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About Vanguard Financials ETF
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Inception date
Jan 26, 2004
Structure
Open-Ended Fund
Dividend treatment
Distributes
Distribution tax treatment
Qualified dividends
Income tax type
Capital Gains
Max ST capital gains rate
39.60%
Max LT capital gains rate
20.00%
Primary advisor
The Vanguard Group, Inc.
Distributor
Vanguard Marketing Corp.
The fund is passively managed to hold US financials stocks across all market caps. The fund uses a market-cap selection and weighting scheme with a portfolio that captures the broader financials market. In September 2016, the fund sold off all its REITs (except for mortgage REITs), a substantial part of the portfolio. It did so to comply with a change in GICS methodology, the sector framework supporting its underlying index. It increased its allocation to remaining financial industries in accordance with the revamped underlying index. To ensure diversification, the index applies investment limits on regulated investment companies of no more than 25% of value to a single issuer, and the sum of the weights of all issuers with more than 5% not exceeding 50% of total assets. The index is rebalanced on a quarterly basis.
Classification
Returns
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What's in the fund
Exposure type
Finance
Stocks97.07%
Finance90.57%
Commercial Services4.64%
Technology Services1.78%
Health Services0.03%
Electronic Technology0.02%
Miscellaneous0.01%
Consumer Services0.01%
Bonds, Cash & Other2.93%
Cash2.93%
Stock breakdown by region
North America96.98%
Europe3.02%
Latin America0.00%
Asia0.00%
Africa0.00%
Middle East0.00%
Oceania0.00%
Top 10 holdings
Dividends
Dividend payout history