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VANGUARD EMERGING MARKETS ETF $38.53 – New York symbol VWO

VANGUARD EMERGING MARKETS ETF $38.53 (New York symbol VWO; buy or sell through brokers) aims to track the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, which is made up of common stocks of companies located in emerging markets around the world. The fund has an MER of 0.27%.

The funds’s top holdings are China Mobile (China: wireless), Gazprom (Russia: gas utility), Samsung Electronics (South Korea: electronics), Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, America Movil SA de CV (Latin America: wireless), Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Brazil: oil and gas), China Construction Bank, China Life Insurance Co. and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.

The $22.1-billion Vanguard Emerging Markets ETF’s largest holdings by country are: China (18.4%), Brazil (14.8%), South Korea (13.5%), Taiwan (11.2%), South Africa (7.6%), India (7.5%), Russia (6.1%), Mexico (4.6%), Israel (3.0%), Malaysia (2.9%), Indonesia (1.9%), Turkey (1.7%), Chile (1.4%), Thailand (1.4%), Poland (1.3%), Czech Republic (0.6%), Hungary (0.6%), Philippines (0.5%), Peru (0.4%), Egypt (0.3%), Cayman Islands (0.1%) and Colombia (0.1%).

Vanguard Emerging Markets ETF is a buy for aggressive investors.

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