Vanguard International Stock Index Funds Annual Report

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38 Pacific Stock Index Fund Performance Summary All of the returns in this report represent past performance, which is not a guarantee of future results that may be achieved by the fund. (Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data cited. For performance data current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at www.vanguard.com/performance.) Note, too, that both investment returns and principal value can fluctuate widely, so an investor’s shares, when sold, could be worth more or less than their original cost. The returns shown do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or on the sale of fund shares. Cumulative Performance: October 31, 1999–October 31, 2009 Initial Investment of $10,000 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 1 Total returns do not reflect the 0.50% transaction fee on purchases through March 31, 2000; the 2% fee assessed on redemptions of shares purchased on or after June 27, 2003, and held for less than two months; or, for the Investor Shares, the account service fee that may be applicable to certain accounts with balances below $10,000. 2 Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc. 3 Performance for the fund and its comparative standards is calculated since the following inception dates: August 13, 2001, for the Admiral Shares and June 4, 2007, for the Signal Shares. 2006 2007 2008 2009 $24,000 10,080 1,000 Average Annual Total Returns Periods Ended October 31, 2009 Final Value of a $10,000 One Year Five Years Ten Years Investment Pacific Stock Index Fund Investor Shares 1 23.23% 4.12% 0.08% $10,080 MSCI All Country World Index ex USA 34.79 7.58 3.95 14,733 MSCI Pacific Index 28.32 4.52 0.42 10,424 Japan/Pacific Region Funds Average 2 22.47 1.12 –2.46 7,794 Since Final Value of a $100,000 One Year Five Years Inception3 Investment Pacific Stock Index Fund Admiral Shares1 23.38% 4.24% 4.50% $143,575 MSCI All Country World Index ex USA 34.79 7.58 7.46 180,584 MSCI Pacific Index 28.32 4.52 4.79 146,905 Since Final Value of a $10,000,000 One Year Inception3 Investment Pacific Stock Index Fund Signal Shares1 23.38% –11.33% $7,486,007 MSCI All Country World Index ex USA 34.79 –10.56 7,643,407 MSCI Pacific Index 28.32 –10.78 7,598,170
Pacific Stock Index Fund Since Final Value of a $5,000,000 One Year Five Years Inception1 Investment Pacific Stock Index Fund Institutional Shares2 23.46% 4.29% 0.09% $5,041,212 MSCI All Country World Index ex USA 34.79 7.58 3.17 6,716,547 MSCI Pacific Index 28.32 4.52 0.30 5,143,491 Since Final Value of a $10,000 One Year Inception1 Investment Pacific Stock Index Fund ETF Shares Net Asset Value3 23.38% 1.87% $10,902 MSCI All Country World Index ex USA 34.79 4.65 12,357 MSCI Pacific Index 28.32 2.24 11,089 Cumulative Returns: ETF Shares, March 4, 2005–October 31, 2009 One Year Since Inception1 Pacific Stock Index Fund ETF Shares Market Price 22.09% 8.21% Pacific Stock Index Fund ETF Shares Net Asset Value 23.38 9.02 MSCI Pacific Index 28.32 10.89 1 Performance for the fund and its comparative standards is calculated since the following inception dates: May 15, 2000, for the Institutional Shares and March 4, 2005, for the ETF Shares. 2 Total returns do not reflect the 2% fee assessed on redemptions of shares purchased on or after June 27, 2003, and held for less than two months. 3 For more information about how the ETF Shares’ market prices have compared with their net asset value, visit www.vanguard.com, select your ETF, and then select the Performance tab. The Premium/Discount table there shows the percentages of days on which the ETF Shares’ market price was above or below the NAV. 39
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