Vanguard To Close Asset Allocation Fund

Vanguard is looking to close its Vanguard Asset Allocation Fund.

Vanguard is looking to close its Vanguard Asset Allocation Fund. The Pennsylvania-based fund firm has changed the investment strategy and policies of the $8.6 billion fund and sacked its advisor Mellon Capital Management Corp. Vanguard’s quantitative equity and fixed-income groups have taken over investment advisory responsibilities of the fund.

The fund will be transitioned to a static 60 percent stocks and 40 percent bonds portfolio. Vanguard is looking to merge the fund into the $11.1 billion Vanguard Balanced Index Fund. The balanced index fund will be benchmarked against two indices representing the broad U.S. equity and U.S. taxable bond markets.

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