ISA ETF S&P 500 Accumulative

masonic

tel_ said:

Why would you hold the S&P500 in two different platforms? I'm guessing one is just an investment from many years ago?

I invest across more than one platform so that my eggs are not all in one basket. I am acutely aware of how long it can take to regain access to investments held in a platform which fails (see the SVS Securities thread for an example - over a year later and people are still struggling to access their investments). One of my platforms holds at least one unit/share of all of my holdings so that I can easily export a valuation to Excel to update the current valuations across them all.

tel_ said:

I take it the Vanguard equivalent is the one on Vanguard Investor listed as S&P500 UCITS EFT (VUSA)?

No, it is VUAG as mentioned above by Bowlhead. VUSA is distributing, not accumulating.

bowlhead99

tel_ said

I take it the Vanguard equivalent is the one on Vanguard Investor listed as S&P500 UCITS EFT (VUSA)?

I expect it is not listed as that, as they wouldn't spell it 'EFT' when it's an ETF 

VUSA is a distributing ETF while VUAG is Vanguard's accumulating version of the same thing (the OP was talking about accumulating ETFs).  

I don't have a Vanguardinvestor account but I understand they don't always have the accumulating versions of their ETFs available on their retail site (at least they didn't when first launching the service). There is more money being managed in the distributing share class than the accumulating one which might marginally affect liquidity but unlikely to cause you any material performance difference.

tel_

masonic said:

I invest across more than one platform so that my eggs are not all in one basket. I am acutely aware of how long it can take to regain access to investments held in a platform which fails (see the SVS Securities thread for an example - over a year later and people are still struggling to access their investments). One of my platforms holds at least one unit/share of all of my holdings so that I can easily export a valuation to Excel to update the current valuations across them all.

Thanks for the reply. Interesting to know about the exporting to Excel tip. And I'll definitely read about the SVS Securities thread.

tel_

bowlhead99 said:
I expect it is not listed as that, as they wouldn't spell it 'EFT' when it's an ETF   

VUSA is a distributing ETF while VUAG is Vanguard's accumulating version of the same thing (the OP was talking about accumulating ETFs).  

I don't have a Vanguardinvestor account but I understand they don't always have the accumulating versions of their ETFs available on their retail site (at least they didn't when first launching the service). There is more money being managed in the distributing share class than the accumulating one which might marginally affect liquidity but unlikely to cause you any material performance difference.

Ooops, typo error on my behalf on the 'EFT' 'ETF' spelling - well spotted!

Yes, they still only have the VUSA 'distributing' version on the Vanguard Investor site, not a VUAG 'accumulating' one. Thanks for the explanation.