Vanguard FTSE All-World UCITS ETF (Dist)
Vanguard FTSE All-World UCITS ETF (Dist): what it costs, where it's based, how it tracks FTSE All-World, and how it sits next to the other FTSE All-World funds Europeans hold. The facts, from its own reports, and no verdict.
The facts
- Fee (TER)
- 0.19%
- Domicile
- 🇮🇪 Ireland
- Structure
- Physical (sampled)
- Income
- Distributing
- Size
- €23bn
- Launched
- May 2012
- Securities lending
- Yes
- ISIN
- IE00B3RBWM25
- Provider
- Vanguard
- Primary ticker
- VWRL
- Pays income out
- Lends securities
The original All-World, from 2012: the same fund as VWCE, but it pays its dividends out each quarter.
How far it drifts from the index
- Return 1y
- 26.2%
- Return 3y
- 65.6%
- Return 5y
- 73.1%
Over the period trackingdifferences.com measures, it beat its index by about 0.02% a year, all in. Negative drift is the good kind: after fees, an Irish fund's lower US-dividend tax and a little securities lending can more than cover the running cost.
Returns are total return in euros to 30 June 2026, from justETF, so every fund is measured to the same date. “Vs index” is the average yearly tracking difference against its own index, from trackingdifferences.com (the standard European source); negative means it beat its index.
What the fee costs over time
Held at €100,000 for thirty years, this fund's fee costs roughly €19k more than the cheapest FTSE All-World fund on this shortlist, on fee alone. Put your own pot and horizon in and see it as months of your life:
Accumulating or distributing?
This is the distributing line. It pays its dividends out as cash each period, which some countries tax the year you receive it. Its twin, VWCE, is the accumulating version of the same fund: identical holdings, dividends kept compounding inside.
The other FTSE All-World funds
Same index, so nearly the same holdings. What separates them is fee, domicile and structure, which is the tracking difference above, fund by fund.
| Fund | Fee | Domicile | Vs index |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard FTSE All-World UCITS ETF (Acc)VWCE · Vanguard | 0.19% | 🇮🇪 Ireland | +0.02% |
| Invesco FTSE All-World UCITS ETF (Acc)FWRA · Invesco | 0.15% | 🇮🇪 Ireland | −0.15% |
| Xtrackers FTSE All-World UCITS ETF 1CALLW · Xtrackers (DWS) | 0.07% | 🇮🇪 Ireland | — |
Which line do I buy?
The same share class lists on several exchanges in several currencies. The tickers below are one and the same fund: buying the euro line or the dollar line changes nothing about what you earn. Pick whichever your broker offers cheapest.
- VGWL · Xetra · EUR
- VWRL · Amsterdam · EUR
- VWRD · LSE · USD
Where to buy it
Which broker holds this cheapest for your monthly buy is the broker guide's half, with the yearly cost priced.
Know a figure here that's wrong or out of date? Point me to the line and a source. Every correction gets checked before the yearly refresh. That's how this page stays right.
Report a correctionCommon questions
- Is VWRL accumulating or distributing?
- Distributing. VWRL pays its dividends out as cash, which some countries tax the year you receive it. If you'd rather keep it all compounding untouched, its twin VWCE is the accumulating version of the same fund.
- Where is VWRL domiciled, and does it matter?
- Ireland. Ireland's US tax treaty taxes the fund's US dividends at 15% instead of 30%, so an Irish fund quietly keeps more of them. On a US-heavy index that edge can outweigh a few hundredths of a percent of fee. Your own country's tax on the fund is a separate question, and that's the atlas's job. The whole mechanism, layer by layer, is in the withholding guide.
- Is VWRL's fee good?
- At 0.19% it isn't the cheapest FTSE All-World fund here (the lowest is 0.07%), but fee is only step one. What a fund actually keeps after US dividend tax and lending is the tracking difference above, where a slightly pricier fund sometimes comes out ahead.
- Which VWRL ticker do I actually buy?
- Whichever line your broker offers cheapest. VGWL, VWRL, VWRD are the same share class on different exchanges and currencies: the holdings are identical, and buying the euro line or the dollar line changes nothing about what you earn.
Checked July 2026
The structural facts (fee, domicile, structure, size) are each fund’s own, from its factsheet or KID, checked and cited. The returns come from justETF, a reputable ETF data service, so every fund is measured to the same date on the same basis: the only honest way to compare them. The tracking difference (how each fund actually did against its own index) comes from trackingdifferences.com, the standard European source. I don’t compute any of it myself, and there are still no affiliate links.
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Structural facts from the funds’ own reports, returns via justETF, tracking via trackingdifferences.com. Not a recommendation, and I’m not a licensed adviser. Past returns are not a guide to future ones. Which fund suits you depends on your broker, your account and your country’s tax. Not advice.
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