Please note: You need to be a U.S. citizen with a U.S. mailing address to open an account. If you live or work outside the U.S., please check out our international site.
Customers can contact Vanguard customer service and talk to the financial advisors by dialing 1-800-997-2798. Yet another published Vanguard call information is for customers with queries or problems regarding retirement plan participants. For this, the number is 1-800-523-1188.
It is also possible to implement a tax-loss harvesting strategy by selling an ETF or mutual fund that has a loss and replacing it with a different, albeit not substantially identical, ETF or mutual fund.
You can hold Vanguard mutual funds and ETFs (exchange-traded funds), stocks, bonds, and CDs (certificates of deposit), as well as ETFs and funds from other companies—all in the same account. Your Vanguard mutual fund holdings and your settlement fund will move into your brokerage account for easier transactions.
Yes. Most funds that offer ETF Shares will allow you to convert mutual fund shares to ETF Shares of the same fund. (Four of our bond ETFs—Total Bond Market, Short-Term Bond, Intermediate-Term Bond, and Long-Term Bond—don't allow for conversions.)
That may seem like a while, but please keep in mind we need to first sell one fund and then buy into the other fund on your behalf and each part of the process can take a few days. For ETFs, a switch is usually much quicker and can usually happen within 1 working day.
You can upload your documents to the Documents section of your online account. The formats can be a scanned copy, PDF or a photo.
Identify which accounts you'd like to transfer. All of your assets will move “in kind,” meaning there's no buying or selling. Gather your information. We make it easy to electronically connect with your other firm to start the transfer. Initiate the transfer. Digital transfers may take as little as 5 to 7 days.
How do I switch funds? Log in to your account. From the left-hand menu, choose 'Investments'. Choose the fund you want to switch from, and select the 3 dots on the right-hand side under Actions. One of the options is 'Switch' Then follow the steps. Choose which account and funds to switch from and to.
ETFs (exchange-traded funds) and mutual funds are similar in many ways, but there are a few key differences that set them apart. Vanguard has both index and active ETFs.