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IVV vs RSST: how they differ

Over the year RSST returned more, +37.1% to IVV's +16.6%, and IVV charges 0.03% to RSST's 0.99%.

iShares Core S&P 500 ETF and Return Stacked U.S. Stocks & Managed Futures ETF.

IVV and RSST on the fields both publish, as of Sep 19, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
IVV
iShares Core S&P 500 ETF
RSST
Return Stacked U.S. Stocks & Managed Futures ETF
Where it sitsCore fundAlternatives ETF
IssueriSharesReturn Stacked
What it isTracks the S&P 500Managed futures
Total return, 1 year+16.6%+37.1%
S&P 500 over the same days+16.6%+16.6%
Gap to the S&P 5000.0 pts+20.5 pts
Expense ratio0.03%0.99%
Holdings508not filed
Net assets$846.6bn$415m

IVV in plain words

IVV tracks the S&P 500. Over the year to Sep 18, 2026 it returned +16.6% 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. By its holdings published by its issuer for Sep 18, 2026, 100% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 508 positions, with the top ten at 38.5%.

RSST in plain words

RSST 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 +0.87 with the S&P 500’s and a beta of +1.30, so for each 1% the index moved it moved about 1.30% the same way. The S&P 500 fell in 22 of those 52 weeks, by 1.24% on average. In the same weeks RSST fell 1.32% on average, a down-week capture of 106.4%. Over the same 52 weeks RSST returned +35.9% and a Treasury bill fund +3.6%, so it finished 32.3 percentage points ahead of cash.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, IVV or RSST?
In the year to Sep 19, 2026, with distributions reinvested, IVV returned +16.6% and RSST returned +37.1%, so RSST returned more.
Which is cheaper, IVV or RSST?
IVV charges 0.03% a year and RSST charges 0.99%, so IVV is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
Are IVV and RSST the same kind of fund?
No. IVV is an index ETF and RSST 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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