Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares (VSS) seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of stocks of international small-cap companies. The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the FTSE Global Small Cap ex US Index. The advisor attempts to sample the target index by investing all, or substantially all, of its assets in common stocks in the index and by holding a representative sample of securities that resembles the full index in terms of key risk factors and other characteristics.

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Performance Overview

  • 7.69% YTD Daily Total Return
  • 54.51% 1-Year Daily Total Return
  • 5.52% 3-Year Daily Total Return


Trailing Returns (%)

  • YTD 9.86%
  • 1-Month 4.27%
  • 3-Month 10.57%
  • 1-Year 56.29%
  • 3-Year 6.60%
  • 5-Year 9.82%
  • 10-Year 5.15%

Fund Overview

  • Net Assets 11.24B
  • YTD Daily Total Return 7.69%
  • Yield 1.73%

Fund Operations

  • Annual Report Expense Ratio (net) 0.11%
  • Holdings Turnover 22.00%
  • Total Net Assets 1,942.02


Top 10 Holdings (3.13% of Total Assets)

NameSymbol% Assets
Open Text CorpOTEX.TO0.41%
First Quantum Minerals LtdFM.TO0.36%
Emera IncEMA.TO0.35%
WSP Global IncWSP.TO0.35%
Algonquin Power & Utilities CorpAQN.TO0.31%
Kirkland Lake Gold LtdKL.TO0.31%
Kinross Gold CorpK.TO0.28%
CAE IncCAE.TO0.26%
CCL Industries Inc B- Non-VotingCCL.B.TO0.26%
Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment TrustCAR.UN.TO0.24%


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