Vanguard Industrials ETF (VIS)

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Vanguard Industrials ETF (VIS)

Overview

The Vanguard Industrials ETF is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Industrials Index Fund, which employs a "passive management" - or indexing - investment approach designed to track the performance of the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) US Investable Market Industrials Index, an index of stocks of large, medium, and small U.S. companies in the industrials sector, as classified under the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS). This GICS sector is made up of companies whose businesses are dominated by one of the following activities: the manufacture and distribution of capital goods (including aerospace and defense, construction, engineering and building products, electrical equipment, and industrial machinery); the provision of commercial services and supplies (including printing, employment, environmental, and office services); or the provision of transportation services (including airlines, couriers, marine, road and rail, and transportation infrastructure).

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Fund Information

• Fund Manager - Vanguard Group, Inc.
• Inception Date - 09/23/2004
• Exchange – NYSE Arca
• Index Ticker – VIS
• Intra-day NAV Ticker – VIS.IV
• Expense Ratio - 0.25%

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Holdings as of 12/17/2009

Other Industrial ETFs

References

1. ↑ [ https://personal.vanguard.com/us/FundsSnapshot?FundId=0953&FundIntExt=INT - Overview of Vanguard Industrials ETF (VIS)]