AKRE vs URTH: Differences, Returns & Fees
AKRE and URTH hold 3% of their weight in the same names. Net assets: $5.2bn on Jul 31, 2026 for Akre Focus ETF, and $8.7bn on Oct 20, 2026 for iShares MSCI World ETF.
URTH costs 0.74 points a year less; URTH is 1.5 times larger.
| AKRE | URTH | |
|---|---|---|
| Expense ratio | 0.98% | 0.24% |
| Net assets, as of Jul 31, 2026 | $5.2bn | $8.0bn |
| Total return, 1 year | not published | +14.9% |
| What it tracks | not published | MSCI World Index |
| Holdings in common | 3% | |
| Top ten holdings, share of the fund | 80.9% | 27.6% |
| Below its high | 14.0%, high on Oct 27, 2025 | |
Holdings in common uses holdings dated Jul 31, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026.
What they hold in common
By the books each fund has filed, AKRE and URTH hold 3% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Holdings dated Jul 31, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026.
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3% in common
On the same fields
AKRE and URTH on the fields both publish, as of Oct 20, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
About AKRE
The prospectus expense ratio is 0.98% a year. By its holdings filed for Jul 31, 2026, 66% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 17 positions, with the top ten at 80.9%. It sat 14.0% below its high of Oct 27, 2025 on Oct 20, 2026.
About URTH
URTH tracks the MSCI World. Over the year to Oct 20, 2026 it returned +14.9% with distributions reinvested, against +15.1% for its benchmark, the MSCI All Country World Index. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.24% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 19, 2026, 70% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 1,254 positions, with the top ten at 27.6%.
Questions people ask
- Which is cheaper, AKRE or URTH?
- URTH is cheaper, by 0.74 percentage points a year. That is about $74 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
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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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