Vanguard FTSE All-World UCITS ETF USD Acc

Fund Description

Key Features

• 1

  Low cost way to get exposure to globally-diversified portfolio

  The Index is comprised of large and mid-sized company stocks in developed and emerging markets with close to 3,900 holdings in nearly 50 countries. This covers more than 95% of the global investable market.

  The fund is domiciled in Ireland and traded on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) under the ticker VWRA with more than US$14.0B invested as of today.

  If you have no time to stock-pick, just buy the entire stock market index which automatically weights them by market capitalization, meaning more of your money goes to bigger, more established, and higher-quality companies.

  If you don’t know whether the US or China is a better country to invest in, why not invest in them both? Since you might not be able to consistently bet on the right horse each time for the next several decades, why not let the market help you balance between the two?

  The Total Expense Ratio, or what Vanguard calls as Ongoing Costs of Fund, is just 0.22% annually.

• 2

  Ireland-domiciled for reduced dividend withholding tax

  Being Ireland-domiciled also means that you don’t have to worry about expensive dividend withholding taxes of up to 30% on your dividends.

• 3

  Dividends are automatically reinvested

  The accumulating version of this fund also automatically reinvests the dividends into buying more units of the fund, increasing the NAV of the fund.

  When you don’t have to deal with small amounts of dividends, you save on valuable reinvestment and transaction costs.