- 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)
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