Who owns VANGUARD MATERIALS INDEX FUND (VAW)
Which tracked institutional funds hold VAW, how they are positioned, and who is buying versus exiting — from SEC Form 13F-HR filings. See VAW company fundamentals →
Ownership as of the 2026-Q2 13F filings (latest filed 2026-08-19). 13F is disclosed up to 45 days after quarter-end, so the most recent quarter fills in over the following weeks.
How the tape is positioned
47 tracked funds added or opened VAW while 29 trimmed or exited it between 2026-Q1 and 2026-Q2 — the tape is split. When large holders disagree on a name, the funds moving first are sometimes ahead of the story.
A prompt to read the filings, not a verdict. 13F is a quarter-end snapshot disclosed up to 45 days late; a fund adds or exits for mandate, benchmark, and timing reasons that have nothing to do with a view on the stock. This is a starting question, not a signal to trade.
Conviction spread
VAW’s largest tracked holder by dollar value, BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/, sizes it at 0.0% of its own reported 13F book, while the median holder sizes it at 0.1% of theirs — a 0.1pp gap the other way — the median holder sizes VAW more heavily than its largest holder by dollar value does.
Book-share is each fund’s reported value in VAW divided by its whole reported 13F book, so it is comparable across funds of different sizes and is unaffected by stock splits. A higher share means a fund has committed more of its book to the name — a starting question about conviction, not a verdict or a signal to trade.
Institutional & insider positioning
Between 2026-Q1 and 2026-Q2, across 406 tracked filers holding VAW, 173 increased or opened the position and 177 reduced or closed it; over the same quarter, there were no open-market insider Form 4s.
This fuses two public signals for the same quarter — how tracked institutions changed their positions and whether insiders bought or sold in the open market. It describes what was filed; it is a starting question, not a verdict or a signal to trade.
New buyers & exits
Funds opening or closing a position in VAW between the 2026-Q1 and 2026-Q2 13F filings, and the largest changes among funds holding it in both. New buyers and exits are counted on fund presence (split-invariant); adds and trims are measured on reported value.
New buyers 13
- Berkeley Capital Partners, LLC$9M
- TWO SIGMA INVESTMENTS, LP$6M
- J. M. Brown & Associates Inc.$5M
- Aprio Wealth Management, LLC$3M
- Equity Wealth Partners, LLC$2M
- Markowski Investments$2M
Full exits 14
- Nan Shan Life Insurance Co., Ltd.$9M
- M Holdings Securities, Inc.$7M
- Cambridge Investment Research Advisors, Inc.$5M
- HighTower Advisors, LLC$5M
- Kinloch Capital, LLC$3M
- Independent Advisor Alliance$2M
Largest adds
- Ameritas Advisory Services, LLC$10M
- LPL Financial LLC$6M
- Clear Creek Financial Management, LLC$6M
- Empower Advisory Group, LLC$6M
- WELLS FARGO & COMPANY/MN$5M
- BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/$4M
Largest trims
- Beacon Capital Management, Inc.$12M
- Richmond Brothers, Inc.$4M
- EXCHANGE TRADED CONCEPTS, LLC$3M
- NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL WEALTH MANAGEMENT CO$3M
- MANUFACTURERS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, THE$3M
- Private Advisor Group, LLC$1M
Institutional holders
One row per tracked fund, most shares held first (every row is from one quarter; reported value breaks ties). “% of value” is the fund’s share of this security’s tracked institutional value — not of shares outstanding.
Ownership over time
Tracked institutional holder count and total shares held by filing quarter (independent scales). The curated-era tail and any mid-ingest latest quarter are handled honestly — a partial quarter is not drawn as a collapse.
Reading this table
Funds hold the same stock for different reasons — an index fund “holds” almost everything, an active manager sizes a name to a mandate and a benchmark, and each fund entered at its own price and time. Because 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter-end, every row is a backward-looking snapshot; a manager may have traded since. Share-class siblings (a company’s A and C shares) are rolled up to one line so a dual-class name is never double-counted. Compare like-for-like. A large holder is not an endorsement, and a fund exiting is not a warning — this is a starting question, not a verdict.
About 13F filings
A Form 13F is a quarterly disclosure that institutional investment managers with over $100 million in US-listed equities must file with the SEC. In plain English: it is a snapshot of the long stock positions a fund held at the end of a quarter. It covers long US-listed equities only — not short positions, options, cash, or private holdings — and the funds shown are the large sample we track, not the complete 13F universe.