Paul Michael Malloy

Vanguard Asset Management Ltd. (VAML) is an investment management firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm is a subsidiary of Vanguard Asset Services, Ltd., a subsidiary of The Vanguard Group, Inc. in the US, which introduced the first indexed mutual fund in the US in 1976. Founded in 2010, VAML is the Group's regional investment hub and offers a range of funds, including index funds, funds-of-index funds and exchange-traded funds to independent financial advisers, wealth managers, family offices and institutions.

The Vanguard Group, Inc. (VGI) is an independent registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania. The firm was founded in 1975 by John Bogle. In 1976, they introduced the first indexed mutual fund, the First Index Investment Trust (now known as the Vanguard 500 Index Fund), to individual investors. VGI provides investment advisory services to Vanguard family of funds and Vanguard's non-US clients, which are comprised of the following: (1) funds established as trusts under the laws of the Province of Ontario in Canada and (2) separate account clients of Vanguard's international subsidiaries.