Which returned more over the last year, BND or PRAE?

In the year to Sep 19, 2026, with distributions reinvested, BND returned −0.4% and PRAE returned +19.4%, so PRAE returned more.

Which is cheaper, BND or PRAE?

BND charges 0.03% a year and PRAE charges 1.49%, so BND is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

Are BND and PRAE the same kind of fund?

No. BND is an index ETF and PRAE is an alternatives ETF, so they are built for different jobs. The table compares what both publish: return, cost and what each actually holds.

Data as of Sep 19, 2026.

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BND vs PRAE: how they differ

Over the year PRAE returned more, +19.4% to BND's −0.4%, and BND charges 0.03% to PRAE's 1.49%.

Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF and PlanRock Equity Plus Alternatives ETF.

BND and PRAE on the fields both publish, as of Sep 19, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
	BND Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF	PRAE PlanRock Equity Plus Alternatives ETF
Where it sits	Core fund	Alternatives ETF
Issuer	Vanguard	PlanRock
What it is	Tracks an index of US aggregate bonds	Managed futures
Total return, 1 year	−0.4%	+19.4%
S&P 500 over the same days	+16.6%	+16.6%
Gap to the S&P 500	−17.0 pts	+2.9 pts
Expense ratio	0.03%	1.49%
Holdings	16296	not filed
Net assets	$163.3bn	$12m

BND in plain words

BND tracks an index of US aggregate bonds. Over the year to Sep 18, 2026 it returned −0.4% with distributions reinvested, against +16.6% for the S&P 500 and +21.8% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.03% a year. It sat 3.9% below its high of Aug 6, 2020 on Sep 18, 2026.

PRAE in plain words

PRAE is a managed futures fund. ETFIQ measures what every alternatives fund is sold on: whether it moves differently from the stock market. Over the year to Sep 18, 2026, its weekly returns had a correlation of +0.75 with the S&P 500’s and a beta of +0.78, so for each 1% the index moved it moved about 0.78% the same way. The S&P 500 fell in 22 of those 52 weeks, by 1.24% on average. In the same weeks PRAE fell 0.83% on average, a down-week capture of 66.7%. Over the same 52 weeks PRAE returned +18.4% and a Treasury bill fund +3.6%, so it finished 14.7 percentage points ahead of cash.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, BND or PRAE?: In the year to Sep 19, 2026, with distributions reinvested, BND returned −0.4% and PRAE returned +19.4%, so PRAE returned more.
Which is cheaper, BND or PRAE?: BND charges 0.03% a year and PRAE charges 1.49%, so BND is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
Are BND and PRAE the same kind of fund?: No. BND is an index ETF and PRAE is an alternatives ETF, so they are built for different jobs. The table compares what both publish: return, cost and what each actually holds.

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