Vanguard’s New VPLS and the Future of Active Bond ETFs
- Vanguard’s Quigley talks about the fast-growing active fixed-income fund VPLS.
In this episode of Talk ETFs, etf.com Senior Analyst Sumit Roy sits down with Brian Quigley, portfolio manager at The Vanguard Group, to dive into one of the firm’s newest active launches: the Vanguard Core-Plus Bond ETF (VPLS).
Quigley explains how the fund differs from Vanguard’s well-known passive offerings like the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF (BND) and the Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund ETF (BIV), why active management might have an edge in fixed income and how Vanguard approaches risk and alpha generation in bond portfolios.
He also talks about where VPLS fits in a diversified investor’s portfolio and Vanguard’s roots in active management.
