Which returned more over the last year, ACWI or VYMI?

In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, ACWI returned +13.4% and VYMI +22.3%.

Which is cheaper, ACWI or VYMI?

VYMI is cheaper, by 0.25 percentage points a year. That is about $25 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

How much do ACWI and VYMI overlap with the S&P 500?

By their latest filed holdings, 61% of ACWI and 0% of VYMI by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

Data as of Oct 28, 2026.

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ACWI vs VYMI: Differences, Returns & Fees

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Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, ACWI returned +13.4% to VYMI's +22.3%; 15% of their weight is in the same names.

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Net assets: $33.0bn on Oct 28, 2026 for iShares MSCI ACWI ETF, and $21.4bn on Sep 30, 2026 for Vanguard International High Dividend Yield ETF.

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At a glance

+13.4%

ACWI total return, 1 year

+22.3%

VYMI total return, 1 year

0.32%

ACWI expense ratio

0.07%

VYMI expense ratio

Pair scorecard

VYMI costs 0.25 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 8.9 points; ACWI is 1.5 times larger.

ACWI vs VYMI: Differences, Returns & Fees
Measure	ACWI	VYMI
Return
Measure	ACWI	VYMI
Total return, 1 year	+13.4%	+22.3%
Drawdown
Measure	ACWI	VYMI
Below its high		4.6%, high on Sep 3, 2026
Benchmark
Measure	ACWI	VYMI
What it tracks	MSCI ACWI	FTSE All-World ex US High Dividend Yield Index
Cost and size
Measure	ACWI	VYMI
Expense ratio	0.32%	0.07%
Net assets, as of Sep 30, 2026	$32.8bn	$21.4bn
Holdings
Measure	ACWI	VYMI
Holdings in common	15%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	24.9%	13.8%

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Sep 30, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026. Method

Risk and return

Mar 11, 2016 to Oct 23, 2026 · 554 weekly returns

ACWI VYMI

Return

Total return edge ACWI +245.3% +188.1%

Annualized edge ACWI +12.3% +10.4%

Price return edge ACWI +183.2% +86.8%

Risk

Volatility edge Tie 16.1% 15.9%

Max drawdown edge ACWI −32.1% −38.3%

Risk-adjusted

Sharpe edge ACWI 0.66 0.55

Sortino edge ACWI 0.94 0.78

Calmar edge ACWI 0.38 0.27

Reading

ACWI returned more: +245.3% to +188.1%. ACWI and VYMI swung about the same: 16.1% and 15.9%. ACWI fell less at its worst: −32.1% to −38.3%.

Full scorecard

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Risk and return: ACWI vs VYMI: Differences, Returns & Fees
Measure	ACWI	VYMI	Edge	How it is measured
Return
Total return	+245.3%	+188.1%	ACWI	Price change plus distributions, reinvested.
Annualized	+12.3%	+10.4%	ACWI	Total return as a yearly rate.
Price return	+183.2%	+86.8%	ACWI	Price change alone, distributions left out.
Risk
Volatility	16.1%	15.9%	Tie	Spread of weekly returns, annualized. Lower is steadier.
Downside deviation	11.2%	11.4%	Tie	Like volatility, counting only weeks below the Treasury bill rate.
Max drawdown	−32.1%	−38.3%	ACWI	Deepest fall from a high to the low after it.
Risk-adjusted
Sharpe	0.66	0.55	ACWI	Return above Treasury bills per unit of volatility.
Sortino	0.94	0.78	ACWI	Return above Treasury bills per unit of downside deviation.
Calmar	0.38	0.27	ACWI	Annualized return divided by the max drawdown.

Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices and ETFIQ's distribution records, 554 weekly returns. Cash rate: the 13-week Treasury bill.

What they share

15%

By the books each fund has filed, ACWI and VYMI hold 15% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Holdings dated Sep 30, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026.

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15% in common

Positions both hold · largest shared weight first ACWI VYMI

ROCHE PS PAR AG 0.33% 1.56%

SHELL 0.30% 1.48%

HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 0.29% 1.81%

NOVARTIS AG 0.28% 1.42%

ROYAL BANK OF CANADA 0.27% 1.47%

NESTLE SA 0.25% 1.25%

MITSUBISHI UFJ FINANCIAL GROUP 0.22% 1.35%

BHP GROUP LTD 0.20% 1.15%

TORONTO DOMINION 0.20% 1.04%

COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA 0.19% 0.93%

ALLIANZ 0.18% 0.96%

BANCO SANTANDER 0.18% 1.07%

Only in one fund ↓

Only in ACWI

APPLE 4.97%

NVIDIA 4.89%

MICROSOFT 3.66%

AMAZON.COM INC 2.39%

ALPHABET CLASS A 1.83%

TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING 1.77%

BROADCOM INC 1.51%

ALPHABET CLASS C 1.44%

Only in VYMI

SLBBH1142 0.68%

Novo Nordisk A/S 0.65%

Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd 0.42%

Muenchener Rueckversicherungs-Gesellschaft AG in Muenchen 0.38%

Nordea Bank Abp 0.34%

Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd 0.31%

United Microelectronics Corp 0.30%

Bank of China Ltd 0.28%

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Side by side

ACWI iShares MSCI ACWI ETF VYMI Vanguard International High Dividend Yield ETF

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer iShares Vanguard

What it is Tracks the MSCI ACWI Tracks an index of International High Dividend Yield

Total return, 1 year +13.4% +22.3%

Expense ratio 0.32% 0.07%

Already in the S&P 500 60.9% 0.0%

Holdings 2197 1509

Net assets, ACWI as of Oct 28, 2026 and VYMI as of Sep 30, 2026 $33.0bn $21.4bn

ACWI and VYMI on the fields both publish, as of Oct 28, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

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ACWI and VYMI do different jobs. What does each one do in a portfolio?

What each follows. ACWI follows MSCI ACWI and VYMI follows FTSE All-World ex US High Dividend Yield Index.
Holdings in common. 15% of the weight is in the same securities (holdings dated Oct 27, 2026 and Sep 30, 2026).
One-year total return. Over 1 year to Oct 28, 2026 ACWI returned +13.4% and VYMI +22.3% with distributions reinvested, a gap of 8.9 points.

Data as of Oct 28, 2026.

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About each fund

ACWI

ACWI tracks the MSCI ACWI. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 it returned +13.4% with distributions reinvested. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.32% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 27, 2026, 61% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 2,197 positions, with the top ten at 24.9%.

VYMI

VYMI tracks an index of International High Dividend Yield. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 it returned +22.3% with distributions reinvested. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.07% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer as of Sep 30, 2026, 0% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 1,509 positions, with the top ten at 13.8%. It sat 4.6% below its high of Sep 3, 2026 on Oct 28, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, ACWI or VYMI?: In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, ACWI returned +13.4% and VYMI +22.3%.
Which is cheaper, ACWI or VYMI?: VYMI is cheaper, by 0.25 percentage points a year. That is about $25 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do ACWI and VYMI overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 61% of ACWI and 0% of VYMI by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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Sources and dates

ACWI filings on SEC EDGAR ↗

ACWI prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

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VYMI filings on SEC EDGAR ↗

VYMI prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

Vanguard page for VYMI ↗

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How this is computed

Overlap adds up the smaller of the two weights for each security both funds hold.

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