Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF

Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF is an exchange-traded fund that provides broad, market-cap-weighted exposure to stocks from developed markets outside the United States. It seeks to replicate the FTSE Developed All Cap ex U.S. Index, holding thousands of large-, mid-, and small-cap companies across Europe, the Pacific region, and Canada, with notable inclusion of markets such as Japan, the United Kingdom, and South Korea. The fund’s objective is to deliver diversified international equity coverage through a low-cost, passive indexing approach, reflecting the collective performance of foreign developed economies. By tracking a comprehensive benchmark, it captures a wide opportunity set while excluding emerging markets, allowing investors and allocators to separate developed and emerging exposures when constructing global portfolios. Its scale, expansive holdings list, and straightforward methodology have made it a widely used building block for international equity allocation in multi-asset strategies and core-satellite frameworks.