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    Please note on 5 November 2025 a shareholder notice has been sent out to Vanguard LifeStrategy Funds ICVC. Effective on or around the 7 January 2026 the Vanguard LifeStrategy Funds are transitioning from a UK UCITS to a Non-UCITS Retail Scheme (NURS). No action is required from Shareholders; fund management and strategy will remain unchanged. For full details on the transition, please go to the fund announcement link for the Shareholder notice.
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    About this fund

    Fund objectives

    • The Fund employs a passive management – or indexing – investment approach and seeks to provide long-term capital growth by tracking the performance of the MSCI World Index (the “Index”).
    • The Index is comprised of large and mid-sized company stocks in developed markets.
    • 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
    12 Aug 1998
    Minimum initial investment
    US$1,000,000.00
    Investment structure
    Irish UCITS
    Share Class Assets'
    Total Assets
    Strategy
    Index
    Asset Class
    Equity
    Domicile
    Ireland
    Dividend schedule
    —
    Tax status
    Austria, Germany and Switzerland reporting
    Currency
    USD
    Legal entity
    Vanguard Investment Series PLC
    Investment manager

    Vanguard Asset Management, Ltd.
    Europe Equity Index Team

    Benchmark
    MSCI World 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 31 Oct 2025

    Beta
    R²
    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 1,336 1,321 31 Oct 2025
    Median market capital 190.8 B 190.8 B 31 Oct 2025
    24.5 x 24.5 x 31 Oct 2025
    3.8 x 3.8 x 31 Oct 2025
    19.6% 19.6% 31 Oct 2025
    22.1% 22.1% 31 Oct 2025
    Portfolio turnover rate -46.6% — 30 Sep 2025

    Market allocation

    As at 31 Oct 2025

    CountryRegionFundBenchmarkVariance +/-
    United States of AmericaNorth America 72.70% 72.70% 0.00%
    JapanPacific 5.49% 5.49% 0.00%
    United KingdomEurope 3.23% 3.56% -0.33%
    CanadaNorth America 3.23% 3.23% 0.00%
    FranceEurope 2.41% 2.62% -0.21%
    GermanyEurope 2.30% 2.30% 0.00%
    SwitzerlandEurope 2.23% 2.23% 0.00%
    AustraliaPacific 1.61% 1.61% 0.00%
    NetherlandsEurope 1.49% 1.21% 0.28%
    SwedenEurope 0.94% 0.88% 0.06%
    SpainEurope 0.87% 0.87% 0.00%
    ItalyEurope 0.76% 0.77% -0.01%
    Hong KongPacific 0.49% 0.49% 0.00%
    DenmarkEurope 0.44% 0.44% 0.00%
    SingaporePacific 0.43% 0.42% 0.01%

    Holdings details

    As at 31 Oct 2025

    Holding name% of market valueSectorRegionMarket valueShares
    NVIDIA Corp 5.97069% Information Technology US US$1,486,916,265.91 7,343,159
    Apple Inc 4.88002% Information Technology US US$1,215,300,712.98 4,494,954
    Microsoft Corp 4.41678% Information Technology US US$1,099,936,662.29 2,124,209
    Amazon.com Inc 2.82042% Consumer Discretionary US US$702,386,977.24 2,876,042
    Broadcom Inc 1.99566% Information Technology US US$496,991,191.32 1,344,564
    Alphabet Inc 1.98570% Communication Services US US$494,510,294.46 1,758,634
    Meta Platforms Inc 1.70089% Communication Services US US$423,581,967.05 653,323
    Alphabet Inc 1.66510% Communication Services US US$414,668,820.72 1,471,396
    Tesla Inc 1.59957% Consumer Discretionary US US$398,350,426.24 872,504
    JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.04481% Financials US US$260,194,011.68 836,314

    Total allocation percentages shown in the holdings details or the spreadsheet may not equal 100%, due to rounding or omission of cash and/or futures contracts.

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

    Weighted equity exposures exclude any temporary cash investments and equity index derivatives.

    Prices and distribution

    Prices

    NAV Price (USD)
    US$61.68
    Change
    +US$0.090.15%
    At closure 19 Nov 2025
    NAV 52-week high
    US$63.98
    At closure 20 Nov 2025
    NAV 52-week low
    US$46.71
    At closure 20 Nov 2025
    NAV 52-week difference
    US$17.27
    Change
    +27.00%
    At closure 20 Nov 2025
    Historical Prices

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    Inception date

    12 Aug 1998

    Date NAV (USD)
    19 Nov 2025 US$61.6799
    18 Nov 2025 US$61.5854
    17 Nov 2025 US$62.2743
    14 Nov 2025 US$62.8246
    13 Nov 2025 US$63.0170
    12 Nov 2025 US$63.8453
    11 Nov 2025 US$63.6884
    10 Nov 2025 US$63.4022
    07 Nov 2025 US$62.5341
    06 Nov 2025 US$62.5058

    Distribution history

    Distribution frequency

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    Historical performance 31 Oct 2025

    1.55%

    All dividends are reinvested for the "Accumulation" shares.

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

    Purchase information

    Currency

    Base currency: USD

    Fund codes

    • Bloomberg: VANGIVI
    • Citi: VA73
    • ISIN: IE00B03HD084
    • MEX ID: VGSII
    • SEDOL: B03HD08

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

    SEDOL and SEDOL Masterfile® are registered trademarks of the London Stock Exchange Group PLC. SEDOL data was extracted from the London Stock Exchange SEDOL Masterfile®.