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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, 2015 – March 31, 2016

 

Item 1: Reports to Shareholders

 



Semiannual Report | March 31, 2016

Vanguard Growth and Income Fund


 

Vanguard’s Principles for Investing Success

We want to give you the best chance of investment success. These principles, grounded in Vanguard’s research and experience, can put you on the right path.

Goals. Create clear, appropriate investment goals.

Balance. Develop a suitable asset allocation using broadly diversified funds. Cost. Minimize cost.

Discipline. Maintain perspective and long-term discipline.

A single theme unites these principles: Focus on the things you can control.

We believe there is no wiser course for any investor.

Contents  
Your Fund’s Total Returns. 1
Chairman’s Letter. 2
Advisors’ Report. 7
Fund Profile. 11
Performance Summary. 12
Financial Statements. 13
About Your Fund’s Expenses. 33
Glossary. 35

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: Pictured is a sailing block on the Brilliant, a 1932 schooner docked in Mystic, Connecticut. A type of pulley, the
sailing block helps coordinate the setting of the sails. At Vanguard, the intricate coordination of technology and people allows
us to help millions of clients around the world reach their financial goals.


 

Your Fund’s Total Returns

Six Months Ended March 31, 2016  
  Total
  Returns
Vanguard Growth and Income Fund  
Investor Shares 8.07%
Admiral™ Shares 8.12
S&P 500 Index 8.49
Large-Cap Core Funds Average 6.23

Large-Cap Core Funds Average: Derived from data provided by Lipper, a Thomson Reuters Company.
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, 2015, Through March 31, 2016

      Distributions Per Share
  Starting Ending Income Capital
  Share Price Share Price Dividends Gains
Vanguard Growth and Income Fund        
Investor Shares $39.55 $40.09 $0.388 $2.265
Admiral Shares 64.57 65.45 0.668 3.697

 

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Chairman’s Letter

Dear Shareholder,

Despite a resurgence of volatility early in the second half of the period, U.S. stocks produced solid gains for the six months ended March 31, 2016. Stocks of larger-capitalization companies generally outpaced those of smaller firms.

Vanguard Growth and Income Fund, which focuses on mid- and large-cap stocks, returned about 8% for the period. It finished behind its benchmark, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, but ahead of the average return of its peers.

The fund posted gains in all ten industry sectors, with stocks of information technology, consumer staples, and industrials companies adding most to returns. However, the fund’s holdings in some of the top-performing sectors failed to keep pace with their counterparts in the index.

Stocks charted an uneven course en route to a favorable outcome

The broad U.S. stock market returned about 7% over the six months. The period began and ended strongly, with fluctuations in the middle as China’s economic slowdown and falling oil and commodity prices worried investors.

Stocks rallied in March as investors again seemed encouraged by news about monetary policy. The Federal Reserve indicated, after a mid-March meeting, that it would raise interest rates fewer times in 2016 than previously anticipated. And central

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bankers in Europe and Asia kept up stimulus measures to combat weak growth and low inflation.

International stocks returned about 3% for the period after surging more than 8% in March. Stocks from emerging markets and from developed markets of the Pacific region outperformed European stocks, which were nearly flat.

Bonds produced gains following a subpar start

After posting weak results for the first three months of the period, bonds managed solid gains in the final three. The broad U.S. taxable bond market returned 2.44% for the fiscal half year.

With stocks volatile and the Fed proceeding cautiously with rate hikes, bonds proved attractive. The yield of the 10-year U.S. Treasury note closed at 1.77% at the end of March, down from 2.05% six months earlier. (Bond prices and yields move in opposite directions.)

Returns for money market funds and savings accounts remained limited by the Fed’s target rate of 0.25%–0.5%—still low despite rising a quarter percentage point in December.

International bond markets (as measured by the Barclays Global Aggregate Index ex USD) returned 6.90%. International bonds got a boost as foreign currencies strengthened against the dollar, a turn-about from the trend of recent years.

Market Barometer      
 
  Total Returns
  Periods Ended March 31, 2016
  Six One Five Years
  Months Year (Annualized)
Stocks      
Russell 1000 Index (Large-caps) 7.75% 0.50% 11.35%
Russell 2000 Index (Small-caps) 2.02 -9.76 7.20
Russell 3000 Index (Broad U.S. market) 7.30 -0.34 11.01
FTSE All-World ex US Index (International) 3.09 -8.53 0.70
 
Bonds      
Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (Broad taxable market) 2.44% 1.96% 3.78%
Barclays Municipal Bond Index (Broad tax-exempt market) 3.20 3.98 5.59
Citigroup Three-Month U.S. Treasury Bill Index 0.06 0.08 0.04
 
CPI      
Consumer Price Index 0.08% 0.85% 1.28%

 

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Even without this currency benefit, however, international bond returns were solidly positive.

The fund delivered solid gains despite trailing its benchmark

The Growth and Income Fund provides broad exposure to the large- and mid-cap segments of the U.S. stock market. Each of the fund’s three advisors uses its own quantitative approach to screen stocks based on fundamental data such as earnings growth prospects and balance-sheet quality. All share the goal of outpacing the fund’s benchmark over the long term without taking on significant additional risk.

As I mentioned earlier in this letter, the fund produced positive results in all ten sectors for the most recent six months, with information technology, consumer staples, and industrials contributing most to overall performance. Together, the fund’s holdings in these three sectors accounted for almost 5 percentage points of its total return.

The fund’s underperformance relative to its benchmark can be attributed to its smaller returns in a handful of sectors. Although they notched impressive returns, the fund’s holdings in information technology and industrials failed to keep pace with their counterparts in the index. This was also true of energy, health care, and utilities.

Expense Ratios      
Your Fund Compared With Its Peer Group      
  Investor Admiral Peer Group
  Shares Shares Average
Growth and Income Fund 0.34% 0.23% 1.11%

The fund expense ratios shown are from the prospectus dated January 26, 2016, and represent estimated costs for the current fiscal year. For
the six months ended March 31, 2016, the fund’s annualized expense ratios were 0.32% for Investor Shares and 0.21% for Admiral Shares.
The peer-group expense ratio is derived from data provided by Lipper, a Thomson Reuters Company, and captures information through
year-end 2015.

Peer group: Large-Cap Core Funds.

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Financials, which is one of the largest sectors, was also a relatively bright spot, as the fund’s holdings in this sector outpaced their benchmark counterparts by a wide margin. The fund also had a stronger showing than its benchmark in the lightly held materials sector.

For more about the advisors’ strategy and the Growth and Income Fund’s positioning during the six months, please see the Advisors’ Report that follows this letter.

Vanguard’s growth translates into lower costs for you
 
Research indicates that lower-cost investments have tended to outperform higher-cost ones.
So it’s little wonder that funds with lower expense ratios—including those at Vanguard—have
dominated the industry’s cash inflows in recent years.
 
Vanguard has long been a low-cost leader, with expenses well below those of many other
investment management companies. That cost difference remains a powerful advantage for
Vanguard clients. Why? Because a lower expense ratio allows a fund to pass along a greater
share of its returns to its investors.
 
What’s more, as you can see in the chart below, we’ve been able to lower our costs continually
as our assets under management have grown. Our steady growth has not been an explicit
business objective. Rather, we focus on putting our clients’ interests first at all times, and
giving them the best chance for investment success. But economies of scale—the cost
efficiencies that come with our growth—have allowed us to keep lowering our fund costs,
even as we invest in our people and technology.
 
The benefit of economies of scale

Note: Data are for U.S.-based Vanguard funds only.
Source: Vanguard.

 

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Consider rebalancing to manage your risk

Let’s say you’ve taken the time to carefully create an appropriate asset allocation for your investment portfolio. Your efforts have produced a diversified mix of stock, bond, and money market funds tailored to your goals, time horizon, and risk tolerance.

But what should you do when your portfolio drifts from its original asset allocation as the financial markets rise or fall? Consider rebalancing to bring it back to the proper mix.

Just one year of outsized returns can throw your allocation out of whack. Take 2013 as an example. That year, the broad stock market (as measured by the Russell 3000 Index) returned 33.55% and the broad taxable bond market (as measured by the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index) returned –2.02%. A hypothetical portfolio that tracked the broad domestic market indexes and started the year with 60% stocks and 40% bonds would have ended with a more aggressive mix of 67% stocks and 33% bonds.

Rebalancing to bring your portfolio back to its original targets would require you to shift assets away from areas that have been performing well toward those that have been falling behind. That isn’t easy or intuitive. It’s a way to minimize risk rather than maximize returns and to stick with your investment plan through different types of markets. (You can read more about our approach in Best Practices for Portfolio Rebalancing at vanguard.com/research.)

It’s not necessary to check your portfolio every day or every month, much less rebalance it that frequently. It may be more appropriate to monitor it annually or semiannually and rebalance when your allocation swings 5 percentage points or more from its target.

It’s important, of course, to be aware of the tax implications. You’ll want to consult with your tax advisor, but generally speaking, it may be a good idea to make any asset changes within a tax-advantaged retirement account or to direct new cash flows into the underweighted asset class.

However you go about it, keeping your asset allocation from drifting too far off target can help you stay on track with the investment plan you’ve crafted to meet your financial goals.

As always, thank you for investing with Vanguard.

Sincerely,


F. William McNabb III
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
April 12, 2016

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Advisors’ Report

Vanguard Growth and Income Fund’s Investor Shares returned 8.07% for the six months ended March 31, 2016. The Admiral Shares returned 8.12%. The S&P 500 Index returned 8.49%, and the average return of large-capitalization core funds was 6.23%.

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, 2016.

Vanguard Growth and Income Fund Investment Advisors
 
  Fund Assets Managed  
Investment Advisor % $ Million Investment Strategy
Los Angeles Capital 33 2,049 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.
D. E. Shaw Investment 33 2,042 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.
Vanguard Quantitative Equity 33 2,040 Employs a quantitative fundamental management
Group     approach, using models that assess valuation, growth
      prospects, management decisions, market sentiment,
      and earnings and balance-sheet quality of companies
      as compared with their peers.
Cash Investments 1 129 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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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 an 8.49% return for the six months ended March 31, 2016, as share prices recovered from January’s lows. Although falling equity volatility and rising energy prices eased credit concerns, investors remained concerned that earnings weakness could broaden outside of the energy and materials sectors.

The best-performing stocks over the six months were those with larger market capitalization and higher dividend yields. Stocks of companies with a large percentage of revenues outside the United States also performed well. These themes were driven by falling bond yields and a recent reversal in dollar strength. The high-yielding telecommunication services and utilities sectors outperformed and the internet subsector also posted strong gains. The biotechnology and financials segments lagged, with banks especially weak as low interest rates continued to impact net interest margins.

Over the six months, the portfolio maintained a bias towards lower-volatility stocks with strong analyst sentiment that contributed positively to returns. In addition, the portfolio’s tilt toward yield added value as investors sought stocks with higher payout ratios. Its bias toward

smaller-cap stocks and its underweighting of stocks with foreign revenues modestly detracted from results. In terms of sectors, lower exposure to utilities detracted, while overweighting consumer staples and materials contributed to returns.

Although the market continues to favor companies with strong profit margins, value-linked factors such as stronger earnings yield and stronger dividend yield are increasingly attractive. Investors are still penalizing volatile assets, along with riskier factors such as leverage and distress. The portfolio is tilted away from higher-growth segments of the market such as biotechnology, internet, and retail, and is tilted towards consumer staples.

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

Portfolio Managers:

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

Philip Kearns, Ph.D., Managing Director

The S&P 500 Index fluctuated during the six months, but ended the period with a return of 8.5% after a strong rally in the final six weeks. After much anticipation, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates in mid-December. Possibly because it had been telegraphed well ahead of time, the move seemed to have little effect on equity markets. The price of crude oil fell during the period but showed some signs of life at the tail end; the oil component of the S&P GSCI Commodity Index, for example, dropped 40% through mid-February but finished down only 15%.

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Global equity markets exhibited mixed performance, with the MSCI Pacific Index returning 4.9% and the MSCI Europe Index essentially flat. The Shanghai Composite Index had returned 20% as of the third week in December, but gave it all back after the People’s Bank of China cut the yuan fixing rate by nearly 1.5% over a period of eight days. European stocks fell in December after the European Central Bank (ECB) lowered its deposit rate to –0.3% and extended its bond purchase program by six months. The Eurostoxx 50 Index lost 9.5% in eight days following the ECB announcement.

While we actively monitor such market activity, we generally do not make portfolio decisions based on a subjective analysis of the investment environment, aside from attempting to mitigate newly emergent risk factors identified by the firm. There were no such occurrences during the half year.

Our quantitative equity investment process deploys alpha models that seek to forecast individual stock returns and deploys risk models that seek to mitigate active exposures to industries, sectors, and common risk factors. However, in constructing the equity portfolios, this process may result in small to moderate active exposures to industries, sectors, and risk factors as a by-product of our focus on bottom-up stock selection. We therefore generally attribute portfolio performance to three major sources: bottom-up stock selection; exposure to risk factors such as value, growth, and market capitalization; and exposure to industry groups.

Stock selection was the main reason for the underperformance of our portfolio, followed by exposure to certain industry groups. The largest drag on relative performance came from an overweight exposure to multiple segments of the pharmaceutical and energy sectors. Overall exposure to risk factors did not contribute materially to relative performance. Although underweight exposure to high-dividend-yield stocks and overweight exposure to high-volatility stocks detracted from relative performance, these were largely counterbalanced by underweight exposure to momentum stocks.

The three largest single-stock contributors were an underweight position in Bank of America, an overweight position in AT&T, and an underweight position in JP Morgan Chase & Co. The three largest single-stock detractors were underweight positions in Facebook and Verizon Communications and an overweight position in Williams.

The U.S. economy appears to be picking up strength, with unemployment remaining at or below 5% and the economy adding over 1.4 million nonfarm payroll jobs during the period. However, uncertainty and signs of weakness in various regions and sectors of the world economy could still dampen equity market returns. Japanese and core European five-year interest rates are currently negative, which may indicate troubled economic times ahead. In addition, China’s economy is still relatively weak, and the direction of oil prices remains uncertain. And while markets are generally anticipating that the Fed will raise interest rates again this year, there is much debate about the timing and size of the hike.

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Vanguard Quantitative Equity Group

Portfolio Managers:

Michael R. Roach, CFA

James P. Stetler, Principal

Binbin Guo, Principal, Head of Equity
Research and Portfolio Strategies

Moving into 2016, the U.S. economy continued to grow, but at a slower pace. Fourth quarter 2015 real GDP grew 1.4%, down from 2.0% in the third quarter. The deceleration was mainly attributed to downturns in nonresidential fixed investment, exports, and state and local government spending. Corporate profits decreased 8.1%, reflecting the largest quarterly decline since the first quarter of 2011. The job market further improved, however. Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 215,000 in March, while the unemployment rate was slightly changed at 5.0%.

In the first quarter of 2016, oil prices declined significantly but then recovered, increasing by more than 40% from mid-February’s bottom. This volatility spilled over into the global stock markets as they saw similar price action in the same quarter.

The U.S. Federal Reserve raised interest rates in December, after keeping rates near zero since 2008. Further gradual interest rate hikes are expected later this year, but they are dependent on the direction of global economic data. Even as the United States begins experiencing higher interest rates, several other central banks, including the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan, are experimenting with negative interest rates in an attempt to spur economic growth.

Over the period, our growth and management models contributed positively to performance, but our sentiment, valuation, and quality models did not perform as expected. We were able to produce positive stock selection results in five of the ten sectors in the benchmark. Our strongest results were in consumer discretionary, telecommunication services, and financials. Our worst results were in energy and information technology.

At the individual stock level, the largest contributions came from overweight positions in PVH Corp, Leggett and Platt, and CenturyLink. In addition, when comparing the portfolio’s performance relative to its benchmark’s, we benefited from underweighting or avoiding poorly performing stocks such as Chipotle Mexican Grill, Staples, and Netflix.

Unfortunately, we were not able to avoid all bad performers. Overweight positions in Transocean Ltd, Marathon Petroleum Corporation, and Ensco Plc directly lowered performance. Also, underweighting companies that were not positively identified by the fundamentals in our model, such as Chevron Corporation and Facebook Inc., hurt our overall outperformance relative to the benchmark.

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Growth and Income Fund

Fund Profile
As of March 31, 2016

Share-Class Characteristics  
 
  Investor Admiral
  Shares Shares
Ticker Symbol VQNPX VGIAX
Expense Ratio1 0.34% 0.23%
30-Day SEC Yield 1.87% 1.99%

 

Portfolio Characteristics    
      DJ
      U.S. Total
    S&P 500 Market
  Fund Index FA Index
Number of Stocks 949 504 3,900
Median Market Cap $52.6B $79.4B $52.5B
Price/Earnings Ratio 18.6x 20.5x 21.8x
Price/Book Ratio 2.8x 2.8x 2.7x
Return on Equity 18.5% 18.5% 17.5%
Earnings Growth      
Rate 8.2% 7.6% 8.0%
Dividend Yield 2.3% 2.2% 2.1%
Foreign Holdings 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
Turnover Rate      
(Annualized) 99%
Short-Term Reserves 0.5%

 

Sector Diversification (% of equity exposure)
      DJ
      U.S. Total
    S&P 500 Market
  Fund Index FA Index
Consumer      
Discretionary 12.2% 12.9% 13.6%
Consumer Staples 11.5 10.4 9.2
Energy 6.4 6.8 6.1
Financials 15.0 15.6 17.4
Health Care 14.5 14.3 13.7
Industrials 10.3 10.1 10.7
Information      
Technology 20.1 20.8 20.1
Materials 3.7 2.8 3.2
Telecommunication      
Services 3.0 2.8 2.5
Utilities 3.3 3.5 3.5

 

Volatility Measures    
    DJ
    U.S. Total
  S&P 500 Market
  Index FA Index
R-Squared 0.99 0.99
Beta 0.98 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)
Apple Inc. Technology  
  Hardware, Storage &  
  Peripherals 3.3%
Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals 2.3
Microsoft Corp. Systems Software 2.0
Exxon Mobil Corp. Integrated Oil & Gas 1.7
AT&T Inc. Integrated  
  Telecommunication  
  Services 1.6
Alphabet Inc. Internet Software &  
  Services 1.6
Wells Fargo & Co. Diversified Banks 1.5
Coca-Cola Co. Soft Drinks 1.2
Amazon.com Inc. Internet Retail 1.2
Altria Group Inc. Tobacco 1.1
Top Ten   17.5%

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 26, 2016, and represent estimated costs for the current fiscal year. For the six
months ended March 31, 2016, the annualized expense ratios were 0.32% for Investor Shares and 0.21% 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, 2005, Through March 31, 2016

Note: For 2016, performance data reflect the six months ended March 31, 2016.

Average Annual Total Returns: Periods Ended March 31, 2016

  Inception One Five Ten
  Date Year Years Years
Investor Shares 12/10/1986 1.75% 11.98% 6.31%
Admiral Shares 5/14/2001 1.88 12.10 6.44

 

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, 2016

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 (97.6%)1    
Consumer Discretionary (11.9%)  
* Amazon.com Inc. 122,581 72,769
  Home Depot Inc. 471,519 62,915
  Walt Disney Co. 464,223 46,102
  McDonald’s Corp. 278,970 35,061
  Target Corp. 377,623 31,071
  Comcast Corp. Class A 475,170 29,023
  Time Warner Cable Inc. 123,026 25,174
  Lowe’s Cos. Inc. 322,852 24,456
  Omnicom Group Inc. 270,032 22,475
  Darden Restaurants Inc. 334,609 22,185
  Leggett & Platt Inc. 438,340 21,216
* Priceline Group Inc. 15,600 20,108
  L Brands Inc. 210,780 18,509
  Time Warner Inc. 254,205 18,443
  Interpublic Group of Cos.    
  Inc. 783,716 17,986
  Carnival Corp. 324,256 17,111
  General Motors Co. 474,041 14,899
  NIKE Inc. Class B 239,700 14,734
  Wyndham Worldwide Corp. 192,650 14,724
  PVH Corp. 142,150 14,081
  Best Buy Co. Inc. 423,670 13,744
* O’Reilly Automotive Inc. 50,013 13,687
  Marriott International Inc.    
  Class A 175,600 12,499
  Goodyear Tire & Rubber    
  Co. 374,218 12,342
^ Nordstrom Inc. 192,518 11,014
  GameStop Corp. Class A 329,500 10,455
* Netflix Inc. 97,100 9,927
  News Corp. Class B 749,142 9,926
* Discovery Communications    
  Inc. Class A 329,393 9,430
  VF Corp. 123,300 7,985
  Staples Inc. 528,733 5,832
* AutoZone Inc. 7,118 5,671
  Twenty-First Century Fox    
  Inc. Class A 200,554 5,591
* Liberty Global plc 132,800 4,988
* Michael Kors Holdings Ltd. 85,840 4,889
  Viacom Inc. Class B 111,800 4,615
  Johnson Controls Inc. 112,740 4,393
* Mohawk Industries Inc. 19,820 3,784
  Hanesbrands Inc. 133,100 3,772
* AutoNation Inc. 75,800 3,538
  TEGNA Inc. 140,475 3,296
  Kohl’s Corp. 64,470 3,005
  DR Horton Inc. 85,054 2,571
  Tiffany & Co. 34,700 2,546
* Ulta Salon Cosmetics &    
  Fragrance Inc. 12,700 2,460
* Discovery Communications    
  Inc. 78,302 2,114
* DISH Network Corp.    
  Class A 42,566 1,969
  Aramark 49,800 1,649
  Hasbro Inc. 19,727 1,580
  Hilton Worldwide Holdings    
  Inc. 65,857 1,483
  Restaurant Brands    
  International Inc. 35,960 1,396
  Bloomin’ Brands Inc. 71,337 1,203
  Graham Holdings Co.    
  Class B 2,354 1,130
  News Corp. Class A 82,820 1,058
* Liberty Ventures Class A 24,700 966
  Cable One Inc. 2,155 942
  Royal Caribbean Cruises    
  Ltd. 10,585 870
  Service Corp. International 35,000 864
  Gannett Co. Inc. 54,195 820
* TripAdvisor Inc. 12,200 811
* Sirius XM Holdings Inc. 199,800 789
* Vista Outdoor Inc. 14,100 732
* Sally Beauty Holdings Inc. 21,200 686
  TJX Cos. Inc. 8,269 648
  Twenty-First Century Fox    
  Inc. 21,400 603

 

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Growth and Income Fund

      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
* Liberty Global plc Class A 15,600 601
  Magna International Inc. 12,900 554
  Wendy’s Co. 48,200 525
  Whirlpool Corp. 2,557 461
  Starbucks Corp. 6,600 394
^ Lions Gate Entertainment    
  Corp. 18,000 393
* Michaels Cos. Inc. 13,800 386
  Fiat Chrysler Automobiles    
  NV 46,600 376
  CST Brands Inc. 9,600 368
* Liberty Media Corp. 9,447 360
* LKQ Corp. 10,800 345
  Rent-A-Center Inc. 20,100 319
* Denny’s Corp. 23,600 244
* Houghton Mifflin Harcourt    
  Co. 11,100 221
* Liberty Media Corp. Class A 5,400 209
* Restoration Hardware    
  Holdings Inc. 4,700 197
  Newell Rubbermaid Inc. 4,167 185
  PulteGroup Inc. 8,800 165
  Time Inc. 9,700 150
  DeVry Education Group Inc. 7,000 121
* NVR Inc. 60 104
  Churchill Downs Inc. 682 101
* La Quinta Holdings Inc. 8,042 101
* Isle of Capri Casinos Inc. 6,527 91
  Cheesecake Factory Inc. 1,700 90
  Marriott Vacations    
  Worldwide Corp. 1,331 90
* New York & Co. Inc. 19,273 76
  Libbey Inc. 3,900 73
  Nutrisystem Inc. 3,000 63
  Gentex Corp. 3,900 61
* Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. 1,070 53
  Aaron’s Inc. 2,000 50
  Sonic Automotive Inc.    
  Class A 2,400 44
  Barnes & Noble Inc. 3,400 42
  La-Z-Boy Inc. 1,500 40
* TopBuild Corp. 1,300 39
* Murphy USA Inc. 600 37
* Party City Holdco Inc. 2,340 35
* Liberty TripAdvisor Holdings    
  Inc. Class A 1,500 33
  Chico’s FAS Inc. 2,500 33
* Bojangles’ Inc. 1,900 32
  Gap Inc. 1,080 32
  Citi Trends Inc. 1,596 28
  Cato Corp. Class A 700 27
  Texas Roadhouse Inc. Class A 600 26
* Townsquare Media Inc.    
  Class A 2,302 26
  ClubCorp Holdings Inc. 1,764 25
* Sears Holdings Corp.   1,590 24
* Liberty Broadband Corp.   400 23
  Carter’s Inc.   200 21
* Live Nation Entertainment      
  Inc.   900 20
  Genuine Parts Co.   200 20
  Journal Media Group Inc.   1,600 19
* Lee Enterprises Inc.   9,597 17
  Yum! Brands Inc.   200 16
* Chegg Inc.   3,500 16
* Express Inc.   700 15
* Ruby Tuesday Inc.   2,670 14
* Biglari Holdings Inc.   34 13
  Signet Jewelers Ltd.   100 12
* Nautilus Inc.   600 12
  Ross Stores Inc.   200 12
* ServiceMaster Global      
  Holdings Inc.   300 11
  Williams-Sonoma Inc.   200 11
* Tumi Holdings Inc.   400 11
* Starz   400 11
  Lennar Corp. Class A   200 10
  Wolverine World Wide Inc.   500 9
* Regis Corp.   600 9
* Container Store Group Inc.   1,400 8
* Liberty Interactive Corp.      
  QVC Group Class A   300 8
* Barnes & Noble Education Inc. 700 7
* Carrols Restaurant Group Inc. 454 7
  Haverty Furniture Cos. Inc.   300 6
  International Game      
  Technology plc   335 6
* MGM Resorts International   234 5
* Caesars Entertainment Corp. 700 5
* Mattress Firm Holding Corp. 100 4
* J Alexander’s Holdings Inc.   365 4
* Cherokee Inc.   200 4
* Perry Ellis International Inc.   107 2
        745,733
Consumer Staples (11.2%)      
  Coca-Cola Co. 1,674,904 77,699
  Altria Group Inc. 1,108,712 69,472
  Procter & Gamble Co. 805,141 66,271
  Wal-Mart Stores Inc. 877,877 60,126
  PepsiCo Inc. 497,178 50,951
  Philip Morris International      
  Inc. 402,921 39,531
  General Mills Inc. 499,098 31,618
  Kimberly-Clark Corp. 234,890 31,595
  Dr Pepper Snapple Group      
  Inc. 318,006 28,436
  CVS Health Corp. 246,099 25,528
  Kroger Co. 614,159 23,492
  Clorox Co. 183,844 23,175
  ConAgra Foods Inc. 455,115 20,307

 

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Growth and Income Fund

        Market
        Value
      Shares ($000)
  Campbell Soup Co.   271,544 17,322
  Colgate-Palmolive Co.   208,160 14,706
  Mondelez International Inc.      
  Class A   361,800 14,515
  Sysco Corp.   278,139 12,997
  Hershey Co.   140,205 12,911
  Tyson Foods Inc. Class A   188,735 12,581
  Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc.   240,810 12,219
  Kraft Heinz Co.   149,300 11,729
  Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.   261,437 9,493
  Kellogg Co.   116,323 8,905
  Constellation Brands Inc.      
  Class A   44,700 6,754
  Bunge Ltd.   73,800 4,182
  Church & Dwight Co. Inc.   40,082 3,695
  Mead Johnson Nutrition Co. 41,200 3,501
  Walgreens Boots Alliance      
  Inc.   40,000 3,370
  Whole Foods Market Inc.   90,100 2,803
  Costco Wholesale Corp.   15,320 2,414
  Molson Coors Brewing Co.      
  Class B   5,500 529
  Hormel Foods Corp.   10,079 436
*,^ Pilgrim’s Pride Corp.   16,400 417
  Spectrum Brands Holdings      
  Inc.   3,600 393
* Edgewell Personal Care Co. 4,800 387
  McCormick & Co. Inc.   1,390 138
  Reynolds American Inc.   2,203 111
* Adecoagro SA   6,100 70
  Brown-Forman Corp. Class B 700 69
* Sprouts Farmers Market Inc. 1,700 49
* Hain Celestial Group Inc.   900 37
  Lancaster Colony Corp.   300 33
  JM Smucker Co.   221 29
  Dean Foods Co.   1,300 22
  Flowers Foods Inc.   800 15
* SunOpta Inc.   3,200 14
* USANA Health Sciences Inc. 100 12
        705,059
Energy (6.2%)      
  Exxon Mobil Corp. 1,247,902 104,312
  Schlumberger Ltd.   498,693 36,779
  Phillips 66   309,140 26,768
  Valero Energy Corp.   416,150 26,692
  Tesoro Corp.   293,192 25,217
  Chevron Corp.   256,768 24,496
  Marathon Petroleum Corp.   488,380 18,158
* FMC Technologies Inc.   607,764 16,628
  Ensco plc Class A 1,258,796 13,054
  Anadarko Petroleum Corp.   233,913 10,893
  Occidental Petroleum Corp.   149,483 10,229
  Kinder Morgan Inc.   532,300 9,507
^ Transocean Ltd.   974,592 8,908
  National Oilwell Varco Inc.   270,072 8,399
  Noble Corp. plc   751,100 7,774
* Cameron International Corp. 101,521 6,807
  EOG Resources Inc. 93,125 6,759
  Williams Cos. Inc. 398,500 6,404
  ConocoPhillips 115,601 4,655
  Devon Energy Corp. 161,617 4,435
  Marathon Oil Corp. 234,812 2,616
  Apache Corp. 40,654 1,984
*,^ Southwestern Energy Co. 146,440 1,182
  Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. 35,900 815
  Columbia Pipeline Group Inc. 31,950 802
  ONEOK Inc. 24,116 720
  Energen Corp. 16,530 605
*,^ Seadrill Ltd. 158,100 522
* Newfield Exploration Co. 12,806 426
^ Cameco Corp. 31,100 399
  EQT Corp. 4,400 296
  Golar LNG Ltd. 12,100 217
  Encana Corp. 18,500 113
  Golar LNG Partners LP 6,580 97
* Memorial Resource    
  Development Corp. 8,780 89
  US Silica Holdings Inc. 3,900 89
  CVR Energy Inc. 3,100 81
  Euronav NV 6,245 64
* Cobalt International Energy    
  Inc. 21,400 64
* Oasis Petroleum Inc. 8,000 58
  Halliburton Co. 1,570 56
* Harvest Natural Resources    
  Inc. 79,000 48
  Frank’s International NV 2,582 43
  EnLink Midstream LLC 3,600 40
* Kosmos Energy Ltd. 6,900 40
* TETRA Technologies Inc. 4,900 31
* Laredo Petroleum Inc. 3,500 28
  Aegean Marine Petroleum    
  Network Inc. 3,260 25
  Teekay Corp. 2,800 24
  Plains GP Holdings LP    
  Class A 2,600 23
* InterOil Corp. 600 19
* Forum Energy    
  Technologies Inc. 1,386 18
  Baker Hughes Inc. 348 15
  SemGroup Corp. Class A 400 9
* TransAtlantic Petroleum Ltd. 8,887 7
* Natural Gas Services Group    
  Inc. 300 6
* Gener8 Maritime Inc. 800 6
  Atwood Oceanics Inc. 600 5
* Pacific Drilling SA 9,240 5
* Weatherford International plc 400 3
* Willbros Group Inc. 1,447 3
  California Resources Corp. 2,349 2
      388,569

 

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Growth and Income Fund

      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
Financials (14.6%)    
  Wells Fargo & Co. 1,883,368 91,080
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. 982,280 58,171
  Citigroup Inc. 1,370,873 57,234
* Berkshire Hathaway Inc.    
  Class B 381,002 54,057
  Bank of New York Mellon    
  Corp. 860,399 31,688
  Travelers Cos. Inc. 261,597 30,531
  Hartford Financial Services    
  Group Inc. 622,160 28,669
  Prologis Inc. 599,735 26,496
  Crown Castle International    
  Corp. 296,290 25,629
  Bank of America Corp. 1,750,366 23,665
  Aon plc 200,980 20,992
  AvalonBay Communities    
  Inc. 103,410 19,669
  McGraw Hill Financial Inc. 179,237 17,741
  Prudential Financial Inc. 223,411 16,135
  Navient Corp. 1,266,200 15,156
  Capital One Financial Corp. 215,763 14,955
  Kimco Realty Corp. 482,864 13,897
  Progressive Corp. 370,173 13,008
  Huntington Bancshares    
  Inc. 1,359,367 12,968
  Discover Financial    
  Services 253,927 12,930
  Ameriprise Financial Inc. 135,708 12,758
  American Express Co. 207,500 12,740
  People’s United Financial    
  Inc. 768,752 12,246
  SunTrust Banks Inc. 337,726 12,185
  Public Storage 42,769 11,797
  Nasdaq Inc. 174,862 11,607
  Fifth Third Bancorp 678,518 11,324
  CME Group Inc. 115,000 11,046
  Equinix Inc. 32,161 10,636
  Macerich Co. 119,636 9,480
  Moody’s Corp. 96,000 9,270
  Allstate Corp. 135,704 9,142
  Chubb Ltd. 75,217 8,962
  Northern Trust Corp. 134,981 8,797
  BlackRock Inc. 24,980 8,507
  Aflac Inc. 127,785 8,068
  US Bancorp 191,180 7,760
  Extra Space Storage Inc. 77,970 7,287
  Unum Group 224,671 6,947
  Cincinnati Financial Corp. 102,416 6,694
* Synchrony Financial 232,983 6,677
  Realty Income Corp. 105,198 6,576
  Simon Property Group Inc. 30,618 6,359
  Marsh & McLennan Cos.    
  Inc. 101,980 6,199
  Willis Towers Watson plc 50,101 5,945
  Weyerhaeuser Co. 177,745 5,507
  Intercontinental Exchange    
  Inc. 22,440 5,277
  Principal Financial Group    
  Inc. 132,930 5,244
  Welltower Inc. 74,424 5,161
  Equity LifeStyle Properties    
  Inc. 66,738 4,854
  Voya Financial Inc. 160,600 4,781
  First Horizon National Corp. 335,670 4,397
  Lincoln National Corp. 109,651 4,298
  General Growth Properties    
  Inc. 135,130 4,017
* Realogy Holdings Corp. 91,000 3,286
  Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 19,961 3,133
  Torchmark Corp. 55,212 2,990
  HCP Inc. 91,672 2,987
  Regions Financial Corp. 371,847 2,919
  Comerica Inc. 76,100 2,882
  MetLife Inc. 65,472 2,877
  Vornado Realty Trust 21,690 2,048
  American International    
  Group Inc. 36,700 1,984
  Zions Bancorporation 75,950 1,839
  Host Hotels & Resorts Inc. 109,233 1,824
  Equity Residential 23,428 1,758
  PNC Financial Services    
  Group Inc. 20,100 1,700
  State Street Corp. 25,980 1,520
  Boston Properties Inc. 11,400 1,449
  Apartment Investment &    
  Management Co. 34,420 1,439
  East West Bancorp Inc. 43,100 1,400
  Four Corners Property Trust    
  Inc. 76,404 1,371
  Ventas Inc. 19,693 1,240
  Charles Schwab Corp. 39,600 1,110
  FNF Group 27,800 942
  Synovus Financial Corp. 32,500 940
  Essex Property Trust Inc. 3,427 801
  Retail Properties of America    
  Inc. 40,700 645
  Radian Group Inc. 46,200 573
* Equity Commonwealth 19,800 559
  Umpqua Holdings Corp. 31,596 501
* Santander Consumer USA    
  Holdings Inc. 45,500 477
  Franklin Resources Inc. 12,173 475
  FNB Corp. 35,600 463
* E*TRADE Financial Corp. 17,500 429
  Citizens Financial Group Inc. 19,500 409
  Great Western Bancorp Inc. 14,800 404
  KeyCorp 36,085 398
  Axis Capital Holdings Ltd. 7,100 394
* MGIC Investment Corp. 50,800 390

 

16


 

Growth and Income Fund

      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
  Assured Guaranty Ltd. 15,000 379
* Arch Capital Group Ltd. 5,100 363
  Annaly Capital Management    
  Inc. 35,300 362
  TCF Financial Corp. 27,915 342
  Empire State Realty Trust    
  Inc. 18,400 323
  ProAssurance Corp. 6,100 309
  WR Berkley Corp. 5,400 303
* Essent Group Ltd. 12,000 250
  National Health Investors Inc. 3,700 246
  Post Properties Inc. 4,003 239
  American Capital Agency    
  Corp. 11,600 216
  United Bankshares Inc. 5,288 194
  Loews Corp. 4,900 187
  Legg Mason Inc. 5,400 187
  Wintrust Financial Corp. 4,100 182
  Liberty Property Trust 5,400 181
  Morgan Stanley 7,046 176
  RLJ Lodging Trust 7,300 167
  Ares Capital Corp. 11,136 165
  Allied World Assurance Co.    
  Holdings AG 4,500 157
  UMB Financial Corp. 3,000 155
  Prosperity Bancshares Inc. 3,300 153
  MFA Financial Inc. 22,200 152
  Aspen Insurance Holdings    
  Ltd. 3,100 148
  Care Capital Properties Inc. 5,500 148
  Two Harbors Investment    
  Corp. 18,500 147
  Old Republic International    
  Corp. 7,200 132
  Trustmark Corp. 5,700 131
  Hancock Holding Co. 5,200 119
  Forest City Realty Trust Inc.    
  Class A 5,500 116
  Invesco Ltd. 3,706 114
* CBRE Group Inc. Class A 3,700 107
* Markit Ltd. 2,824 100
  Washington Federal Inc. 4,400 100
* PHH Corp. 7,600 95
  Hospitality Properties Trust 3,500 93
  Cathay General Bancorp 3,200 91
  BankUnited Inc. 2,600 90
* Stifel Financial Corp. 3,000 89
* Flagstar Bancorp Inc. 3,900 84
  Brookline Bancorp Inc. 7,000 77
  Camden Property Trust 900 76
  Columbia Property Trust Inc. 3,400 75
  Ryman Hospitality Properties    
  Inc. 1,280 66
  Blackstone Mortgage Trust    
  Inc. Class A 2,000 54
  SEI Investments Co. 1,200 52
* Beneficial Bancorp Inc. 3,480 48
  Erie Indemnity Co. Class A 500 46
* FNFV Group 4,200 46
  Financial Engines Inc. 1,400 44
  Glacier Bancorp Inc. 1,700 43
  BancorpSouth Inc. 2,000 43
  Outfront Media Inc. 1,900 40
* Western Alliance Bancorp 1,200 40
* Ocwen Financial Corp. 15,000 37
  Old National Bancorp 2,900 35
  Iron Mountain Inc. 1,000 34
* NewStar Financial Inc. 3,572 31
  Brixmor Property Group Inc. 1,200 31
  United Community Banks Inc. 1,600 30
  Greenhill & Co. Inc. 1,200 27
  First Financial Bancorp 1,427 26
  Meridian Bancorp Inc. 1,800 25
  Southwest Bancorp Inc. 1,600 24
  Monogram Residential Trust    
  Inc. 2,400 24
  Apollo Investment Corp. 4,000 22
  Government Properties    
  Income Trust 1,200 21
  Omega Healthcare Investors    
  Inc. 600 21
  American Tower Corporation 200 20
  Arbor Realty Trust Inc. 2,800 19
  AG Mortgage Investment    
  Trust Inc. 1,405 18
* Credit Acceptance Corp. 100 18
  Columbia Banking System Inc. 600 18
  HFF Inc. Class A 600 16
  Argo Group International    
  Holdings Ltd. 279 16
  Anworth Mortgage Asset    
  Corp. 3,400 16
  Boston Private Financial    
  Holdings Inc. 1,335 15
  Ladder Capital Corp. 1,200 15
  First Republic Bank 201 13
  Credicorp Ltd. 100 13
* PRA Group Inc. 400 12
  Valley National Bancorp 1,200 11
  SL Green Realty Corp. 100 10
  Raymond James Financial Inc. 200 10
  Associated Banc-Corp 500 9
  WP Carey Inc. 141 9
  Washington REIT 300 9
  American Equity Investment    
  Life Holding Co. 500 8
  Brown & Brown Inc. 211 8
  Alexander & Baldwin Inc. 200 7
  Brandywine Realty Trust 500 7
  Sierra Bancorp 386 7

 

17


 

Growth and Income Fund

        Market
        Value
      Shares ($000)
  Armada Hoffler Properties Inc. 600 7
  West Bancorporation Inc.   352 6
  Corrections Corp. of America 200 6
  Hudson Pacific Properties Inc. 221 6
  New Residential      
  Investment Corp.   500 6
* OneMain Holdings Inc.      
  Class A   200 5
  THL Credit Inc.   445 5
  Investors Bancorp Inc.   400 5
  Banner Corp.   100 4
  MVC Capital Inc.   457 3
* SLM Corp.   500 3
  Artisan Partners Asset      
  Management Inc. Class A   100 3
  BB&T Corp.   82 3
  CareTrust REIT Inc.   200 3
  Suffolk Bancorp   100 3
  FelCor Lodging Trust Inc.   300 2
        916,576
Health Care (14.1%)      
  Johnson & Johnson 1,313,633 142,135
  Merck & Co. Inc. 1,186,200 62,762
  Pfizer Inc. 1,967,361 58,313
  Amgen Inc. 388,302 58,218
  Gilead Sciences Inc. 540,006 49,605
  Eli Lilly & Co. 633,075 45,588
  Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. 619,692 39,586
  Anthem Inc. 278,626 38,726
* Express Scripts Holding      
  Co. 523,483 35,958
  AbbVie Inc. 540,475 30,872
  Cardinal Health Inc. 347,787 28,501
  AmerisourceBergen Corp.      
  Class A 241,530 20,904
  Abbott Laboratories 492,213 20,589
  McKesson Corp. 128,081 20,141
* Biogen Inc.   73,165 19,046
  UnitedHealth Group Inc. 143,254 18,465
* Allergan plc   63,132 16,921
* HCA Holdings Inc. 211,046 16,472
  Medtronic plc 204,548 15,341
  Aetna Inc. 126,538 14,217
  Thermo Fisher Scientific      
  Inc.   99,770 14,126
  Agilent Technologies Inc. 313,416 12,490
  Zoetis Inc. 278,610 12,351
  Cigna Corp.   78,292 10,745
  Zimmer Biomet Holdings      
  Inc.   77,500 8,264
* DaVita HealthCare Partners      
  Inc. 109,400 8,028
* Boston Scientific Corp. 400,790 7,539
* Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.   75,000 5,962
  Patterson Cos. Inc. 124,120 5,775
* Regeneron Pharmaceuticals      
  Inc.   14,041 5,061
  Stryker Corp.   42,850 4,597
  Baxter International Inc. 109,531 4,500
  Baxalta Inc. 102,118 4,126
  Becton Dickinson and Co.   25,922 3,935
  Humana Inc.   21,360 3,908
  CR Bard Inc.   16,660 3,377
* Cerner Corp.   50,453 2,672
  Universal Health Services      
  Inc. Class B   20,095 2,506
  Perrigo Co. plc   15,700 2,009
  St. Jude Medical Inc.   32,797 1,804
* VCA Inc.   22,800 1,315
  Quest Diagnostics Inc.   16,000 1,143
* United Therapeutics Corp.   9,300 1,036
* Hologic Inc.   22,200 766
* Intuitive Surgical Inc.   1,000 601
* Medivation Inc.   12,900 593
* Envision Healthcare      
  Holdings Inc.   21,600 441
  PerkinElmer Inc.   8,221 407
  DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc.   6,241 385
* Community Health Systems      
  Inc.   17,300 320
* VWR Corp.   7,900 214
* Myriad Genetics Inc.   4,500 168
* QIAGEN NV   7,456 167
* Pain Therapeutics Inc.   66,692 149
* Mallinckrodt plc   2,300 141
* Mylan NV   2,952 137
* IMS Health Holdings Inc.   5,000 133
* Rigel Pharmaceuticals Inc.   52,910 110
* Amicus Therapeutics Inc.   10,300 87
* Waters Corp.   620 82
* BioTelemetry Inc.   4,800 56
* AMAG Pharmaceuticals Inc.   2,300 54
* PAREXEL International Corp.   800 50
* Innoviva Inc.   3,600 45
* SciClone Pharmaceuticals Inc. 3,300 36
* Neurocrine Biosciences Inc.   800 32
* ARIAD Pharmaceuticals Inc.   4,400 28
* Triple-S Management Corp.      
  Class B   1,065 26
* FibroGen Inc.   1,205 26
* BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc. 8,600 24
* Catalent Inc.   900 24
* Centene Corp.   370 23
* Imprivata Inc.   1,700 21
* Orthofix International NV   500 21
* OraSure Technologies Inc.   2,000 14
* Halyard Health Inc.   500 14
* ArQule Inc.   8,649 14
* Acorda Therapeutics Inc.   500 13
*,^ MannKind Corp.   6,200 10

 

18


 

Growth and Income Fund

        Market
        Value
      Shares ($000)
* Corcept Therapeutics Inc.   2,100 10
  Bio-Techne Corp.   100 9
  Bruker Corp.   300 8
* INC Research Holdings Inc.      
  Class A   200 8
  Owens & Minor Inc.   200 8
* OPKO Health Inc.   700 7
* Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc. 600 7
* Genocea Biosciences Inc.   923 7
* Syneron Medical Ltd.   899 7
* Threshold Pharmaceuticals      
  Inc.   14,000 6
* BioScrip Inc.   2,800 6
* Momenta Pharmaceuticals      
  Inc.   600 6
* Nektar Therapeutics   400 6
* Exact Sciences Corp.   800 5
  Hill-Rom Holdings Inc.   100 5
* Puma Biotechnology Inc.   162 5
* Select Medical Holdings Corp. 400 5
* HealthStream Inc.   200 4
  HealthSouth Corp.   100 4
* GTx Inc.   4,487 2
* RTI Surgical Inc.   400 2
        885,188
Industrials (10.1%)      
  General Electric Co. 1,971,808 62,684
  General Dynamics Corp. 358,000 47,030
  Northrop Grumman Corp. 159,763 31,617
  Lockheed Martin Corp. 138,374 30,650
  Boeing Co. 189,022 23,994
  Cintas Corp. 246,355 22,125
  Southwest Airlines Co. 491,554 22,022
  Stanley Black & Decker Inc. 198,935 20,930
  United Parcel Service Inc.      
  Class B 168,417 17,763
* United Continental      
  Holdings Inc. 274,125 16,409
  Masco Corp. 518,000 16,291
  PACCAR Inc. 271,492 14,848
  Republic Services Inc.      
  Class A 307,227 14,639
  Pitney Bowes Inc. 648,770 13,975
  Raytheon Co. 109,930 13,481
  Union Pacific Corp. 163,400 12,999
  Illinois Tool Works Inc. 123,550 12,656
  Equifax Inc. 109,660 12,533
  Delta Air Lines Inc. 252,248 12,279
  Ingersoll-Rand plc 192,180 11,917
  3M Co.   70,818 11,800
* United Rentals Inc. 189,259 11,770
  Waste Management Inc. 193,980 11,445
* Quanta Services Inc. 506,486 11,426
  FedEx Corp.   69,600 11,325
  Caterpillar Inc. 140,504 10,754
  Fluor Corp. 200,263 10,754
  American Airlines Group    
  Inc. 251,369 10,309
  Allison Transmission    
  Holdings Inc. 373,520 10,078
  Tyco International plc 219,000 8,040
  Honeywell International    
  Inc. 67,900 7,608
* Spirit AeroSystems    
  Holdings Inc. Class A 147,000 6,668
  Snap-on Inc. 40,692 6,388
  KAR Auction Services Inc. 152,700 5,824
  Rockwell Automation Inc. 48,573 5,525
  AMETEK Inc. 92,900 4,643
  ADT Corp. 109,100 4,501
  L-3 Communications    
  Holdings Inc. 36,035 4,270
  Dun & Bradstreet Corp. 33,330 3,436
  Nielsen Holdings plc 63,570 3,348
  CSX Corp. 125,152 3,223
  Cummins Inc. 25,760 2,832
* AerCap Holdings NV 68,600 2,659
  Danaher Corp. 27,692 2,627
  United Technologies Corp. 25,085 2,511
  Allegion plc 35,100 2,236
  Deere & Co. 27,994 2,155
  Expeditors International of    
  Washington Inc. 44,000 2,148
  CH Robinson Worldwide Inc. 27,200 2,019
* IHS Inc. Class A 15,259 1,895
  Textron Inc. 48,883 1,782
  Pentair plc 27,100 1,470
  Roper Technologies Inc. 7,141 1,305
* JetBlue Airways Corp. 54,800 1,157
  Norfolk Southern Corp. 11,300 941
  Carlisle Cos. Inc. 9,300 925
* Armstrong World Industries    
  Inc. 19,100 924
* HD Supply Holdings Inc. 26,800 886
  Covanta Holding Corp. 47,300 798
  BWX Technologies Inc. 19,900 668
* RPX Corp. 53,900 607
  Dover Corp. 8,237 530
  Hubbell Inc. Class B 4,769 505
* Kirby Corp. 5,280 318
* Continental Building    
  Products Inc. 17,100 317
  Kansas City Southern 3,600 308
  Huntington Ingalls Industries    
  Inc. 2,200 301
  Xylem Inc. 7,000 286
  Air Lease Corp. Class A 6,900 222
  Joy Global Inc. 11,800 190
  Nordson Corp. 2,300 175
  West Corp. 7,011 160

 

19


 

Growth and Income Fund

      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
  Watsco Inc. 1,100 148
  Landstar System Inc. 2,100 136
  Steelcase Inc. Class A 8,173 122
* Babcock & Wilcox    
  Enterprises Inc. 5,100 109
  Eaton Corp. plc 1,330 83
  Albany International Corp. 2,100 79
  SPX Corp. 4,703 71
* Rexnord Corp. 3,400 69
  Barnes Group Inc. 1,924 67
  Kaman Corp. 1,500 64
  Woodward Inc. 1,100 57
* Hub Group Inc. Class A 1,400 57
  Allegiant Travel Co. Class A 300 53
* NCI Building Systems Inc. 3,600 51
  RR Donnelley & Sons Co. 3,000 49
* Moog Inc. Class A 1,000 46
  Brady Corp. Class A 1,700 46
* ARC Document Solutions Inc. 9,800 44
* Masonite International Corp. 600 39
* MFC Bancorp Ltd. 19,512 39
  JB Hunt Transport Services    
  Inc. 440 37
* Mistras Group Inc. 1,487 37
* Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings    
  Inc. 800 34
  Knoll Inc. 1,517 33
* Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. 700 31
  Matson Inc. 600 24
  Quad/Graphics Inc. 1,800 23
  Triumph Group Inc. 700 22
  Seaspan Corp. Class A 1,200 22
* Air Transport Services Group    
  Inc. 1,300 20
  Ennis Inc. 1,000 20
* Hertz Global Holdings Inc. 1,700 18
* Huron Consulting Group Inc. 300 17
  Hillenbrand Inc. 400 12
  Mueller Water Products Inc.    
  Class A 1,100 11
  Exponent Inc. 200 10
* Blount International Inc. 1,012 10
* USG Corp. 400 10
  Korn/Ferry International 300 9
* Navigant Consulting Inc. 500 8
  IDEX Corp. 78 6
  EnPro Industries Inc. 73 4
* Saia Inc. 143 4
* Roadrunner Transportation    
  Systems Inc. 300 4
  NN Inc. 206 3
  Costamare Inc. 300 3
* Accuride Corp. 1,500 2
      631,697
Information Technology (19.6%)  
  Apple Inc. 1,875,902 204,455
  Microsoft Corp. 2,198,413 121,418
  Intel Corp. 1,979,582 64,039
  International Business    
  Machines Corp. 420,129 63,629
* Alphabet Inc. Class A 81,400 62,100
  Visa Inc. Class A 757,077 57,901
* Alphabet Inc. Class C 53,755 40,045
  Cisco Systems Inc. 1,267,117 36,075
  Accenture plc Class A 297,748 34,360
  Symantec Corp. 1,663,056 30,567
  Broadcom Ltd. 158,144 24,433
  Western Union Co. 1,179,693 22,756
* Facebook Inc. Class A 199,039 22,710
* Citrix Systems Inc. 264,510 20,785
  HP Inc. 1,676,971 20,660
  QUALCOMM Inc. 394,960 20,198
  Intuit Inc. 188,629 19,619
  Motorola Solutions Inc. 256,693 19,432
* Fiserv Inc. 181,561 18,625
  CSRA Inc. 667,231 17,949
  MasterCard Inc. Class A 184,236 17,410
  Fidelity National    
  Information Services Inc. 263,544 16,685
* Electronic Arts Inc. 248,548 16,432
  Total System Services Inc. 332,768 15,833
  Hewlett Packard    
  Enterprise Co. 886,870 15,724
  Xerox Corp. 1,235,842 13,792
  NVIDIA Corp. 376,576 13,417
  Juniper Networks Inc. 519,294 13,247
* VeriSign Inc. 140,300 12,422
  Oracle Corp. 282,153 11,543
  Texas Instruments Inc. 197,562 11,344
* F5 Networks Inc. 96,100 10,172
  Corning Inc. 486,785 10,169
  Paychex Inc. 183,411 9,906
* PayPal Holdings Inc. 243,970 9,417
  TE Connectivity Ltd. 141,500 8,762
  Lam Research Corp. 104,169 8,604
* Teradata Corp. 317,072 8,320
  Computer Sciences Corp. 238,650 8,207
  Harris Corp. 91,950 7,159
  Automatic Data    
  Processing Inc. 75,500 6,773
  Analog Devices Inc. 78,900 4,670
  EMC Corp. 168,640 4,494
  Applied Materials Inc. 193,500 4,098
* eBay Inc. 167,400 3,994
  CA Inc. 122,810 3,781
  Seagate Technology plc 106,127 3,656
* Akamai Technologies Inc. 58,400 3,245
  Western Digital Corp. 59,100 2,792
* LinkedIn Corp. Class A 22,262 2,546

 

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Growth and Income Fund

      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
  IAC/InterActiveCorp 35,700 1,681
* Flextronics International    
  Ltd. 136,300 1,644
* Red Hat Inc. 22,060 1,644
  Amdocs Ltd. 23,200 1,402
* VMware Inc. Class A 25,900 1,355
* Cadence Design Systems    
  Inc. 53,927 1,272
* Micron Technology Inc. 109,908 1,151
* CoreLogic Inc. 31,700 1,100
  FLIR Systems Inc. 33,036 1,089
* ANSYS Inc. 10,700 957
* Twitter Inc. 45,500 753
  Marvell Technology Group    
  Ltd. 68,200 703
* InterXion Holding NV 16,300 564
* Genpact Ltd. 20,400 555
* ON Semiconductor Corp. 56,000 537
* Trimble Navigation Ltd. 18,800 466
* Synopsys Inc. 8,800 426
* WebMD Health Corp. 6,200 388
  Teradyne Inc. 15,900 343
* MicroStrategy Inc. Class A 1,900 341
  Tessera Technologies Inc. 10,600 329
* CommScope Holding Co. Inc. 11,400 318
* Mellanox Technologies Ltd. 5,000 272
  Brocade Communications    
  Systems Inc. 25,200 267
* Polycom Inc. 22,500 251
  Sabre Corp. 8,474 245
* Pandora Media Inc. 27,300 244
* Zebra Technologies Corp. 3,500 242
* OSI Systems Inc. 3,296 216
* Nuance Communications Inc.  10,700 200
* Sohu.com Inc. 4,000 198
* NCR Corp. 6,300 189
* Keysight Technologies Inc. 6,500 180
  NIC Inc. 9,700 175
* VeriFone Systems Inc. 5,783 163
* Amkor Technology Inc. 27,700 163
* Blackhawk Network    
  Holdings Inc. 4,564 157
* Calix Inc. 21,824 155
  Leidos Holdings Inc. 2,900 146
  Jabil Circuit Inc. 6,800 131
* Zynga Inc. Class A 51,500 117
* NetScout Systems Inc. 4,500 103
* Bankrate Inc. 11,132 102
* Cimpress NV 1,100 100
* Rackspace Hosting Inc. 4,400 95
* Qlik Technologies Inc. 3,200 93
  Intersil Corp. Class A 6,700 90
* Net 1 UEPS Technologies    
  Inc. 9,431 87
* Rambus Inc. 6,300 87
* RetailMeNot Inc. 10,782 86
* Photronics Inc. 8,200 85
* EchoStar Corp. Class A 1,907 84
  SanDisk Corp. 1,100 84
* comScore Inc. 2,600 78
* II-VI Inc. 3,400 74
* QLogic Corp. 5,200 70
* SPS Commerce Inc. 1,600 69
  Cabot Microelectronics Corp. 1,676 69
* DHI Group Inc. 7,700 62
* Angie’s List Inc. 7,285 59
  Plantronics Inc. 1,500 59
  InterDigital Inc. 910 51
* Verint Systems Inc. 1,200 40
  Mentor Graphics Corp. 1,800 37
* Silicon Laboratories Inc. 800 36
* Semtech Corp. 1,600 35
* SunEdison Semiconductor    
  Ltd. 5,400 35
* SunPower Corp. Class A 1,500 34
* TechTarget Inc. 4,200 31
  Activision Blizzard Inc. 900 30
  NVE Corp. 530 30
* XO Group Inc. 1,821 29
* ShoreTel Inc. 3,700 28
* Knowles Corp. 2,000 26
* Celestica Inc. 2,300 25
* Ixia 2,000 25
* FormFactor Inc. 3,360 24
  Belden Inc. 394 24
* Web.com Group Inc. 1,200 24
* Alliance Data Systems Corp. 100 22
* Progress Software Corp. 900 22
* United Online Inc. 1,500 17
* Blucora Inc. 3,300 17
* Zix Corp. 4,300 17
  EVERTEC Inc. 1,200 17
  MKS Instruments Inc. 400 15
  Microchip Technology Inc. 300 14
* Orbotech Ltd. 600 14
  Xilinx Inc. 300 14
  NetApp Inc. 500 14
* ACI Worldwide Inc. 600 12
* Cognizant Technology    
  Solutions Corp. Class A 196 12
* Endurance International    
  Group Holdings Inc. 1,100 12
  Amphenol Corp. Class A 200 12
* ARRIS International plc 500 11
* Ultratech Inc. 515 11
* VASCO Data Security    
  International Inc. 700 11
* Sigma Designs Inc. 1,500 10
* Veeco Instruments Inc. 500 10
* Quotient Technology Inc. 800 9
* Entegris Inc. 600 8
* Diodes Inc. 400 8

 


 

Growth and Income Fund

      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
* Monster Worldwide Inc. 2,400 8
* Yandex NV Class A 500 8
  Maxim Integrated Products    
  Inc. 203 7
* TTM Technologies Inc. 968 6
* Ciber Inc. 2,844 6
* BlackBerry Ltd. 700 6
* Brightcove Inc. 900 6
* Bazaarvoice Inc. 1,700 5
* Anixter International Inc. 100 5
* Zillow Group Inc. Class A 200 5
* Infinera Corp. 300 5
* Kemet Corp. 2,000 4
* GoDaddy Inc. Class A 100 3
* Fortinet Inc. 100 3
* Advanced Micro Devices Inc. 900 3
* Lionbridge Technologies Inc. 500 3
* VirnetX Holding Corp. 504 2
      1,225,693
Materials (3.6%)    
  Air Products & Chemicals    
  Inc. 246,154 35,459
  Sealed Air Corp. 635,836 30,527
  LyondellBasell Industries    
  NV Class A 263,100 22,516
  Sherwin-Williams Co. 77,052 21,934
  Dow Chemical Co. 422,863 21,507
  Avery Dennison Corp. 263,864 19,027
  Monsanto Co. 150,520 13,207
  Ball Corp. 160,906 11,471
  PPG Industries Inc. 76,327 8,510
  Mosaic Co. 292,790 7,905
  Praxair Inc. 48,390 5,538
  Eastman Chemical Co. 63,801 4,608
  Newmont Mining Corp. 131,100 3,485
  Ecolab Inc. 26,100 2,911
  Martin Marietta Materials    
  Inc. 10,800 1,723
  Freeport-McMoRan Inc. 150,700 1,558
  Vulcan Materials Co. 14,200 1,499
  Graphic Packaging Holding    
  Co. 107,600 1,383
  International Paper Co. 32,956 1,353
  Westlake Chemical Corp. 22,900 1,060
  Celanese Corp. Class A 15,487 1,014
  International Flavors &    
  Fragrances Inc. 8,848 1,007
  Nucor Corp. 19,900 941
  CF Industries Holdings Inc. 26,185 821
* Crown Holdings Inc. 13,300 660
  Reliance Steel & Aluminum    
  Co. 4,500 311
* Berry Plastics Group Inc. 7,811 282
  EI du Pont de Nemours &    
  Co. 3,700 234
  Potash Corp. of      
  Saskatchewan Inc.   11,200 191
  SunCoke Energy Inc.   22,600 147
  Ferroglobe plc   13,700 121
* Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. 3,500 102
* Headwaters Inc.   5,000 99
* Century Aluminum Co.   13,600 96
  Valspar Corp.   807 86
  Materion Corp.   2,900 77
* Constellium NV Class A   13,300 69
* Turquoise Hill Resources      
  Ltd.   21,550 55
* Ferro Corp.   3,700 44
* Owens-Illinois Inc.   2,500 40
  Schweitzer-Mauduit      
  International Inc.   1,200 38
  Bemis Co. Inc.   700 36
  Eldorado Gold Corp.   10,400 33
  Orion Engineered Carbons      
  SA   2,088 29
* Boise Cascade Co.   1,400 29
  Mercer International Inc.   2,800 26
* Novagold Resources Inc.   4,400 22
  Silgan Holdings Inc.   400 21
  Allegheny Technologies Inc. 1,200 20
  KMG Chemicals Inc.   700 16
  PH Glatfelter Co.   640 13
  Mesabi Trust   2,015 12
* Flotek Industries Inc.   1,600 12
  Kaiser Aluminum Corp.   100 8
* Intrepid Potash Inc.   5,500 6
  Sonoco Products Co.   117 6
  Olin Corp.   200 3
* Stillwater Mining Co.   298 3
        223,911
Other (0.2%)      
  SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust   55,572 11,423
* Safeway Inc. CVR (Casa Ley)    
  Exp. 01/30/2018   75,810 10
* Safeway Inc. CVR (PDC)      
  Exp. 01/30/2017   75,810 4
* Biosante Pharmaceutical      
  Inc. CVR   4,189
        11,437
Telecommunication Services (2.9%)  
  AT&T Inc. 2,634,359 103,188
  Verizon Communications      
  Inc. 1,038,048 56,138
  CenturyLink Inc.   479,774 15,333
* Level 3 Communications      
  Inc.   114,600 6,057
  Frontier Communications      
  Corp.   78,800 440
  Telephone & Data      
  Systems Inc.   9,800 295

 

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Growth and Income Fund

        Market
        Value
      Shares ($000)
* Sprint Corp.   10,738 37
  Inteliquent Inc.   1,100 18
* Globalstar Inc.   7,900 12
        181,518
Utilities (3.2%)      
  American Electric Power    
  Co. Inc.   287,260 19,074
  Southern Co.   354,870 18,357
  Entergy Corp.   229,976 18,233
  FirstEnergy Corp.   489,457 17,606
  Ameren Corp.   314,425 15,753
  Exelon Corp.   417,410 14,968
  PPL Corp.   378,286 14,401
  Public Service Enterprise    
  Group Inc.   295,273 13,919
  Duke Energy Corp.   160,390 12,940
  NextEra Energy Inc. 84,240 9,969
  Sempra Energy   80,610 8,387
  Consolidated Edison Inc. 104,932 8,040
  CenterPoint Energy Inc. 300,610 6,289
  Dominion Resources Inc. 74,984 5,633
  PG&E Corp.   62,985 3,761
  Pinnacle West Capital Corp. 46,235 3,471
  DTE Energy Co.   29,619 2,685
  SCANA Corp.   23,800 1,670
  NiSource Inc.   35,040 826
* Dynegy Inc.   44,100 634
* Calpine Corp.   25,700 390
  Edison International   3,860 277
  Atlantic Power Corp. 104,726 258
  Xcel Energy Inc.   5,860 245
  Atmos Energy Corp. 2,500 186
  Eversource Energy   2,430 142
  Great Plains Energy Inc. 3,700 119
  New Jersey Resources Corp. 2,300 84
  Laclede Group Inc.   1,000 68
  PNM Resources Inc. 1,800 61
  OGE Energy Corp.   1,300 37
  Pattern Energy Group Inc.    
  Class A   1,590 30
  Avista Corp.   441 18
  WGL Holdings Inc.   200 14
  El Paso Electric Co.   300 14
  ONE Gas Inc.   200 12
  MDU Resources Group Inc. 400 8
        198,579
Total Common Stocks      
(Cost $5,267,587)     6,113,960
Temporary Cash Investments (2.7%)1  
Money Market Fund (2.5%)    
2,3 Vanguard Market      
  Liquidity Fund,      
  0.495% 157,662,748 157,663
    Face Market
    Amount Value
    ($000) ($000)
U.S. Government and Agency Obligations (0.2%)
4,5 Federal Home Loan    
  Bank Discount Notes,    
  0.245%, 4/20/16 2,000 1,999
4,5 Federal Home Loan    
  Bank Discount Notes,    
  0.260%, 4/27/16 500 500
4,5 Federal Home Loan    
  Bank Discount Notes,    
  0.290%, 4/29/16 5,000 4,999
6 Freddie Mac Discount    
  Notes, 0.220%, 4/15/16 2,300 2,300
      9,798
Total Temporary Cash Investments  
(Cost $167,461)   167,461
Total Investments (100.3%)    
(Cost $5,435,048)   6,281,421
 
      Amount
      ($000)
Other Assets and Liabilities (-0.3%)  
Other Assets    
Investment in VGI   526
Receivables for Investment Securities Sold 63,280
Receivables for Accrued Income   7,983
Receivables for Capital Shares Issued 2,719
Other Assets   12
Total Other Assets   74,520
Liabilities    
Payables for Investment Securities  
Purchased   (69,623)
Collateral for Securities on Loan   (6,656)
Payables to Investment Advisor   (1,249)
Payables for Capital Shares Redeemed (5,597)
Payables to Vanguard   (12,821)
Other Liabilities   (261)
Total Liabilities   (96,207)
Net Assets (100%)   6,259,734
At March 31, 2016, net assets consisted of:
  Amount
  ($000)
Paid-in Capital 5,340,405
Undistributed Net Investment Income 28,866
Accumulated Net Realized Gains 41,438
Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)  
Investment Securities 846,373
Futures Contracts 2,652
Net Assets 6,259,734

 

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Growth and Income Fund  
 
 
 
 
  Amount
  ($000)
Investor Shares—Net Assets  
Applicable to 70,092,671 outstanding  
$.001 par value shares of beneficial  
interest (unlimited authorization) 2,809,708
Net Asset Value Per Share—  
Investor Shares $40.09
 
 
Admiral Shares—Net Assets  
Applicable to 52,711,280 outstanding  
$.001 par value shares of beneficial  
interest (unlimited authorization) 3,450,026
Net Asset Value Per Share—  
Admiral Shares $65.45

See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements.
* Non-income-producing security.
^ Includes partial security positions on loan to broker-dealers. The total value of securities on loan is $6,162,000.
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 $6,656,000 of collateral received for securities on loan.
4 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.
5 Securities with a value of $6,499,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open futures contracts.
6 The issuer was placed under federal conservatorship in September 2008; since that time, its daily operations have been managed by the
Federal Housing Finance Agency and it receives capital from the U.S. Treasury, as needed to maintain a positive net worth, in exchange for
senior preferred stock.
REIT—Real Estate Investment Trust.
See accompanying Notes, which are an integral part of the Financial Statements.

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Growth and Income Fund

Statement of Operations

  Six Months Ended
  March 31, 2016
  ($000)
Investment Income  
Income  
Dividends1 78,321
Interest2 271
Securities Lending 173
Total Income 78,765
Expenses  
Investment Advisory Fees—Note B  
Basic Fee 3,539
Performance Adjustment (220)
The Vanguard Group—Note C  
Management and Administrative—Investor Shares 2,475
Management and Administrative—Admiral Shares 1,424
Marketing and Distribution—Investor Shares 269
Marketing and Distribution—Admiral Shares 133
Custodian Fees 116
Shareholders’ Reports—Investor Shares 36
Shareholders’ Reports—Admiral Shares 10
Trustees’ Fees and Expenses 4
Total Expenses 7,786
Net Investment Income 70,979
Realized Net Gain (Loss)  
Investment Securities Sold 78,718
Futures Contracts 6,109
Realized Net Gain (Loss) 84,827
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)  
Investment Securities 311,064
Futures Contracts 5,080
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) 316,144
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations 471,950
1 Dividends are net of foreign withholding taxes of $9,000.
2 Interest income from an affiliated company of the fund was $258,000.

 

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

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Growth and Income Fund

Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  Six Months Ended Year Ended
  March 31, September 30,
  2016 2015
  ($000) ($000)
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets    
Operations    
Net Investment Income 70,979 109,469
Realized Net Gain (Loss) 84,827 348,167
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) 316,144 (438,192)
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations 471,950 19,444
Distributions    
Net Investment Income    
Investor Shares (26,123) (50,108)
Admiral Shares (32,871) (57,404)
Realized Capital Gain1    
Investor Shares (152,494) (180,933)
Admiral Shares (181,922) (179,399)
Total Distributions (393,410) (467,844)
Capital Share Transactions    
Investor Shares 83,951 (82,169)
Admiral Shares 229,736 501,641
Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions 313,687 419,472
Total Increase (Decrease) 392,227 (28,928)
Net Assets    
Beginning of Period 5,867,507 5,896,435
End of Period2 6,259,734 5,867,507

1 Includes fiscal 2016 and 2015 short-term gain distributions totaling $65,407,000 and $830,000, respectively. Short-term gain distributions
are treated as ordinary income dividends for tax purposes.
2 Net Assets—End of Period includes undistributed (overdistributed) net investment income of $28,866,000 and $16,881,000.

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

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Growth and Income Fund

Financial Highlights

Investor Shares              
  Six Months          
    Ended          
For a Share Outstanding March 31, Year Ended September 30,
Throughout Each Period   2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period $39.55 $42.69 $36.02 $30.73 $23.86 $23.98
Investment Operations              
Net Investment Income   . 459 .729 . 671 . 631 . 549 . 482
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)            
on Investments   2.734 (.541) 6.639 5.288 6.846 (.124)
Total from Investment Operations   3.193 .188 7.310 5.919 7.395 .358
Distributions              
Dividends from Net Investment Income (. 388) (.724) (. 640) (. 629) (. 525) (. 478)
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains (2.265) (2.604)
Total Distributions   (2.653) (3.328) (.640) (.629) (.525) (.478)
Net Asset Value, End of Period   $40.09 $39.55 $42.69 $36.02 $30.73 $23.86
 
Total Return1   8.07% 0.22% 20.42% 19.54% 31.27% 1.28%
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data              
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) $2,810 $2,691 $2,979 $2,869 $2,798 $2,548
Ratio of Total Expenses to              
Average Net Assets2   0.32% 0.34% 0.37% 0.36% 0.36% 0.32%
Ratio of Net Investment Income to            
Average Net Assets   2.31% 1.70% 1.67% 1.90% 1.94% 1.78%
Portfolio Turnover Rate   99% 116% 133% 109% 102% 120%

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%), 0.00%, 0.02%, 0.01%, 0.01%, and (0.04%).

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   2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period $64.57 $69.71 $58.82 $50.18 $38.97 $39.15
Investment Operations              
Net Investment Income   .784 1.272 1.176 1.097 .952 .832
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)            
on Investments   4.461 (.897) 10.833 8.633 11.168 (.199)
Total from Investment Operations   5.245 .375 12.009 9.730 12.120 .633
Distributions              
Dividends from Net Investment Income (.668) (1.264) (1.119) (1.090) (.910) (.813)
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains (3.697) (4.251)
Total Distributions   (4.365) (5.515) (1.119) (1.090) (.910) (.813)
Net Asset Value, End of Period   $65.45 $64.57 $69.71 $58.82 $50.18 $38.97
 
Total Return1   8.12% 0.31% 20.55% 19.69% 31.40% 1.39%
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data              
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) $3,450 $3,177 $2,917 $2,157 $1,591 $1,131
Ratio of Total Expenses to              
Average Net Assets2   0.21% 0.23% 0.26% 0.26% 0.25% 0.21%
Ratio of Net Investment Income to            
Average Net Assets   2.42% 1.81% 1.78% 2.00% 2.05% 1.89%
Portfolio Turnover Rate   99% 116% 133% 109% 102% 120%

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%), 0.00%, 0.02%, 0.01%, 0.01%, and (0.04%).

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. investment companies. 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. Counterparty risk involving futures is mitigated because a regulated clearinghouse is the counterparty instead of the clearing broker. To further mitigate counterparty risk, the fund trades futures contracts on an exchange, monitors the financial strength of its clearing brokers and clearinghouse, and has entered into clearing agreements with its clearing brokers. The clearinghouse imposes initial margin requirements to secure the fund’s performance and requires daily settlement of variation margin representing changes in the market value of each contract.

Futures contracts are valued at their quoted daily settlement prices. The aggregate settlement values 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, 2016, the fund’s average investments in long and short futures contracts represented 2% and 0% of net assets, respectively, based on the average of aggregate settlement values at each quarter-end during the period.

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, 2012–2015), and for the period ended March 31, 2016, and has concluded that no provision for federal income tax is required in the fund’s financial statements.

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

5. Securities Lending: To earn additional income, the fund lends its securities to qualified institutional borrowers. Security loans are subject to termination by the fund at any time, and are required to be secured at all times by collateral in an amount at least equal to the market value of securities loaned. Daily market fluctuations could cause the value of loaned securities to be more or less than the value of the collateral received. When this occurs, the collateral is adjusted and settled on the next business day. The fund further mitigates its counterparty risk by entering into securities lending transactions only with a diverse group of prequalified counterparties, monitoring their financial strength, and entering into master securities lending agreements with its counterparties. The master securities lending agreements provide that, in the event of a counterparty’s default (including bankruptcy), the fund may terminate any loans with that borrower, determine the net amount owed, and sell or retain the collateral up to the net amount owed to the fund; however, such actions may be subject to legal proceedings. While collateral mitigates counterparty risk, in the absence of a default the fund may experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned. The fund invests cash collateral received in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, and records a liability in the Statement of Net Assets for the return of the collateral, during the period the securities are on loan. Securities lending income represents fees charged to borrowers plus income earned on invested cash collateral, less expenses associated with the loan.

6. Credit Facility: The fund and certain other funds managed by The Vanguard Group (“Vanguard”) participate in a $3.1 billion committed credit facility provided by a syndicate of lenders pursuant to a credit agreement that may be renewed annually; each fund is individually liable for its borrowings, if any, under the credit facility. Borrowings may be utilized for temporary and emergency purposes, and are subject to the fund’s regulatory and contractual borrowing restrictions. The participating funds are charged administrative fees and an annual commitment fee of 0.10% of the undrawn amount of the facility; these fees are allocated to the funds based on a method approved by the fund’s board of trustees and included in Management and Administrative expenses on the fund’s Statement of Operations. Any borrowings under this facility bear interest at a rate based upon the higher of the one-month London Interbank Offered Rate, federal funds effective rate, or overnight bank funding rate plus an agreed-upon spread.

The fund had no borrowings outstanding at March 31, 2016, or at any time during the period then ended.

7. Other: Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date. Interest income includes income distributions received from Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund and is accrued daily. Premiums and discounts on debt securities purchased are amortized and accreted, respectively, to interest income over the lives of the respective securities. 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.

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

Vanguard provides investment advisory services to a portion of the fund as described below; the fund paid Vanguard advisory fees of $782,000 for the six months ended March 31, 2016.

For the six months ended March 31, 2016, the aggregate investment advisory fee paid to all advisors represented an effective annual basic rate of 0.12% of the fund’s average net assets, before a net decrease of $220,000 (-0.01%) based on performance.

C. In accordance with the terms of a Funds’ Service Agreement (the “FSA”) between Vanguard and the fund, Vanguard furnishes to the fund corporate management, administrative, marketing, distribution, and cash management services at Vanguard’s cost of operations (as defined by the FSA). These costs of operations are allocated to the fund based on methods and guidelines approved by the board of trustees. Vanguard does not require reimbursement in the current period for certain costs of operations (such as deferred compensation/benefits and risk/insurance costs); the fund’s liability for these costs of operations is included in Payables to Vanguard on the Statement of Net Assets.

Upon the request of Vanguard, the fund may invest up to 0.40% of its net assets as capital in Vanguard. At March 31, 2016, the fund had contributed to Vanguard capital in the amount of $526,000, representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 0.21% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and employees, respectively, 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).

The following table summarizes the market value of the fund’s investments as of March 31, 2016, based on the inputs used to value them:

  Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
Investments ($000) ($000) ($000)
Common Stocks 6,113,946 14
Temporary Cash Investments 157,663 9,798
Futures Contracts—Assets1 11
Futures Contracts—Liabilities1 (259)
Total 6,271,361 9,798 14
1 Represents variation margin on the last day of the reporting period.

 

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E. At March 31, 2016, 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 2016 1,284 131,706 2,652

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. The fund’s tax-basis capital gains and losses are determined only at the end of each fiscal year.

At March 31, 2016, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $5,435,055,000. Net unrealized appreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $846,366,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $979,257,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $132,891,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.

G. During the six months ended March 31, 2016, the fund purchased $2,948,249,000 of investment securities and sold $2,940,497,000 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, 2016 September 30, 2015
  Amount Shares Amount Shares
  ($000) (000) ($000) (000)
Investor Shares        
Issued 120,594 3,043 316,336 7,469
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 173,445 4,324 225,186 5,491
Redeemed (210,088) (5,305) (623,691) (14,720)
Net Increase (Decrease)—Investor Shares 83,951 2,062 (82,169) (1,760)
Admiral Shares        
Issued 196,768 3,034 646,610 9,344
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 200,860 3,068 221,904 3,311
Redeemed (167,892) (2,589) (366,873) (5,305)
Net Increase (Decrease)—Admiral Shares 229,736 3,513 501,641 7,350

 

I. Management has determined that no material events or transactions occurred subsequent to March 31, 2016, that would require 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, 2016      
  Beginning Ending Expenses
  Account Value Account Value Paid During
Growth and Income Fund 9/30/2015 3/31/2016 Period
Based on Actual Fund Return      
Investor Shares $1,000.00 $1,080.70 $1.66
Admiral Shares 1,000.00 1,081.22 1.09
Based on Hypothetical 5% Yearly Return      
Investor Shares $1,000.00 $1,023.40 $1.62
Admiral Shares 1,000.00 1,023.95 1.06

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 0.32% for Investor Shares and 0.21% 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 (183/366).

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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 198 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 Rajiv L. Gupta
  Born 1945. Trustee Since December 2001.2 Principal
F. William McNabb III Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years and Other
Born 1957. Trustee Since July 2009. Chairman of Experience: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
the Board. Principal Occupation(s) During the Past (retired 2009) and President (2006–2008) of
Five Years and Other Experience: Chairman of the Rohm and Haas Co. (chemicals); Director of Tyco
Board of The Vanguard Group, Inc., and of each of International PLC (diversified manufacturing and
the investment companies served by The Vanguard services), HP Inc. (printer and personal computer
Group, since January 2010; Director of The Vanguard manufacturing), and Delphi Automotive PLC
Group since 2008; Chief Executive Officer and (automotive components); Senior Advisor at
President of The Vanguard Group, and of each of New Mountain Capital.
the investment companies served by The Vanguard  
Group, since 2008; Director of Vanguard Marketing Amy Gutmann
Corporation; Managing Director of The Vanguard Born 1949. Trustee Since June 2006. Principal
Group (1995–2008). Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years and
  Other Experience: President of the University of
IndependentTrustees Pennsylvania; Christopher H. Browne Distinguished
  Professor of Political Science, School of Arts and
Emerson U. Fullwood Sciences, and Professor of Communication, Annenberg
Born 1948. Trustee Since January 2008. Principal School for Communication, with secondary faculty
Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years and Other appointments in the Department of Philosophy, School
Experience: Executive Chief Staff and Marketing of Arts and Sciences, and at the Graduate School of
Officer for North America and Corporate Vice President Education, University of Pennsylvania; Trustee of the
(retired 2008) of Xerox Corporation (document manage- National Constitution Center; Chair of the Presidential
ment products and services); Executive in Residence Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.
and 2009–2010 Distinguished Minett Professor at  
the Rochester Institute of Technology; Lead Director JoAnn Heffernan Heisen
of SPX FLOW, Inc. (multi-industry manufacturing); Born 1950. Trustee Since July 1998. Principal
Director of the United Way of Rochester, the University Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years and
of Rochester Medical Center, Monroe Community Other Experience: Corporate Vice President and
College Foundation, North Carolina A&T University, Chief Global Diversity Officer (retired 2008) and
and Roberts Wesleyan College. Member of the Executive Committee (1997–2008)
  of Johnson & Johnson (pharmaceuticals/medical
  devices/consumer products); Director of Skytop
  Lodge Corporation (hotels) and the Robert Wood
  Johnson Foundation; Member of the Advisory
  Board of the Institute for Women’s Leadership
  at Rutgers University.

 


 

F. Joseph Loughrey Executive Officers  
Born 1949. Trustee Since October 2009. Principal    
Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years and Other Glenn Booraem  
Experience: President and Chief Operating Officer Born 1967. Treasurer Since May 2015. Principal
(retired 2009) of Cummins Inc. (industrial machinery); Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years and
Chairman of the Board of Hillenbrand, Inc. (specialized Other Experience: Principal of The Vanguard Group,
consumer services), and of Oxfam America; Director Inc.; Treasurer of each of the investment companies
of SKF AB (industrial machinery), Hyster-Yale Materials served by The Vanguard Group; Controller of each of
Handling, Inc. (forklift trucks), the Lumina Foundation the investment companies served by The Vanguard
for Education, and the V Foundation for Cancer Group (2010–2015); Assistant Controller of each of
Research; Member of the Advisory Council for the the investment companies served by The Vanguard
College of Arts and Letters and of the Advisory Board Group (2001–2010).  
to the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, both
at the University of Notre Dame. Thomas J. Higgins  
Born 1957. Chief Financial Officer Since September
Mark Loughridge 2008. Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five
Born 1953. Trustee Since March 2012. Principal Years and Other Experience: Principal of The Vanguard
Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years and Other Group, Inc.; Chief Financial Officer of each of the
Experience: Senior Vice President and Chief Financial investment companies served by The Vanguard Group;
Officer (retired 2013) at IBM (information technology Treasurer of each of the investment companies served
services); Fiduciary Member of IBM’s Retirement Plan by The Vanguard Group (1998–2008).
Committee (2004–2013); Director of the Dow Chemical  
Company; Member of the Council on Chicago Booth. Peter Mahoney
Born 1974. Controller Since May 2015. Principal
Scott C. Malpass Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years and
Born 1962. Trustee Since March 2012. Principal Other Experience: Head of Global Fund Accounting
Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years and Other at The Vanguard Group, Inc.; Controller of each of the
Experience: Chief Investment Officer and Vice investment companies served by The Vanguard Group;
President at the University of Notre Dame; Assistant Head of International Fund Services at The Vanguard
Professor of Finance at the Mendoza College of Group (2008–2014).  
Business at Notre Dame; Member of the Notre Dame  
403(b) Investment Committee, the Board of Advisors Heidi Stam
for Spruceview Capital Partners, and the Investment Born 1956. Secretary Since July 2005. Principal
Advisory Committee of Major League Baseball; Board Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years and Other
Member of TIFF Advisory Services, Inc., and Catholic Experience: Managing Director of The Vanguard
Investment Services, Inc. (investment advisors). Group, Inc.; General Counsel of The Vanguard Group;
Secretary of The Vanguard Group and of each of the
André F. Perold investment companies served by The Vanguard Group;
Born 1952. Trustee Since December 2004. Principal Director and Senior Vice President of Vanguard
Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years and Other Marketing Corporation.  
Experience: George Gund Professor of Finance and    
Banking, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School Vanguard Senior ManagementTeam
(retired 2011); Chief Investment Officer and Managing Mortimer J. Buckley James M. Norris
Partner of HighVista Strategies LLC (private investment Kathleen C. Gubanich Thomas M. Rampulla
firm); Director of Rand Merchant Bank; Overseer of Martha G. King Glenn W. Reed
the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. John T. Marcante Karin A. Risi
Chris D. McIsaac  
Peter F. Volanakis
Born 1955. Trustee Since July 2009. Principal    
Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years and Other Chairman Emeritus and Senior Advisor
Experience: President and Chief Operating Officer    
(retired 2010) of Corning Incorporated (communications  John J. Brennan  
equipment); Trustee of Colby-Sawyer College and  Chairman, 1996–2009  
Chairman of its Finance and Enrollment Committee;  Chief Executive Officer and President, 1996–2008
Member of the Advisory Board of the Norris Cotton    
Cancer Center. Founder  
  John C. Bogle  
  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, the Vanguard Municipal Bond Funds, and the Vanguard State Tax-Exempt Funds.


 

 

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Semiannual Report | March 31, 2016

Vanguard Structured Equity Funds

Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund

Vanguard Structured Broad Market Fund


 

Vanguard’s Principles for Investing Success

We want to give you the best chance of investment success. These principles, grounded in Vanguard’s research and experience, can put you on the right path.

Goals. Create clear, appropriate investment goals.

Balance. Develop a suitable asset allocation using broadly diversified funds. Cost. Minimize cost.

Discipline. Maintain perspective and long-term discipline.

A single theme unites these principles: Focus on the things you can control.

We believe there is no wiser course for any investor.

Contents  
Your Fund’s Total Returns. 1
Chairman’s Letter. 2
Advisor’s Report. 7
Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund. 10
Structured Broad Market Fund. 24
About Your Fund’s Expenses. 39
Trustees Approve Advisory Arrangements. 41
Glossary. 42

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: Pictured is a sailing block on the Brilliant, a 1932 schooner docked in Mystic, Connecticut. A type of pulley, the
sailing block helps coordinate the setting of the sails. At Vanguard, the intricate coordination of technology and people allows
us to help millions of clients around the world reach their financial goals.


 

Your Fund’s Total Returns

Six Months Ended March 31, 2016  
  Total
  Returns
Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund  
Institutional Shares 8.40%
Institutional Plus Shares 8.42
S&P 500 Index 8.49
Large-Cap Core Funds Average 6.23
Large-Cap Core Funds Average: Derived from data provided by Lipper, a Thomson Reuters Company.  
Vanguard Structured Broad Market Fund  
Institutional Shares 5.24%
Institutional Plus Shares 5.28
Russell 3000 Index 7.30
Multi-Cap Core Funds Average 4.90

Multi-Cap Core Funds Average: Derived from data provided by Lipper, a Thomson Reuters Company.
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, 2015, Through March 31, 2016      
      Distributions Per Share
  Starting Ending Income Capital
  Share Price Share Price Dividends Gains
Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund        
Institutional Shares $38.29 $39.31 $0.833 $1.348
Institutional Plus Shares 75.80 77.81 1.672 2.668
Vanguard Structured Broad Market Fund        
Institutional Shares $33.24 $31.78 $0.727 $2.538
Institutional Plus Shares 66.43 63.53 1.463 5.072

 

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Chairman’s Letter

Dear Shareholder,

Anyone hoping that the financial markets might become a bit more settled after the Federal Reserve’s long-anticipated rate increase—announced December 16—would have been disappointed. Stocks slumped from December through mid-February before rebounding to finish the period higher. These sharp shifts led investors to favor safer assets, a trend that generally benefited larger-capitalization stocks and more defensive sectors.

Vanguard Structured Broad Market Fund, which includes small-, mid-, and large-cap stocks, struggled with the market movements. Institutional Shares returned 5.24%; Institutional Plus Shares, with their lower expense ratio, returned 5.28%. The fund’s results were about 2 percentage points lower than the return of its benchmark, the Russell 3000 Index, but were higher than the average return for its peer group.

Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund fared better in navigating the ups and downs. The fund returned 8.40% for Institutional Shares and 8.42% for Institutional Plus Shares. Those performances were just shy of the return of the fund’s benchmark, the S&P 500 Index, and more than 2 percentage points better than the average return for peer funds.

In the benchmark indexes of both funds, returns were positive across all sectors, with telecommunication services and utilities leading the way and health care

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and financials figuring among the laggards. Stock selection in both funds produced mixed results.

Stocks charted an uneven course en route to a solid outcome

The broad U.S. stock market returned about 7% for the six months. The period began and ended strongly, with fluctuations in the middle as China’s economic slowdown and falling oil and commodity prices worried investors.

Stocks rallied in March as investors again seemed encouraged by news about monetary policy, especially after the Fed indicated that it would raise interest rates fewer times in 2016 than previously anticipated. International stocks returned about 3% for the period after surging more than 8% in March. Stocks from emerging markets and from developed Pacific markets outperformed developed European stocks, which were nearly flat. U.S. dollar-based investors benefited as many foreign currencies strengthened against the dollar, a turnabout from the trend of recent years.

Bonds produced gains following a subpar start

The broad U.S. taxable bond market returned 2.44% for the fiscal half year. Returns were weak in the first three months, which culminated with the Fed’s quarter-percentage-point interest rate increase in December.

Market Barometer      
 
  Total Returns
  Periods Ended March 31, 2016
  Six One Five Years
  Months Year (Annualized)
Stocks      
Russell 1000 Index (Large-caps) 7.75% 0.50% 11.35%
Russell 2000 Index (Small-caps) 2.02 -9.76 7.20
Russell 3000 Index (Broad U.S. market) 7.30 -0.34 11.01
FTSE All-World ex US Index (International) 3.09 -8.53 0.70
 
Bonds      
Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (Broad taxable market) 2.44% 1.96% 3.78%
Barclays Municipal Bond Index (Broad tax-exempt market) 3.20 3.98 5.59
Citigroup Three-Month U.S. Treasury Bill Index 0.06 0.08 0.04
 
CPI      
Consumer Price Index 0.08% 0.85% 1.28%

 

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But with stocks volatile and the Fed indicating it would proceed cautiously with future rate hikes, bonds rallied in the final three months. The yield of the 10-year U.S. Treasury note closed at 1.77% at the end of March, down from 2.05% six months earlier. (Bond prices and yields move in opposite directions.)

Returns for money market funds and savings accounts remained limited by the Fed’s still-low target rate of 0.25%–0.5%.

International bond markets (as measured by the Barclays Global Aggregate Index ex USD) returned almost 7%. Like stocks, international bond returns for U.S.-based

Vanguard’s growth translates into lower costs for you
 
Research indicates that lower-cost investments have tended to outperform higher-cost ones.
So it’s little wonder that funds with lower expense ratios—including those at Vanguard—have
dominated the industry’s cash inflows in recent years.
 
Vanguard has long been a low-cost leader, with expenses well below those of many other
investment management companies. That cost difference remains a powerful advantage for
Vanguard clients. Why? Because a lower expense ratio allows a fund to pass along a greater
share of its returns to its investors.
 
What’s more, as you can see in the chart below, we’ve been able to lower our costs continually
as our assets under management have grown. Our steady growth has not been an explicit
business objective. Rather, we focus on putting our clients’ interests first at all times, and
giving them the best chance for investment success. But economies of scale—the cost
efficiencies that come with our growth—have allowed us to keep lowering our fund costs,
even as we invest in our people and technology.
 
The benefit of economies of scale

Note: Data are for U.S.-based Vanguard funds only.
Source: Vanguard.

 

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investors benefited from dollar weakness. Even in local currencies, however, international bond returns were solidly positive, boosted in part by additional stimulus measures taken in Europe and Asia to combat weak growth and low inflation.

The advisor’s model produced better returns among large-caps

Vanguard Quantitative Equity Group (QEG), the funds’ advisor, uses a disciplined, data-driven process to assess the relative attractiveness of stocks—with the goal of providing long-term returns that are greater than those of their benchmarks while tightly controlling risk. Similar to a traditional fund manager, QEG analyzes several criteria that research has shown can contribute to long-term outperformance, including valuation, revenue and earnings growth, dividend policy, reinvestment decisions, and balance sheet quality.

A proprietary computer model helps QEG systematically screen and rank stocks within each of the industry groups that make up the investable universe of each fund—roughly 3,000 stocks in the case of the Broad Market Fund and about 500 for the Large-Cap Equity Fund. This investment process has been developed and refined over more than three decades, and is supported by an experienced in-house research team.

QEG generally keeps each fund’s sector exposures aligned closely with those of the index; it doesn’t favor or shun a particular sector significantly in the attempt to improve performance relative to the benchmark. Positioning within industry subgroups can make a difference, but what often matters more is how the holdings in the funds perform.

The Broad Market Fund has had above-benchmark returns for each of the last five fiscal years, while the Large-Cap Equity Fund beat its benchmark in four of those years. However, as with any active investment strategy, it works better under some market conditions than others. For the six months under review, investors’ concerns about global macroeconomic factors seemed to take precedence over company-specific fundamentals. In this environment, the Large-Cap Equity Fund performed in line with its index, while the Broad Market Fund fell behind its benchmark.

Compared with the benchmark, the Broad Market Fund’s health care holdings were a bright spot. The screening process here led to outperformance in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals by helping the fund sidestep some of the poorest performers in those segments. Overall, however, stock selection in the fund proved subpar, with notable pockets of underperformance in information technology, financials, and consumer discretionary.

For the Large-Cap Equity Fund, areas of relative strength included stocks of apparel makers, internet retailers, and auto parts companies in the consumer discretionary sector, as well as insurance and consumer finance companies in the financial sector. The fund’s successes were offset, however, by underperformance elsewhere,

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including health care providers and services. Holdings in energy and industrials were significant detractors as well.

For more information about the advisor’s approach and the funds’ positioning during the year, please see the Advisor’s Report that follows this letter.

Consider rebalancing to manage your risk

Let’s say you’ve taken the time to carefully create an appropriate asset allocation for your investment portfolio. Your efforts have produced a diversified mix of stock, bond, and money market funds tailored to your goals, time horizon, and risk tolerance.

But what should you do when your portfolio drifts from its original asset allocation as the financial markets rise or fall? Consider rebalancing to bring it back to the proper mix.

Just one year of outsized returns can throw your allocation out of whack. Take 2013 as an example. That year, the broad stock market (as measured by the Russell 3000 Index) returned 33.55% and the broad taxable bond market (as measured by the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index) returned –2.02%. A hypothetical portfolio that tracked the broad domestic market indexes and started the year with 60% stocks and 40% bonds would have ended with a more aggressive mix of 67% stocks and 33% bonds.

Rebalancing to bring your portfolio back to its original targets would require you to shift assets away from areas that have been performing well toward those that have been falling behind. That isn’t easy or intuitive. It’s a way to minimize risk rather than maximize returns and to stick with your investment plan through different types of markets. (You can read more about our approach in Best Practices for Portfolio Rebalancing at vanguard.com/research.)

It’s not necessary to check your portfolio every day or every month, much less rebalance it that frequently. It may be more appropriate to monitor it annually or semiannually and rebalance when your allocation swings 5 percentage points or more from its target.

It’s important, of course, to be aware of the tax implications. You’ll want to consult with your tax advisor, but generally speaking, it may be a good idea to make any asset changes within a tax-advantaged retirement account or to direct new cash flows into the underweighted asset class.

However you go about it, keeping your asset allocation from drifting too far off target can help you stay on track with the investment plan you’ve crafted to meet your financial goals.

As always, thank you for investing with Vanguard.

Sincerely,


F. William McNabb III
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
April 13, 2016

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Advisor’s Report

For the fiscal half year ended March 31, 2016, Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund returned 8.40% for Institutional Shares, underperforming the return of its benchmark, the S&P 500 Index, by 0.09 percentage point. Vanguard Structured Broad Market Fund returned 5.24% for Institutional Shares, underperforming its benchmark, the Russell 3000 Index, by 2.06 percentage points.

Over the period, U.S. equities produced strong returns, but experienced heavy volatility. The broad U.S. equity market, as measured by the Russell 3000 Index, was up 7.30%. Large-capitalization stocks performed better than smaller-caps, and value-oriented stocks outpaced growth stocks. Globally, the U.S. equity market outperformed international markets, while emerging markets outpaced developed markets.

All ten sector groups in the broad U.S. equity market generated positive returns. Results were best in telecommunication services, utilities, and materials. Energy, financials, and health care were the laggards.

In late 2015, the U.S. economy continued to grow, but at a slower pace. Fourth-quarter real GDP came in at 1.4%, compared with 2.0% in the third quarter, with the deceleration attributed primarily to downturns in nonresidential fixed investment, exports, and state and local government spending. Corporate profits decreased 8.1% in the final quarter of 2015, reflecting the largest quarterly decline since the first quarter of 2011. However, the U.S. job market improved further. In March, total nonfarm payrolls rose by 215,000, and the unemployment rate stood at 5.0%.

Oil prices declined significantly in the first quarter of 2016 but have since recovered, increasing over 40% from their mid-February low. This volatility spilled over into the global stock markets, as they saw similar price movements in the same quarter. The U.S. Federal Reserve raised interest rates in December, after keeping rates near zero since 2008. Additional interest rate hikes are expected later this year, but changes are likely to be gradual and will depend on global economic data. Meanwhile, several of the world’s central banks, including the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan, are experimenting with negative interest rates in an attempt to spur economic growth.

Although we seek to understand the impact of macroeconomic factors on portfolio performance, our investment process is centered on specific stock fundamentals. We use a disciplined, quantitative approach, not technical analysis of stock price movements. Our model aims to systematically identify stocks within each industry group in our investment universe that are more likely to exhibit long-term outperformance.

Our model focuses on five key themes that we believe attractive stocks tend to exhibit: high quality (healthy balance sheets and consistent cash flow generation); effective management decisions regarding the use of capital (sound investment policies that favor internal over external

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funding); consistent earnings growth (a demonstrated ability to increase earnings year after year); strong momentum (a market confirmation of our view); and reasonable valuations (we try to avoid overpriced stocks).

This framework helps us to identify and take advantage of inefficiencies in the market caused by persistent biases in investor behavior. Using the results of our model, we then construct and review our portfolio daily with the goal of maximizing expected return while minimizing exposure to risks that our research indicates do not improve returns, such as deviations from sector weightings relative to the benchmark.

The management decisions and valuation components of our model were able to produce positive relative performance for both the Structured Broad Market Fund and Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund. Unfortunately, the momentum and quality components did not perform as expected.

The model’s effectiveness over the period across sectors was mixed. The Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund produced positive stock selection results in four of the ten sectors in the benchmark, benefiting the most from the strong stock selection in consumer discretionary, financials, and telecommunication services. We underper-formed in health care and energy.

The Structured Broad Market Fund also produced positive stock selection results in four of ten sectors, with the strongest results coming from health care and telecommunication services. We underperformed in consumer discretionary, financials, and information technology.

Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund

At the individual stock level, the largest contributors came from overweight positions in Nasdaq (+25.5%), CenturyLink (+32.0%), and Avery Dennison (+28.9%). In addition, when comparing the portfolio’s performance with that of its benchmark, we benefited from underweighting or avoiding poorly performing stocks such as American Express (–16.5%) and Morgan Stanley (–19.8%).

Unfortunately, we were not able to avoid all poor performers. Overweight positions in Express Scripts Holding Co. (–15.2%) and Eli Lilly (–12.8%) directly lowered performance. Also, underweighting companies that were not positively identified by the fundamentals in our model, such as General Electric (+28.0%) and Philip Morris International (+26.4%), hurt our overall outperformance relative to our benchmark.

Structured Broad Market Fund

At the individual stock level, the largest contributors came from overweight positions in Trinseo (+45.8%), Verizon Communications (+27.5%), and Hawaiian Holdings (+91.2%). In addition, when comparing the portfolio’s performance with that of its benchmark, we benefited from underweighting or avoiding poor performers such as Biogen (–10.8%) and Kinder Morgan (–33.8%).

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Overweight positions in Santander Consumer USA Holdings (–48.6%) and Fitbit (–59.8%) directly lowered performance. Also, underweighting companies that were not positively identified by the fundamentals in our model, such as McDonald’s (+29.5%) and Microsoft (+26.5%), hurt our overall performance relative to our benchmark.

Although we recognize that risk can reward or punish us in the near term, we continue to believe that constructing a portfolio that emphasizes the key fundamentals within our model will benefit investors over the long term. We feel that the Structured Equity Funds offer a strong mix of stocks with attractive valuation and growth characteristics relative to their underlying benchmarks.

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

Portfolio Managers:

James P. Stetler, Principal

Michael R. Roach, CFA

Anatoly Shtekhman, CFA

Binbin Guo, Principal, Head of Equity
Research and Portfolio Strategies

Vanguard Quantitative Equity Group

April 19, 2016

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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund

Fund Profile
As of March 31, 2016

Share-Class Characteristics  
  Institutional Institutional
  Shares Plus Shares
Ticker Symbol VSLIX VSLPX
Expense Ratio1 0.20% 0.16%
30-Day SEC Yield 1.96% 2.00%

 

Portfolio Characteristics    
      DJ
      U.S. Total
    S&P 500 Market
  Fund Index FA Index
Number of Stocks 176 504 3,900
Median Market Cap $33.0B $79.4B $52.5B
Price/Earnings Ratio 17.7x 20.5x 21.8x
Price/Book Ratio 2.6x 2.8x 2.7x
Return on Equity 17.7% 18.5% 17.5%
Earnings Growth      
Rate 8.4% 7.6% 8.0%
Dividend Yield 2.2% 2.2% 2.1%
Foreign Holdings 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Turnover Rate      
(Annualized) 75%
Short-Term Reserves -0.3%

 

Sector Diversification (% of equity exposure)
      DJ
      U.S. Total
    S&P 500 Market
  Fund Index FA Index
Consumer      
Discretionary 13.0% 12.9% 13.6%
Consumer Staples 10.4 10.4 9.2
Energy 6.7 6.8 6.1
Financials 15.6 15.6 17.4
Health Care 14.4 14.3 13.7
Industrials 10.1 10.1 10.7
Information      
Technology 20.8 20.8 20.1
Materials 2.8 2.8 3.2
Telecommunication      
Services 2.8 2.8 2.5
Utilities 3.4 3.5 3.5

 

Volatility Measures    
    DJ
    U.S. Total
  S&P 500 Market
  Index FA Index
R-Squared 0.98 0.98
Beta 1.00 0.98

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)
Apple Inc. Technology  
  Hardware, Storage &  
  Peripherals 2.8%
Alphabet Inc. Internet Software &  
  Services 2.3
Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals 2.2
General Electric Co. Industrial  
  Conglomerates 2.2
Microsoft Corp. Systems Software 1.9
Exxon Mobil Corp. Integrated Oil & Gas 1.4
Verizon Communications Integrated  
Inc. Telecommunication  
  Services 1.3
Amazon.com Inc. Internet Retail 1.3
Gilead Sciences Inc. Biotechnology 1.2
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Diversified Banks 1.2
Top Ten   17.8%

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

Investment Focus

 

1 The expense ratios shown are from the prospectus dated January 26, 2016. For the six months ended March 31, 2016, the annualized expense
ratios were 0.18% for Institutional Shares and 0.14% for Institutional Plus Shares.

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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund

Performance Summary

All of the returns in this report represent past performance, which is not a guarantee of future results that may be achieved by the fund. (Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data cited. For performance data current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at 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, 2016

Note: For 2016, performance data reflect the six months ended March 31, 2016.
 
Average Annual Total Returns: Periods Ended March 31, 2016      
 
  Inception One Five Since
  Date Year Years Inception
Institutional Shares 5/16/2006 2.64% 12.99% 7.38%
Institutional Plus Shares 5/15/2006 2.66 13.05 7.44

 

See Financial Highlights for dividend and capital gains information.

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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund

Financial Statements (unaudited)

Statement of Net Assets
As of March 31, 2016

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 (13.0%)  
* Amazon.com Inc. 11,688 6,938
  Target Corp. 54,677 4,499
  Walt Disney Co. 38,034 3,777
  Carnival Corp. 70,800 3,736
* O’Reilly Automotive Inc. 13,199 3,612
  Omnicom Group Inc. 41,668 3,468
  Marriott International Inc.    
  Class A 47,672 3,393
  Leggett & Platt Inc. 66,493 3,218
^ Nordstrom Inc. 56,009 3,204
  Staples Inc. 290,404 3,203
  Best Buy Co. Inc. 94,970 3,081
  Darden Restaurants Inc. 46,300 3,070
* Discovery Communications    
  Inc. Class A 104,142 2,982
  GameStop Corp. Class A 92,108 2,923
  News Corp. Class B 215,600 2,857
  Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. 81,671 2,693
  Home Depot Inc. 17,444 2,328
  PVH Corp. 23,372 2,315
  General Motors Co. 73,500 2,310
  Interpublic Group of    
  Cos. Inc. 86,180 1,978
  Comcast Corp. Class A 29,036 1,774
  DR Horton Inc. 56,052 1,694
* Michael Kors Holdings Ltd. 21,959 1,251
  McDonald’s Corp. 5,457 686
* Discovery    
  Communications Inc. 8,000 216
      71,206
Consumer Staples (10.3%)    
  Wal-Mart Stores Inc. 89,089 6,102
  Procter & Gamble Co. 50,079 4,122
  General Mills Inc. 62,714 3,973
  Kroger Co. 100,170 3,831
  ConAgra Foods Inc. 79,124 3,531
  Tyson Foods Inc. Class A 52,502 3,500
  Kimberly-Clark Corp. 25,118 3,379
  Campbell Soup Co. 51,747 3,301
  Dr Pepper Snapple    
  Group Inc. 35,567 3,180
  Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. 62,545 3,174
  Clorox Co. 25,089 3,163
  Altria Group Inc. 46,026 2,884
  Sysco Corp. 59,350 2,773
  Coca-Cola Co. 56,576 2,625
  Hershey Co. 25,382 2,337
  PepsiCo Inc. 18,092 1,854
  Philip Morris    
  International Inc. 17,041 1,672
  Colgate-Palmolive Co. 8,542 603
  CVS Health Corp. 5,300 550
  Estee Lauder Cos. Inc.    
  Class A 2,750 259
  Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. 1,744 63
      56,876
Energy (6.7%)    
  Exxon Mobil Corp. 94,396 7,890
  Phillips 66 47,531 4,116
  Valero Energy Corp. 59,749 3,832
  Tesoro Corp. 35,658 3,067
*,^ Southwestern Energy Co. 374,391 3,021
^ Transocean Ltd. 302,599 2,766
  Ensco plc Class A 265,031 2,748
  Spectra Energy Corp. 81,711 2,500
  Chevron Corp. 26,056 2,486
  Noble Corp. plc 220,100 2,278
  Devon Energy Corp. 69,482 1,907
* Cameron International Corp. 4,200 282
      36,893
Financials (15.5%)    
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. 113,219 6,705
  Citigroup Inc. 157,348 6,569
  Wells Fargo & Co. 86,814 4,198
  Travelers Cos. Inc. 34,795 4,061
  Bank of New York    
  Mellon Corp. 107,046 3,943
  Prudential Financial Inc. 54,145 3,910

 

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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund

      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
  Prologis Inc. 84,545 3,735
  McGraw Hill Financial Inc. 37,398 3,702
  Capital One Financial Corp. 53,000 3,674
  Fifth Third Bancorp 191,869 3,202
  Bank of America Corp. 236,488 3,197
  Host Hotels & Resorts Inc. 190,346 3,179
  Nasdaq Inc. 47,768 3,171
  Unum Group 100,586 3,110
  Navient Corp. 252,560 3,023
  Macerich Co. 37,774 2,993
  Discover Financial Services 58,214 2,964
  Regions Financial Corp. 369,443 2,900
* Berkshire Hathaway Inc.    
  Class B 20,205 2,867
  Aflac Inc. 44,747 2,825
  AvalonBay Communities Inc. 12,600 2,397
* Berkshire Hathaway Inc.    
  Class A 11 2,348
  SunTrust Banks Inc. 52,146 1,881
  Kimco Realty Corp. 64,900 1,868
  Public Storage 3,600 993
  HCP Inc. 21,500 701
  Ameriprise Financial Inc. 4,499 423
  Essex Property Trust Inc. 1,531 358
  Hartford Financial Services    
  Group Inc. 6,188 285
  Realty Income Corp. 2,730 171
  Northern Trust Corp. 322 21
      85,374
Health Care (14.3%)    
  Johnson & Johnson 111,116 12,023
  Gilead Sciences Inc. 73,633 6,764
  Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. 94,800 6,056
  Amgen Inc. 35,532 5,327
  Eli Lilly & Co. 65,287 4,701
* Express Scripts Holding Co. 59,668 4,099
* Biogen Inc. 15,477 4,029
  Anthem Inc. 27,206 3,781
  AbbVie Inc. 64,868 3,705
* HCA Holdings Inc. 47,343 3,695
  Cardinal Health Inc. 44,300 3,630
  McKesson Corp. 23,000 3,617
  AmerisourceBergen Corp.    
  Class A 36,991 3,202
  Zoetis Inc. 70,046 3,105
  Pfizer Inc. 94,800 2,810
  Merck & Co. Inc. 34,456 1,823
  CR Bard Inc. 8,504 1,724
  Aetna Inc. 11,657 1,310
* Hologic Inc. 28,986 1,000
  UnitedHealth Group Inc. 5,754 742
* Allergan plc 2,131 571
  Medtronic plc 6,500 487
  Cigna Corp. 3,100 425
  Baxter International Inc. 5,616 231
      78,857
Industrials (10.1%)    
  General Electric Co. 378,126 12,021
  Northrop Grumman Corp. 20,094 3,977
  General Dynamics Corp. 29,665 3,897
  Southwest Airlines Co. 86,130 3,859
* United Continental    
  Holdings Inc. 61,129 3,659
  PACCAR Inc. 64,860 3,547
  Masco Corp. 105,789 3,327
  Delta Air Lines Inc. 65,311 3,179
* Quanta Services Inc. 137,325 3,098
* United Rentals Inc. 49,737 3,093
  Cintas Corp. 32,696 2,936
  Fluor Corp. 51,223 2,751
  Rockwell Automation Inc. 17,200 1,957
  Stanley Black & Decker Inc. 16,869 1,775
  American Airlines Group Inc. 32,100 1,316
  Equifax Inc. 5,245 599
  Pitney Bowes Inc. 19,845 428
  3M Co. 1,400 233
      55,652
Information Technology (20.8%)  
  Apple Inc. 142,686 15,551
  Microsoft Corp. 191,248 10,563
* Alphabet Inc. Class A 11,105 8,472
  Accenture plc Class A 45,218 5,218
* Facebook Inc. Class A 44,481 5,075
  Broadcom Ltd. 29,400 4,542
* Alphabet Inc. Class C 5,647 4,207
  Intuit Inc. 37,055 3,854
  Intel Corp. 116,932 3,783
  HP Inc. 296,928 3,658
  NVIDIA Corp. 100,494 3,581
* Fiserv Inc. 34,150 3,503
  Xerox Corp. 306,496 3,421
* Citrix Systems Inc. 43,398 3,410
  Motorola Solutions Inc. 44,711 3,385
* Electronic Arts Inc. 51,027 3,373
  Lam Research Corp. 40,211 3,321
  Western Union Co. 166,393 3,210
  CSRA Inc. 116,210 3,126
  Hewlett Packard    
  Enterprise Co. 169,927 3,013
* Teradata Corp. 112,100 2,942
  Total System Services Inc. 55,806 2,655
* F5 Networks Inc. 24,246 2,566
  Computer Sciences Corp. 50,400 1,733
  Visa Inc. Class A 21,712 1,661
  Cisco Systems Inc. 47,878 1,363
  Juniper Networks Inc. 40,660 1,037
  International Business    
  Machines Corp. 6,587 998
  Oracle Corp. 23,888 977
  Texas Instruments Inc. 11 1
      114,199

 

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Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund

    Market
    Value
  Shares ($000)
Materials (2.8%)    
Dow Chemical Co. 92,323 4,695
LyondellBasell Industries    
NV Class A 45,339 3,880
Sealed Air Corp. 67,688 3,250
Avery Dennison Corp. 44,214 3,188
Sherwin-Williams Co. 1,640 467
    15,480
Telecommunication Services (2.8%)  
Verizon    
Communications Inc. 136,310 7,372
AT&T Inc. 113,456 4,444
CenturyLink Inc. 109,247 3,491
    15,307
Utilities (3.4%)    
Exelon Corp. 110,102 3,948
PPL Corp. 95,824 3,648
FirstEnergy Corp. 94,587 3,402
Entergy Corp. 40,802 3,235
Public Service Enterprise    
Group Inc. 59,274 2,794
American Electric Power    
Co. Inc. 26,600 1,766
NiSource Inc. 3,196 76
    18,869
Total Common Stocks    
(Cost $463,883)   548,713
Temporary Cash Investments (0.5%)1  
Money Market Fund (0.4%)    
2,3 Vanguard Market    
Liquidity Fund, 0.495% 2,326,000 2,326
 
  Face  
  Amount  
  ($000)  
U.S. Government and Agency Obligations (0.1%)
4,5 Federal Home Loan Bank    
Discount Notes,    
0.411%, 6/2/16 200 200
Total Temporary Cash Investments  
(Cost $2,526)   2,526
Total Investments (100.2%)    
(Cost $466,409)   551,239
  Amount
  ($000)
Other Assets and Liabilities (-0.2%)  
Other Assets  
Investments in Vanguard 47
Receivables for Investment Securities Sold 2,106
Receivables for Accrued Income 755
Receivables for Capital Shares Issued 1,000
Total Other Assets 3,908
Liabilities  
Payables for Investment Securities  
Purchased (1,000)
Collateral for Securities on Loan (2,326)
Payables for Capital Shares Redeemed (93)
Payables to Vanguard (515)
Other Liabilities (834)
Total Liabilities (4,768)
Net Assets (100%) 550,379

 

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At March 31, 2016, net assets consisted of:
  Amount
  ($000)
Paid-in Capital 453,790
Undistributed Net Investment Income 2,388
Accumulated Net Realized Gains 9,339
Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)  
Investment Securities 84,830
Futures Contracts 32
Net Assets 550,379
 
 
Institutional Shares—Net Assets  
Applicable to 2,278,481 outstanding  
$.001 par value shares of beneficial  
interest (unlimited authorization) 89,558
Net Asset Value Per Share—  
Institutional Shares $39.31
 
 
Institutional Plus Shares—Net Assets  
Applicable to 5,922,060 outstanding  
$.001 par value shares of beneficial  
interest (unlimited authorization) 460,821
Net Asset Value Per Share—  
Institutional Plus Shares $77.81

See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements.
* Non-income-producing security.
^ Includes partial security positions on loan to broker-dealers. The total value of securities on loan is $2,224,000.
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 100.0% and 0.2%, 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 $2,326,000 of collateral received for securities on loan.
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, 2016
  ($000)
Investment Income  
Income  
Dividends 6,891
Interest1 3
Securities Lending 40
Total Income 6,934
Expenses  
The Vanguard Group—Note B  
Investment Advisory Services 225
Management and Administrative—Institutional Shares 39
Management and Administrative—Institutional Plus Shares 130
Marketing and Distribution—Institutional Shares 1
Marketing and Distribution—Institutional Plus Shares 3
Custodian Fees 6
Shareholders’ Reports—Institutional Shares 1
Shareholders’ Reports—Institutional Plus Shares
Total Expenses 405
Net Investment Income 6,529
Realized Net Gain (Loss)  
Investment Securities Sold 11,849
Futures Contracts 53
Realized Net Gain (Loss) 11,902
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)  
Investment Securities 25,572
Futures Contracts 48
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) 25,620
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations 44,051
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,
  2016 2015
  ($000) ($000)
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets    
Operations    
Net Investment Income 6,529 11,535
Realized Net Gain (Loss) 11,902 101,772
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) 25,620 (100,461)
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations 44,051 12,846
Distributions    
Net Investment Income    
Institutional Shares (1,885) (1,797)
Institutional Plus Shares (10,088) (11,950)
Realized Capital Gain    
Institutional Shares (3,050)
Institutional Plus Shares (16,098)
Total Distributions (31,121) (13,747)
Capital Share Transactions    
Institutional Shares 463 31,286
Institutional Plus Shares (7,810) (223,798)
Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions (7,347) (192,512)
Total Increase (Decrease) 5,583 (193,413)
Net Assets    
Beginning of Period 544,796 738,209
End of Period1 550,379 544,796
1 Net Assets—End of Period includes undistributed (overdistributed) net investment income of $2,388,000 and $7,832,000.

 

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   2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period $38.29 $38.88 $32.42 $27.83 $21.49 $20.97
Investment Operations              
Net Investment Income   . 457 .7731 .710 .618 .531 .4281
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)            
on Investments   2.744 (.355) 6.363 4.542 6.306 .458
Total from Investment Operations   3.201 .418 7.073 5.160 6.837 .886
Distributions              
Dividends from Net Investment Income (. 833) (1.008) (. 613) (. 570) (. 497) (. 366)
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains (1.348)
Total Distributions   (2.181) (1.008) (.613) (.570) (.497) (.366)
Net Asset Value, End of Period   $39.31 $38.29 $38.88 $32.42 $27.83 $21.49
 
Total Return   8.40% 1.03% 22.08% 18.93% 32.32% 4.14%
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data              
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) $90 $87 $58 $52 $15 $12
Ratio of Total Expenses to              
Average Net Assets   0.18% 0.20% 0.24% 0.24% 0.24% 0.24%
Ratio of Net Investment Income to            
Average Net Assets   2.21% 1.93% 1.86% 2.09% 2.10% 1.95%
Portfolio Turnover Rate   75% 73% 68% 62% 64% 67%

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   2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period $75.80 $76.94 $64.10 $55.02 $42.48 $41.98
Investment Operations              
Net Investment Income   . 918 1.5501 1.455 1.207 1.084 .9101
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)            
on Investments   5.432 (.703) 12.586 9.037 12.466 .906
Total from Investment Operations   6.350 .847 14.041 10.244 13.550 1.816
Distributions              
Dividends from Net Investment Income (1.672) (1.987) (1.201) (1.164) (1.010) (1.316)
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains (2.668)
Total Distributions   (4.340) (1.987) (1.201) (1.164) (1.010) (1.316)
Net Asset Value, End of Period   $77.81 $75.80 $76.94 $64.10 $55.02 $42.48
 
Total Return   8.42% 1.05% 22.17% 19.02% 32.42% 4.18%
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data              
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) $461 $458 $680 $612 $497 $379
Ratio of Total Expenses to              
Average Net Assets   0.14% 0.16% 0.17% 0.17% 0.17% 0.17%
Ratio of Net Investment Income to            
Average Net Assets   2.25% 1.97% 1.93% 2.16% 2.17% 2.02%
Portfolio Turnover Rate   75% 73% 68% 62% 64% 67%

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 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. investment companies. 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. Counterparty risk involving futures is mitigated because a regulated clearinghouse is the counterparty instead of the clearing broker. To further mitigate counterparty risk, the fund trades futures contracts on an exchange, monitors the financial strength of its clearing brokers and clearinghouse, and has entered into clearing agreements with its clearing brokers. The clearinghouse imposes initial margin requirements to secure the fund’s performance and requires daily settlement of variation margin representing changes in the market value of each contract.

Futures contracts are valued at their quoted daily settlement prices. The aggregate settlement values 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, 2016, the fund’s average investments in long and short futures contracts represented less than 1% and 0% of net assets, respectively, based on the average of aggregate settlement values at each quarter-end during the period.

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, 2012–2015), and for the period ended March 31, 2016, and has concluded that no provision for federal income tax is required in the fund’s financial statements.

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

5. Securities Lending: To earn additional income, the fund lends its securities to qualified institutional borrowers. Security loans are subject to termination by the fund at any time, and are required to be secured at all times by collateral in an amount at least equal to the market value of securities loaned. Daily market fluctuations could cause the value of loaned securities to be more or less than the value of the collateral received. When this occurs, the collateral is adjusted and settled on the next business day. The fund further mitigates its counterparty risk by entering into securities lending transactions only with a diverse group of prequalified counterparties, monitoring their financial strength, and entering into master securities lending agreements with its counterparties. The master securities lending agreements provide that, in the event of a counterparty’s default (including bankruptcy), the fund may terminate any loans with that borrower, determine the net amount owed, and sell or retain the collateral up to the net amount owed to the fund; however, such actions may be subject to legal proceedings. While collateral mitigates counterparty risk, in the absence of a default the fund may experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned. The fund invests cash collateral received in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, and records a liability in the Statement of Net Assets for the return of the collateral, during the period the securities are on loan. Securities lending income represents fees charged to borrowers plus income earned on invested cash collateral, less expenses associated with the loan.

6. Credit Facility: The fund and certain other funds managed by The Vanguard Group (“Vanguard”) participate in a $3.1 billion committed credit facility provided by a syndicate of lenders pursuant to a credit agreement that may be renewed annually; each fund is individually liable for its borrowings, if any, under the credit facility. Borrowings may be utilized for temporary and emergency purposes, and are subject to the fund’s regulatory and contractual borrowing restrictions. The participating funds are charged administrative fees and an annual commitment fee of 0.10% of the undrawn amount of the facility; these fees are allocated to the funds based on a method approved by the fund’s board of trustees and included in Management and Administrative expenses on the fund’s Statement of Operations. Any borrowings under this facility bear interest at a rate based upon the higher of the one-month London Interbank Offered Rate, federal funds effective rate, or overnight bank funding rate plus an agreed-upon spread

The fund had no borrowings outstanding at March 31, 2016, or at any time during the period then ended.

7. Other: Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date. Interest income includes income distributions received from Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund and is accrued daily. Premiums and discounts on debt securities purchased are amortized and accreted, respectively, to interest income over the lives of the respective securities. 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.

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B. In accordance with the terms of a Funds’ Service Agreement (the “FSA”) between Vanguard and the fund, Vanguard furnishes to the fund investment advisory, corporate management, administrative, marketing, and distribution services at Vanguard’s cost of operations (as defined by the FSA). These costs of operations are allocated to the fund based on methods and guidelines approved by the board of trustees. Vanguard does not require reimbursement in the current period for certain costs of operations (such as deferred compensation/benefits and risk/insurance costs); the fund’s liability for these costs of operations is included in Payables to Vanguard on the Statement of Net Assets.

Upon the request of Vanguard, the fund may invest up to 0.40% of its net assets as capital in Vanguard. At March 31, 2016, the fund had contributed to Vanguard capital in the amount of $47,000, 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 employees, respectively, 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, 2016, based on the inputs used to value them:

  Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
Investments ($000) ($000) ($000)
Common Stocks 548,713
Temporary Cash Investments 2,326 200
Futures Contracts—Liabilities1 (3)
Total 551,036 200
1 Represents variation margin on the last day of the reporting period.      

 

D. At March 31, 2016, 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 2016 17 1,744 32

 

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

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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.

At March 31, 2016, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $466,409,000. Net unrealized appreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $84,830,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $101,086,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $16,256,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.

F. During the six months ended March 31, 2016, the fund purchased $206,350,000 of investment securities and sold $238,946,000 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, 2016 September 30, 2015
  Amount Shares Amount Shares
  ($000) (000) ($000) (000)
Institutional Shares        
Issued 6,057 155 83,381 2,068
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 3,786 97 1,272 33
Redeemed (9,380) (242) (53,367) (1,328)
Net Increase (Decrease)—Institutional Shares 463 10 31,286 773
Institutional Plus Shares        
Issued 653 9 2,279 28
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 16,131 209
Redeemed (24,594) (337) (226,077) (2,825)
Net Increase (Decrease)—Institutional Plus Shares (7,810) (119) (223,798) (2,797)

 

At March 31, 2016, one shareholder was the record or beneficial owner of 83% 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. Management has determined that no material events or transactions occurred subsequent to March 31, 2016, that would require recognition or disclosure in these financial statements.

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Fund Profile
As of March 31, 2016

Share-Class Characteristics  
  Institutional Institutional
  Shares Plus Shares
Ticker Symbol VSBMX VSBPX
Expense Ratio1 0.20% 0.16%
30-Day SEC Yield 1.92% 1.99%

 

Portfolio Characteristics    
      DJ
    Russell U.S. Total
    3000 Market
  Fund Index FA Index
Number of Stocks 250 2,979 3,900
Median Market Cap $27.6B $52.6B $52.5B
Price/Earnings Ratio 16.6x 21.7x 21.8x
Price/Book Ratio 2.5x 2.7x 2.7x
Return on Equity 17.2% 17.6% 17.5%
Earnings Growth      
Rate 9.8% 8.0% 8.0%
Dividend Yield 2.2% 2.1% 2.1%
Foreign Holdings 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Turnover Rate      
(Annualized) 77%
Short-Term Reserves -0.5%

 

Sector Diversification (% of equity exposure)
      DJ
    Russell U.S. Total
    3000 Market
  Fund Index FA Index
Consumer      
Discretionary 13.5% 13.6% 13.6%
Consumer Staples 9.1 9.2 9.2
Energy 6.1 6.1 6.1
Financials 17.2 17.3 17.4
Health Care 13.7 13.7 13.7
Industrials 11.0 10.9 10.7
Information      
Technology 20.1 20.0 20.1
Materials 3.2 3.2 3.2
Telecommunication      
Services 2.5 2.5 2.5
Utilities 3.6 3.5 3.5

 

Volatility Measures    
    DJ
  Russell U.S. Total
  3000 Market
  Index FA Index
R-Squared 0.97 0.97
Beta 0.99 0.99

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

 

Ten Largest Holdings (% of total net assets)
Apple Inc. Technology  
  Hardware, Storage &  
  Peripherals 2.4%
Alphabet Inc. Internet Software &  
  Services 2.3
Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals 1.9
Verizon Communications Integrated  
Inc. Telecommunication  
  Services 1.6
Microsoft Corp. Systems Software 1.5
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Diversified Banks 1.5
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Multi-Sector Holdings 1.5
Amazon.com Inc. Internet Retail 1.3
Exxon Mobil Corp. Integrated Oil & Gas 1.1
Gilead Sciences Inc. Biotechnology 1.1
Top Ten   16.2%

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 26, 2016. For the six months ended March 31, 2016, the annualized expense
ratios were 0.19% for Institutional Shares and 0.14% 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, 2016

 
Note: For 2016, performance data reflect the six months ended March 31, 2016.
 
Average Annual Total Returns: Periods Ended March 31, 2016      
 
  Inception One Five Ten
  Date Year Years Years
Institutional Shares 11/30/2006 -0.11% 12.63% 6.71%1
Institutional Plus Shares 5/3/2004 -0.06 12.70 7.25

The fund commenced operations as a registered investment company on October 3, 2006. The fund’s performance before that date includes
the performance of a predecessor trust, Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company Structured Broad Market Trust.
1 Return since inception.

See Financial Highlights for dividend and capital gains information.

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Financial Statements (unaudited)

Statement of Net Assets
As of March 31, 2016

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 (99.5%)1    
Consumer Discretionary (13.4%)  
* Amazon.com Inc. 12,479 7,408
  Walt Disney Co. 59,346 5,894
  Home Depot Inc. 39,881 5,321
  Comcast Corp. Class A 76,028 4,644
  NIKE Inc. Class B 73,033 4,489
  Lowe’s Cos. Inc. 58,157 4,405
  Target Corp. 52,709 4,337
  Carnival Corp. 68,973 3,640
* O’Reilly Automotive Inc. 13,210 3,615
  Darden Restaurants Inc. 46,959 3,113
  Marriott International Inc.    
  Class A 40,662 2,894
^ Outerwall Inc. 77,000 2,848
  Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. 72,482 2,683
* Smith & Wesson Holding    
  Corp. 73,366 1,953
  General Motors Co. 58,884 1,851
  News Corp. Class B 131,904 1,748
  Omnicom Group Inc. 20,880 1,738
* Isle of Capri Casinos Inc. 116,399 1,630
* Boyd Gaming Corp. 75,500 1,560
* American Axle &    
  Manufacturing    
  Holdings Inc. 79,300 1,220
^ World Wrestling    
  Entertainment Inc. Class A 67,501 1,192
  Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc.    
  Class A 31,300 963
  Sturm Ruger & Co. Inc. 12,948 885
  Leggett & Platt Inc. 14,327 693
  New York Times Co. Class A 48,377 603
* Discovery Communications    
  Inc. Class A 20,807 596
  Abercrombie & Fitch Co. 13,768 434
* Penn National Gaming Inc. 25,671 429
  Whirlpool Corp. 2,279 411
  McDonald’s Corp. 3,074 386
  DR Horton Inc. 10,975 332
* Michael Kors Holdings Ltd. 5,591 319
* Cooper-Standard Holding Inc. 3,889 279
  Nordstrom Inc. 4,761 272
      74,785
Consumer Staples (9.1%)    
  Altria Group Inc. 91,948 5,761
  Wal-Mart Stores Inc. 82,188 5,629
  Kroger Co. 97,630 3,734
  Tyson Foods Inc. Class A 51,950 3,463
^ Cal-Maine Foods Inc. 57,038 2,961
  Universal Corp. 52,000 2,954
  Procter & Gamble Co. 34,551 2,844
  Dr Pepper Snapple    
  Group Inc. 31,602 2,826
  Dean Foods Co. 150,219 2,602
*,^ Herbalife Ltd. 40,513 2,494
  Bunge Ltd. 42,549 2,411
^ Coty Inc. Class A 62,152 1,730
  Ingles Markets Inc. Class A 41,556 1,558
  Coca-Cola Co. 33,365 1,548
  Energizer Holdings Inc. 35,809 1,451
  ConAgra Foods Inc. 27,932 1,246
  PepsiCo Inc. 11,405 1,169
* USANA Health Sciences Inc. 9,100 1,105
  Philip Morris International Inc. 8,815 865
  SpartanNash Co. 24,140 732
* Omega Protein Corp. 29,100 493
^ Natural Health Trends Corp. 12,550 416
  CVS Health Corp. 3,107 322
      50,314
Energy (6.1%)    
  Exxon Mobil Corp. 75,582 6,318
  Valero Energy Corp. 58,500 3,752
  Tesoro Corp. 33,950 2,920
  PBF Energy Inc. Class A 85,572 2,841
  Noble Corp. plc 243,586 2,521
^ Ship Finance    
  International Ltd. 177,541 2,466

 

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      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
  Rowan Cos. plc Class A 150,304 2,420
^ Nordic American    
  Tankers Ltd. 158,459 2,233
  Chevron Corp. 17,765 1,695
^ Frontline Ltd. 159,600 1,336
  Western Refining Inc. 44,945 1,307
  Teekay Tankers Ltd.    
  Class A 280,749 1,030
  Phillips 66 11,678 1,011
  Marathon Petroleum Corp. 15,317 570
  Ensco plc Class A 39,261 407
* FMC Technologies Inc. 10,970 300
  HollyFrontier Corp. 8,296 293
  Scorpio Tankers Inc. 46,735 273
  DHT Holdings Inc. 44,603 257
      33,950
Financials (17.1%)    
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. 141,636 8,388
* Berkshire Hathaway Inc.    
  Class B 57,500 8,158
  Citigroup Inc. 144,700 6,041
  Bank of America Corp. 419,200 5,668
  Wells Fargo & Co. 102,326 4,948
  Travelers Cos. Inc. 33,825 3,948
  MSCI Inc. Class A 41,253 3,056
  Gaming and Leisure    
  Properties Inc. 95,730 2,960
  Assured Guaranty Ltd. 115,300 2,917
* Walker & Dunlop Inc. 108,389 2,631
  Ameriprise Financial Inc. 27,900 2,623
  Hospitality Properties Trust 93,512 2,484
^ Universal Insurance    
  Holdings Inc. 136,718 2,434
  American Express Co. 37,272 2,288
* MGIC Investment Corp. 296,000 2,270
  Lazard Ltd. Class A 57,778 2,242
  Heritage Insurance    
  Holdings Inc. 138,013 2,204
  Lamar Advertising Co.    
  Class A 35,712 2,196
  Prudential Financial Inc. 28,998 2,094
  Digital Realty Trust Inc. 22,500 1,991
  CoreSite Realty Corp. 27,900 1,953
  Bank of New York Mellon    
  Corp. 45,875 1,690
  Government Properties    
  Income Trust 89,118 1,591
  Simon Property Group Inc. 7,058 1,466
  CBL & Associates    
  Properties Inc. 120,000 1,428
  Communications Sales    
  & Leasing Inc. 58,453 1,301
  Ryman Hospitality    
  Properties Inc. 23,400 1,205
  AvalonBay Communities Inc. 5,687 1,082
^ Apple Hospitality REIT Inc. 53,500 1,060
  Capital One Financial Corp. 15,094 1,046
  DuPont Fabros    
  Technology Inc. 24,500 993
  Mack-Cali Realty Corp. 42,228 992
  Unum Group 29,048 898
  Everest Re Group Ltd. 3,900 770
  SunTrust Banks Inc. 16,865 608
  Nelnet Inc. Class A 14,966 589
  Weingarten Realty Investors 14,841 557
  Fifth Third Bancorp 26,364 440
  Discover Financial Services 8,617 439
  Monmouth Real Estate    
  Investment Corp. 35,585 423
  Hartford Financial Services    
  Group Inc. 8,100 373
  Xenia Hotels & Resorts Inc. 23,626 369
* INTL. FCStone Inc. 13,772 368
  Navient Corp. 29,933 358
* E*TRADE Financial Corp. 14,240 349
  OM Asset Management plc 24,747 330
* KCG Holdings Inc. Class A 25,512 305
* Ally Financial Inc. 15,460 289
  Nasdaq Inc. 4,287 285
      95,098
Health Care (13.6%)    
  Johnson & Johnson 97,033 10,499
  Gilead Sciences Inc. 68,551 6,297
  Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. 85,200 5,443
  Amgen Inc. 29,900 4,483
  Eli Lilly & Co. 61,720 4,445
* Express Scripts Holding Co. 55,835 3,835
  Anthem Inc. 25,900 3,600
  Cardinal Health Inc. 39,695 3,253
  Aetna Inc. 28,861 3,243
  UnitedHealth Group Inc. 24,523 3,161
  AmerisourceBergen Corp.    
  Class A 35,900 3,107
* Charles River Laboratories    
  International Inc. 39,800 3,022
* INC Research Holdings Inc.    
  Class A 69,162 2,850
  Merck & Co. Inc. 53,231 2,816
* PRA Health Sciences Inc. 62,828 2,687
* Amsurg Corp. 30,100 2,246
  Pfizer Inc. 62,125 1,841
* HCA Holdings Inc. 19,204 1,499
* Quintiles Transnational    
  Holdings Inc. 18,700 1,217
* Hologic Inc. 28,419 980
  McKesson Corp. 6,000 944
  AbbVie Inc. 16,009 914
  Cigna Corp. 6,500 892
* Infinity    
  Pharmaceuticals Inc. 155,500 820

 

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      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
* ICU Medical Inc. 5,757 599
* Amedisys Inc. 9,697 469
* Prestige Brands    
  Holdings Inc. 7,853 419
  Bruker Corp. 11,751 329
      75,910
Industrials (10.9%)    
  General Electric Co. 164,425 5,227
  Northrop Grumman Corp. 20,020 3,962
  General Dynamics Corp. 28,400 3,731
* Hawaiian Holdings Inc. 68,075 3,213
  Huntington Ingalls    
  Industries Inc. 23,400 3,204
  PACCAR Inc. 57,989 3,171
* Wabash National Corp. 232,891 3,074
  BWX Technologies Inc. 89,912 3,017
* Spirit AeroSystems    
  Holdings Inc. Class A 66,411 3,012
  Global Brass & Copper    
  Holdings Inc. 118,163 2,948
* JetBlue Airways Corp. 119,400 2,522
  Cintas Corp. 26,404 2,371
  Boeing Co. 17,884 2,270
* United Continental    
  Holdings Inc. 35,651 2,134
  Southwest Airlines Co. 47,258 2,117
  Owens Corning 39,075 1,848
  Alaska Air Group Inc. 19,630 1,610
  Briggs & Stratton Corp. 66,068 1,580
  Ennis Inc. 77,668 1,518
  Comfort Systems USA Inc. 41,918 1,332
  SkyWest Inc. 49,001 980
  Interface Inc. Class A 49,792 923
  Masco Corp. 29,067 914
  Herman Miller Inc. 25,971 802
* Quanta Services Inc. 33,754 762
  B/E Aerospace Inc. 14,616 674
  Insteel Industries Inc. 13,625 417
  Trinity Industries Inc. 18,819 345
  Fluor Corp. 6,076 326
  General Cable Corp. 26,187 320
  Steelcase Inc. Class A 21,040 314
      60,638
Information Technology (20.0%)  
  Apple Inc. 121,505 13,243
  Microsoft Corp. 155,297 8,577
* Alphabet Inc. Class A 9,690 7,392
* Alphabet Inc. Class C 7,047 5,250
  Accenture plc Class A 43,045 4,967
* Facebook Inc. Class A 30,161 3,441
  CDW Corp. 77,200 3,204
  Booz Allen Hamilton    
  Holding Corp. Class A 103,700 3,140
* Aspen Technology Inc. 84,492 3,053
* Tech Data Corp. 39,377 3,023
* Sykes Enterprises Inc. 96,182 2,903
  CSG Systems    
  International Inc. 63,184 2,853
* GoDaddy Inc. Class A 85,923 2,778
* Cirrus Logic Inc. 75,554 2,751
* Manhattan Associates Inc. 48,325 2,748
  Intel Corp. 82,524 2,670
  EarthLink Holdings Corp. 465,912 2,642
  CSRA Inc. 96,320 2,591
  Computer Sciences Corp. 73,477 2,527
* Sigma Designs Inc. 350,200 2,381
* Electronic Arts Inc. 35,623 2,355
  Broadcom Ltd. 13,942 2,154
  Avnet Inc. 47,236 2,093
  SYNNEX Corp. 22,071 2,043
  International Business    
  Machines Corp. 12,686 1,921
  Jabil Circuit Inc. 90,771 1,749
  HP Inc. 125,000 1,540
  Texas Instruments Inc. 24,408 1,401
* Extreme Networks Inc. 445,795 1,386
  Leidos Holdings Inc. 26,049 1,311
* ON Semiconductor Corp. 132,000 1,266
* Advanced Micro    
  Devices Inc. 433,705 1,236
  Broadridge Financial    
  Solutions Inc. 19,100 1,133
* Gigamon Inc. 30,198 937
* Cadence Design    
  Systems Inc. 39,326 927
  Visa Inc. Class A 11,820 904
  Cisco Systems Inc. 23,383 666
  Intuit Inc. 6,342 660
* NeoPhotonics Corp. 46,000 646
* Wix.com Ltd. 26,000 527
* Benchmark Electronics Inc. 18,020 415
* NCR Corp. 12,568 376
  NVIDIA Corp. 9,364 334
* First Data Corp. Class A 24,423 316
  Oracle Corp. 7,398 303
  DST Systems Inc. 2,590 292
      111,025
Materials (3.2%)    
  Dow Chemical Co. 86,200 4,384
  LyondellBasell Industries    
  NV Class A 41,223 3,528
*,^ Trinseo SA 79,818 2,938
  Sealed Air Corp. 56,808 2,727
  Avery Dennison Corp. 23,625 1,704
* Chemtura Corp. 54,786 1,446
  International Paper Co. 16,128 662
  AEP Industries Inc. 7,500 495
      17,884

 

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      Market
      Value
    Shares ($000)
Telecommunication Services (2.5%)  
  Verizon    
  Communications Inc. 160,203 8,664
  AT&T Inc. 78,245 3,065
  CenturyLink Inc. 50,686 1,620
* Cincinnati Bell Inc. 175,505 679
      14,028
Utilities (3.6%)    
  Exelon Corp. 107,100 3,841
  Public Service Enterprise    
  Group Inc. 76,677 3,615
  FirstEnergy Corp. 94,495 3,399
  UGI Corp. 79,176 3,190
  American Electric Power    
  Co. Inc. 42,200 2,802
  WGL Holdings Inc. 19,968 1,445
  Entergy Corp. 13,495 1,070
  PPL Corp. 13,565 516
      19,878
Total Common Stocks    
(Cost $462,514)   553,510
Temporary Cash Investments (1.9%)1  
Money Market Fund (1.8%)    
2,3 Vanguard Market    
  Liquidity Fund, 0.495% 10,540,902 10,541
 
    Face  
    Amount  
    ($000)  
U.S. Government and Agency Obligations (0.1%)
4,5 Federal Home Loan Bank    
  Discount Notes,    
  0.572%, 6/22/16 200 200
5,6 Freddie Mac Discount Notes,  
  0.220%, 4/15/16 100 100
      300
Total Temporary Cash Investments  
(Cost $10,840)   10,841
Total Investments (101.4%)    
(Cost $473,354)   564,351
  Amount
  ($000)
Other Assets and Liabilities (-1.4%)  
Other Assets  
Investment in Vanguard 48
Receivables for Investment Securities Sold 3,303
Receivables for Accrued Income 558
Total Other Assets 3,909
Liabilities  
Payables for Investment Securities  
Purchased (843)
Collateral for Securities on Loan (10,541)
Payables to Vanguard (331)
Other Liabilities (25)
Total Liabilities (11,740)
Net Assets (100%) 556,520

 

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At March 31, 2016, net assets consisted of:
  Amount
  ($000)
Paid-in Capital 449,388
Undistributed Net Investment Income 2,493
Accumulated Net Realized Gains 13,586
Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)  
Investment Securities 90,997
Futures Contracts 56
Net Assets 556,520
 
 
Institutional Shares—Net Assets  
Applicable to 1,147,331 outstanding  
$.001 par value shares of beneficial  
interest (unlimited authorization) 36,468
Net Asset Value Per Share—  
Institutional Shares $31.78
 
 
Institutional Plus Shares—Net Assets  
Applicable to 8,185,541 outstanding  
$.001 par value shares of beneficial  
interest (unlimited authorization) 520,052
Net Asset Value Per Share—  
Institutional Plus Shares $63.53

See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements.
* Non-income-producing security.
^ Includes partial security positions on loan to broker-dealers. The total value of securities on loan is $10,167,000.
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 100.0% and 1.4%, 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 $10,541,000 of collateral received for securities on loan.
4 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.
5 Securities with a value of $300,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open futures contracts.
6 The issuer was placed under federal conservatorship in September 2008; since that time, its daily operations have been managed by the
Federal Housing Finance Agency and it receives capital from the U.S. Treasury, as needed to maintain a positive net worth, in exchange for
senior preferred stock.
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, 2016
  ($000)
Investment Income  
Income  
Dividends 6,623
Interest1 5
Securities Lending 368
Total Income 6,996
Expenses  
The Vanguard Group—Note B  
Investment Advisory Services 229
Management and Administrative—Institutional Shares 17
Management and Administrative—Institutional Plus Shares 147
Marketing and Distribution—Institutional Shares
Marketing and Distribution—Institutional Plus Shares 4
Custodian Fees 6
Shareholders’ Reports—Institutional Shares
Shareholders’ Reports—Institutional Plus Shares
Total Expenses 403
Net Investment Income 6,593
Realized Net Gain (Loss)  
Investment Securities Sold 13,452
Futures Contracts 133
Realized Net Gain (Loss) 13,585
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)  
Investment Securities 7,789
Futures Contracts 103
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) 7,892
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations 28,070
1 Interest income from an affiliated company of the fund was $4,000.

 

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,
  2016 2015
  ($000) ($000)
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets    
Operations    
Net Investment Income 6,593 10,839
Realized Net Gain (Loss) 13,585 48,798
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) 7,892 (44,242)
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations 28,070 15,395
Distributions    
Net Investment Income    
Institutional Shares (640) (434)
Institutional Plus Shares (11,581) (9,024)
Realized Capital Gain1    
Institutional Shares (2,234) (3,078)
Institutional Plus Shares (40,149) (61,848)
Total Distributions (54,604) (74,384)
Capital Share Transactions    
Institutional Shares 13,608 1,642
Institutional Plus Shares 19,030 65,576
Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions 32,638 67,218
Total Increase (Decrease) 6,104 8,229
Net Assets    
Beginning of Period 550,416 542,187
End of Period2 556,520 550,416

1 Includes fiscal 2016 and 2015 short-term gain distributions totaling $251,000 and $16,777,000, respectively. Short-term gain distributions
are treated as ordinary income dividends for tax purposes.
2 Net Assets—End of Period includes undistributed (overdistributed) net investment income of $2,493,000 and $8,121,000.

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   2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period $33.24 $37.28 $32.59 $27.10 $21.03 $20.70
Investment Operations              
Net Investment Income   . 384 . 662 . 632 . 573 . 544 . 3851
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)            
on Investments   1.421 .394 5.996 5.492 5.973 .338
Total from Investment Operations   1.805 1.056 6.628 6.065 6.517 .723
Distributions              
Dividends from Net Investment Income (.727) (. 630) (. 564) (. 575) (. 447) (. 393)
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains (2.538) (4.466) (1.374)
Total Distributions   (3.265) (5.096) (1.938) (.575) (.447) (.393)
Net Asset Value, End of Period   $31.78 $33.24 $37.28 $32.59 $27.10 $21.03
 
Total Return   5.24% 2.80% 21.10% 22.85% 31.43% 3.37%
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data              
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) $36 $25 $26 $16 $7 $6
Ratio of Total Expenses to              
Average Net Assets   0.19% 0.20% 0.24% 0.24% 0.24% 0.24%
Ratio of Net Investment Income to            
Average Net Assets   2.20% 1.86% 1.67% 1.94% 2.19% 1.64%
Portfolio Turnover Rate   77% 66% 60% 63% 58% 56%

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   2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period $66.43 $74.52 $65.15 $54.17 $42.02 $41.36
Investment Operations              
Net Investment Income   .767 1.355 1.303 1.186 1.122 .7961
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)            
on Investments   2.868 .781 11.981 10.980 11.951 .672
Total from Investment Operations   3.635 2.136 13.284 12.166 13.073 1.468
Distributions              
Dividends from Net Investment Income (1.463) (1.302) (1.169) (1.186) (.923) (.808)
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains (5.072) (8.924) (2.745)
Total Distributions   (6.535) (10.226) (3.914) (1.186) (.923) (.808)
Net Asset Value, End of Period   $63.53 $66.43 $74.52 $65.15 $54.17 $42.02
 
Total Return   5.28% 2.84% 21.16% 22.95% 31.56% 3.43%
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data              
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) $520 $526 $516 $465 $379 $290
Ratio of Total Expenses to              
Average Net Assets   0.14% 0.16% 0.17% 0.17% 0.17% 0.17%
Ratio of Net Investment Income to            
Average Net Assets   2.25% 1.90% 1.74% 2.01% 2.26% 1.71%
Portfolio Turnover Rate   77% 66% 60% 63% 58% 56%

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. investment companies. 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. Counterparty risk involving futures is mitigated because a regulated clearinghouse is the counterparty instead of the clearing broker. To further mitigate counterparty risk, the fund trades futures contracts on an exchange, monitors the financial strength of its clearing brokers and clearinghouse, and has entered into clearing agreements with its clearing brokers. The clearinghouse imposes initial margin requirements to secure the fund’s performance and requires daily settlement of variation margin representing changes in the market value of each contract.

Futures contracts are valued at their quoted daily settlement prices. The aggregate settlement values 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, 2016, the fund’s average investments in long and short futures contracts represented less than 1% and 0% of net assets, respectively, based on the average of aggregate settlement values at each quarter-end during the period.

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, 2012–2015), and for the period ended March 31, 2016, and has concluded that no provision for federal income tax is required in the fund’s financial statements.

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

5. Securities Lending: To earn additional income, the fund lends its securities to qualified institutional borrowers. Security loans are subject to termination by the fund at any time, and are required to be secured at all times by collateral in an amount at least equal to the market value of securities loaned. Daily market fluctuations could cause the value of loaned securities to be more or less than the value of the collateral received. When this occurs, the collateral is adjusted and settled on the next business day. The fund further mitigates its counterparty risk by entering into securities lending transactions only with a diverse group of prequalified counterparties, monitoring their financial strength, and entering into master securities lending agreements with its counterparties. The master securities lending agreements provide that, in the event of a counterparty’s default (including bankruptcy), the fund may terminate any loans with that borrower, determine the net amount owed, and sell or retain the collateral up to the net amount owed to the fund; however, such actions may be subject to legal proceedings. While collateral mitigates counterparty risk, in the absence of a default the fund may experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned. The fund invests cash collateral received in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, and records a liability in the Statement of Net Assets for the return of the collateral, during the period the securities are on loan. Securities lending income represents fees charged to borrowers plus income earned on invested cash collateral, less expenses associated with the loan.

6. Credit Facility: The fund and certain other funds managed by The Vanguard Group (“Vanguard”) participate in a $3.1 billion committed credit facility provided by a syndicate of lenders pursuant to a credit agreement that may be renewed annually; each fund is individually liable for its borrowings, if any, under the credit facility. Borrowings may be utilized for temporary and emergency purposes, and are subject to the fund’s regulatory and contractual borrowing restrictions. The participating funds are charged administrative fees and an annual commitment fee of 0.10% of the undrawn amount of the facility; these fees are allocated to the funds based on a method approved by the fund’s board of trustees and included in Management and Administrative expenses on the fund’s Statement of Operations. Any borrowings under this facility bear interest at a rate based upon the higher of the one-month London Interbank Offered Rate, federal funds effective rate, or overnight bank funding rate plus an agreed-upon spread

The fund had no borrowings outstanding at March 31, 2016, or at any time during the period then ended.

7. Other: Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date. Interest income includes income distributions received from Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund and is accrued daily. Premiums and discounts on debt securities purchased are amortized and accreted, respectively, to interest income over the lives of the respective securities. 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.

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B. In accordance with the terms of a Funds’ Service Agreement (the “FSA”) between Vanguard and the fund, Vanguard furnishes to the fund investment advisory, corporate management, administrative, marketing, and distribution services at Vanguard’s cost of operations (as defined by the FSA). These costs of operations are allocated to the fund based on methods and guidelines approved by the board of trustees. Vanguard does not require reimbursement in the current period for certain costs of operations (such as deferred compensation/benefits and risk/insurance costs); the fund’s liability for these costs of operations is included in Payables to Vanguard on the Statement of Net Assets.

Upon the request of Vanguard, the fund may invest up to 0.40% of its net assets as capital in Vanguard. At March 31, 2016, the fund had contributed to Vanguard capital in the amount of $48,000, 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 employees, respectively, 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, 2016, based on the inputs used to value them:

  Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
Investments ($000) ($000) ($000)
Common Stocks 553,510
Temporary Cash Investments 10,541 300
Futures Contracts—Liabilities1 (5)
Total 564,046 300
1 Represents variation margin on the last day of the reporting period.

 

D. At March 31, 2016, 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 2016 29 2,975 56

 

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

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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.

At March 31, 2016, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $473,473,000. Net unrealized appreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $90,878,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $108,972,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $18,094,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.

F. During the six months ended March 31, 2016, the fund purchased $217,505,000 of investment securities and sold $232,544,000 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, 2016 September 30, 2015
  Amount Shares Amount Shares
  ($000) (000) ($000) (000)
Institutional Shares        
Issued 11,933 357
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 1,675 52 1,642 49
Redeemed
Net Increase (Decrease)—Institutional Shares 13,608 409 1,642 49
Institutional Plus Shares        
Issued 4,998 88 3,000 45
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions 41,158 635 62,576 940
Redeemed (27,126) (453)
Net Increase (Decrease)—Institutional Plus Shares 19,030 270 65,576 985

 

At March 31, 2016, one shareholder was the record or beneficial owner of 93% 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. Management has determined that no material events or transactions occurred subsequent to March 31, 2016, that would require 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, 2016      
  Beginning Ending Expenses
  Account Value Account Value Paid During
  9/30/2015 3/31/2016 Period
Based on Actual Fund Return      
Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund      
Institutional Shares $1,000.00 $1,084.01 $0.94
Institutional Plus Shares 1,000.00 1,084.17 0.73
Structured Broad Market Fund      
Institutional Shares $1,000.00 $1,052.39 $0.97
Institutional Plus Shares 1,000.00 1,052.84 0.72
Based on Hypothetical 5% Yearly Return      
Structured Large-Cap Equity Fund      
Institutional Shares $1,000.00 $1,024.10 $0.91
Institutional Plus Shares 1,000.00 1,024.30 0.71
Structured Broad Market Fund      
Institutional Shares $1,000.00 $1,024.05 $0.96
Institutional Plus Shares 1,000.00 1,024.30 0.71

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, 0.18% for Institutional Shares and 0.14% for Institutional Plus Shares; for the Structured
Broad Market Fund, 0.19% for Institutional Shares and 0.14% 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 (183/366).

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Trustees Approve Advisory Arrangements

The board of trustees of Vanguard Structured Large-Cap Equity and Structured Broad Market Funds has renewed each fund’s investment advisory arrangement with The Vanguard Group, Inc. (Vanguard)—through its Quantitative Equity Group. The board determined that continuing each fund’s 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 arrangements. Rather, it was the totality of the circumstances that drove the board’s decision.

Nature, extent, and quality of services

The board reviewed the quality of each fund’s investment management services over both the short and long term, and took into account the organizational depth and stability of the advisor. The board considered that Vanguard has been managing investments for more than three decades. The Quantitative Equity 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 arrangements.

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 arrangements 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 arrangements 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 arrangements again after a one-year period.

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Glossary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 198 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 Rajiv L. Gupta
  Born 1945. Trustee Since December 2001.2 Principal
F. William McNabb III Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years and Other
Born 1957. Trustee Since July 2009. Chairman of Experience: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
the Board. Principal Occupation(s) During the Past (retired 2009) and President (2006–2008) of
Five Years and Other Experience: Chairman of the Rohm and Haas Co. (chemicals); Director of Tyco
Board of The Vanguard Group, Inc., and of each of International PLC (diversified manufacturing and
the investment companies served by The Vanguard services), HP Inc. (printer and personal computer
Group, since January 2010; Director of The Vanguard manufacturing), and Delphi Automotive PLC
Group since 2008; Chief Executive Officer and (automotive components); Senior Advisor at
President of The Vanguard Group, and of each of New Mountain Capital.
the investment companies served by The Vanguard  
Group, since 2008; Director of Vanguard Marketing Amy Gutmann
Corporation; Managing Director of The Vanguard Born 1949. Trustee Since June 2006. Principal
Group (1995–2008). Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years and
  Other Experience: President of the University of
IndependentTrustees Pennsylvania; Christopher H. Browne Distinguished
  Professor of Political Science, School of Arts and
Emerson U. Fullwood Sciences, and Professor of Communication, Annenberg
Born 1948. Trustee Since January 2008. Principal School for Communication, with secondary faculty
Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years and Other appointments in the Department of Philosophy, School
Experience: Executive Chief Staff and Marketing of Arts and Sciences, and at the Graduate School of
Officer for North America and Corporate Vice President Education, University of Pennsylvania; Trustee of the
(retired 2008) of Xerox Corporation (document manage- National Constitution Center; Chair of the Presidential
ment products and services); Executive in Residence Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.
and 2009–2010 Distinguished Minett Professor at  
the Rochester Institute of Technology; Lead Director JoAnn Heffernan Heisen
of SPX FLOW, Inc. (multi-industry manufacturing); Born 1950. Trustee Since July 1998. Principal
Director of the United Way of Rochester, the University Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years and
of Rochester Medical Center, Monroe Community Other Experience: Corporate Vice President and
College Foundation, North Carolina A&T University, Chief Global Diversity Officer (retired 2008) and
and Roberts Wesleyan College. Member of the Executive Committee (1997–2008)
  of Johnson & Johnson (pharmaceuticals/medical
  devices/consumer products); Director of Skytop
  Lodge Corporation (hotels) and the Robert Wood
  Johnson Foundation; Member of the Advisory
  Board of the Institute for Women’s Leadership
  at Rutgers University.

 


 

F. Joseph Loughrey Executive Officers  
Born 1949. Trustee Since October 2009. Principal    
Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years and Other Glenn Booraem  
Experience: President and Chief Operating Officer Born 1967. Treasurer Since May 2015. Principal
(retired 2009) of Cummins Inc. (industrial machinery); Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years and
Chairman of the Board of Hillenbrand, Inc. (specialized Other Experience: Principal of The Vanguard Group,
consumer services), and of Oxfam America; Director Inc.; Treasurer of each of the investment companies
of SKF AB (industrial machinery), Hyster-Yale Materials served by The Vanguard Group; Controller of each of
Handling, Inc. (forklift trucks), the Lumina Foundation the investment companies served by The Vanguard
for Education, and the V Foundation for Cancer Group (2010–2015); Assistant Controller of each of
Research; Member of the Advisory Council for the the investment companies served by The Vanguard
College of Arts and Letters and of the Advisory Board Group (2001–2010).  
to the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, both  
at the University of Notre Dame. Thomas J. Higgins
Born 1957. Chief Financial Officer Since September
Mark Loughridge 2008. Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five
Born 1953. Trustee Since March 2012. Principal Years and Other Experience: Principal of The Vanguard
Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years and Other Group, Inc.; Chief Financial Officer of each of the
Experience: Senior Vice President and Chief Financial investment companies served by The Vanguard Group;
Officer (retired 2013) at IBM (information technology Treasurer of each of the investment companies served
services); Fiduciary Member of IBM’s Retirement Plan by The Vanguard Group (1998–2008).
Committee (2004–2013); Director of the Dow Chemical  
Company; Member of the Council on Chicago Booth. Peter Mahoney
Born 1974. Controller Since May 2015. Principal
Scott C. Malpass Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years and
Born 1962. Trustee Since March 2012. Principal Other Experience: Head of Global Fund Accounting
Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years and Other at The Vanguard Group, Inc.; Controller of each of the
Experience: Chief Investment Officer and Vice investment companies served by The Vanguard Group;
President at the University of Notre Dame; Assistant Head of International Fund Services at The Vanguard
Professor of Finance at the Mendoza College of Group (2008–2014).  
Business at Notre Dame; Member of the Notre Dame  
403(b) Investment Committee, the Board of Advisors Heidi Stam
for Spruceview Capital Partners, and the Investment Born 1956. Secretary Since July 2005. Principal
Advisory Committee of Major League Baseball; Board Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years and Other
Member of TIFF Advisory Services, Inc., and Catholic Experience: Managing Director of The Vanguard
Investment Services, Inc. (investment advisors). Group, Inc.; General Counsel of The Vanguard Group;
Secretary of The Vanguard Group and of each of the
André F. Perold investment companies served by The Vanguard Group;
Born 1952. Trustee Since December 2004. Principal Director and Senior Vice President of Vanguard
Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years and Other Marketing Corporation.  
Experience: George Gund Professor of Finance and    
Banking, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School Vanguard Senior ManagementTeam
(retired 2011); Chief Investment Officer and Managing Mortimer J. Buckley James M. Norris
Partner of HighVista Strategies LLC (private investment Kathleen C. Gubanich Thomas M. Rampulla
firm); Director of Rand Merchant Bank; Overseer of Martha G. King Glenn W. Reed
the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. John T. Marcante Karin A. Risi
Chris D. McIsaac  
Peter F. Volanakis
Born 1955. Trustee Since July 2009. Principal    
Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years and Other Chairman Emeritus and Senior Advisor
Experience: President and Chief Operating Officer    
(retired 2010) of Corning Incorporated (communications  John J. Brennan  
equipment); Trustee of Colby-Sawyer College and  Chairman, 1996–2009  
Chairman of its Finance and Enrollment Committee;  Chief Executive Officer and President, 1996–2008
Member of the Advisory Board of the Norris Cotton    
Cancer Center. Founder  
  John C. Bogle  
  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, the Vanguard Municipal Bond Funds, and the Vanguard State Tax-Exempt Funds.


 

 

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Item 2: Code of Ethics.

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Item 3: Audit Committee Financial Expert.

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Item 4: Principal Accountant Fees and Services.

(a) Audit Fees.

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Item 5: Audit Committee of Listed Registrants.

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Item 6: Investments.

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

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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 18, 2016

 

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 18, 2016
  VANGUARD QUANTITATIVE FUNDS
 
BY: /s/ THOMAS J. HIGGINS*
  THOMAS J. HIGGINS
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER 
Date: May 18, 2016

 

* By: /s/ Heidi Stam

Heidi Stam, pursuant to a Power of Attorney filed on April 22, 2014 see file Number 2-17620, Incorporated by Reference.