Vanguard REIT Index Fund Investor Shares ETF | REIT Profile

Symbol: VGSIX
Exchange: NASDAQ
Founded: 1975 (49 years)
HQ: Valley Forge, PA, United States
Type of REIT: ETF REIT
Listing Status: Public
Market Capitalization: Large-Cap
REIT Sector: Diversified

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The Vanguard Group is an American investment management company based in Malvern, Pennsylvania with over $4.4 trillion in assets under management. It is the largest provider of mutual funds and the second-largest provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the world after BlackRock's iShares. In addition to mutual funds and ETFs, Vanguard offers brokerage services, variable and fixed annuities, educational account services, financial planning, asset management, and trust services. The investment seeks to provide a high level of income and moderate long-term capital appreciation by tracking the performance of a benchmark index that measures the performance of publicly traded equity REITs. The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US REIT Index. The index is composed of stocks of publicly traded equity real estate investment trusts (known as REITs). The adviser attempts to replicate the index by investing all, or substantially all, of its assets in the stocks that make up the index, holding each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index.