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About VANGUARD WORLD FUND VANGUARD CONSUMER STAPLES VIPERS
Expense ratio
0.10%
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Inception date
Jan 26, 2004
The fund delivers pure-play consumer staples exposure with a broad and representative basket of consumer staples stocks, as classified under GICS. It tracks an all-cap index selected and weighted by market capitalization. To ensure diversification, the index applies certain investment limits with no more than 25% of the value to a single issuer, and the sum of the weights of all issuers with more than 5% not exceeding 50% of total assets. These limits are imposed on RICs under the current US Internal Revenue Code. The index is rebalanced quarterly.
Classification
What's in the fund
Exposure type
Consumer Non-Durables
Retail Trade
Stock breakdown by region
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