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About Vanguard International High Dividend Yield ETF
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Inception date
Feb 25, 2016
Structure
Open-Ended Fund
Dividend treatment
Distributes
Distribution tax treatment
Qualified dividends
Income tax type
Capital Gains
Max ST capital gains rate
39.60%
Max LT capital gains rate
20.00%
Primary advisor
The Vanguard Group, Inc.
Distributor
Vanguard Marketing Corp.
The fund takes a conservative approach to international high dividend yields: firms are ranked by forecast yield over the next 12 months and those in the top half are selected. This relatively loose filter, combined with market cap-weighting, results in a large basket that doesn't depart from the broad market as radically as some competitors. REITs are excluded, in keeping with the conservative approach. Emerging market names are also eligible for inclusion. Overall, the fund provides balanced, comprehensive exposure to high-yield international stocks. To reduce turnover, the underlying index uses buffers during its annual reconstitution and rebalance. Vanguard uses a sampling approach to track the index.
Classification
Returns
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What's in the fund
Exposure type
Finance
Stocks96.39%
Finance40.69%
Energy Minerals7.42%
Consumer Non-Durables6.03%
Health Technology5.46%
Utilities5.42%
Consumer Durables5.03%
Communications4.22%
Non-Energy Minerals3.57%
Electronic Technology2.73%
Retail Trade2.63%
Industrial Services2.48%
Process Industries2.41%
Producer Manufacturing2.40%
Transportation2.17%
Distribution Services1.87%
Commercial Services0.70%
Consumer Services0.54%
Technology Services0.48%
Health Services0.13%
Miscellaneous0.01%
Bonds, Cash & Other3.61%
Cash1.83%
Miscellaneous0.68%
Mutual fund0.46%
UNIT0.26%
Corporate0.22%
Temporary0.16%
Stock breakdown by region
Europe44.79%
Asia32.44%
North America8.68%
Oceania7.07%
Middle East3.58%
Latin America2.44%
Africa1.01%
Top 10 holdings
Dividends
Dividend payout history