Four Vanguard International Equity Index Funds to broaden diversification with all-cap exposure

Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF, World’s Largest Emerging-Markets ETF,  First to Offer China A-Shares and All-Caps ….

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 Vanguard today announced that four U.S.-domiciled international equity index funds, representing $147 billion in assets, will broaden diversification and transition to all-capitalization benchmarks. One of the funds, Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fund and its ETF shares (Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF, ticker: VWO), will gain exposure to China A-shares, making it the first broad-based market-capitalization weighted index fund to include these shares and all-cap exposure1. Another of the four funds, Vanguard Developed Markets Index Fund, will also include Canadian equities.

The $69 billion Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fund, $52 billion Vanguard Developed Markets Index Fund, $20 billion Vanguard European Stock Index Fund, and $6 billion Vanguard Pacific Stock Index Fund will move from FTSE benchmarks containing large- and mid-capitalization stocks to broader FTSE benchmarks that include large-, mid-, and small-capitalization stocks, as shown in the accompanying table.

Source: ETFWorld.com

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