DOSSIER · 13F-HR · Q2 2026

VANGUARD ASSET MANAGEMENT, Ltd

$148.0B in tracked AUM across 2,447 positions as of Q2 2026.

VA
CIK 0001680208 · last filed Jun 30, 2026
Total AUM
$148.0B
as of Q2 2026
Holdings
2,447
positions
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0
0
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AI Analysis · Q2 2026

Vanguard Asset Management, Ltd — the investment-adviser vehicle distinct from the larger fiduciary trust co — carried $115.7 billion across its Q1 2026 thirteen-F. Its top three positions mirror the parent fiduciary family's thesis almost exactly: NVIDIA ($7.1 billion, 6.1%), Apple ($6.4 billion, 5.5%), and Microsoft ($4.7 billion, 4.1%) lead, with Amazon, Broadcom, and both Alphabet share classes rounding out the top tier. This is the same passive-index blueprint at one-third the scale, suggesting that Vanguard's wider system deploys multiple legal shells — trust, adviser, and others — to implement substantially the same market-cap-weighted mandate in different regulatory and tax domiciles. Healthcare and Financials provide the same ballast as in the fiduciary trust name, while Energy and Consumer Staples holdings remain underweight by design. For investors trying to read Vanguard as a single market-moving entity, the practical insight is that both vehicles move together because they answer to the same benchmark logic; the adviser vehicle simply houses a smaller slice of the same equation.

Vanguard Asset Management, Ltd — CIK 0001680208 — is the investment-adviser entity within the Vanguard Group system, separate in registration from the larger fiduciary trust vehicle but running substantially the same investment logic at one-third the scale. Its Q1 2026 filing shows $115.7 billion deployed across fewer holdings than the parent fiduciary trust, and the portfolio's character is identical: a passive, benchmark-tracking, mega-cap-weighted implementation heavy in U.S. technology.

The same top-five names dominate at almost identical weights. NVIDIA at $7.1B (6.15%), Apple at $6.4B (5.49%), and Microsoft at $4.7B (4.08%) lead, broadly mirroring the fiduciary trust's proportions. Amazon ($7.1B), Broadcom ($4.9B), and the two Alphabet classes ($4.5B combined) continue the pattern to the same thesis: this entity holds large-cap U.S. growth by index mandate rather than active selection. The correlation is so tight that one could almost derive the fiduciary trust's holdings list from this adviser entity's positions and a scaling factor — the Vanguard system treats these legal shells as wrappers around the same underlying benchmark tracking.

Analysis generated by 13F Insight from SEC Form 13F filing data · Q2 2026. Methodology

Quarter at a glance — Q2 2026

Position-change comparison pending.

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Top 10 holdings

By portfolio weight as of Q2 2026.

#HoldingValueSharesWeight
01
NVDA
NVIDIA CORPORATION
$9.1B45.3M6.1%
02
AAPL
APPLE INC
$8.2B28.2M5.5%
03
MSFT
MICROSOFT CORP
$5.4B14.3M3.6%
04
AMZN
AMAZON COM INC
$4.5B18.9M3.0%
05
GOOGL
ALPHABET INC
$4.0B11.3M2.7%
06
G0593M107
ASTRAZENECA PLC
$3.5B18.7M2.4%
07
AVGO
BROADCOM INC
$3.4B9.0M2.3%
08
GOOG
ALPHABET INC
$3.3B9.2M2.2%
09
MU
MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC
$2.5B2.2M1.7%
10
META
META PLATFORMS INC
$2.4B4.3M1.6%

Filing history

2026Q2Jun 30
$148.0B 26.5%
2,447 positionsView →
2026Q1Mar 31
$117.0B
2,433 positionsView →