If you don't currently own any funds with Vanguard or if you are buying into a fund for the first time.
Please ensure that you complete all sections of the Subscription Agreement and include your contact information.
Please fax the completed form to the Administrator at: +353 1 2417146 and mail it to:
Vanguard Investment Series plc
c/o Brown Brothers Harriman Fund Administration
Attn: Transfer Agency
Brown Brothers Harriman Fund Administration
Services (Ireland) Limited
30 Herbert Street
Dublin 2
D02 W329
Ireland
Subscriptions will not be permitted on your account until the Administrator, Brown Brothers Harriman Fund Administration, receives all required documentation by fax and sends you an account notification e-mail containing your Vanguard account number.
Once you have received confirmation from the Administrator that your account has been set up, you are able to subscribe for shares.
Please complete the purchase form and fax it to us before the daily dealing deadline. This ensures that your deal is priced at the fund's net valuation point.
Payment should be made for the total cost of your investment, net of any bank charges, and transferred electronically to the bank account illustrated in our payment details form.
Your bank may charge an electronic transfer or handling fee. The full subscription amount must be received on the second business day after the trade date (this is referred to as T+2).
For funds registered for sale to European investors, additional guidance is available on the European investors facilities services website. Guidance is available in English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Finnish, Danish, Portuguese and Swedish and covers investor rights, how to invest, how to access important fund documentation and how to complain.
If you would like to purchase, exchange or redeem shares in Vanguard exchange-traded funds (ETFs) only.
ETFs trade on the stock market just like company shares and are listed on most of the large stockbroking platforms.
Please contact your stockbroker regarding investing.
Find out more about our ETF range.
For any questions regarding our ETFs, please contact our Client Services team on:
Telephone: +44 20 3753 4305
Email: european_client_services@vanguard.co.uk
For any trading-related questions, please contact our Capital Markets team on:
Telephone: +44 20 3753 6989
Management of Vanguard's UK and Ireland domiciled funds is delegated to three Vanguard investment entities: Vanguard Global Advisers LLC (VGA), Vanguard Asset Management Ltd. (VAM), Vanguard Investments Australia Ltd. (VIA), which are all subsidiaries of the parent company The Vanguard Group Inc. (VGI)
Furthermore, certain funds are delegated to external sub-advisers, who are overseen by Vanguard’s Oversight & Manager Search team.
Please refer to the fund product pages for further details.
For our European clients, Vanguard’s business model is centred on providing a broad array of low cost investment funds and exchange traded funds ("ETFs") through our European domiciled UCITS products. In addition, the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive ("AIFMD"), which entered into force throughout the European Union on 22 July 2013, limits the ability to market U.S. domiciled funds and US domiciled ETFs in the European Economic Area ("EEA"). In order to comply with the AIFMD Vanguard does not market Vanguard’s U.S. domiciled funds or U.S. domiciled ETFs to investors in the EEA.
Please note that this does not mean that U.S. domiciled funds or U.S. domiciled ETFs are "unsuitable" products for investors in the EEA. The AIFMD does not prevent an investor in the EEA from investing in Vanguard U.S. domiciled funds and/or U.S. domiciled ETFs on their own initiative (for example, through a broker or an exchange).
We will continue to provide you with the same high level of client service from our London office. The implementation of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive ("AIFMD") does not affect investments acquired in Vanguard’s U.S. domiciled funds or U.S. domiciled ETFs before 22 July 2013. You will be able to continue to top-up your existing investments and purchase shares in additional Vanguard U.S. domiciled funds and/or U.S. domiciled ETFs where this is solely at your own initiative. The AIFMD has, however, required us to make certain procedural changes in respect of account opening, additional investments and redemptions. Further information can be provided by our Client Services Team.
Vanguard chooses each index that our passively managed funds will track based on how accurately the index tracks the returns of the designated market segment. We use major market indices which have been developed by long-established index providers.
When you invest with any fund manager, you will have to pay a number of charges. These include an Annual Management Charge (known as the AMC) which covers the fund manager's own costs of managing the fund over the year.
However, with most managers you will also typically pay additional running costs. These are likely to include administration fees, audit fees (where an independent auditor checks that all accounts are fair and honest), custody fees (the cost of holding securities in a secure and legal manner) and other operational expenses. The AMC and these additional running costs make up the fund's OCF.
Our approach is different as we pay all running costs out of our AMC, therefore we expect that our AMC will be the same as our OCF. This helps us to be more transparent and gives you a better understanding of the cost of your investment.
Will your OCF/Annual Management Charges (AMCs) change?We may revise our OCF/AMC from time to time where the total costs of administering the fund change.