How global is your global fund?

How global is your global index fund?  How much of the world are you actually investing in when you buy a global index fund? 

After digging into what goes into an index fund as part of writing our guide to ESG indexes article, we were inspired to find out how much of the world the Vanguard "global" fund actually covers.

​A global index fund makes it easy for you to invest your money around the world (huge diversification) and partake in the global economy.

These funds have huge promise and we wanted to dig in to find out what you are actually buying when you purchase a global index fund.

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