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Vanguard FTSE Asia Ex-Japan Shares Index ETF · Vanguard
Large and medium companies from across developing and developed Asia, excluding Japan (and Australia and New Zealand) — the FTSE Asia Pacific ex Japan, Australia and New Zealand index.
What the fee costs you
The management fee is 0.4% a year. Here’s what that works out to in dollars:
A 0.4% yearly fee works out to about $40 a year per $10,000 invested.
A rough guide based on the headline fee only. Other costs (such as brokerage or buy/sell spreads) aren’t included.
The basics
- Issuer
- Vanguard
- Asset class
- Global shares
- Number of holdings
- ~1,870
- Where it invests
- Asia outside Japan — markets like China, India, Taiwan and South Korea.
- Income paid
- Quarterly
- Currency hedged
- No — It's unhedged, so the value also moves with the Australian dollar against a range of Asian currencies, on top of the markets themselves.
Its character
A focused bet on the Asian region, so it leans heavily on big Chinese, Taiwanese and Indian companies, including major technology names, and carries a large emerging-markets component.
What to keep in mind
Concentrated in a single region with a large emerging-markets weighting, so it can be more volatile than a broad global fund, and carries currency movements for an Australian holder.
Figures last verified 2026-06-19against the issuer’s factsheet and PDS.