2022 Outsourced-Chief Investment Officer Survey

Provider Profiles


Vanguard Institutional Advisory Services

Profile
Business Model§ Proprietary/non-proprietary
Year Entered Into OCIO Business1997
No. of Relationship Managers/Salespeople19
No. of OCIO Portfolio Managers43
OCIO % of Total Firm RevenueNot provided
No. of Clients, Full Discretion1220
Full Discretionary Assets
Total Full Discretionary OCIO Assets$62.7b
Discretionary Assets by Fund Type
Defined Benefit$14.8b
401(k), 403(b), Other DC$409mm
Endowments/Foundation$29.8b
Healthcare Pools (Board designated, funded depreciation)$10.2b
Other$7.5b
Portfolio Construction
Vanguard's portfolio construction methodology focuses on disciplined risk taking, ensuring clients are adequately compensated for the risk exposures taken. Because each client is unique across return requirements and constraints, no two client solutions will be identical in their utilization of alpha, beta and/or illiquidity. Their clients benefit from custom portfolio construction and robust risk management utilizing their proprietary capital markets model, asset allocation model and enterprise risk management solution. One key differentiator is that, as a firm owned by its investors, Vanguard is uniquely qualified to say that we are 100% aligned with our clients, and this alignment drives our portfolio management approach.
§OCIO only: Open-architecture (no proprietary products used): Investment outsourcing is only business line.

OCIO + other: An open-architecture/manager-of-manager investment outsourcing platform as one of multiple business lines.

Implemented consulting: i.e. consulting firm that also has discretion over assigned assets.

Proprietary/non-proprietary: An investment outsourcing platform that offers proprietary products alongside non-proprietary products.