Effective November 18, 2025, Vanguard reduced the management fee for this Fund from 0.22% to 0.17%. The MER does not yet reflect this fee cut as it is calculated at the fund's fiscal year end.

About this fund

Fund objectives

Vanguard Conservative ETF Portfolio seeks to provide a combination of income and moderate long-term capital growth by investing in equity and fixed income securities.

Why this fund

  • Seeks to achieve its investment objective by primarily investing in equity and fixed income securities. It may do so either directly or indirectly through investment in one or more exchange traded funds managed by the manager or an affiliate or certain other investment funds.
  • In seeking to achieve the investment objective (under normal market conditions), the sub-advisor will strive to maintain a long-term strategic asset allocation of equity (approximately 40%) and fixed income (approximately 60%) securities. The portfolio asset mix may be reconstituted and rebalanced from time to time at the discretion of the sub-advisor.
  • The underlying funds are expected to be index funds that provide exposure to broad-based equity and fixed income markets.

Fund facts

Inception date
Jan 25 2018
Total assets
Asset class
Multi-Asset
Investment manager

Vanguard Equity Index Group

Distribution Per Unit
$0.18
Distribution frequency
Quarterly
Benchmark
Internal Composite

Performance

Risk and Volatility

As at Oct 31 2025

Beta
Alpha
Standard Deviation
Sharpe Ratio

Please note Beta and R2 data will only display for funds with 3 full years of history.

 

Portfolio data

Allocation to underlying Vanguard funds

As at Oct 31 2025

Percentage
Canadian Aggregate Bond Index ETF 34.82%
U.S. Total Market Index ETF 18.72%
Global ex-U.S. Aggregate Bond Index ETF (CAD-hedged) 12.24%
FTSE Canada All Cap Index ETF 12.21%
U.S. Aggregate Bond Index ETF (CAD-hedged) 11.55%
FTSE Developed All Cap ex North America Index ETF 7.25%
FTSE Emerging Markets All Cap Index ETF 3.20%

Total allocation percentages shown may not equal 100% due to rounding

Asset allocation

As at Oct 31 2025

Percentage
Bond 58.61%
Short-term reserves 0.01%
Stock 41.38%
Characteristics
StocksFundAs at
Number of stocks 13,492 Oct 31 2025
Median market capital 117.4 B Oct 31 2025
Price earning / ratio (P/E) 21.5 x Oct 31 2025
Price / book ratio (P/B) 2.9 x Oct 31 2025
Return on equity (ROE) 14.5% Oct 31 2025
Earnings growth rate 18.9% Oct 31 2025
FundamentalsFundAs at
Number of bonds 19,389 Oct 31 2025
YTM (Yield to Maturity) effective 3.5% Oct 31 2025
Average Duration 6.8 Years Oct 31 2025
Average maturity 10.3 Years Oct 31 2025
Average quality AA- Oct 31 2025
Cash Investment 0.0% Oct 31 2025
Market allocation

As at Oct 31 2025

CountryRegionFundBenchmarkVariance +/-
United States of AmericaNorth America 45.33%
CanadaNorth America 29.69%
JapanPacific 4.17%
ChinaEmerging Markets 2.46%
United KingdomEurope 2.41%
TaiwanEmerging Markets 1.67%
FranceEurope 1.49%
IndiaEmerging Markets 1.45%
GermanyEurope 1.42%
SwitzerlandEurope 1.40%
AustraliaPacific 1.21%
Republic Of KoreaPacific 1.09%
NetherlandsEurope 0.71%
SwedenEurope 0.57%
SpainEurope 0.56%
Top 10 Holdings

As at Oct 31 2025

Holding name% of market valueSectorRegionMarket valueShares
NVIDIA Corp 1.33485% Technology US $9,049,751.37 31,896.876
Apple Inc 1.14578% Technology US $7,767,976.33 20,505.222
Microsoft Corp 1.09911% Technology US $7,451,552.75 10,270.496
Shopify Inc 0.86162% Technology CA $5,841,430.37 23,954.033
Royal Bank of Canada 0.85204% Financials CA $5,776,507.42 28,113.629
Amazon.com Inc 0.66939% Consumer Discretionary US $4,538,200.44 13,262.26
Toronto-Dominion Bank/The 0.57867% Financials CA $3,923,140.92 34,066.871
Broadcom Inc 0.49646% Technology US $3,365,845.93 6,498.934
Alphabet Inc 0.46698% Technology US $3,165,972.99 8,035.676
Enbridge Inc 0.41724% Energy CA $2,828,704.34 43,252.36

Prices and distribution

Prices

Nav Price (CAD)
$31.46
Change
-$0.13-0.40%
As at Nov 17 2025
NAV 52-week high
$31.88
As at Nov 18 2025
NAV 52-week low
$27.97
As at Nov 18 2025
NAV 52-week difference
$3.91
Change
+12.27%
As at Nov 18 2025

Distribution history

Distribution frequency

Quarterly

12 month trailing yield

2.41%

(Oct 31 2025)

Distribution yield

2.22%

(Oct 31 2025)

TypeEx-dividend dateRecord datePayment dateCash distribution per unitReinvestment distribution per unitTotal distribution per unit
Income Oct 01 2025 Oct 01 2025 Oct 08 2025 $0.17617 $0.17617
Income Jul 02 2025 Jul 02 2025 Jul 09 2025 $0.18742 $0.18742
Income Apr 01 2025 Apr 01 2025 Apr 08 2025 $0.19506 $0.19506
CGCA Dec 30 2024 Dec 30 2024 Jan 07 2025 $0.41857 $0.41857
Income Dec 30 2024 Dec 30 2024 Jan 07 2025 $0.20598 $0.20598
Income Oct 01 2024 Oct 01 2024 Oct 08 2024 $0.14311 $0.14311
Income Jul 02 2024 Jul 02 2024 Jul 09 2024 $0.20555 $0.20555
Income Apr 01 2024 Apr 02 2024 Apr 09 2024 $0.19869 $0.19869
CGCA Dec 28 2023 Dec 29 2023 Jan 08 2024 $0.20589 $0.20589
Income Dec 28 2023 Dec 29 2023 Jan 08 2024 $0.23717 $0.23717
Annual distributions

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YearEligible dividendsNon eligible dividendsOther incomeCapital gainsReturn of capitalForeign incomeForeign tax paidTotal distribution per unit
2018 $0.06377 $0.00000 $0.16261 $0.04930 $0.00149 $0.28670 $0.03755 $0.52632
2019 $0.08750 $0.00000 $0.20359 $0.00000 $0.00143 $0.35171 $0.04523 $0.59900
2020 $0.09327 $0.00000 $0.21256 $0.04860 $0.00071 $0.24853 $0.02440 $0.57926
2021 $0.09023 $0.00000 $0.21520 $0.27437 $0.00035 $0.34855 $0.04423 $0.88446
2022 $0.09235 $0.00000 $0.23803 $0.08370 $0.00033 $0.27056 $0.02654 $0.65844
2023 $0.09991 $0.00000 $0.25094 $0.20589 $0.00079 $0.38557 $0.04006 $0.90304
2024 $0.09966 $0.00000 $0.28981 $0.41857 $0.00025 $0.41085 $0.04724 $1.17190

Purchase information

Currencies and stock exchanges

Listed currencies: CAD

Base currency: CAD

Exchanges: Toronto Stock Exchange

Fund codes

  • CUSIP: 92207C101
  • ISIN: CA92207C1014
  • Reuters: VCNS.TO
  • SEDOL: BF7ML11
  • ISIN: CA92207C1014
  • Reuters: VCNS.TO
  • SEDOL: BF7ML11