Data as of Sep 12, 2026. Both funds on the fields they both publish, from the same sources.

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IALT vs VCSH: how they differ

IALT and VCSH hold 0% of their weight in the same names.

iShares Systematic Alternatives Active ETF and Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund.

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, IALT and VCSH hold 0% of their money in the same securities at the same weight.

Largest positions each one holds and the other does not
Only in IALT	Only in VCSH
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. 17.26%	United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.85%
PRIME SECSRVC BRW/FINANC 1.29%	Bank of America Corp 0.24%
PHINIA INC 0.94%	AbbVie Inc 0.21%
DISH DBS CORP 0.21%	CVS Health Corp 0.21%
DISH DBS CORP 0.19%	T-Mobile USA Inc 0.20%
DISH DBS CORP 0.10%	Boeing Co/The 0.20%
	Wells Fargo & Co 0.18%
	JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.18%

Weight overlap is an ETFIQ calculation: for every security both funds hold, the smaller of the two weights, summed. Above 50%, holding both is close to holding one of them twice. Holdings dated Apr 30, 2026 and May 31, 2026.

IALT and VCSH on the fields both publish, as of Sep 12, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
	IALT iShares Systematic Alternatives Active ETF	VCSH Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund
Where it sits	Core index fund	Core index fund
Issuer	iShares	Vanguard
What it is	Systematic Alternatives Active	Short-Term Corporate Bond
Total return, 1 year	+17.4%	+1.6%
S&P 500 over the same days	+12.1%	+17.5%
Gap to the S&P 500	+5.4 pts	−15.9 pts
Expense ratio	not published	0.03%
Holdings	8	2999

IALT in plain words

IALT is an index equity fund tracking the Systematic Alternatives Active. By its holdings filed for Apr 30, 2026, 55% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 8 positions, with the top ten at 100.0%.

VCSH in plain words

VCSH is a bond fund tracking the Short-Term Corporate Bond. Over the year to Sep 11, 2026 it returned +1.6% with distributions reinvested, against +17.5% for the S&P 500 and +23.0% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.03% a year.

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IALT against VCSH, ETFIQ, data as of Sep 12, 2026. Every figure is arithmetic on a named public source; the method is at etfiq.com/methodology. A comparison is not a recommendation.

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