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The Vanguard Financials ETF is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Financials Index Fund. The fund employs a "passive management" - or indexing - investment approach designed to track the performance of the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) US Investable Market Financials Index, an index of stocks of large, medium, and small U.S. companies in the financials sector, as classified under the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS). This GICS sector is made up of companies involved in activities such as banking, mortgage finance, consumer finance, specialized finance, investment banking and brokerage, asset management and custody, corporate lending, insurance, financial investment, and real estate (including REITs).

Investment type: ETF (Exchange-Traded Fund); listed on the U.S. AMEX exchange
Ticker symbol: VFH

Fund manager: Vanguard Group, Inc.

Fund information from Vanguard Group, Inc.: Vanguard Financials ETF

ETF charts and further information:

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This fund is based on the MSCI US Investable Market Financials Index (MZUSI0FN). You cannot buy shares in the index directly.

Index charts and further information:

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