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URTH vs VTIP: Differences, Returns & Fees

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Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, URTH returned +13.1% to VTIP's +2.2%; 0% of their weight is in the same names.

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Net assets: $8.9bn on Oct 28, 2026 for iShares MSCI World ETF, and $20.9bn on Sep 30, 2026 for Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares.

URTH on its own →VTIP on its own →
At a glance
+13.1%
URTH total return, 1 year
+2.2%
VTIP total return, 1 year
0.24%
URTH expense ratio
0.03%
VTIP expense ratio

Pair scorecard

VTIP costs 0.21 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 10.9 points; VTIP is 2.5 times larger.

URTH vs VTIP: Differences, Returns & Fees
MeasureURTHVTIP
Return
Total return, 1 year+13.1%+2.2%
Benchmark
What it tracksMSCI World IndexBloomberg U.S. Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) 0-5 Years Index
Cost and size
Expense ratio0.24%0.03%
Net assets, as of Sep 30, 2026$8.2bn$20.9bn
Holdings
Holdings in common0%
In the S&P 500, by weight69%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund27.2%

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

What they share

0%

By the books each fund has filed, URTH 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 URTH VTIP
Only in one fund ↓
Only in URTH
APPLE 5.60%
NVIDIA 5.50%
MICROSOFT 4.12%
AMAZON.COM INC 2.69%
ALPHABET CLASS A 2.07%
BROADCOM INC 1.70%
ALPHABET CLASS C 1.62%
META PLATFORMS CLASS A 1.49%
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 5.22%
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

URTH iShares MSCI World ETF VTIP Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares
Where it sits Stock ETF Bond ETF
Issuer iShares Vanguard
What it is Tracks the MSCI World Tracks an index of Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities
Total return, 1 year +13.1% +2.2%
Its benchmark over the same days +13.4% (ACWI) not measured
Gap to its benchmark −0.3 pts vs ACWI not measured
Expense ratio 0.24% 0.03%
Holdings 1254 26
Net assets, URTH as of Oct 28, 2026 and VTIP as of Sep 30, 2026 $8.9bn $20.9bn

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

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About each fund
URTH

URTH tracks the MSCI World. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 it returned +13.1% with distributions reinvested, against +13.4% 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 Oct 27, 2026, 69% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 1,254 positions, with the top ten at 27.2%.

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, URTH or VTIP?
In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, URTH returned +13.1% and VTIP +2.2%.
Which is cheaper, URTH or VTIP?
VTIP is cheaper, by 0.21 percentage points a year. That is about $21 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
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Sources and dates
URTH filings on SEC EDGAR ↗
URTH prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗
iShares page for URTH ↗
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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