The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Index (IMI)/Materials 25/50, an index made up of stocks of large, mid-size, and small U.S. companies within the materials sector, as classified under the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS). The Advisor attempts to replicate the target index by seeking to invest all, or substantially all, of its assets in the stocks that make up the index, in order to hold each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index. The fund is non-diversified.

Linde plc

The Sherwin-Williams Company

Newmont Corporation

Ecolab Inc.

CRH plc

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

Freeport-McMoRan Inc.

Corteva, Inc.

Vulcan Materials Company

Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.

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Healthcare

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Energy

Cash & Others

Vanguard Materials Index Fund Admiral Shares

This economical index fund tracks the performance of the American materials industry, investing in companies primarily engaged in raw material processing. Its principal vulnerability stems from its concentrated strategy, as it exclusively holds stocks within this single sector. Investors should thus anticipate significant price fluctuations. Given this specialized focus, it is advisable to incorporate this fund merely as a minor component of an already comprehensively diversified investment portfolio.

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