Vanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond Index Fund

C000126410 Fund Overview

Vanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond Index Fund is a US ETF managed by Vanguard Whitehall Funds, categorised as Intermediate Treasury / Sovereign Bond. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.

• Type: US ETF
• Manager: Vanguard Whitehall Funds
• Category: Intermediate Treasury / Sovereign Bond
• Assets under management: $6.68B
• SEC CIK: 0001004655
• SEC series ID: S000040750
• Share class ID: C000126410

C000126410 Investment Objective and Strategy

Vanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond Index Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Vanguard Whitehall Funds.

Investment objective

The Fund seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of U.S. dollar-denominated bonds issued by governments and government-related issuers in emerging market countries.

Principal investment strategy

The Fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Bloomberg Barclays USD Emerging Markets Government RIC Capped Index. This Index includes U.S. dollar-denominated bonds that have maturities longer than one year and that were issued by emerging market governments and government-related issuers. The Index is capped, which means that its exposure to any particular bond issuer is limited to a maximum of 20% and its aggregate exposure to issuers that individually constitute 5% or more of the Index is limited to 48%. If the Index, as constituted based on market weights, exceeds the 20% or 48% limits, the excess is reallocated to bonds of other issuers represented in the Index. The Fund invests by sampling the Index, meaning that it holds a range of securities that, in the aggregate, approximates the full Index in terms of key risk factors and other characteristics.

All of the Funds investments will be selected through the sampling process, and under normal circumstances at least 80% of the Funds assets will be invested in bonds included in the Index. The Fund maintains a dollar-weighted average maturity consistent with that of the Index, which generally ranges between 10 and 15 years, and as of October 31, 2017, was 10.1 years.

C000126410 Holdings

Top 10 holdings of Vanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond Index Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

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C000126410 Portfolio Allocation

Asset-class allocation of Vanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond Index Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000126410 Costs and Fees

C000126410 costs about $49 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

• Net expense ratio: 0.49%
• Gross expense ratio: 0.49%
• Portfolio turnover: 27%
• Brokerage commissions: 0.00 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

C000126410 Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2026-07, Vanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond Index Fund had net inflows of $1.78B, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

C000126410 Debt Constituents

Largest debt holdings of Vanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond Index Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000126410 Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official Vanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond Index Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-02-27
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-02-28
• Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2026-02-02
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-09-28
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-06-26
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-03-31
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-01-12
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-01-13

Related Funds

Other Intermediate Treasury / Sovereign Bond funds tracked on ABC INVEST:

• Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund (VBIIX)
• Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Index Fund (VSIGX)
• iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF (GOVT)
• iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF (IEI)
• Fidelity SAI Inflation-Protected Bond Index Fund (FSPWX)

Data Sources

ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.