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Based on your responses, you're focused on setting clear and appropriate investment goals. Explore our financial advice services below to get personalized guidance and support as you build a strategy that fits your needs.

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Vanguard Personal Advisor Select™

$500,000 minimum to qualify.
Annual advisory fee: No more than $30 per $10,000 invested.

A personal financial advisor is a professional who provides customized financial guidance and planning based on an individual's specific goals and financial situation. With this option, you'll experience:

  • Custom investment and financial planning strategies.
  • A dedicated Certified Financial Planner™ (CFP®).
  • A personalized plan based on 30+ data points specific to you.
  • A tax strategy that addresses Social Security, Roth conversions, and account withdrawal order in the context of your spending needs and legacy goals.

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Vanguard's 4 investing principles

Goals

Setting clear investment goals is key to turning your financial aspirations into reality. By defining what you're working toward, you can better align your savings and investment strategy to support it over time.

Balance

Keeping a balanced, diversified portfolio helps manage risk and smooth out market ups and downs. By spreading investments across asset types, sectors, and regions, you can reduce volatility and stay aligned with your comfort level.

Cost

While market returns can be unpredictable, one thing you can control is cost. Minimizing taxes and investment fees, like expense rations and transaction charges—helps preserve more of your returns over time.

Discipline

Staying disciplined is key to successful investing. Once you've set your goals and built a solid plan, sticking with it over time, especially throught market ups and downs—can make all the difference in reaching your objectives.

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*Vanguard Personal Advisor Select charges fees based on a tiered fee schedule (maximum 0.30%) calculated as an average advisory fee on all advised assets. Note that this fee doesn't include investment expense ratios charged by a fund. Please review each service's advisory brochure for more fee information.

 

Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. owns the certification marks CFP®, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER®, in the U.S., which it awards to individuals who successfully complete CFP Board's initial and ongoing certification requirements.

For more information about Vanguard mutual funds or ETFs, obtain a mutual fund or ETF prospectus or, if available, a summary prospectus.
Investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses, and other important information are contained in the  prospectus; read and consider it carefully before investing.


You must buy and sell Vanguard ETF Shares through Vanguard Brokerage Services (we offer them commission-free online) or through another broker (who may charge commissions). See the Vanguard Brokerage Services Commission and Fee Schedules for limits. Vanguard ETF Shares are not redeemable directly with the issuing Fund other than in very large aggregations worth millions of dollars. ETFs are subject to market volatility. When buying or selling an ETF, you will pay or receive the current market price, which may be more or less than net asset value.

Vanguard's advice services are provided by Vanguard Advisers, Inc. ("VAI"), a registered investment advisor, or by Vanguard National Trust Company ("VNTC"), a federally chartered, limited-purpose trust company.

The services provided to clients will vary based upon the service selected, including management, fees, eligibility, and access to an advisor. Find VAI's Form CRS and each program's advisory brochure here for an overview.

VAI and VNTC are subsidiaries of The Vanguard Group, Inc., and affiliates of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Neither VAI, VNTC, nor its affiliates guarantee profits or protection from losses.

All investing is subject to risk, including the possible loss of money you invest. Diversification does not ensure a profit or protect against a loss.