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Vanguard Pacific ETF (VPL)
Overview
The Vanguard Pacific ETF is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Pacific Stock Index Fund, which employs a "passive management" - or indexing - investment approach by investing all, or substantially all, of its assets in the common stocks included in the MSCI Pacific Index. The index consists of common stocks of companies located in Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and New Zealand. The countries with the largest capitalization weightings in the index are Japan and Australia.
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Fund Information
- Fund Manager - Vanguard Group, Inc.
- Inception Date - 03/04/2005
- Exchange – NYSE Arca
- Index Ticker – VPL
- Intra-day NAV Ticker – VPL.IV
- Expense Ratio - 0.18%
Top Holdings
| Rank | Holding |
| 1 | BHP Billiton Ltd. |
| 2 | Toyota Motor Corp. |
| 3 | Commonwealth Bank of Australia |
| 4 | Westpac Banking Corp. |
| 5 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. |
| 6 | National Australia Bank Ltd. |
| 7 | Honda Motor Co. Ltd. |
| 8 | Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. |
| 9 | Canon Inc. |
| 10 | Tokyo Electric Power Co. Inc. |
Holdings as of 12/17/2009
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