Vanguard International Equity Index Funds - Total World Stock Index Fund ETF is an open-end management investment company. The Fund seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of global stocks. The Fund invests in both foreign and the United States stocks. The Fund operates in various regions, such as the United States, Japan, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, Australia, Italy, Korea and Brazil. As of Oct 31 2013, the Fund's investment portfolio was valued at $5,136,242,000. The VT YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the VT YTD return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the total return for a given investment year-to-date for the current calendar year
(up to the end of prior trading session). Arguably, choosing the current calendar year for a measurement
period is on the one hand completely arbitrary, but on the other hand a year-to-date look can be extremely
useful in the context of our country's tax system which taxes gains and income on a calendar year basis.
Thus, researching Year-To-Date Returns is good practice for investors — whether VT YTD return or other benchmarks/peers
— and when doing so it is also important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's YTD return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon. Our website aims to empower investors
by performing the VT YTD return calculation (with any dividends reinvested as applicable), and to provide a
coverage universe of many stocks and ETFs to be able to compare YTD returns.
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