Vanguard Expands Index Fund Offerings
New…
The new institutional funds are:
- Vanguard Calvert Social Index Fund – designed to track the performance of the Calvert Social Index, a benchmark comprising large- and mid-cap stocks that was recently developed by the Calvert Group. (see Calvert Group Launches Social Index ). The fund will have an expense ratio of 0.12%. The Fund is expected to maintain an expense ratio of 0.25%. The minimum initial investment is $3,000. An institutional class of shares for investors with $10 million or more is offered at an expense ratio of 0.12%.
- Vanguard Institutional Developed Markets Index Fund – structured as a “fund of funds”, the fund invests in a mix of the new institutional shares of the Vanguard European Stock Index Fund and in the Vanguard Pacific Stock Index Fund, based on their respective composition of the MSCI-EAFE Index, which was 67%/33% as of 3/31/2000. The index tracks the performance of the unmanaged Morgan Stanley Capital International-Europe, Australasia, Far East (MSCI-EAFE) Index, which includes some 1,000 stocks. The weighted average expense ratio of the fund’s underlying investments is expected to be 0.20%, though the fund itself has no operating expenses.
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Vanguard has also added new institutional shares for its
Vanguard European Stock Index Fund, Vanguard Pacific Stock
Index Fund, and Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fund.
The expense ratios for the institutional classes of shares,
are as follows: European Fund, 0.18%; Pacific, 0.24%; and
Emerging Markets, 0.45%.
The institutional class of shares requires a minimum
investment of $10 million for all funds.
The group’s index fund roster now consists of 32
offerings.
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