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About VANGUARD LONG-TERM TREASURY ETF
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Inception date
Nov 19, 2009
Structure
Open-Ended Fund
Dividend treatment
Distributes
Distribution tax treatment
Ordinary income
Income tax type
Capital Gains
Max ST capital gains rate
39.60%
Max LT capital gains rate
20.00%
Primary advisor
The Vanguard Group, Inc.
Distributor
Vanguard Marketing Corp.
The fund is passively managed to invest across the entire long-term US Treasury spectrum (10 years and longer), excluding inflation-protected bonds. Its long effective duration, weighted average maturity and yield-to-maturity naturally exposes investors to higher interest rate risk, but not any more than is market-like. The fund uses a sampling method in tracking the index, which means it will invest in a sample of securities that collectively have an investment profile similar to that of the underlying index.
Classification
What's in the fund
Exposure type
Government
Stock breakdown by region
Top 10 holdings
VGLT $VGLT Continuation ShortVGLT $VGLT Continuation Short. This is a pure momentum signal just as are every other signal I post. ZERO other factors are considered in producing this signal.
Entry reasons: VGLT is showing momentum and confluence of mean reversion crossing up the 70 day price mean.
Exits and SL: TP and SL on ch
Will bonds bounce?After a devastating drop due to rising 10-year yields, the VGLT treasury bond fund is sitting right atop strong support at both the 200-week moving average and the 50-month moving average:
My guess is that for purely technical reasons we get a little bounce from here, with a green day for bonds a
Can't believe it took me this long to realize I should buy VGLTEarlier this year, investment bank JP Morgan smashed estimates because it had bought a bunch of long-term bond funds ahead of last year's interest rate cuts, and the funds increased in price accordingly. (When rates go down, long-term bond prices go up.) I've been expecting futures markets to start
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Frequently Asked Questions
An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a collection of assets (stocks, bonds, commodities, etc.) that track an underlying index and can be bought on an exchange like individual stocks.
VGLT trades at 1,118.50 MXN today, its price has fallen −3.77% in the past 24 hours. Track more dynamics on VGLT price chart.
VGLT net asset value is 1,039.44 today — it's fallen 3.42% over the past month. NAV represents the total value of the fund's assets less liabilities and serves as a gauge of the fund's performance.
VGLT assets under management is 181.16 B MXN. AUM is an important metric as it reflects the fund's size and can serve as a gauge of how successful the fund is in attracting investors, which, in its turn, can influence decision-making.
VGLT price has fallen by −3.77% over the last month, and its yearly performance shows a 9.08% increase. See more dynamics on VGLT price chart.
NAV returns, another gauge of an ETF dynamics, have risen by −3.42% over the last month, have fallen by −3.42% over the last month, showed a −5.41% decrease in three-month performance and has increased by 18.24% in a year.
NAV returns, another gauge of an ETF dynamics, have risen by −3.42% over the last month, have fallen by −3.42% over the last month, showed a −5.41% decrease in three-month performance and has increased by 18.24% in a year.
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VGLT invests in bonds. See more details in our Analysis section.
VGLT expense ratio is 0.04%. It's an important metric for helping traders understand the fund's operating costs relative to assets and how expensive it would be to hold the fund.
No, VGLT isn't leveraged, meaning it doesn't use borrowings or financial derivatives to magnify the performance of the underlying assets or index it follows.
Yes, VGLT pays dividends to its holders with the dividend yield of 4.57%.
VGLT trades at a premium (3.83%).
Premium/discount to NAV expresses the difference between the ETF’s price and its NAV value. A positive percentage indicates a premium, meaning the ETF trades at a higher price than the calculated NAV. Conversely, a negative percentage indicates a discount, suggesting the ETF trades at a lower price than NAV.
Premium/discount to NAV expresses the difference between the ETF’s price and its NAV value. A positive percentage indicates a premium, meaning the ETF trades at a higher price than the calculated NAV. Conversely, a negative percentage indicates a discount, suggesting the ETF trades at a lower price than NAV.
VGLT shares are issued by The Vanguard Group, Inc.
VGLT follows the Bloomberg US Aggregate Government - Treasury - Long. ETFs usually track some benchmark seeking to replicate its performance and guide asset selection and objectives.
The fund started trading on Nov 19, 2009.
The fund's management style is passive, meaning it's aiming to replicate the performance of the underlying index by holding assets in the same proportions as the index. The goal is to match the index's returns.