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Vanguard ETFs in Canada: Your Top Questions Answered, Right From the Source

Build Wealth Canada Podcast

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Can Vanguard's Equity Asset Allocation Be Based on Market Cap Weights?

When we look at the asset allocation ETFs of Vanguard and your competitors as well, like you already mentioned, we do notice that Canada is overrepresented. So can you take us through why your weights don't actually try to exactly match the market cap weights when it comes to Canada? Sure. When we look at that overweight and that home bias, I do think there's some art and there's some science to the allocation to Canada. But for right now, we're comfortable with that 30% based on the research that we've done on investor preference and also the investment implications that we looked at.

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