UCITS Equivalent of VEA

Not exactly: EXUS is the closest UCITS fund to VEA, not a copy of it. Top 10 holdings in common: 8 of 9 (61% of VEA's top-10 weight). VEA tracks the FTSE Developed All Cap ex US, small caps included. EXUS tracks the MSCI World ex USA, only the large and mid caps of developed markets outside the US: 737 holdings against 3,903 in VEA. The MSCI index also leaves out South Korea, which FTSE counts as a developed market and MSCI as an emerging one.

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EXUS is accumulating: it reinvests the dividends inside the fund. If you want them paid out, EXU1 (Xtrackers MSCI World ex USA UCITS ETF 1D, ISIN IE000Z0FC0G5) is the distributing option, at 0.15% a year.

EXUS is domiciled in Ireland, under the EU's UCITS rules for funds. Most UCITS ETFs are domiciled in Ireland or Luxembourg. What Irish domicile means for US dividends.

VEA is a US fund that publishes no KID, the key information document EU rules require for every fund sold to retail investors, so EU brokers cannot offer it to you. The full answer.

Search EXUS or its ISIN IE0006WW1TQ4 at your broker. It trades on Xetra in euros as EXUS. In London it trades as EXUS in USD and XMWX in GBP.

Source: Vanguard and Xtrackers (DWS) documents, as of November 8, 2026: VEA, EXUS, EXU1.

The top-10 overlap compares the ten largest holdings of VEA and of EXUS, as our portfolio analysis reads them: how many names they share, and how much of VEA's top-10 weight those names make up.

How we choose the twin: the closest index first, then the lowest fee among the funds of the issuers we checked: iShares, Xtrackers, SPDR, Vanguard, Invesco and J.P. Morgan, plus the issuers of the other funds on this page.

Data as of November 8, 2026.