Japan Stock Index Fund - Institutional Plus GBP Acc (VAVGSAS)

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About this fund

Fund objectives

  • The Fund employs a passive management – or indexing – investment approach and seeks to track the performance of the MSCI Japan Index (the “Index”).
  • The Index is comprised of large and mid-sized company stocks in Japan.
  • The Fund attempts to: 1. Track the performance of the Index by investing in all constituent securities of the Index in the same proportion as the Index. Where not practicable to fully replicate, the Fund will use a sampling process. 2. Remain fully invested except in extraordinary market, political or similar conditions.

Fund facts

Share class inception
02 Sep 2014
Minimum initial investment
£100,000,000.00
Investment structure
Irish UCITS
Share Class Assets'
Total Assets
Strategy
Index
Asset Class
Equity
Domicile
Ireland
Dividend schedule
Legal entity
Vanguard Investment Series PLC
Tax status
Germany and United Kingdom reporting
Benchmark
MSCI Japan Index

The value of investments, and the income from them, may fall or rise and investors may get back less than they invested.

Performance

Risk and Volatility

As at 31 Jan 2026

Beta
Annualized Tracking Error
1 year
3 years
5 years

Please note Beta and R-squared data will only display for funds with 3 full years of history.

The value of investments, and the income from them, may fall or rise and investors may get back less than they invested.

Portfolio data

Characteristics
FundamentalsFundBenchmarkAs at
Number of stocks 181 181 31 Dec 2025
Median market capital 41.3 B 41.3 B 31 Jan 2026
17.9 x 17.9 x 31 Jan 2026
1.8 x 1.8 x 31 Jan 2026
11.1% 11.1% 31 Jan 2026
21.5% 21.5% 31 Jan 2026
Portfolio turnover rate -26.3% 31 Dec 2025
Market allocation

As at 31 Dec 2025

CountryRegionFundBenchmarkVariance +/-
JapanPacific 100.00% 100.00% 0.00%
Holdings details

As at 31 Jan 2026

Holding name% of market valueSectorRegionMarket valueShares
Toyota Motor Corp 4.40200% Consumer Discretionary JP £198,868,616.99 10,415,370
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 4.26208% Financials JP £192,547,322.56 12,599,537
Hitachi Ltd 3.25597% Industrials JP £147,094,360.93 5,035,270
Sony Group Corp 2.81578% Consumer Discretionary JP £127,208,134.59 6,758,730
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc 2.65816% Financials JP £120,087,311.40 4,027,389
Advantest Corp 2.59029% Information Technology JP £117,021,287.70 842,000
Tokyo Electron Ltd 2.45353% Information Technology JP £110,842,866.50 492,408
Mizuho Financial Group Inc 2.23874% Financials JP £101,139,452.70 2,736,348
SoftBank Group Corp 2.15480% Communication Services JP £97,347,002.76 4,200,488
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd 1.91994% Industrials JP £86,737,074.16 3,522,370

Prices and distribution

Prices

NAV Price (GBP)
£302.98
Change
-£4.75-1.54%
At closure 13 Feb 2026
NAV 52-week high
£307.73
At closure 15 Feb 2026
NAV 52-week low
£197.11
At closure 15 Feb 2026
NAV 52-week difference
£110.62
Change
+35.95%
At closure 15 Feb 2026
Historical Prices

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Inception date

02 Sep 2014

Date NAV (GBP)
13 Feb 2026 £302.9792
12 Feb 2026 £307.7274
11 Feb 2026 £304.7447
10 Feb 2026 £302.6763
09 Feb 2026 £293.5459
06 Feb 2026 £286.1721
05 Feb 2026 £284.1324
04 Feb 2026 £282.5302
03 Feb 2026 £283.1290
02 Feb 2026 £275.6442

Distribution history

Distribution frequency

Historical performance 31 Jan 2026

1.86%

All dividends are reinvested for the "Accumulation" shares.

Purchase information

Currency

Base currency: GBP

Fund codes

  • Bloomberg: VAVGSAS
  • Citi: KQ5M
  • ISIN: IE00BPT2BG45
  • MEX ID: VIAAHD
  • SEDOL: BPT2BG4