors

 

 

Brewing Co. Class B

38,000

3,787

Colgate-Palmolive Co.

49,554

3,534

CVS/Caremark Corp.

86,026

3,409

Kimberly-Clark Corp.

47,449

3,334

Anheuser-Busch Cos., Inc.

37,986

1,899

The Estee Lauder Cos. Inc.

 

 

Class A

31,069

1,319

Safeway, Inc.

32,523

1,077

Costco Wholesale Corp.

15,554

954

Reynolds American Inc.

11,740

747

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.

20,400

675

The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc.

2,300

85

 

 

95,765

Energy (11.6%)

 

 

ExxonMobil Corp.

414,055

38,325

Chevron Corp.

162,057

15,165

ConocoPhillips Co.

132,382

11,619

Schlumberger Ltd.

93,055

9,771

*National Oilwell Varco Inc.

37,200

5,375

Marathon Oil Corp.

68,776

3,922

Noble Corp.

76,800

3,767

Valero Energy Corp.

54,221

3,643

Sunoco, Inc.

51,200

3,624

*Transocean Inc.

30,300

3,425

ENSCO International, Inc.

60,700

3,405

Halliburton Co.

80,938

3,108

Occidental Petroleum Corp.

44,686

2,863

Hess Corp.

32,400

2,156

Devon Energy Corp.

19,134

1,592

XTO Energy, Inc.

18,628

1,152

Apache Corp.

12,683

1,142

 

 

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Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

Baker Hughes, Inc.

10,800

976

Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

12,670

681

Murphy Oil Corp.

6,200

433

 

 

116,144

Financials (19.8%)

 

 

Citigroup, Inc.

384,212

17,931

Bank of America Corp.

307,793

15,473

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

273,306

12,523

American

 

 

International Group, Inc.

176,683

11,953

Wells Fargo & Co.

257,511

9,173

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

34,777

7,538

Wachovia Corp.

119,182

5,977

Morgan Stanley

93,398

5,884

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

76,912

5,482

Fannie Mae

87,396

5,315

U.S. Bancorp

159,102

5,176

ACE Ltd.

73,250

4,437

Prudential Financial, Inc.

45,382

4,428

Ameriprise Financial, Inc.

66,920

4,223

American Express Co.

69,443

4,123

XL Capital Ltd. Class A

51,100

4,047

KeyCorp

116,125

3,754

Synovus Financial Corp.

129,743

3,639

American Capital

 

 

Strategies, Ltd.

83,100

3,551

The Allstate Corp.

61,706

3,529

The Travelers Cos., Inc.

67,851

3,416

Safeco Corp.

55,246

3,382

Lehman Brothers

 

 

Holdings, Inc.

53,377

3,295

Washington Mutual, Inc.

88,646

3,130

Sovereign Bancorp, Inc.

173,100

2,950

State Street Corp.

43,227

2,946

SunTrust Banks, Inc.

38,354

2,902

Assurant, Inc.

52,112

2,788

Simon Property Group, Inc.

 

 

REIT

27,136

2,714

Bank of New York Mellon Corp.

60,663

2,678

MetLife, Inc.

38,281

2,669

Franklin Resources Corp.

19,933

2,541

The Chubb Corp.

47,336

2,539

ProLogis REIT

36,000

2,389

General Growth Properties Inc.

 

 

REIT

36,700

1,968

Freddie Mac

31,269

1,845

Vornado Realty Trust REIT

14,170

1,549

Legg Mason Inc.

17,000

1,433

Comerica, Inc.

26,602

1,364

 

 

14

 


 

 

Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

*CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc.

44,600

1,242

The Hartford Financial

 

 

Services Group Inc.

12,502

1,157

Janus Capital Group Inc.

38,100

1,077

Capital One Financial Corp.

14,998

996

Plum Creek Timber Co. Inc.

 

 

REIT

22,200

994

AFLAC Inc.

16,069

917

*Discover Financial Services

43,199

899

Equity Residential REIT

20,921

886

PNC Financial Services Group

11,951

814

Archstone-Smith Trust REIT

10,141

610

Loews Corp.

11,343

548

BB&T Corp.

12,887

520

SLM Corp.

9,727

483

Fifth Third Bancorp

13,422

455

Charles Schwab Corp.

18,200

393

National City Corp.

8,086

203

Host Hotels & Resorts Inc. REIT

4,300

96

Unum Group

1,300

32

Countrywide Financial Corp.

1,607

31

 

 

199,007

Health Care (11.6%)

 

 

Pfizer Inc.

545,869

13,336

Johnson & Johnson

199,398

13,100

Merck & Co., Inc.

180,701

9,340

UnitedHealth Group Inc.

118,312

5,730

Wyeth

119,339

5,317

*Medco Health Solutions, Inc.

58,400

5,279

Abbott Laboratories

96,139

5,155

*Biogen Idec Inc.

71,811

4,763

Schering-Plough Corp.

144,457

4,569

McKesson Corp.

72,681

4,273

*Amgen, Inc.

73,197

4,141

Medtronic, Inc.

66,834

3,770

Baxter International, Inc.

66,264

3,729

*Forest Laboratories, Inc.

96,600

3,602

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

113,617

3,274

Eli Lilly & Co.

53,456

3,043

*Laboratory Corp.

 

 

of America Holdings

34,780

2,721

*Humana Inc.

38,000

2,655

*Zimmer Holdings, Inc.

31,100

2,519

*WellPoint Inc.

31,255

2,467

Mylan Inc.

102,428

1,635

*Gilead Sciences, Inc.

39,946

1,633

*Express Scripts Inc.

28,800

1,608

AmerisourceBergen Corp.

29,669

1,345

CIGNA Corp.

24,530

1,307

 

 

15

 


 

 

Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

*Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

40,100

1,299

Aetna Inc.

23,213

1,260

*King Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

66,418

778

Cardinal Health, Inc.

12,304

769

*Covidien Ltd.

13,613

565

*Genzyme Corp.

9,000

558

Stryker Corp.

5,550

382

*Boston Scientific Corp.

15,448

216

 

 

116,138

Industrials (11.6%)

 

 

General Electric Co.

736,611

30,496

The Boeing Co.

67,585

7,096

United Parcel Service, Inc.

91,727

6,889

3M Co.

64,632

6,048

United Technologies Corp.

59,254

4,769

Textron, Inc.

72,020

4,480

Honeywell International Inc.

73,487

4,370

PACCAR, Inc.

51,050

4,352

Waste Management, Inc.

111,367

4,203

Cummins Inc.

32,696

4,181

Lockheed Martin Corp.

36,847

3,998

CSX Corp.

92,900

3,970

Caterpillar, Inc.

47,075

3,692

Raytheon Co.

51,305

3,274

Union Pacific Corp.

28,098

3,177

W.W. Grainger, Inc.

32,273

2,943

Northrop Grumman Corp.

37,621

2,934

*Terex Corp.

27,700

2,466

Emerson Electric Co.

36,658

1,951

Tyco International, Ltd.

35,113

1,557

General Dynamics Corp.

16,144

1,364

FedEx Corp.

12,644

1,324

Deere & Co.

8,700

1,291

*Allied Waste Industries, Inc.

96,313

1,228

Burlington Northern

 

 

Santa Fe Corp.

14,391

1,168

Goodrich Corp.

17,100

1,167

Illinois Tool Works, Inc.

12,308

734

Norfolk Southern Corp.

9,100

472

Masco Corp.

18,700

433

Cooper Industries, Inc. Class A

8,200

419

Danaher Corp.

4,300

356

 

 

116,802

Information Technology (16.2%)

 

 

Microsoft Corp.

642,133

18,917

*Cisco Systems, Inc.

418,689

13,863

International Business

 

 

Machines Corp.

110,145

12,975

Intel Corp.

467,168

12,081

Hewlett-Packard Co.

215,515

10,730

 

 

16

 


 

 

Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

*Apple Inc.

57,146

8,774

*Google Inc.

15,155

8,597

*Oracle Corp.

342,737

7,420

*Dell Inc.

198,764

5,486

*Sun Microsystems, Inc.

818,000

4,589

QUALCOMM Inc.

105,092

4,441

*Xerox Corp.

246,500

4,274

*Agilent Technologies, Inc.

108,300

3,994

*eBay Inc.

99,746

3,892

Corning, Inc.

156,261

3,852

*BMC Software, Inc.

117,533

3,671

*Computer Sciences Corp.

64,600

3,611

Electronic Data Systems Corp.

156,140

3,410

Xilinx, Inc.

129,800

3,393

*Symantec Corp.

170,600

3,306

*NVIDIA Corp.

81,000

2,935

Texas Instruments, Inc.

79,363

2,904

National Semiconductor Corp.

90,600

2,457

*Novellus Systems, Inc.

78,301

2,134

*EMC Corp.

99,450

2,068

Motorola, Inc.

109,289

2,025

*Convergys Corp.

98,621

1,712

*Yahoo! Inc.

55,945

1,502

Applied Materials, Inc.

56,534

1,170

Automatic Data

 

 

Processing, Inc.

20,020

920

*Teradyne, Inc.

60,700

838

*Adobe Systems, Inc.

17,100

747

*Compuware Corp.

35,507

285

Western Union Co.

9,933

208

*NCR Corp.

1,800

90

 

 

163,271

Materials (3.2%)

 

 

Monsanto Co.

54,470

4,670

Nucor Corp.

71,400

4,246

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.

83,970

4,162

International Paper Co.

108,900

3,906

Alcoa Inc.

91,400

3,575

United States Steel Corp.

29,506

3,126

*Pactiv Corp.

79,678

2,284

Dow Chemical Co.

45,258

1,949

Vulcan Materials Co.

20,100

1,792

Ball Corp.

23,652

1,271

Freeport-McMoRan

 

 

Copper & Gold, Inc. Class B

7,300

766

Allegheny Technologies Inc.

5,300

583

Eastman Chemical Co.

500

33

 

 

32,363

 

 

17

 


 

 

Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

Telecommunication Services (3.7%)

 

AT&T Inc.

462,772

19,580

Verizon Communications Inc.

190,580

8,439

Sprint Nextel Corp.

263,382

5,004

*Qwest Communications

 

 

International Inc.

413,948

3,792

Alltel Corp.

9,040

630

 

 

37,445

Utilities (3.4%)

 

 

Public Service

 

 

Enterprise Group, Inc.

53,100

4,672

FirstEnergy Corp.

69,775

4,420

Edison International

77,700

4,308

Sempra Energy

72,700

4,225

Xcel Energy, Inc.

166,500

3,586

Southern Co.

84,412

3,062

Consolidated Edison Inc.

59,600

2,759

Exelon Corp.

35,975

2,711

Dominion Resources, Inc.

29,480

2,485

TXU Corp.

19,081

1,306

Duke Energy Corp.

57,670

1,078

 

 

34,612

Total Common Stocks

 

 

(Cost $916,342)

 

1,006,529

Temporary Cash Investments (0.1%)

 

 

Money Market Fund (0.1%)

 

 

1 Vanguard Market

 

 

Liquidity Fund, 5.153%

493,657

494

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Face

 

 

Amount

 

 

($000)

 

U.S. Agency Obligation (0.0%)

 

 

2 Federal National Mortgage Assn.

5.208%, 10/24/07

100

100

Total Temporary Cash Investments

(Cost $593)

 

594

Total Investments (100.1%)

 

 

(Cost $916,935)

 

1,007,123

Other Assets and Liabilities (–0.1%)

Other Assets—Note B

 

1,392

Liabilities

 

(2,481)

 

 

(1,089)

Net Assets (100%)

 

1,006,034

 

 

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At September 30, 2007, net assets consisted of:3

 

Amount

 

($000)

Paid-in Capital

897,172

Undistributed Net

 

Investment Income

10,462

Accumulated Net Realized Gains

8,212

Unrealized Appreciation

90,188

Net Assets

1,006,034

 

 

 

 

Institutional Shares—Net Assets

 

Applicable to 6,230,592 outstanding $.001

par value shares of beneficial interest

 

(unlimited authorization)

186,776

Net Asset Value Per Share—

 

Institutional Shares

$29.98

 

 

 

 

Institutional Plus Shares—Net Assets

 

Applicable to 13,650,013 outstanding $.001

par value shares of beneficial interest

 

(unlimited authorization)

819,258

Net Asset Value Per Share—

 

Institutional Plus Shares

$60.02

 

 

•  See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements.

*  Non-income-producing security.

1  Affiliated money market fund available only to Vanguard funds and certain trusts and accounts managed by Vanguard. Rate shown is the 7-day yield.

2  The issuer operates under a congressional charter; its securities are neither issued nor guaranteed by the U.S. government. If needed, access to additional funding from the U.S. Treasury (beyond the issuer’s line of credit) would require congressional action.

3  See Note C in Notes to Financial Statements for the tax-basis components of net assets.

REIT—Real Estate Investment Trust.

 

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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund

 

Statement of Operations

 

 

Year Ended

 

September 30, 2007

 

($000)

Investment Income

 

Income

 

Dividends

14,709

Interest1

110

Total Income

14,819

Expenses

 

The Vanguard Group—Note B

 

Investment Advisory Services

492

Management and Administrative

 

Institutional Shares

222

Institutional Plus Shares

357

Marketing and Distribution

 

Institutional Shares

39

Institutional Plus Shares

126

Custodian Fees

45

Auditing Fees

24

Shareholders’ Reports

 

Institutional Shares

4

Institutional Plus Shares

Trustees’ Fees and Expenses

1

Total Expenses

1,310

Net Investment Income

13,509

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

 

Investment Securities Sold

7,921

Futures Contracts

415

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

8,336

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

 

Investment Securities

77,835

Futures Contracts

(1)

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

77,834

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

99,679

 

 

1  Interest income from an affiliated company of the fund was $102,000.

 

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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund

 

Statement of Changes in Net Assets

 

 

Year Ended

May 15, 20061 to

 

September 30,

September 30,

 

2007

2006

 

($000)

($000)

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

 

Operations

 

 

Net Investment Income

13,509

1,597

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

8,336

161

Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

77,834

12,354

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

99,679

14,112

Distributions

 

 

Net Investment Income

 

 

   Institutional Shares

(940)

   Institutional Plus Shares

(3,704)

Realized Capital Gain2

 

 

   Institutional Shares

(67)

   Institutional Plus Shares

(218)

Total Distributions

(4,929)

Capital Share Transactions—Note E

 

 

   Institutional Shares

36,315

121,426

   Institutional Plus Shares

544,425

195,006

Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions

580,740

316,432

Total Increase (Decrease)

675,490

330,544

Net Assets

 

 

Beginning of Period

330,544

End of Period3

1,006,034

330,544

 

 

1  Inception.

2  Includes fiscal 2007 short-term gain distributions totaling $285,000. Short-term gain distributions are treated as ordinary income dividends for tax purposes.

3  Net Assets—End of Period includes undistributed net investment income of $10,462,000 and $1,597,000.

 

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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund

 

Financial Highlights

 

Institutional Shares

 

 

 

Year

May 16,

 

Ended

20061 to

 

Sept. 30,

Sept. 30,

For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Period

2007

2006

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period

$26.03

$24.96

Investment Operations

 

 

Net Investment Income

.4762

.13

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments

3.657

.94

Total from Investment Operations

4.133

1.07

Distributions

 

 

Dividends from Net Investment Income

(.172)

Distributions from Realized Capital Gains

(.011)

Total Distributions

(.183)

Net Asset Value, End of Period

$29.98

$26.03

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Return

15.94%

4.29%

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ratios/Supplemental Data

 

 

Net Assets, End of Period (Millions)

$187

$127

Ratio of Total Expenses to Average Net Assets

0.25%

0.25%*

Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets

1.69%

1.67%*

Portfolio Turnover Rate

54%3

30%

 

 

1  Inception.

2  Calculated based on average shares outstanding.

3  Excludes the value of portfolio securities received or delivered as a result of in-kind purchases or redemptions of the fund’s capital shares.

*  Annualized.

 

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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund

 

Institutional Plus Shares

 

 

 

Year

May 15,

 

Ended

20061 to

 

Sept. 30,

Sept. 30,

For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Period

2007

2006

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period

$52.07

$50.00

Investment Operations

 

 

Net Investment Income

1.0182

.25

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments

7.317

1.82

Total from Investment Operations

8.335

2.07

Distributions

 

 

Dividends from Net Investment Income

(.363)

Distributions from Realized Capital Gains

(.022)

Total Distributions

(.385)

Net Asset Value, End of Period

$60.02

$52.07

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Return

16.07%

4.14%

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ratios/Supplemental Data

 

 

Net Assets, End of Period (Millions)

$819

$203

Ratio of Total Expenses to Average Net Assets

0.15%

0.15%*

Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets

1.79%

1.77%*

Portfolio Turnover Rate

54%3

30%

 

 

1  Inception.

2  Calculated based on average shares outstanding.

3  Excludes the value of portfolio securities received or delivered as a result of in-kind purchases or redemptions of the fund’s capital shares.

*  Annualized.

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

 

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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund

 

Notes to Financial Statements

 

Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The fund files reports with the SEC under the company name Vanguard Quantitative Funds. The fund offers two classes of shares, Institutional Shares and Institutional Plus Shares. Institutional Shares are available to investors who invest a minimum amount of $5 million. Institutional Plus Shares are available to investors who invest a minimum amount of $200 million ($100 million for investors with total Vanguard investments of at least $1 billion).

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 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 board of trustees to represent fair value. 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. 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).

3. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Accordingly, no provision for federal income taxes is required in the financial statements.

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

5. 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.

 

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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund

 

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. The Vanguard Group furnishes at cost investment advisory, 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 September 30, 2007, the fund had contributed capital of $85,000 to Vanguard (included in Other Assets), representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 0.08% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and officers of Vanguard.

C. 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.

For tax purposes, at September 30, 2007, the fund had $17,159,000 of ordinary income and $1,748,000 of long-term capital gains available for distribution.

At September 30, 2007, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $916,935,000. Net unrealized appreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $90,188,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $111,892,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $21,704,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.

D. During the year ended September 30, 2007, the fund purchased $1,005,008,000 of investment securities and sold $414,547,000 of investment securities, other than temporary cash investments.

 

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

 

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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund

 

 

 

Year Ended

 

Inception1 to

 

September 30, 2007

 

September 30, 2006

 

Amount

Shares

 

Amount

Shares

 

($000)

(000)

 

($000)

(000)

Institutional Shares

 

 

 

 

 

Issued

43,142

1,567

 

121,583

4,903

Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions

34

1

 

Redeemed

(6,861)

(234)

 

(157)

(6)

Net Increase (Decrease)—Institutional Shares

36,315

1,334

 

121,426

4,897

Institutional Plus Shares

 

 

 

 

 

Issued

540,496

9,679

 

195,006

3,900

Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions

3,929

71

 

Redeemed

 

Net Increase (Decrease)—Institutional Plus Shares

544,425

9,750

 

195,006

3,900

 

F. In June 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Interpretation No. 48 (“FIN 48”), “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes.” FIN 48 establishes the minimum threshold for recognizing, and a system for measuring, the benefits of tax-return positions in financial statements, and is effective for the fund’s fiscal year beginning October 1, 2007. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken on federal income tax returns for all open tax years (tax years ended September 30, 2006–2007) for purposes of implementing FIN 48, and has concluded that as of September 30, 2007, no provision for income tax would be required in the fund’s financial statements.

 

 

1  Inception was May 16, 2006, for Institutional Shares and May 15, 2006, for Institutional Plus Shares.

 

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Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund

 

Fund Profile

As of September 30, 2007

 

Portfolio Characteristics

 

 

 

 

Comparative

Broad

 

Fund

Index1

Index2

Number of Stocks

262

698

4,887

Median Market Cap

$38.2B

$38.2B

$36.1B

Price/Earnings Ratio

19.6x

21.6x

18.1x

Price/Book Ratio

4.1x

4.4x

2.8x

Yield

 

1.1%

1.7%

Institutional Shares

0.8%3

 

 

Institutional

 

 

 

Plus Shares

0.9%

 

 

Return on Equity

20.9%

21.2%

18.8%

Earnings Growth Rate

24.1%

22.8%

21.6%

Foreign Holdings

0.6%

0.0%

0.0%

Turnover Rate

56%

Expense Ratio

 

Institutional Shares

0.25%3

 

 

Institutional

 

 

 

Plus Shares

0.15%

 

 

Short-Term Reserves

0.0%

 

Sector Diversification (% of equity exposure)

 

 

Comparative

Broad

 

Fund

Index1

Index2

Consumer Discretionary

12.6%

12.7%

10.4%

Consumer Staples

9.8   

9.8   

8.2   

Energy

8.4   

8.3   

11.2   

Financials

7.1   

7.1   

20.0   

Health Care

15.8   

15.7   

11.6   

Industrials

13.0   

13.1   

11.8   

Information Technology

27.7   

27.6   

16.0   

Materials

3.2   

3.2   

3.7   

Telecommunication

 

 

 

Services

0.8   

0.9   

3.5   

Utilities

1.6   

1.6   

3.6   

 

 

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Ten Largest Holdings4 (% of total net assets)

 

 

 

Microsoft Corp.

systems software

3.1%

Cisco Systems, Inc.

communications

 

 

equipment

2.4   

Intel Corp.

semiconductors

2.0   

Hewlett-Packard Co.

computer hardware

1.7   

International Business

 

 

Machines Corp.

computer hardware

1.7   

Apple Inc.

computer hardware

1.7   

PepsiCo, Inc.

soft drinks

1.6   

Google Inc.

Internet software

 

 

and services

1.6   

Schlumberger Ltd.

oil and gas equipment

 

and services

1.5   

ExxonMobil Corp.

integrated oil

 

 

and gas

1.3   

Top Ten

 

18.6%

 

Investment Focus

 


 

1  Russell 1000 Growth Index.

2  Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index.

3  Annualized.

4  “Ten Largest Holdings” excludes any temporary cash investments and equity index products. See page 92 for a glossary of investment terms.

 

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Structured Large-Cap Growth 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 www.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.

 

Cumulative Performance: January 19, 2006–September 30, 2007

Initial Investment of $200,000,000

 


 

 

Average Annual Total Returns

Final Value of a

 

Periods Ended September 30, 2007

$200,000,000

 

One Year

Since Inception1

Investment

Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund

 

 

 

Institutional Plus Shares

19.35%

11.66%

$241,131,203

Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index

17.08   

12.56   

244,427,759

Russell 1000 Growth Index

19.35   

11.16   

239,296,192

Average Large-Cap Growth Fund2

20.44   

9.20   

232,197,241

 

 

 

Final Value of

 

Since

a $5,000,000

 

Inception1

Investment

Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund Institutional Shares

3.06%

$5,153,237

Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index

1.50   

5,075,232

Russell 1000 Growth Index

4.19   

5,209,485

 

 

1  Performance for the fund and its comparative standards is calculated since the following inception dates: January 19, 2006, for Institutional Plus Shares; June 22, 2007, for Institutional Shares.

2  Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.

 

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Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund

 

 

Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): January 19, 2006–September 30, 2007

 


 

 

 

 

 

1  January 19, 2006, through September 30, 2006.

2  The fund commenced operations as a registered investment company on October 3, 2006. The fund’s performance includes the performance of a predecessor trust, Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company Structured Large-Cap Growth Trust, from January 19, 2006, to October 3, 2006.
Note: See
Financial Highlights tables on pages 41 and 42 for dividend and capital gains information.

 

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Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund

 

Financial Statements

 

Statement of Net Assets

As of September 30, 2007

 

The fund provides a complete list of its holdings 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 www.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 (99.8%)1

 

 

Consumer Discretionary (12.6%)

 

 

Target Corp.

8,220

523

*Amazon.com, Inc.

5,000

466

Lowe’s Cos., Inc.

14,923

418

Yum! Brands, Inc.

10,418

352

The Walt Disney Co.

9,242

318

Home Depot, Inc.

9,659

313

J.C. Penney Co., Inc.

 

 

(Holding Co.)

4,875

309

*Comcast Corp. Class A

12,529

303

Omnicom Group Inc.

6,102

293

*EchoStar Communications Corp.

 

 

Class A

6,086

285

Wynn Resorts Ltd.

1,800

284

NIKE, Inc. Class B

4,828

283

Nordstrom, Inc.

6,007

282

*ITT Educational Services, Inc.

2,100

256

Sherwin-Williams Co.

3,770

248

Whirlpool Corp.

2,521

225

News Corp., Class A

9,534

210

*Clear Channel Outdoor

 

 

Holdings, Inc. Class A

7,900

201

*The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

6,460

196

McDonald’s Corp.

3,364

183

*Kohl’s Corp.

3,180

182

*DIRECTV Group, Inc.

7,360

179

Darden Restaurants Inc.

4,184

175

Brinker International, Inc.

6,257

172

Polo Ralph Lauren Corp.

2,192

170

Time Warner, Inc.

7,949

146

Carnival Corp.

2,885

140

*Viacom Inc. Class B

3,459

135

Harley-Davidson, Inc.

2,900

134

 

 

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Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

The McGraw-Hill Cos., Inc.

2,427

124

OfficeMax, Inc.

3,000

103

*Starbucks Corp.

3,693

97

*Coach, Inc.

1,900

90

TJX Cos., Inc.

2,900

84

*MGM Mirage, Inc.

930

83

Best Buy Co., Inc.

1,673

77

Burger King Holdings Inc.

3,008

77

*Dollar Tree Stores, Inc.

1,741

71

*AnnTaylor Stores Corp.

2,149

68

Abercrombie & Fitch Co.

760

61

*Las Vegas Sands Corp.

330

44

*NVR, Inc.

88

41

BorgWarner, Inc.

400

37

Autoliv, Inc.

400

24

Marriott International, Inc.

 

 

Class A

435

19

 

 

8,481

Consumer Staples (9.8%)

 

 

PepsiCo, Inc.

14,411

1,056

Altria Group, Inc.

11,169

777

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

16,257

710

The Coca-Cola Co.

11,583

666

The Procter & Gamble Co.

9,449

665

Walgreen Co.

9,860

466

Carolina Group

3,100

255

Sysco Corp.

6,794

242

*NBTY, Inc.

5,300

215

Colgate-Palmolive Co.

3,005

214

CVS/Caremark Corp.

5,184

205

Kimberly-Clark Corp.

2,679

188

H.J. Heinz Co.

2,900

134

Anheuser-Busch Cos., Inc.

2,589

129

The Kroger Co.

4,400

125

Dean Foods Co.

4,800

123

*Energizer Holdings, Inc.

1,007

112

Sara Lee Corp.

6,671

111

The Estee Lauder Cos. Inc.

 

 

Class A

2,300

98

Costco Wholesale Corp.

1,475

91

 

 

6,582

Energy (8.3%)

 

 

Schlumberger Ltd.

9,500

997

ExxonMobil Corp.

9,673

895

*National Oilwell Varco Inc.

2,174

314

Valero Energy Corp.

4,503

303

 

 

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Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

*Transocean Inc.

2,441

276

Chesapeake Energy Corp.

7,582

267

Sunoco, Inc.

3,670

260

ENSCO International, Inc.

4,497

252

Tesoro Corp.

5,191

239

Halliburton Co.

5,890

226

*Global Industries Ltd.

8,700

224

*Superior Energy Services, Inc.

6,200

220

*Cameron International Corp.

2,300

212

Tidewater Inc.

3,200

201

XTO Energy, Inc.

3,155

195

Baker Hughes, Inc.

1,839

166

*Dresser Rand Group, Inc.

2,900

124

Noble Corp.

2,052

101

Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc.

790

89

*Unit Corp.

506

24

 

 

5,585

Financials (7.1%)

 

 

American Express Co.

8,727

518

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

1,795

389

Northern Trust Corp.

4,130

274

State Street Corp.

3,666

250

Franklin Resources Corp.

1,886

240

Janus Capital Group Inc.

8,200

232

The First Marblehead Corp.

5,533

210

ProLogis REIT

2,829

188

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

2,578

184

XL Capital Ltd. Class A

2,100

166

Synovus Financial Corp.

5,127

144

AFLAC Inc.

2,469

141

Prudential Financial, Inc.

1,397

136

Legg Mason Inc.

1,600

135

Simon Property Group, Inc. REIT

1,291

129

*AmeriCredit Corp.

7,060

124

Charles Schwab Corp.

5,615

121

NYSE Euronext

1,500

119

CME Group, Inc.

202

119

The Macerich Co. REIT

1,300

114

SLM Corp.

2,164

107

Forest City Enterprise Class A

1,590

88

Bank of New York Mellon Corp.

1,830

81

Freddie Mac

1,090

64

Federated Investors, Inc.

1,500

60

SL Green Realty Corp. REIT

500

58

Taubman Co. REIT

1,000

55

Apartment Investment &

 

 

Management Co. Class A REIT

1,200

54

T. Rowe Price Group Inc.

900

50

Bank of Hawaii Corp.

799

42

*Affiliated Managers Group, Inc.

300

38

 

 

33

 


 

 

Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

CNA Financial Corp.

900

35

Morgan Stanley

549

35

American International Group, Inc.

362

24

ACE Ltd.

400

24

*E*TRADE Financial Corp.

1,400

18

 

 

4,766

Health Care (15.8%)

 

 

Merck & Co., Inc.

16,203

838

Abbott Laboratories

11,769

631

UnitedHealth Group Inc.

12,549

608

Johnson & Johnson

8,963

589

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

18,018

519

Medtronic, Inc.

8,440

476

Schering-Plough Corp.

14,832

469

*Medco Health Solutions, Inc.

4,845

438

Baxter International, Inc.

6,642

374

*Amgen, Inc.

6,418

363

*Zimmer Holdings, Inc.

4,370

354

McKesson Corp.

5,640

332

*Express Scripts Inc.

5,878

328

Wyeth

6,353

283

Aetna Inc.

4,817

261

*Forest Laboratories, Inc.

6,994

261

*Gilead Sciences, Inc.

6,220

254

*Genentech, Inc.

3,055

238

*WellCare Health Plans Inc.

2,200

232

*WellPoint Inc.

2,928

231

*Techne Corp.

3,600

227

*Endo Pharmaceuticals

 

 

Holdings, Inc.

7,192

223

*Cephalon, Inc.

3,038

222

*Laboratory Corp.

 

 

of America Holdings

2,750

215

Becton, Dickinson & Co.

2,541

208

Mylan Inc.

12,001

192

AmerisourceBergen Corp.

3,530

160

Eli Lilly & Co.

2,779

158

*Humana Inc.

2,200

154

*Warner Chilcott Ltd.

8,300

147

Cardinal Health, Inc.

2,280

143

*Biogen Idec Inc.

1,731

115

*DaVita, Inc.

1,800

114

Stryker Corp.

1,627

112

*Genzyme Corp.

1,200

74

*Health Net Inc.

760

41

Allergan, Inc.

546

35

 

 

10,619

Industrials (13.0%)

 

 

The Boeing Co.

6,604

693

3M Co.

5,726

536

 

 

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Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

United Parcel Service, Inc.

6,547

492

Caterpillar, Inc.

5,225

410

Lockheed Martin Corp.

3,654

396

PACCAR, Inc.

4,290

366

Textron, Inc.

5,578

347

United Technologies Corp.

4,282

345

Precision Castparts Corp.

2,247

332

General Electric Co.

7,851

325

Cummins Inc.

2,535

324

*Terex Corp.

3,209

286

The Manitowoc Co., Inc.

6,212

275

Honeywell International Inc.

4,580

272

Emerson Electric Co.

4,146

221

Burlington Northern

 

 

Santa Fe Corp.

2,600

211

Manpower Inc.

3,250

209

Union Pacific Corp.

1,783

202

*AMR Corp.

8,979

200

Raytheon Co.

3,104

198

CSX Corp.

4,635

198

Trinity Industries, Inc.

4,957

186

Goodrich Corp.

2,700

184

*Allied Waste Industries, Inc.

14,409

184

FedEx Corp.

1,584

166

Harsco Corp.

2,660

158

L-3 Communications

 

 

Holdings, Inc.

1,514

155

Waste Management, Inc.

4,058

153

*Corrections Corp. of America

5,210

136

Illinois Tool Works, Inc.

1,958

117

Danaher Corp.

1,200

99

C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc.

1,600

87

*Hertz Global Holdings Inc.

3,700

84

Northrop Grumman Corp.

982

77

*General Cable Corp.

1,000

67

GATX Corp.

916

39

*AGCO Corp.

200

10

 

 

8,740

Information Technology (27.6%)

 

 

Communications Equipment (4.2%)

 

*Cisco Systems, Inc.

49,050

1,624

QUALCOMM Inc.

15,603

659

Corning, Inc.

15,907

392

Harris Corp.

2,127

123

 

 

 

Computers & Peripherals (6.6%)

 

Hewlett-Packard Co.

23,477

1,169

International Business

 

 

Machines Corp.

9,707

1,143

*Apple Inc.

7,412

1,138

 

 

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Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

*Dell Inc.

18,281

505

*EMC Corp.

14,294

297

*Brocade Communications

 

 

Systems, Inc.

26,503

227

 

 

 

Electronic Equipment & Instruments (1.1%)

 

 

*Arrow Electronics, Inc.

5,352

228

*Avnet, Inc.

4,940

197

*Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.

9,900

129

*Agilent Technologies, Inc.

3,200

118

*Dolby Laboratories Inc.

1,333

46

 

 

 

Internet Software & Services (2.7%)

 

 

*Google Inc.

1,845

1,047

*eBay Inc.

11,356

443

*Yahoo! Inc.

7,457

200

*WebMD Health Corp. Class A

2,900

151

IT Services (2.2%)

 

 

Accenture Ltd.

9,635

388

Automatic Data Processing, Inc.

6,000

276

Western Union Co.

12,622

265

MasterCard, Inc. Class A

1,600

237

Electronic Data Systems Corp.

9,565

209

*Fiserv, Inc.

1,039

53

*Alliance Data Systems Corp.

600

46

*CheckFree Corp.

100

5

 

 

 

Semiconductors &

 

 

Semiconductor Equipment (5.1%)

 

Intel Corp.

51,320

1,327

*NVIDIA Corp.

10,500

381

Texas Instruments, Inc.

10,061

368

*MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc.

5,291

311

*LAM Research Corp.

4,160

222

*Varian Semiconductor

 

 

Equipment Associates, Inc.

3,821

204

Applied Materials, Inc.

8,699

180

National Semiconductor Corp.

6,102

165

*Novellus Systems, Inc.

4,853

132

*Teradyne, Inc.

5,800

80

*International Rectifier Corp.

2,000

66

 

 

 

Software (5.7%)

 

 

Microsoft Corp.

71,085

2,094

*Oracle Corp.

35,796

775

*BMC Software, Inc.

8,460

264

*Intuit, Inc.

7,802

236

*Synopsys, Inc.

8,100

219

*Adobe Systems, Inc.

4,183

183

 

 

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Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

*Symantec Corp.

4,600

89

 

 

18,611

Materials (3.2%)

 

 

Monsanto Co.

4,527

388

Southern Peru

 

 

Copper Corp. (U.S. Shares)

2,436

302

Celanese Corp. Series A

5,470

213

Allegheny Technologies Inc.

1,900

209

RPM International, Inc.

7,700

184

*Pactiv Corp.

6,030

173

Steel Dynamics, Inc.

3,413

159

Freeport-McMoRan

 

 

Copper & Gold, Inc. Class B

1,371

144

Lubrizol Corp.

1,783

116

*Owens-Illinois, Inc.

2,700

112

Nalco Holding Co.

2,400

71

Alcoa Inc.

1,580

62

Ball Corp.

700

38

 

 

2,171

Telecommunication Services (0.8%)

 

 

Telephone & Data Systems, Inc.

3,491

233

*U.S. Cellular Corp.

1,692

166

*MetroPCS Communications Inc.

5,500

150

 

 

549

Utilities (1.6%)

 

 

Exelon Corp.

3,472

262

*Mirant Corp.

6,300

256

CenterPoint Energy Inc.

11,386

183

*Dynegy, Inc.

17,900

165

TXU Corp.

1,714

117

*NRG Energy, Inc.

1,700

72

 

 

1,055

Total Common Stocks

 

 

(Cost $58,582)

 

67,159

Temporary Cash Investments (0.2%)1

 

Money Market Fund (0.0%)

 

 

2 Vanguard Market

 

 

Liquidity Fund, 5.153%

694

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Face

 

 

Amount

 

 

($000)

 

U.S. Agency Obligation (0.2%)

 

 

3 Federal National Mortgage Assn.

 

4 5.208%, 10/24/07

100

100

Total Temporary Cash Investments

 

(Cost $101)

 

101

 

 

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Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

Total Investments (100.0%)

 

 

(Cost $58,683)

 

67,260

Other Assets and Liabilities (0.0%)

 

Other Assets—Note B

 

156

Liabilities

 

(142)

 

 

14

Net Assets (100%)

 

67,274


 

 

At September 30, 2007, net assets consisted of:5,6

 

Amount

 

($000)

Paid-in Capital

57,140

Undistributed Net Investment Income

446

Accumulated Net Realized Gains

1,111

Unrealized Appreciation

 

Investment Securities

8,577

Futures Contracts

Net Assets

67,274

 

 

 

 

Institutional Shares—Net Assets

 

Applicable to 296,446 outstanding $.001

 

par value shares of beneficial interest

 

(unlimited authorization)

8,872

Net Asset Value Per Share—

 

Institutional Shares

$29.93

 

 

 

 

Institutional Plus Shares—Net Assets

 

Applicable to 979,863 outstanding $.001

 

par value shares of beneficial interest

 

(unlimited authorization)

58,402

Net Asset Value Per Share—

 

Institutional Plus Shares

$59.60

 

 

•  See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements.

*  Non-income-producing security.

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 99.9% and 0.1%, respectively, of net assets. See Note D in Notes to Financial Statements.

2  Affiliated money market fund available only to Vanguard funds and certain trusts and accounts managed by Vanguard. Rate shown is the 7-day yield.

3  The issuer operates under a congressional charter; its securities are neither issued nor guaranteed by the U.S. government. If needed, access to additional funding from the U.S. Treasury (beyond the issuer’s line of credit) would require congressional action.

4  Securities with a value of $100,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open futures contracts.

5  See Note D in Notes to Financial Statements for the tax-basis components of net assets.

6  See Note F in Notes to Financial Statements.

REIT—Real Estate Investment Trust.

 

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Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund

 

Statement of Operations

 

 

October 3, 20061 to

 

September 30, 2007

 

($000)

Investment Income

 

Income

 

Dividends

671

Interest2

6

Security Lending

1

Total Income

678

Expenses

 

The Vanguard Group—Note B

 

Investment Advisory Services

24

Management and Administrative

 

Institutional Shares

3

Institutional Plus Shares

24

Marketing and Distribution

 

Institutional Shares

Institutional Plus Shares

9

Custodian Fees

5

Auditing Fees

21

Shareholders’ Reports

 

Institutional Shares

Institutional Plus Shares

1

Total Expenses

87

Expenses Paid Indirectly—Note C

(1)

Net Expenses

86

Net Investment Income

592

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

 

Investment Securities Sold

1,154

Futures Contracts

9

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

1,163

Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

 

Investment Securities

8,104

Futures Contracts

Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

8,104

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

9,859

 

 

1  Commencement of operations as a registered investment company.

2  Interest income from an affiliated company of the fund was $6,000.

 

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Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund

 

Statement of Changes in Net Assets

 

 

October 3, 20061 to

 

September 30, 2007

 

($000)

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

Operations

 

Net Investment Income

592

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

1,163

Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

8,104

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

9,859

Distributions

 

Net Investment Income

 

Institutional Shares

Institutional Plus Shares

(146)

Realized Capital Gain2

 

Institutional Shares

Institutional Plus Shares

(52)

Total Distributions

(198)

Capital Share Transactions—Notes F, G

 

Institutional Shares

8,608

Institutional Plus Shares

49,005

Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions

57,613

Total Increase (Decrease)

67,274

Net Assets

 

Beginning of Period

End of Period3

67,274

 

 

1  Commencement of operations as a registered investment company.

2  Includes fiscal 2007 short-term gain distributions totaling $52,000. Short-term gain distributions are treated as ordinary income dividends for tax purposes.

3  Net Assets—End of Period includes undistributed net investment income of $446,000.

 

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Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund

 

Financial Highlights

 

Institutional Shares

 

 

June 22, 20071 to

For a Share Outstanding Throughout the Period

September 30, 2007

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period

$29.04

Investment Operations

 

Net Investment Income

.05

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments

.84

Total from Investment Operations

.89

Distributions

 

Dividends from Net Investment Income

Distributions from Realized Capital Gains

Total Distributions

Net Asset Value, End of Period

$29.93

 

 

 

 

Total Return

3.06%

 

 

 

 

Ratios/Supplemental Data

 

Net Assets, End of Period (Millions)

$9

Ratio of Total Expenses to Average Net Assets

0.25%*

Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets

0.84%*

Portfolio Turnover Rate

56%

 

 

1  Inception.

*  Annualized.

 

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Institutional Plus Shares

 

 

October 3, 20061 to

For a Share Outstanding Throughout the Period

September 30, 2007

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period

$50.00

Investment Operations

 

Net Investment Income

.547

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments

9.256

Total from Investment Operations

9.803

Distributions

 

Dividends from Net Investment Income

(.150)

Distributions from Realized Capital Gains

(.053)

Total Distributions

(.203)

Net Asset Value, End of Period

$59.60

 

 

 

 

Total Return

19.66%

 

 

 

 

Ratios/Supplemental Data

 

Net Assets, End of Period (Millions)

$58

Ratio of Total Expenses to Average Net Assets

0.15%*

Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets

0.94%*

Portfolio Turnover Rate

56%

 

 

 

1  Commencement of operations as a registered investment company.

*  Annualized.

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

 

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Notes to Financial Statements

 

Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The fund files reports with the SEC under the company name Vanguard Quantitative Funds. The fund offers two classes of shares, Institutional Shares and Institutional Plus Shares. Institutional Shares are available to investors who invest a minimum amount of $5 million. Institutional Plus Shares are available to investors who invest a minimum amount of $200 million ($100 million for investors with total Vanguard investments of at least $1 billion).

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 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 board of trustees to represent fair value. 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. 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).

3. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Accordingly, no provision for federal income taxes is required in the financial statements.

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

5. 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. 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 the income earned on investing cash collateral, less expenses associated with the loan.

 

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Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund

 

6. 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. The Vanguard Group furnishes at cost investment advisory, 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 September 30, 2007, the fund had contributed capital of $6,000 to Vanguard (included in Other Assets), representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 0.01% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and officers of Vanguard.

C. The fund’s custodian bank has agreed to reduce its fees when the fund maintains cash on deposit in the non-interest-bearing custody account. For the period ended September 30, 2007, custodian fee offset arrangements reduced the fund’s expenses by $1,000.

D. 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.

For tax purposes, at September 30, 2007, the fund had $1,001,000 of ordinary income and $571,000 of long-term capital gains available for distribution.

At September 30, 2007, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $58,683,000. Net unrealized appreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $8,577,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $10,127,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $1,550,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.

At September 30, 2007, the aggregate settlement value of open futures contracts expiring in December 2007 and the related unrealized appreciation (depreciation) were:

 

 

 

 

($000)

 

 

Aggregate

Unrealized

 

Number of

Settlement

Appreciation

Futures Contracts

Long Contracts

Value

(Depreciation)

E-mini S&P 500 Index

1

77

 

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

 

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Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund

 

E. During the period ended September 30, 2007, the fund purchased $41,022,000 of investment securities and sold $31,852,000 of investment securities, other than temporary cash investments.

F. Pursuant to a plan of reorganization approved by the trustee of Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company Structured Large-Cap Growth Trust (the “trust”) on July 18, 2006, the trust purchased shares of the fund through a non-taxable in-kind transfer of all of the trust’s investment securities on October 3, 2006, resulting in the issuance of 976,000 fund shares at a net asset value per share of $50.00. The trust’s net assets transferred to the fund were $48,807,000, including net unrealized appreciation of $473,000. On October 4, 2006, the trust liquidated by distributing to unitholders shares of the fund equal to the value of the unitholders’ investments in the trust.

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

 

 

October 3, 20061 to

 

September 30, 2007

 

Amount

Shares

 

($000)

(000)

Institutional Shares

 

 

Issued

8,608

296

Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions

Redeemed

Net Increase (Decrease)—Institutional Shares

8,608

296

Institutional Plus Shares

 

 

Issued2

48,807

976

Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions

198

4

Redeemed

Net Increase (Decrease)—Institutional Plus Shares

49,005

980

 

H. In June 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Interpretation No. 48 (“FIN 48”), “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes.” FIN 48 establishes the minimum threshold for recognizing, and a system for measuring, the benefits of tax-return positions in financial statements, and is effective for the fund’s fiscal year beginning October 1, 2007. Management has analyzed the fund’s federal tax positions for the period ended September 30, 2007, for purposes of implementing FIN 48, and has concluded that as of September 30, 2007, no provision for income tax would be required in the fund’s financial statements.

 

 

1  Commencement of operations as a registered investment company.

2  Includes shares converted from the net assets of Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company Structured Large-Cap Growth Trust. See Note F in Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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Structured Large-Cap Value Fund

 

Fund Profile

As of September 30, 2007

 

Portfolio Characteristics

 

 

 

 

Comparative

Broad

 

Fund

Index1

Index2

Number of Stocks

246

621

4,887

Median Market Cap

$55.4B

$55.0B

$36.1B

Price/Earnings Ratio

13.8x

14.6x

18.1x

Price/Book Ratio

2.2x

2.2x

2.8x

Yield—Institutional

 

 

 

Plus Shares

2.3%

2.5%

1.7%

Return on Equity

17.8%

17.8%

18.8%

Earnings Growth Rate

22.1%

21.2%

21.6%

Foreign Holdings

0.2%

0.0%

0.0%

Turnover Rate

48%

Expense Ratio—

 

 

 

Institutional Plus Shares

0.15%

Short-Term Reserves

–0.1%3

 

Sector Diversification (% of equity exposure)

 

 

Comparative

Broad

 

Fund

Index1

Index2

Consumer Discretionary

7.6%

7.6%

10.4%

Consumer Staples

7.9   

7.8   

8.2   

Energy

14.4   

14.4   

11.2   

Financials

32.3   

32.3   

20.0   

Health Care

7.0   

7.0   

11.6   

Industrials

10.4   

10.5   

11.8   

Information Technology

3.7   

3.6   

16.0   

Materials

4.1   

4.1   

3.7   

Telecommunication

 

 

 

Services

6.6   

6.7   

3.5   

Utilities

6.0   

6.0   

3.6   

 

 

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Ten Largest Holdings4 (% of total net assets)

 

 

 

ExxonMobil Corp.

integrated oil

 

 

and gas

5.4%

General Electric Co.

industrial

 

 

conglomerates

4.8   

AT&T Inc.

integrated

 

 

telecommunication

 

 

services

3.5   

Citigroup, Inc.

diversified financial

 

 

services

3.0   

Bank of America Corp.

diversified financial

 

 

services

3.0   

Chevron Corp.

integrated oil

 

 

and gas

2.7   

Pfizer Inc.

pharmaceuticals

2.2   

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

diversified financial

 

 

services

2.1   

ConocoPhillips Co.

integrated oil

 

 

and gas

2.0   

American

 

 

International Group, Inc.

multi-line insurance

1.7   

Top Ten

 

30.4%

 

 

Investment Focus

 


 

 

1  Russell 1000 Value Index.

2  Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index.

3  The fund invested a portion of its cash reserves in equity markets through the use of index futures contracts. After the effect of the futures investments, the fund’s temporary cash postion was negative.

4  “Ten Largest Holdings” excludes any temporary cash investments and equity index products. See 92 for a glossary of investment terms.

 

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Structured Large-Cap Value 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 www.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.

 

Cumulative Performance: December 15, 2005–September 30, 2007

Initial Investment of $200,000,000

 


 

 

Average Annual Total Returns

Final Value of a

 

Periods Ended September 30, 2007

$200,000,000

 

One Year

Since inception1

Investment

Structured Large-Cap Value Fund

 

 

 

Institutional Plus Shares

14.46%

14.64%

$255,480,000

Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index

17.08   

12.98   

248,895,880

Russell 1000 Value Index

14.45   

14.74   

255,873,385

Average Large-Cap Value Fund2

14.63   

13.13   

249,489,086

 

 

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Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): December 15, 2005–September 30, 2007

 


 

1  Performance for the fund and its comparative standards is calculated since the fund’s inception: December 15, 2005.

2  Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.

3  December 15, 2005, through September 30, 2006.

4  The fund commenced operations as a registered investment company on January 18, 2007. The fund’s performance includes the performance of a predecessor trust, Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company Structured Large-Cap Value Trust, from December 15, 2005, to January 18, 2007.
Note: See
Financial Highlights table on page 60 for dividend and capital gains information.

 

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Structured Large-Cap Value Fund

 

Financial Statements

 

Statement of Net Assets

As of September 30, 2007

 

The fund provides a complete list of its holdings 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 www.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 (99.5%)1

 

 

Consumer Discretionary (7.6%)

 

 

Time Warner, Inc.

37,220

683

McDonald’s Corp.

11,104

605

The Walt Disney Co.

13,790

474

*Liberty Media Corp.-

 

 

Capital Series A

3,300

412

General Motors Corp.

10,400

382

Home Depot, Inc.

10,300

334

Newell Rubbermaid, Inc.

9,636

278

Macy’s Inc.

8,300

268

Idearc Inc.

8,300

261

*Mohawk Industries, Inc.

3,100

252

*Comcast Corp. Class A

8,775

212

Wyndham Worldwide Corp.

5,748

188

J.C. Penney Co., Inc.

 

 

(Holding Co.)

2,800

177

Eastman Kodak Co.

6,300

169

Regal Entertainment

 

 

Group Class A

7,400

162

Gannett Co., Inc.

3,030

132

CBS Corp.

4,150

131

*NVR, Inc.

200

94

News Corp., Class A

4,210

93

Sherwin-Williams Co.

1,400

92

Mattel, Inc.

3,900

92

*TRW Automotive Holdings Corp.

2,500

79

Service Corp. International

6,100

79

*DreamWorks

 

 

Animation SKG, Inc.

1,800

60

*Dollar Tree Stores, Inc.

1,200

49

Carnival Corp.

1,000

48

Whirlpool Corp.

500

45

RadioShack Corp.

2,100

43

*Sears Holdings Corp.

300

38

 

 

50

 


 

 

Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

*Ford Motor Co.

1,900

16

Tribune Co.

588

16

OfficeMax, Inc.

300

10

 

 

5,974

Consumer Staples (7.9%)

 

 

The Procter & Gamble Co.

18,390

1,294

Altria Group, Inc.

10,330

718

Kraft Foods Inc.

18,701

645

The Coca-Cola Co.

7,290

419

ConAgra Foods, Inc.

14,600

382

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

8,200

358

Reynolds American Inc.

5,540

352

The Kroger Co.

11,800

337

Molson Coors

 

 

Brewing Co. Class B

3,200

319

Carolina Group

3,500

288

Kimberly-Clark Corp.

3,570

251

CVS/Caremark Corp.

5,200

206

Safeway, Inc.

4,400

146

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.

4,300

142

*Energizer Holdings, Inc.

1,000

111

Corn Products International, Inc.

2,400

110

Anheuser-Busch Cos., Inc.

1,490

74

Costco Wholesale Corp.

200

12

Sara Lee Corp.

600

10

 

 

6,174

Energy (14.3%)

 

 

ExxonMobil Corp.

45,610

4,222

Chevron Corp.

22,790

2,133

ConocoPhillips Co.

17,674

1,551

Occidental Petroleum Corp.

9,320

597

Marathon Oil Corp.

8,500

485

Hess Corp.

6,500

432

Noble Energy, Inc.

5,300

371

Devon Energy Corp.

3,600

300

Apache Corp.

2,500

225

Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

3,350

180

ENSCO International, Inc.

3,200

180

Chesapeake Energy Corp.

4,400

155

Valero Energy Corp.

2,220

149

Tesoro Corp.

3,200

147

Overseas Shipholding Group Inc.

800

61

Western Refining, Inc.

1,100

45

St. Mary Land & Exploration Co.

300

11

*SEACOR Holdings Inc.

100

10

 

 

11,254

Financials (32.0%)

 

 

Capital Markets (4.0%)

 

 

Morgan Stanley

11,090

699

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

7,700

549

 

 

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Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

1,960

425

Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc.

6,460

399

Ameriprise Financial, Inc.

6,200

391

American Capital Strategies, Ltd.

7,100

303

Bank of New York Mellon Corp.

5,643

249

Northern Trust Corp.

1,500

99

 

 

 

Commercial Banks (6.8%)

 

 

Wells Fargo & Co.

36,300

1,293

Wachovia Corp.

18,040

905

U.S. Bancorp

20,470

666

KeyCorp

11,100

359

SunTrust Banks, Inc.

4,560

345

Comerica, Inc.

6,000

308

UnionBanCal Corp.

4,426

259

Synovus Financial Corp.

9,000

252

PNC Financial Services Group

2,500

170

Webster Financial Corp.

3,700

156

BB&T Corp.

3,750

151

Fifth Third Bancorp

3,550

120

Bank of Hawaii Corp.

2,130

113

Commerce Bancshares, Inc.

2,242

103

National City Corp.

2,920

73

Regions Financial Corp.

2,000

59

East West Bancorp, Inc.

300

11

 

 

 

Consumer Finance (0.4%)

 

 

Capital One Financial Corp.

2,940

195

*Discover Financial Services

5,545

115

 

 

 

Diversified Financial Services (8.1%)

 

Citigroup, Inc.

51,290

2,394

Bank of America Corp.

46,492

2,337

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

36,580

1,676

 

 

 

Insurance (8.0%)

 

 

American International

 

 

Group, Inc.

20,140

1,362

Prudential Financial, Inc.

4,450

434

The Allstate Corp.

7,550

432

The Travelers Cos., Inc.

8,300

418

XL Capital Ltd. Class A

4,700

372

ACE Ltd.

5,400

327

Everest Re Group, Ltd.

2,900

320

Safeco Corp.

5,200

318

RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd.

4,800

314

The Chubb Corp.

5,800

311

*Arch Capital Group Ltd.

3,900

290

MetLife, Inc.

3,710

259

 

 

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Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

Nationwide Financial

 

 

Services, Inc.

4,800

258

Ambac Financial Group, Inc.

3,900

245

The Hartford Financial

 

 

Services Group Inc.

2,600

241

Loews Corp.

2,800

135

CNA Financial Corp.

3,300

130

Unum Group

3,700

91

Assurant, Inc.

900

48

Genworth Financial Inc.

600

18

Reinsurance Group

 

 

of America, Inc.

200

11

 

 

 

Real Estate Investment Trusts (2.7%)

 

 

Vornado Realty Trust REIT

2,100

230

Boston Properties, Inc. REIT

1,900

197

Host Hotels & Resorts Inc. REIT

8,300

186

Simon Property Group, Inc. REIT

1,770

177

HCP, Inc. REIT

4,700

156

SL Green Realty Corp. REIT

1,197

140

General Growth

 

 

Properties Inc. REIT

2,500

134

Regency Centers Corp. REIT

1,700

130

Apartment Investment &

 

 

Management Co. Class A REIT

2,790

126

Federal Realty

 

 

Investment Trust REIT

1,300

115

Colonial Properties Trust REIT

2,800

96

Taubman Co. REIT

1,700

93

Equity Residential REIT

1,780

75

Liberty Property Trust REIT

1,400

56

Archstone-Smith Trust REIT

910

55

CBL & Associates

 

 

Properties, Inc. REIT

1,100

39

iStar Financial Inc. REIT

1,000

34

Avalonbay Communities, Inc. REIT

150

18

Kimco Realty Corp. REIT

312

14

Mack-Cali Realty Corp. REIT

300

12

Public Storage, Inc. REIT

100

8

 

 

 

Thrifts & Mortgage Finance (2.0%)

 

Fannie Mae

11,130

677

Washington Mutual, Inc.

11,190

395

Sovereign Bancorp, Inc.

16,000

273

Freddie Mac

2,870

169

Countrywide Financial Corp.

3,390

64

 

 

25,177

Health Care (6.9%)

 

 

Pfizer Inc.

69,720

1,703

 

 

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Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

Johnson & Johnson

17,390

1,143

Wyeth

8,150

363

Merck & Co., Inc.

5,480

283

Eli Lilly & Co.

3,630

207

*Charles River Laboratories, Inc.

3,600

202

*WellPoint Inc.

2,490

197

*Biogen Idec Inc.

2,800

186

*Covidien Ltd.

4,375

182

*King Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

14,800

173

McKesson Corp.

2,900

171

Aetna Inc.

2,680

145

*Medco Health Solutions, Inc.

1,500

136

AmerisourceBergen Corp.

2,654

120

*Boston Scientific Corp.

7,900

110

*Amgen, Inc.

1,800

102

 

 

5,423

Industrials (10.4%)

 

 

General Electric Co.

92,050

3,811

CSX Corp.

8,100

346

Northrop Grumman Corp.

4,350

339

Deere & Co.

2,100

312

Crane Co.

5,900

283

General Dynamics Corp.

3,280

277

*Alliant Techsystems, Inc.

2,300

251

Teleflex Inc.

3,100

242

United Technologies Corp.

3,000

241

Parker Hannifin Corp.

2,100

235

Raytheon Co.

3,600

230

*Hertz Global Holdings Inc.

9,900

225

Tyco International, Ltd.

4,375

194

Trinity Industries, Inc.

4,400

165

Honeywell International Inc.

2,250

134

3M Co.

1,400

131

Union Pacific Corp.

1,120

127

Waste Management, Inc.

3,200

121

*Allied Waste Industries, Inc.

7,000

89

Kennametal, Inc.

1,000

84

*Gardner Denver Inc.

1,700

66

*UAL Corp.

1,300

61

R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co.

1,600

59

Textron, Inc.

800

50

GATX Corp.

800

34

*United Rentals, Inc.

800

26

*Northwest Airlines Corp.

1,200

21

*Owens Corning Inc.

400

10

 

 

8,164

Information Technology (3.7%)

 

 

International Business

 

 

Machines Corp.

3,560

419

*Xerox Corp.

23,500

408

 

 

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Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

Motorola, Inc.

19,280

357

*Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

13,100

291

*NCR Corp.

5,400

269

*Sun Microsystems, Inc.

36,100

203

*Convergys Corp.

10,800

188

*Teradyne, Inc.

12,400

171

*Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.

12,200

159

Tyco Electronics Ltd.

4,375

155

*International Rectifier Corp.

1,700

56

*Symantec Corp.

2,170

42

*Computer Sciences Corp.

750

42

*Synopsys, Inc.

1,400

38

*Unisys Corp.

4,200

28

Electronic Data Systems Corp.

600

13

*Fairchild Semiconductor

 

 

International, Inc.

600

11

*Hewitt Associates, Inc.

300

11

*ADC Telecommunications, Inc.

226

4

 

 

2,865

Materials (4.1%)

 

 

Alcoa Inc.

11,020

431

United States Steel Corp.

3,500

371

Dow Chemical Co.

7,910

341

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.

6,200

307

Lubrizol Corp.

4,500

293

Celanese Corp. Series A

7,100

277

Steel Dynamics, Inc.

5,800

271

*Owens-Illinois, Inc.

6,400

265

International Paper Co.

6,400

230

Ashland, Inc.

3,200

193

RPM International, Inc.

6,400

153

Cytec Industries, Inc.

1,400

96

 

 

3,228

Telecommunication Services (6.6%)

 

 

AT&T Inc.

64,513

2,730

Verizon Communications Inc.

28,140

1,246

Sprint Nextel Corp.

32,620

620

*Qwest Communications

 

 

International Inc.

37,400

343

Alltel Corp.

2,320

162

Telephone & Data Systems, Inc.

1,100

73

Embarq Corp.

650

36

 

 

5,210

Utilities (6.0%)

 

 

FirstEnergy Corp.

7,000

443

PG&E Corp.

9,000

430

 

 

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Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

Public Service

 

 

Enterprise Group, Inc.

4,800

422

Edison International

7,600

421

Sempra Energy

6,900

401

Exelon Corp.

4,900

369

Consolidated Edison Inc.

7,900

366

Dominion Resources, Inc.

3,884

327

Duke Energy Corp.

17,160

321

Atmos Energy Corp.

8,400

238

Energen Corp.

3,800

217

Southern Co.

5,690

206

Xcel Energy, Inc.

7,587

163

*Mirant Corp.

3,100

126

Pepco Holdings, Inc.

4,200

114

Vectren Corp.

3,100

85

ONEOK, Inc.

1,100

52

FPL Group, Inc.

400

24

 

 

4,725

Total Common Stocks

 

 

(Cost $68,392)

 

78,194

Temporary Cash Investments (0.4%)1

 

 

Money Market Fund (0.3%)

 

 

2 Vanguard Market

 

 

Liquidity Fund, 5.153%

222,745

223

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Face

 

 

Amount

 

 

($000)

 

U.S. Agency Obligation (0.1%)

 

 

3 Federal National Mortgage Assn.

 

 

4 5.208%, 10/24/07

100

100

Total Temporary Cash Investments

 

 

(Cost $323)

 

323

Total Investments (99.9%)

 

 

(Cost $68,715)

 

78,517

Other Assets and Liabilities (0.1%)

 

 

Other Assets—Note B

 

124

Liabilities

 

(48)

 

 

76

Net Assets (100%)

 

 

Applicable to 1,230,578 outstanding $.001

 

 

par value shares of beneficial interest

 

 

(unlimited authorization)

 

78,593

Net Asset Value Per Share

 

$63.87

 

 

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At September 30, 2007, net assets consisted of:5,6

 

Amount

Per

 

($000)

Share

Paid-in Capital

62,803

$51.04

Undistributed Net

 

 

Investment Income

1,263

1.03

Accumulated Net Realized Gains

4,724

3.84

Unrealized Appreciation

 

 

Investment Securities

9,802

7.96

Futures Contracts

1

Net Assets

78,593

$63.87

 

 

•  See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements.

*  Non-income-producing security.

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 99.9% and 0%, respectively, of net assets. See Note D in Notes to Financial Statements.

2  Affiliated money market fund available only to Vanguard funds and certain trusts and accounts managed by Vanguard. Rate shown is the 7-day yield.

3  The issuer operates under a congressional charter; its securities are neither issued nor guaranteed by the U.S. government. If needed, access to additional funding from the U.S. Treasury (beyond the issuer’s line of credit) would require congressional action.

4  Securities with a value of $100,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open futures contracts.

5  See Note D in Notes to Financial Statements for the tax-basis components of net assets.

6  See Note F in Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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Statement of Operations

 

 

January 18, 20071 to

 

September 30, 2007

 

($000)

Investment Income

 

Income

 

Dividends

1,343

Interest2

1

Security Lending

1

Total Income

1,345

Expenses

 

The Vanguard Group—Note B

 

Investment Advisory Services

27

Management and Administrative

18

Marketing and Distribution

8

Custodian Fees

6

Auditing Fees

23

Shareholders’ Reports

1

Total Expenses

83

Expenses Paid Indirectly—Note C

(1)

Net Expenses

82

Net Investment Income

1,263

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

 

Investment Securities Sold

4,725

Futures Contracts

(1)

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

4,724

Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

 

Investment Securities

(1,055)

Futures Contracts

1

Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

(1,054)

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

4,933

 

 

 

1  Commencement of operations as a registered investment company.

2  Interest income from an affiliated company of the fund was $1,000.

 

 

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Statement of Changes in Net Assets

 

 

January 18, 20071 to

 

September 30, 2007

 

($000)

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

Operations

 

Net Investment Income

1,263

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

4,724

Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

(1,054)

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

4,933

Distributions

 

Net Investment Income

Realized Capital Gain

Total Distributions

Capital Share Transactions—Note G

 

Issued2

78,660

Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions

Redeemed

(5,000)

Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions

73,660

Total Increase (Decrease)

78,593

Net Assets

 

Beginning of Period

End of Period3

78,593

 

 

1  Commencement of operations as a registered investment company.

2  Includes shares converted from the net assets of Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company Structured Large-Cap Value Trust. See Note F in Notes to Financial Statements.

3  Net Assets—End of Period includes undistributed net investment income of $1,263,000.

 

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Financial Highlights

 

Institutional Plus Shares

 

 

January 18, 20071 to

For a Share Outstanding Throughout the Period

September 30, 2007

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period

$60.09

Investment Operations

 

Net Investment Income

1.03

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments

2.75

Total from Investment Operations

3.78

Distributions

 

Dividends from Net Investment Income

Distributions from Realized Capital Gains

Total Distributions

Net Asset Value, End of Period

$63.87

 

 

 

 

Total Return

6.29%

 

 

 

 

Ratios/Supplemental Data

 

Net Assets, End of Period (Millions)

$79

Ratio of Total Expenses to Average Net Assets

0.15%*

Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets

2.29%*

Portfolio Turnover Rate

48%

 

 

 

1  Commencement of operations as a registered investment company.

*  Annualized.

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

 

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Notes to Financial Statements

 

Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Value Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The fund files reports with the SEC under the company name Vanguard Quantitative Funds. The fund offers two classes of shares, Institutional Shares and Institutional Plus Shares. Institutional Shares are available to investors who invest a minimum amount of $5 million. Institutional Plus Shares are available to investors who invest a minimum amount of $200 million ($100 million for investors with total Vanguard investments of at least $1 billion). The fund has not issued any Institutional Shares through September 30, 2007.

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 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 board of trustees to represent fair value. 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. 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).

3. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Accordingly, no provision for federal income taxes is required in the financial statements.

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

 

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5. 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. 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 the income earned on investing cash collateral, less expenses associated with the loan.

6. 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.

B. The Vanguard Group furnishes at cost investment advisory, 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 September 30, 2007, the fund had contributed capital of $7,000 to Vanguard (included in Other Assets), representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 0.01% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and officers of Vanguard.

C. The fund’s custodian bank has agreed to reduce its fees when the fund maintains cash on deposit in the non-interest-bearing custody account. For the period ended September 30, 2007, custodian fee offset arrangements reduced the fund’s expenses by $1,000.

D. 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.

For tax purposes, at September 30, 2007, the fund had $2,853,000 of ordinary income and $3,150,000 of long-term capital gains available for distribution.

At September 30, 2007, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $68,715,000. Net unrealized appreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $9,802,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $11,625,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $1,823,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.

At September 30, 2007, the aggregate settlement value of open futures contracts expiring in December 2007 and the related unrealized appreciation (depreciation) were:

 

 

 

 

($000)

 

 

Aggregate

Unrealized

 

Number of

Settlement

Appreciation

Futures Contracts

Long Contracts

Value

(Depreciation)

E-mini S&P 500 Index

5

385

1

 

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

 

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Structured Large-Cap Value Fund

 

E. During the period ended September 30, 2007, the fund purchased $37,231,000 of investment securities and sold $41,159,000 of investment securities, other than temporary cash investments.

F. Pursuant to a plan of reorganization approved by the trustee of Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company Structured Large-Cap Value Trust (the “trust”) on October 20, 2006, the trust purchased shares of the fund through a non-taxable in-kind transfer of all of the trust’s investment securities on January 18, 2007, resulting in the issuance of 1,309,000 fund shares at a net asset value per share of $60.09. The trust’s net assets transferred to the fund were $78,660,000, including net unrealized appreciation of $10,857,000. On January 19, 2007, the trust liquidated by distributing to unitholders shares of the fund equal to the value of the unitholders’ investments in the trust.

G. Capital shares issued and redeemed were:

 

 

January 18, 20071 to

 

September 30, 2007

 

Shares

 

(000)

Issued

1,309

Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions

Redeemed

(78)

Net Increase (Decrease) in Shares Outstanding

1,231

 

H. In June 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Interpretation No. 48 (“FIN 48”), “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes.” FIN 48 establishes the minimum threshold for recognizing, and a system for measuring, the benefits of tax-return positions in financial statements, effective for the fund’s current fiscal period. Management has analyzed the fund’s federal tax positions taken for the period from inception to September 30, 2007, and has concluded that no provision for income tax is required in the fund’s financial statements.

 

 

1  Commencement of operations as a registered investment company.

 

 

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Structured Broad Market Fund

 

Fund Profile

As of September 30, 2007

 

Portfolio Characteristics

 

 

 

 

Comparative

Broad

 

Fund

Index1

Index2

Number of Stocks

495

2,921

4,887

Median Market Cap

$36.5B

$36.5B

$36.1B

Price/Earnings Ratio

16.0x

17.9x

18.1x

Price/Book Ratio

2.7x

2.9x

2.8x

Yield

 

1.7%

1.7%

Institutional Shares

1.5%3

 

 

Institutional

 

 

 

Plus Shares

1.6%

 

 

Return on Equity

18.6%

18.9%

18.8%

Earnings Growth Rate

22.8%

21.6%

21.6%

Foreign Holdings

0.3%

0.0%

0.0%

Turnover Rate

66%

Expense Ratio

 

Institutional Shares

0.25%3

 

 

Institutional

 

 

 

Plus Shares

0.15%

 

 

Short-Term Reserves

–0.1%4

 

Sector Diversification (% of equity exposure)

 

 

Comparative

Broad

 

Fund

Index1

Index2

Consumer Discretionary

10.6%

10.6%

10.4%

Consumer Staples

8.4   

8.4   

8.2   

Energy

10.9   

10.9   

11.2   

Financials

19.4   

19.4   

20.0   

Health Care

11.7   

11.6   

11.6   

Industrials

12.0   

12.0   

11.8   

Information Technology

16.1   

16.1   

16.0   

Materials

3.8   

3.8   

3.7

Telecommunication

 

 

 

Services

3.5   

3.5   

3.5   

Utilities

3.6   

3.7   

3.6   

 

 

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Ten Largest Holdings5 (% of total net assets)

 

 

 

ExxonMobil Corp.

integrated oil

 

 

and gas

3.0%

General Electric Co.

industrial

 

 

conglomerates

2.4   

AT&T Inc.

integrated

 

 

telecommunication

 

 

services

1.6   

Microsoft Corp.

systems software

1.5   

Citigroup, Inc.

diversified financial

 

 

services

1.5   

The Procter & Gamble Co.

household products

1.4   

Bank of America Corp.

diversified financial

 

 

services

1.2   

Chevron Corp.

integrated oil

 

 

and gas

1.2   

Pfizer Inc.

pharmaceuticals

1.1   

Cisco Systems, Inc.

communications

 

 

equipment

1.1   

Top Ten

 

16.0%

 

Investment Focus

 


 

1  Russell 3000 Index.

2  Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index.

3  Annualized.

4  The fund invested a portion of its cash reserves in equity markets through the use of index futures contracts. After the effect of the futures investments, the fund’s temporary cash postion was negative.

5  “Ten Largest Holdings” excludes any temporary cash investments and equity index products.
See page 92 for a glossary of investment terms.

 

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Structured Broad Market 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 www.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.

 

Cumulative Performance: May 3, 2004–September 30, 2007

Initial Investment of $200,000,000

 


 

 

Average Annual Total Returns

Final Value of a

 

Periods Ended September 30, 2007

$200,000,000

 

One Year

Since Inception1

Investment

Structured Broad Market Fund

 

 

 

Institutional Plus Shares

15.39%

12.42%

$298,071,630

Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index

17.08   

12.50   

298,793,688

Russell 3000 Index

16.52   

12.18   

295,921,418

Average Multi-Cap Core Fund2

17.00   

11.67   

291,353,665

 

 

 

Final Value of

 

Since

a $5,000,000

 

Inception1

Investment

Structured Broad Market Fund

 

 

Institutional Shares

8.68%

$5,433,809

Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index

10.33   

5,516,683

Russell 3000 Index

10.08   

5,503,767

 

 

1  Performance for the fund and its comparative standards is calculated since the following inception dates: May 3, 2004, for Institutional Plus Shares; November 30, 2006, for Institutional Shares.

2  Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.

 

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Structured Broad Market Fund

 

Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): May 3, 2004–September 30, 2007

 


 

 

1  May 3, 2004, through September 30, 2004.

2  The fund commenced operations as a registered investment company on October 3, 2006. The fund’s performance includes the performance of a predecessor trust, Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company Structured Broad Market Trust, from May 3, 2004, to October 3, 2006.

Note: See Financial Highlights tables on pages 83 and 84 for dividend and capital gains information.

 

 

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Structured Broad Market Fund

 

Financial Statements

 

Statement of Net Assets

As of September 30, 2007

 

The fund provides a complete list of its holdings 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 www.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 (99.6%)1

 

 

Consumer Discretionary (10.5%)

 

 

Time Warner, Inc.

82,590

1,516

The Walt Disney Co.

43,190

1,485

McDonald’s Corp.

26,560

1,447

*Amazon.com, Inc.

13,100

1,220

Lowe’s Cos., Inc.

36,670

1,027

*Comcast Corp. Class A

39,165

947

NIKE, Inc. Class B

15,520

910

*Liberty Media Corp.-

 

 

Capital Series A

7,200

899

Home Depot, Inc.

27,420

889

Yum! Brands, Inc.

25,720

870

Omnicom Group Inc.

17,660

849

General Motors Corp.

22,700

833

J.C. Penney Co., Inc.

 

 

(Holding Co.)

12,540

795

Harley-Davidson, Inc.

16,900

781

*Expedia, Inc.

23,500

749

*Viacom Inc. Class B

17,695

690

Whirlpool Corp.

7,700

686

Sherwin-Williams Co.

10,400

683

*DreamWorks

 

 

Animation SKG, Inc.

19,800

662

Target Corp.

10,290

654

Wyndham Worldwide Corp.

19,694

645

CBS Corp.

20,455

644

Carnival Corp.

13,300

644

Burger King Holdings Inc.

25,100

640

*Mohawk Industries, Inc.

7,200

585

News Corp., Class A

26,490

583

*AutoZone Inc.

5,000

581

Ross Stores, Inc.

21,300

546

*Kohl’s Corp.

9,500

545

Darden Restaurants Inc.

12,300

515

 

 

68

 


 

 

Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

*EchoStar Communications Corp.

 

 

Class A

10,250

480

*NVR, Inc.

1,000

470

Eastman Kodak Co.

17,500

468

Wynn Resorts Ltd.

2,800

441

*Clear Channel

 

 

Outdoor Holdings, Inc. Class A

16,710

426

RadioShack Corp.

19,000

393

*Aeropostale, Inc.

19,950

380

International Speedway Corp.

6,300

289

Men’s Wearhouse, Inc.

5,650

285

*Jos. A. Bank Clothiers, Inc.

8,300

277

Newell Rubbermaid, Inc.

8,500

245

*Jack in the Box Inc.

3,500

227

Polo Ralph Lauren Corp.

2,759

215

*Lear Corp.

6,100

196

Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc.

6,770

189

Brinker International, Inc.

6,800

187

Starwood Hotels &

 

 

Resorts Worldwide, Inc.

2,700

164

*Las Vegas Sands Corp.

1,200

160

Phillips-Van Heusen Corp.

2,870

151

Idearc Inc.

3,900

123

*Marvel Entertainment, Inc.

4,200

98

*Dollar Tree Stores, Inc.

2,200

89

*CSK Auto Corp.

7,900

84

Marriott International, Inc.

 

 

Class A

1,900

83

CSS Industries, Inc.

2,000

72

Johnson Controls, Inc.

600

71

Brown Shoe Co., Inc.

3,000

58

Sonic Automotive, Inc.

2,300

55

Regal Entertainment Group

 

 

Class A

2,500

55

*Starbucks Corp.

1,960

51

*Lin TV Corp.

3,800

49

*The Wet Seal, Inc. Class A

11,600

45

Salem Communications Corp.

5,483

44

*The Gymboree Corp.

1,200

42

Interactive Data Corp.

1,300

37

The Stanley Works

600

34

UniFirst Corp.

800

30

Regis Corp.

900

29

*DIRECTV Group, Inc.

1,170

28

Best Buy Co., Inc.

590

27

American Greetings Corp.

 

 

Class A

1,000

26

*Perry Ellis International Corp.

900

25

Stewart Enterprises, Inc.

 

 

Class A

2,197

17

 

 

69

 


 

 

Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

The McGraw-Hill Cos., Inc.

200

10

 

 

31,445

Consumer Staples (8.4%)

 

 

The Procter & Gamble Co.

59,920

4,215

Altria Group, Inc.

41,450

2,882

The Coca-Cola Co.

42,790

2,459

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

48,410

2,113

PepsiCo, Inc.

28,430

2,083

Kraft Foods Inc.

36,029

1,243

Walgreen Co.

23,230

1,097

The Kroger Co.

31,800

907

Kimberly-Clark Corp.

11,970

841

ConAgra Foods, Inc.

30,800

805

Carolina Group

9,370

770

CVS/Caremark Corp.

18,736

742

Molson Coors Brewing Co.

 

 

Class B

7,400

738

Corn Products International, Inc.

13,510

620

*NBTY, Inc.

15,100

613

Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc.

20,500

589

Anheuser-Busch Cos., Inc.

7,490

374

Colgate-Palmolive Co.

5,130

366

Reynolds American Inc.

5,640

359

Nash-Finch Co.

8,989

358

Safeway, Inc.

8,500

281

Costco Wholesale Corp.

2,870

176

*Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.

7,747

145

Sanderson Farms, Inc.

3,100

129

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.

2,400

79

Dean Foods Co.

900

23

 

 

25,007

Energy (10.9%)

 

 

ExxonMobil Corp.

95,920

8,878

Chevron Corp.

38,865

3,637

ConocoPhillips Co.

32,054

2,813

Schlumberger Ltd.

20,500

2,152

*National Oilwell Varco Inc.

8,100

1,170

Marathon Oil Corp.

17,440

994

Valero Energy Corp.

13,892

933

Hess Corp.

13,900

925

Chesapeake Energy Corp.

25,000

881

*Transocean Inc.

7,500

848

Noble Energy, Inc.

11,400

798

Noble Corp.

15,600

765

*Pride International, Inc.

19,200

702

ENSCO International, Inc.

11,730

658

Tesoro Corp.

13,700

630

Occidental Petroleum Corp.

9,540

611

Tidewater Inc.

8,200

515

*Bristow Group, Inc.

11,400

498

 

 

70

 


 

 

Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

*Gulfmark Offshore, Inc.

9,300

453

Helmerich & Payne, Inc.

11,600

381

*Bois d’Arc Energy, Inc.

17,400

334

*Grant Prideco, Inc.

6,000

327

Devon Energy Corp.

3,760

313

Halliburton Co.

7,570

291

*Rosetta Resources, Inc.

14,300

262

Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

4,040

217

*Grey Wolf, Inc.

30,720

201

*Superior Energy Services, Inc.

5,600

198

*Swift Energy Co.

4,500

184

Apache Corp.

2,040

184

Baker Hughes, Inc.

1,960

177

GlobalSantaFe Corp.

1,500

114

*Mariner Energy Inc.

5,500

114

Sunoco, Inc.

1,400

99

Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc.

800

91

*Parker Drilling Co.

8,000

65

General Maritime Corp.

1,300

36

Holly Corp.

400

24

 

 

32,473

Financials (19.3%)

 

 

Citigroup, Inc.

93,520

4,365

Bank of America Corp.

74,182

3,729

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

66,546

3,049

Wells Fargo & Co.

66,810

2,380

American

 

 

International Group, Inc.

34,900

2,361

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

8,030

1,740

Morgan Stanley

23,250

1,465

Wachovia Corp.

27,889

1,399

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

19,140

1,364

Fannie Mae

21,890

1,331

U.S. Bancorp

39,550

1,287

Prudential Financial, Inc.

11,340

1,107

ACE Ltd.

15,800

957

The Allstate Corp.

15,770

902

The Travelers Cos., Inc.

17,440

878

Ameriprise Financial, Inc.

13,800

871

XL Capital Ltd. Class A

10,900

863

Washington Mutual, Inc.

23,033

813

State Street Corp.

11,400

777

KeyCorp

23,950

774

SunTrust Banks, Inc.

10,090

763

American Express Co.

12,820

761

Synovus Financial Corp.

25,480

715

Assurant, Inc.

13,288

711

Everest Re Group, Ltd.

6,400

706

Simon Property Group, Inc. REIT

6,996

700

The Chubb Corp.

12,770

685

 

 

71

 


 

 

Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

Franklin Resources Corp.

5,110

652

Raymond James Financial, Inc.

19,700

647

UnionBanCal Corp.

10,783

630

Comerica, Inc.

12,200

626

*Affiliated Managers Group, Inc.

4,800

612

ProLogis REIT

9,200

610

Vornado Realty Trust REIT

5,100

558

Cash America International Inc.

14,700

553

Bank of New York Mellon Corp.

12,412

548

The Hartford Financial

 

 

Services Group Inc.

5,870

543

Southwest Bancorp, Inc.

28,500

536

Endurance Specialty

 

 

Holdings Ltd.

12,700

528

Nationwide Financial

 

 

Services, Inc.

9,800

527

Archstone-Smith Trust REIT

8,400

505

General Growth Properties Inc.

 

 

REIT

9,200

493

The First Marblehead Corp.

12,819

486

*First Federal Financial Corp.

9,600

476

HCP, Inc. REIT

13,600

451

PartnerRe Ltd.

5,500

434

SL Green Realty Corp. REIT

3,700

432

CNA Financial Corp.

10,600

417

Regions Financial Corp.

14,000

413

Northern Trust Corp.

5,800

384

Freddie Mac

6,440

380

Host Hotels & Resorts Inc. REIT

15,900

357

*Discover Financial Services

16,900

352

Pennsylvania REIT

8,100

315

Legg Mason Inc.

3,700

312

Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc.

4,780

295

Safeco Corp.

4,400

269

Zenith National Insurance Corp.

6,000

269

WSFS Financial Corp.

4,300

268

Forest City Enterprise Class A

4,600

254

MetLife, Inc.

3,500

244

Plum Creek Timber Co. Inc. REIT

5,300

237

The Macerich Co. REIT

2,600

228

Colonial Properties Trust REIT

6,600

226

Gamco Investors Inc. Class A

3,900

214

Advanta Corp. Class B

7,803

214

First Community

 

 

Bancshares, Inc.

5,724

207

Capital One Financial Corp.

2,960

197

Boston Properties, Inc. REIT

1,700

177

BB&T Corp.

4,280

173

Taubman Co. REIT

3,100

170

Apartment Investment &

 

 

 

 

72

 


 

 

Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

Management Co. Class A REIT

3,740

169

Nationwide Health

 

 

Properties, Inc. REIT

5,500

166

Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd.

5,900

165

*EZCORP, Inc.

12,200

164

American Capital Strategies, Ltd.

3,800

162

CIT Group Inc.

3,900

157

First BanCorp Puerto Rico

16,200

154

AFLAC Inc.

2,640

151

PNC Financial Services Group

2,040

139

Odyssey Re Holdings Corp.

3,400

126

Kite Realty Group Trust REIT

6,200

117

Federal Realty

 

 

Investment Trust REIT

1,300

115

Sovereign Bancorp, Inc.

6,600

112

Countrywide Financial Corp.

5,890

112

Associated Estates

 

 

Realty Corp. REIT

8,200

107

A.G. Edwards, Inc.

1,247

104

City Bank Lynnwood (WA)

3,100

89

*CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc.

3,100

86

SLM Corp.

1,280

64

FirstMerit Corp.

3,100

61

Great Southern Bancorp, Inc.

2,400

60

Fifth Third Bancorp

1,700

58

Loews Corp.

1,210

58

Charles Schwab Corp.

2,500

54

Sierra Bancorp

1,300

37

Saul Centers, Inc. REIT

700

36

Bank of Hawaii Corp.

400

21

Jones Lang LaSalle Inc.

200

21

iStar Financial Inc. REIT

600

20

 

 

57,757

Health Care (11.6%)

 

 

Pfizer Inc.

135,880

3,320

Johnson & Johnson

46,010

3,023

Merck & Co., Inc.

44,010

2,275

UnitedHealth Group Inc.

29,650

1,436

Wyeth

29,140

1,298

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

41,730

1,203

Abbott Laboratories

21,500

1,153

Medtronic, Inc.

20,230

1,141

Schering-Plough Corp.

35,810

1,133

*Medco Health Solutions, Inc.

11,800

1,067

*Biogen Idec Inc.

15,800

1,048

Becton, Dickinson & Co.

11,620

953

Baxter International, Inc.

16,660

938

McKesson Corp.

15,000

882

*Zimmer Holdings, Inc.

10,580

857

CIGNA Corp.

15,750

839

 

 

73

 


 

 

Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

*Amgen, Inc.

14,615

827

Aetna Inc.

14,680

797

*Laboratory Corp.

 

 

of America Holdings

9,100

712

Eli Lilly & Co.

11,820

673

*Health Net Inc.

12,400

670

AmerisourceBergen Corp.

14,700

666

*Forest Laboratories, Inc.

17,600

656

*Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

19,700

638

*Endo Pharmaceuticals

 

 

Holdings, Inc.

20,200

626

*Warner Chilcott Ltd.

35,000

622

*Cephalon, Inc.

7,900

577

*Express Scripts Inc.

10,100

564

*WellPoint Inc.

6,750

533

*Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

26,300

394

*Gilead Sciences, Inc.

7,980

326

*Genentech, Inc.

4,020

314

*King Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

25,150

295

*GTx, Inc.

17,700

288

Chemed Corp.

4,100

255

Cardinal Health, Inc.

4,010

251

*Pediatrix Medical Group, Inc.

3,600

236

*Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

4,200

183

*ViroPharma Inc.

18,900

168

Mylan Inc.

7,180

115

*Humana Inc.

1,400

98

*WellCare Health Plans Inc.

800

84

Perrigo Co.

3,800

81

*Covidien Ltd.

1,850

77

*Align Technology, Inc.

2,300

58

*MedCath Corp.

1,900

52

*Apria Healthcare Group Inc.

1,350

35

West Pharmaceutical

 

 

Services, Inc.

800

33

*Obagi Medical Products, Inc.

1,600

30

Stryker Corp.

400

27

STERIS Corp.

1,000

27

*Gentiva Health Services, Inc.

1,300

25

 

 

74

 


 

 

Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

*Skilled Healthcare Group Inc.

1,400

22

*Boston Scientific Corp.

1,509

21

*Techne Corp.

330

21

*Xenoport Inc.

347

16

*Myriad Genetics, Inc.

300

16

*Amedisys Inc.

300

12

*Cypress Bioscience, Inc.

800

11

 

 

34,698

Industrials (12.0%)

 

 

General Electric Co.

173,880

7,199

3M Co.

13,230

1,238

United Parcel Service, Inc.

15,780

1,185

Honeywell International Inc.

18,870

1,122

The Boeing Co.

10,560

1,109

United Technologies Corp.

13,340

1,074

Lockheed Martin Corp.

9,050

982

PACCAR, Inc.

11,270

961

General Dynamics Corp.

10,750

908

Textron, Inc.

14,188

883

Waste Management, Inc.

23,200

876

Parker Hannifin Corp.

7,600

850

Union Pacific Corp.

7,400

837

Raytheon Co.

12,700

811

Northrop Grumman Corp.

9,630

751

The Manitowoc Co., Inc.

16,200

717

Cummins Inc.

5,560

711

Manpower Inc.

10,400

669

W.W. Grainger, Inc.

7,221

658

Tyco International, Ltd.

13,750

610

Barnes Group, Inc.

18,500

591

*Allied Waste Industries, Inc.

45,320

578

Caterpillar, Inc.

7,220

566

Acuity Brands, Inc.

10,600

535

GATX Corp.

12,320

527

Trinity Industries, Inc.

13,600

511

*Gardner Denver Inc.

12,900

503

Belden Inc.

10,400

488

Burlington Northern

 

 

Santa Fe Corp.

5,870

476

*Genlyte Group, Inc.

7,400

476

*Hertz Global Holdings Inc.

20,700

470

*AMR Corp.

20,510

457

*Delta Air Lines Inc.

23,800

427

Emerson Electric Co.

7,640

407

CSX Corp.

8,800

376

*UAL Corp.

7,800

363

*Terex Corp.

4,040

360

A.O. Smith Corp.

7,200

316

Crane Co.

6,500

312

Steelcase Inc.

16,200

291

 

 

75

 


 

 

Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

FedEx Corp.

2,460

258

Deere & Co.

1,700

252

R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co.

6,800

249

L-3 Communications

 

 

Holdings, Inc.

2,300

235

Apogee Enterprises, Inc.

8,400

218

Kennametal, Inc.

2,400

202

Illinois Tool Works, Inc.

3,280

196

*United Stationers, Inc.

2,100

117

*Continental Airlines, Inc. Class B

3,400

112

Cascade Corp.

1,700

111

*Saia, Inc.

6,515

108

Norfolk Southern Corp.

1,300

67

*Labor Ready, Inc.

3,500

65

*GrafTech International Ltd.

3,300

59

Kelly Services, Inc. Class A

2,400

48

*United Rentals, Inc.

1,400

45

*Perini Corp.

800

45

Deluxe Corp.

1,000

37

Knoll, Inc.

1,800

32

*Ceradyne, Inc.

400

30

Bowne & Co., Inc.

1,700

28

Cooper Industries, Inc. Class A

400

20

Danaher Corp.

200

17

 

 

35,732

Information Technology (16.1%)

 

 

Microsoft Corp.

155,298

4,575

*Cisco Systems, Inc.

96,950

3,210

International Business

 

 

Machines Corp.

26,710

3,146

Intel Corp.

113,290

2,930

Hewlett-Packard Co.

53,230

2,650

*Apple Inc.

16,520

2,536

*Google Inc.

3,810

2,161

*Oracle Corp.

79,200

1,715

*Dell Inc.

47,880

1,321

Corning, Inc.

40,170

990

*Sun Microsystems, Inc.

165,000

926

QUALCOMM Inc.

21,220

897

*eBay Inc.

22,410

874

Applied Materials, Inc.

38,600

799

*Xerox Corp.

44,200

766

*Arrow Electronics, Inc.

17,500

744

*BMC Software, Inc.

23,400

731

Automatic Data Processing, Inc.

15,780

725

*LAM Research Corp.

13,090

697

*Avnet, Inc.

17,200

686

*Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

29,500

655

*Skyworks Solutions, Inc.

72,000

651

*Synopsys, Inc.

23,700

642

 

 

76

 


 

 

Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

Electronic Data Systems Corp.

28,740

628

*CommScope, Inc.

11,900

598

Texas Instruments, Inc.

15,770

577

Total System Services, Inc.

19,800

550

*Teradyne, Inc.

39,400

544

*THQ Inc.

21,300

532

*Mentor Graphics Corp.

35,000

528

*SPSS, Inc.

12,700

522

*Greenfield Online, Inc.

33,700

514

Seagate Technology

19,500

499

*Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.

37,800

493

*NVIDIA Corp.

13,350

484

*SAVVIS, Inc.

11,600

450

*ON Semiconductor Corp.

35,500

446

*EMC Corp.

21,430

446

Motorola, Inc.

22,830

423

*Intevac, Inc.

23,300

354

Western Union Co.

16,040

336

MasterCard, Inc. Class A

2,200

326

*MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc.

5,120

301

*Vignette Corp.

14,900

299

*C-COR Inc.

22,300

256

Accenture Ltd.

5,800

233

*Yahoo! Inc.

8,070

217

*Cymer, Inc.

5,300

203

*AMIS Holdings Inc.

16,800

163

*Amkor Technology, Inc.

12,790

147

*CSG Systems International, Inc.

6,670

142

*Equinix, Inc.

1,500

133

*Dolby Laboratories Inc.

3,800

132

*Varian Semiconductor

 

 

Equipment Associates, Inc.

2,300

123

National Semiconductor Corp.

4,400

119

*Adobe Systems, Inc.

2,700

118

United Online, Inc.

7,600

114

*Novellus Systems, Inc.

3,600

98

*MKS Instruments, Inc.

5,000

95

Tyco Electronics Ltd.

2,550

90

*Comtech

 

 

Telecommunications Corp.

1,300

70

*Mettler-Toledo International Inc.

600

61

*CMGI Inc.

44,800

61

*AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc.

6,500

59

*Coherent, Inc.

1,800

58

*Interwoven Inc.

3,900

55

*ADC Telecommunications, Inc.

2,200

43

Xilinx, Inc.

1,600

42

*Aspen Technologies, Inc.

2,800

40

*Dycom Industries, Inc.

1,200

37

*PC Connection, Inc.

2,900

36

 

 

77

 


 

 

Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

*Brooks Automation, Inc.

2,500

36

Broadridge Financial

 

 

Solutions LLC

1,620

31

*Emulex Corp.

1,500

29

*Computer Sciences Corp.

500

28

*Quantum Corp.

8,000

27

*Immersion Corp.

1,600

26

*Ciber, Inc.

3,200

25

*Sybase, Inc.

1,000

23

Jack Henry & Associates Inc.

500

13

 

 

48,060

Materials (3.7%)

 

 

Monsanto Co.

13,826

1,185

Alcoa Inc.

23,310

912

Southern Peru Copper Corp.

 

 

(U.S. Shares)

7,120

882

International Paper Co.

24,300

872

United States Steel Corp.

8,100

858

Nucor Corp.

12,930

769

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.

14,280

708

Steel Dynamics, Inc.

13,300

621

Metal Management, Inc.

11,300

612

*Pactiv Corp.

18,700

536

Lubrizol Corp.

8,000

520

Kaiser Aluminum Corp.

7,100

501

Dow Chemical Co.

11,120

479

Celanese Corp. Series A

11,000

429

*Headwaters Inc.

28,100

418

Eastman Chemical Co.

3,400

227

*Owens-Illinois, Inc.

4,800

199

*OM Group, Inc.

3,600

190

Ball Corp.

1,802

97

Rock-Tenn Co.

2,900

84

Ryerson Tull, Inc.

1,700

57

Greif Inc. Class A

700

42

 

 

11,198

Telecommunication Services (3.5%)

 

 

AT&T Inc.

115,029

4,867

Verizon Communications Inc.

44,430

1,967

Sprint Nextel Corp.

49,789

946

*Qwest Communications

 

 

International Inc.

85,200

780

Telephone & Data Systems, Inc.

7,304

488

*Cincinnati Bell Inc.

97,500

482

CenturyTel, Inc.

9,500

439

USA Mobility, Inc.

11,400

192

Embarq Corp.

3,200

178

Alaska Communications

 

 

Systems Holdings, Inc.

6,300

91

 

 

78

 


 

 

Market

 

 

Value•

 

Shares

($000)

Alltel Corp.

1,230

86

SureWest Communications

1,100

28

 

 

10,544

Utilities (3.6%)

 

 

Public Service

 

 

Enterprise Group, Inc.

11,100

977

FirstEnergy Corp.

14,500

918

PG&E Corp.

18,400

880

Consolidated Edison Inc.

17,600

815

Sempra Energy

13,500

785

*Mirant Corp.

19,100

777

Southern Co.

20,860

757

Duke Energy Corp.

37,890

708

Edison International

12,440

690

FPL Group, Inc.

10,800

657

Exelon Corp.

8,640

651

Alliant Energy Corp.

16,000

613

Portland General Electric Co.

20,600

573

TXU Corp.

3,150

216

Dominion Resources, Inc.

2,450

207

Xcel Energy, Inc.

9,000

194

Westar Energy, Inc.

6,300

155

WGL Holdings Inc.

2,600

88

SCANA Corp.

1,600

62

Energen Corp.

500

29

Northeast Utilities

400

11

 

 

10,763

Total Common Stocks

 

 

(Cost $281,165)

 

297,677

Temporary Cash Investments (0.3%)1

 

 

Money Market Fund (0.3%)

 

 

2 Vanguard Market

 

 

Liquidity Fund, 5.153%

748,440

748

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Face

 

 

Amount

 

 

($000)

 

U.S. Agency Obligation (0.0%)

 

 

3 Federal National Mortgage Assn.

 

 

4 5.208%, 10/24/07

100

100

Total Temporary Cash Investments

 

 

(Cost $848)

 

848

Total Investments (99.9%)

 

 

(Cost $282,013)

 

298,525

Other Assets and Liabilities (0.1%)

 

 

Other Assets—Note B

 

383

Liabilities

 

(135)

 

 

248

Net Assets (100%)

 

298,773

 

 

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At September 30, 2007, net assets consisted of:5,6

 

Amount

 

($000)

Paid-in Capital

276,097

Undistributed Net Investment Income

2,031

Accumulated Net Realized Gains

4,110

Unrealized Appreciation

 

Investment Securities

16,512

Futures Contracts

23

Net Assets

298,773

 

 

 

 

Institutional Shares—Net Assets

 

Applicable to 488,639 outstanding $.001

 

par value shares of beneficial interest

 

(unlimited authorization)

14,012

Net Asset Value Per Share—

 

Institutional Shares

$28.67

 

 

 

 

Institutional Plus Shares—Net Assets

 

Applicable to 4,961,791 outstanding $.001

 

par value shares of beneficial interest

 

(unlimited authorization)

284,761

Net Asset Value Per Share—

 

Institutional Plus Shares

$57.39

 

 

•  See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements.

*  Non-income-producing security.

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 99.9% and 0%, respectively, of net assets. See Note D in Notes to Financial Statements.

2  Affiliated money market fund available only to Vanguard funds and certain trusts and accounts managed by Vanguard. Rate shown is the 7-day yield.

3  The issuer operates under a congressional charter; its securities are neither issued nor guaranteed by the U.S. government. If needed, access to additional funding from the U.S. Treasury (beyond the issuer’s line of credit) would require congressional action.

4  Securities with a value of $100,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open futures contracts.

5  See Note D in Notes to Financial Statements for the tax-basis components of net assets.

6  See Note F in Notes to Financial Statements.
REIT—Real Estate Investment Trust.

 

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Statement of Operations

 

 

October 3, 20061 to

 

September 30, 2007

 

($000)

Investment Income

 

Income

 

Dividends

2,632

Interest2

94

Security Lending

8

Total Income

2,734

Expenses

 

The Vanguard Group—Note B

 

Investment Advisory Services

72

Management and Administrative

 

Institutional Shares

14

Institutional Plus Shares

92

Marketing and Distribution

 

Institutional Shares

Institutional Plus Shares

11

Custodian Fees

24

Auditing Fees

21

Shareholders’ Reports

 

Institutional Shares

1

Institutional Plus Shares

1

Total Expenses

236

Expenses Paid Indirectly—Note C

(2)

Net Expenses

234

Net Investment Income

2,500

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

 

Investment Securities Sold

4,505

Futures Contracts

(14)

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

4,491

Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

 

Investment Securities

8,160

Futures Contracts

23

Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

8,183

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

15,174

 

 

1  Commencement of operations as a registered investment company.

2  Interest income from an affiliated company of the fund was $94,000.

 

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Statement of Changes in Net Assets

 

 

October 3, 20061 to

 

September 30, 2007

 

($000)

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

Operations

 

Net Investment Income

2,500

Realized Net Gain (Loss)

4,491

Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

8,183

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

15,174

Distributions

 

Net Investment Income

 

Institutional Shares

(22)

Institutional Plus Shares

(447)

Realized Capital Gain2

 

Institutional Shares

(18)

Institutional Plus Shares

(363)

Total Distributions

(850)

Capital Share Transactions—Notes F, G

 

Institutional Shares

13,025

Institutional Plus Shares

271,424

Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions

284,449

Total Increase (Decrease)

298,773

Net Assets

 

Beginning of Period

End of Period3

298,773

 

 

1  Commencement of operations as a registered investment company.

2  Includes fiscal 2007 short-term gain distributions totaling $216,000. Short-term gain distributions are treated as ordinary income dividends for tax purposes.

3  Net Assets—End of Period includes undistributed net investment income of $2,031,000.

 

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Financial Highlights

 

Institutional Shares

 

 

November 30, 20061 to

For a Share Outstanding Throughout the Period

September 30, 2007

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period

$26.59

Investment Operations

 

Net Investment Income

.3612

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments

1.930

Total from Investment Operations

2.291

Distributions

 

Dividends from Net Investment Income

(.116)

Distributions from Realized Capital Gains

(.095)

Total Distributions

(.211)

Net Asset Value, End of Period

$28.67

 

 

 

 

Total Return

8.68%

 

 

 

 

Ratios/Supplemental Data

 

Net Assets, End of Period (Millions)

$14

Ratio of Total Expenses to Average Net Assets

0.25%*

Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets

1.55%*

Portfolio Turnover Rate

66%

 

 

1  Inception.

2  Calculated based on average shares outstanding.

*  Annualized.

 

 

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Structured Broad Market Fund

 

Institutional Plus Shares

 

 

October 3, 20061 to

For a Share Outstanding Throughout the Period

September 30, 2007

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period

$50.00

Investment Operations

 

Net Investment Income

.9042

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments

6.910

Total from Investment Operations

7.814

Distributions

 

Dividends from Net Investment Income

(.234)

Distributions from Realized Capital Gains

(.190)

Total Distributions

(.424)

Net Asset Value, End of Period

$57.39

 

 

 

 

Total Return

15.69%

 

 

 

 

Ratios/Supplemental Data

 

Net Assets, End of Period (Millions)

$285

Ratio of Total Expenses to Average Net Assets

0.15%*

Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets

1.65%*

Portfolio Turnover Rate

66%

 

 

1  Commencement of operations as a registered investment company.

2  Calculated based on average shares outstanding.

*  Annualized.

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

 

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Notes to Financial Statements

 

Vanguard Structured Broad Market Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The fund files reports with the SEC under the company name Vanguard Quantitative Funds. The fund offers two classes of shares, Institutional Shares and Institutional Plus Shares. Institutional Shares are available to investors who invest a minimum amount of $5 million. Institutional Plus Shares are available to investors who invest a minimum amount of $200 million ($100 million for investors with total Vanguard investments of at least $1 billion).

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 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 board of trustees to represent fair value. 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. 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).

3. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Accordingly, no provision for federal income taxes is required in the financial statements.

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

5. 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. 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 the income earned on investing cash collateral, less expenses associated with the loan.

 

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6. 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. The Vanguard Group furnishes at cost investment advisory, 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 September 30, 2007, the fund had contributed capital of $25,000 to Vanguard (included in Other Assets), representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 0.02% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and officers of Vanguard.

C. The fund’s custodian bank has agreed to reduce its fees when the fund maintains cash on deposit in the non-interest-bearing custody account. For the period ended September 30, 2007, custodian fee offset arrangements reduced the fund’s expenses by $2,000.

D. 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.

For tax purposes, at September 30, 2007, the fund had $2,156,000 of ordinary income and $4,043,000 of long-term capital gains available for distribution.

At September 30, 2007, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $282,013,000. Net unrealized appreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $16,512,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $25,409,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $8,897,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.

At September 30, 2007, the aggregate settlement value of open futures contracts expiring in December 2007 and the related unrealized appreciation (depreciation) were:

 

 

 

 

($000)

 

 

Aggregate

Unrealized

 

Number of

Settlement

Appreciation

Futures Contracts

Long Contracts

Value

(Depreciation)

S&P 500 Index

2

769

22

E-mini S&P 500 Index

4

308

1

 

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

 

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E. During the period ended September 30, 2007, the fund purchased $292,621,000 of investment securities and sold $102,986,000 of investment securities, other than temporary cash investments.

F. Pursuant to a plan of reorganization approved by the trustee of Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company Structured Broad Market Trust (the “trust”) on July 18, 2006, the trust purchased shares of the fund through a non-taxable in-kind transfer of all of the trust’s investment securities on October 3, 2006, resulting in the issuance of 1,908,000 fund shares at a net asset value per share of $50.00. The trust’s net assets transferred to the fund were $95,424,000, including net unrealized appreciation of $8,352,000. On October 4, 2006, the trust liquidated by distributing to unitholders shares of the fund equal to the value of the unitholders’ investments in the trust.

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

 

 

October 3, 20061 to

 

September 30, 2007

 

Amount

Shares

 

($000)

(000)

Institutional Shares

 

 

Issued

12,985

488

Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions

40

1

Redeemed

Net Increase (Decrease)—Institutional Shares

13,025

489

Institutional Plus Shares

 

 

Issued2

278,615

5,086

Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions

809

15

Redeemed

(8,000)

(139)

Net Increase (Decrease)—Institutional Plus Shares

271,424

4,962

 

H. In June 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Interpretation No. 48 (“FIN 48”), “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes.” FIN 48 establishes the minimum threshold for recognizing, and a system for measuring, the benefits of tax-return positions in financial statements, and is effective for the fund’s fiscal year beginning October 1, 2007. Management has analyzed the fund’s federal tax positions for the period ended September 30, 2007, for purposes of implementing FIN 48, and has concluded that as of September 30, 2007, no provision for income tax would be required in the fund’s financial statements.

 

 

1  Commencement of operations as a registered investment company.

2  Includes shares converted from the net assets of Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company Structured Broad Market Trust. See Note F in Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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Public Accounting Firm

 

To the Trustees of Vanguard Quantitative Funds and the Shareholders of Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund, Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund, Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Value Fund, and Vanguard Structured Broad Market Fund:

 

In our opinion, the accompanying statements of net assets and the related statements of operations and of changes in net assets and the financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund, Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund, Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Value Fund, and Vanguard Structured Broad Market Fund (the “Funds”) at September 30, 2007, and the results of each of their operations, changes in each of their net assets and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements and financial highlights (hereafter referred to as “financial statements”) are the responsibility of the Funds’ management; our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), which require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits, which included confirmation of securities at September 30, 2007 by correspondence with the custodian and broker, and by agreement to the underlying ownership records for Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

November 7, 2007

 

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Special 2007 tax information (unaudited) for Vanguard Structured Equity Funds

This information for the fiscal period ended September 30, 2007, is included pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

The funds distributed capital gain dividends to shareholders during the fiscal period as follows:

 

 

Qualified Dividend Income

Fund

($000)

Structured Large-Cap Equity

4,695

Structured Large-Cap Growth

158

Structured Large-Cap Value

0

Structured Broad Market

458

 

For corporate shareholders, the percentage of investment income (dividend income plus short-term gains, if any) that qualifies for the dividends-received deduction is as follows:

 

Fund

Percentage

Structured Large-Cap Equity

71.0%

Structured Large-Cap Growth

54.5   

Structured Large-Cap Value

44.3   

Structured Broad Market

87.6   

 

The funds distributed capital gain dividends (from net long-term capital gains) to shareholders during the fiscal period as follows:

 

 

Long-Term Capital

 

Gain Dividends

Fund

($000)

Structured Large-Cap Equity

4

Structured Large-Cap Growth

0

Structured Large-Cap Value

0

Structured Broad Market

164

 

 

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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 table on page 68 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.

 

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Six Months Ended September 30, 20071

 

 

 

 

Beginning

Ending

Expenses

 

Account Value

Account Value

Paid During

 

3/31/2007

9/30/2007

Period2

Based on Actual Fund Return

 

 

 

Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund

 

 

 

Institutional Shares

$1,000.00

$1,076.48

$1.30

Institutional Plus Shares

1,000.00

1,076.98

0.78

Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund

 

 

 

Institutional Plus Shares

$1,000.00

$1,103.70

$0.79

Structured Large-Cap Value Fund

 

 

 

Institutional Plus Shares

$1,000.00

$1,046.71

$0.77

Structured Broad Market Fund

 

 

 

Institutional Shares

$1,000.00

$1,056.76

$1.29

Institutional Plus Shares

1,000.00

1,057.49

0.77

Based on Hypothetical 5% Yearly Return

 

 

 

Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund

 

 

 

Institutional Shares

$1,000.00

$1,023.82

$1.27

Institutional Plus Shares

1,000.00

1,024.32

0.76

Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund

 

 

 

Institutional Plus Shares

$1,000.00

$1,024.32

$0.76

Structured Large-Cap Value Fund

 

 

 

Institutional Plus Shares

$1,000.00

$1,024.32

$0.76

Structured Broad Market Fund

 

 

 

Institutional Shares

$1,000.00

$1,023.82

$1.27

Institutional Plus Shares

1,000.00

1,024.32

0.76

 

 

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. Your fund does not charge transaction fees, such as purchase or redemption fees, nor does it 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.

 

 

1  Results are shown only for share classes that have existed for at least six months.

2  The calculations are based on expenses incurred in the most recent six-month period. The funds’ annualized six-month expense ratios for that period are: for the Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund, 0.25% for Institutional Shares and 0.15% for Institutional Plus Shares; for the Structured Large-Cap Growth Fund, 0.15% for Institutional Plus Shares; for the Structured Large-Cap Value Fund, 0.15% for Institutional Plus Shares; for the Structured Broad Market Fund, 0.25% for Institutional Shares and 0.15% for Institutional Plus 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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Glossary

 

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. The percentage of a fund’s average net assets used to pay its annual administrative and advisory expenses. These expenses directly reduce returns to investors.

Foreign Holdings. The percentage of a fund represented by stocks or depositary receipts of companies based outside the United States.

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.

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.

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.

Yield. A snapshot of a fund’s income from interest and dividends. The yield, expressed as a percentage of the fund’s net asset value, is based on income earned over the past 30 days and is annualized, or projected forward for the coming year. The index yield is based on the current annualized rate of income provided by securities in the index.

 

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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.

Our independent board members bring distinguished backgrounds in business, academia, and public service to their task of working with Vanguard officers to establish the policies and oversee the activities of the funds. Among board members’ responsibilities are selecting investment advisors for the funds; monitoring fund operations, performance, and costs; reviewing contracts; nominating and selecting new trustees/directors; and electing Vanguard officers.

Each trustee serves a fund until its termination; or until the trustee’s retirement, resignation, or death; or otherwise as specified in the fund’s organizational documents. Any trustee may be removed at a shareholders’ meeting by a vote representing two-thirds of the net asset value of all shares of the fund together with shares of other Vanguard funds organized within the same trust. The table on these two pages shows information for each trustee and executive officer of the fund. The mailing address of the trustees and officers is P.O. Box 876, Valley Forge, PA 19482.

 

Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and Trustee

 

 

John J. Brennan1

 

Born 1954

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive

Trustee since May 1987;

Officer, and Director/Trustee of The Vanguard Group, Inc., and of each of the investment

Chairman of the Board and

companies served by The Vanguard Group.

Chief Executive Officer

 

148 Vanguard Funds Overseen

 

 

 

Independent Trustees

 

 

 

Charles D. Ellis

 

Born 1937

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Applecore Partners (pro bono ventures

Trustee since January 2001

in education); Senior Advisor to Greenwich Associates (international business strategy

148 Vanguard Funds Overseen

consulting); Successor Trustee of Yale University; Overseer of the Stern School of Business

 

at New York University; Trustee of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.

 

 

Rajiv L. Gupta

 

Born 1945

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Chairman, President, and

Trustee since December 20012

Chief Executive Officer of Rohm and Haas Co. (chemicals); Board Member of

148 Vanguard Funds Overseen

the American Chemistry Council; Director of Tyco International, Ltd. (diversified

 

manufacturing and services) since 2005; Trustee of Drexel University and of the

 

Chemical Heritage Foundation.

 

 

Amy Gutmann

 

Born 1949

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: President of the University of

Trustee since June 2006

Pennsylvania since 2004; Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences, Annenberg School

148 Vanguard Funds Overseen

for Communication, and Graduate School of Education of the University of Pennsylvania

 

since 2004; Provost (2001–2004) and Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and

 

the University Center for Human Values (1990–2004), Princeton University; Director of

 

Carnegie Corporation of New York since 2005 and of Schuylkill River Development

 

Corporation and Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce since 2004.

 

 

 


JoAnn Heffernan Heisen

 

Born 1950

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Corporate Vice President and

Trustee since July 1998

Chief Global Diversity Officer since 2006, Vice President and Chief Information

148 Vanguard Funds Overseen

Officer (1997–2005), and Member of the Executive Committee of Johnson &

 

Johnson (pharmaceuticals/consumer products); Director of the University Medical

 

Center at Princeton and Women’s Research and Education Institute.

 

 

André F. Perold

 

Born 1952

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: George Gund Professor of Finance

Trustee since December 2004

and Banking, Harvard Business School; Senior Associate Dean, Director of Faculty

148 Vanguard Funds Overseen

Recruiting, and Chair of Finance Faculty, Harvard Business School; Director and Chairman

 

of UNX, Inc. (equities trading firm) since 2003; Chair of the Investment Committee of

 

HighVista Strategies LLC (private investment firm) since 2005.

 

 

Alfred M. Rankin, Jr.

 

Born 1941

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Chairman, President, Chief Executive

Trustee since January 1993

Officer, and Director of NACCO Industries, Inc. (forklift trucks/housewares/lignite); Director

148 Vanguard Funds Overseen

of Goodrich Corporation (industrial products/aircraft systems and services).

 

 

 

 

J. Lawrence Wilson

 

Born 1936

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Retired Chairman and Chief Executive

Trustee since April 1985

Officer of Rohm and Haas Co. (chemicals); Director of Cummins Inc. (diesel engines) and

148 Vanguard Funds Overseen

AmerisourceBergen Corp. (pharmaceutical distribution); Trustee of Vanderbilt University

 

and of Culver Educational Foundation.

 

 

Executive Officers1

 

 

 

Thomas J. Higgins

 

Born 1957

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Principal of The Vanguard Group, Inc.;

Treasurer since July 1998

Treasurer of each of the investment companies served by The Vanguard Group.

148 Vanguard Funds Overseen

 

 

 

 

 

Heidi Stam

 

Born 1956

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Managing Director of The Vanguard

Secretary since July 2005

Group, Inc., since 2006; General Counsel of The Vanguard Group since 2005; Secretary of

148 Vanguard Funds Overseen

The Vanguard Group, and of each of the investment companies served by The Vanguard

 

Group, since 2005; Principal of The Vanguard Group (1997–2006).

 

Vanguard Senior Management Team

 

 

 

 

 

 

R. Gregory Barton

Kathleen C. Gubanich

F. William McNabb, III

Ralph K. Packard

Mortimer J. Buckley

Paul A. Heller

Michael S. Miller

George U. Sauter

 

Founder

 

John C. Bogle

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, 1974–1996

 

 

 

1  Officers of the funds are “interested persons” as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940.

2  December 2002 for Vanguard Equity Income Fund, Vanguard Growth Equity Fund, the Vanguard Municipal Bond Funds, and the Vanguard State Tax-Exempt Funds.

More information about the trustees is in the Statement of Additional Information, available from The Vanguard Group.

 

 



 

P.O. Box 2600

Valley Forge, PA 19482-2600

 

 

 

Connect with Vanguard® > www.vanguard.com

 

 

 

Fund Information > 800-662-7447

Vanguard, Connect with Vanguard, and the ship logo are

 

trademarks of The Vanguard Group, Inc.

Direct Investor Account Services > 800-662-2739

 

 

All other marks are the exclusive property of their

Institutional Investor Services > 800-523-1036

respective owners.

 

 

Text Telephone for People

 

With Hearing Impairment > 800-952-3335

All comparative mutual fund data are from Lipper Inc.

 

or Morningstar, Inc., unless otherwise noted.

 

 

 

 

 

You can obtain a free copy of Vanguard’s proxy voting

 

guidelines by visiting our website, www.vanguard.com,

This material may be used in conjunction

and searching for “proxy voting guidelines,” or by

with the offering of shares of any Vanguard

calling Vanguard at 800-662-2739. The guidelines are

fund only if preceded or accompanied by

also available from the SEC’s website, www.sec.gov.

the fund’s current prospectus.

In addition, you may obtain a free report on how your

 

fund voted the proxies for securities it owned during

 

the 12 months ended June 30. To get the report, visit

 

either www.vanguard.com or www.sec.gov.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can review and copy information about your fund

 

at the SEC’s Public Reference Room in Washington, D.C.

 

To find out more about this public service, call the SEC

 

at 202-551-8090. Information about your fund is also

 

available on the SEC’s website, and you can receive

 

copies of this information, for a fee, by sending a

 

request in either of two ways: via e-mail addressed to

 

publicinfo@sec.gov or via regular mail addressed to the

 

Public Reference Section, Securities and Exchange

 

Commission, Washington, DC 20549-0102.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

© 2007 The Vanguard Group, Inc.

 

All rights reserved.

 

Vanguard Marketing Corporation, Distributor.

 

 

 

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Item 2: Code of Ethics. The Registrant has adopted a code of ethics that applies to the Registrant’s principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or controller or persons performing similar functions. The Code of Ethics was amended during the reporting period covered by this report to make certain technical, non-material changes.

 

Item 3: Audit Committee Financial Expert. The following members of the Audit Committee have been determined by the Registrant’s Board of Trustees to be Audit Committee Financial Experts serving on its Audit Committee, and to be independent: Charles D. Ellis, Rajiv L. Gupta, JoAnn Heffernan Heisen, André F. Perold, Alfred M. Rankin, Jr., and J. Lawrence Wilson.

 

Item 4: Principal Accountant Fees and Services.

(a)  Audit Fees.

Audit Fees of the Registrant

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2007: $113,000

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2006: $42,000

Aggregate Audit Fees of Registered Investment Companies in the Vanguard Group.

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2007: $2,835,320

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2006: $2,347,620

(b)   Audit-Related Fees.

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2007: $630,400

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2006: $530,000

Includes fees billed in connection with assurance and related services provided to the Registrant, The Vanguard Group, Inc., Vanguard Marketing Corporation, and other registered investment companies in the Vanguard Group.

(c)   Tax Fees.

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2007: $215,900

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2006: $101,300

Includes fees billed in connection with tax compliance, planning and advice services provided to the Registrant, The Vanguard Group, Inc., Vanguard Marketing Corporation, and other registered investment companies in the Vanguard Group and related to income and excise taxes.

(d)   All Other Fees.

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2007: $0

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2006: $0

 


Includes fees billed for services related to risk management and privacy matters. Services were provided to the Registrant, The Vanguard Group, Inc., Vanguard Marketing Corporation, and other registered investment companies in the Vanguard Group.

(e)   (1) Pre-Approval Policies. The policy of the Registrant’s Audit Committee is to consider and, if appropriate, approve before the principal accountant is engaged for such services, all specific audit and non-audit services provided to: (1) the Registrant; (2) The Vanguard Group, Inc.; (3) other entities controlled by The Vanguard Group, Inc. that provide ongoing services to the Registrant; and (4) other registered investment companies in the Vanguard Group. In making a determination, the Audit Committee considers whether the services are consistent with maintaining the principal accountant’s independence.

In the event of a contingency situation in which the principal accountant is needed to provide services in between scheduled Audit Committee meetings, the Chairman of the Audit Committee would be called on to consider and, if appropriate, pre-approve audit or permitted non-audit services in an amount sufficient to complete services through the next Audit Committee meeting, and to determine if such services would be consistent with maintaining the accountant’s independence. At the next scheduled Audit Committee meeting, services and fees would be presented to the Audit Committee for formal consideration, and, if appropriate, approval by the entire Audit Committee. The Audit Committee would again consider whether such services and fees are consistent with maintaining the principal accountant’s independence.

The Registrant’s Audit Committee is informed at least annually of all audit and non-audit services provided by the principal accountant to the Vanguard complex, whether such services are provided to: (1) the Registrant; (2) The Vanguard Group, Inc.; (3) other entities controlled by The Vanguard Group, Inc. that provide ongoing services to the Registrant; or (4) other registered investment companies in the Vanguard Group.

(2) No percentage of the principal accountant’s fees or services were approved pursuant to the waiver provision of paragraph (c)(7)(i)(C) of Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X.

(f)   For the most recent fiscal year, over 50% of the hours worked under the principal accountant’s engagement were not performed by persons other than full-time, permanent employees of the principal accountant.

(g)  Aggregate Non-Audit Fees.

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2007: $215,900

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2006: $101,300

Includes fees billed for non-audit services provided to the Registrant, The Vanguard Group, Inc., Vanguard Marketing Corporation, and other registered investment companies in the Vanguard Group.

(h)   For the most recent fiscal year, the Audit Committee has determined that the provision of all non-audit services was consistent with maintaining the principal accountant’s independence.

 


Item 5: Not Applicable.

 

Item 6: Not Applicable.

 

Item 7: Not Applicable.

 

Item 8: Not Applicable.

 

Item 9: Not Applicable.

 

Item 10: Not Applicable.

 

Item 11: Controls and Procedures.

 

(a) Disclosure Controls and Procedures. The Principal Executive and Financial Officers concluded that the Registrant's Disclosure Controls and Procedures are effective based on their evaluation of the Disclosure Controls and Procedures as of a date within 90 days of the filing date of this report.

(b) Internal Control Over Financial Reporting. There were no significant changes in Registrant’s Internal Control Over Financial Reporting or in other factors that could significantly affect this control subsequent to the date of the evaluation, including any corrective actions with regard to significant deficiencies and material weaknesses.

 

Item 12: Exhibits.

 

(a)  Code of Ethics.

(b)  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 QUANTITATIVE FUNDS

BY:


(signature)

 

 

(HEIDI STAM)

 

JOHN J. BRENNAN*

 

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

 

 

Date: November 14, 2007

 


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 QUANTITATIVE FUNDS

BY:


(signature)

 

 

(HEIDI STAM)

 

JOHN J. BRENNAN*

 

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

 

Date: November 14, 2007

 

 

VANGUARD QUANTITATIVE FUNDS

BY:


(signature)

 

 

(HEIDI STAM)

 

THOMAS J. HIGGINS*

 

TREASURER

 

Date: November 14, 2007

 

*By Power of Attorney. See File Number 333-145624, filed on August 22, 2007. Incorporated by Reference.