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Developed Markets Index Portfolio

Overview

Unit Price as of 05/08/2025 $36.88
Change -$0.15 -0.41%
Expense Ratio as of 05/08/2025 0.12%
Inception Date 03/26/2009

Investment Objective

The Portfolio seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of stocks issued by companies located in Canada and the major markets of Europe and the Pacific region.

Investment Strategy

The Portfolio invests in the Vanguard® Developed Markets Index Fund, which employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the FTSE Developed All Cap ex US Index. The FTSE Developed All Cap ex US Index is a market-capitalization-weighted index made up of approximately 3,700 common stocks of large-, mid-, and small-cap companies located in Canada and the major markets of Europe and the Pacific region. The Fund attempts to replicate the target index by investing all, or substantially all, of its assets in the stocks that make up the Index, holding each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the Index.

Investment Risks

The Portfolio primarily is subject to stock market risk, country/regional risk, and currency risk. The Portfolio also has a low level of index sampling risk, and derivatives risk.

Average Annual Returns - Updated Monthly as of 04/30/2025

Name 1 year 3 year 5 year 10 year Since Inception 03/26/2009
Name Developed Markets Index Portfolio 1 year 12.80% 3 year 9.15% 5 year 11.38% 10 year 5.54% Since Inception 03/26/2009 8.41%
Name Spliced Developed ex US Index** 1 year 12.09% 3 year 8.81% 5 year 11.30% 10 year 5.55% Since Inception 03/26/2009 8.23%

**Consists of the MSCI EAFE Index through May 28, 2013; the FTSE Developed ex North America Index through December 20, 2015; the FTSE Developed All Cap ex US Transition Index through May 31, 2016; and the FTSE Developed All Cap ex US Index thereafter.

Annual Investment Returns

Year Ended Developed Markets Index Portfolio
Year Ended 2024 Developed Markets Index Portfolio 3.00%
Year Ended 2023 Developed Markets Index Portfolio 17.74%
Year Ended 2022 Developed Markets Index Portfolio -15.41%
Year Ended 2021 Developed Markets Index Portfolio 11.37%
Year Ended 2020 Developed Markets Index Portfolio 10.20%

Historical Prices

05/08/2025 $36.88
05/07/2025 $37.03
05/06/2025 $37.10
05/05/2025 $37.11
05/02/2025 $37.10

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Index performance is provided as a benchmark but is not illustrative of any particular investment. An investment cannot be made in an index.

The performance data shown represents past performance. Past performance - especially short-term past performance - is not a guarantee of future results. Investment returns and principal value will fluctuate, so that investors' units, when sold, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Current performance may be higher or lower than the performance data cited. For performance data current to the most recent quarter-end click here.

Investment returns are not guaranteed, and you could lose money by investing in the Direct Plan.

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Ascensus Broker Dealer Services, Inc., serves as Program Manager and, in connection with its affiliates, provides recordkeeping and administrative support services and is responsible for day-to-day operations of the Direct Plan. The Vanguard Group, Inc., serves as the Investment Manager. Vanguard Marketing Corporation markets, distributes, and underwrites the Direct Plan.

No guarantee: None of the State of New York, its agencies, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), The Vanguard Group, Inc., Ascensus Broker Dealer Services, Inc., nor any of their applicable affiliates insures accounts or guarantees the principal deposited therein or any investment returns on any account or investment portfolio.