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Morningstar updated the Analyst Ratings for 810 fund share classes, exchange-traded funds, separately managed accounts, collective investment trusts, ...

While the bond sleeve here can take on more credit risk relative to Vanguard Wellesley, Moren made a well-timed move to a more-defensive positioning at the end of 2021 on concerns about tight yield spreads and the impact of the ongoing pandemic. Harley Lank and Alex Karam manage a sleeve that resembles Fidelity High Income ( SPHIX), while Mike Plage and Jeff Moore’s slice is similar to Fidelity Investment Grade Bond ( FBNDX). In both instances, the fixed-income managers access robust groups of credit analysts, traders, risk specialists, and economists. The short CDX position has often exceeded the strategy’s long exposure to credit, which benefits the strategy if credit spreads widen. Since mid-2016, the team has used a short credit default swap index derivatives position to manage the strategy’s risk profile. Vanguard Global Wellesley Income’s ( VGYAX) investor and advisor shares were both upgraded to Silver following a Process upgrade to Above Average. We have increased confidence in this strategy’s multi-asset approach to income, which is similar to that of Gold-rated Vanguard Wellesley ( VWINX), but with a global mandate. The SEC’s charge requiring subadvisor Allianz Global Investors to stop providing advisory services to U.S.-registered funds by July 25, 2022, dropped Virtus Water’s ( AWTPX) Analyst Rating to Negative from Neutral for all share classes. Rao replaced George Fraise, another founding principal and member of the investment team who stepped away in January 2020. The portfolio regularly provided considerable ballast in down markets, and the fund’s rolling five-year returns since Marchand started in 1995 beat the large-growth Morningstar Category average nearly 70% of the time. He engages with broad firm resources—security analysts, quant researchers, sector specialists, economists, and investment committee members—and, depending on where he perceives the most attractive relative value propositions, he allocates broadly between stocks and bonds (the neutral weight is 60% equity and 40% fixed income). Kelley targets growing companies with reasonable valuations in the equity sleeve. Morningstar updated the Analyst Ratings for 810 fund share classes, exchange-traded funds, separately managed accounts, collective investment trusts, and model portfolios in June 2022. Hrishkesh Gupta took Marchand’s spot on the fund’s management team on July 1, 2022, and Kishore Rao will remain as a comanager. Gordon Marchand and Rob Rohn are founding principals of subadvisor Sustainable Growth Advisers and have managed this fund since 1995 and 2003, respectively.