Japan Stock Index Fund - Institutional Plus GBP Dist (VAVGSIS)

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About this fund

Fund objectives

  • The Fund employs a passive management – or indexing – investment approach and seeks to track the performance of the MSCI Japan Index (the “Index”).
  • The Index is comprised of large and mid-sized company stocks in Japan.
  • 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
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 Japan Index
Register countries
Portugal, Finland, Liechtenstein, Spain, United Kingdom, Denmark, France, Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Ireland and Netherlands

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 28 Feb 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 181 179 31 Jan 2026
Median market capital 45.5 B 45.5 B 28 Feb 2026
19.6 x 19.6 x 28 Feb 2026
2.0 x 2.0 x 28 Feb 2026
11.0% 11.0% 28 Feb 2026
21.7% 21.7% 28 Feb 2026
Portfolio turnover rate -26.3% 31 Dec 2025
Market allocation

As at 31 Jan 2026

CountryRegionFundBenchmarkVariance +/-
JapanPacific 100.00% 100.00% 0.00%
Holdings details

As at 28 Feb 2026

Holding name% of market valueSectorRegionMarket valueShares
Toyota Motor Corp 4.43141% Consumer Discretionary JP £213,106,673.05 10,270,170
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 4.09110% Financials JP £196,740,818.74 12,217,137
Hitachi Ltd 2.92686% Industrials JP £140,752,629.35 4,964,770
Sony Group Corp 2.73869% Consumer Discretionary JP £131,703,442.15 6,664,230
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc 2.68637% Financials JP £129,187,564.26 3,970,989
Advantest Corp 2.51455% Information Technology JP £120,924,693.76 830,200
Tokyo Electron Ltd 2.41035% Information Technology JP £115,913,958.16 485,508
Mizuho Financial Group Inc 2.17646% Financials JP £104,665,710.75 2,698,048
Mitsubishi Corp 2.08421% Industrials JP £100,229,596.16 3,492,628
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd 1.96441% Industrials JP £94,468,244.16 3,473,070

Prices and distribution

Prices

NAV Price (GBP)
£230.77
Change
-£0.24-0.11%
At closure 13 Mar 2026
NAV 52-week high
£251.82
At closure 15 Mar 2026
NAV 52-week low
£163.84
At closure 15 Mar 2026
NAV 52-week difference
£87.98
Change
+34.94%
At closure 15 Mar 2026
Historical Prices

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Inception date

02 Sep 2014

Date NAV (GBP)
13 Mar 2026 £230.7705
12 Mar 2026 £231.0136
11 Mar 2026 £233.2469
10 Mar 2026 £231.8471
09 Mar 2026 £226.3918
06 Mar 2026 £236.8580
05 Mar 2026 £236.4873
04 Mar 2026 £232.2053
03 Mar 2026 £240.8437
02 Mar 2026 £247.8632

Distribution history

Distribution frequency

Annually

Historical performance 28 Feb 2026

1.71%

TypeDistribution amount (per unit)Ex-dividend dateRegistration datePayable date
Income £4.3153 31 Dec 2025 30 Dec 2025 15 Jan 2026
Income £3.4910 31 Dec 2024 30 Dec 2024 15 Jan 2025
Income £3.4224 29 Dec 2023 28 Dec 2023 15 Jan 2024
Income £3.5171 30 Dec 2022 29 Dec 2022 31 Jan 2023
Income £2.9422 31 Dec 2021 30 Dec 2021 14 Jan 2022
Income £2.9831 31 Dec 2020 30 Dec 2020 14 Jan 2021
Income £3.0102 31 Dec 2019 30 Dec 2019 15 Jan 2020
Income £2.7601 31 Dec 2018 28 Dec 2018 14 Jan 2019
Income £2.4429 29 Dec 2017 28 Dec 2017 12 Jan 2018
Income £2.2905 30 Dec 2016 29 Dec 2016 13 Jan 2017

Purchase information

Currency

Base currency: GBP

Fund codes

  • Bloomberg: VAVGSIS
  • Citi: KQ5L
  • ISIN: IE00BPT2BF38
  • MEX ID: VIAAHC
  • SEDOL: BPT2BF3