Vanguard Russell 2000 Growth ETF

What this fund is

Vanguard Russell 2000 Growth ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from Vanguard, traded under the ticker VTWG (ISIN US92206C6232). In a single purchase you get a diversified basket of holdings rather than a stake in just one business. In plain terms 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, spread across its target market. It passively tracks the Russell 2000 Growth Index index — mirroring that market instead of paying a manager to pick winners, which keeps costs low, and its largest holdings include Bloom Energy Corp. Class A, Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd. and Sterling Construction Co.

Inc.. It holds around 1122 positions (the ten largest ≈ 13.8%), spreading risk so no single holding decides your outcome. By geography it is weighted towards ~90.2% United States, ~4.6% Cayman Islands and ~1.3% Canada. Its heaviest sectors are ~24.8% Industrials and ~22.5% Technology. It is commonly used to tilt a portfolio towards one market, usually alongside broader, more global funds rather than on its own.

Its ongoing charge (TER) is 0.06% a year — about €6 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 22.2% over the past year, which describes how much its price tends to move rather than whether it is good. As with any investment, its value can go down as well as up, and past performance is not a guide to future results. (Fund data sourced from Vanguard.)