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Asset management giant Vanguard has agreed to pay more than $100 million to settle charges related to disclosures around target date investment funds, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced Friday.
The alleged violations stem from a 2020 change where Vanguard lowered the minimum investment requirement for its institutional target date funds. The SEC order found that the change spurred redemptions as Vanguard customers moved from other target date funds into the institutional versions, creating taxable distributions for some of the remaining shareholders. The SEC said Vanguard failed to properly disclose the potential impact of the investment threshold changes on distributions.
The payment of $106.41 million will be distributed to harmed investors, the SEC said. Vanguard agreed to the settlement without admitting or denying the SEC’s findings.
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