Global Small-Cap Index Fund

Global Small-Cap Index Fund - GBP Acc (VANGMSA)

About this fund

Fund objectives

  • The Fund employs a passive management – or indexing – investment approach and seeks to provide long-term capital growth by tracking the performance of the MSCI World Small Cap Index (the “Index”).
  • The Index is comprised of small-sized company stocks in developed markets.
  • The Fund attempts to: 1. Track the performance of the Index by investing in all constituent securities of the Index in the same proportion as the Index. Where not practicable to fully replicate, the Fund will use a sampling process. 2. Remain fully invested except in extraordinary market, political or similar conditions.

Fund facts

Share class inception
11 Jan 2010
Minimum initial investment
£1,000,000.00
Investment structure
Irish UCITS
Share Class Assets'
Total Assets
Strategy
Index
Asset Class
Equity
Domicile
Ireland
Dividend schedule
Legal entity
Vanguard Investment Series PLC
Benchmark
MSCI World Small Cap Index
Register countries
Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom, Austria, France, Luxembourg, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Italy, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

The value of investments, and the income from them, may fall or rise and investors may get back less than they invested.

Performance

Risk and Volatility

As at 31 Jul 2026

Beta
Annualized Tracking Error
1 year
3 years
5 years

Please note Beta and R-squared data will only display for funds with 3 full years of history.

The value of investments, and the income from them, may fall or rise and investors may get back less than they invested.

Portfolio data

Characteristics
FundamentalsFundBenchmarkAs at
Number of stocks 3,901 3,877 31 Jul 2026
Median market capital 4.3 B 4.3 B 31 Jul 2026
17.6 x 17.5 x 31 Jul 2026
2.0 x 2.0 x 31 Jul 2026
10.1% 10.1% 31 Jul 2026
9.7% 9.7% 31 Jul 2026
Portfolio turnover rate -20.7% 30 Jun 2026
Market allocation

As at 31 Jul 2026

CountryRegionFundBenchmarkVariance +/-
United States of AmericaNorth America 62.37% 62.35% 0.02%
JapanPacific 12.49% 12.49% 0.00%
United KingdomEurope 4.52% 4.52% 0.00%
CanadaNorth America 3.99% 4.02% -0.03%
AustraliaPacific 3.35% 3.35% 0.00%
SwedenEurope 1.65% 1.65% 0.00%
IsraelMiddle East 1.45% 1.45% 0.00%
SwitzerlandEurope 1.45% 1.45% 0.00%
GermanyEurope 1.32% 1.33% -0.01%
FranceEurope 1.29% 1.30% -0.01%
ItalyEurope 0.88% 0.88% 0.00%
NorwayEurope 0.83% 0.82% 0.01%
SingaporePacific 0.75% 0.75% 0.00%
DenmarkEurope 0.63% 0.64% -0.01%
Hong KongPacific 0.53% 0.54% -0.01%
Holdings details

As at 31 Jul 2026

Holding name% of market valueSectorRegionMarket valueShares
Sandisk Corp 1.63339% Information Technology US £128,730,675.78 105,966
ATI Inc 0.23896% Industrials US £18,833,221.44 100,476
nVent Electric PLC 0.23245% Industrials US £18,319,768.53 119,091
Carpenter Technology Corp 0.22970% Industrials US £18,103,395.42 34,837
Tenet Healthcare Corp 0.20693% Health Care US £16,308,722.58 64,011
US Foods Holding Corp 0.20606% Consumer Staples US £16,239,853.14 161,446
Woodward Inc 0.20071% Industrials US £15,818,166.00 43,848
Viatris Inc 0.19093% Health Care US £15,047,638.12 856,927
MKS Instruments Inc 0.18674% Information Technology US £14,717,231.10 49,478
Guardant Health Inc 0.18358% Health Care US £14,468,136.85 89,315

Prices and distribution

Prices

NAV Price (GBP)
£584.27
GBP
Change
+£5.230.90%
At closure 03 Sep 2026
NAV 52-week high
£593.46
At closure 04 Sep 2026
NAV 52-week low
£476.35
At closure 04 Sep 2026
NAV 52-week difference
£117.11
Change
+19.73%
At closure 04 Sep 2026
Historical Prices

-

Inception date

11 Jan 2010

Date NAV (GBP)
03 Sep 2026 £584.2727
02 Sep 2026 £579.0406
01 Sep 2026 £576.2339
31 Aug 2026 £580.5736
28 Aug 2026 £581.5610
27 Aug 2026 £586.0209
26 Aug 2026 £584.9547
25 Aug 2026 £582.4989
24 Aug 2026 £580.3160
21 Aug 2026 £583.8250

Distribution history

Distribution frequency

Historical performance 31 Mar 2026

1.40%

All dividends are reinvested for the "Accumulation" shares.

Purchase information

Currency

Base currency:GBP

Fund codes

  • Bloomberg:VANGMSA
  • Citi:I2X3
  • ISIN:IE00B3X1NT05
  • MEX ID:VIGSCA
  • SEDOL:B3X1NT0