VanEck Defense UCITS ETF
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Documents & issuer links
Sample links — demo data- KID (Key Information Document)Two-page regulatory summary: risk score, costs, past performance
- ProspectusFull legal terms of the fund and its umbrella company
- FactsheetMonthly one-pager with performance, sectors and top holdings
- Annual reportAudited accounts, securities lending revenue and full holdings
- Index methodologyHow the benchmark selects, weights and rebalances constituents
- Full holdings (CSV)Every position with weights, published daily by the issuer
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Fund profile
Sample reference data- Benchmark index
- MarketVector Global Defense Industry Index
- Index provider
- MarketVector Indexes
- Replication
- Physical — full replication, optimised sampling on the long tail
- Rebalancing
- Quarterly
- Securities lending
- Up to 20% of NAV, revenue split 62.5% to the fund
- Legal structure
- Open-ended ICAV / plc sub-fund
- Domicile
- Ireland
- UCITS
- Yes — UCITS V compliant
- SFDR classification
- Article 9 — sustainable investment objective
- Income treatment
- Accumulating — income reinvested inside the fund
- Distribution frequency
- None — reinvested
- Currency hedging
- No — unhedged, currency risk is carried by the investor
- Withholding tax
- 15% US treaty rate on US dividends, no Irish withholding on payouts
- UK reporting status
- Yes
- Savings plans
- Widely available (Trade Republic, Scalable, comdirect)
- Share class launch
- September 2023
- Fiscal year end
- 31 March
- Depositary / custodian
- J.P. Morgan SE — Dublin Branch
Listings & identifiers
Sample cross-listings| Exchange | Ticker | Trading currency | Listing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Borsa Italiana | DFND | EUR | Primary |
| Euronext Paris | DFND | EUR | Cross-listing |
| Xetra | DFND | EUR | Cross-listing |
| LSE | DFND | USD | Cross-listing |
| LSE | DFNDp | GBP | Cross-listing |
Top holdings
Top 10 = 39.0% of the fund · sample data- 1RTX6.75%
- 2Lockheed Martin5.87%
- 3BAE Systems5.11%
- 4Rheinmetall4.44%
- 5Northrop Grumman3.86%
- 6General Dynamics3.36%
- 7Thales2.93%
- 8Leonardo2.54%
- 9L3Harris2.21%
- 10Safran1.93%
29 positions in total — the remaining 61.0% sits in the long tail.
Risk, return & total cost
Sample figures — not investment adviceWhat you actually pay each year
- Ongoing charge (TER)
- 0.55%
- Portfolio transaction costs
- 0.03%
- of which index licence fee
- 0.02%
- Estimated total cost
- 0.58%
Excludes your broker's commission and the bid–ask spread you pay on the way in and out.
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