Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. Increases Position in Vanguard FTSE Pacific ETF $VPL

Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. raised its position in Vanguard FTSE Pacific ETF (NYSEARCA:VPL) by 2.1% during the fourth quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The firm owned 270,333 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 5,623 shares during the quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co.’s holdings in Vanguard FTSE Pacific ETF were worth $24,438,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently added to or reduced their stakes in VPL. Focus Partners Wealth purchased a new stake in Vanguard FTSE Pacific ETF in the first quarter valued at approximately $688,000. First Trust Advisors LP raised its position in Vanguard FTSE Pacific ETF by 2.0% in the second quarter. First Trust Advisors LP now owns 32,447 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,666,000 after purchasing an additional 622 shares during the period. Brown Advisory Inc. raised its position in Vanguard FTSE Pacific ETF by 2.0% in the second quarter. Brown Advisory Inc. now owns 6,404 shares of the company’s stock valued at $526,000 after purchasing an additional 125 shares during the period. Qube Research & Technologies Ltd raised its position in Vanguard FTSE Pacific ETF by 679.6% in the second quarter. Qube Research & Technologies Ltd now owns 1,185 shares of the company’s stock valued at $97,000 after purchasing an additional 1,033 shares during the period. Finally, NewEdge Advisors LLC raised its position in Vanguard FTSE Pacific ETF by 24.8% in the second quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC now owns 62,910 shares of the company’s stock valued at $5,170,000 after purchasing an additional 12,515 shares during the period.

Vanguard FTSE Pacific ETF Price Performance

Shares of NYSEARCA VPL opened at $116.14 on Monday. The firm has a market cap of $8.90 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.65 and a beta of 0.79. Vanguard FTSE Pacific ETF has a 52-week low of $78.37 and a 52-week high of $116.72. The business’s 50 day moving average is $106.00 and its two-hundred day moving average is $99.72.

Vanguard FTSE Pacific ETF Profile

Vanguard FTSE Pacific ETF, formerly Vanguard MSCI Pacific ETF, is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Pacific Stock Index Fund. The Fund seeks to track the investment performance of the MSCI Pacific Index that consists of common stocks of companies located in Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore. The Fund employs a passive management or indexing investment approach by investing all, or substantially all, of its assets in the common stocks included in the MSCI Pacific Index (the Index).