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About this fund

Fund objectives

  • The Fund employs a passive management – or indexing – investment approach and seeks to track the performance of the MSCI Japan Index (the “Index”).
  • The Index is comprised of large and mid-sized company stocks in Japan.
  • The Fund attempts to: 1. Track the performance of the Index by investing in all constituent securities of the Index in the same proportion as the Index. Where not practicable to fully replicate, the Fund will use a sampling process. 2. Remain fully invested except in extraordinary market, political or similar conditions.

Fund facts

Share class inception
02 Sep 2014
Minimum initial investment
£100,000,000.00
Investment structure
Irish UCITS
Share Class Assets'
Total Assets
Strategy
Index
Asset Class
Equity
Domicile
Ireland
Dividend schedule
Annually
Tax status
Germany, Switzerland and United Kingdom reporting
Currency
GBP
Legal entity
Vanguard Investment Series PLC
Investment manager

Vanguard Asset Management, Ltd.
Europe Equity Index Team

Benchmark
MSCI Japan Index

The value of investments, and the income from them, may fall or rise and investors may get back less than they invested.

Performance

Risk and Volatility

As at 30 Sep 2025

Beta
Annualized Tracking Error
1 year
3 years
5 years

Please note Beta and R-squared data will only display for funds with 3 full years of history.

The value of investments, and the income from them, may fall or rise and investors may get back less than they invested.

Portfolio data

Characteristics
FundamentalsFundBenchmarkAs at
Number of stocks 180 180 30 Sep 2025
Median market capital 33.9 B 33.9 B 30 Sep 2025
16.4 x 16.4 x 30 Sep 2025
1.6 x 1.6 x 30 Sep 2025
11.1% 11.1% 30 Sep 2025
19.5% 19.5% 30 Sep 2025
Portfolio turnover rate -20.9% 30 Sep 2025
Market allocation

As at 30 Sep 2025

CountryRegionFundBenchmarkVariance +/-
JapanPacific 100.00% 100.00% 0.00%
Holdings details

As at 30 Sep 2025

Holding name% of market valueSectorRegionMarket valueShares
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 4.16875% Financials JP £172,734,776.18 12,520,737
Toyota Motor Corp 4.10166% Consumer Discretionary JP £169,954,823.40 10,349,970
Sony Group Corp 3.97848% Consumer Discretionary JP £164,850,881.28 6,716,730
Hitachi Ltd 2.73495% Industrials JP £113,324,630.30 5,003,870
SoftBank Group Corp 2.71173% Communication Services JP £112,362,256.94 1,043,522
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc 2.34071% Financials JP £96,988,986.59 4,030,289
Nintendo Co Ltd 2.14721% Communication Services JP £88,970,941.84 1,205,710
Mizuho Financial Group Inc 1.90448% Financials JP £78,913,188.32 2,745,348
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd 1.88836% Industrials JP £78,245,518.89 3,500,370
Tokyo Electron Ltd 1.79382% Information Technology JP £74,328,174.15 489,308

Prices and distribution

Prices

NAV Price (GBP)
£225.04
Change
+£1.230.55%
At closure 29 Oct 2025
NAV 52-week high
£225.04
At closure 30 Oct 2025
NAV 52-week low
£163.84
At closure 30 Oct 2025
NAV 52-week difference
£61.19
Change
+27.19%
At closure 30 Oct 2025
Historical Prices

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Inception date

02 Sep 2014

Date NAV (GBP)
29 Oct 2025 £225.0368
28 Oct 2025 £223.8104
27 Oct 2025 £223.6632
24 Oct 2025 £220.6577
23 Oct 2025 £219.3486
22 Oct 2025 £221.1244
21 Oct 2025 £219.9610
20 Oct 2025 £221.0815
17 Oct 2025 £215.8886
16 Oct 2025 £217.1614

Distribution history

Distribution frequency

Annually

Historical performance 30 Sep 2025

1.63%

TypeDistribution amount (per unit)Ex-dividend dateRegistration datePayable date
Income £3.4910 31 Dec 2024 30 Dec 2024 15 Jan 2025
Income £3.4224 29 Dec 2023 28 Dec 2023 15 Jan 2024
Income £3.5171 30 Dec 2022 29 Dec 2022 31 Jan 2023
Income £2.9422 31 Dec 2021 30 Dec 2021 14 Jan 2022
Income £2.9831 31 Dec 2020 30 Dec 2020 14 Jan 2021
Income £3.0102 31 Dec 2019 30 Dec 2019 15 Jan 2020
Income £2.7601 31 Dec 2018 28 Dec 2018 14 Jan 2019
Income £2.4429 29 Dec 2017 28 Dec 2017 12 Jan 2018
Income £2.2905 30 Dec 2016 29 Dec 2016 13 Jan 2017
Income £1.6942 31 Dec 2015 30 Dec 2015 14 Jan 2016

Purchase information

Currency

Base currency: GBP

Fund codes

  • Bloomberg: VAVGSIS
  • Citi: KQ5L
  • ISIN: IE00BPT2BF38
  • MEX ID: VIAAHC
  • SEDOL: BPT2BF3