4 Vanguard Funds Pummeled by Outflows

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Should you hold onto these unpopular Vanguard funds?
Timestamps

00:00 Introduction
00:22 Vanguard Wellington VWELX
00:51 Vanguard Wellesley Income VWINX
01:15 Vanguard Dividend Growth VDIGX
01:46 Vanguard Primecap VPMAX

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Russell Kinnel: The full fund flow data for 2024 recently came in and a few Vanguard funds had major outflows. Does the fact that some investors are leaving mean you should? Absolutely not. In fact, the four funds I’ll highlight today are all rated Gold by our analysts, so clearly we think you should be going the other way than the crowd is. Let’s take a look.

Vanguard Wellington VWELX and its sibling Vanguard Wellesley Income VWINX shed more than $10 billion and $6 billion respectively in net flows for 2024. The first thing to check when you see big flows figures is performance and the funds are actually performing fine. Wellington’s returns are in the top quartile over all the trailing periods and Wellesley is middling for three and five years but top quartile for 10- and 15-years. The main driver of outflows is actually just the long-running move to target date funds in 401ks. Balanced funds like Wellington and Wellesley Income used to sit at the heart of 401ks but they’ve been replaced by target date funds, which are a better fit. But these are still great funds with a conservative mix of stocks and bonds that makes them a welcome place to go in volatile markets.

Vanguard Dividend Growth VDIGX is a performance story. The fund has lagged its peers of late and endured more than $6 billion in outflows. Dividend growers tend to be high quality, stable businesses which makes them excellent performers in recessions, but laggards in fast growing years. The fund has less in tech than most large blend funds and much less to Nvidia and other highflying tech names that have led recently. But the fund is just doing what it is supposed to and should do better over the coming decade.

Vanguard Primecap VPMAX has great long-term performance but its 3-, and 5-year returns are lagging peers. The fund tends to prefer healthcare to tech and that’s why it has had more pedestrian performance. But we love the team and their deep fundamental-driven process, so we rate it Gold. I don’t own this fund, but I own other funds managed by Primecap.

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