IWF: iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF

What does IWF hold?#

This fund owns large and medium sized US companies that are growing faster than average. Many of them are big technology companies. A few very large companies make up a big part of the fund.

It tracks the Russell 1000 Growth Index. It had 372 holdings as of October 15, 2026, according to iShares (BlackRock).

What is the IWF expense ratio?#

IWF charges 0.18% a year. An expense ratio is the yearly fee a fund takes to run itself. On $10,000, a 0.18% fee comes to about $18 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 IWF done since 2000?#

From May 2000 to October 2026, IWF returned about 8.3% a year. Say you put in $10,000 at the start. It would have been worth about $81,534 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.

IWF returns by year#

What was IWF’s worst drop?#

A drawdown is how far a fund falls from its last high point. IWF’s worst fall was −64.2%, from July 17, 2000 to March 9, 2009. It got back to that high on September 18, 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 IWF?#

No classic strategy holds IWF yet. You can add it to your own rules in the builder and see how they would have done.

How does IWF compare with similar ETFs?#

Funds that can stand in for IWF:

• VONG: Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth ETF, 0.06% a year
• VUG: Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF, 0.03% a year
• SCHG: Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF, 0.04% a year
• SPYG: State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Growth ETF, 0.04% a year

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

Test IWF 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 IWF, 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 IWF. 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 17, 2026. Read what a backtest simulates and how to read drawdown and CAGR for more on these measures.