URTH: iShares MSCI World ETF

What does URTH hold?#

This fund owns large and medium sized companies in rich countries around the world, including the United States. It does not hold emerging markets like China or India. Its value also moves with foreign currencies.

It tracks the MSCI World Index (Net). It had 1,252 holdings as of October 15, 2026, according to iShares (BlackRock).

What is the URTH expense ratio?#

URTH charges 0.24% a year. An expense ratio is the yearly fee a fund takes to run itself. On $10,000, a 0.24% fee comes to about $24 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 URTH done since 2012?#

From January 2012 to October 2026, URTH returned about 12.1% a year. Say you put in $10,000 at the start. It would have been worth about $53,988 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.

URTH returns by year#

What was URTH’s worst drop?#

A drawdown is how far a fund falls from its last high point. URTH’s worst fall was −34.0%, from February 12, 2020 to March 23, 2020. It got back to that high on August 24, 2020.

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 URTH?#

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

• Global Risk Parity Trend-Following (Clare et al.), by Andrew Clare, James Seaton, Peter N. Smith, and Stephen Thomas, 2016

How does URTH compare with similar ETFs?#

Funds that can stand in for URTH:

• VT: Vanguard Total World Stock ETF, 0.06% a year
• AVGE: Avantis All Equity Markets ETF, 0.23% a year
• ACWI: iShares MSCI ACWI ETF, 0.32% a year
• VEU: Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US ETF, 0.04% a year

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

Test URTH 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 URTH, 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 URTH. 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.