Which returned more over the last year, AOR or VTIP?

In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, AOR returned +7.8% and VTIP +2.2%.

Which is cheaper, AOR or VTIP?

VTIP is cheaper, by 0.12 percentage points a year. That is about $12 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

Data as of Oct 28, 2026.

Across categories

AOR vs VTIP: Differences, Returns & Fees

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Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, AOR returned +7.8% to VTIP's +2.2%; 0% of their weight is in the same names.

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Net assets: $3.9bn on Oct 28, 2026 for iShares Core 60/40 Balanced Allocation ETF, and $20.9bn on Sep 30, 2026 for Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares.

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At a glance

+7.8%

AOR total return, 1 year

+2.2%

VTIP total return, 1 year

0.15%

AOR expense ratio

0.03%

VTIP expense ratio

Pair scorecard

VTIP costs 0.12 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 5.6 points; VTIP is 5.4 times larger.

AOR vs VTIP: Differences, Returns & Fees
Measure	AOR	VTIP
Return
Measure	AOR	VTIP
Total return, 1 year	+7.8%	+2.2%
Benchmark
Measure	AOR	VTIP
What it tracks	60/40 Balanced Allocation	Bloomberg U.S. Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) 0-5 Years Index
Cost and size
Measure	AOR	VTIP
Expense ratio	0.15%	0.03%
Net assets, as of Sep 30, 2026	$3.9bn	$20.9bn
Holdings
Measure	AOR	VTIP
Holdings in common	0%
In the S&P 500, by weight	0%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	99.9%

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

Risk and return

Oct 26, 2012 to Oct 23, 2026 · 730 weekly returns

AOR VTIP

Return

Total return edge AOR +186.5% +35.7%

Annualized edge AOR +7.8% +2.2%

Price return edge AOR +103.8% −2.1%

Risk

Volatility edge VTIP 9.9% 2.3%

Max drawdown edge VTIP −22.2% −5.5%

Risk-adjusted

Sharpe edge AOR 0.62 0.17

Sortino edge AOR 0.89 0.22

Calmar edge VTIP 0.35 0.40

Reading

AOR returned more: +186.5% to +35.7%. VTIP swung less: 2.3% to 9.9%. VTIP fell less at its worst: −5.5% to −22.2%.

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Risk and return: AOR vs VTIP: Differences, Returns & Fees
Measure	AOR	VTIP	Edge	How it is measured
Return
Total return	+186.5%	+35.7%	AOR	Price change plus distributions, reinvested.
Annualized	+7.8%	+2.2%	AOR	Total return as a yearly rate.
Price return	+103.8%	−2.1%	AOR	Price change alone, distributions left out.
Risk
Volatility	9.9%	2.3%	VTIP	Spread of weekly returns, annualized. Lower is steadier.
Downside deviation	6.9%	1.7%	VTIP	Like volatility, counting only weeks below the Treasury bill rate.
Max drawdown	−22.2%	−5.5%	VTIP	Deepest fall from a high to the low after it.
Risk-adjusted
Sharpe	0.62	0.17	AOR	Return above Treasury bills per unit of volatility.
Sortino	0.89	0.22	AOR	Return above Treasury bills per unit of downside deviation.
Calmar	0.35	0.40	VTIP	Annualized return divided by the max drawdown.

Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices and ETFIQ's distribution records, 730 weekly returns. Cash rate: the 13-week Treasury bill.

What they share

By the books each fund has filed, AOR and VTIP hold 0% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Holdings dated Sep 30, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026.

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0% in common

Positions both hold · largest shared weight first AOR VTIP

Only in one fund ↓

Only in AOR

ISHARES CORE S&P ETF TRUST 35.70%

ISHARES CORE UNIV USD BOND ETF 32.15%

ISHARES CORE MSCI INT DEVEL ETF 17.10%

ISHARES CORE MSCI EMERGING MARKETS 6.34%

iShares Core Intl Aggregate Bnd ET 5.81%

ISHARES CORE S&P MID-CAP ETF 1.89%

ISHARES CORE S&P SMALL-CAP ETF 0.92%

Only in VTIP

United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.30%

United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.22%

United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.14%

United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.97%

United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.96%

United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.87%

United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.83%

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Side by side

AOR iShares Core 60/40 Balanced Allocation ETF VTIP Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares

Where it sits Allocation ETF Bond ETF

Issuer iShares Vanguard

What it is Tracks an index of 60/40 Balanced Allocation Tracks an index of Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities

Total return, 1 year +7.8% +2.2%

Its benchmark over the same days +13.4% (ACWI) not measured

Gap to its benchmark −5.6 pts vs ACWI not measured

Expense ratio 0.15% 0.03%

Holdings 7 26

Net assets, AOR as of Oct 28, 2026 and VTIP as of Sep 30, 2026 $3.9bn $20.9bn

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

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AOR and VTIP do different jobs. What does each one do in a portfolio?

What each follows. AOR follows 60/40 Balanced Allocation and VTIP follows Bloomberg U.S. Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) 0-5 Years Index.
Holdings in common. 0% 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 AOR returned +7.8% and VTIP +2.2% with distributions reinvested, a gap of 5.6 points.

Data as of Oct 28, 2026.

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About each fund

AOR

AOR tracks an index of 60/40 Balanced Allocation. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 it returned +7.8% with distributions reinvested, against +13.4% for its benchmark, the MSCI All Country World Index. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.15% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 27, 2026, 0% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 7 positions, with the top ten at 99.9%.

VTIP

VTIP tracks an index of Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 it returned +2.2% with distributions reinvested. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.03% a year.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, AOR or VTIP?: In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, AOR returned +7.8% and VTIP +2.2%.
Which is cheaper, AOR or VTIP?: VTIP is cheaper, by 0.12 percentage points a year. That is about $12 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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Sources and dates

AOR filings on SEC EDGAR ↗

AOR prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

iShares page for AOR ↗

VTIP filings on SEC EDGAR ↗

VTIP prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

Vanguard page for VTIP ↗

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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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