aid: vanguard-group url: >- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vanguard-group/refs/heads/main/apis.yml name: The Vanguard Group description: >- The Vanguard Group is an American investor-owned asset manager headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, and is "the largest provider of mutual funds in the world" and the second-largest exchange-traded fund (ETF) provider after BlackRock's iShares. Vanguard manages approximately $12 trillion in assets as of 2025 and employs roughly 20,000 people (the "crew") as of December 31, 2024. The firm was founded on May 1, 1975 by John C. ("Jack") Bogle and is structured as a mutual: "Vanguard is owned by the funds managed by the company and is therefore owned by its customers." Salim Ramji was appointed Chief Executive Officer in July 2024. Vanguard's business spans index and active mutual funds, ETFs, personal advisor services, retirement plan recordkeeping (Vanguard Retirement Plan Services), institutional asset management, fixed income, and a financial-advisor channel served through Vanguard Financial Advisor Services. Vanguard operates across the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Despite that scale, Vanguard does not publish a public developer API program — there is no public OpenAPI specification, no SDKs, no CLI, no public webhooks, and no Vanguard-published public RSS feed. Investor, advisor, recordkeeping, and distribution-platform integrations are delivered through authentication-gated portals (investor.vanguard.com, advisors.vanguard.com, institutional.vanguard.com), PDF reporting, brokerage/custodian rails, fund-administrator data feeds, and industry recordkeeping interfaces. type: Index kind: company position: Consumer access: 3rd-Party image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg tags: - Active Management - Advisor Services - Asset Management - Brokerage - ETFs - Finance - Financial Services - Fixed Income - Index Investing - Institutional Investment - Investment Management - Money Management - Mutual Funds - Personal Advice - Recordkeeping - Retirement - Wealth Management created: '2026-05-23' modified: '2026-05-23' specificationVersion: '0.19' apis: [] common: - type: DomainSecurity url: security/vanguard-group-domain-security.yml - type: Website url: https://investor.vanguard.com - type: Website url: https://corporate.vanguard.com - type: GlobalWebsite url: https://global.vanguard.com - type: AdvisorPortal url: https://advisors.vanguard.com - type: InstitutionalPortal url: https://institutional.vanguard.com - type: About url: https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/corporatesite/us/en/corp/who-we-are.html - type: SetsUsApart url: https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/corporatesite/us/en/corp/who-we-are/sets-us-apart.html - type: History url: https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/corporatesite/us/en/corp/who-we-are/our-history.html - type: Leadership url: https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/corporatesite/us/en/corp/who-we-are/leadership-team.html - type: Newsroom url: https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/corporatesite/us/en/corp/news-and-newsroom.html - type: Insights url: https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/corporatesite/us/en/corp/research-and-commentary.html - type: Research url: https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/corporatesite/us/en/corp/research-and-commentary/research.html - type: ResearchCenter url: https://www.vanguard.com/pdf/researchcommentary/researchcenter.html - type: ETFs url: https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/etfs - type: MutualFunds url: https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/mutual-funds - type: PersonalAdvisor url: https://investor.vanguard.com/advice - type: Retirement url: https://investor.vanguard.com/retirement - type: Brokerage url: https://investor.vanguard.com/investor-resources-education/online-trading - type: Careers url: https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/corporatesite/us/en/corp/careers.html - type: ContactUs url: https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/corporatesite/us/en/corp/contact-us.html - type: PrivacyCenter url: https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/corporatesite/us/en/corp/privacy-center.html - type: TermsOfService url: https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/corporatesite/us/en/corp/terms-of-use.html - type: SECFilingsParent url: https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0000102909 - type: LinkedIn url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vanguard - type: X url: https://x.com/vanguard_group - type: Facebook url: https://www.facebook.com/Vanguard - type: YouTube url: https://www.youtube.com/user/Vanguard - type: Instagram url: https://www.instagram.com/vanguard_group - type: GitHub url: https://github.com/Vanguard-Group - type: Ticker name: 'Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (NYSEARCA: VTI)' url: https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/etfs/profile/vti - type: Ticker name: 'Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA: VOO)' url: https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/etfs/profile/voo - type: Ticker name: 'Vanguard Total International Stock ETF (NASDAQ: VXUS)' url: https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/etfs/profile/vxus - type: Ticker name: 'Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF (NASDAQ: BND)' url: https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/etfs/profile/bnd - type: BusinessLines data: - name: Index Mutual Funds description: >- Vanguard pioneered the retail index mutual fund with the launch of the First Index Investment Trust (now the Vanguard 500 Index Fund) in 1976. Index funds remain a flagship product line and the foundation of Vanguard's low-cost, passive investing identity. url: https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/mutual-funds - name: Active Mutual Funds description: >- Active equity and fixed-income mutual funds managed in-house and by sub-advisors, including long-running flagships such as Vanguard Wellington and Vanguard Wellesley Income. url: https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/mutual-funds - name: ETFs description: >- Vanguard is the second-largest ETF provider globally, after BlackRock's iShares, with a product family that includes core total- market ETFs (VTI, VXUS, BND, BNDX), the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO), ESG ETFs, short-term ETFs, sector and factor strategies, and active ETFs. "Build a fully diversified portfolio with our 4 total-market ETFs that cover nearly all aspects of the U.S. and international stock and bond markets." url: https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/etfs - name: Personal Advisor description: >- Hybrid robo + human-advisor offering for retail investors with tiered services (Vanguard Digital Advisor, Vanguard Personal Advisor, Vanguard Personal Advisor Select, Vanguard Personal Advisor Wealth Management). One of the largest hybrid-advisory platforms by AUM. url: https://investor.vanguard.com/advice - name: Retirement Plan Services description: >- Defined-contribution recordkeeping for plan sponsors (401(k), 403(b), 457, defined-benefit administration), plus IRAs and rollover support for individual participants. Distinct from the institutional asset-management business. url: https://institutional.vanguard.com - name: Institutional Asset Management description: >- Asset-management mandates for corporate pensions, endowments, foundations, healthcare systems, insurance general accounts, and sovereigns served through the institutional channel. url: https://institutional.vanguard.com - name: Fixed Income description: >- Large in-house fixed-income franchise spanning municipal bonds, taxable bonds, money market funds, and bond ETFs (BND, BNDX, BSV, BIV, VCIT, VCSH, VTEB, and others). url: https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/mutual-funds/bond-funds - name: Brokerage and Trading description: >- Self-directed brokerage account for stocks, ETFs (including non-Vanguard ETFs), mutual funds, options, and fixed income, with Vanguard's online trading platform and the Vanguard mobile app. url: https://investor.vanguard.com/investor-resources-education/online-trading - name: Financial Advisor Services description: >- Vanguard Financial Advisor Services (FAS) serves independent and broker-dealer-affiliated financial advisors who allocate client assets to Vanguard funds and ETFs through the advisors.vanguard.com portal. url: https://advisors.vanguard.com - type: Leadership data: - name: Salim Ramji title: Chief Executive Officer (appointed July 2024) - name: John C. ("Jack") Bogle title: Founder (1929–2019) — founded Vanguard May 1, 1975 - type: GlobalPresence data: - region: Americas countries: - Canada - United States - Mexico - US Offshore - South America - region: Europe countries: - Austria - Belgium - Denmark - Finland - France - Germany - Iceland - Ireland - Italy - Liechtenstein - Luxembourg - Netherlands - Norway - Poland - Portugal - Spain - Sweden - Switzerland - United Kingdom - region: Asia Pacific countries: - Australia - type: ScaleMetrics data: - name: Assets Under Management value: "~$12 trillion (as of 2025)" - name: Employees ("Crew") value: "~20,000 (as of December 31, 2024)" - name: Founded value: "May 1, 1975" - name: Founder value: John C. ("Jack") Bogle - name: Headquarters value: Malvern, Pennsylvania, U.S. - name: Structure value: Investor-owned mutual — owned by the Vanguard funds and therefore by fund shareholders - name: ETF Rank value: Second-largest ETF provider globally (after BlackRock's iShares) - name: Mutual Fund Rank value: Largest provider of mutual funds in the world - type: Channels data: - name: Retail Investor Portal description: Self-directed investor portal at investor.vanguard.com for accounts, trading, statements, and tax forms. - name: Advisor Portal description: Vanguard Financial Advisor Services (FAS) portal at advisors.vanguard.com — authenticated access to fund data, research, and trading for RIAs and broker-dealer-affiliated advisors. - name: Institutional Portal description: institutional.vanguard.com for retirement plan sponsors and institutional asset-management clients (DC recordkeeping, plan administration, asset-management mandates). - name: Wealth Distribution Platforms description: Vanguard mutual funds and ETFs are distributed industry-wide through brokerage, custodian, and retirement-plan platforms (Schwab, Fidelity, Pershing, etc.) using standard fund-trading rails (NSCC Fund/SERV, DTCC). - name: Mobile Apps description: Vanguard mobile app for retail account management and trading (iOS and Android). - type: Features data: - name: Quarterly Holdings and Annual Reports description: Fund-level reports (annual, semi-annual, summary prospectus, statement of additional information) published through the corporate site and SEC EDGAR. - name: SEC EDGAR Filings description: 13F-HR, N-PORT, N-CSR, N-CEN, N-PX, prospectuses, and other regulatory filings available via SEC EDGAR. - name: Press Releases and Newsroom description: News, press releases, and corporate communications published on the corporate site; no public RSS feed observed. - name: Research and Commentary description: Vanguard Research Center publishes whitepapers on indexing, advice, retirement, and capital-market forecasts (Vanguard Capital Markets Model, VCMM). - name: Personal Advisor Tools description: Authenticated retirement and goals planning tools for Personal Advisor clients (digital, hybrid, and wealth-management tiers). - type: PeerProviders data: - name: BlackRock / iShares description: Largest global asset manager and #1 ETF provider; primary competitor to Vanguard in index / ETF and institutional asset management. - name: State Street Global Advisors (SPDR) description: Third-largest ETF provider and major institutional asset manager. - name: Fidelity Investments description: Mutual-fund and brokerage competitor (also a Vanguard recordkeeping rival in DC plans). - name: Charles Schwab description: Brokerage, advisor custodian, and low-cost index/ETF competitor. - name: J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Invesco, T. Rowe Price, Capital Group description: Mutual-fund and ETF competitors across active and index strategies. - type: Absences data: - name: No Public Developer API description: Vanguard does not publish a public REST/GraphQL/OpenAPI developer API for retail investors, advisors, recordkeeping participants, or institutional clients. All programmatic interaction runs through authentication-gated portals or industry rails (NSCC/DTCC, Fund/SERV). - name: No Public Developer Portal description: There is no developer.vanguard.com / developers.vanguard.com / api.vanguard.com surface. The investor and advisor portals are end-user UIs, not developer-facing API consoles. - name: No Public OpenAPI / AsyncAPI Specs description: No OpenAPI 3.x or AsyncAPI specifications are published by Vanguard for any of its retail, advisor, institutional, or recordkeeping surfaces. - name: No Public SDKs or CLI description: Vanguard publishes no language SDKs (no JavaScript, Python, Java, .NET, Go, or other client libraries) and no command-line interface. - name: No Public Webhooks or Event Bus description: All investor, advisor, and plan-participant notifications are delivered via email or in-portal messaging; there is no documented webhook / push-API or public event bus. - name: No Public RSS or Atom Feeds description: Newsroom, research, and insights pages are HTML / PDF only; no `feed.xml` or Atom feed was discovered on the corporate or investor sites. - name: No Public GitHub Engineering Surface description: A `github.com/Vanguard-Group` organization was created on 2026-03-25 but currently exposes zero public repositories and zero public members. No public OpenAPI specs, SDKs, CLIs, or tools are published. Vanguard engineering operates privately. - name: No Public Pricing API description: Fund expense ratios, advisory tiers, and brokerage commissions are published as HTML on the investor site; there is no machine-readable pricing API or rate-card endpoint. - name: No Public Status Page description: No status.vanguard.com / trust.vanguard.com style public status page or incident feed is published; outages are communicated via in-portal banners and customer service channels. - type: GraphQL url: graphql/vanguard-group-graphql.md maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com