Key Highlights

  • The portfolio reports technology exposure of 43.89%.
  • The leading disclosed holding entry is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd at 14.78%.
  • The reported management fee is 0.40%.
  • The interim distribution record lists AUD 0.000 per unit.

Vanguard FTSE Asia ex Japan Shares Index ETF (ASX:VAE) follows an index approach, holding or obtaining exposure to most securities in its index. Individual security weights can vary marginally from the index, and the portfolio may include securities that have been removed from it or are expected to be added.

Investment Mandate

The reported holding count is 1,790 companies, placing the individual positions within a much larger equity basket. The index framework describes how the portfolio is assembled; the holding count and allocation tables describe the reported composition without establishing future results.

Sector Composition

The largest reported sector weights are technology at 43.89%, financial services at 17.59% and consumer cyclical at 9.02%. Industrials represents 7.95%, Communication Services represents 5.80% and Basic Materials represents 3.94%. These figures describe the sector allocation in the supplied portfolio record.

Technology represents 43.89% of the fund, below the category figure of 45.05%; Utilities represents 1.82% of the fund, above the category figure of 0.24%. These comparisons are differences between the fund and its category, rather than increases or declines over time. The record does not provide a dated sequence of sector weights from which an allocation trend could be established.

Geographic and Asset Allocation

The geographic table assigns 28.74% to Taiwan. The next reported allocations are China at 23.68%, South Korea at 21.91%, India at 13.96% and Hong Kong at 3.67%. The asset-class record lists 98.87% in stocks and 1.11% in cash, with 0.00% in bonds. Geographic and asset-class percentages describe different aspects of the portfolio and should be read separately.

Leading Holdings

The leading disclosed holding entries are Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd at 14.78%, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd at 7.04% and SK hynix Inc at 5.44%. Each percentage is the reported weight of the individual holding, rather than a measure of its earnings or share-price movement.

Other disclosed positions include Tencent Holdings Ltd at 2.90%, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd Ordinary Shares at 2.21%, MediaTek Inc at 1.46% and DBS Group Holdings Ltd at 0.99%. The reported total holding count is 1,790 companies. The selected entries describe part of that portfolio and do not exhaust the remaining holdings.

Management Fee and Distribution

The reported management fee is 0.40%. The distribution record identifies a interim distribution amount of AUD 0.000 per unit, with an ex-distribution date of 01 Oct 2026, a record date of 02 Oct 2026 and a payment date of 16 Oct 2026. The amount field is recorded as zero. It does not supply a nonzero payment amount for this distribution entry, and no alternative amount can be inferred from the other portfolio fields.

Key Takeaways

Vanguard FTSE Asia ex Japan Shares Index ETF (ASX:VAE) combines its stated investment framework with reported exposure to technology. The holdings and allocation fields describe the portfolio’s composition, while the 0.40% management fee and interim distribution record provide separate cost and payment details. These records do not establish changes in company earnings or guarantee future distributions.