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VCRM holdings

VCRM reports 2,404 holdings and behaves like 571.2 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-07-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 6 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-07-31
2,404 Positions reported
571.2 Effective holdings
4.2× Concentration multiple
7.13% Top ten weight

Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing; what the measure does not tell you · every fund in one table · hold it with other funds? X-ray the mix. Pricing: 1.62% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country, 2.82% restricted securities.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

VCRM's largest investment is Vanguard Municipal Cash Management Fund at 2.52% of net assets. Massachusetts St-a and Great Lakes MI WTR AU follow; the three together are 3.96%. Ten companies are 7.13% of the fund; the other 2,394 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, VCRM behaves like 571.2 holdings against a median of 236.4 — 2.4 times the median. Across 6 quarterly filings VCRM has become less concentrated: it behaved like 232 at 2025-01-31 and 466.1 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 447 positions were added and 145 dropped; 32.8% of the weight moved.

Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable bond funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.

Every filing since 2025

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Between 2025-01-31 and 2026-04-30, VCRM went from behaving like 232 equally weighted positions to 466.1 — 101% more, while its top ten went from 9.7% to 7.69% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 2,130 466.1 7.69% 2.45%
2026-01-31 1,827 382.8 8.63% 3.16%
2025-10-31 1,510 526.7 6.66% 0.89%
2025-07-31 1,192 320.6 8.46% 3.86%
2025-04-30 967 281.4 8.92% 4.26%
2025-01-31 563 232 9.7% 4.41%

One row per filed reporting period, newest first, read from EDGAR. Quarterly because that is the public filing cadence. Rows marked * are published but held out of the comparison above; the methodology page says when and why.

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-04-30

The 15 largest of 2,404 positions in VCRM's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: VCRM.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Municipal Cash Management Fund2.45%2.4%
2Commonwealth of Massachusetts Transportation Fund Revenue0.77%3.2%
3Great Lakes Water Authority Water Supply System Revenue0.64%3.9%
4Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority Sales Tax Revenue0.63%4.5%
5Public Finance Authority0.61%5.1%
6University of California0.58%5.7%
7Texas Municipal Gas Acquisition & Supply Corp IV0.52%6.2%
8Grand Parkway Transportation Corp0.50%6.7%
9California Community Choice Financing Authority0.50%7.2%
10MARYLAND CMNTY DEV ADMIN HSG &0.49%7.7%
11New York State Environmental Facilities Corp0.48%8.2%
12State of California0.48%8.7%
13Southeast Energy Authority A Cooperative District0.48%9.1%
14Omaha Public Facilities Corp0.48%9.6%
15Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission0.47%10.1%

Returns the fund reported

2024-11 – 2026-04

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of VCRM's own filings, 18 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

6.8%Last twelve months filed
6%Whole series, compounded
2.7%Best month
-2.1%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference — percentage points over 0 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: VCRM.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

1,825 positions became 2,127: 447 added (30.2% of the fund at the later date), 145 dropped (10.1% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 32.8%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of VCRM compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority Sales Tax Revenue0.32%0.63% Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Municipal Cash Management Fund3.16%2.45%
North Texas Tollway Authority0.09%0.30% California Community Choice Financing Authority0.30%0.06%
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission0.26%0.47% Great Lakes Water Authority Water Supply System Revenue0.86%0.64%
Southeast Energy Authority A Cooperative District0.11%0.29% Southern California Public Power Authority0.27%0.08%
California Community Choice Financing Authority0.11%0.28% Texas Municipal Gas Acquisition & Supply Corp IV0.71%0.52%
Maricopa County Industrial Development Authority0.07%0.24% State of Illinois Sales Tax Revenue0.34%0.16%

New: Commonwealth of Massachusetts Transportation Fund Revenue (0.77%), Public Finance Authority (0.61%), University of California (0.58%), Grand Parkway Transportation Corp (0.50%), MARYLAND CMNTY DEV ADMIN HSG & (0.49%), New York State Environmental Facilities Corp (0.48%). Gone: North Texas Tollway Authority (0.62%), New York State Dormitory Authority (0.53%), New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority (0.45%), Oklahoma Water Resources Board (0.45%), Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Dedicated Rev (0.43%), Colorado Health Facilities Authority (0.36%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
debt DBT97.73%
short-term investment STIV1.62%
mortgage-backed ABS-MBS0.62%
DIR DIR0.03%

1.6% of VCRM is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's, from Form N-PORT; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.

Derivative exposure and counterparties

as of 2026-04-30

A position count cannot describe a fund that uses derivatives, because a swap is filed at its unrealised gain, not its exposure. These are the notionals the fund itself reported, against net assets of $1.28B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

0%Stocks held directly
0.03%Swap notional (2)
-0.48%Futures notional (2)
-0.4%Sum, % of net assets
Swap counterpartyNotional% of net assets
ROYAL BANK OF CANADA$0M0.02%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO. LLC$0M0.01%

Full detail for every fund that files derivatives: leverage.json (CC BY 4.0).

Neighbours by effective holdings, debt funds

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Every measured debt fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of VCRM (571.2). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
MLN VanEck Long Muni ETF 654 485.5 5.4% 2026-07-31
VCRB Vanguard Core Bond ETF 3,486 501.4 8.36% 2026-06-30
VWOB Vanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond Index Fund 935 532.4 6.58% 2026-07-31
DFNM Dimensional National Municipal Bond ETF 1,200 538 6.03% 2026-07-31
AGG iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 13,268 562.7 6.3% 2026-05-31
AGGY WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Aggregate Bond Fund 2,140 582.6 8.16% 2026-05-31
SHM State Street(R) SPDR Nuveen ICE Short Term Municipal Bond ETF 1,045 604 5.36% 2026-06-30
PWZ Invesco California AMT-Free Municipal Bond ETF 1,158 608.2 5.92% 2026-05-31
HYD VanEck High Yield Muni ETF 2,103 636.8 6.55% 2026-07-31
NXUS Nuveen International Aggregate Bond ETF 3,226 637.5 6.6% 2026-06-30

Essays that examine VCRM

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