Vanguard FTSE All-World Ex-US Index Fund
Data updated: 2026-09-28
C000043571 — Vanguard FTSE All-World Ex-US Index Fund. Developed ex-US Large Cap Blend / Core Equity. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000043571 Fund Overview
Vanguard FTSE All-World Ex-US Index Fund is a US ETF managed by Vanguard International Equity Index Funds, categorised as Developed ex-US Large Cap Blend / Core Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US ETF
- Manager: Vanguard International Equity Index Funds
- Category: Developed ex-US Large Cap Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $95.84B
- SEC CIK: 0000857489
- SEC series ID: S000015871
- Share class ID: C000043571
C000043571 Investment Objective and Strategy
Vanguard FTSE All-World Ex-US Index Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Vanguard International Equity Index Funds.
Investment objective
The Fund seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of stocks of companies located in developed and emerging markets outside of the United States.
Principal investment strategy
The Fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the FTSE All-World ex US Index, a float-adjusted, market-capitalization-weighted index designed to measure equity market performance of international markets, excluding the United States. As of October 31, 2017, the Index included 2,539 stocks of companies located in 46 countries, including both developed and emerging markets. As of October 31, 2017, the largest markets covered in the index were Japan, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany (which made up approximately 17.5%, 12.5%, 7.1%, and 6.7%, respectively, of the Index’s market capitalization). The Fund attempts to replicate the target index by investing all, or substantially all, of its assets in the stocks that make up the Index, holding each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the Index.
C000043571 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Vanguard FTSE All-World Ex-US Index Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 4.43% |
| Samsung Electronics Co Ltd | 1.99% |
| ASML Holding NV | 1.58% |
| SK hynix Inc | 1.56% |
| Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund | 0.99% |
| Tencent Holdings Ltd | 0.95% |
| HSBC Holdings PLC | 0.91% |
| Roche Holding AG | 0.76% |
| Royal Bank of Canada | 0.73% |
| Novartis AG | 0.72% |
C000043571 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Vanguard FTSE All-World Ex-US Index Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 99.0% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 1.5% |
C000043571 Costs and Fees
C000043571 costs about $20 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.20%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.20%
- Portfolio turnover: 6%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.40 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000043571 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-07, Vanguard FTSE All-World Ex-US Index Fund had net inflows of $10.24B, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-07 | $2.07B |
| 2026-06 | $443.83M |
| 2026-05 | $174.61M |
| 2026-04 | $238.58M |
| 2026-03 | $900.65M |
| 2026-02 | $2.36B |
C000043571 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Vanguard FTSE All-World Ex-US Index Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000043571 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Vanguard FTSE All-World Ex-US Index Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-02-27
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-02-28
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2025-02-03
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-09-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-06-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-03-31
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-01-12
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-01-13
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Data Sources
ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.