Today, we’re going to take a quick look at Vanguard’s Global Index ETF – VWRD. A fair bit of emails and questions I get frequently revolve around the purchase of VWRD. Thus, I thought this blog post would be great at addressing the common queries. Disclosure – VWRD forms 30% of my asset allocation What is Vanguard Group? Vanguard Group is owned by Vanguard funds, which in turn are owned by investors and clients like us. Under this unique and one-of-a-kind structure, Vanguard must operate “at-cost” – it can charge the funds only enough to cover its cost of operations. What fund can I buy that tracks global index? Personally, I see diversification to be possible across

• sectors/industries (financial, technological, oil & gas, etc)
• geographical locations (single country, BRICS, emerging markets, entire world)
• asset class (cash/bond/equities/real estate and property/precious metal e.g. gold/etc)

One of the simplest way to achieve maximum diversification is ......