Vanguard Wellington U.S. Growth Active ETF

What this fund is

Vanguard Wellington U.S. Growth Active ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from Vanguard, traded under the ticker VUSG (ISIN US9219385021). It lets you buy a basket of holdings in a single trade, spreading your money across them rather than one company. At its core it is a focused, thematic fund: it concentrates on the technology part of the market, so it lives or dies by that one area rather than the economy as a whole. Underneath, it is about owning small slices of companies, so you share in their growth when they do well — and their falls when they don't.

It passively tracks the Russell 1000 Growth Index index — mirroring that market instead of paying a manager to pick winners, which keeps costs low, and its largest holdings include NVIDIA Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc.. Spread across roughly 37 holdings (the ten largest ≈ 66%), no one position makes or breaks the fund. Geographically it leans ~94.8% United States, ~1.7% Canada and ~1.4% Israel. Its heaviest sectors are ~50.5% Technology and ~14.4% Consumer Discretionary. A focused fund like this is typically held as a smaller 'satellite' position around a broader core — a way to lean into one theme, not usually a portfolio's only holding.

Its ongoing charge (TER) is 0.35% a year — about €35 a year on a €10,000 holding, taken automatically from the fund. It holds the underlying investments directly (physical replication); it is domiciled in the United States and trades in USD. Its price has swung about 20.1% over the past year, which describes how much its price tends to move rather than whether it is good. Like any investment, it can lose value as well as gain, and what it did before does not predict what it will do next. (Fund data sourced from Vanguard.)