iShares MSCI Global Min Vol Factor ETF
$124.64−0.50 (−0.40%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.20%
- Fund size
- $3.3B
- 1Y return
- +7.0%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.89%
- Holdings
- 376
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $125.33
- 52W range
The ETF.net ACWV Grade
Score 65 of 100 sits in the B band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.AScore 89Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.DScore 29Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 62Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 75Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 75Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 76Category rank
Our read on ACWV
BGlobal min vol in one ticker: an optimizer sifts the MSCI ACWI universe, developed and emerging, for the lowest-risk mix of roughly 400 stocks. Same playbook since 2011, at 0.20% a year.
The fund seeks to track an index of developed and emerging market equities that collectively exhibit lower volatility than the broader developed and emerging equity markets.
Why people hold it
- 0.20% a year for a globally optimized factor build, well under the 0.41% median for international factor ETFs.
- Not a simple low-vol screen. The index optimizes the MSCI ACWI for the lowest absolute risk within a set of constraints, so how stocks move together shapes the weights.msci.com
- One ticker for the whole map. The developed-only sibling EFAV charges the same 0.20%; ACWV folds emerging markets into the same wrapper.
- Running since 2011 with billions in assets, it sits among the stronger implementations in its international factor peer group.
Worth knowing
- Minimum volatility is the aim, not a floor. iShares states the fund may experience more than minimum volatility, with no guarantee the index strategy lowers it.ishares.com
- Emerging markets ride along inside this defensive build, bringing the political and economic swings iShares flags as heightened in those markets.ishares.com
- By design it leans away from the cap-weighted world index, so its country and sector mix can look quite different and its path can diverge in either direction.msci.com
ACWV Holdings
- Stocks
- 376
- 12%
- JNJ
Sectors
- Technology25.1%
- Financials14.2%
- Health Care13.5%
- Communication11.0%
- Cons. Staples9.6%
- Industrials8.1%
- Utilities7.1%
- Consumer Discr.5.0%
- Energy4.5%
- Materials1.2%
- Real Estate0.8%
Geography
- United States55.47%
- Japan10.54%
- China5.93%
- Taiwan4.70%
- India3.97%
- Switzerland3.00%
- Canada1.49%
- Netherlands1.41%
- 13.48%
Developed 55% · Emerging 45%
ACWV Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | ACWV |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +6.3% |
| 1 month | −1.6% |
| 3 months | +4.9% |
| 1 year | +7.0% |
| 3 years | +11.4% |
| 5 years | +5.9% |
| 10 years | +7.3% |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | ACWV |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +6.3% | |
| 2025 | +11.0% | |
| 2024 | +11.4% | |
| 2023 | +8.3% | |
| 2022 | −10.3% | |
| 2021 | +14.0% | |
| 2020 | +3.0% |
ACWV in the news
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ACWV Dividends
- 1.89%
- $2.36
- $1.07 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $1.07 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $1.30 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $1.18 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $1.63 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.91 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $1.55 |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Jun 13, 2023 | $0.87 |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Dec 19, 2022 | $1.20 |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Jun 15, 2022 | $0.87 |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Dec 17, 2021 | $1.13 |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Jun 16, 2021 | $0.95 |
| Dec 14, 2020 | Dec 18, 2020 | $0.79 |
ACWV Risk
- 8.2%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 0.86
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −18.1%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 0.48
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
ACWV Cost
- The middle half of International Factor Index funds
- Median 0.38%
No International Factor Index fund charges less.