These results show the combined exposure of the fund manager's open-end mutual funds and exchange-traded funds domiciled in the U.S. with at least 50% of assets directly invested in stocks. It excludes bond funds, target date funds, and other fund types like closed-end funds, collective trusts, and funds domiciled outside the U.S. This fund manager may have additional military weapon investments in those types of funds. These results ignore any short assets or liabilities held by fund portfolios, accounting only for long fund holdings.
Vanguard
Military weapons grade
D
Fund manager is invested in military contractors above the threshold of 2.5% and below the threshold of 4%. Assigned a grade of D.
Funds analyzed
103
AUM analyzed
$6T
Military contractors
3.08%
Nuclear
2.22%
Controversial
0.93%
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Vanguard earns a D grade for investments in military weapons with 3.1% invested across 103 funds
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Military contractors
Largest international arms manufacturers and military contractors
1,939
holdings
$185.53B
invested
3.08%
of fund assets
Nuclear weapons
Manufacturers/servicers of nuclear armaments and delivery systems
814
holdings
$133.49B
invested
2.22%
of fund assets
Controversial weapons
Manufacturers involved with cluster munitions, landmines, white phosphorus, depleted uranium
310
holdings
$56.21B
invested
0.93%
of fund assets
Funds from this manager
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