Effective November 18, 2025, Vanguard reduced the management fee for this ETF 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 Balanced ETF Portfolio seeks to provide long-term capital growth with a moderate level of income 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 60%) and fixed income (approximately 40%) 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 Global Equity Index Management
Distribution Per Unit
$0.19
Distribution frequency
Quarterly
Benchmark
Internal Composite

Performance

Risk and Volatility

As at Apr 30 2026

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 Apr 30 2026

Percentage
U.S. Total Market Index ETF 27.53%
Canadian Aggregate Bond Index ETF 22.70%
FTSE Canada All Cap Index ETF 18.43%
FTSE Developed All Cap ex North America Index ETF 11.30%
Global ex-U.S. Aggregate Bond Index ETF (CAD-hedged) 7.84%
U.S. Aggregate Bond Index ETF (CAD-hedged) 7.52%
FTSE Emerging Markets All Cap Index ETF 4.66%

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

Asset allocation

As at Apr 30 2026

Percentage
Bond 38.06%
Short-term reserves 0.02%
Stock 61.92%
Characteristics
StocksFundAs at
Number of stocks 13,726 Apr 30 2026
Median market capital 130.3 B Apr 30 2026
Price earning / ratio (P/E) 21.3 x Apr 30 2026
Price / book ratio (P/B) 3.0 x Apr 30 2026
Return on equity (ROE) 14.9% Apr 30 2026
Earnings growth rate 18.2% Apr 30 2026
FundamentalsFundAs at
Number of bonds 17,115 Apr 30 2026
YTM (Yield to Maturity) effective 3.9% Apr 30 2026
Average Duration 6.5 Years Apr 30 2026
Average maturity 9.9 Years Apr 30 2026
Average quality AA- Apr 30 2026
Cash Investment 0.0% Apr 30 2026
Market allocation

As at Apr 30 2026

CountryRegionFundBenchmarkVariance +/-
United States of AmericaNorth America 44.48%
CanadaNorth America 29.94%
JapanPacific 4.24%
United KingdomEurope 2.46%
TaiwanEmerging Markets 2.13%
ChinaEmerging Markets 2.09%
Republic Of KoreaPacific 1.66%
FranceEurope 1.48%
SwitzerlandEurope 1.44%
GermanyEurope 1.37%
AustraliaPacific 1.22%
IndiaEmerging Markets 1.19%
NetherlandsEurope 0.77%
SpainEurope 0.59%
ItalyEurope 0.58%
Top 10 Holdings

As at Apr 30 2026

Holding name% of market valueSectorRegionMarket valueShares
NVIDIA Corp 1.82267% Technology US $94,072,283.51 346,319.12
Apple Inc 1.57606% Technology US $81,344,284.93 220,245.609
Royal Bank of Canada 1.31422% Financials CA $67,830,101.24 277,639.48
Microsoft Corp 1.19796% Technology US $61,829,800.75 111,399.173
Amazon.com Inc 1.01314% Consumer Discretionary US $52,290,576.10 144,940.339
Toronto-Dominion Bank/The 0.94482% Financials CA $48,764,731.95 333,251.773
Alphabet Inc 0.88611% Technology US $45,734,269.58 87,320.603
Broadcom Inc 0.78300% Technology US $40,412,434.03 71,128.13
Shopify Inc 0.77598% Technology CA $40,050,495.09 242,906.933
Alphabet Inc 0.69866% Technology US $36,059,496.85 69,364.069

Prices and distribution

Prices

Nav Price (CAD)
$38.33
Change
-$0.14-0.35%
As at May 19 2026
NAV 52-week high
$38.90
As at May 19 2026
NAV 52-week low
$33.35
As at May 19 2026
NAV 52-week difference
$5.55
Change
+14.26%
As at May 19 2026
Historical Prices

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Inception date

Jan 25 2018

Listing date

Feb 01 2018

Date NAV (CAD) Market price (CAD)
May 19 2026 $38.3282 $38.3400
May 15 2026 $38.4646 $38.4700
May 14 2026 $38.9011 $38.9200
May 13 2026 $38.7502 $38.7400
May 12 2026 $38.6642 $38.6600
May 11 2026 $38.7558 $38.7600
May 08 2026 $38.7885 $38.8000
May 07 2026 $38.4944 $38.5100
May 06 2026 $38.6744 $38.6800
May 05 2026 $38.1943 $38.1900
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Distribution history

Distribution frequency

Quarterly

12 month trailing yield

2.13%

(Apr 30 2026)

Distribution yield

1.99%

(Apr 30 2026)

TypeEx-dividend dateRecord datePayment dateCash distribution per unitReinvestment distribution per unitTotal distribution per unit
Income Apr 01 2026 Apr 01 2026 Apr 09 2026 $0.18982 $0.18982
Income Dec 30 2025 Dec 30 2025 Jan 07 2026 $0.24319 $0.24319
CGCA Dec 30 2025 Dec 30 2025 Jan 07 2026 $0.43024 $0.43024
Income Oct 01 2025 Oct 01 2025 Oct 08 2025 $0.18118 $0.18118
Income Jul 02 2025 Jul 02 2025 Jul 09 2025 $0.19960 $0.19960
Income Apr 01 2025 Apr 01 2025 Apr 08 2025 $0.18885 $0.18885
CGCA Dec 30 2024 Dec 30 2024 Jan 07 2025 $0.33707 $0.33707
Income Dec 30 2024 Dec 30 2024 Jan 07 2025 $0.18573 $0.18573
Income Oct 01 2024 Oct 01 2024 Oct 08 2024 $0.12923 $0.12923
Income Jul 02 2024 Jul 02 2024 Jul 09 2024 $0.23601 $0.23601
Annual distributions

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YearEligible dividendsNon eligible dividendsOther incomeCapital gainsReturn of capitalForeign incomeForeign tax paidTotal distribution per unit
2018 $0.09888 $0.00000 $0.10761 $0.05502 $0.00335 $0.31146 $0.04142 $0.53490
2019 $0.13341 $0.00000 $0.13064 $0.00354 $0.00190 $0.37836 $0.04916 $0.59869
2020 $0.13712 $0.00000 $0.13433 $0.11432 $0.00134 $0.28195 $0.03204 $0.63702
2021 $0.14061 $0.00000 $0.14010 $0.28959 $0.00056 $0.36988 $0.04808 $0.89266
2022 $0.14409 $0.00000 $0.15660 $0.21475 $0.00220 $0.32779 $0.03754 $0.80789
2023 $0.16101 $0.00000 $0.16675 $0.12181 $0.00009 $0.41716 $0.04829 $0.81852
2024 $0.16589 $0.00000 $0.20378 $0.33707 $0.00112 $0.44449 $0.05478 $1.09757
2025 $0.15589 $0.00000 $0.23065 $0.43024 $0.00154 $0.48107 $0.05633 $1.24306

Purchase information

Currencies and stock exchanges

Listed currencies: CAD

Base currency: CAD

Exchanges: Toronto Stock Exchange

Fund codes

The management expense ratio (MER) is the MER as of the most recent fund year end, including waivers and absorptions, and is expressed as an annualized percentage of the daily average net asset value. Vanguard Investments Canada Inc. expects to continue absorbing or waiving certain fees indefinitely but may, in its discretion, discontinue this practice at any time. For recently launched funds, MER information is not yet available.