Vert Global Sustainable Real Estate ETF
$10.86−0.12 (−1.05%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.51%
- Fund size
- $494M
- 1Y return
- +6.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.42%
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $10.96
- 52W range
The ETF.net VGSR Grade
Score 44 of 100 sits in the C 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.DScore 29Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 56Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 65Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 39Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 57Category rank
Our read on VGSR
CVert is a one-fund shop: this screened global real estate portfolio is the firm's whole business, and Dimensional Fund Advisors sits in the sub-adviser seat. It started life as a mutual fund in 2017 and converted to ETF shares in 2023.
The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation through an actively managed portfolio of sustainable real estate companies.
Why people hold it
- 0.51% a year for an actively managed global property portfolio, under the 0.65% median for active US equity ETFs.
- A boutique sustainability shop writes the rules and Dimensional Fund Advisors sub-advises, bringing a large-firm trading and portfolio management desk to a small fund.vertfunds.comsec.gov
- The record predates the ticker: launched as a mutual fund in 2017, reorganized into an ETF in December 2023 with the same adviser, sub-adviser and strategy.vertfunds.com
- US and non-US property companies in one wrapper, with cash paid out quarterly.
Worth knowing
- This is one sector, globally. Landlord stocks answer to interest rates and credit conditions, so the ride differs from a broad equity fund.
- Sustainability screens leave out part of the global REIT universe, so results can drift from plain real estate benchmarks in either direction.sec.gov
- Volume is moderate rather than heavy, which makes limit orders and a glance at the spread worth the extra click.
VGSR Holdings
- Stocks
- —
- 46%
- EQIX
Geography
- United States69.64%
- Australia8.33%
- Japan5.75%
- United Kingdom5.41%
- France3.01%
- Singapore2.98%
- Belgium1.49%
- Canada0.98%
- 2.40%
Developed 97% · Emerging 3%
VGSR 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 | VGSR |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +7.4% |
| 1 month | −4.8% |
| 3 months | −2.8% |
| 1 year | +6.1% |
| 3 years | — |
| 5 years | — |
| 10 years | — |
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 | VGSR |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +7.4% | |
| 2025 | +6.3% | |
| 2024 | +5.5% | |
| 2023 | +7.1% |
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VGSR Dividends
- 3.42%
- $0.38
- $0.10 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 26, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 27, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.07 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 26, 2025 | $0.12 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 27, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 28, 2025 | $0.06 |
| Dec 30, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.06 |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.09 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.09 |
| Mar 27, 2024 | Mar 29, 2024 | $0.14 |
| Dec 27, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.26 |
VGSR Risk
- 13.6%
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.
- 0.34
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.
- −18.3%
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.
- 1.03
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VGSR Cost
- The middle half of Global & International Real Estate funds
- Median 0.50%
11 of the 17 Global & International Real Estate funds charge less.