Ballast Financial Advisors LLC Buys Shares of 9,084 Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF $BSV

Ballast Financial Advisors LLC bought a new stake in shares of Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:BSV) in the fourth quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The fund bought 9,084 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $716,000.

Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Betterment LLC increased its position in Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF by 5.3% during the 3rd quarter. Betterment LLC now owns 600,389 shares of the company’s stock valued at $47,377,000 after purchasing an additional 30,133 shares during the period. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. increased its position in Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF by 6.2% during the 4th quarter. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. now owns 200,894 shares of the company’s stock valued at $15,832,000 after purchasing an additional 11,652 shares during the period. Bleakley Financial Group LLC increased its position in Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF by 8.7% during the 3rd quarter. Bleakley Financial Group LLC now owns 113,297 shares of the company’s stock valued at $8,940,000 after purchasing an additional 9,085 shares during the period. Compound Planning Inc. increased its position in Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF by 76.4% during the 3rd quarter. Compound Planning Inc. now owns 80,135 shares of the company’s stock valued at $6,323,000 after purchasing an additional 34,707 shares during the period. Finally, Compass Planning Associates Inc increased its position in Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF by 73.5% during the 4th quarter. Compass Planning Associates Inc now owns 288,726 shares of the company’s stock valued at $22,754,000 after purchasing an additional 122,291 shares during the period.

Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF Price Performance

NYSEARCA:BSV opened at $77.66 on Thursday. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of $78.06 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $78.50. Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF has a fifty-two week low of $77.57 and a fifty-two week high of $79.32.

About Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF

Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF (the Fund) seeks to track the performance of a market-weighted bond index with a short-term, dollar-weighted average maturity. The Fund employs a passive management or indexing strategy designed to track the performance of the Barclays Capital U.S. 1-5 Year Government/Credit Bond Index (the Index). The Index includes all medium and larger issues of the United States Government, investment-grade corporate, and investment-grade international dollar-denominated bonds that have maturities of between 1 and 5 years and are publicly issued.