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The Vanguard Group is looking to expand its lineup of collective trust funds this year and take more aggressive steps to target pension funds, defined benefit plans and other institutional customers. Vanguard's collective trust family has stagnated at $10 billion - only scratching the surface of the institutional market -- since the 1985 launch of its Standard & Poor's 500 Index Fund and newer Wilshire 5000 Total Market Return Index Fund. "We've got a collective trust fund that dates back to 1985 and we've got another that's several years old and we're looking into broadening this lineup. I think it's natural maturity of the marketplace," said Gus Sauter, a managing director.