Fund Inception | 10/23/1958 |
Name of Issuer | Vanguard |
Fund Advisor(s) | Wellington Management Company LLP Pzena Investment Management, LLC |
Sub-Advisor(s) | -- |
Fund Managers for VWNDX
Richard Pzena
Portfolio Manager since 08/02/2012
Richard S. Pzena, Founder, Managing Principal, Co-Chief Investment Officer, Portfolio Manager, and member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Mr. Pzena is the architect of the firm’s investment strategy and conceived and developed our proprietary screening model. He serves as co-portfolio manager for the U.S. Large Cap and Mid Cap strategies, Focused Value, and U.S. Best Ideas. Mr. Pzena began the firm in 1995. Prior to forming Pzena Investment Management, Mr. Pzena was the Director of U.S. Equity Investments and Chief Research Officer for Sanford C. Bernstein & Company. He joined Bernstein as an oil industry analyst and was named to the Institutional Investor All America Research Team for three years running. Mr. Pzena also served as Chief Investment Officer, Small Cap Equities. Prior to joining Bernstein, Mr. Pzena worked for the Amoco Corporation in various financial and planning roles. He earned a B.S. summa cum laude and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Benjamin Silver
Portfolio Manager since 12/31/2014
Principal and Portfolio Manager. Mr. Silver is a co-portfolio manager for the Global strategies and the U.S. Large Cap, Mid Cap, Focused Value and Small Cap strategies. He is also a portfolio manager for Global Best Ideas. He previously served as co-Director of Research for 9 years. Mr. Silver became a member of the firm in 2001. Prior to joining Pzena Investment Management, Mr. Silver was a research analyst at Levitas & Company and a Manager for Ernst & Young LLP. He earned a B.S. magna cum laude in Accounting from Sy Syms School of Business at Yeshiva University.
John Flynn
Portfolio Manager since 02/23/2017
John J. Flynn, Principal and Portfolio Manager. Mr. Flynn is a co-portfolio manager for the U.S. Mid Cap and Large Cap strategies, along with the Focused Value and Small Cap Focused Value services. Mr. Flynn became a member of the firm in 2005. Prior to joining Pzena Investment Management, Mr. Flynn was an associate at Weston Presidio, a middle-market private equity investment firm. He earned a B.A. in Music from Yale University and an M.B.A. with distinction from the Harvard Business School.
David Palmer
Portfolio Manager since 02/26/2018
David W. Palmer, CFA, Senior Managing Director and Equity Portfolio Manager of Wellington Management. He has worked in investment management since 1993, has been with Wellington Management since 1998. Prior to joining Wellington Management, David worked in equity sales, trading, and research at Cantor Fitzgerald, Ltd. in London (1993 — 1996). David earned his MBA in finance, with distinction, from the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton, 1998) and his BA in English, with distinction, from Stanford University (1993). He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the CFA Society of Philadelphia.