iShares Core 40/60 Moderate Allocation ETF
$49.17−0.47 (−0.94%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.20%
- Fund size
- $1.9B
- 1Y return
- +7.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.06%
- Volume · 30D
- 0.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $49.57
- 52W range
The ETF.net AOM Grade
Score 79 of 100 sits in the A 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 80Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 100Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 66Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 46Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 100Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 76Category rank
Our read on AOM
AOne ticker, one global portfolio, bond-heavy by design. AOM has tracked S&P's moderate target-risk index since 2008, holding a basket of stock and bond funds and letting the index set the 40/60 mix.
The Fund seeks to track an index composed of underlying equity and fixed income funds intended to represent a moderate target-risk allocation strategy.
Why people hold it
- Costs 0.20% a year against a 0.29% median for its moderate-allocation peers, and that one fee covers the whole multi-asset package.
- Plain index plumbing: it holds underlying equity and bond funds to mirror the S&P Target Risk Moderate Index, and it is one of the cleaner implementations in its peer group.ishares.com
- Launched November 2008, in the teeth of the financial crisis, and now a multi-billion-dollar iShares fund that pays quarterly.
- Global by mandate, stocks and bonds both, so the rebalancing chore belongs to the index rather than your calendar.
Worth knowing
- The 40/60 name is literal: bonds carry the bigger share, so rates matter more here than in equity-led blends. Sibling AOR runs a 60/40 tilt at the same 0.20%.
- It is a fund of funds. The index chooses the building blocks and their weights, so you inherit that mix instead of dialing your own.ishares.com
- Moderately traded rather than one of the market's busiest ETFs, so spreads are worth a glance on larger orders.
AOM Holdings
- Other
- —
- 11%
- BLK Liquidity Temp Cash Inst #21
Sectors
- Technology30.0%
- Financials16.7%
- Industrials11.2%
- Consumer Discr.8.8%
- Health Care8.5%
- Communication7.3%
- Cons. Staples4.6%
- Materials4.2%
- Energy4.1%
- Utilities2.4%
- Real Estate2.2%
Geography
- United States73.39%
- Japan3.70%
- China2.54%
- United Kingdom2.14%
- Canada1.95%
- France1.63%
- Germany1.57%
- Taiwan (Province of China)1.30%
- 11.79%
Developed 68% · Emerging 32%
AOM 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 | AOM |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +5.5% |
| 1 month | −0.3% |
| 3 months | +0.3% |
| 1 year | +7.6% |
| 3 years | +11.5% |
| 5 years | +4.6% |
| 10 years | +6.0% |
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 | AOM |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +5.5% | |
| 2025 | +13.3% | |
| 2024 | +7.9% | |
| 2023 | +12.4% | |
| 2022 | −14.5% | |
| 2021 | +6.9% | |
| 2020 | +10.0% |
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AOM Dividends
- 3.06%
- $1.52
- $0.41 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 2026 | Jul 8, 2026 | $0.41 |
| Apr 2, 2026 | Apr 8, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Dec 23, 2025 | Dec 29, 2025 | $0.53 |
| Oct 2, 2025 | Oct 7, 2025 | $0.27 |
| Jul 2, 2025 | Jul 8, 2025 | $0.37 |
| Apr 2, 2025 | Apr 7, 2025 | $0.25 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.53 |
| Oct 2, 2024 | Oct 7, 2024 | $0.26 |
| Jul 2, 2024 | Jul 8, 2024 | $0.34 |
| Apr 2, 2024 | Apr 8, 2024 | $0.22 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.45 |
| Oct 3, 2023 | Oct 10, 2023 | $0.22 |
AOM Risk
- 7.1%
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.
- 0.83
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.
- −20.0%
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.
- 0.77
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
AOM Cost
- 0.20%