Vanguard is an investment management company founded in 1975 and headquartered in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, USA; it operates on a client-owned structure and provides a broad range of low-cost investment products and services including mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, brokerage services, retirement plans, advice solutions and wealth-management capabilities across the United States and international markets. Vanguard FTSE Global All-Cap UCITS ETF USD Acc is an Ireland-domiciled UCITS exchange-traded fund managed by Vanguard Funds plc and designed to track the FTSE Global All Cap Index, offering diversified exposure to large-, mid- and small-cap equities from developed and emerging markets worldwide through a physically replicated, sampled portfolio; the fund reinvests income in the accumulation share class and is listed on multiple European exchanges, including London, Xetra, Borsa Italiana, Euronext Amsterdam and SIX Swiss Exchange. The ETF has a USD base currency and a low ongoing charge of 0.07%, and it is part of Vanguard’s global UCITS ETF platform, which also includes a distributing share class launched alongside the accumulation share class in August 2026. In recent developments, Vanguard launched the FTSE Global All-Cap UCITS ETF share classes in August 2026 and expanded distribution across major European trading venues, while also announcing an agreement in August 2026 to acquire Altruist, an AI-forward wealth technology and custody platform for financial advisers, a transaction intended to expand Vanguard’s wealth-management and advisor-service capabilities following its prior investment in the company.