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Vanguard Investment Series PLC - Global Small-Cap Index Fund

Global developed market small cap equities. Passive tracker on MSCI World Small Cap Index.

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About the Fund

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The Vanguard Group is a US-based private investment firm founded in 1975 by John Bogle, and is best known for offering low cost, uncomplicated mutual fund and ETF solutions. It manages over US$12tn worth of assets.

The Vanguard Global Small-Cap Index Fund is a passive index solution that tracks the MSCI World Small Cap Index using a full physical replication approach. The index is designed to measure the small cap representation across 23 developed market countries, covering approximately 14% of the free float-adjusted market capitalisation in each country. The fund has >3800 holdings similar to the index.

Performance

Price Performance – Maximum Period

The FairHorizon Context

Investment-Time-Horizon in years

0 - 22 - 44 - 7 7 - 1010 - 1515+
Expected long-term return
2 - 4% p.a.
Expected volatility
3 - 5% p.a.

Building Block Returns

Vanguard Investment Series PLC - Global Small-Cap Index Fund

Ann. return (3-year):
19.26%
Ann. return (5-year):
7.10%
Ann. return (10-year):
10.36%
Ann. Standard Deviation (5-year):
17.74%

This fund represents passive exposure to the global developed markets small caps equities.

Benchmark Returns

iShares MSCI World Small Cap UCITS ETF

Ann. return (3-year):
19.31%
Ann. return (5-year):
6.99%
Ann. return (10-year):
10.26%
Ann. Standard Deviation (5-year):
17.26%
Link to the Funds FairSheet

FairHorizon Benchmark Returns

Dimensional Funds PLC - World Equity Fund

Ann. return (3-year):
20.42%
Ann. return (5-year):
9.89%
Ann. return (10-year):
—
Ann. Standard Deviation (5-year):
15.01%
Link to the Funds FairSheet

The Dimensional World Equity Fund is our FAIRHORIZON Red reference benchmark solution that has primarily global developed equities for long-term global equity-like returns and volatility.

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Why we prefer this fund

Relevance of strategy

This fund represents passive exposure to the global developed markets small caps equities.

Historical maximum drawdown & recovery time

Max drawdown (since inception)
-40.89%
Recovery Period
231 Days

Diversification

Top 10 Holdings

  • Sandisk Corp/DE1.47%
  • TechnipFMC PLC0.29%
  • XPO Inc0.25%
  • MasTec Inc0.24%
  • Fabrinet0.24%
  • nVent Electric PLC0.23%
  • Albemarle Corp0.23%
  • Woodward Inc0.21%
  • ATI Inc0.21%
  • Carpenter Technology Corp0.20%

Sectors

  • Industrials19.30%
  • Financials14.59%
  • Technology12.33%
  • Consumer Discretionary11.01%
  • Materials10.24%
  • Health Care9.11%
  • Real Estate7.68%
  • Energy5.46%
  • Consumer Staples4.24%
  • Communications3.15%
  • Utilities2.86%
  • Others0.03%

Geography

  • U.S.A.58.86%
  • Japan12.59%
  • United Kingdom4.46%
  • Canada4.37%
  • Australia3.69%
  • Israel1.85%
  • Switzerland1.71%
  • Sweden1.69%
  • France1.37%
  • Germany1.33%
  • Italy0.95%
  • Others7.13%