Vanguard S&P 500 ETF VUSA.AS

Vanguard S&P 500 ETF is an ETF (exchange-traded fund) managed by Vanguard and domiciled in Ireland. It was launched on 22 May 2012 and manages 65.81bn GBP. Its ongoing charge is 0.07% a year. It distributes its income (dividends are paid out). It is listed on Euronext Amsterdam in EUR under the ticker VUSA.AS, ISIN IE00B3XXRP09.

It belongs to the S&P 500 family. The S&P 500 brings together 500 of the largest listed companies in the United States. It's probably the most followed index in the world and the one with the most product behind it, both as ETFs and as index funds.

Stated objective, as published by Financial Times:

This Fund seeks to track the performance of the Index, a widely recognised benchmark of U.S. stock market performance that is comprised of the stocks of large U.S. companies. The Fund employs a “passive management”, or indexing, investment approach, through physical acquisition of securities, designed to track the performance of the Index, a free float adjusted market capitalisation weighted index. In tracking the performance of the Index, the Fund 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. The Index is a capitalisation weighted index of 500 U.S. stocks.

Financial Times

Being a US index, most of these products trade or are denominated in dollars even when you buy them from Europe. That means your result in euros also depends on the exchange rate, not just on what the index does. Some products offer a currency-hedged version precisely to neutralise that.

These are the other products of the same family in the catalogue. Not all of them track exactly the same index: compare the full name, the TER, the currency, whether they accumulate or distribute and where they are listed.

Product	ISIN / Ticker	Type	Market	Currency	Dividends	Ongoing charge (TER)
iShares Core S&P 500 UCITS ETF USD (Acc)	CSPX.L	ETF	London SE	USD	Accumulating	0.07%
SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust	SPY	ETF	NYSE Arca	USD	n/a	n/a
Vanguard S&P 500 ETF	VOO	ETF	NYSE Arca	USD	n/a	n/a
iShares Core S&P 500 ETF	IVV	ETF	NYSE Arca	USD	n/a	n/a
Vanguard S&P 500 UCITS ETF (Dist)	VUSA.L	ETF	London SE	GBP	Distributing	0.07%
iShares S&P 500 UCITS ETF (Dist)	IUSA.L	ETF	London SE	USD	Distributing	0.07%
SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF	SPLG	ETF	NYSE Arca	USD	n/a	n/a
Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF	RSP	ETF	NYSE Arca	USD	n/a	n/a
Vanguard U.S. 500 Stock Index Fund Investor EUR Acc	IE0032620787	Index fund	Fund (not listed)	EUR	Accumulating	0.10%
Amundi S&P 500 Screened Index AE Acc (formerly Amundi Index S&P 500 AE-C)	LU0996179007	Index fund	Fund (not listed)	EUR	Accumulating	0.31%
Fidelity S&P 500 Index Fund P-ACC-EUR	IE00BYX5MX67	Index fund	Fund (not listed)	EUR	Accumulating	0.06%
Fidelity S&P 500 Index Fund P-ACC-EUR (hedged)	IE00BYX5N110	Index fund	Fund (not listed)	EUR	Accumulating · hedged	0.11%
ING Direct Fondo Naranja Standard & Poor's 500 FI	ES0152769032	Index fund	Fund (not listed)	EUR	Accumulating	1.10%
MyInvestor S&P500 Equiponderado FI	ES0165242001	Index fund	Fund (not listed)	EUR	Accumulating	0.49%
Vanguard U.S. 500 Stock Index Fund Institutional Plus EUR Acc	IE00BFPM9V94	Index fund	Fund (not listed)	EUR	Accumulating	0.06%
Vanguard U.S. 500 Stock Index Fund EUR Acc	IE0032126645	Index fund	Fund (not listed)	EUR	Accumulating	0.10%

S&P 500 ETFs and index funds

• Open Neto and go to Investments (a Neto PRO feature).
• Search for the product by ISIN (funds) or by ticker (ETFs).
• Enter your units and your average purchase price.
• The app updates the price and recalculates your net worth on its own.

Everything you add feeds the same number you see on the main screen, so you don't keep one app for spending and another for investments: it's the same picture.

What ongoing charge (TER) does Vanguard S&P 500 ETF have?

According to the Financial Times, 0.07% a year. It is what the product deducts from its own value for running it; you don't pay it separately and it is already reflected in the price you see in Neto.

Does Vanguard S&P 500 ETF accumulate or distribute dividends?

It distributes: it pays out the dividends it receives. In Neto you can log them as income when they arrive so they don't disappear from the picture.

Where is Vanguard S&P 500 ETF listed and in which currency?

On Euronext Amsterdam, in EUR, under the ticker VUSA.AS (ISIN IE00B3XXRP09). The same ETF can be listed on several exchanges with different tickers and the same ISIN; in Neto you search for the ticker listed in the catalogue.

Can I track Vanguard S&P 500 ETF in Neto?

Yes. Add it by its ticker, enter your units and average price, and the app keeps the value up to date and adds it to your net worth, next to your accounts, savings and debts. No broker connection.