Vanguard Total Bond Market Index
Historical Performance
Objective And Strategy
ObjectiveTrack the performance of a broad, market-weighted bond index.
StrategyThe Portfolio employs a "passive management" - or indexing - investment approach designed to track the performance of the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index. This Index measures a wide spectrum of public, investment-grade, taxable, fixed income securities in the United States, all with maturities of more than 1 year. The Portfolio invests by sampling the Index, meaning that it holds a range of securities that, in the aggregate, approximate the full Index in terms of key risk factors and other characteristics. The Portfolio maintains a dollar-weighted average maturity consistent with that of the Index, which currently ranges between 5 and 10 years.
Low Cost Fund
To meet the needs of many policyholders, we offer access to a suite of low-cost funds for an additional fee ranging from 0.10%-0.35% of the total amount of assets invested in the fund(s). See prospectus for further details.
Principle Risks
N/A
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Bonds - Intermediate04/1991