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Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fund Transitions To New FTSE Index
FYI: Vanguard announced that the $50 billion Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fund, including its ETF share class (ticker: VWO), will begin tracking a new FTSE transition index, in the first phase of a two-phase change to a new target index, FTSE Emerging Markets All Cap China A Inclusion Index. This change will be effective with the opening of trading on November 2, 2015. Regards, Ted https://pressroom.vanguard.com/content/press_release/Press_Release_Emerging_Markets_Transition_110115.html
Does this indicate distributions to shareholders if manager buys sells stock in before index and buys in the after index? Or is it simply for tracking performance?
@VF: read the press release... very slooooooow 12+ months transition to start including China smaller cap stocks. i think they learned their lesson with a rapid move from MSCI to FTSE and losing half the AUM in the process.
@VF: read the press release... very slooooooow 12+ months transition to start including China smaller cap stocks. i think they learned their lesson with a rapid move from MSCI to FTSE and losing half the AUM in the process.
yeah well, that slooooo transition could still yield lot of taxable durations next year. I'm going to hold off. It was on my list to buy but general waiting on dollar to guy before adding more to EM.
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