Vanguard International Shares High Yield ETF
Performance
Total return to 23 Oct 2026, distributions reinvested, before franking. ASX figures are to 30 Sept 2026 and gross of franking, so they run higher for franked Australian funds.
What it costs to hold
Management fee plus trading costs, compared with similar funds.
A typical fund among Global ex-Australia equity funds would cost $297 (0.59% a year), so VIHY is $139 cheaper.
Spread is the average gap between buying and selling prices on the ASX. Fees are shown on a flat balance, not compounded on growth. Excludes tax and any adviser or platform fees.
Calendar-year returns
No full calendar year yet.
Where the money is
Look-through exposure as at 31 July 2026 · 1006 securities · top 10 = 11.6% · holdings coverage: most
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Sector
Monthly returns
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3.1 | 4.2 | 1.1 | −0.2 | −0.5 | 0.5 | 8.5YTD |
Total return each month in %, distributions reinvested, before franking. The latest month runs to the last price date. The first year starts from listing.
Top holdings
Most similar funds
Overlap is the share of the portfolio held in common, look-through. Correlation is of daily returns. High overlap means close substitutes.
VIHY questions answered
Written from the latest data on this page. General information only, not financial advice.
How diversified is Vanguard International Shares High Yield ETF?
Vanguard International Shares High Yield ETF holds 1,006 securities, and its ten largest positions make up 11.6% of the fund, more spread out than the 36.4% typical of Global ex-Australia equity funds. That makes it widely diversified.
Its largest country exposure is United States at 43.7%, and its biggest sector is Financials at 42.4%, based on holdings as at 31 July 2026.
Which ETFs does VIHY double up with most?
VIHY shares the most holdings with Vanguard All-World ex US Shares Index ETF (VEU) (49% overlap), SPDR MSCI World Quality Mix ETF (QMIX) (42% overlap) and Betashares S&P Global High Dividend Aristocrats ETF (INCM) (39% overlap). Overlap is the share of the portfolio the two funds hold in common, looking through to the underlying securities.
None of these overlaps is above half, so pairing VIHY with one of them adds some genuinely different holdings.
How is Vanguard International Shares High Yield ETF managed – active or passive?
Vanguard International Shares High Yield ETF is passively managed: it follows an index and holds what that index holds, rather than relying on a manager's stock picks. Its index uses a dividend approach, so it is sometimes called "smart beta".
Among Global ex-Australia equity funds, active funds charge a median 0.75% a year and index funds 0.45%.
What will I pay in fees for VIHY?
VIHY charges a management fee of 0.30% a year, about $30 for every $10,000 invested. That is cheaper than 66% of the 471 ASX ETFs we track, where the median fee is 0.44%. Among Global ex-Australia equity funds, the median is 0.55%.
It is the cheapest of the 8 income Global ex-Australia equity funds we track.
If you would rather have a manager choose the investments, active options such as CB Global Infrastructure Income (Hedged) Active ETF (CIIH) at 1.02% and Plato Global Shares Income Fund - Active ETF (PGI2) at 0.85% cost more.
The fee is taken from the fund's assets and is already reflected in its returns. You'll also pay brokerage when you buy or sell, and the bid-ask spread, which has averaged 0.08% for VIHY.
Does Vanguard International Shares High Yield ETF follow a theme?
Its focus is income. It favours investments that pay higher, regular distributions. Over the past year it paid out 1.3% of its price, across 2 payments.
What is under the hood of VIHY?
As at 31 July 2026, VIHY's ten largest holdings are JPMorgan Chase & Co (2.2%), ExxonMobil Holdings Corp (1.5%), Johnson & Johnson (1.4%), Cisco Systems Inc (1.1%), AbbVie Inc (1.0%), Bank of America Corp (0.9%), UnitedHealth Group Inc (0.9%), Chevron Corp (0.9%), Vanguard FTSE All-World High Dividend Yield UCITS ETF (0.9%) and HSBC Holdings PLC (0.9%). Together they make up 11.6% of the fund.
Rather than simply weighting companies by market size, its index favours companies that pay higher dividends.
How well has Vanguard International Shares High Yield ETF performed?
Based on its category, Vanguard International Shares High Yield ETF aims mainly to pay a regular income, with capital growth secondary.
VIHY doesn't have a full year of price history yet, so we can't judge its performance.
Tracking difference is the gap between a fund's return and its index's return. We don't hold index returns, so we can't measure it for VIHY; the issuer reports it in the monthly fact sheet. As a guide, a well-run index fund trails its index by about its fee, here 0.30% a year, and a much bigger gap is a warning sign.
Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.