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Market: United States

Asset Class: Bond

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On this page you'll find an in-depth profile of Vanguard Long-term Bond Index Fund Institutional Plus Shares. Learn about the key management, total assets, investment strategy and contact information of VBLIX among other information.

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Address 100 Vanguard Boulevard
Malvern,PA 19355
United States

Phone +1 8776627447

Web www.vanguard.com

Top Executives

Name	Title	Since	Until
Joshua C. Barrickman	Principal	2013	Now
Biography	Joshua C. Barrickman, CFA, Principal of Vanguard and head of Vanguard’s Fixed Income Indexing Americas. He has been with Vanguard since 1998, has worked in investment management since 1999, has managed investment portfolios since 2005, and has co-managed the Fund since 2013. He has managed the Vanguard Variable Insurance Funds Global Bond Index Portfolio since its inception in 2017. Education: B.S., Ohio Northern University; M.B.A., Lehigh University.
Christopher E. Wrazen	Portfolio Manager	2015	2018
Biography	Christopher E. Wrazen, CFP, Portfolio Manager at Vanguard. He has been with Vanguard since 2004, has worked in investment management since 2008, has managed investment portfolios since 2015. Education: B.S., West Chester University; M.B.A., Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business.
Paul M. Malloy	Portfolio Manager	2013	2015
Biography	Paul M. Malloy, CFA, Portfolio Manager at Vanguard. He has worked in investment management since joining Vanguard in 2005 and has co-managed the Short-Term Corporate, Intermediate-Term Corporate, and Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Funds since 2013. Education: B.S., Saint Francis University.
Gregory Davis	-	2008	2013
Biography	Gregory Davis is Vanguard's chief investment officer, overseeing approximately $5 trillion managed by Vanguard Fixed Income, Equity Index, and Quantitative Equity Groups. Previously, Mr. Davis was principal and global head of Vanguard Fixed Income Group, responsible for its portfolio management, strategy, credit research, trading, and planning functions. He also served as the company's Asia-Pacific chief investment officer and a director of Vanguard Investments Australia. Mr. Davis is a member of the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He earned a B.S. in insurance from Pennsylvania State University and an M.B.A. in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a CFA® charterholder and a member of the CFA Society of Philadelphia.
Gerald M. Hwang	Portfolio Manager	2010	2011
Biography	Gerald M. Hwang, CFA Gerald Hwang is a Portfolio Manager at Matthews International Capital Management, LLC. Prior to joining Matthews in 2011, he was a Portfolio Manager with Vanguard Group from 2008 to 2011, managing foreign exchange and fixed income aspects of various products, including exchange-traded funds and mutual funds. His tenure at Morgan Stanley encompassed experience on both the buy-side, as part of a customized fixed-income team, and on the sell-side, as an emerging markets fixed-income analyst. He held various positions for Hungary’s OTP Bank, including Director of Research in Budapest. Gerald began his career as an equity derivatives analyst with D.E. Shaw & Co. He earned his M.B.A from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and received a B.A. in Literature from Yale University. Gerald has been a Portfolio Manager of the Asia Strategic Income Fund since the Fund’s inception in 2011.
Kenneth E. Volpert	Principal	2005	2010
Biography	Kenneth Volpert is the head of investments, Europe, and global head of Fixed Income Indexing, responsible for daily oversight of the European investment team and for all bond indexing operations worldwide. Mr. Volpert was instrumental in the development of Vanguard’s global bond index fund lineup and of exchange-traded fund share classes for Vanguard’s bond index funds. He has written two widely published chapters on fixed income management and has testified about bond price transparency before a congressional subcommittee. Mr. Volpert joined Vanguard in 1992 and has over 35 years (24 with Vanguard) of fixed income management experience. He earned a B.S. in finance from the University of Illinois-Urbana and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. Additionally, Mr. Volpert has been a CFA® charterholder since 1984.
Christopher W. Alwine	Portfolio Manager	2002	2005
Biography	Christopher Alwine, CFA®, is a principal and head of the Municipal Bond Group at Vanguard. He joined Vanguard in 1990 and has more than 20 years of investment experience. Mr. Alwine leads a team of 30 investment professionals who manage more than $90 billion in client assets and 12 municipal bond funds. He has served in multiple roles throughout his career in the Fixed Income Group, including trading, portfolio management, and credit research. His portfolio management experience spans both taxable and municipal markets, as well as active and index funds.
Ian A. MacKinnon	-	1994	2003
Kenneth E. Volpert	Principal	2002	2002
Biography	Kenneth Volpert is the head of investments, Europe, and global head of Fixed Income Indexing, responsible for daily oversight of the European investment team and for all bond indexing operations worldwide. Mr. Volpert was instrumental in the development of Vanguard’s global bond index fund lineup and of exchange-traded fund share classes for Vanguard’s bond index funds. He has written two widely published chapters on fixed income management and has testified about bond price transparency before a congressional subcommittee. Mr. Volpert joined Vanguard in 1992 and has over 35 years (24 with Vanguard) of fixed income management experience. He earned a B.S. in finance from the University of Illinois-Urbana and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. Additionally, Mr. Volpert has been a CFA® charterholder since 1984.
Felix B. Lim	Portfolio Manager	2000	2002
Biography	Lim is a portfolio manager with The Vanguard Group, his employer since January 1999.

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