Cons No fractional shares, except for Vanguard ETFs. No cryptocurrency trading. No physical branches. Only basic screeners are available. Lacks the banking-type services available from other financial services firms.
Investors holding Vanguard ETFs through a Vanguard Personal Investor Account can simply login and update their income preference to 'reinvest' to have distributions automatically reinvested.
The exchanges create an orderly secondary market between investors and market makers. The market makers post quotes and execute investor transactions, often creating or redeeming ETF shares in the primary market with the ETF issuers. Source: Vanguard.
There are currently more than 50 Vanguard exchange-traded funds, which are traded, like any other shares, on the U.S. stock exchanges, such as the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) or Nasdaq. Their underlying indexes cover both individual sectors, such as materials and energy, and domestic and international indexes.