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About Vanguard Total World Stock Index ETF
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Inception date
Jun 24, 2008
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 a well-diversified, market cap-weighted portfolio of developed and emerging market stocks. The fund ignores frontier markets as do most peer funds but excluding the likes of Vietnam and Kuwait has minimal impact on the fund's ability to track the global market. The funds inclusion of small-caps makes it incrementally more representative than direct rivals like ACWI. The fund uses a sampling approach to track its index - in that it may not hold all the stocks in the index - it will hold a representative sample of the securities that resembles the full index in terms of key risk factors.
Classification
Returns
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What's in the fund
Exposure type
Finance
Electronic Technology
Technology Services
Stocks98.42%
Finance19.77%
Electronic Technology15.41%
Technology Services14.32%
Health Technology8.27%
Retail Trade6.38%
Consumer Non-Durables4.82%
Producer Manufacturing4.82%
Energy Minerals3.13%
Consumer Durables2.85%
Utilities2.82%
Consumer Services2.60%
Process Industries2.09%
Transportation1.97%
Non-Energy Minerals1.93%
Commercial Services1.63%
Industrial Services1.57%
Communications1.53%
Health Services1.27%
Distribution Services1.21%
Miscellaneous0.06%
Bonds, Cash & Other1.58%
Cash1.15%
Temporary0.20%
Mutual fund0.09%
UNIT0.07%
Corporate0.06%
Miscellaneous0.01%
Government0.01%
Stock breakdown by region
North America63.95%
Europe16.84%
Asia15.41%
Oceania1.74%
Middle East1.07%
Latin America0.67%
Africa0.32%
Top 10 holdings
Dividends
Dividend payout history