Vanguard FTSE Global All-Cap Starts Trading, The Price of Not Investing & Cost to Retire Around the World

Today, Vanguard has launched the FTSE Global All-Cap UCITS ETF (VGLA) on multiple European Exchanges. It’s the cheapest single-ticket exposure to the entire global equity market, with large, mid and small caps across developed and emerging markets, at a total expense ratio of just 0.07%.

The ETF began trading today (20 August) on Deutsche Börse’s Xetra and LSE, with parallel listings on Borsa Italiana, Euronext Amsterdam and the SIX Swiss Exchange.

It is the ETF equivalent the US-listed VT – Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF (0.06% TER) and the Vanguard FTSE Global All Cap Index Fund long popular with UK investors, but still with 0.23% fee.

It’s the first time Vanguard has offered whole-market coverage, small caps included, in a European ETF without an ESG screen. For the first time, the fee is very close to US-listed ETFs, as well.

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