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Question asked 10/05/2025

Vanguard FTSE Emerging Market ETF (VGE)

Hi, I’ve been exploring investing in India and was thrilled to get a call from you about a recent question I had running it to Easter. Thanks so much. Following your comments , I looked at the spread of investments in some of these ETFs so as to give me exposure to India, and thought the spread in Vanguard Emerging Markets Fund (VGE) gave a good spread with a a mix of India, China and USA. I’d appreciate your thoughts on this ETF from a spread of markets viewpoint and how that compares with others. I don’t think it’s in your ETF Portfolio? Thanks so much

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Hi Michael,

The Vanguard FTSE Emerging Market ETF (VGE) largest 5 international exposures are currently as below:

China 27%, India 22%, Taiwan 21%, Brazil 4.5% and Saudi Arabia 4.5%.

NB The first comment is there’s no USA exposure here as you mentioned in your question.

This is a solid $1bn Emerging Market ETF with an expense ratio of 0.48% and although the spread is often 1% trading between the bid & offer appears fairly easy. At this stage of the volatile geo-political situation we would rather have pure exposure to say China and avoid the risks that India’s now generating as it mounts attacks on Pakistan – the reason that “Shawn’s Trading Idea” in the IIND ETF was stopped out for a small profit this week.

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