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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM N-CSR

CERTIFIED SHAREHOLDER REPORT
OF
REGISTERED MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES

 

Investment Company Act file number:  811-04526

 

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, 2012 – March 31, 2013

 

Item 1: Reports to Shareholders

 

 


 

Semiannual Report | March 31, 2013

Vanguard Growth and Income Fund



 

> Vanguard Growth and Income Fund returned more than 10% for the six months

ended March 31, 2013.

> For the period, the fund edged ahead of its benchmark, the S&P 500 Index, but

was a step behind the average return of its large-capitalization core fund peers.

> Stock selection in energy, consumer discretionary, and materials boosted the

fund’s relative performance.

Contents  
Your Fund’s Total Returns. 1
Chairman’s Letter. 2
Advisors’ Report. 7
Fund Profile. 12
Performance Summary. 13
Financial Statements. 14
About Your Fund’s Expenses. 32
Glossary. 34

 

Please note: The opinions expressed in this report are just that—informed opinions. They should not be considered promises or advice.
Also, please keep in mind that the information and opinions cover the period through the date on the front of this report. Of course, the
risks of investing in your fund are spelled out in the prospectus.
See the Glossary for definitions of investment terms used in this report.
About the cover: Our cover photograph shows rigging on the HMSSurprise, a replica of an 18th-century Royal Navy frigate. It
was featured in the 2003 movie Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, which was based on Patrick O’Brian’s sea
novels, set amid the Napoleonic Wars. Vanguard was named for another ship of that era, the HMSVanguard, which was the
flagship of British Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of the Nile.


 

Your Fund’s Total Returns

Six Months Ended March 31, 2013  
  Total
  Returns
Vanguard Growth and Income Fund  
Investor Shares 10.31%
Admiral™ Shares 10.37
S&P 500 Index 10.19
Large-Cap Core Funds Average 10.57
Large-Cap Core Funds Average: Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.
Admiral Shares carry lower expenses and are available to investors who meet certain account-balance requirements.

 

Your Fund’s Performance at a Glance        
September 30, 2012, Through March 31, 2013        
      Distributions Per Share
  Starting Ending Income Capital
  Share Price Share Price Dividends Gains
Vanguard Growth and Income Fund        
Investor Shares $30.73 $33.50 $0.359 $0.000
Admiral Shares 50.18 54.70 0.617 0.000

 


 

 

 

 

Chairman’s Letter

Dear Shareholder,

As the six-month period progressed, investor anxieties about corporate profits, the fiscal deficit, and fresh troubles in Europe gave way to greater optimism about the strength of the U.S. economy, especially with regard to the labor and housing markets. Vanguard Growth and Income Fund finished the half year ended March 31, 2013, with a return of a little more than 10%. The fund outpaced its benchmark, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, but lagged the average return of its large-cap core fund peers.

The fund’s gains were broad-based. Returns from seven out of ten market sectors topped 10%, with financials and health care leading the way. Stock selection, notably in energy, consumer discretionary, and materials, boosted the fund’s performance relative to its benchmark.

Global equity markets delivered a powerful rally

Global stocks advanced for the fifth straight month to finish the half year ended March 31 with impressive gains. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index closed at a record high on the period’s final business day after global financial markets in recent months shrugged off the U.S. “fiscal cliff” crisis, the unsettled Italian national elections, and a controversial bailout package for Cyprus.

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Peter Westaway, Vanguard’s chief European economist, said that the latest developments in Europe had been “rather bad,” but that the market had for the most part already priced in these events. “As always,” he said, “we think investors should assess their portfolios carefully and avoid making impulsive moves.”

U.S. equities returned more than 11% as the economic recovery slowly built momentum, the housing market rebounded further, and the labor market improved. International equities were up more than 9%. Returns were about 16% in the Pacific region, where Japan’s

accommodative monetary policy has helped spark the nation’s stock market, and nearly 10% in Europe. Emerging markets stocks rose about 4%.

Bond returns barely budged as yields lingered near lows

The broad U.S. taxable bond market scraped out a minuscule gain of 0.09% for the half year as U.S. Treasury yields remained just slightly above their all-time lows. Although the yield of the benchmark 10-year Treasury note increased during the six months and topped 2.00% at various times, it closed the period at about 1.85%. (Bond prices and yields move in opposite directions.)

Market Barometer      
 
  Total Returns
  Periods Ended March 31, 2013
  Six One Five Years
  Months Year (Annualized)
Stocks      
Russell 1000 Index (Large-caps) 11.10% 14.43% 6.15%
Russell 2000 Index (Small-caps) 14.48 16.30 8.24
Russell 3000 Index (Broad U.S. market) 11.35 14.56 6.32
MSCI All Country World Index ex USA (International) 9.20 8.36 -0.39
 
Bonds      
Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (Broad taxable market) 0.09% 3.77% 5.47%
Barclays Municipal Bond Index (Broad tax-exempt market) 0.96 5.25 6.10
Citigroup Three-Month U.S. Treasury Bill Index 0.05 0.08 0.30
 
CPI      
Consumer Price Index 0.59% 1.47% 1.74%

 

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Municipal bonds returned almost 1% for the six months despite price declines in March. And returns of money market funds and savings accounts barely registered as short-term interest rates remained between 0% and 0.25%, under the Federal Reserve’s four-year-old policy.

Robert Auwaerter, head of Vanguard’s Fixed Income Group, doesn’t anticipate abrupt policy changes from the central bank. “We don’t see the Fed changing course in the near term,” he said, “and when the Fed does, we expect it’ll go slowly so as not to undo the efforts made to keep interest rates low and to stimulate the economy.”

Good stock selection added to a strong stock market upturn

Each of the three advisors to Vanguard Growth and Income Fund uses its own quantitative approach to stock selection, but they all have the same aim of delivering a higher return than that of the S&P 500 Index without taking on significantly more risk. For the six-month period, many large-cap market sectors reported strong gains, which were largely captured by the fund. Financials stood out, rising about 18% for the index and a little less for the fund because of significant cost-cutting measures through layoffs and branch closures, a pickup in lending

Expense Ratios      
Your Fund Compared With Its Peer Group      
  Investor Admiral Peer Group
  Shares Shares Average
Growth and Income Fund 0.36% 0.25% 1.15%

The fund expense ratios shown are from the prospectus dated January 28, 2013, and represent estimated costs for the current fiscal year. For the six months ended March 31, 2013, the fund’s annualized expense ratios were 0.36% for Investor Shares and 0.25% for Admiral Shares. The peer-group expense ratio is derived from data provided by Lipper Inc. and captures information through year-end 2012.

Peer group: Large-Cap Core Funds.

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activity, and greater investor appetite for stocks more sensitive to the economic cycle.

Health care was another strong performer, gaining about 16% for the index and a little more for the fund. Investor sentiment toward this sector improved as patent losses peaked in 2012, competition from generics weakened, and product pipelines looked more promising. The business outlook brightened also, as falling unemployment led to higher expected demand and the number of insured was set to rise.

At the other end of the spectrum was information technology. Lackluster corporate profits and a struggling PC market contributed to a slightly negative return for the sector in both the index and the fund.

Although most sector returns for the fund were more or less in line with those of the benchmark, the fund was ahead for the period thanks to strong stock selection in a few areas. In the energy sector, the fund’s advisors found value among oil refiners. Margins in this business traditionally tend to be quite low, but recent expansion in domestic oil production gave inland refiners a cost advantage that translated into higher profits. In materials, a tilt toward chemical stocks and away from mining stocks enhanced performance. So, too, did consumer discretionary holdings focused on hotels, household goods, consumer services, and retailers.

More information about the advisors’ management of the fund can be found in the Advisors’ Report that follows this letter.

Low cost and talent drive successful active management

Investors sometimes ask whether it’s a contradiction that Vanguard, a champion of index investing, offers actively managed mutual funds. To understand how active funds fit into our philosophy, consider for a moment why indexing has proved its mettle: It’s a generally low-cost, tax-efficient way to build a diversified portfolio that lets you keep more of your fund’s returns. Because index funds seek to track the overall market or a segment of it, they typically cost much less to run than funds that are actively managed in an effort to outperform the market. And the less you pay for a fund, the more of its returns come back to you.

The same principle—low cost—drives our approach to active funds. The other essential ingredient is talent. Some wonder how we can afford to hire top active managers when we place such importance on keeping investing costs low. The answer lies in five key characteristics of Vanguard’s structure and culture—our mutual ownership, our large scale, performance incentives aligned with investors’ interests, a long-term perspective, and a rigorous oversight process, which I lead. (You can read more about our approach in The Case for Vanguard Active Management: Solving the Low-Cost/Top-Talent Paradox? at vanguard.com/research.)

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These enduring advantages don’t guarantee outperformance, of course. Even in those cases when an active stock fund outperforms over long periods, it doesn’t necessarily mean that investors earn more than the index results every year—or even every decade. And investors have no way of knowing beforehand which funds will outperform.

But for those willing to accept the greater risks that come with active investing, we believe Vanguard’s combination of talented advisors and low costs can improve the odds.

As always, thank you for entrusting your assets to Vanguard.

Sincerely,


F. William McNabb III
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
April 12, 2013

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Advisors’ Report

Vanguard Growth and Income Fund’s Investor Shares returned 10.31% for the six months ended March 31. The Admiral Shares returned 10.37%. The S&P 500 Index returned 10.19%, and the average return of large-cap core funds was 10.57%.

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

The advisors, the percentage of fund assets each manages, and brief descriptions of their investment strategies are presented in the table below. The advisors have also prepared a discussion of the investment environment that existed during the fiscal half year and of how the portfolio’s positioning reflects this assessment. (Please note that Los Angeles Capital’s discussion refers to industry sectors as defined by Russell classifications, rather than by the Global Industry Classification Standard used elsewhere in this report.) These comments were prepared on April 18, 2013.

Vanguard Growth and Income Fund Investment Advisors
 
  Fund Assets Managed  
Investment Advisor % $ Million Investment Strategy
Los Angeles Capital 32 1,529 Employs a quantitative model that emphasizes stocks
      with characteristics investors are currently seeking and
      underweights stocks with characteristics investors are
      currently avoiding. The portfolio’s sector weights, size,
      and style characteristics may differ modestly from the
      benchmark in a risk-controlled manner.
Vanguard Equity Investment 32 1,528 Employs a quantitative, fundamental management
Group     approach, using models that assess valuation, growth
      prospects, management decisions, market sentiment,
      and earnings quality of companies versus their peers.
D. E. Shaw Investment 32 1,523 Employs quantitative models that seek to capture
Management, L.L.C.     predominantly “bottom up” stock-specific return
      opportunities while aiming to keep the portfolio’s
      sector weights, size, and style characteristics similar to
      the benchmark.
Cash Investments 4 125 These short-term reserves are invested by Vanguard in
      equity index products to simulate investments in
      stocks. Each advisor also may maintain a modest cash
      position.

 

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D. E. Shaw Investment
Management, L.L.C.

Portfolio Manager:
Anne Dinning, Ph.D., Managing Director and
Chief Investment Officer

The primary themes driving equity market valuations for the period were national elections in the United States and Japan, macroeconomic developments in emerging markets and the United States (including the “fiscal cliff” negotiations), and the European debt crisis. The U.S. Federal Reserve maintained its expansionary policy, and, significantly, the first quarter of 2013 saw the Bank of Japan unveil an even larger quantitative easing program (as a percentage of GDP). Negative economic news from Brazil, China, and India raised investor fears about slowing growth and rising inflation in emerging markets.

Corporate profits were strong in the United States, but overwhelmingly negative earnings guidance raised concerns about their sustainability. The fourth quarter of 2012 was notable for a lack of headlines from Europe, but the inconclusive results of the Italian national election and the banking crisis in Cyprus rekindled investor fears about the stability of the Eurozone in 2013.

The portfolio’s relative performance was strong during the fourth quarter of 2012 but weakened in the subsequent quarter. We attribute these results to three major sources: bottom-up stock selection; common risk factors such as value, growth, and capitalization; and sector and industry group exposures.

Stock selection was the primary detractor from the portfolio’s relative return during the period. Overweight positions in Apple and Occidental Petroleum and an underweight position in Citigroup were the top three single-stock laggards. The three leaders were overweight positions in Marathon Petroleum, Visa, and American International Group.

Our management of common risk factors made an overall positive contribution to relative performance. The biggest boosts came from modest tilts toward high-momentum and small-capitalization stocks, although higher-volatility stocks detracted. Sector and industry exposures helped slightly.

Despite the recent turmoil caused by the banking crisis in Cyprus, correlations among individual stocks and short-term volatility in U.S. equity markets remain low. All else being equal, low correlations generally increase the potential for diversified bottom-up stock selection strategies to outperform. The Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing program, strong corporate profits, and signs of improvements in the U.S. housing market helped the Dow Jones Industrial Average close at an all-time high in early March; the S&P 500 Index approached that milestone later in the month. Disappointing U.S. economic growth, renewed concerns about Europe’s debt crisis, and changes in the Fed’s monetary policy constitute clear risks in the current environment.

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Los Angeles Capital

Portfolio Managers:
Thomas D. Stevens, CFA,
Chairman and Principal

Hal W. Reynolds, CFA,
Chief Investment Officer and Principal

The S&P 500 Index generated strong first-quarter returns (+10.6%) for a second consecutive calendar year. Driving results was a falling equity risk premium as market risk (as measured by the Chicago Board Options Exchange Market Volatility Index) fell 29% to its lowest level in five years. Although economic data remain weak, continued monetary stimulus, the housing recovery, and low real interest rates have led investors back into U.S. equities with the best positive flows since the financial crisis unfolded in 2008.

Despite sentiment that financial risks in the United States have subsided as a result of the aggressive monetary actions taken by the Federal Reserve, the risks of lower growth rates and higher inflation rates remain. Analysts expect U.S. revenue and profit growth to be relatively flat on a year-over-year basis. The Bank of Japan’s recent announcement that it plans to double the size of its balance sheet indicates that major central banks worldwide now believe it is necessary to fight deflation and stimulate real growth through aggressive monetary actions. As we know from experience, aggressive actions, while good for asset prices over the short term, increase the risks of unwanted levels of inflation, significantly raising discount rates and lowering asset values. Although strong equity returns

suggest a “risk on” environment, a closer look reveals that investors remain cautious and are cognizant of these risks.

With the exception of technology and basic materials, two economically sensitive sectors that lagged, sector returns were remarkably similar. Transportation, consumer staples, and utilities were the top value performers, and health care and biotechnology led in the growth category. Investors continued to prefer higher-quality companies with favorable earnings yields and the ability to increase their return on equity by borrowing at low interest rates. Interestingly, after strong returns in January, companies with volatile stock prices and favorable book-to-price ratios underperformed for the remainder of the quarter, another indication of investor caution.

Over the past six months, the portfolio outperformed the S&P 500 Index by maintaining a bias toward higher-quality companies with above-average earnings yields and higher-quality earnings. Its higher dividend-yielding holdings detracted as investors began to look more broadly at earnings growth and less at payout ratios.

Reduced concerns about financial risks as well as the deteriorating financial situation in Europe caused U.S. investors to move away from the cash-rich mega-cap companies that derive a significant portion of their profits from overseas operations and look instead to domestically focused mid-caps. Prospects for ongoing low interest rates combined with high-quality earnings and peak profit margins continue to make leverage attractive. An analysis of

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the companies with the highest alphas (or risk-adjusted returns) shows that they are most highly correlated with both higher leverage and their appraisal factor, which measures a company’s break-up value relative to its market capitalization. Our largest overweight positions currently are in finance, consumer cyclicals, and capital goods, and our most underweight position is in technology.

Vanguard Equity Investment Group

Portfolio Managers:
James D. Troyer, CFA, Principal

James P. Stetler, Principal

Michael R. Roach, CFA

For the six months ended March 31, 2013, equities in general experienced above-average returns. The large-cap stocks in the fund’s benchmark, the S&P 500 Index (+10.19%), slightly underperformed the broader market (Russell 3000 Index, +11.35%). Globally, developed markets both in the United States and abroad, were the place to be, with returns of more than 11%; emerging markets were up less than 4%. Gains in the benchmark index were broad-based. Nine out of ten sectors generated positive returns; financials, health care, and industrials did best. Information technology was the sole negative performer.

Returns for the past two quarters differed greatly. For the fourth quarter of 2012, the benchmark index was down 0.38% as investors digested the election results and Hurricane Sandy and contemplated the potential repercussions of the looming

“fiscal cliff.” Fortunately, Congress and the president finally reached an agreement early in the new year, averting tax hikes that would likely have put the anemic recovery at risk. Investor fears seemed to abate and new money entered the U.S. equity market, helping to push large-cap stocks up 10.6% in the first quarter of 2013.

In the past six months, volatility in equity returns declined relative to most of 2012, when it was driven in large part by macroeconomic events, including lackluster global economic growth, European and U.S. central bank actions, and the concern about a fiscal cliff. Although the United States is not without its problems, we expect its modest economic recovery to continue. Corporate balance sheets remain strong, there is ample liquidity in the economy, housing data continue to improve, and unemployment statistics are moving in the right direction, although at a snail’s pace.

The recent market fluctuations have reinforced our conviction that attempting to time investments is not profitable. Our aim, instead, is to identify individual stocks with characteristics that will help them outperform over the long run.

We select them by using a model with five components: valuation, growth, management decisions, market sentiment, and quality. We then construct our portfolio using a risk-control process that neutralizes our exposure to market capitalization, volatility, and industry risks relative to our benchmark. In our view, such exposures are not justified by the potential rewards they offer.

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Our stock selection model’s results were encouraging over the last six months as four of our five components made positive contributions. Our quality measure was the strongest performer, while growth was relatively neutral.

The model’s effectiveness across sectors was mixed. Our stock selection was positive in five of the benchmark index’s ten sectors, with the strongest results in energy and consumer discretionary. Results were neutral in three sectors, and we underperformed in consumer staples and financials.

At the individual stock level, the largest contributions came from overweight positions in Marathon Petroleum, Phillips 66, and H&R Block. Relative to the benchmark index, we benefited from underweighting or avoiding poorly performing stocks such as Apple and Caterpillar.

Unfortunately, we were not able to avoid all laggards. Overweight positions in CF Industries, Advanced Micro Devices, and Yahoo detracted. And our underweighting of companies including Gilead Sciences and Ford Motor hurt our performance relative to the benchmark.

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Growth and Income Fund

Fund Profile
As of March 31, 2013

Share-Class Characteristics  
  Investor Admiral
  Shares Shares
Ticker Symbol VQNPX VGIAX
Expense Ratio1 0.36% 0.25%
30-Day SEC Yield 1.77% 1.88%

 

Portfolio Characteristics      
      DJ U.S.
      Total
      Market
    S&P 500 FA
  Fund Index Index
Number of Stocks 765 500 3,586
Median Market Cap $59.4B $58.7B $40.0B
Price/Earnings Ratio 16.4x 17.0x 18.1x
Price/Book Ratio 2.3x 2.3x 2.3x
Return on Equity 17.0% 18.1% 16.6%
Earnings Growth Rate 9.9% 9.6% 9.6%
Dividend Yield 2.2% 2.1% 2.0%
Foreign Holdings 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
Turnover Rate      
(Annualized) 106%
Short-Term Reserves 0.3%

 

Sector Diversification (% of equity exposure)
      DJ U.S.
      Total
      Market
    S&P 500 FA
  Fund Index Index
Consumer Discretionary 12.5% 11.6% 12.4%
Consumer Staples 10.0 11.0 9.5
Energy 10.5 10.9 10.1
Financials 17.3 15.9 17.3
Health Care 12.4 12.6 12.2
Industrials 11.1 10.1 11.1
Information Technology 16.5 18.0 17.4
Materials 4.1 3.4 3.8
Telecommunication      
Services 3.0 3.0 2.6
Utilities 2.6 3.5 3.6

 

Volatility Measures    
    DJ U.S.
    Total
    Market
  S&P 500 FA
  Index Index
R-Squared 0.99 0.99
Beta 1.00 0.96
These measures show the degree and timing of the fund’s fluctuations compared with the indexes over 36 months.

 

Ten Largest Holdings (% of total net assets)
Exxon Mobil Corp. Integrated Oil & Gas 3.0%
Apple Inc. Computer Hardware 2.6
General Electric Co. Industrial  
  Conglomerates 2.5
Pfizer Inc. Pharmaceuticals 1.8
Chevron Corp. Integrated Oil & Gas 1.7
Philip Morris    
International Inc. Tobacco 1.7
Procter & Gamble Co. Household Products 1.7
Wells Fargo & Co. Diversified Banks 1.6
AT&T Inc. Integrated  
  Telecommunication  
  Services 1.6
International Business IT Consulting &  
Machines Corp. Other Services 1.6
Top Ten   19.8%
The holdings listed exclude any temporary cash investments and equity index products.

 

Investment Focus


1 The expense ratios shown are from the prospectus dated January 28, 2013, and represent estimated costs for the current fiscal year. For
the six months ended March 31, 2013, the annualized expense ratios were 0.36% for Investor Shares and 0.25% for Admiral Shares.

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Growth and Income Fund

Performance Summary

All of the returns in this report represent past performance, which is not a guarantee of future results that may be achieved by the fund. (Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data cited. For performance data current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at vanguard.com/performance.) Note, too, that both investment returns and principal value can fluctuate widely, so an investor’s shares, when sold, could be worth more or less than their original cost. The returns shown do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or on the sale of fund shares.

Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): September 30, 2002, Through March 31, 2013

 
Note: For 2013, performance data reflect the six months ended March 31, 2013.
 
Average Annual Total Returns: Periods Ended March 31, 2013      
 
  Inception One Five Ten
  Date Year Years Years
Investor Shares 12/10/1986 14.18% 4.94% 7.88%
Admiral Shares 5/14/2001 14.28 5.07 8.03

 

See Financial Highlights for dividend and capital gains information.

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Growth and Income Fund

Financial Statements (unaudited)

Statement of Net Assets
As of March 31, 2013

The fund reports a complete list of its holdings in regulatory filings four times in each fiscal year, at the quarter-ends. For the second and fourth fiscal quarters, the lists appear in the fund’s semiannual and annual reports to shareholders. For the first and third fiscal quarters, the fund files the lists with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form N-Q. Shareholders can look up the fund’s Forms N-Q on the SEC’s website at sec.gov. Forms N-Q may also be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room (see the back cover of this report for further information).

      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
Common Stocks (97.1%)1    
Consumer Discretionary (12.1%)  
  Home Depot Inc. 628,392 43,849
  Comcast Corp. Class A 987,905 41,502
* Amazon.com Inc. 102,056 27,197
  Wyndham Worldwide    
  Corp. 397,040 25,601
* DIRECTV 432,507 24,484
  News Corp. Class A 739,656 22,574
  Time Warner Cable Inc. 228,600 21,959
  Time Warner Inc. 372,205 21,446
  TJX Cos. Inc. 420,770 19,671
  Ford Motor Co. 1,233,165 16,216
  Walt Disney Co. 265,075 15,056
  McDonald’s Corp. 144,284 14,384
* Goodyear Tire &    
  Rubber Co. 1,135,253 14,316
* priceline.com Inc. 19,700 13,552
  Viacom Inc. Class B 208,195 12,819
  Lowe’s Cos. Inc. 334,150 12,671
  Cablevision Systems    
  Corp. Class A 832,224 12,450
  Newell Rubbermaid Inc. 451,350 11,780
  Starbucks Corp. 193,950 11,047
* O’Reilly Automotive Inc. 106,000 10,870
* PulteGroup Inc. 497,950 10,079
  Macy’s Inc. 235,380 9,848
  Gap Inc. 268,100 9,491
  Whirlpool Corp. 76,600 9,074
  Mattel Inc. 187,389 8,206
* NVR Inc. 6,200 6,697
  NIKE Inc. Class B 107,600 6,349
  Carnival Corp. 172,070 5,902
  H&R Block Inc. 194,200 5,713
  Wynn Resorts Ltd. 44,215 5,534
  Omnicom Group Inc. 92,450 5,445
  Expedia Inc. 90,540 5,433
  Target Corp. 75,870 5,193
  Marriott International Inc.    
  Class A 121,720 5,140
* TripAdvisor Inc. 97,600 5,126
  Gannett Co. Inc. 222,400 4,864
  Darden Restaurants Inc. 89,430 4,622
  Washington Post Co.    
  Class B 10,100 4,515
* Apollo Group Inc. Class A 201,160 3,498
* Discovery Communications    
  Inc. Class A 40,710 3,205
  Starwood Hotels & Resorts    
  Worldwide Inc. 48,620 3,099
  Yum! Brands Inc. 42,860 3,083
* Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. 44,371 2,858
  Scripps Networks    
  Interactive Inc. Class A 43,400 2,792
  Interpublic Group of    
  Cos. Inc. 198,015 2,580
  Lennar Corp. Class A 61,320 2,544
* Fossil Inc. 25,400 2,454
  Nordstrom Inc. 40,930 2,261
* Charter Communications    
  Inc. Class A 20,000 2,084
  VF Corp. 11,670 1,958
  L Brands Inc. 42,500 1,898
  D.R. Horton Inc. 76,340 1,855
  Harman International    
  Industries Inc. 40,042 1,787
  PVH Corp. 16,012 1,710
  Delphi Automotive plc 38,450 1,707
* Discovery    
  Communications Inc. 24,500 1,704
  GameStop Corp. Class A 54,060 1,512
  Domino’s Pizza Inc. 22,900 1,178
  Hasbro Inc. 25,537 1,122
* Fifth & Pacific Cos. Inc. 58,300 1,101
* Orbitz Worldwide Inc. 187,800 1,072
  PetSmart Inc. 16,410 1,019
* Liberty Media Corp. 8,100 904
  Family Dollar Stores Inc. 12,700 750

 

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Growth and Income Fund

      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
  Harley-Davidson Inc. 10,800 576
* Christopher & Banks Corp. 77,985 501
  Ameristar Casinos Inc. 18,300 480
* Liberty Global Inc. Class A 6,500 477
  Service Corp. International 27,600 462
  Hillenbrand Inc. 18,000 455
* Sally Beauty Holdings Inc. 13,600 400
* Beazer Homes USA Inc. 23,900 379
  Lear Corp. 5,900 324
^ Blyth Inc. 17,800 309
  Leggett & Platt Inc. 9,140 309
* Live Nation Entertainment    
  Inc. 22,100 273
* Ascent Capital Group Inc.    
  Class A 3,600 268
* Starz - Liberty Capital 10,900 241
  Coach Inc. 3,790 189
* Dollar Tree Inc. 2,700 131
* Biglari Holdings Inc. 343 128
* Carmike Cinemas Inc. 6,300 114
  Churchill Downs Inc. 1,400 98
* Body Central Corp. 9,800 92
  Sears Canada Inc. 9,422 91
  Movado Group Inc. 2,400 80
*,^ Boyd Gaming Corp. 9,200 76
* American Apparel Inc. 33,497 73
* Media General Inc.    
  Class A 11,900 71
* ITT Educational Services    
  Inc. 5,000 69
* Corinthian Colleges Inc. 31,500 66
  Universal Technical    
  Institute Inc. 5,200 66
* New York & Co. Inc. 15,823 65
* Unifi Inc. 3,100 59
  Harte-Hanks Inc. 7,043 55
* Liberty Ventures Class A 600 45
* Pandora Media Inc. 3,100 44
  Hooker Furniture Corp. 2,484 40
  Ambassadors Group Inc. 5,104 22
* Build-A-Bear    
  Workshop Inc. 3,780 20
* Isle of Capri Casinos Inc. 3,200 20
  Signet Jewelers Ltd. 300 20
* Cumulus Media Inc.    
  Class A 5,900 20
* Lee Enterprises Inc. 14,075 18
* hhgregg Inc. 1,400 15
* Zale Corp. 3,394 13
  GNC Holdings Inc.    
  Class A 300 12
  International Game    
  Technology 709 12
  AH Belo Corp. Class A 1,900 11
* Career Education Corp. 4,216 10
* Tuesday Morning Corp. 1,100 9
* Valuevision Media Inc.    
  Class A 2,463 9
  Sirius XM Radio Inc. 2,400 7
  Six Flags Entertainment    
  Corp. 100 7
* Exide Technologies 2,220 6
* Pacific Sunwear of    
  California Inc. 2,500 5
* Education Management    
  Corp. 1,300 5
* Furniture Brands    
  International Inc. 4,200 4
* Sears Hometown and    
  Outlet Stores Inc. 100 4
* Reading International Inc.    
  Class A 700 4
* Express Inc. 200 4
  Lincoln Educational    
  Services Corp. 600 4
* MTR Gaming Group Inc. 500 2
* School Specialty Inc. 7,119 1
      569,780
Consumer Staples (9.6%)    
  Philip Morris International    
  Inc. 841,489 78,014
  Procter & Gamble Co. 1,010,372 77,859
  PepsiCo Inc. 606,531 47,983
  Wal-Mart Stores Inc. 527,539 39,476
  Coca-Cola Co. 672,434 27,193
  Costco Wholesale Corp. 218,930 23,231
  Kraft Foods Group Inc. 426,935 22,000
  Altria Group Inc. 483,368 16,623
  CVS Caremark Corp. 299,740 16,483
* Dean Foods Co. 627,120 11,370
  Kroger Co. 316,222 10,480
  JM Smucker Co. 89,900 8,914
  Reynolds American Inc. 197,372 8,781
  Hershey Co. 89,338 7,820
  Walgreen Co. 140,400 6,694
  Kimberly-Clark Corp. 65,441 6,412
  ConAgra Foods Inc. 177,400 6,353
  Mondelez International    
  Inc. Class A 200,974 6,152
  Colgate-Palmolive Co. 44,548 5,258
  Dr Pepper Snapple Group    
  Inc. 87,591 4,112
  Estee Lauder Cos. Inc.    
  Class A 61,200 3,919
  General Mills Inc. 59,710 2,944
  Sysco Corp. 69,949 2,460
  HJ Heinz Co. 33,800 2,443
  Avon Products Inc. 110,400 2,289
  Tyson Foods Inc. Class A 79,300 1,968
  Clorox Co. 19,010 1,683

 

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Growth and Income Fund

      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
  Kellogg Co. 21,320 1,374
* Monster Beverage Corp. 15,610 745
  Molson Coors Brewing Co.    
  Class B 15,200 744
  Beam Inc. 10,377 659
  Lorillard Inc. 14,927 602
  Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. 2,800 103
* Crimson Wine Group Ltd. 6,540 61
  Cott Corp. 2,280 23
* Rite Aid Corp. 4,900 9
* Synutra International Inc. 800 4
      453,238
Energy (10.2%)    
  Exxon Mobil Corp. 1,551,804 139,833
  Chevron Corp. 690,025 81,989
  ConocoPhillips 421,534 25,334
  Anadarko Petroleum Corp. 278,575 24,361
  Occidental Petroleum Corp. 309,535  24,258
  Marathon Petroleum Corp. 264,200 23,672
  Schlumberger Ltd. 294,989 22,092
  Phillips 66 297,977 20,849
  Ensco plc Class A 240,335 14,420
  EOG Resources Inc. 97,350 12,468
  Valero Energy Corp. 258,800 11,773
  Spectra Energy Corp. 247,140 7,600
* WPX Energy Inc. 463,570 7,426
  Tesoro Corp. 115,906 6,786
  Williams Cos. Inc. 156,890 5,877
  Marathon Oil Corp. 170,700 5,756
  Noble Energy Inc. 47,600 5,505
  Halliburton Co. 133,200 5,383
  Kinder Morgan Inc. 100,430 3,885
  Murphy Oil Corp. 58,200 3,709
* Southwestern Energy Co. 95,450 3,556
  National Oilwell Varco Inc. 42,224 2,987
  Helmerich & Payne Inc. 46,300 2,810
  EQT Corp. 38,650 2,619
  Devon Energy Corp. 40,181 2,267
  Peabody Energy Corp. 100,600 2,128
  Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. 28,160 1,904
* Newfield Exploration Co. 69,500 1,558
  CONSOL Energy Inc. 45,320 1,525
  QEP Resources Inc. 34,380 1,095
  Apache Corp. 14,110 1,089
* Denbury Resources Inc. 55,095 1,028
* Hercules Offshore Inc. 71,100 528
* SemGroup Corp. Class A 10,100 522
* Renewable Energy    
  Group Inc. 30,200 232
* TETRA Technologies Inc. 12,700 130
  Range Resources Corp. 1,500 122
* Lone Pine Resources Inc. 74,348 89
* Overseas Shipholding    
  Group Inc. 26,800 88
* Endeavour International    
  Corp. 24,900 73
* Forest Oil Corp. 13,300 70
* Cal Dive International Inc. 29,700 53
* Harvest Natural    
  Resources Inc. 10,500 37
  Tsakos Energy    
  Navigation Ltd. 8,061 35
  DHT Holdings Inc. 7,000 33
* Hyperdynamics Corp. 36,100 22
* Oil States International Inc. 200 16
* SandRidge Energy Inc. 2,000 11
* Quicksilver Resources Inc. 4,300 10
* Willbros Group Inc. 800 8
  W&T Offshore Inc. 548 8
* Uranium Resources Inc. 2,970 8
* Halcon Resources Corp. 700 5
*,^ GMX Resources Inc. 2,300 5
* C&J Energy Services Inc. 200 5
* EPL Oil & Gas Inc. 100 3
* Scorpio Tankers Inc. 300 3
* Midstates Petroleum    
  Co. Inc. 282 2
* ZaZa Energy Corp. 364 1
      479,661
Exchange-Traded Fund (0.3%)  
  SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust 74,800 11,710
 
Financials (16.6%)    
  Wells Fargo & Co. 2,096,017 77,532
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. 1,499,831 71,182
* American International    
  Group Inc. 1,361,956 52,871
  Bank of America Corp. 3,960,300 48,236
  Citigroup Inc. 882,293 39,033
  US Bancorp 1,136,274 38,554
* Berkshire Hathaway Inc.    
  Class B 357,695 37,272
  Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 157,030 23,107
  State Street Corp. 354,071 20,922
  Simon Property Group Inc. 116,931 18,541
  SLM Corp. 856,376 17,539
  Discover Financial    
  Services 384,450 17,239
  Equity Residential 281,339 15,491
  Fifth Third Bancorp 894,020 14,581
  Aflac Inc. 277,570 14,439
  Marsh & McLennan    
  Cos. Inc. 378,366 14,367
  Aon plc 221,610 13,629
  American Express Co. 200,437 13,521
  Allstate Corp. 266,140 13,059
  HCP Inc. 215,799 10,760
  Ventas Inc. 134,570 9,851

 

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Growth and Income Fund

      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
  Bank of New York    
  Mellon Corp. 329,829 9,232
  Travelers Cos. Inc. 109,016 9,178
  Morgan Stanley 399,560 8,782
  American Tower    
  Corporation 103,115 7,932
  Loews Corp. 179,065 7,891
  Health Care REIT Inc. 107,080 7,272
  Prologis Inc. 181,680 7,264
  Kimco Realty Corp. 316,630 7,092
  Torchmark Corp. 114,560 6,851
* IntercontinentalExchange    
  Inc. 40,430 6,593
  Ameriprise Financial Inc. 87,144 6,418
  Invesco Ltd. 218,258 6,321
  Progressive Corp. 229,403 5,797
  Weyerhaeuser Co. 183,700 5,764
  XL Group plc Class A 164,910 4,997
  Equity Lifestyle    
  Properties Inc. 57,300 4,401
  Assurant Inc. 96,400 4,339
  Capital One Financial    
  Corp. 76,778 4,219
* E*TRADE Financial    
  Corp. 388,240 4,158
  Plum Creek Timber    
  Co. Inc. 78,386 4,092
  Chubb Corp. 44,009 3,852
  Unum Group 133,392 3,768
  Lincoln National Corp. 114,500 3,734
  AvalonBay    
  Communities Inc. 28,891 3,660
  Public Storage 23,683 3,607
  First Horizon National    
  Corp. 296,160 3,163
  PNC Financial Services    
  Group Inc. 44,739 2,975
  BB&T Corp. 93,920 2,948
  CME Group Inc. 47,300 2,904
  MetLife Inc. 73,580 2,797
  ACE Ltd. 29,392 2,615
  Boston Properties Inc. 25,580 2,585
  People’s United    
  Financial Inc. 178,492 2,399
  Prudential Financial Inc. 34,900 2,059
  Northern Trust Corp. 37,682 2,056
* Genworth Financial Inc.    
  Class A 199,749 1,997
^ Granite REIT 47,800 1,825
  SunTrust Banks Inc. 62,190 1,792
  M&T Bank Corp. 16,959 1,749
  Vornado Realty Trust 18,320 1,532
  Cincinnati Financial Corp. 26,650 1,258
  Apartment Investment &    
  Management Co. Class A 40,886 1,254
  Erie Indemnity Co. Class A 15,399 1,163
  Franklin Resources Inc. 7,200 1,086
  NYSE Euronext 27,500 1,063
  KeyCorp 103,280 1,029
  Principal Financial    
  Group Inc. 26,150 890
  Old Republic    
  International Corp. 68,350 869
* Flagstar Bancorp Inc. 53,800 749
  McGraw-Hill Cos. Inc. 14,283 744
  Leucadia National Corp. 24,800 680
* CIT Group Inc. 14,900 648
* Ocwen Financial Corp. 13,000 493
  Oriental Financial    
  Group Inc. 29,900 464
  Hudson City Bancorp Inc. 51,800 448
  Hartford Financial    
  Services Group Inc. 16,960 438
  Huntington    
  Bancshares Inc. 53,200 393
  Charles Schwab Corp. 18,410 326
* NewStar Financial Inc. 23,000 304
  Regency Centers Corp. 5,300 280
  Healthcare Trust of    
  America Inc. Class A 21,300 250
* Popular Inc. 8,900 246
  First Industrial Realty    
  Trust Inc. 13,600 233
* Central Pacific Financial    
  Corp. 14,100 221
  BlackRock Inc. 850 218
* Alleghany Corp. 500 198
  Newcastle Investment    
  Corp. 16,900 189
  Columbia Banking    
  System Inc. 8,500 187
  Apollo Residential    
  Mortgage Inc. 8,200 183
  White Mountains    
  Insurance Group Ltd. 300 170
  PacWest Bancorp 4,300 125
  American Assets    
  Trust Inc. 3,497 112
* Knight Capital Group Inc.    
  Class A 28,400 106
  Symetra Financial Corp. 7,600 102
* First BanCorp 14,836 92
  Geo Group Inc. 2,100 79
  Parkway Properties Inc. 4,195 78
* United Community    
  Banks Inc. 6,800 77
  Summit Hotel    
  Properties Inc. 7,184 75
  Retail Properties of    
  America Inc. 5,000 74

 

17


 

Growth and Income Fund

        Market
        Value
      Shares ($000)
  T. Rowe Price Group Inc.   960 72
  Sterling Financial Corp.   2,880 62
  ProAssurance Corp.   1,262 60
* ZAIS Financial Corp.   2,100 43
* Southwest Bancorp Inc.   3,342 42
* Hilltop Holdings Inc.   2,600 35
* FelCor Lodging Trust Inc.   5,603 33
  CyrusOne Inc.   1,406 32
  Medley Capital Corp.   1,700 27
  Rouse Properties Inc.   1,200 22
  Western Asset Mortgage      
  Capital Corp.   800 19
  PrivateBancorp Inc.   700 13
  Silver Bay Realty Trust Corp. 600 12
  Hospitality Properties Trust   400 11
* FBR & Co.   515 10
  RLJ Lodging Trust   400 9
* Cowen Group Inc. Class A   2,900 8
  Terreno Realty Corp.   436 8
  United Fire Group Inc.   300 8
  Cohen & Steers Inc.   200 7
* Altisource Portfolio      
  Solutions SA   100 7
* Phoenix Cos. Inc.   226 7
  Primerica Inc.   200 7
* Ezcorp Inc. Class A   300 6
  Chatham Lodging Trust   300 5
  Government Properties      
  Income Trust   200 5
* Doral Financial Corp.   6,695 5
  Piedmont Office Realty      
  Trust Inc. Class A   200 4
  CNO Financial Group Inc.   300 3
  WhiteHorse Finance Inc.   200 3
* Preferred Bank   196 3
* Global Indemnity plc   100 2
* Seacoast Banking Corp.      
  of Florida   1,100 2
* Altisource Asset      
  Management Corp.   10 1
  SI Financial Group Inc.   100 1
  MidSouth Bancorp Inc.   6
        782,524
Health Care (12.1%)      
  Pfizer Inc. 2,973,819 85,824
  Johnson & Johnson   853,456 69,582
  Merck & Co. Inc. 1,230,796 54,438
  Amgen Inc.   335,634 34,406
  AbbVie Inc.   727,327 29,660
  Eli Lilly & Co.   475,698 27,015
  UnitedHealth Group Inc.   463,014 26,489
  Abbott Laboratories   561,623 19,837
* Mylan Inc.   534,410 15,466
  Medtronic Inc.   316,893 14,881
  Covidien plc   191,500 12,991
* CareFusion Corp. 319,300 11,172
  Cigna Corp. 163,120 10,174
  Allergan Inc. 86,353 9,640
* Express Scripts    
  Holding Co. 167,170 9,637
  Zimmer Holdings Inc. 124,700 9,380
* Biogen Idec Inc. 40,359 7,786
* Gilead Sciences Inc. 157,740 7,718
  McKesson Corp. 68,510 7,396
  Cardinal Health Inc. 176,290 7,337
* DaVita HealthCare    
  Partners Inc. 59,700 7,080
  AmerisourceBergen    
  Corp. Class A 134,641 6,927
  Becton Dickinson and Co. 71,852 6,870
  Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. 164,432 6,773
* Hospira Inc. 199,775 6,559
* Edwards Lifesciences    
  Corp. 75,200 6,178
  Aetna Inc. 115,466 5,903
* Tenet Healthcare Corp. 122,646 5,836
  Humana Inc. 79,000 5,460
* Celgene Corp. 41,400 4,799
* Life Technologies Corp. 73,100 4,724
* Alexion Pharmaceuticals    
  Inc. 36,620 3,374
  Baxter International Inc. 43,237 3,141
* Forest Laboratories Inc. 71,897 2,735
  Quest Diagnostics Inc. 39,779 2,246
  Thermo Fisher    
  Scientific Inc. 28,850 2,207
* Boston Scientific Corp. 223,250 1,744
* Actavis Inc. 16,500 1,520
  PerkinElmer Inc. 35,820 1,205
* XenoPort Inc. 102,401 732
  Teleflex Inc. 8,600 727
* Laboratory Corp. of    
  America Holdings 7,000 631
  Patterson Cos. Inc. 16,490 627
  Stryker Corp. 9,033 589
* Health Net Inc. 20,500 587
  DENTSPLY International    
  Inc. 12,880 546
* Keryx Biopharmaceuticals    
  Inc. 54,500 384
* Sarepta Therapeutics Inc. 10,300 381
* NuVasive Inc. 15,829 337
* Arqule Inc. 122,434 317
* Rigel Pharmaceuticals Inc. 46,408 315
* Array BioPharma Inc. 60,500 298
* Idenix Pharmaceuticals Inc. 71,714 255
* Cell Therapeutics Inc. 206,300 237
* Progenics    
  Pharmaceuticals Inc. 40,900 220
* Amicus Therapeutics Inc. 64,600 205

 

18


 

Growth and Income Fund

      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
* Sirona Dental Systems Inc. 2,601 192
* PharMerica Corp. 13,118 184
* Auxilium    
  Pharmaceuticals Inc. 9,100 157
* Accretive Health Inc. 15,200 154
* MedAssets Inc. 7,800 150
* Sequenom Inc. 32,610 135
* Oncothyreon Inc. 63,500 132
*,^ Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. 14,700 121
* AVEO Pharmaceuticals Inc. 15,400 113
  Pain Therapeutics Inc. 31,833 109
  St. Jude Medical Inc. 2,400 97
* Alnylam Pharmaceuticals    
  Inc. 3,400 83
* GTx Inc. 18,900 78
* Accuray Inc. 16,800 78
* Aegerion Pharmaceuticals    
  Inc. 1,700 69
* LCA-Vision Inc. 20,300 68
* Orexigen Therapeutics Inc. 10,100 63
* Medivation Inc. 1,300 61
* Emergent Biosolutions Inc. 4,186 59
* AMAG Pharmaceuticals Inc. 2,300 55
* Theravance Inc. 2,300 54
  Quality Systems Inc. 2,536 46
* BioDelivery Sciences    
  International Inc. 8,989 38
  Agilent Technologies Inc. 890 37
* Sunesis Pharmaceuticals    
  Inc. 6,600 36
* Albany Molecular    
  Research Inc. 3,400 36
* Bruker Corp. 1,700 32
* Staar Surgical Co. 5,347 30
* Nordion Inc. 4,263 28
* Furiex Pharmaceuticals Inc. 736 28
* Cleveland Biolabs Inc. 12,300 24
* Momenta Pharmaceuticals    
  Inc. 1,800 24
* Nektar Therapeutics 2,179 24
* Allscripts Healthcare    
  Solutions Inc. 1,700 23
* TranS1 Inc. 10,180 23
* Halozyme Therapeutics Inc. 3,600 21
* Celsion Corp. 19,300 20
*,^ Neuralstem Inc. 17,669 20
* Nymox Pharmaceutical    
  Corp. 2,800 15
  Computer Programs &    
  Systems Inc. 268 15
* Vivus Inc. 1,300 14
* Hansen Medical Inc. 7,000 14
* StemCells Inc. 6,698 12
* Insmed Inc. 1,500 11
* Synta Pharmaceuticals    
  Corp. 1,025 9
* Threshold    
  Pharmaceuticals Inc. 1,800 8
* Five Star Quality Care Inc. 1,200 8
* Ligand Pharmaceuticals    
  Inc. Class B 300 8
* Zalicus Inc. 11,700 8
* ABIOMED Inc. 300 6
* Providence Service Corp. 300 6
* Pacific Biosciences of    
  California Inc. 2,000 5
* Biosante Pharmaceuticals    
  Inc. 4,189 5
* ACADIA Pharmaceuticals    
  Inc. 500 4
* Rockwell Medical    
  Technologies Inc. 1,000 4
* Merrimack    
  Pharmaceuticals Inc. 500 3
* Cutera Inc. 200 3
* Alimera Sciences Inc. 400 1
* Ventrus Biosciences Inc. 400 1
  Myrexis Inc. 1,550
      566,360
Industrials (10.8%)    
  General Electric Co. 5,039,350 116,510
  Union Pacific Corp. 227,635 32,417
  Boeing Co. 277,890 23,857
  United Parcel Service    
  Inc. Class B 276,927 23,788
  Honeywell    
  International Inc. 298,042 22,457
  Ingersoll-Rand plc 406,660 22,370
  General Dynamics Corp. 266,371 18,782
  Raytheon Co. 285,686 16,795
  Emerson Electric Co. 293,509 16,398
  Northrop Grumman Corp. 225,846 15,843
  Tyco International Ltd. 469,860 15,036
  Danaher Corp. 240,480 14,946
  Illinois Tool Works Inc. 231,620 14,115
  Lockheed Martin Corp. 126,152 12,176
  ADT Corp. 234,177 11,461
  United Technologies Corp. 104,110 9,727
  Textron Inc. 313,630 9,349
  3M Co. 82,390 8,759
  Republic Services Inc.    
  Class A 208,220 6,871
  Caterpillar Inc. 75,511 6,567
  Dun & Bradstreet Corp. 77,645 6,495
  Ryder System Inc. 102,430 6,120
  Southwest Airlines Co. 437,151 5,893
  L-3 Communications    
  Holdings Inc. 71,045 5,749
  Iron Mountain Inc. 148,550 5,394

 

19


 

Growth and Income Fund

      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
  CSX Corp. 192,318 4,737
  Pentair Ltd. 86,300 4,552
  Deere & Co. 51,070 4,391
  Cintas Corp. 89,920 3,968
  Xylem Inc. 134,500 3,707
  Precision Castparts Corp. 19,327 3,665
  Waste Management Inc. 79,900 3,133
^ Pitney Bowes Inc. 210,090 3,122
  Roper Industries Inc. 23,030 2,932
  C.H. Robinson    
  Worldwide Inc. 45,920 2,730
  Equifax Inc. 47,080 2,711
  Masco Corp. 117,840 2,386
  FedEx Corp. 22,660 2,225
  Expeditors International    
  of Washington Inc. 47,000 1,678
* Stericycle Inc. 15,130 1,607
  Rockwell Collins Inc. 19,740 1,246
  Snap-on Inc. 13,680 1,131
* Verisk Analytics Inc.    
  Class A 18,100 1,116
  Joy Global Inc. 18,500 1,101
  Flowserve Corp. 5,740 963
  Rockwell Automation Inc. 9,633 832
  Parker Hannifin Corp. 8,620 789
  Babcock & Wilcox Co. 26,900 764
* EnerNOC Inc. 33,600 584
  Pall Corp. 7,980 546
  Stanley Black & Decker Inc. 5,300 429
* Jacobs Engineering    
  Group Inc. 7,223 406
* Engility Holdings Inc. 14,297 343
* AerCap Holdings NV 21,600 334
  Cummins Inc. 2,620 303
  Covanta Holding Corp. 13,100 264
* Spirit Aerosystems    
  Holdings Inc. Class A 12,900 245
  Dover Corp. 3,100 226
  Fluor Corp. 3,400 226
  Albany International Corp. 7,800 225
  Huntington Ingalls    
  Industries Inc. 3,600 192
* Acacia Research Corp. 4,700 142
  HEICO Corp. 3,208 139
* Nortek Inc. 1,800 128
* Old Dominion Freight    
  Line Inc. 3,300 126
  Sauer-Danfoss Inc. 2,045 119
* Colfax Corp. 2,500 116
  Nielsen Holdings NV 2,800 100
* Fuel Tech Inc. 19,600 85
* Sensata Technologies    
  Holding NV 1,918 63
* FuelCell Energy Inc. 62,218 59
* Swift Transportation Co. 4,100 58
* Republic Airways    
  Holdings Inc. 3,300 38
* Federal Signal Corp. 4,400 36
  Towers Watson & Co.    
  Class A 500 35
  Brink’s Co. 1,200 34
* Xerium Technologies Inc. 4,427 24
* Pendrell Corp. 13,200 22
* CRA International Inc. 900 20
  Chicago Bridge & Iron    
  Co. NV 300 19
* Cenveo Inc. 8,655 19
* Genco Shipping &    
  Trading Ltd. 5,600 16
  Tennant Co. 300 15
* Star Bulk Carriers Corp. 1,809 13
* Casella Waste Systems    
  Inc. Class A 2,633 12
* ARC Document    
  Solutions Inc. 3,710 11
* Odyssey Marine    
  Exploration Inc. 2,958 10
* Greenbrier Cos. Inc. 400 9
  Aircastle Ltd. 500 7
* EnergySolutions Inc. 1,500 6
* USG Corp. 200 5
* Spirit Airlines Inc. 200 5
* Quality Distribution Inc. 600 5
  Harsco Corp. 200 5
* Tecumseh Products Co.    
  Class A 568 5
* NCI Building Systems Inc. 200 3
* CPI Aerostructures Inc. 300 3
      509,196
Information Technology (16.0%)  
  Apple Inc. 273,863 121,220
  International Business    
  Machines Corp. 358,394 76,445
  Microsoft Corp. 2,429,208 69,500
  Oracle Corp. 1,526,655 49,372
* Google Inc. Class A 60,646 48,155
  Cisco Systems Inc. 2,018,537 42,208
  Visa Inc. Class A 192,347 32,668
  Mastercard Inc. Class A 53,594 29,001
  QUALCOMM Inc. 306,996 20,553
  Accenture plc Class A 270,450 20,546
  Texas Instruments Inc. 413,652 14,676
  Fidelity National    
  Information Services Inc. 367,220 14,549
  Hewlett-Packard Co. 597,860 14,253
* Symantec Corp. 575,600 14,206
  Intel Corp. 616,479 13,470
  Motorola Solutions Inc. 202,200 12,947
* eBay Inc. 218,356 11,839
* LSI Corp. 1,655,720 11,226

 

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Growth and Income Fund

      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
  Western Digital Corp. 215,805 10,851
  Seagate Technology plc 262,860 9,610
  Total System    
  Services Inc. 372,500 9,231
* Facebook Inc. Class A 310,585 7,945
* Yahoo! Inc. 279,495 6,576
* BMC Software Inc. 125,560 5,817
* Juniper Networks Inc. 299,000 5,543
* EMC Corp. 224,300 5,358
  Intuit Inc. 76,890 5,048
* Autodesk Inc. 118,000 4,866
  Computer Sciences Corp. 92,800 4,569
  Harris Corp. 90,670 4,202
* VeriSign Inc. 88,553 4,187
  Automatic Data    
  Processing Inc. 59,970 3,899
* F5 Networks Inc. 41,988 3,740
  CA Inc. 145,586 3,664
* Zebra Technologies Corp. 72,200 3,403
* Citrix Systems Inc. 44,520 3,213
* LinkedIn Corp. Class A 16,600 2,923
* Cognizant Technology    
  Solutions Corp. Class A 35,000 2,681
* First Solar Inc. 95,960 2,587
  AOL Inc. 67,100 2,583
  Analog Devices Inc. 48,698 2,264
* NetApp Inc. 61,200 2,091
* Salesforce.com Inc. 10,239 1,831
* JDS Uniphase Corp. 129,440 1,731
  Paychex Inc. 42,870 1,503
* Red Hat Inc. 26,500 1,340
* Fiserv Inc. 15,200 1,335
* Advanced Micro    
  Devices Inc. 419,186 1,069
  Linear Technology Corp. 27,101 1,040
  TE Connectivity Ltd. 21,962 921
* NCR Corp. 32,400 893
  Altera Corp. 23,300 826
* CoreLogic Inc. 29,420 761
* SanDisk Corp. 13,300 731
* Electronic Arts Inc. 19,100 338
* PMC - Sierra Inc. 48,100 327
* Sonus Networks Inc. 122,300 317
  Tessera Technologies Inc. 13,391 251
* Agilysys Inc. 21,400 213
* Silicon Image Inc. 34,593 168
* Aspen Technology Inc. 4,600 148
* FleetCor Technologies Inc. 1,600 123
* Vocus Inc. 8,104 115
  FLIR Systems Inc. 4,000 104
  Broadridge Financial    
  Solutions Inc. 3,900 97
* STEC Inc. 20,585 91
* Integrated Device    
  Technology Inc. 9,500 71
  Marvell Technology    
  Group Ltd. 6,700 71
* Amkor Technology Inc. 17,700 71
* SunPower Corp. Class A 5,600 65
* MoneyGram    
  International Inc. 3,400 61
* Carbonite Inc. 5,095 56
* ViaSat Inc. 936 45
* Seachange    
  International Inc. 3,300 39
* Quantum Corp. 29,000 37
* Entropic    
  Communications Inc. 8,589 35
* Novatel Wireless Inc. 17,100 34
* Allot Communications Ltd. 2,800 33
* Acxiom Corp. 1,444 29
* Identive Group Inc. 17,600 26
* InterXion Holding NV 1,000 24
* Mattson Technology Inc. 15,200 21
  Jack Henry &    
  Associates Inc. 400 18
* Immersion Corp. 1,503 18
* NCI Inc. Class A 3,244 16
* Checkpoint Systems Inc. 1,200 16
* TeleCommunication    
  Systems Inc. Class A 6,510 14
* Aeroflex Holding Corp. 1,624 13
  KLA-Tencor Corp. 219 12
* PLX Technology Inc. 2,239 10
* MicroStrategy Inc.    
  Class A 97 10
  Maxim Integrated    
  Products Inc. 300 10
* Adobe Systems Inc. 200 9
* MaxLinear Inc. 1,108 7
* Riverbed Technology Inc. 400 6
  Xerox Corp. 563 5
* UTStarcom Holdings Corp. 1,453 4
  Micrel Inc. 344 4
* Constant Contact Inc. 200 3
* IntraLinks Holdings Inc. 400 3
* Calix Inc. 300 2
  Digimarc Corp. 100 2
* Pulse Electronics Corp. 5,401 2
  Black Box Corp. 100 2
* Amtech Systems Inc. 500 2
* Dynamics Research Corp. 300 2
* Smith Micro Software Inc. 969 1
* FriendFinder Networks Inc. 1,250 1
* Powerwave    
  Technologies Inc. 15,776
      750,868

 

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      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
Materials (4.0%)    
  Monsanto Co. 333,870 35,267
  LyondellBasell Industries    
  NV Class A 298,640 18,901
  EI du Pont de    
  Nemours & Co. 353,980 17,402
  CF Industries Holdings Inc. 68,466 13,034
  Ball Corp. 257,536 12,254
  Praxair Inc. 100,995 11,265
  PPG Industries Inc. 79,869 10,698
  Freeport-McMoRan    
  Copper & Gold Inc. 292,243 9,673
  Dow Chemical Co. 261,063 8,312
  Sherwin-Williams Co. 44,240 7,472
  Sealed Air Corp. 297,530 7,173
  Eastman Chemical Co. 85,200 5,953
  Vulcan Materials Co. 90,880 4,698
^ United States Steel Corp. 167,480 3,266
  Alcoa Inc. 335,030 2,854
  Ecolab Inc. 32,400 2,598
  Air Products &    
  Chemicals Inc. 28,710 2,501
  Newmont Mining Corp. 49,400 2,069
  Nucor Corp. 43,120 1,990
  Valspar Corp. 27,268 1,697
  International Flavors &    
  Fragrances Inc. 22,043 1,690
  MeadWestvaco Corp. 41,793 1,517
  Airgas Inc. 11,740 1,164
  Allegheny Technologies Inc. 33,970 1,077
  Sigma-Aldrich Corp. 11,560 898
* Resolute Forest Products 32,000 518
  Mosaic Co. 8,300 495
  Rockwood Holdings Inc. 6,412 420
* Owens-Illinois Inc. 15,629 416
* Mercer International Inc. 50,341 348
* Flotek Industries Inc. 16,400 268
* Clearwater Paper Corp. 4,200 221
  Packaging Corp. of America 3,900 175
  FutureFuel Corp. 8,800 107
* Louisiana-Pacific Corp. 4,000 86
  Silgan Holdings Inc. 900 43
* Boise Cascade Co. 1,100 37
  Innospec Inc. 700 31
  Myers Industries Inc. 1,600 22
* Rare Element    
  Resources Ltd. 7,172 16
* GSE Holding Inc. 1,768 15
* General Moly Inc. 5,793 13
  Mesabi Trust 470 11
  PolyOne Corp. 400 10
* Ferro Corp. 704 5
      188,680
Telecommunication Services (2.9%)  
  AT&T Inc. 2,096,928 76,936
  Verizon Communications    
  Inc. 698,674 34,340
* Sprint Nextel Corp. 1,755,030 10,899
  CenturyLink Inc. 286,510 10,065
* Crown Castle    
  International Corp. 33,890 2,360
* MetroPCS    
  Communications Inc. 121,900 1,329
  Windstream Corp. 72,700 578
* Clearwire Corp. Class A 36,600 118
  Neutral Tandem Inc. 19,291 63
* Leap Wireless    
  International Inc. 8,500 50
  Frontier Communications    
  Corp. 5,303 21
* Cincinnati Bell Inc. 3,900 13
      136,772
Utilities (2.5%)    
  CMS Energy Corp. 593,704 16,588
  DTE Energy Co. 212,600 14,529
  Northeast Utilities 302,600 13,151
  PG&E Corp. 289,500 12,891
  Edison International 229,700 11,559
  American Electric Power    
  Co. Inc. 210,630 10,243
  NiSource Inc. 183,900 5,396
  Public Service Enterprise    
  Group Inc. 153,909 5,285
  Ameren Corp. 148,470 5,199
  Wisconsin Energy Corp. 99,337 4,261
  Pinnacle West Capital    
  Corp. 64,700 3,746
  Duke Energy Corp. 41,470 3,010
  NextEra Energy Inc. 38,280 2,974
  Southern Co. 61,750 2,897
  Dominion Resources Inc. 36,864 2,145
  PPL Corp. 48,750 1,526
  AES Corp. 89,000 1,119
  CenterPoint Energy Inc. 35,990 862
  Xcel Energy Inc. 24,490 727
  Consolidated Edison Inc. 10,077 615
  Pepco Holdings Inc. 5,036 108
  IDACORP Inc. 1,800 87
  MGE Energy Inc. 1,212 67
  NorthWestern Corp. 1,200 48
  Chesapeake Utilities Corp. 267 13
* Calpine Corp. 600 12
  Southwest Gas Corp. 169 8
  El Paso Electric Co. 199 7
      119,073
Total Common Stocks    
(Cost $3,834,835)   4,567,862

 

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      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
Temporary Cash Investments (3.2%)1  
Money Market Fund (3.1%)    
2,3 Vanguard Market    
  Liquidity Fund,    
  0.147% 146,037,741 146,038
 
    Face  
    Amount  
    ($000)  
U.S. Government and Agency Obligations (0.1%)
4,5 Fannie Mae    
  Discount Notes,    
  0.120%, 6/5/13 1,500 1,499
5,6 Federal Home Loan    
  Bank Discount Notes,    
  0.085%, 4/19/13 5,000 5,000
4,5 Freddie Mac    
  Discount Notes,    
  0.130%, 9/16/13 300 300
      6,799
Total Temporary Cash Investments  
(Cost $152,837)   152,837
Total Investments (100.3%)    
(Cost $3,987,672)   4,720,699
Other Assets and Liabilities (-0.3%)  
Other Assets   50,973
Liabilities3   (66,600)
      (15,627)
Net Assets (100%)   4,705,072
At March 31, 2013, net assets consisted of:
  Amount
  ($000)
Paid-in Capital 4,657,226
Undistributed Net Investment Income 5,560
Accumulated Net Realized Losses (692,466)
Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)  
Investment Securities 733,027
Futures Contracts 1,725
Net Assets 4,705,072
 
 
Investor Shares—Net Assets  
Applicable to 86,305,392 outstanding  
$.001 par value shares of beneficial  
interest (unlimited authorization) 2,890,875
Net Asset Value Per Share—  
Investor Shares $33.50
 
 
Admiral Shares—Net Assets  
Applicable to 33,169,310 outstanding  
$.001 par value shares of beneficial  
interest (unlimited authorization) 1,814,197
Net Asset Value Per Share—  
Admiral Shares $54.70

See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements.
* Non-income-producing security.
^ Part of security position is on loan to broker-dealers. The total value of securities on loan is $8,048,000.
1 The fund invests a portion of its cash reserves in equity markets through the use of index futures contracts. After giving effect to futures
investments, the fund’s effective common stock and temporary cash investment positions represent 99.8% and 0.5%, respectively, of net
assets.
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 Includes $8,580,000 of collateral received for securities on loan.
4 The issuer was placed under federal conservatorship in September 2008; since that time, its daily operations have been managed by the
Federal Housing Finance Agency and it receives capital from the U.S. Treasury, as needed to maintain a positive net worth, in exchange for
senior preferred stock.
5 Securities with a value of $6,203,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open futures contracts.
6 The issuer operates under a congressional charter; its securities are generally neither guaranteed by the U.S. Treasury nor backed by the full
faith and credit of the U.S. government.
REIT—Real Estate Investment Trust.
See accompanying Notes, which are an integral part of the Financial Statements.

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Statement of Operations

  Six Months Ended
  March 31, 2013
  ($000)
Investment Income  
Income  
Dividends1 53,599
Interest2 98
Security Lending 155
Total Income 53,852
Expenses  
Investment Advisory Fees—Note B  
Basic Fee 2,530
Performance Adjustment 180
The Vanguard Group—Note C  
Management and Administrative—Investor Shares 2,923
Management and Administrative—Admiral Shares 911
Marketing and Distribution—Investor Shares 217
Marketing and Distribution—Admiral Shares 115
Custodian Fees 115
Shareholders’ Reports—Investor Shares 42
Shareholders’ Reports—Admiral Shares 5
Trustees’ Fees and Expenses 8
Total Expenses 7,046
Net Investment Income 46,806
Realized Net Gain (Loss)  
Investment Securities Sold 236,498
Futures Contracts 7,596
Realized Net Gain (Loss) 244,094
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)  
Investment Securities 146,956
Futures Contracts 2,739
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) 149,695
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations 440,595
1 Dividends are net of foreign withholding taxes of $152,000.
2 Interest income from an affiliated company of the fund was $92,000.

 

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

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Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  Six Months Ended Year Ended
  March 31, September 30,
  2013 2012
  ($000) ($000)
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets    
Operations    
Net Investment Income 46,806 81,914
Realized Net Gain (Loss) 244,094 463,150
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) 149,695 558,291
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations 440,595 1,103,355
Distributions    
Net Investment Income    
Investor Shares (31,155) (51,327)
Admiral Shares (20,083) (27,485)
Realized Capital Gain    
Investor Shares
Admiral Shares
Total Distributions (51,238) (78,812)
Capital Share Transactions    
Investor Shares (145,396) (437,673)
Admiral Shares 72,231 122,956
Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions (73,165) (314,717)
Total Increase (Decrease) 316,192 709,826
Net Assets    
Beginning of Period 4,388,880 3,679,054
End of Period1 4,705,072 4,388,880
1 Net Assets—End of Period includes undistributed net investment income of $5,560,000 and $9,985,000.

 

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

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Financial Highlights

Investor Shares              
  Six Months          
    Ended          
For a Share Outstanding March 31, Year Ended September 30,
Throughout Each Period   2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period $30.73 $23.86 $23.98 $22.34 $25.84 $38.62
Investment Operations              
Net Investment Income   .328 .549 .482 .418 .447 .546
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)            
on Investments   2.801 6.846 (.124) 1.630 (3.453) (8.758)
Total from Investment Operations   3.129 7.395 .358 2.048 (3.006) (8.212)
Distributions              
Dividends from Net Investment Income (.359) (.525) (.478) (.408) (.494) (.560)
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains (4.008)
Total Distributions   (.359) (.525) (.478) (.408) (.494) (4.568)
Net Asset Value, End of Period   $33.50 $30.73 $23.86 $23.98 $22.34 $25.84
 
Total Return1   10.31% 31.27% 1.28% 9.24% -11.29% -23.28%
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data              
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) $2,891 $2,798 $2,548 $3,020 $3,253 $3,919
Ratio of Total Expenses to              
Average Net Assets2   0.36% 0.36% 0.32% 0.32% 0.35% 0.31%
Ratio of Net Investment Income to            
Average Net Assets   2.04% 1.94% 1.78% 1.74% 2.28% 1.69%
Portfolio Turnover Rate   106% 102% 120% 94% 83% 96%

The expense ratio, net income ratio, and turnover rate for the current period have been annualized.
1 Total returns do not include account service fees that may have applied in the periods shown. Fund prospectuses provide information about
any applicable account service fees.
2 Includes performance-based investment advisory fee increases (decreases) of 0.01%, 0.01%, (0.04%), (0.04%), (0.04%), and (0.02%).

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

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Financial Highlights

Admiral Shares              
  Six Months          
    Ended          
For a Share Outstanding March 31, Year Ended September 30,
Throughout Each Period   2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period $50.18 $38.97 $39.15 $36.48 $42.20 $63.08
Investment Operations              
Net Investment Income   .567 .952 .832 .722 .775 .963
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)            
on Investments   4.570 11.168 (.199) 2.666 (5.638) (14.313)
Total from Investment Operations   5.137 12.120 .633 3.388 (4.863) (13.350)
Distributions              
Dividends from Net Investment Income (.617) (.910) (.813) (.718) (.857) (.985)
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains (6.545)
Total Distributions   (.617) (.910) (.813) (.718) (.857) (7.530)
Net Asset Value, End of Period   $54.70 $50.18 $38.97 $39.15 $36.48 $42.20
 
Total Return1   10.37% 31.40% 1.39% 9.37% -11.15% -23.19%
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data              
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) $1,814 $1,591 $1,131 $1,199 $1,441 $1,907
Ratio of Total Expenses to              
Average Net Assets2   0.25% 0.25% 0.21% 0.21% 0.21% 0.16%
Ratio of Net Investment Income to            
Average Net Assets   2.15% 2.05% 1.89% 1.85% 2.42% 1.84%
Portfolio Turnover Rate   106% 102% 120% 94% 83% 96%

The expense ratio, net income ratio, and turnover rate for the current period have been annualized.
1 Total returns do not include account service fees that may have applied in the periods shown. Fund prospectuses provide information about
any applicable account service fees.
2 Includes performance-based investment advisory fee increases (decreases) of 0.01%, 0.01%, (0.04%), (0.04%), (0.04%), and (0.02%).

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 offers two classes of shares: Investor Shares and Admiral Shares. Investor Shares are available to any investor who meets the fund’s minimum purchase requirements. Admiral Shares are designed for investors who meet certain administrative, service, and account-size criteria.

A. The following significant accounting policies conform to generally accepted accounting principles for U.S. mutual funds. The fund consistently follows such policies in preparing its financial statements.

1. Security Valuation: Securities are valued as of the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4 p.m., Eastern time) on the valuation date. Equity securities are valued at the latest quoted sales prices or official closing prices taken from the primary market in which each security trades; such securities not traded on the valuation date are valued at the mean of the latest quoted bid and asked prices. Securities for which market quotations are not readily available, or whose values have been 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).

During the six months ended March 31, 2013, the fund’s average investment in long futures contracts represented 2% of net assets, based on quarterly average aggregate settlement values.

3. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken for all open federal income tax years (September 30, 2009–2012), and for the period ended March 31, 2013, and has concluded that no provision for federal income tax is required in the fund’s 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. Daily market fluctuations could cause the value of loaned securities to be more or less than the value of the collateral received. When this occurs, the collateral is adjusted on the next business day. The fund invests cash collateral received in Vanguard Market

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Liquidity Fund, and records a liability for the return of the collateral, during the period the securities are on loan. Security lending income represents fees charged to borrowers plus income earned on investing cash collateral, less expenses associated with the loan.

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. D. E. Shaw Investment Management, L.L.C., and Los Angeles Capital Management and Equity Research, Inc., each provide investment advisory services to a portion of the fund for a fee calculated at an annual percentage rate of average net assets managed by the advisor. The basic fees of D. E. Shaw Investment Management, L.L.C., and Los Angeles Capital Management and Equity Research, Inc., are subject to quarterly adjustments based on performance since September 30, 2011, relative to the S&P 500 Index.

The Vanguard Group provides investment advisory services to a portion of the fund on an at-cost basis; the fund paid Vanguard advisory fees of $446,000 for the six months ended March 31, 2013.

For the six months ended March 31, 2013, the aggregate investment advisory fee represented an effective annual basic rate of 0.11% of the fund’s average net assets, before an increase of $180,000 (0.01%) based on performance.

C. The Vanguard Group furnishes at cost corporate management, administrative, marketing, and distribution services. The costs of such services are allocated to the fund under methods approved by the board of trustees. The fund has committed to provide up to 0.40% of its net assets in capital contributions to Vanguard. At March 31, 2013, the fund had contributed capital of $583,000 to Vanguard (included in Other Assets), representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 0.23% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and officers of Vanguard.

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

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

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The following table summarizes the market value of the fund’s investments as of March 31, 2013, based on the inputs used to value them:

  Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
Investments ($000) ($000) ($000)
Common Stocks 4,567,862
Temporary Cash Investments 146,038 6,799
Futures Contracts—Assets1 484
Total 4,714,384 6,799
1 Represents variation margin on the last day of the reporting period.

 

E. At March 31, 2013, the aggregate settlement value of open futures contracts and the related unrealized appreciation (depreciation) were:

      ($000)
      Aggregate  
    Number of Settlement Unrealized
    Long (Short) Value Appreciation
Futures Contracts Expiration Contracts Long (Short) (Depreciation)
S&P 500 Index June 2013 305 119,156 1,684
E-mini S&P 500 Index June 2013 117 9,142 41

 

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

F. 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.

Certain of the fund’s investments are in securities considered to be “passive foreign investment companies,” for which any unrealized appreciation and/or realized gains are required to be included in distributable net income for tax purposes. During the six months ended March 31, 2013, the fund realized gains on the sale of passive foreign investment companies of $7,000, which have been included in current and prior periods’ taxable income; accordingly, such gains have been reclassified from accumulated net realized losses to undistributed net investment income.

The fund’s tax-basis capital gains and losses are determined only at the end of each fiscal year. For tax purposes, at September 30, 2012, the fund had available capital losses totaling $937,041,000 to offset future net capital gains of $90,131,000 through September 30, 2017, and $846,910,000 through September 30, 2018. The fund will use these capital losses to offset net taxable capital gains, if any, realized during the year ending September 30, 2013; should the fund realize net capital losses for the year, the losses will be added to the loss carryforward balance above.

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At March 31, 2013, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $3,987,672,000. Net unrealized appreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $733,027,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $783,088,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $50,061,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.

G. During the six months ended March 31, 2013, the fund purchased $2,284,799,000 of investment securities and sold $2,407,590,000 of investment securities, other than temporary cash investments.

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

  Six Months Ended Year Ended
  March 31, 2013 September 30, 2012
  Amount Shares Amount Shares
  ($000) (000) ($000) (000)
Investor Shares        
Issued 101,279 3,228 196,350 6,915
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 30,274 1,004 49,896 1,822
Redeemed (276,949) (8,976) (683,919) (24,460)
Net Increase (Decrease)—Investor Shares (145,396) (4,744) (437,673) (15,723)
Admiral Shares        
Issued 173,804 3,449 303,344 6,585
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 18,641 379 25,393 568
Redeemed (120,214) (2,365) (205,781) (4,475)
Net Increase (Decrease)—Admiral Shares 72,231 1,463 122,956 2,678

 

I. In preparing the financial statements as of March 31, 2013, management considered the impact of
subsequent events for potential recognition or disclosure in these financial statements.

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About Your Fund’s Expenses

As a shareholder of the fund, you incur ongoing costs, which include costs for portfolio management, administrative services, and shareholder reports (like this one), among others. Operating expenses, which are deducted from a fund’s gross income, directly reduce the investment return of the fund.

A fund’s expenses are expressed as a percentage of its average net assets. This figure is known as the expense ratio. The following examples are intended to help you understand the ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in your fund and to compare these costs with those of other mutual funds. The examples are based on an investment of $1,000 made at the beginning of the period shown and held for the entire period.

The accompanying table illustrates your fund’s costs in two ways:

Based on actual fund return. This section helps you to estimate the actual expenses that you paid over the period. The ”Ending Account Value“ shown is derived from the fund‘s actual return, and the third column shows the dollar amount that would have been paid by an investor who started with $1,000 in the fund. You may use the information here, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period.

To do so, simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number given for your fund under the heading ”Expenses Paid During Period.“

Based on hypothetical 5% yearly return. This section is intended to help you compare your fund‘s costs with those of other mutual funds. It assumes that the fund had a yearly return of 5% before expenses, but that the expense ratio is unchanged. In this case—because the return used is not the fund’s actual return—the results do not apply to your investment. The example is useful in making comparisons because the Securities and Exchange Commission requires all mutual funds to calculate expenses based on a 5% return. You can assess your fund’s costs by comparing this hypothetical example with the hypothetical examples that appear in shareholder reports of other funds.

Note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight and help you compare ongoing costs only and do not reflect transaction costs incurred by the fund for buying and selling securities. Further, the expenses do not include any purchase, redemption, or account service fees described in the fund prospectus. If such fees were applied to your account, your costs would be higher. Your fund does not carry a “sales load.”

The calculations assume no shares were bought or sold during the period. Your actual costs may have been higher or lower, depending on the amount of your investment and the timing of any purchases or redemptions.

You can find more information about the fund’s expenses, including annual expense ratios, in the Financial Statements section of this report. For additional information on operating expenses and other shareholder costs, please refer to your fund’s current prospectus.

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Six Months Ended March 31, 2013      
  Beginning Ending Expenses
  Account Value Account Value Paid During
Growth and Income Fund 9/30/2012 3/31/2013 Period
Based on Actual Fund Return      
Investor Shares $1,000.00 $1,103.12 $1.89
Admiral Shares 1,000.00 1,103.74 1.31
Based on Hypothetical 5% Yearly Return      
Investor Shares $1,000.00 $1,023.14 $1.82
Admiral Shares 1,000.00 1,023.68 1.26

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 0.36% for Investor Shares and 0.25% 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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Glossary

30-Day SEC Yield. A fund’s 30-day SEC yield is derived using a formula specified by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Under the formula, data related to the fund’s security holdings in the previous 30 days are used to calculate the fund’s hypothetical net income for that period, which is then annualized and divided by the fund’s estimated average net assets over the calculation period. For the purposes of this calculation, a security’s income is based on its current market yield to maturity (for bonds), its actual income (for asset-backed securities), or its projected dividend yield (for stocks). Because the SEC yield represents hypothetical annualized income, it will differ—at times significantly—from the fund’s actual experience. As a result, the fund’s income distributions may be higher or lower than implied by the SEC yield.

Beta. A measure of the magnitude of a fund’s past share-price fluctuations in relation to the ups and downs of a given market index. The index is assigned a beta of 1.00. Compared with a given index, a fund with a beta of 1.20 typically would have seen its share price rise or fall by 12% when the index rose or fell by 10%. For this report, beta is based on returns over the past 36 months for both the fund and the index. Note that a fund’s beta should be reviewed in conjunction with its R-squared (see definition). The lower the R-squared, the less correlation there is between the fund and the index, and the less reliable beta is as an indicator of volatility.

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

Earnings Growth Rate. The average annual rate of growth in earnings over the past five years for the stocks now in a fund.

Equity Exposure. A measure that reflects a fund’s investments in stocks and stock futures. Any holdings in short-term reserves are excluded.

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

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

Inception Date. The date on which the assets of a fund (or one of its share classes) are first invested in accordance with the fund’s investment objective. For funds with a subscription period, the inception date is the day after that period ends. Investment performance is measured from the inception date.

Median Market Cap. An indicator of the size of companies in which a fund invests; the midpoint of market capitalization (market price x shares outstanding) of a fund’s stocks, weighted by the proportion of the fund’s assets invested in each stock. Stocks representing half of the fund’s assets have market capitalizations above the median, and the rest are below it.

Price/Book Ratio. The share price of a stock divided by its net worth, or book value, per share. For a fund, the weighted average price/book ratio of the stocks it holds.

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Price/Earnings Ratio. The ratio of a stock’s current price to its per-share earnings over the past year. For a fund, the weighted average P/E of the stocks it holds. P/E is an indicator of market expectations about corporate prospects; the higher the P/E, the greater the expectations for a company’s future growth.

R-Squared. A measure of how much of a fund’s past returns can be explained by the returns from the market in general, as measured by a given index. If a fund’s total returns were precisely synchronized with an index’s returns, its R-squared would be 1.00. If the fund’s returns bore no relationship to the index’s returns, its R-squared would be 0. For this report, R-squared is based on returns over the past 36 months for both the fund and the index.

Return on Equity. The annual average rate of return generated by a company during the past five years for each dollar of shareholder’s equity (net income divided by shareholder’s equity). For a fund, the weighted average return on equity for the companies whose stocks it holds.

Short-Term Reserves. The percentage of a fund invested in highly liquid, short-term securities that can be readily converted to cash.

Turnover Rate. An indication of the fund’s trading activity. Funds with high turnover rates incur higher transaction costs and may be more likely to distribute capital gains (which may be taxable to investors). The turnover rate excludes in-kind transactions, which have minimal impact on costs.

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The People Who Govern Your Fund

The trustees of your mutual fund are there to see that the fund is operated and managed in your best interests since, as a shareholder, you are a part owner of the fund. Your fund’s trustees also serve on the board of directors of The Vanguard Group, Inc., which is owned by the Vanguard funds and provides services to them on an at-cost basis.

A majority of Vanguard’s board members are independent, meaning that they have no affiliation with Vanguard or the funds they oversee, apart from the sizable personal investments they have made as private individuals. The independent board members have distinguished backgrounds in business, academia, and public service. Each of the trustees and executive officers oversees 180 Vanguard funds.

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

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

 


 

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

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


 

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Semiannual Report | March 31, 2013

Vanguard Structured Equity Funds


Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund

Vanguard Structured Broad Market Fund


 

> For the six months ended March 31, 2013, Vanguard Structured Broad Market

Fund returned almost 13% and Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund

returned almost 11%.

> A sharp rise in the stock market during the last three months of the period led to

strong returns for many sectors.

> The advisor’s stock selection enabled both funds to outperform their

benchmarks and peer funds.

Contents  
Your Fund’s Total Returns. 1
Chairman’s Letter. 2
Advisor’s Report. 6
Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund. 8
Structured Broad Market Fund. 20
About Your Fund’s Expenses. 34
Trustees Approve Advisory Arrangement. 36
Glossary. 37

 

Please note: The opinions expressed in this report are just that—informed opinions. They should not be considered promises or advice.
Also, please keep in mind that the information and opinions cover the period through the date on the front of this report. Of course, the
risks of investing in your fund are spelled out in the prospectus.
See the Glossary for definitions of investment terms used in this report.
About the cover: Our cover photograph shows rigging on the HMSSurprise, a replica of an 18th-century Royal Navy frigate. It
was featured in the 2003 movie Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, which was based on Patrick O’Brian’s sea
novels, set amid the Napoleonic Wars. Vanguard was named for another ship of that era, the HMSVanguard, which was the
flagship of British Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of the Nile.


 

Your Fund’s Total Returns

Six Months Ended March 31, 2013  
  Total
  Returns
Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund  
Institutional Shares 10.71%
Institutional Plus Shares 10.76
S&P 500 Index 10.19
Large-Cap Core Funds Average 10.57
Large-Cap Core Funds Average: Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.  
Vanguard Structured Broad Market Fund  
Institutional Shares 12.71%
Institutional Plus Shares 12.74
Russell 3000 Index 11.35
Multi-Cap Core Funds Average 12.06

 

Multi-Cap Core Funds Average: Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.
Institutional Shares and Institutional Plus Shares are available to certain institutional investors who meet specific administrative, service, and
account-size criteria.

 

Your Fund’s Performance at a Glance        
September 30, 2012, Through March 31, 2013        
      Distributions Per Share
  Starting Ending Income Capital
  Share Price Share Price Dividends Gains
Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund        
Institutional Shares $27.83 $30.18 $0.570 $0.000
Institutional Plus Shares 55.02 59.65 1.164 0.000
Vanguard Structured Broad Market Fund        
Institutional Shares $27.10 $29.90 $0.575 $0.000
Institutional Plus Shares 54.17 59.74 1.186 0.000

 

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Chairman’s Letter

Dear Shareholder,

As the six-month period progressed, investors’ anxieties about corporate profits, the U.S. fiscal deficit, and fresh troubles in Europe gave way to greater optimism about the strength of the U.S. economy, especially in the labor and housing markets. The improvement in market sentiment led to a shift away from safer assets toward riskier investments offering potentially higher returns, a trend that favored small- and mid-capitalization stocks more than their large-cap counterparts.

In this context, Vanguard Structured Broad Market Fund, with its exposure across the market-cap spectrum, returned almost 13% for the six months ended March 31, 2013, outpacing its benchmark (the Russell 3000 Index) by more than 1 percentage point. Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund returned about 11%, putting it about half a percentage point ahead of its benchmark (the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index). Both funds’ returns exceeded the average returns for their peer funds.

The funds’ gains were broad-based. Of the ten market sectors in their benchmarks, seven in the Broad Market Fund and eight in the Large-Cap Equity Fund posted returns topping 10%. In relative terms, the funds’ outperformance was driven largely by strong stock selection in just a few sectors, with energy and industrials standing out for the Broad Market Fund and energy and materials for the Large-Cap Equity Fund.

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Global equity markets delivered a powerful rally

Global stocks advanced for the fifth straight month to finish the half year ended March 31 with impressive gains. The S&P 500 Index closed at a record high on the period’s final business day after global financial markets in recent months shrugged off the U.S. “fiscal cliff” crisis, the unsettled Italian national elections, and a controversial bailout package for Cyprus.

Peter Westaway, Vanguard’s chief European economist, said that the latest developments in Europe had been “rather bad,” but that the market had for the most part already priced in these events. “As always,” he said, “we think investors should assess their portfolios carefully and avoid making impulsive moves.”

U.S. equities returned more than 11% as the economic recovery slowly built momentum, the housing market rebounded further, and the labor market improved. International equities were up more than 9%. Returns were about 16% in the Pacific region, where Japan’s accommodative monetary policy has helped spark the nation’s stock market, and nearly 10% in Europe. Emerging markets stocks rose about 4%.

Bond returns barely budged as yields lingered near lows

The broad U.S. taxable bond market scraped out a minuscule gain of 0.09% for the half year as U.S. Treasury yields remained just slightly above their all-time lows. Although the yield of the benchmark 10-year Treasury note increased during

Market Barometer      
 
  Total Returns
  Periods Ended March 31, 2013
  Six One Five Years
  Months Year (Annualized)
Stocks      
Russell 1000 Index (Large-caps) 11.10% 14.43% 6.15%
Russell 2000 Index (Small-caps) 14.48 16.30 8.24
Russell 3000 Index (Broad U.S. market) 11.35 14.56 6.32
MSCI All Country World Index ex USA (International) 9.20 8.36 -0.39
 
Bonds      
Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (Broad taxable market) 0.09% 3.77% 5.47%
Barclays Municipal Bond Index (Broad tax-exempt market) 0.96 5.25 6.10
Citigroup Three-Month U.S. Treasury Bill Index 0.05 0.08 0.30
 
CPI      
Consumer Price Index 0.59% 1.47% 1.74%

 

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the six months and topped 2.00% at various times, it closed the period at about 1.85%. (Bond prices and yields move in opposite directions.)

Municipal bonds returned almost 1% for the six months despite price declines in March. And returns of money market funds and savings accounts barely registered as short-term interest rates remained between 0% and 0.25%, under the Federal Reserve’s four-year-old policy.

Robert Auwaerter, head of Vanguard’s Fixed Income Group, doesn’t anticipate abrupt policy changes from the central bank. “We don’t see the Fed changing course in the near term,” he said, “and when the Fed does, we expect it’ll go slowly so as not to undo the efforts made to keep interest rates low and to stimulate the economy.”

The funds’ quantitative model found pockets of outperformance

Not all quantitative funds are the same; their investment strategies vary greatly, and so do the quantitative models they rely on to execute those strategies. As explained in more detail in the Advisor’s Report that follows, Vanguard’s Equity Investment Group, which manages these funds, uses a proprietary quantitative model to compare the stocks in a fund’s benchmark index with the aim of singling out those it believes are most likely to outperform over the long term because of their attractive valuations, strong balance sheets, and positive earnings momentum.

The advisor counts on its choice of stocks (which totaled 200 in the Structured Broad Market Fund and about 170 in the Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund on March 31) to outpace each fund’s benchmark without taking on additional risk through market capitalization tilts or sector bets.

Energy was the stand-out sector in relative performance for both funds. Quantitative analysis relating to valuation, in particular, resulted in the funds’ holding a handful of large-cap stocks in oil and gas refining. While margins in refining traditionally tend to be quite low, recent expansion in domestic oil production helped lower costs, which translated into higher profits.

For the Structured Broad Market Fund, the advisor’s choices in industrials also gave a boost to relative performance. A few mid-cap airline stocks in the portfolio soared on further consolidation in the industry, a development that should lead to greater pricing power and higher margins. Construction-related stocks were another bright spot for the fund in this sector.

Despite its comparatively small weighting in the S&P 500 Index, the materials sector added significantly to the relative performance of the Large-Cap Equity Fund, where a tilt toward chemical stocks and away from mining stocks proved a good call.

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There were a few misses in each fund that dampened relative performance, most notably among information technology stocks for the Broad Market Fund and among financials for the Large-Cap Equity Fund.

Low cost is key no matter how a fund is managed

Keeping costs low has been a key part of our index funds’ success—the less expensive it is for an index fund to track its benchmark, the more returns get passed on to its investors.

But the same principle—low cost—is just as important to our actively managed funds. Outperforming an index through active management has historically proven to be a challenge in itself, so the higher management fees and transaction costs associated with such funds tend to set the bar of outperforming even higher. That’s why, regardless of a fund’s management style, at Vanguard we focus on trying to give investors the best chance for investment success by keeping our fund costs low. (You can read an analysis of the impact of costs on the performance of actively managed funds in The Case for Vanguard Active Management: Solving the Low-Cost/Top-Talent Paradox? at vanguard.com/research.)

The low-cost advantage doesn’t guarantee outperformance, of course. Even in those cases where an active stock fund outperforms over long periods, that doesn’t necessarily mean investors earned more than the index results every year—or even every decade. And investors have no way of knowing beforehand which funds will outperform.

But for those willing to accept the greater risks that come with active investing, we believe Vanguard’s low costs, along with our talented advisors, can improve the odds.

As always, thank you for entrusting your assets to Vanguard.

Sincerely,


F. William McNabb III
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
April 17, 2013

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Advisor’s Report

For the six-month period ended March 31, 2013, Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund returned 10.71% for Institutional Shares and 10.76% for Institutional Plus Shares, outperforming its benchmark, the S&P 500 Index, by 0.52 percentage point and 0.57 percentage point, respectively.

Vanguard Structured Broad Market Fund returned 12.71% for Institutional Shares and 12.74% for Institutional Plus Shares, outperforming its benchmark, the Russell 3000 Index, by 1.36 percentage points and 1.39 percentage points, respectively.

The six-month period saw equities in general experience above-average returns, as the broad market was up 11.35% (as measured by the Russell 3000 Index). All ten sectors of the broader equity benchmark posted positive returns. Results were best among financials, consumer discretionary, and industrials.

The returns of the period’s two quarters were quite different. During the fourth quarter of 2012 the broad U.S. market was up 0.25% as investors digested the election results and Hurricane Sandy, and contemplated the potential repercussions of the looming “fiscal cliff.” Fortunately, Congress and President Obama finally reached an agreement early in the new year, averting the worst of the fiscal cliff, including certain tax hikes that probably would have put the anemic recovery at risk. Investor fears seemed to abate and cash came into the U.S. equity market, helping to push the broad U.S. market up 11.07% for the first quarter of 2013.

Over the last six months, equity returns have been less volatile than in most of 2012—a year in which volatility was driven in large part by global macroeconomic events. Lackluster global economic growth, actions taken by central banks in Europe and the United States, and the fiscal cliff all contributed to market volatility during the year. While the United States is not without its problems, our modest economic recovery is expected to continue. Corporate balance sheets remain strong, there is ample liquidity in the economy, housing data continues to improve, and unemployment statistics are moving in the right direction, although at a snail’s pace.

Market fluctuations reinforce our conviction that attempting to time investments is not profitable. Our aim, instead, is to identify individual stocks that will outperform over the long run. We select stocks by using a model with five components: valuation, growth, management decisions, market sentiment, and quality. We construct our portfolio with the goal of minimizing exposure to risks that our research indicates do not improve returns. Thus, our risk-control process neutralizes our exposure to market-capitalization, volatility, and industry risks relative to our benchmark. In our view, such risk exposures are not justified by the potential rewards. As a result of these risk controls, our three-year tracking error was 1.2% for the Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund and 1.7% for the Structured Broad Market Fund, both well within expectations.

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The results from our stock selection model were encouraging over the last six months as all signals contributed positively to performance, with varying degrees of success in each of the portfolios. Our valuation model was the most effective in the Structured Broad Market Fund, while the management decisions signal was strongest in the Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund.

The model’s breadth can be seen by its effectiveness over the period across sectors. Structured Large-Cap Equity had the most success in energy; the financial sector was the fund’s biggest detractor. Structured Broad Market benefited from strong stock selection in energy as well, while information technology hurt relative performance.

Structured Large Cap Equity Fund

At the individual stock level, the largest contributions came from overweight positions in Phillips 66 and Marathon Petroleum. In addition, when comparing the portfolio’s performance with that of its benchmark, we benefited from underweighting or avoiding poorly performing stocks such as EMC and Caterpillar.

Unfortunately, we could not avoid all bad performers. Overweight positions in CF Industries and CA detracted from performance. Also, underweighting companies that were not positively identified by the fundamentals in our model, such as Celgene and Gilead Sciences, held back performance relative to our benchmark.

Structured Broad Market Fund

At the individual stock level, overweight positions in Delta Air Lines and Marathon Petroleum added the most to performance. When comparing the portfolio’s performance with that of its benchmark, the fund benefited from underweighting or avoiding poorly performing stocks such as EMC and Newmont Mining.

Overweight positions in Apple and VMware disappointed. Also, stocks our model did not favor, such as Citigroup and Gilead Sciences, hurt our performance relative to our benchmark.

We thank you for your investment and look forward to the second half of the fiscal year.

James P. Stetler
Principal and Portfolio Manager

James D. Troyer, CFA
Principal and Portfolio Manager

Michael R. Roach, CFA
Portfolio Manager

Vanguard Equity Investment Group

April 23, 2013

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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund

Fund Profile
As of March 31, 2013

Share-Class Characteristics  
  Institutional Institutional
  Shares Plus Shares
Ticker Symbol VSLIX VSLPX
Expense Ratio1 0.24% 0.17%
30-Day SEC Yield 2.03% 2.10%

 

Portfolio Characteristics      
      DJ U.S.
      Total
      Market
    S&P 500 FA
  Fund Index Index
Number of Stocks 167 500 3,586
Median Market Cap $64.2B $58.7B $40.0B
Price/Earnings Ratio 14.9x 17.0x 18.1x
Price/Book Ratio 2.4x 2.3x 2.3x
Return on Equity 17.1% 18.1% 16.6%
Earnings Growth Rate 9.7% 9.6% 9.6%
Dividend Yield 2.2% 2.1% 2.0%
Foreign Holdings 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Turnover Rate      
(Annualized) 60%
Short-Term Reserves 0.0%

 

Sector Diversification (% of equity exposure)
      DJ U.S.
      Total
      Market
    S&P 500 FA
  Fund Index Index
Consumer Discretionary 12.1% 11.6% 12.4%
Consumer Staples 10.1 11.0 9.5
Energy 11.2 10.9 10.1
Financials 16.1 15.9 17.3
Health Care 11.7 12.6 12.2
Industrials 10.6 10.1 11.1
Information Technology 17.9 18.0 17.4
Materials 3.8 3.4 3.8
Telecommunication      
Services 3.5 3.0 2.6
Utilities 3.0 3.5 3.6

 

Volatility Measures    
    DJ U.S.
    Total
    Market
  S&P 500 FA
  Index Index
R-Squared 0.99 0.99
Beta 0.99 0.95
These measures show the degree and timing of the fund’s  
fluctuations compared with the indexes over 36 months.  

 

Ten Largest Holdings (% of total net assets)
Exxon Mobil Corp. Integrated Oil & Gas 3.4%
Apple Inc. Computer Hardware 2.6
General Electric Co. Industrial  
  Conglomerates 2.2
Chevron Corp. Integrated Oil & Gas 2.1
International Business IT Consulting &  
Machines Corp. Other Services 2.1
AT&T Inc. Integrated  
  Telecommunication  
  Services 2.0
Pfizer Inc. Pharmaceuticals 1.8
Wells Fargo & Co. Diversified Banks 1.8
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Diversified Financial  
  Services 1.8
Philip Morris    
International Inc. Tobacco 1.6
Top Ten   21.4%
The holdings listed exclude any temporary cash investments and equity index products.

 

Investment Focus

 

1 The expense ratios shown are from the prospectus dated January 28, 2013. For the six months ended March 31, 2013, the annualized
expense ratios were 0.24% for Institutional Shares and 0.17% for Institutional Plus Shares.

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Performance Summary

All of the returns in this report represent past performance, which is not a guarantee of future results that may be achieved by the fund. (Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data cited. For performance data current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at vanguard.com/performance.) Note, too, that both investment returns and principal value can fluctuate widely, so an investor’s shares, when sold, could be worth more or less than their original cost. The returns shown do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or on the sale of fund shares.

Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): May 16, 2006, Through March 31, 2013


Note: For 2013, performance data reflect the six months ended March 31, 2013.

Average Annual Total Returns: Periods Ended March 31, 2013      
 
  Inception One Five Since
  Date Year Years Inception
Institutional Shares 5/16/2006 15.39% 5.81% 5.09%
Institutional Plus Shares 5/15/2006 15.50 5.89 5.15

 

See Financial Highlights for dividend and capital gains information.

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Financial Statements (unaudited)

Statement of Net Assets
As of March 31, 2013

The fund reports a complete list of its holdings in regulatory filings four times in each fiscal year, at the quarter-ends. For the second and fourth fiscal quarters, the lists appear in the fund’s semiannual and annual reports to shareholders. For the first and third fiscal quarters, the fund files the lists with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form N-Q. Shareholders can look up the fund’s Forms N-Q on the SEC’s website at sec.gov. Forms N-Q may also be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room (see the back cover of this report for further information).

      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
Common Stocks (99.7%)1    
Consumer Discretionary (12.1%)  
  Home Depot Inc. 101,975 7,116
  Comcast Corp. Class A 168,200 7,066
  Time Warner Inc. 87,600 5,047
  TJX Cos. Inc. 86,300 4,035
  Time Warner Cable Inc. 38,800 3,727
  Macy’s Inc. 84,300 3,527
* O’Reilly Automotive Inc. 33,100 3,394
  Newell Rubbermaid Inc. 126,300 3,296
  Gap Inc. 91,800 3,250
  Wyndham Worldwide Corp. 49,800 3,211
* PulteGroup Inc. 156,300 3,163
  Whirlpool Corp. 22,600 2,677
* Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.  210,500 2,654
* DIRECTV 36,100 2,044
  News Corp. Class A 60,600 1,850
  Expedia Inc. 26,800 1,608
  Starbucks Corp. 25,600 1,458
  Starwood Hotels & Resorts    
  Worldwide Inc. 18,000 1,147
  Lowe’s Cos. Inc. 30,000 1,138
  McDonald’s Corp. 11,247 1,121
  H&R Block Inc. 36,300 1,068
  Walt Disney Co. 16,879 959
* Amazon.com Inc. 3,500 933
  Harley-Davidson Inc. 11,800 629
  Gannett Co. Inc. 21,200 464
  Comcast Corp. 10,525 417
  Target Corp. 4,300 294
  NIKE Inc. Class B 2,200 130
* priceline.com Inc. 100 69
      67,492
Consumer Staples (10.1%)    
  Philip Morris    
  International Inc. 95,936 8,894
  Procter & Gamble Co. 90,594 6,981
  Costco Wholesale Corp. 42,900 4,552
  PepsiCo Inc. 56,292 4,453
  Wal-Mart Stores Inc. 56,246 4,209
  Kraft Foods Group Inc. 79,766 4,111
  Kroger Co. 114,900 3,808
  Kimberly-Clark Corp. 36,400 3,567
  Coca-Cola Co. 81,880 3,311
  JM Smucker Co. 32,400 3,213
* Dean Foods Co. 169,900 3,080
  Altria Group Inc. 75,200 2,586
  CVS Caremark Corp. 33,900 1,864
  HJ Heinz Co. 12,700 918
  ConAgra Foods Inc. 9,000 322
  Reynolds American Inc. 5,800 258
      56,127
Energy (11.1%)    
  Exxon Mobil Corp. 211,539 19,062
  Chevron Corp. 100,856 11,984
  ConocoPhillips 93,559 5,623
  Phillips 66 70,979 4,966
  Marathon Petroleum Corp. 48,150 4,314
  Valero Energy Corp. 85,300 3,880
  EOG Resources Inc. 27,900 3,573
  Tesoro Corp. 56,200 3,291
  Marathon Oil Corp. 67,500 2,276
  Schlumberger Ltd. 16,125 1,208
  Murphy Oil Corp. 8,000 510
  Hess Corp. 7,000 501
  Ensco plc Class A 7,700 462
  Anadarko Petroleum Corp. 3,400 297
  Noble Energy Inc. 2,200 255
      62,202
Financials (16.0%)    
  Wells Fargo & Co. 271,735 10,052
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. 210,179 9,975
  Bank of America Corp. 655,853 7,988
  Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 36,900 5,430
* American International    
  Group Inc. 131,000 5,086
  Allstate Corp. 82,800 4,063
  Discover Financial Services 88,450 3,966

 

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      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
  State Street Corp. 65,600 3,876
  Aflac Inc. 66,300 3,449
  US Bancorp 97,024 3,292
  Franklin Resources Inc. 21,000 3,167
  Fifth Third Bancorp 175,800 2,867
  Travelers Cos. Inc. 34,000 2,863
* Berkshire Hathaway Inc.    
  Class B 27,205 2,835
  Citigroup Inc. 60,025 2,656
  Ventas Inc. 31,500 2,306
  HCP Inc. 45,500 2,269
  Simon Property Group Inc. 14,300 2,268
  Morgan Stanley 101,200 2,224
  Weyerhaeuser Co. 65,400 2,052
* Berkshire Hathaway Inc.    
  Class A 11 1,719
  Kimco Realty Corp. 57,200 1,281
  Regions Financial Corp. 146,200 1,197
  Bank of New York    
  Mellon Corp. 33,200 929
  Lincoln National Corp. 20,000 652
  Public Storage 3,500 533
  Huntington Bancshares Inc. 22,100 163
  SunTrust Banks Inc. 5,600 161
  Ameriprise Financial Inc. 1,600 118
      89,437
Health Care (11.6%)    
  Pfizer Inc. 348,619 10,061
  Merck & Co. Inc. 180,444 7,981
  Johnson & Johnson 71,746 5,849
  AbbVie Inc. 133,368 5,439
  Eli Lilly & Co. 93,687 5,320
  Abbott Laboratories 139,468 4,926
  Amgen Inc. 46,100 4,726
  Medtronic Inc. 98,700 4,635
  Becton Dickinson and Co. 38,100 3,643
  Zimmer Holdings Inc. 45,000 3,385
* Mylan Inc. 114,000 3,299
  Cigna Corp. 19,600 1,222
  Baxter International Inc. 15,500 1,126
  UnitedHealth Group Inc. 15,004 858
* CareFusion Corp. 20,000 700
  Cardinal Health Inc. 16,000 666
  Allergan Inc. 4,600 514
* Celgene Corp. 4,000 464
      64,814
Industrials (10.6%)    
  General Electric Co. 539,022 12,462
  Union Pacific Corp. 39,900 5,682
  Honeywell International Inc. 72,300 5,448
  Boeing Co. 62,800 5,391
  United Parcel Service Inc.    
  Class B 59,021 5,070
  Raytheon Co. 62,900 3,698
  Illinois Tool Works Inc. 59,600 3,632
  Ingersoll-Rand plc 66,000 3,631
  Northrop Grumman Corp. 48,916 3,431
  Textron Inc. 112,800 3,363
  Lockheed Martin Corp. 21,400 2,066
  FedEx Corp. 13,800 1,355
  3M Co. 12,300 1,308
  Emerson Electric Co. 19,100 1,067
  Dun & Bradstreet Corp. 7,100 594
  Masco Corp. 21,700 439
  Cintas Corp. 4,200 185
  United Technologies Corp. 1,286 120
      58,942
Information Technology (18.0%)  
  Apple Inc. 32,332 14,311
  International Business    
  Machines Corp. 55,340 11,804
  Oracle Corp. 226,388 7,321
  Cisco Systems Inc. 346,415 7,244
  Microsoft Corp. 204,241 5,843
* Google Inc. Class A 6,905 5,483
  Accenture plc Class A 63,700 4,839
  Mastercard Inc. Class A 8,300 4,491
  Texas Instruments Inc. 124,700 4,424
  Motorola Solutions Inc. 58,750 3,762
* Symantec Corp. 152,300 3,759
  Seagate Technology plc 95,700 3,499
* Fiserv Inc. 39,800 3,496
  Western Digital Corp. 69,500 3,495
  Fidelity National Information    
  Services Inc. 86,600 3,431
  Computer Sciences Corp. 67,300 3,313
* LSI Corp. 396,800 2,690
  Intel Corp. 75,653 1,653
  QUALCOMM Inc. 24,457 1,637
  NVIDIA Corp. 119,200 1,528
  Hewlett-Packard Co. 54,250 1,293
  Visa Inc. Class A 2,600 442
* Advanced Micro    
  Devices Inc. 78,200 199
  Intuit Inc. 2,800 184
  Applied Materials Inc. 7,900 107
      100,248
Materials (3.8%)    
  Monsanto Co. 47,200 4,986
  LyondellBasell Industries    
  NV Class A 62,500 3,956
  PPG Industries Inc. 22,614 3,029
  International Paper Co. 62,700 2,920
  CF Industries Holdings Inc. 15,185 2,891
  Eastman Chemical Co. 20,500 1,432
  Ball Corp. 27,700 1,318
  Sherwin-Williams Co. 3,300 557
      21,089

 

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    Market
    Value
  Shares ($000)
Telecommunication Services (3.5%)  
AT&T Inc. 299,935 11,005
Verizon Communications    
Inc. 140,796 6,920
CenturyLink Inc. 43,800 1,539
    19,464
Utilities (2.9%)    
Edison International 68,300 3,437
DTE Energy Co. 48,300 3,301
Pinnacle West Capital Corp.  49,800 2,883
Public Service Enterprise    
Group Inc. 76,200 2,617
CMS Energy Corp. 88,300 2,467
PG&E Corp. 38,200 1,701
    16,406
Total Common Stocks    
(Cost $427,816)   556,221
Temporary Cash Investments (0.3%)1  
Money Market Fund (0.3%)    
2 Vanguard Market    
Liquidity Fund,    
0.147% 1,367,144 1,367
 
  Face  
  Amount  
  ($000)  
U.S. Government and Agency Obligations (0.0%)
3,4 Fannie Mae Discount    
Notes, 0.140%, 5/22/13 200 200
Total Temporary Cash Investments  
(Cost $1,567)   1,567
Total Investments (100.0%)    
(Cost $429,383)   557,788
Other Assets and Liabilities (0.0%)  
Other Assets   2,202
Liabilities   (2,155)
    47
Net Assets (100%)   557,835

 

At March 31, 2013, net assets consisted of:
  Amount
  ($000)
Paid-in Capital 582,915
Undistributed Net Investment Income 2,091
Accumulated Net Realized Losses (155,595)
Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)  
Investment Securities 128,405
Futures Contracts 19
Net Assets 557,835
 
 
Institutional Shares—Net Assets  
Applicable to 484,104 outstanding  
$.001 par value shares of beneficial  
interest (unlimited authorization) 14,610
Net Asset Value Per Share—  
Institutional Shares $30.18
 
 
Institutional Plus Shares—Net Assets  
Applicable to 9,107,349 outstanding  
$.001 par value shares of beneficial  
interest (unlimited authorization) 543,225
Net Asset Value Per Share—  
Institutional Plus Shares $59.65

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 100.0% and 0.0%, respectively, of
net assets.
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 was placed under federal conservatorship in September 2008; since that time, its daily operations have been managed by the
Federal Housing Finance Agency and it receives capital from the U.S. Treasury, as needed to maintain a positive net worth, in exchange
for senior preferred stock.
4 Securities with a value of $100,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open futures contracts.
See accompanying Notes, which are an integral part of the Financial Statements.

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Statement of Operations

  Six Months Ended
  March 31, 2013
  ($000)
Investment Income  
Income  
Dividends 6,364
Interest1 2
Total Income 6,366
Expenses  
The Vanguard Group—Note B  
Investment Advisory Services 230
Management and Administrative—Institutional Shares 10
Management and Administrative—Institutional Plus Shares 168
Marketing and Distribution—Institutional Shares 2
Marketing and Distribution—Institutional Plus Shares 31
Custodian Fees 5
Total Expenses 446
Net Investment Income 5,920
Realized Net Gain (Loss)  
Investment Securities Sold 28,223
Futures Contracts 94
Realized Net Gain (Loss) 28,317
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)  
Investment Securities 20,046
Futures Contracts 28
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) 20,074
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations 54,311
1 Interest income from an affiliated company of the fund was $1,000.

 

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

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Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  Six Months Ended Year Ended
  March 31, September 30,
  2013 2012
  ($000) ($000)
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets    
Operations    
Net Investment Income 5,920 10,050
Realized Net Gain (Loss) 28,317 30,061
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) 20,074 85,517
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations 54,311 125,628
Distributions    
Net Investment Income    
Institutional Shares (313) (271)
Institutional Plus Shares (10,525) (9,009)
Realized Capital Gain    
Institutional Shares
Institutional Plus Shares
Total Distributions (10,838) (9,280)
Capital Share Transactions    
Institutional Shares (1,899) 9
Institutional Plus Shares 3,533 5,674
Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions 1,634 5,683
Total Increase (Decrease) 45,107 122,031
Net Assets    
Beginning of Period 512,728 390,697
End of Period1 557,835 512,728
1 Net Assets—End of Period includes undistributed net investment income of $2,091,000 and $7,009,000.

 

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

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Financial Highlights

Institutional Shares              
  Six Months          
    Ended          
For a Share Outstanding March 31, Year Ended September 30,
Throughout Each Period   2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period $27.83 $21.49 $20.97 $19.47 $22.56 $29.98
Investment Operations              
Net Investment Income   . 311 . 531 . 428 1 . 366 .546 .492
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)            
on Investments   2.609 6.306 . 458 1.505 (2.993) (7.091)
Total from Investment Operations   2.920 6.837 . 886 1.871 (2.447) (6.599)
Distributions              
Dividends from Net Investment Income (. 570) (. 497) (. 366) (. 371) (. 643) (. 430)
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains (.391)
Total Distributions   (. 570) (. 497) (. 366) (. 371) (. 643) (. 821)
Net Asset Value, End of Period   $30.18 $27.83 $21.49 $20.97 $19.47 $22.56
 
Total Return   10.71% 32.32% 4.14% 9.68% -10.25% -22.52%
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data              
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) $15 $15 $12 $95 $106 $135
Ratio of Total Expenses to              
Average Net Assets   0.24% 0.24% 0.24% 0.24% 0.25% 0.20%
Ratio of Net Investment Income to            
Average Net Assets   2.22% 2.10% 1.95% 1.86% 2.33% 1.91%
Portfolio Turnover Rate   60% 64% 67% 61% 80%2 72%
The expense ratio, net income ratio, and turnover rate for the current period have been annualized.
1 Calculated based on average shares outstanding.
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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Financial Highlights

Institutional Plus Shares              
  Six Months          
    Ended          
For a Share Outstanding March 31, Year Ended September 30,
Throughout Each Period   2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period $55.02 $42.48 $41.98 $38.97 $45.15 $60.02
Investment Operations              
Net Investment Income   . 635 1.084 . 9101 .768 1.116 1.025
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)            
on Investments   5.159 12.466 . 906 3.014 (5.980) (14.193)
Total from Investment Operations   5.794 13.550 1.816 3.782 (4.864) (13.168)
Distributions              
Dividends from Net Investment Income (1.164) (1.010) (1.316) (.772) (1.316) (. 920)
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains (.782)
Total Distributions   (1.164) (1.010) (1.316) (.772) (1.316) (1.702)
Net Asset Value, End of Period   $59.65 $55.02 $42.48 $41.98 $38.97 $45.15
 
Total Return   10.76% 32.42% 4.18% 9.78% -10.16% -22.46%
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data              
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) $543 $497 $379 $570 $467 $677
Ratio of Total Expenses to              
Average Net Assets   0.17% 0.17% 0.17% 0.17% 0.17% 0.12%
Ratio of Net Investment Income to            
Average Net Assets   2.29% 2.17% 2.02% 1.93% 2.41% 1.99%
Portfolio Turnover Rate   60% 64% 67% 61% 80%2 72%
The expense ratio, net income ratio, and turnover rate for the current period have been annualized.
1 Calculated based on average shares outstanding.
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 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 offers two classes of shares: Institutional Shares and Institutional Plus Shares. Institutional Shares and Institutional Plus Shares are designed for investors who meet certain administrative, service, and account-size criteria.

A. The following significant accounting policies conform to generally accepted accounting principles for U.S. mutual funds. The fund consistently follows such policies in preparing its financial statements.

1. Security Valuation: Securities are valued as of the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4 p.m., Eastern time) on the valuation date. Equity securities are valued at the latest quoted sales prices or official closing prices taken from the primary market in which each security trades; such securities not traded on the valuation date are valued at the mean of the latest quoted bid and asked prices. Securities for which market quotations are not readily available, or whose values have been 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).

During the six months ended March 31, 2013, the fund’s average investment in future contracts represented less than 1% of net assets, based on quarterly average aggregate settlement values.

3. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken for all open federal income tax years (September 30, 2009–2012), and for the period ended March 31, 2013, and has concluded that no provision for federal income tax is required in the fund’s 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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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 March 31, 2013, the fund had contributed capital of $69,000 to Vanguard (included in Other Assets), representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 0.03% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and officers of Vanguard.

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

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

The following table summarizes the market value of the fund’s investments as of March 31, 2013, based on the inputs used to value them:

  Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
Investments ($000) ($000) ($000)
Common Stocks 556,221
Temporary Cash Investments 1,367 200
Futures Contracts—Assets1 6
Total 557,594 200
1 Represents variation margin on the last day of the reporting period.

 

D. At March 31, 2013, the aggregate settlement value of open futures contracts and the related unrealized appreciation (depreciation) were:

      ($000)
      Aggregate  
    Number of Settlement Unrealized
    Long (Short) Value Appreciation
Futures Contracts Expiration Contracts Long (Short) (Depreciation)
S&P 500 Index June 2013 3 1,172 17
E-mini S&P 500 Index June 2013 5 391 2

 

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 Equity Fund

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’s tax-basis capital gains and losses are determined only at the end of each fiscal year. For tax purposes, at September 30, 2012, the fund had available capital losses totaling $183,929,000 to offset future net capital gains of $71,219,000 through September 30, 2017, and $112,710,000 through September 30, 2018. The fund will use these capital losses to offset net taxable capital gains, if any, realized during the year ending September 30, 2013; should the fund realize net capital losses for the year, the losses will be added to the loss carryforward balance above.

At March 31, 2013, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $429,383,000. Net unrealized appreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $128,405,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $129,787,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $1,382,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.

F. During the six months ended March 31, 2013, the fund purchased $157,242,000 of investment securities and sold $161,029,000 of investment securities, other than temporary cash investments.

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

  Six Months Ended Year Ended
  March 31, 2013 September 30, 2012
  Amount Shares Amount Shares
  ($000) (000) ($000) (000)
Institutional Shares        
Issued 613 22 221 9
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions
Redeemed (2,512) (87) (212) (9)
Net Increase (Decrease) —Institutional Shares (1,899) (65) 9
Institutional Plus Shares        
Issued 2,675 56
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 3,533 66 2,999 66
Redeemed
Net Increase (Decrease) —Institutional Plus Shares 3,533 66 5,674 122

At March 31, 2013, two shareholders were each a record or beneficial owner of 33% or more of the fund’s net assets, with a combined ownership of 97%. If one of these shareholders were to redeem its investment in the fund, the redemption might result in an increase in the fund’s expense ratio, cause the fund to incur higher transaction costs, or lead to the realization of taxable capital gains.

H. In preparing the financial statements as of March 31, 2013, management considered the impact of subsequent events for potential recognition or disclosure in these financial statements.

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Fund Profile
As of March 31, 2013

Share-Class Characteristics  
  Institutional Institutional
  Shares Plus Shares
Ticker Symbol VSBMX VSBPX
Expense Ratio1 0.24% 0.17%
30-Day SEC Yield 1.80% 1.87%

 

Portfolio Characteristics      
      DJ U.S.
      Total
    Russell Market
    3000 FA
  Fund Index Index
Number of Stocks 200 2,942 3,586
Median Market Cap $32.8B $40.4B $40.0B
Price/Earnings Ratio 14.7x 18.0x 18.1x
Price/Book Ratio 2.4x 2.3x 2.3x
Return on Equity 15.5% 16.7% 16.6%
Earnings Growth Rate 10.4% 9.6% 9.6%
Dividend Yield 2.0% 2.0% 2.0%
Foreign Holdings 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Turnover Rate      
(Annualized) 63%
Short-Term Reserves 0.2%

 

Sector Diversification (% of equity exposure)
      DJ U.S.
      Total
    Russell Market
    3000 FA
  Fund Index Index
Consumer Discretionary 12.1% 12.5% 12.4%
Consumer Staples 9.8 9.5 9.5
Energy 9.7 9.9 10.1
Financials 17.5 17.2 17.3
Health Care 11.5 12.3 12.2
Industrials 11.9 11.3 11.1
Information Technology 17.6 17.3 17.4
Materials 3.5 3.9 3.8
Telecommunication      
Services 3.0 2.6 2.6
Utilities 3.4 3.5 3.6

 

Volatility Measures    
    DJ U.S.
    Total
    Market
  Russell 3000 FA
  Index Index
R-Squared 0.99 0.99
Beta 1.02 1.02
These measures show the degree and timing of the fund’s fluctuations compared with the indexes over 36 months.  

 

Ten Largest Holdings (% of total net assets)
Exxon Mobil Corp. Integrated Oil & Gas 2.9%
Apple Inc. Computer Hardware 2.1
General Electric Co. Industrial  
  Conglomerates 1.9
Chevron Corp. Integrated Oil & Gas 1.8
International Business IT Consulting &  
Machines Corp. Other Services 1.8
AT&T Inc. Integrated  
  Telecommunication  
  Services 1.7
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Diversified Financial  
  Services 1.5
Wells Fargo & Co. Diversified Banks 1.5
Pfizer Inc. Pharmaceuticals 1.4
Philip Morris    
International Inc. Tobacco 1.4
Top Ten   18.0%
The holdings listed exclude any temporary cash investments and equity index products.

 

Investment Focus


1 The expense ratios shown are from the prospectus dated January 28, 2013. For the six months ended March 31, 2013, the annualized
expense ratios were 0.24% for Institutional Shares and 0.17% for Institutional Plus Shares.

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Performance Summary

All of the returns in this report represent past performance, which is not a guarantee of future results that may be achieved by the fund. (Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data cited. For performance data current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at vanguard.com/performance.) Note, too, that both investment returns and principal value can fluctuate widely, so an investor’s shares, when sold, could be worth more or less than their original cost. The returns shown do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or on the sale of fund shares.

Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): November 30, 2006, Through March 31, 2013


Note: For 2013, performance data reflect the six months ended March 31, 2013.

Average Annual Total Returns: Periods Ended March 31, 2013      
 
  Inception One Five Since
  Date Year Years Inception
Institutional Shares 11/30/2006 15.79% 6.37% 4.03%
Institutional Plus Shares 5/3/2004 15.86 6.44 6.60

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.

See Financial Highlights for dividend and capital gains information.

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Financial Statements (unaudited)

Statement of Net Assets
As of March 31, 2013

The fund reports a complete list of its holdings in regulatory filings four times in each fiscal year, at the quarter-ends. For the second and fourth fiscal quarters, the lists appear in the fund’s semiannual and annual reports to shareholders. For the first and third fiscal quarters, the fund files the lists with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form N-Q. Shareholders can look up the fund’s Forms N-Q on the SEC’s website at sec.gov. Forms N-Q may also be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room (see the back cover of this report for further information).

      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
Common Stocks (99.7%)1    
Consumer Discretionary (12.1%)  
  Home Depot Inc. 68,400 4,773
  Comcast Corp. Class A 93,791 3,940
  Time Warner Inc. 63,300 3,647
  TJX Cos. Inc. 66,100 3,090
* DIRECTV 52,700 2,983
  Gap Inc. 72,200 2,556
  Macy’s Inc. 59,800 2,502
* PulteGroup Inc. 116,700 2,362
  Brinker International Inc. 60,000 2,259
  PVH Corp. 20,200 2,158
  Belo Corp. Class A 215,000 2,113
  Foot Locker Inc. 61,100 2,092
  Dillard’s Inc. Class A 25,400 1,995
  Wynn Resorts Ltd. 14,400 1,802
  Thor Industries Inc. 48,700 1,792
  Marriott International Inc.    
  Class A 38,400 1,622
  Lowe’s Cos. Inc. 39,600 1,502
  News Corp. Class A 42,900 1,309
  Wyndham Worldwide Corp. 15,800 1,019
  CBS Corp. Class B 20,400 953
* priceline.com Inc. 1,300 894
  Gannett Co. Inc. 38,300 838
  NIKE Inc. Class B 13,000 767
  Starwood Hotels & Resorts    
  Worldwide Inc. 11,900 758
* Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. 59,500 750
  Brunswick Corp. 21,000 719
  Virgin Media Inc. 6,700 328
  Time Warner Cable Inc. 3,200 307
  McDonald’s Corp. 3,011 300
  Walt Disney Co. 3,500 199
* Amazon.com Inc. 700 187
* O’Reilly Automotive Inc. 1,600 164
      52,680
Consumer Staples (9.8%)    
  Philip Morris International Inc. 64,450 5,975
  Procter & Gamble Co. 67,251 5,182
  Costco Wholesale Corp. 31,100 3,300
  Kroger Co. 86,400 2,863
  Wal-Mart Stores Inc. 37,465 2,804
  Ingredion Inc. 35,600 2,575
  JM Smucker Co. 24,200 2,400
  Reynolds American Inc. 48,400 2,153
* Dean Foods Co. 115,400 2,092
  PepsiCo Inc. 25,700 2,033
  Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. 54,300 2,005
  CVS Caremark Corp. 36,300 1,996
* Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. 206,800 1,901
  Coca-Cola Co. 40,980 1,657
  Nu Skin Enterprises Inc.    
  Class A 29,300 1,295
  Kraft Foods Group Inc. 15,300 788
  HJ Heinz Co. 7,600 549
* USANA Health Sciences Inc. 9,700 469
  General Mills Inc. 5,500 271
  Kimberly-Clark Corp. 1,600 157
  Herbalife Ltd. 2,100 79
      42,544
Energy (9.7%)    
  Exxon Mobil Corp. 140,420 12,653
  Chevron Corp. 67,065 7,969
  ConocoPhillips 68,240 4,101
  Phillips 66 51,070 3,573
  Marathon Petroleum Corp. 34,900 3,127
  Valero Energy Corp. 63,500 2,889
  Tesoro Corp. 44,000 2,576
  HollyFrontier Corp. 46,300 2,382
  Diamond Offshore    
  Drilling Inc. 15,800 1,099
  Schlumberger Ltd. 7,800 584
  Occidental Petroleum Corp. 7,240 568
  Murphy Oil Corp. 8,000 510
      42,031

 

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      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
Financials (17.6%)    
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. 140,536 6,670
  Wells Fargo & Co. 179,570 6,642
  Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 27,200 4,002
  US Bancorp 105,850 3,591
  American Express Co. 48,620 3,280
  Travelers Cos. Inc. 36,800 3,098
  State Street Corp. 52,000 3,073
  Allstate Corp. 60,900 2,988
  Discover Financial Services 64,900 2,910
* American International    
  Group Inc. 73,600 2,857
  Fifth Third Bancorp 157,000 2,561
  SunTrust Banks Inc. 87,900 2,532
  Lincoln National Corp. 76,600 2,498
* Berkshire Hathaway Inc.    
  Class B 21,700 2,261
  Bank of America Corp. 157,700 1,921
  Allied World Assurance Co.    
  Holdings AG 20,341 1,886
* American Capital Ltd. 117,900 1,721
* World Acceptance Corp. 19,156 1,645
  HCP Inc. 28,400 1,416
  Ventas Inc. 19,000 1,391
  Weyerhaeuser Co. 41,700 1,309
  Morgan Stanley 59,300 1,303
  General Growth    
  Properties Inc. 56,000 1,113
  Omega Healthcare    
  Investors Inc. 36,500 1,108
  Kimco Realty Corp. 48,700 1,091
  Everest Re Group Ltd. 8,400 1,091
  CBL & Associates    
  Properties Inc. 44,400 1,048
  Lexington Realty Trust 88,700 1,047
  Weingarten Realty Investors 31,500 994
  Brandywine Realty Trust 64,400 956
  Citigroup Inc. 21,400 947
  Nelnet Inc. Class A 27,800 940
* St. Joe Co. 40,700 865
* Realogy Holdings Corp. 16,200 791
  Regions Financial Corp. 94,000 770
  National Retail Properties Inc.  19,800 716
  Prologis Inc. 15,000 600
  Simon Property Group Inc. 2,600 412
  Regency Centers Corp. 5,500 291
* Howard Hughes Corp. 1,600 134
      76,469
Health Care (11.4%)    
  Pfizer Inc. 210,964 6,088
  AbbVie Inc. 97,600 3,980
  Eli Lilly & Co. 65,420 3,715
  Abbott Laboratories 97,500 3,444
  Merck & Co. Inc. 73,683 3,259
  Johnson & Johnson 38,507 3,139
  Becton Dickinson and Co. 29,100 2,782
  Cigna Corp. 43,300 2,701
  Zimmer Holdings Inc. 33,400 2,512
* CareFusion Corp. 69,300 2,425
  ResMed Inc. 50,100 2,323
* Mylan Inc. 79,200 2,292
* Pharmacyclics Inc. 26,200 2,107
* Covance Inc. 26,200 1,947
* Charles River Laboratories    
  International Inc. 42,600 1,886
* Actavis Inc. 19,300 1,778
  Warner Chilcott plc Class A 94,200 1,276
  Omnicare Inc. 20,600 839
  Medtronic Inc. 13,300 625
  Baxter International Inc. 8,400 610
      49,728
Industrials (11.8%)    
  General Electric Co. 353,880 8,182
  Union Pacific Corp. 28,200 4,016
  Boeing Co. 45,900 3,941
  Chicago Bridge & Iron    
  Co. NV 44,500 2,763
  Ingersoll-Rand plc 50,100 2,756
  Raytheon Co. 46,500 2,734
  Northrop Grumman Corp. 38,530 2,703
  Lockheed Martin Corp. 27,200 2,625
  Textron Inc. 85,900 2,561
  Masco Corp. 125,700 2,545
* Delta Air Lines Inc. 148,100 2,445
* Alaska Air Group Inc. 32,300 2,066
* Terex Corp. 55,900 1,924
  Honeywell International Inc. 22,300 1,680
  United Parcel Service Inc.    
  Class B 17,300 1,486
  Avery Dennison Corp. 29,100 1,253
  Dun & Bradstreet Corp. 14,900 1,246
  Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc. 17,500 948
* US Airways Group Inc. 45,700 776
  Deluxe Corp. 18,300 758
  3M Co. 6,000 638
  Cintas Corp. 13,200 583
  L-3 Communications    
  Holdings Inc. 5,200 421
  Illinois Tool Works Inc. 4,300 262
  Emerson Electric Co. 2,400 134
  FedEx Corp. 1,100 108
      51,554
Information Technology (17.5%)  
  Apple Inc. 21,020 9,304
  International Business    
  Machines Corp. 37,342 7,965
  Oracle Corp. 154,348 4,992
  Cisco Systems Inc. 179,350 3,750
  Mastercard Inc. Class A 6,400 3,463

 

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      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
  Microsoft Corp. 120,597 3,450
  Accenture plc Class A 45,300 3,441
* Google Inc. Class A 3,600 2,859
  Motorola Solutions Inc. 44,200 2,830
* Symantec Corp. 112,800 2,784
  Hewlett-Packard Co. 114,100 2,720
  Western Digital Corp. 52,900 2,660
  Computer Sciences Corp. 50,800 2,501
* Unisys Corp. 97,500 2,218
* Cadence Design    
  Systems Inc. 158,300 2,205
* Alliance Data Systems Corp. 12,900 2,088
  Intel Corp. 93,990 2,054
* Gartner Inc. 37,400 2,035
  Anixter International Inc. 27,400 1,916
  Heartland Payment    
  Systems Inc. 50,900 1,678
* LSI Corp. 226,700 1,537
* NCR Corp. 54,200 1,494
  Texas Instruments Inc. 40,000 1,419
* Freescale    
  Semiconductor Ltd. 76,000 1,132
  NVIDIA Corp. 85,400 1,095
* Brocade Communications    
  Systems Inc. 148,800 859
  Harris Corp. 17,000 788
  QUALCOMM Inc. 9,100 609
  MAXIMUS Inc. 3,400 272
* Zebra Technologies Corp. 4,400 207
      76,325
Materials (3.4%)    
  Monsanto Co. 33,900 3,581
  Sherwin-Williams Co. 15,500 2,618
  PPG Industries Inc. 19,250 2,578
  CF Industries Holdings Inc. 11,250 2,142
  Huntsman Corp. 98,600 1,833
  LyondellBasell Industries    
  NV Class A 13,800 873
  Westlake Chemical Corp. 8,800 823
  Axiall Corp. 9,442 587
      15,035
Telecommunication Services (3.0%)  
  AT&T Inc. 204,429 7,501
  Verizon Communications    
  Inc. 111,057 5,458
      12,959
Utilities (3.4%)    
  Public Service Enterprise    
  Group Inc. 75,700 2,600
  Edison International 50,500 2,541
  PG&E Corp. 56,900 2,534
  DTE Energy Co. 35,700 2,440
  PNM Resources Inc. 90,100 2,098
  Pinnacle West Capital Corp.  13,800 799
  American Water Works    
  Co. Inc. 17,600 729
  Ameren Corp. 18,900 662
  Wisconsin Energy Corp. 7,700 330
      14,733
Total Common Stocks    
(Cost $342,790)   434,058
Temporary Cash Investments (0.4%)1  
Money Market Fund (0.4%)    
2 Vanguard Market    
  Liquidity Fund,    
  0.147% 1,715,455 1,715
 
    Face  
    Amount  
    ($000)  
U.S. Government and Agency Obligations (0.0%)
3,4 Fannie Mae Discount    
  Notes, 0.120%, 6/5/13 100 100
4,5 Federal Home Loan    
  Bank Discount Notes,    
  0.110%, 5/15/13 100 100
      200
Total Temporary Cash Investments  
(Cost $1,915)   1,915
Total Investments (100.1%)    
(Cost $344,705)   435,973
Other Assets and Liabilities (-0.1%)  
Other Assets   733
Liabilities   (1,367)
      (634)
Net Assets (100%)   435,339

 

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At March 31, 2013, net assets consisted of:  
  Amount
  ($000)
Paid-in Capital 355,713
Undistributed Net Investment Income 1,492
Accumulated Net Realized Losses (13,147)
Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)  
Investment Securities 91,268
Futures Contracts 13
Net Assets 435,339
 
 
Institutional Shares—Net Assets  
Applicable to 473,969 outstanding  
$.001 par value shares of beneficial  
interest (unlimited authorization) 14,171
Net Asset Value Per Share—  
Institutional Shares $29.90
 
 
Institutional Plus Shares—Net Assets  
Applicable to 7,050,152 outstanding  
$.001 par value shares of beneficial  
interest (unlimited authorization) 421,168
Net Asset Value Per Share—  
Institutional Plus Shares $59.74

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 100.0% and 0.1%, respectively, of
net assets.
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 was placed under federal conservatorship in September 2008; since that time, its daily operations have been managed by the
Federal Housing Finance Agency and it receives capital from the U.S. Treasury, as needed to maintain a positive net worth, in exchange
for senior preferred stock.
4 Securities with a value of $200,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open futures contracts.
5 The issuer operates under a congressional charter; its securities are generally neither guaranteed by the U.S. Treasury nor backed by the
full faith and credit of the U.S. government.
See accompanying Notes, which are an integral part of the Financial Statements.

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Statement of Operations

  Six Months Ended
  March 31, 2013
  ($000)
Investment Income  
Income  
Dividends 4,615
Interest1 2
Security Lending 9
Total Income 4,626
Expenses  
The Vanguard Group—Note B  
Investment Advisory Services 197
Management and Administrative—Institutional Shares 8
Management and Administrative—Institutional Plus Shares 108
Marketing and Distribution—Institutional Shares
Marketing and Distribution—Institutional Plus Shares 24
Custodian Fees 4
Total Expenses 341
Net Investment Income 4,285
Realized Net Gain (Loss)  
Investment Securities Sold 23,819
Futures Contracts 189
Realized Net Gain (Loss) 24,008
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)  
Investment Securities 20,931
Futures Contracts 33
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) 20,964
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations 49,257
1 Interest income from an affiliated company of the fund was $2,000.

 

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

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Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  Six Months Ended Year Ended
  March 31, September 30,
  2013 2012
  ($000) ($000)
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets    
Operations    
Net Investment Income 4,285 7,973
Realized Net Gain (Loss) 24,008 25,899
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) 20,964 58,865
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations 49,257 92,737
Distributions    
Net Investment Income    
Institutional Shares (156) (119)
Institutional Plus Shares (8,303) (6,371)
Realized Capital Gain    
Institutional Shares
Institutional Plus Shares
Total Distributions (8,459) (6,490)
Capital Share Transactions    
Institutional Shares 5,306 119
Institutional Plus Shares 2,609 4,615
Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions 7,915 4,734
Total Increase (Decrease) 48,713 90,981
Net Assets    
Beginning of Period 386,626 295,645
End of Period1 435,339 386,626
1 Net Assets—End of Period includes undistributed net investment income of $1,492,000 and $5,666,000.

 

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

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Financial Highlights

Institutional Shares              
  Six Months          
    Ended          
For a Share Outstanding March 31, Year Ended September 30,
Throughout Each Period   2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period $27.10 $21.03 $20.70 $18.99 $21.53 $28.67
Investment Operations              
Net Investment Income   . 290 . 544 . 3851 .376 .3521 .402
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)            
on Investments   3.085 5.973 . 338 1.672 (2.500) (6.833)
Total from Investment Operations   3.375 6.517 .723 2.048 (2.148) (6.431)
Distributions              
Dividends from Net Investment Income (. 575) (. 447) (. 393) (. 338) (. 392) (. 280)
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains (. 429)
Total Distributions   (. 575) (. 447) (. 393) (. 338) (. 392) (.709)
Net Asset Value, End of Period   $29.90 $27.10 $21.03 $20.70 $18.99 $21.53
 
Total Return   12.71% 31.43% 3.37% 10.88% -9.67% -22.95%
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data              
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) $14 $7 $6 $5 $4 $4
Ratio of Total Expenses to              
Average Net Assets   0.24% 0.24% 0.24% 0.24% 0.25% 0.20%
Ratio of Net Investment Income to            
Average Net Assets   2.11% 2.19% 1.64% 1.91% 2.15% 1.72%
Portfolio Turnover Rate   63% 58% 56% 52% 62% 70%
The expense ratio, net income ratio, and turnover rate for the current period have been annualized.
1 Calculated based on average shares outstanding.

 

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

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Financial Highlights

Institutional Plus Shares              
  Six Months          
    Ended          
For a Share Outstanding March 31, Year Ended September 30,
Throughout Each Period   2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period $54.17 $42.02 $41.36 $37.94 $43.07 $57.39
Investment Operations              
Net Investment Income   . 597 1.122 .7961 .778 .7251 .873
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)            
on Investments   6.159 11.951 . 672 3.343 (5.006) (13.714)
Total from Investment Operations   6.756 13.073 1.468 4.121 (4.281) (12.841)
Distributions              
Dividends from Net Investment Income (1.186) (. 923) (. 808) (.701) (. 849) (. 621)
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains (.858)
Total Distributions   (1.186) (. 923) (. 808) (.701) (. 849) (1.479)
Net Asset Value, End of Period   $59.74 $54.17 $42.02 $41.36 $37.94 $43.07
 
Total Return   12.74% 31.56% 3.43% 10.96% -9.60% -22.91%
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data              
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) $421 $379 $290 $304 $275 $248
Ratio of Total Expenses to              
Average Net Assets   0.17% 0.17% 0.17% 0.17% 0.17% 0.12%
Ratio of Net Investment Income to            
Average Net Assets   2.18% 2.26% 1.71% 1.98% 2.23% 1.80%
Portfolio Turnover Rate   63% 58% 56% 52% 62% 70%
The expense ratio, net income ratio, and turnover rate for the current period have been annualized.
1 Calculated based on average shares outstanding.

 

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 offers two classes of shares: Institutional Shares and Institutional Plus Shares. Institutional Shares and Institutional Plus Shares are designed for investors who meet certain administrative, service, and account-size criteria.

A. The following significant accounting policies conform to generally accepted accounting principles for U.S. mutual funds. The fund consistently follows such policies in preparing its financial statements.

1. Security Valuation: Securities are valued as of the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4 p.m., Eastern time) on the valuation date. Equity securities are valued at the latest quoted sales prices or official closing prices taken from the primary market in which each security trades; such securities not traded on the valuation date are valued at the mean of the latest quoted bid and asked prices. Securities for which market quotations are not readily available, or whose values have been 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).

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

3. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken for all open federal income tax years (September 30, 2009–2012), and for the period ended March 31, 2013, and has concluded that no provision for federal income tax is required in the fund’s 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. Daily market fluctuations could cause the value of loaned securities to be more or less than the value of the collateral received. When this occurs, the collateral is adjusted on the next business day. The fund invests cash collateral received in Vanguard Market

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Liquidity Fund, and records a liability for the return of the collateral, during the period the securities are on loan. Security lending income represents fees charged to borrowers plus income earned on investing cash collateral, less expenses associated with the loan.

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 March 31, 2013, the fund had contributed capital of $54,000 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. Various inputs may be used to determine the value of the fund’s investments. These inputs are summarized in three broad levels for financial statement purposes. The inputs or methodologies used to value securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.

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

The following table summarizes the market value of the fund’s investments as of March 31, 2013, based on the inputs used to value them:

  Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
Investments ($000) ($000) ($000)
Common Stocks 434,058
Temporary Cash Investments 1,715 200
Futures Contracts—Assets1 5
Total 435,778 200
1 Represents variation margin on the last day of the reporting period.

 

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D. At March 31, 2013, the aggregate settlement value of open futures contracts and the related unrealized appreciation (depreciation) were:

      ($000)
      Aggregate  
    Number of Settlement Unrealized
    Long (Short) Value Appreciation
Futures Contracts Expiration Contracts Long (Short) (Depreciation)
E-mini S&P 500 Index June 2013 16 1,250 13

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

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’s tax-basis capital gains and losses are determined only at the end of each fiscal year. For tax purposes, at September 30, 2012, the fund had available capital losses totaling $37,168,000 to offset future net capital gains through September 30, 2018. The fund will use these capital losses to offset net taxable capital gains, if any, realized during the year ending September 30, 2013; should the fund realize net capital losses for the year, the losses will be added to the loss carryforward balance above.

At March 31, 2013, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $344,705,000. Net unrealized appreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $91,268,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $94,478,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $3,210,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.

F. During the six months ended March 31, 2013, the fund purchased $130,910,000 of investment securities and sold $126,357,000 of investment securities, other than temporary cash investments.

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

  Six Months Ended Year Ended
  March 31, 2013 September 30, 2012
  Amount Shares Amount Shares
  ($000) (000) ($000) (000)
Institutional Shares        
Issued 5,150 197
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 156 6 119 5
Redeemed
Net Increase (Decrease) —Institutional Shares 5,306 203 119 5
Institutional Plus Shares        
Issued 2,634 55
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 2,609 49 1,981 44
Redeemed
Net Increase (Decrease) —Institutional Plus Shares 2,609 49 4,615 99

 

At March 31, 2013, one shareholder was the record or beneficial owner of 88% of the fund’s net assets. If the shareholder were to redeem its investment in the fund, the redemption might result in an increase in the fund’s expense ratio, cause the fund to incur higher transaction costs, or lead to the realization of taxable capital gains.

H. In preparing the financial statements as of March 31, 2013, management considered the impact of subsequent events for potential recognition or disclosure in these financial statements.

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About Your Fund’s Expenses

As a shareholder of the fund, you incur ongoing costs, which include costs for portfolio management, administrative services, and shareholder reports (like this one), among others. Operating expenses, which are deducted from a fund’s gross income, directly reduce the investment return of the fund.

A fund’s expenses are expressed as a percentage of its average net assets. This figure is known as the expense ratio. The following examples are intended to help you understand the ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in your fund and to compare these costs with those of other mutual funds. The examples are based on an investment of $1,000 made at the beginning of the period shown and held for the entire period.

The accompanying table illustrates your fund’s costs in two ways:

Based on actual fund return. This section helps you to estimate the actual expenses that you paid over the period. The ”Ending Account Value“ shown is derived from the fund‘s actual return, and the third column shows the dollar amount that would have been paid by an investor who started with $1,000 in the fund. You may use the information here, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period.

To do so, simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number given for your fund under the heading ”Expenses Paid During Period.“

Based on hypothetical 5% yearly return. This section is intended to help you compare your fund‘s costs with those of other mutual funds. It assumes that the fund had a yearly return of 5% before expenses, but that the expense ratio is unchanged. In this case—because the return used is not the fund’s actual return—the results do not apply to your investment. The example is useful in making comparisons because the Securities and Exchange Commission requires all mutual funds to calculate expenses based on a 5% return. You can assess your fund’s costs by comparing this hypothetical example with the hypothetical examples that appear in shareholder reports of other funds.

Note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight and help you compare ongoing costs only and do not reflect transaction costs incurred by the fund for buying and selling securities. Further, the expenses do not include any purchase, redemption, or account service fees described in the fund prospectus. If such fees were applied to your account, your costs would be higher. Your fund does not carry a “sales load.”

The calculations assume no shares were bought or sold during the period. Your actual costs may have been higher or lower, depending on the amount of your investment and the timing of any purchases or redemptions.

You can find more information about the fund’s expenses, including annual expense ratios, in the Financial Statements section of this report. For additional information on operating expenses and other shareholder costs, please refer to your fund’s current prospectus.

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Six Months Ended March 31, 2013      
  Beginning Ending Expenses
  Account Value Account Value Paid During
  9/30/2012 3/31/2013 Period
Based on Actual Fund Return      
Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund      
Institutional Shares $1,000.00 $1,107.09 $1.26
Institutional Plus Shares 1,000.00 1,107.55 0.89
Structured Broad Market Fund      
Institutional Shares $1,000.00 $1,127.14 $1.27
Institutional Plus Shares 1,000.00 1,127.40 0.90
Based on Hypothetical 5% Yearly Return      
Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund      
Institutional Shares $1,000.00 $1,023.73 $1.21
Institutional Plus Shares 1,000.00 1,024.08 0.86
Structured Broad Market Fund      
Institutional Shares $1,000.00 $1,023.73 $1.21
Institutional Plus Shares 1,000.00 1,024.08 0.86

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, 0.24% for Institutional Shares and 0.17% for Institutional Plus Shares; for the Structured
Broad Market Fund, 0.24% for Institutional Shares and 0.17% 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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Trustees Approve Advisory Arrangement

The board of trustees of Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Equity and Structured Broad Market Funds has renewed the funds’ investment advisory arrangement with The Vanguard Group, Inc. (Vanguard). Vanguard—through its Equity Investment Group—serves as investment advisor to the funds. The board determined that continuing the funds’ internalized management structure was in the best interests of the funds and their shareholders.

The board based its decision upon an evaluation of the advisor’s investment staff, portfolio management process, and performance. The trustees considered the factors discussed below, among others. However, no single factor determined whether the board approved the arrangement. 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 each fund’s investment management services since its inception, and took into account the organizational depth and stability of the advisor. The board noted that Vanguard has been managing investments for more than three decades. The Equity Investment Group adheres to a sound, disciplined investment management process; the team has considerable experience, stability, and depth.

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

Investment performance

The board considered the performance of the funds since their inceptions, including any periods of outperformance or underperformance relative to a benchmark index and peer group. The board concluded that the performance was such that the advisory arrangement should continue. Information about each fund’s most recent performance can be found in the Performance Summary pages of this report.

Cost

The board concluded that the funds’ expense ratios were well below the average expense ratios charged by funds in their respective peer groups and that the funds’ advisory fee rates were also well below their peer-group averages. Information about the funds’ expenses appears in the About Your Fund’s Expenses section of this report as well as in the Financial Statements sections.

The board does not conduct a profitability analysis of Vanguard, because of Vanguard’s unique “at-cost” structure. Unlike most other mutual fund management companies, Vanguard is owned by the funds it oversees, and produces “profits” only in the form of reduced expenses for fund shareholders.

The benefit of economies of scale

The board concluded that the funds’ at-cost arrangement with Vanguard ensures that the funds will realize economies of scale as they grow, with the cost to shareholders declining as fund assets increase.

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

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Glossary

30-Day SEC Yield. A fund’s 30-day SEC yield is derived using a formula specified by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Under the formula, data related to the fund’s security holdings in the previous 30 days are used to calculate the fund’s hypothetical net income for that period, which is then annualized and divided by the fund’s estimated average net assets over the calculation period. For the purposes of this calculation, a security’s income is based on its current market yield to maturity (for bonds), its actual income (for asset-backed securities), or its projected dividend yield (for stocks). Because the SEC yield represents hypothetical annualized income, it will differ—at times significantly—from the fund’s actual experience. As a result, the fund’s income distributions may be higher or lower than implied by the SEC yield.

Beta. A measure of the magnitude of a fund’s past share-price fluctuations in relation to the ups and downs of a given market index. The index is assigned a beta of 1.00. Compared with a given index, a fund with a beta of 1.20 typically would have seen its share price rise or fall by 12% when the index rose or fell by 10%. For this report, beta is based on returns over the past 36 months for both the fund and the index. Note that a fund’s beta should be reviewed in conjunction with its R-squared (see definition). The lower the R-squared, the less correlation there is between the fund and the index, and the less reliable beta is as an indicator of volatility.

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

Earnings Growth Rate. The average annual rate of growth in earnings over the past five years for the stocks now in a fund.

Equity Exposure. A measure that reflects a fund’s investments in stocks and stock futures. Any holdings in short-term reserves are excluded.

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

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

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.

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R-Squared. A measure of how much of a fund’s past returns can be explained by the returns from the market in general, as measured by a given index. If a fund’s total returns were precisely synchronized with an index’s returns, its R-squared would be 1.00. If the fund’s returns bore no relationship to the index’s returns, its R-squared would be 0. For this report, R-squared is based on returns over the past 36 months for both the fund and the index.

Return on Equity. The annual average rate of return generated by a company during the past five years for each dollar of shareholder’s equity (net income divided by shareholder’s equity). For a fund, the weighted average return on equity for the companies whose stocks it holds.

Short-Term Reserves. The percentage of a fund invested in highly liquid, short-term securities that can be readily converted to cash.

Turnover Rate. An indication of the fund’s trading activity. Funds with high turnover rates incur higher transaction costs and may be more likely to distribute capital gains (which may be taxable to investors). The turnover rate excludes in-kind transactions, which have minimal impact on costs.

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The People Who Govern Your Fund

The trustees of your mutual fund are there to see that the fund is operated and managed in your best interests since, as a shareholder, you are a part owner of the fund. Your fund’s trustees also serve on the board of directors of The Vanguard Group, Inc., which is owned by the Vanguard funds and provides services to them on an at-cost basis.

A majority of Vanguard’s board members are independent, meaning that they have no affiliation with Vanguard or the funds they oversee, apart from the sizable personal investments they have made as private individuals. The independent board members have distinguished backgrounds in business, academia, and public service. Each of the trustees and executive officers oversees 180 Vanguard funds.

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

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

 


 

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

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


 

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Item 2: Code of Ethics.

Not Applicable.

Item 3: Audit Committee Financial Expert.

Not Applicable.

Item 4: Principal Accountant Fees and Services.

Not Applicable.

Item 5: Audit Committee of Listed Registrants.

Not Applicable.

Item 6: Investments.

Not Applicable.

Item 7: Disclosure of Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures for Closed-End Management
Investment Companies.

Not Applicable.

Item 8: Portfolio Managers of Closed-End Management Investment Companies.

Not Applicable.

Item 9: Purchase of Equity Securities by Closed-End Management Investment Company and
Affiliated Purchasers.

Not Applicable.

Item 10: Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

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) 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: /s/ F. WILLIAM MCNABB III*
F. WILLIAM MCNABB III 
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER 
 
Date: May 17, 2013

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

  VANGUARD QUANTITATIVE FUNDS
 
BY: /s/ F. WILLIAM MCNABB III*
F. WILLIAM MCNABB III 
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER 

 

Date: May 17, 2013

 

 

VANGUARD QUANTITATIVE FUNDS
 
BY: /s/ THOMAS J. HIGGINS*
  THOMAS J. HIGGINS
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER 

 

Date: May 17, 2013

 

* By: /s/ Heidi Stam

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