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The Fund seeks to track the performance of the Standard and Poor's 500 Index (the Index). The Index is comprised of large-sized company stocks in the US. The Fund attempts to 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, and remain fully invested except in extraordinary market, political or similar conditions.
View fundThe investment objective of the Fund is to provide investors with a total return, taking into account both capital and income returns, which reflects the return of the MSCI World Index. The Index measures the performance of large and mid capitalisation stocks across Developed Market countries which comply with MSCI's size, liquidity, and free-float criteria.
View fundKey takeaways
These funds track different benchmarks: £VUSA follows the S&P 500, which includes 500 of the largest companies in the United States, while £SWDA tracks the MSCI World Index, covering around 1,500 companies across 23 developed countries.
The ETFs also differ in fund charges, distribution policy, and fund size. £VUSA has lower annual charges (0.07%) compared to £SWDA (0.2%). £VUSA pays out dividends (a distributing fund), whereas £SWDA reinvests dividends (an accumulating fund). Additionally, £SWDA is larger in size (£103.2 billion) than £VUSA (£37.6 billion).
Both trade on the London Stock Exchange and are denominated in GBP.
Fund highlights
Fund name | Vanguard S&P 500 | iShares Core MSCI World |
|---|---|---|
GBP | GBP | |
USD | USD | |
| Distributing | Accumulating | |
Fund size | £39bn | £106bn |
| 1.00 | 1.00 | |
Last price | £105.74 | £106.79 |
| 0.07% | 0.20% | |
Fund manager | Vanguard | BlackRock |
Benchmark | S&P 500 | MSCI World Index |
Risk | ||
Ticker | £VUSA | £SWDA |
Primary listing | LSE | LSE |
Documents | £VUSA Key Information Document | £SWDA Key Information Document |
Market data provided by CBOE Europe and Deutsche Börse.
Performance
CumulativeRolling yearsLump sum investment
£VUSA
£SWDA
Past performance is no guarantee of future returns.
The “cumulative” calculation shows returns on a price basis (i.e. excluding dividends). If an instrument trades in a different currency from your home currency, currency fluctuations may affect returns.
Sector exposure
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£VUSA
£SWDA
Top holdings
NVIDIA
7.49%
Apple
6.57%
Microsoft
4.28%
Amazon
3.61%
Alphabet Class A
3.24%
Broadcom
2.77%
Alphabet Class C
2.58%
Micron Technology
2.01%
Meta
1.91%
Other
65.53%
NVIDIA
5.47%
Apple
5.34%
Microsoft
3.07%
Amazon
2.65%
Alphabet Class A
2.22%
Broadcom
1.99%
Alphabet Class C
1.76%
Meta
1.54%
Micron Technology
1.21%
Other
74.75%
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