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£IUSA
The investment objective of this Fund is to provide investors with a total return, taking into account both capital and income returns, which reflects the return of the S&P 500. The Index measures the performance of 500 stocks from top US companies in leading industries of the US economy which comply with S&Ps size, liquidity and free-float criteria.
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£IUSA
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£VUAG
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.
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£VUAG
Key takeaways
£IUSA pays out dividends to shareholders (a distributing fund), while £VUAG reinvests dividends (an accumulating fund). £IUSA is managed by BlackRock with a fund size of £15.4 billion, whereas £VUAG is managed by Vanguard with a slightly larger fund size of £16.3 billion. Both ETFs have the same annual fund charges of 0.07%, are traded on the London Stock Exchange, and are denominated in GBP.
Fund highlights
Fund name
iShares Core S&P 500
Vanguard S&P 500
Share currency
GBP
GBP
Base currency
USD
USD
Use of income
Distributing
Accumulating
Fund size
£13B
£15B
Beta
1.00
1.00
Last price
£40.17
£76.93
Annual fund charges
0.07%
0.07%
Benchmark
S&P 500
S&P 500
Risk
Ticker
£IUSA
£VUAG
Trading on
LSE
LSE
Market data provided by CBOE Europe and Deutsche Börse.
Performance
CumulativeRolling yearsLump sum investment
£IUSA
£VUAG
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
ChartTable
£IUSA
£VUAG
Top holdings
Apple
6.63%
Microsoft
6.28%
NVIDIA
5.91%
Amazon
3.74%
Meta
2.54%
Berkshire Hathaway Inc Class B
2.11%
Alphabet Class A
2.02%
Broadcom
1.82%
Alphabet Class C
1.66%
Other
67.29%
Apple
7.06%
NVIDIA
6.71%
Microsoft
6.21%
Amazon
3.58%
Meta
2.55%
Alphabet Class A
2.06%
Alphabet Class C
1.70%
Berkshire Hathaway Inc
1.70%
Broadcom
1.62%
Other
66.81%
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