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About VANGUARD WORLD FUND VANGUARD CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY VIPERS
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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 deliver plain-vanilla exposure to the consumer discretionary sector, as defined by GICS. The fund has breadth, holding a huge basket of stocks that it selects and weights by market capitalization. Media and entertainment companies that were reclassified to the communication services sector under GICS in 2018 are excluded. The index diversifies its holdings by applying limits on regulated investment companies using the MSCI 25/50 methodology. The index is rebalanced on a quarterly basis.
Classification
Returns
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What's in the fund
Exposure type
Retail Trade
Consumer Services
Consumer Durables
Stocks99.69%
Retail Trade46.16%
Consumer Services23.36%
Consumer Durables20.72%
Consumer Non-Durables3.84%
Producer Manufacturing1.81%
Transportation1.14%
Electronic Technology0.67%
Distribution Services0.62%
Commercial Services0.54%
Technology Services0.39%
Industrial Services0.29%
Finance0.15%
Bonds, Cash & Other0.31%
Cash0.31%
Stock breakdown by region
North America97.05%
Latin America1.62%
Europe1.29%
Middle East0.04%
Asia0.00%
Africa0.00%
Oceania0.00%
Top 10 holdings
Dividends
Dividend payout history