Which returned more over the last year, RAAX or URTH?

In the year to Nov 4, 2026, with distributions reinvested, RAAX returned +16.5% and URTH +15.2%.

Which is cheaper, RAAX or URTH?

URTH is cheaper, by 0.31 percentage points a year. That is about $31 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

How much do RAAX and URTH overlap with the S&P 500?

By their latest filed holdings, 21% of RAAX and 69% of URTH by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

Data as of Nov 4, 2026.

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RAAX vs URTH: Differences, Returns & Fees

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Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, RAAX returned +16.5% to URTH's +15.2%; 11% of their weight is in the same names.

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Net assets: $1.4bn on Nov 3, 2026 for VanEck Real Assets ETF, and $9.4bn on Nov 4, 2026 for iShares MSCI World ETF.

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At a glance

+16.5%

RAAX total return, 1 year

+15.2%

URTH total return, 1 year

0.55%

RAAX expense ratio

0.24%

URTH expense ratio

Pair scorecard

URTH costs 0.31 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 1.3 points; URTH is 6.5 times larger.

RAAX vs URTH: Differences, Returns & Fees
Measure	RAAX	URTH
Return
Measure	RAAX	URTH
Total return, 1 year	+16.5%	+15.2%
Drawdown
Measure	RAAX	URTH
Below its high	9.2%, high on May 11, 2026
Benchmark
Measure	RAAX	URTH
What it tracks	No index, actively managed	MSCI World Index
Cost and size
Measure	RAAX	URTH
Expense ratio	0.55%	0.24%
Net assets, as of Nov 3, 2026	$1.4bn	$9.1bn
Holdings
Measure	RAAX	URTH
Holdings in common	11%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	52.4%	26.5%

Method

What they share

11%

By the books each fund has filed, RAAX and URTH hold 11% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Holdings dated Nov 3, 2026.

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Positions both hold · largest shared weight first RAAX URTH

Exxon Mobil Corp 2.13% 0.82%

Chevron Corp 1.82% 0.46%

Caterpillar Inc 0.27% 0.32%

Linde Plc 0.54% 0.26%

Bhp Group Ltd 0.22% 0.22%

Conocophillips 0.55% 0.20%

Nextera Energy Inc 0.60% 0.20%

Shell Plc 0.20% 0.34%

Union Pacific Corp 0.63% 0.20%

General Aerospace Co 0.19% 0.37%

Welltower Inc 0.59% 0.19%

Deere & Co 0.75% 0.18%

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Only in RAAX

VanEck Commodity Strategy ETF 25.04%

VanEck Merk Gold Shares 17.78%

Enterprise Products Partners Lp 0.52%

Energy Transfer Lp 0.50%

Mplx Lp 0.49%

Dt Midstream Inc 0.31%

E.On Se 0.26%

Prysmian Spa 0.26%

Only in URTH

APPLE 5.44%

MICROSOFT 4.10%

AMAZON.COM INC 2.70%

ALPHABET CLASS A 1.83%

BROADCOM INC 1.67%

META PLATFORMS CLASS A 1.52%

ALPHABET CLASS C 1.45%

ELI LILLY 1.26%

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Side by side

RAAX VanEck Real Assets ETF URTH iShares MSCI World ETF

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer VanEck iShares

What it is Actively managed Tracks the MSCI World

Total return, 1 year +16.5% +15.2%

Its benchmark over the same days not measured +15.0% (ACWI)

Gap to its benchmark not measured +0.2 pts vs ACWI

Expense ratio 0.55% 0.24%

Already in the S&P 500 21.0% 69.1%

Holdings 199 1254

Net assets, RAAX as of Nov 3, 2026 and URTH as of Nov 4, 2026 $1.4bn $9.4bn

RAAX and URTH on the fields both publish, as of Nov 4, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

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About each fund

RAAX

RAAX is actively managed and tracks no index. Over the year to Nov 4, 2026 it returned +16.5% with distributions reinvested. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.55% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Nov 3, 2026, 21% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 199 positions, with the top ten at 52.4%. It sat 9.2% below its high of May 11, 2026 on Nov 4, 2026.

URTH

URTH tracks the MSCI World. Over the year to Nov 4, 2026 it returned +15.2% with distributions reinvested, against +15.0% 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 Nov 3, 2026, 69% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 1,254 positions, with the top ten at 26.5%.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, RAAX or URTH?: In the year to Nov 4, 2026, with distributions reinvested, RAAX returned +16.5% and URTH +15.2%.
Which is cheaper, RAAX or URTH?: URTH is cheaper, by 0.31 percentage points a year. That is about $31 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do RAAX and URTH overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 21% of RAAX and 69% of URTH by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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Sources and dates

RAAX filings on SEC EDGAR ↗

RAAX prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

VanEck website ↗

URTH filings on SEC EDGAR ↗

URTH prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

iShares page for URTH ↗

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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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