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VUAA vs AVWC: which ETF won each year?

Yearly returns side by side, one winner per year — dividends included, priced as you'd actually buy them.

Every figure here is in euros — what you'd actually pocket buying on Xetra. Fund fact sheets usually headline returns in US dollars, which can look very different: in 2025 a world tracker rose about 23% in dollars but only about 9% in euros, because the euro gained roughly 13% against the dollar. Here's the full story, year by year.

Fund A
Vanguard logoVUAA
Fund B
AvantisAVWC

VUAA tracks the S&P 500 Index

What did the last 1 years do to €10,000?

You invest €10,000 at the start of the window and touch nothing — dividends reinvested, the running year not counted. Both funds are measured over the same 1 full years (2025–2025) — the longest stretch both were trading.

VUAA turned it into
€10,428
+4.28% per year on average · 2025–2025
AVWC turned it into
€10,908
+9.08% per year on average · 2025–2025
Difference
−€480
AVWC made more of the same money

VUAA vs AVWC, year by year

Calendar-year total returns (dividends included) side by side, and who took the crown each year. A dash means the fund did not exist yet.

Years compared
3
where both funds were trading
VUAA won
1
years
AVWC won
2
years
YearVUAAAVWCWinner
2026 (so far)+12.01%+16.36%AVWC
2025+4.28%+9.08%AVWC
2024+33.65%+2.94%VUAA
2023+22.10%——
2022-14.58%——
2021+42.09%——

VUAA vs AVWC in plain words

VUAA tracks the S&P 500 Index while AVWC follows the Avantis Global Equity strategy, so they own different slices of the market and their years can look very different. VUAA charges 0.07% a year in running costs and AVWC charges 0.22% — VUAA is the cheaper fund to hold.

Both are accumulating funds: dividends are reinvested inside the fund and show up as a higher share price, never as a payout. Across the 3 calendar years both funds were trading, VUAA finished the year ahead 1 times and AVWC 2 times. €10,000 invested at the start of 2025 was worth €10,428 in VUAA versus €10,908 in AVWC by the end of 2025, dividends reinvested.

VUAA also trades in USD on the London Stock Exchange, where VUAG is its GBP line, ISIN IE00BFMXXD54 — VUSA is its distributing sibling. This page follows the EUR line.

Actively managed: it tilts a broad developed-market portfolio towards cheaper, more profitable and smaller companies rather than following an index, and measures itself against the MSCI World IMI.

Fund facts: VUAA vs AVWC

FactVUAAAVWC
FundVanguard S&P 500 UCITS ETF (Acc)Avantis Global Equity UCITS ETF USD Acc
TracksS&P 500 IndexAvantis Global Equity strategy
Yearly cost (TER)0.07%0.22%
DividendsAccumulating — dividends reinvestedAccumulating — dividends reinvested
Launched14 May 201925 Sept 2024
ISINIE00BFMXXD54IE000RJECXS5
WKNA2PFN2A40GB8

Frequently asked

Is VUAA or AVWC better?

Across the 3 calendar years both funds were trading, VUAA finished the year ahead 1 times and AVWC 2 times. €10,000 invested at the start of 2025 was worth €10,428 in VUAA versus €10,908 in AVWC by the end of 2025, dividends reinvested. Past returns don't promise future ones — but this is what actually happened.

What is the difference between VUAA and AVWC?

VUAA tracks the S&P 500 Index while AVWC follows the Avantis Global Equity strategy, so they own different slices of the market and their years can look very different. VUAA charges 0.07% a year in running costs and AVWC charges 0.22% — VUAA is the cheaper fund to hold. Both are accumulating funds: dividends are reinvested inside the fund and show up as a higher share price, never as a payout.

What would €10,000 in VUAA have become?

€10,000 invested in VUAA at the start of 2025 grew to €10,428 by the end of 2025, with dividends reinvested — an average of 4.3% per year.

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