ACWI: iShares MSCI ACWI ETF

What does ACWI hold?#

This fund owns large and medium sized companies all over the world, in both rich and emerging countries. The United States is the biggest part. One share gives you a slice of the global stock market.

It tracks the MSCI All Country World Index (Net). It had 2,197 holdings as of October 15, 2026, according to iShares (BlackRock).

What is the ACWI expense ratio?#

ACWI charges 0.32% a year. An expense ratio is the yearly fee a fund takes to run itself. On $10,000, a 0.32% fee comes to about $32 a year.

You never get a bill for it. The fund takes the fee out of its own value a little each day.

How has ACWI done since 2008?#

From March 2008 to October 2026, ACWI returned about 8.4% a year. Say you put in $10,000 at the start. It would have been worth about $44,511 at the end, with every dividend reinvested.

Prices through October 16, 2026. Figures use daily closing prices adjusted for splits, with dividends reinvested. They do not include taxes or the cost of buying and selling. Past results do not tell you what will happen next.

ACWI returns by year#

What was ACWI’s worst drop?#

A drawdown is how far a fund falls from its last high point. ACWI’s worst fall was −56.3%, from May 16, 2008 to March 9, 2009. It got back to that high on March 6, 2013.

The chart shows how far below its last high the fund was on each day. Big drops are normal for some funds. They matter because selling during a drop locks in the loss.

Which Tactfolio strategies hold ACWI?#

One classic strategy holds ACWI at least some of the time. Each is a set of written rules you can open, test and copy.

• Pragmatic Asset Allocation (Quantpedia’s PAA), by Radovan Vojtko and Juliána Javorská (Quantpedia), 2024

How does ACWI compare with similar ETFs?#

Funds that can stand in for ACWI:

• VT: Vanguard Total World Stock ETF, 0.06% a year
• AVGE: Avantis All Equity Markets ETF, 0.23% a year
• URTH: iShares MSCI World ETF, 0.24% a year
• VEU: Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US ETF, 0.04% a year

See all 8 ACWI alternatives, compared on the same dates as ACWI.

Test ACWI in your own rules#

Tactfolio is a platform where you build rules-based investing strategies, backtest them on decades of real prices, share them, and run them automatically in your own Alpaca account. Open the builder, add ACWI, and see how a rule such as “hold it only above its 200-day average” would have done. Strategies run on daily prices and hold US stocks and ETFs only.

The details#

Prices come from Tactfolio’s stored daily prices for ACWI. Each close is adjusted for splits, and dividends are reinvested on the day the fund pays them out. CAGR is the steady yearly return that turns the starting value into the ending value. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns.

Fund facts come from iShares (BlackRock). We checked them on October 16, 2026. Read what a backtest simulates and how to read drawdown and CAGR for more on these measures.