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Vanguard Group Inc., the world's second-largest ETF issuer, is making what it says is its biggest fee cuts in the company's 50-year history, trimming the expense ratios of dozens of mutual fund and ETF share classes that it claims will save investors more than $350 million in 2025.

Vanguard announced fee reductions for 168 mutual fund and exchange-traded share classes across 87 funds. The move will save investors roughly $350 million this year. The asset manager’s wide fee cut comes less than a month after Vanguard agreed to pay more than $100 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission over alleged violations involving its target date retirement funds.

Key Takeaways The Vanguard Group on Monday announced the largest management fee cuts in its history.The move will reduce the cost of putting money in 87 exchange-traded funds and mutual funds, Vanguard said.

Vanguard has announced “historic" reductions to the expense ratios for about 43% of its U.S.-based mutual fund and ETF share classes.

Vanguard has cut the expense ratios of 168 mutual fund and exchange-traded share classes across 87 funds, effectively immediately, which will save Vanguard’s investors more than $350 million in 2025 alone, said a Feb. 3 news release.

The world’s second-largest asset manager has slashed the cost of fund investing, in a record move that is expected to save investors more than $350 million this year alone.