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

In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, BWET returned +5,121.7% and VTIP +2.2%.

Which is cheaper, BWET or VTIP?

VTIP is cheaper, by 4.65 percentage points a year. That is about $465 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's own filings.

Data as of Oct 28, 2026.

Across categories

BWET vs VTIP: Differences, Returns & Fees

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BWET is a commodity futures fund and VTIP a bond index fund, and over the year to Oct 28, 2026, BWET returned +5,121.7% against +2.2%.

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Net assets: $178m on Oct 28, 2026 for Breakwave Tanker Shipping 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

+5,121.7%

BWET total return, 1 year

+2.2%

VTIP total return, 1 year

4.68%

BWET expense ratio

0.03%

VTIP expense ratio

Pair scorecard

VTIP costs 4.65 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 5119.5 points.

BWET vs VTIP: Differences, Returns & Fees
Measure	BWET	VTIP
Return
Measure	BWET	VTIP
Total return, 1 year	+5,121.7%	+2.2%
Drawdown
Measure	BWET	VTIP
Below its high	11.2%, high on Oct 8, 2026
Benchmark
Measure	BWET	VTIP
What it tracks	Tanker freight futures	Bloomberg U.S. Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) 0-5 Years Index
Cost and size
Measure	BWET	VTIP
Expense ratio	4.68%	0.03%
Net assets, BWET as of Oct 28, 2026 and VTIP as of Sep 30, 2026	$178m	$20.9bn
Holdings
Measure	BWET	VTIP
Holdings in common	not published

Method

Side by side

BWET Breakwave Tanker Shipping ETF VTIP Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares

Where it sits Commodity ETF Bond ETF

Issuer Breakwave Vanguard

What it is Holds tanker freight futures Tracks an index of Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities

Total return, 1 year +5,121.7% +2.2%

Expense ratio 4.68% 0.03%

Holdings not counted 26

Net assets, BWET as of Oct 28, 2026 and VTIP as of Sep 30, 2026 $178m $20.9bn

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

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About each fund

BWET

Its expense ratio is 4.68%, for the year to Jun 30, 2026, as its 10-K states.

BWET holds tanker freight futures. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 it returned +5,121.7% with distributions reinvested. It sat 11.2% below its high of Oct 8, 2026 on Oct 28, 2026.

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, BWET or VTIP?: In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, BWET returned +5,121.7% and VTIP +2.2%.
Which is cheaper, BWET or VTIP?: VTIP is cheaper, by 4.65 percentage points a year. That is about $465 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's own filings.

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Sources and dates

Breakwave page for BWET ↗

VTIP filings on SEC EDGAR ↗

VTIP prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

Vanguard page for VTIP ↗

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