Text size In case you were wondering, Vanguard Group is still soaking up investor assets like mad. Bloomberg's Taylor Hall and Charles Stein deliver the superlativedu jour: the Pennsylvania fund giant's $148 billion haul in the first half of this year set an all-time record. This year topped Vanguard's own first-half record of $140 billion, set last year. The rising popularity of low-cost, index-tracking stock funds is the prime growth driver for the $3.5 trillion asset manager. Take a look a a few recent posts that illustrate the long-term flow trends. In 2016, Vanguard's has four of the Top 10 ETF flow recipients: the Vanguard S&P 500 Index Fund (VOO), Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF (VEA), Vanguard REIT Index Fund (VNQ) and Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund (BND), according to ETF.com.
Passive investment pioneer , he saw net inflows of $ 148bn in 1H16 , exceeding the $ 1000 of assets in 1H15 and reaching an all - time high .