Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund
 
Summary Prospectus
 
 
 
October 16, 2013
 
 
 
Admiral™ Shares for Participants
 
Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund Admiral Shares* (VLTCX)
 
 
 
 
The Fund’s statutory Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information dated
October 16, 2013, are incorporated into and made part of this Summary
Prospectus by reference.
Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund’s Prospectus, which
contains more information about the Fund and its risks. You can find
the Fund’s Prospectus and other information about the Fund online at
www.vanguard.com/prospectus . You can also get this information at no
cost by calling 800-523-1188 or by sending an e-mail request to
online@vanguard.com.
 
 
 
 
*Formerly known as the Fund’s Signal ® Shares
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has not approved or disapproved these securities or
passed upon the adequacy of this prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

 

 

Investment Objective

The Fund seeks to track the performance of a market-weighted corporate bond index with a long-term dollar-weighted average maturity.

Fees and Expenses

The following table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy and hold Admiral Shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees  
(Fees paid directly from your investment)  
 
Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases None
Purchase Fee (other than on reinvested dividends and capital gains) 1%
Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Reinvested Dividends None
Redemption Fee None
 
Annual Fund Operating Expenses  
(Expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)  
 
Management Expenses 0.08%
12b-1 Distribution Fee None
Other Expenses 0.04%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.12%

 

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Example

The following example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund’s Admiral Shares with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. It illustrates the hypothetical expenses that you would incur over various periods if you invest $10,000 in the Fund’s shares. This example assumes that the Shares provide a return of 5% a year and that total annual fund operating expenses remain as stated in the preceding table. The results apply whether or not you redeem your investment at the end of the given period. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years
$112 $138 $167 $252

 

Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in more taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the previous expense example, reduce the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 71%.

Primary Investment Strategies

The Fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Barclays U.S. 10+ Year Corporate Bond Index. This index includes U.S. dollar-denominated, investment-grade, fixed-rate, taxable securities issued by industrial, utility, and financial companies, with maturities greater than 10 years.

The Fund invests by sampling the Index, meaning that it holds a range of securities that, in the aggregate, approximates the full Index in terms of key risk factors and other characteristics. All of the Fund’s investments will be selected through the sampling process, and at least 80% of the Fund’s assets will be invested in bonds included in the Index. The Fund maintains a dollar-weighted average maturity consistent with that of the Index, which, as of August 31, 2012, was 24.6 years.

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Primary Risks

An investment in the Fund could lose money over short or even long periods. You should expect the Fund’s share price and total return to fluctuate within a wide range, like the fluctuations of the overall bond market. The Fund is subject to the following risks, which could affect the Fund’s performance:

• Interest rate risk, which is the chance that bond prices overall will decline because of rising interest rates. Interest rate risk should be high for the Fund because it invests primarily in long-term bonds, whose prices are much more sensitive to interest rate changes than are the prices of short-term bonds.

• Credit risk, which is the chance that a bond issuer will fail to pay interest and principal in a timely manner, or that negative perceptions of the issuer’s ability to make such payments will cause the price of that bond to decline. Credit risk should be moderate for the Fund.

• Income risk , which is the chance that the Fund’s income will decline because of falling interest rates. Income risk is generally low for long-term bond funds.

• Index sampling risk, which is the chance that the securities selected for the Fund, in the aggregate, will not provide investment performance matching that of the Fund’s target index. Index sampling risk for the Fund should be low.

An investment in the Fund is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.

Annual Total Returns

The following bar chart and table are intended to help you understand the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the performance of the Fund‘s Admiral Shares (including operating expenses but excluding shareholder fees) has varied from one calendar year to another over the periods shown. The table shows how the average annual total returns of the Admiral Shares (including operating expenses and any applicable shareholder fees) compare with those of the Fund‘s target index, which has investment characteristics similar to those of the Fund. The Fund’s Signal Shares were renamed Admiral Shares on October 16, 2013. Keep in mind that the Fund’s past performance does not indicate how the Fund will perform in the future. Updated performance information is available on our website at vanguard.com/performance or by calling Vanguard toll-free at 800-662-7447.

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Annual Total Returns — Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund Admiral Shares 1


1 If applicable shareholder fees were reflected, returns would be less than those shown. The year-to-date return as of the most recent calendar quarter, which ended on September 30, 2013, was –7.10%.

During the periods shown in the bar chart, the highest return for a calendar quarter was 9.20% (quarter ended September 30, 2011), and the lowest return for a quarter was –0.26% (quarter ended March 31, 2011).

Average Annual Total Returns for Periods Ended December 31, 2012    
 
    Since
    Inception
    (Jan. 19,
  1 Year 2010)
Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund Admiral Shares 12.29% 12.75%
Barclays U.S. 10+ Year Corporate Bond Index    
(reflects no deduction for fees or expenses) 12.41% 12.97%

 

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Investment Advisor
The Vanguard Group, Inc. (Vanguard)

Portfolio Managers

Joshua C. Barrickman, CFA, Principal of Vanguard and head of Vanguard’s Bond Index Group. He has managed the Fund since its inception in 2009 (co-managed since 2013).

Paul M. Malloy, CFA, Portfolio Manager. He has co-managed the Fund since 2013.

Tax Information

The Fund’s distributions will be reinvested in additional Fund shares and accumulate on a tax-deferred basis if you are investing through an employer-sponsored retirement or savings plan. You will not owe taxes on these distributions until you begin withdrawals from the plan. You should consult your plan administrator, your plan’s Summary Plan Description, or your tax advisor about the tax consequences of plan withdrawals.

Payments to Financial Intermediaries

The Fund and its investment advisor do not pay financial intermediaries for sales of Fund shares.

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Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund Admiral Shares—Fund Number 1947

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