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

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IALT vs VGLT: how they differ

IALT is an equity index fund and VGLT a bond index fund.

iShares Systematic Alternatives Active ETF and Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund.

IALT and VGLT on the fields both publish, as of Sep 12, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
	IALT iShares Systematic Alternatives Active ETF	VGLT Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund
Where it sits	Core index fund	Core index fund
Issuer	iShares	Vanguard
What it is	Systematic Alternatives Active	Long-term Treasury
Total return, 1 year	+17.4%	−5.4%
S&P 500 over the same days	+12.1%	+17.5%
Gap to the S&P 500	+5.4 pts	−22.9 pts
Holdings	8	not filed

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%.

VGLT in plain words

VGLT is a bond fund tracking the Long-term Treasury. Over the year to Sep 11, 2026 it returned −5.4% with distributions reinvested, against +17.5% for the S&P 500 and +23.0% for the Nasdaq-100. It sat 39.2% below its high of Aug 4, 2020 on Sep 11, 2026.

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IALT against VGLT, 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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