Emerging Markets Stock Index Fund - Institutional Plus GBP Dist (VAVGEMS)

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About this fund

Fund objectives

  • The Fund employs a passive management – or indexing – investment approach, through physical acquisition of securities, and seeks to track the performance of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index (the “Index”).
  • The Index is a market-capitalisation-weighted index comprised of large and mid-sized company stocks in emerging markets.
  • The Fund attempts to: 1. Track the performance of the Index by investing through physical acquisition in all, or substantially all, of the 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 where the Fund may temporarily depart from this investment policy to avoid losses.

Fund facts

Share class inception
02 Sep 2014
Minimum initial investment
£100,000,000.00
Investment structure
Irish UCITS
Share Class Assets'
Total Assets
Strategy
Index
Asset Class
Equity
Domicile
Ireland
Dividend schedule
Annually
Legal entity
Vanguard Investment Series PLC
Benchmark
MSCI Emerging Markets Index
Register countries
Germany, Denmark, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Austria, Norway, Sweden, France, Ireland, Finland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal and United Kingdom

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 Jan 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 1,220 1,195 31 Jan 2026
Median market capital 38.1 B 38.1 B 31 Jan 2026
16.9 x 16.9 x 31 Jan 2026
2.6 x 2.6 x 31 Jan 2026
15.9% 15.9% 31 Jan 2026
17.3% 17.3% 31 Jan 2026
Portfolio turnover rate -37.8% 31 Dec 2025
Market allocation

As at 31 Jan 2026

CountryRegionFundBenchmarkVariance +/-
ChinaEmerging Markets 26.59% 26.59% 0.00%
TaiwanEmerging Markets 21.04% 21.04% 0.00%
South KoreaPacific 15.65% 15.65% 0.00%
IndiaEmerging Markets 13.34% 13.34% 0.00%
BrazilEmerging Markets 4.63% 4.63% 0.00%
South AfricaEmerging Markets 3.79% 3.79% 0.00%
Saudi ArabiaEmerging Markets 2.90% 2.90% 0.00%
MexicoEmerging Markets 1.95% 1.95% 0.00%
United Arab EmiratesEmerging Markets 1.42% 1.42% 0.00%
MalaysiaEmerging Markets 1.19% 1.19% 0.00%
PolandEurope 1.10% 1.10% 0.00%
IndonesiaEmerging Markets 1.02% 1.02% 0.00%
QatarEmerging Markets 0.63% 0.63% 0.00%
KuwaitEmerging Markets 0.61% 0.61% 0.00%
ChileEmerging Markets 0.59% 0.59% 0.00%
Holdings details

As at 31 Jan 2026

Holding name% of market valueSectorRegionMarket valueShares
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 12.20387% Information Technology TW £2,523,276,039.08 44,736,618
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 4.63781% Information Technology KR £958,915,690.91 8,599,771
Tencent Holdings Ltd 4.36745% Communication Services HK £903,016,276.68 11,637,436
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 3.26942% Consumer Discretionary HK £675,986,162.23 31,201,236
SK hynix Inc 3.02877% Information Technology KR £626,229,891.62 991,634
HDFC Bank Ltd 1.00910% Financials IN £208,642,347.00 20,653,740
China Construction Bank Corp 0.85233% Financials HK £176,229,007.55 173,994,397
Reliance Industries Ltd 0.81172% Energy IN £167,831,498.93 11,063,781
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.77358% Information Technology TW £159,945,641.18 22,827,616
MediaTek Inc 0.74861% Information Technology TW £154,783,191.61 2,767,629

Prices and distribution

Prices

NAV Price (GBP)
£173.43
Change
+£1.430.83%
At closure 19 Feb 2026
NAV 52-week high
£173.43
At closure 20 Feb 2026
NAV 52-week low
£117.50
At closure 20 Feb 2026
NAV 52-week difference
£55.93
Change
+32.25%
At closure 20 Feb 2026
Historical Prices

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Inception date

02 Sep 2014

Date NAV (GBP)
19 Feb 2026 £173.4282
18 Feb 2026 £172.0032
17 Feb 2026 £171.9572
16 Feb 2026 £170.5845
13 Feb 2026 £170.4621
12 Feb 2026 £171.5845
11 Feb 2026 £171.2618
10 Feb 2026 £169.1146
09 Feb 2026 £167.9958
06 Feb 2026 £165.2006

Distribution history

Distribution frequency

Annually

Historical performance 31 Jan 2026

2.02%

TypeDistribution amount (per unit)Ex-dividend dateRegistration datePayable date
Income £3.3573 31 Dec 2025 30 Dec 2025 15 Jan 2026
Income £3.2599 31 Dec 2024 30 Dec 2024 15 Jan 2025
Income £3.0580 29 Dec 2023 28 Dec 2023 15 Jan 2024
Income £3.8494 30 Dec 2022 29 Dec 2022 31 Jan 2023
Income £3.1525 31 Dec 2021 30 Dec 2021 14 Jan 2022
Income £2.3921 31 Dec 2020 30 Dec 2020 14 Jan 2021
Income £3.1701 31 Dec 2019 30 Dec 2019 15 Jan 2020
Income £2.9832 31 Dec 2018 28 Dec 2018 14 Jan 2019
Income £2.4536 29 Dec 2017 28 Dec 2017 12 Jan 2018
Income £2.3722 30 Dec 2016 29 Dec 2016 13 Jan 2017

Purchase information

Currency

Base currency: GBP

Fund codes

  • Bloomberg: VAVGEMS
  • Citi: KQ5J
  • ISIN: IE00BPT2B978
  • MEX ID: VIAAHA
  • SEDOL: BPT2B97