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VPLS holdings

VPLS reports 2,903 holdings and behaves like 446.1 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-06-30. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 11 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-06-30

This figure is not comparable with other funds

swap and futures notional is 1329% of net assets: the fund's exposure is delivered by derivatives, and a count of its filed positions does not describe it. See the exposure section for what the notional is written on

The figure below is what the filing says, published unchanged. What it may not do is sit beside a plain long-only fund and be read as the same quantity. How comparability is decided.

2,903 Positions reported
446.1 Effective holdings
6.5× Concentration multiple
9.8% 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: 1.74% at a quoted market price (level 1), 73 issuer countries, 20.12% restricted securities.

What stands out

as of 2026-06-30

VPLS's largest investment is Fncl 5 7/26 at 2.42% of net assets. Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund and Pmtlt 2026-inv1 A36 follow; the three together are 5.28%. Between the 2026-03-31 and 2026-06-30 filings 597 positions were added and 338 dropped; 41.4% of the weight moved. the United States is the largest country at 74.52% of the portfolio, across 73 countries in the filing.

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 2023

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Between 2023-12-31 and 2024-09-30, VPLS went from behaving like 41.4 equally weighted positions to 269.1 — 550% more, while its top ten went from 35.97% to 11.98% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-06-30 * 2,903 446.1 9.8% 2.31%
2026-03-31 * 2,653 418.8 10.54% 1.7%
2025-12-31 * 2,270 421.5 9.88% 1.85%
2025-09-30 * 2,232 438.7 9.48% 1.83%
2025-06-30 * 1,898 440.3 8.36% 1.69%
2025-03-31 * 1,634 364.2 9.57% 1.39%
2024-12-31 * 1,397 283.2 11.55% 2.15%
2024-09-30 1,199 269.1 11.98% 1.92%
Earlier filings (3 more, back to 2023-12-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-06-30 * 916 181.6 15.7% 2.79%
2024-03-31 754 134.3 18.92% 4.07%
2023-12-31 451 41.4 35.97% 10.85%

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 2026-06-30

The 15 largest of 2,903 positions in VPLS's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: VPLS.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac2.31%2.3%
2Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund1.67%4.0%
3PMT Loan Trust 2026-INV11.05%5.0%
4Fannie Mae REMICS0.92%5.9%
5Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac0.86%6.8%
6Fannie Mae REMICS0.65%7.5%
7NVIDIA Corp0.63%8.1%
8OBX 2026-INV2 Trust0.61%8.7%
9Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau0.56%9.2%
10Fannie Mae REMICS0.55%9.8%
11Finland Government International Bond0.50%10.3%
12NVIDIA Corp0.49%10.8%
13Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac0.48%11.3%
14Ginnie Mae II Pool0.45%11.7%
15Province of Quebec Canada0.44%12.2%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-06-30

Share of VPLS's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.

CountryShare
United States 74.52%
Canada 1.70%
Mexico 1.48%
United Kingdom 1.35%
Italy 1.22%
Spain 1.19%
Dominican Republic 1.00%
Cayman Islands° 0.99%

Returns the fund reported

2023-12 – 2026-06

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of VPLS's own filings, 31 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

4.6%Last twelve months filed
16%Whole series, compounded
2.8%Best month
-2.2%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: VPLS.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-03-31 → 2026-06-30

2,574 positions became 2,833: 597 added (35.7% of the fund at the later date), 338 dropped (27.5% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 41.4%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of VPLS compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-03-312026-06-30Largest decreases2026-03-312026-06-30
Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund0.41%1.67% United States Treasury Note/Bond0.62%0.18%
PMT Loan Trust 2026-INV10.11%1.05% Agence Francaise de Developpement EPIC0.34%0.02%
United States Treasury Note/Bond0.07%0.33% United States Treasury Note/Bond0.37%0.07%
Ginnie Mae II Pool0.02%0.16% Central American Bank for Economic Integration0.32%0.04%
Morocco Government International Bond0.25%0.35% United States Treasury Note/Bond0.48%0.27%
OCP SA0.02%0.10% United States Treasury Note/Bond0.18%0.02%

New: Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac (2.31%), Fannie Mae REMICS (0.92%), Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac (0.86%), Fannie Mae REMICS (0.65%), NVIDIA Corp (0.63%), OBX 2026-INV2 Trust (0.61%). Gone: Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac (1.70%), Ginnie Mae II Pool (1.51%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (1.34%), Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac (1.29%), Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac (1.21%), Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac (0.83%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-06-30
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
debt DBT55.36%
mortgage-backed ABS-MBS38.86%
CDO/CLO ABS-CBDO3.68%
short-term investment STIV1.67%
loan LON0.22%
DIR DIR0.13%
DFE DFE0.07%

1.7% of VPLS is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1); 0.1% at level 3, priced from the filer's own inputs. 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 2026-06-30

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 $1.66B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

0%Stocks held directly
1301.82%Swap notional (80)
9.26%Futures notional (19)
1311.1%Sum, % of net assets
Swap counterpartyNotional% of net assets
BARCLAYS PLC$16.24B975.28%
CITIGROUP INC$4.56B274.15%
BNP PARIBAS$512M30.74%
Goldman Sachs$117M7.03%
JPMORGAN CHASE & CO$60M3.61%
MIZUHO CAPITAL MARKETS LLC$47M2.79%
Bank of America NA$42M2.53%
WELLS FARGO & COMPANY$19M1.17%
HSBC Holdings PLC$19M1.15%
Deutsche Bank AG$17M1.05%
CITADEL SECURITIES SWAP DEALER LLC$16M0.94%
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC$10M0.62%
Societe Generale SA$7M0.44%
NOMURA SECURITIES INTERNATIONAL INC$4M0.25%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO. LLC$1M0.07%
Nomura Global Financial Products, Inc$0M0%
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION$0M0%
Barclays Bank plc$0M0%
Wells Fargo Bank NA$0M0%
Goldman Sachs International$0M0%

Financing leg as filed: the fund pays MXIBTIIE + 0% on $506M of long swap notional . Issuers fill the spread field differently (some file the all-in rate), so compare within an issuer, not across.

25 option positions filed, 12 of them written. The book as filed:

TypeSideStrikeExpiryUnderlying
CallPurchased3.352030-10-16Secured Overnight Financing Rate
PutWritten4.912027-06-24Secured Overnight Financing Rate
PutWritten3.852028-01-20Secured Overnight Financing Rate
PutWritten3.9542026-10-19Secured Overnight Financing Rate
CallWritten1.52028-03-10Secured Overnight Financing Rate
PutWritten5.3272036-05-21Secured Overnight Financing Rate
CallWritten2.912027-06-24Secured Overnight Financing Rate
PutPurchased3.452027-02-05Secured Overnight Financing Rate
PutPurchased3.62028-01-20Secured Overnight Financing Rate
PutPurchased3.52027-01-21Secured Overnight Financing Rate
PutPurchased1092026-07-24as filed, not named
CallWritten3.6082035-10-16Secured Overnight Financing Rate
CallPurchased3.912027-06-24Secured Overnight Financing Rate
CallPurchased2.52028-03-10Secured Overnight Financing Rate
PutPurchased3.912027-06-24Secured Overnight Financing Rate
CallWritten3.392027-05-13Secured Overnight Financing Rate

9 more in leverage.json.

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 VPLS (446.1). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
CGMS Capital Group U.S. Multi-Sector Income ETF 1,493 422.4 6.76% 2026-06-30
BKAG BNY Mellon Core Bond ETF 5,130 427.3 7.38% 2026-07-31
IBDS iShares iBonds Dec 2027 Term Corporate ETF 660 427.5 7.11% 2026-07-31
TAXF American Century Diversified Municipal Bond ETF 755 429.2 7.49% 2026-05-31
TAFI AB Tax-Aware Short Duration Municipal ETF 689 432.2 7.16% 2026-05-31
HYMB State Street(R) SPDR Nuveen ICE High Yield Municipal Bond ETF 1,870 456.2 9.2% 2026-06-30
SPSB State Street(R) SPDR(R) Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond ETF 1,601 463.5 6.92% 2026-06-30
EUSB iShares ESG Advanced Universal USD Bond ETF 4,233 479.3 6.99% 2026-05-31
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

Essays that examine VPLS

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