Vanguard — funds, providers and filings
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Registrations
- 2026-09-24 New fund vehicle registered: Vanguard U.S. Small-Mid Cap Active ETF (US-DE) entity register
- 2026-09-18 New fund vehicle registered: Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company Real Estate Index Trust (US-PA) entity register
- 2026-09-18 New fund vehicle registered: Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company Target Retirement Growth 2025 Trust (US-PA) entity register
- 2026-09-18 New fund vehicle registered: Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company Target Retirement Growth 2030 Trust (US-PA) entity register
- 2026-09-18 New fund vehicle registered: Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company Target Retirement Growth 2035 Trust (US-PA) entity register
- 2026-09-18 New fund vehicle registered: Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company Target Retirement Growth 2040 Trust (US-PA) entity register
- 2026-09-18 New fund vehicle registered: Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company Target Retirement Growth 2045 Trust (US-PA) entity register
- 2026-09-18 New fund vehicle registered: Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company Target Retirement Growth 2050 Trust (US-PA) entity register
Vanguard is a US investment manager, founded by John Bogle more than 50 years ago. It has an unusual structure: its own funds own the firm, so there are no outside shareholders. That structure underpins its low-cost approach. (Vanguard)
Investor base
It serves mainly everyday and retirement investors. It is owned by its US funds, so it is run at cost for those investors.
Source: Vanguard.
Asset classes
The range spans index mutual funds and ETFs, active funds, fixed income and money market.
Fund structure
Its funds are organised into 43 umbrella funds and 389 sub-funds.
How the funds sit under the manager and its umbrellas:
The US-reported view
The sections below draw on US regulatory filings — SEC Form ADV and Form D — and on US investors' own disclosures. They set out Vanguard's US-reported slice: the funds, service providers, domiciles and activity visible in US filings, not its worldwide business.
1. US-SEC private funds
This page reports $152.8bn of gross asset value across 127 private funds that Vanguard reports on SEC Form ADV, filings through 2024. Its firm-wide figures are in the Assets summary at the top of this page, measured on a different basis.
Worldwide, 596 registered fund vehicles are on file under its management companies, on the worldwide entity register (read 2026-10-05) — these are legal fund entities, not the share classes or products a manager markets.
| Registered fund vehicles worldwide (as at 2026-10-05) | 596 |
| Management entities on file (US filings · worldwide register) | 7 · 10 |
| Principal offices on file | Dublin, Ireland; Hong Kong, Hong Kong; London, United Kingdom; Malvern, United States; Melbourne Vic, Australia; Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
2. Service providers
PwC audits 103 of the 123 Vanguard funds that name an auditor on Form ADV Schedule D, filings through 2024 — more than any other firm. Brown Brothers Harriman Administration Services (Ireland) Limited administers 43 of the 121 that name an administrator, on the same filings. Relationships the filings attribute to Vanguard's own group are part of its structure, not third-party appointments, and are left out of these counts.
Across the funds that disclose each role on Schedule D — the count is funds naming that provider, of funds disclosing the role at all:
| Fund administrator | Brown Brothers Harriman Administration Services (Ireland) Limited (43 of 121); State Street (20 of 121); International Financial Data Services (UK) Limited (18 of 121) — and 7 more |
| Auditor | PwC (103 of 123); KPMG (20 of 123) |
| Custodian | State Street (60 of 127); Brown Brothers Harriman Trustee Services (Ireland) Limited (47 of 127); Cibc Mellon Trust Company (8 of 127) — and 6 more |
| Prime broker | Credit Suisse (4 of 5); Goldman Sachs (1 of 5) |
3. Fund domiciles
51 of Vanguard's 127 SEC-reported private funds are domiciled in Ireland, its largest single domicile on Form ADV, filings through 2024. United Kingdom is next, and the bars below give the rest in order.
4. Fund filing activity
Vanguard HarbourVest 2026 Private Equity Fund L.P. is the largest US raise on file for a Vanguard fund: $64m sold to date, on its 2026 Form D filing. Amounts are cumulative sold-to-date figures as filed. They cover a fund's life up to that filing, not a single fundraise, and a fund that raises outside the US files nothing here.
The largest of the 2 US private-fund filings for Vanguard's funds, by amount sold to date as filed.
| Issuer | Type | Amount sold (as filed) | Filing year | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard HarbourVest 2026 Private Equity Fund L.P. | Private Equity Fund | $64m | 2026 | filing |
| Vanguard HarbourVest 2026 Private Equity Feeder Fund L.P. | Private Equity Fund | $61m | 2026 | filing |
5. Management entities
Vanguard files Form ADV through 7 management entities; the largest is Vanguard Global Advisers, LLC, CRD 164593 of MALVERN, with 58 of the 127 funds on this page. Every figure above rolls those filers up into one business. The table below traces each of them back to the entity that filed it, so a number can be checked against its own record rather than taken on trust.
US management entities on file (7 entities — together the 127 funds above)
| Entity | SEC CRD | City | Funds of the 127 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard Global Advisers, LLC | CRD 164593 | MALVERN | 58 |
| Vanguard Investments Canada Inc. | CRD 283519 | Toronto, Ontario | 28 |
| The Vanguard Group, Inc. | CRD 105958 | MALVERN | 22 |
| Vanguard Investments UK, Limited | CRD 283775 | LONDON | 9 |
| Vanguard Investments Australia Limited | CRD 282933 | Melbourne Vic | 5 |
| Vanguard Group (Ireland) Limited | CRD 285297 | DUBLIN | 3 |
| Vanguard Investments Hong Kong Limited | CRD 287516 | Hong Kong | 2 |
Management entities on the worldwide register (10 entities — together the 596 registered vehicles)
| Entity | Register ID | Fund vehicles |
|---|---|---|
| The Vanguard Group, Inc. | 5493002789CX3L0CJP65 | 287 |
| Vanguard Group (Ireland) Limited | 549300PF53NS4QZ3OH06 | 105 |
| Vanguard Investments Canada Inc. | 549300QF3ZHMNSZNGS90 | 54 |
| Vanguard Investments Australia LTD | 5493001J6JRU0G53YG93 | 52 |
| Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company | 5493002IC8N66XNR2841 | 52 |
| Vanguard Investments UK, Limited | 549300J2XN0PRERQS658 | 42 |
| Vanguard Super Pty LTD | 5493002WPJG9O3HD9X05 | 1 |
| Vanguard Global Advisers, LLC. | 549300X3VU3R11BLMK60 | 1 |
| Vanguard Growth Equity Fund | HQIHKMBE0B4H6ER9WJ10 | 1 |
| Vanguard Ohio Tax-Free Funds - Vanguard Ohio Tax-Exempt Money Market Fund | I5FO53UUI1IPIWPJUP07 | 1 |
6. Similar managers
Questions this page answers
What is Vanguard's AUM?
Across the group it managed $13.30 trillion as at 30 June 2026. (Vanguard). It also reports $152.8bn of gross asset value across 127 private funds on its US SEC filings (Form ADV, through 2024).
Who audits Vanguard's funds?
PwC is named on 103 of the 123 US private funds whose filing discloses an auditor on Form ADV Schedule D (of Vanguard's 127 filed with the SEC), filings through 2024. KPMG appears on 20 of the same filings.
Who administers Vanguard's funds?
Brown Brothers Harriman Administration Services (Ireland) Limited is named on 43 of the 121 US private funds whose filing discloses an administrator on Form ADV Schedule D (of Vanguard's 127 filed with the SEC), filings through 2024. State Street appears on 20 of the same filings.
How many funds does Vanguard run?
Vanguard has 596 registered fund vehicles on the worldwide entity register — legal fund entities, not the share classes or products a manager markets. Separately, it reports 127 private funds to the US SEC (Form ADV, through 2024) — a different register, counted on a different basis.
Where are Vanguard's funds domiciled?
51 of the 127 funds are domiciled in Ireland, its largest single domicile on Form ADV, filings through 2024, followed by United Kingdom with 37.
Where does Vanguard file from?
Vanguard Global Advisers, LLC, CRD 164593, its largest Form ADV filer, gives its office as MALVERN, United States. The other filers' offices are in the entity table on this page.
Is Vanguard registered with the SEC?
Yes. Its filings run through 7 management entities, the largest being Vanguard Global Advisers, LLC, CRD 164593, with 58 of the 127 funds here.
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