1 day ago - Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF (NYSEMKT:BSV) and iShares Core 1-5 Year USD Bond ETF (NASDAQ:ISTB) both target the 1–5 year U.S.

January 19, 2006 - SPDRs, Vanguard ETFs, and iShares ... options. iShares by BlackRock provides over 400 funds across global markets, while Vanguard (formerly known as VIPERS) offers more than 380 ETFs covering diverse indexes and sectors...

October 6, 2025 - Vanguard: Known for its low-cost structure, which helps minimize the tracking difference. iShares: Has a broader variety of ETFs, including synthetic and optimized strategies, which may cause slightly higher tracking differences in some cases.

October 1, 2024 - Since we use both Vanguard and iShares by BlackRock Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) extensively, one of my pleasures over the last few years has been seeing each company try to outdo the other by lowering costs. As they continue to lower costs, they gather more and more investments.

Vanguard ETF Shares are not redeemable with the issuing Fund other than in very large aggregations worth millions of dollars. Instead, investors must buy and sell Vanguard ETF Shares in the secondary market and hold those shares in a brokerage account.

September 11, 2025 - Two popular ETFs used for US exposure are iShares S&P 500 ETF ( ASX:IVV) and Vanguard US Total Market Shares ETF (

August 1, 2024 - To be honest, they are both great ... lower MER and Vanguard beats iShares in the number of all-in-one ETFs you can choose from as well as offers a bit more exposure to US bonds and emerging markets....

4 days ago - Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF reports fewer line items due to sampling but still owns thousands of bonds, while iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF offers much broader diversification.

February 24, 2025 - As far as differences, first and most obviously, they’re ETFs rather than traditional mutual funds. That means you can get commission-free access to the iShares Core Allocation funds at most brokerage firms, whereas generally you must have an account with Vanguard in order to buy the LifeStrategy funds without paying a commission.

It recently did that for investors in its Dividend Appreciation ETF by lowering the expense ratio to 0.05%. That makes it even cheaper than the iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF, which has a 0.08% expense ratio.

My challenge is that IRTR has total assets of about $15.4 million and the Vanguard fund has $35.2 billion. Clearly, the Vanguard fund isn't going to be shut down anytime soon. The iShares fund was launched in late 2023 and seems to have attracted barely any assets at all.

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4 days ago - Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF reports fewer line items due to sampling but still owns thousands of bonds, while iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF offers much broader diversification.

4 days ago - Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF reports fewer line items due to sampling but still owns thousands of bonds, while iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF offers much broader diversification.

1 week ago - Seeks to achieve its investment objective by primarily investing in equity securities. The Vanguard ETF may do so either directly or indirectly through investment in one or more exchange-traded funds managed by the manager or an affiliate or certain other investment funds (Underlying Funds).

2 weeks ago - The fund's sector allocation is heavily tilted toward cash and others, which may reflect a very diversified but less concentrated approach. Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF, in contrast, is much more concentrated with 2,554 holdings.

3 weeks ago - Both the iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF (IEI +0.22%) and the Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury ETF (VGIT +0.25%) aim to give investors exposure to U.S. Treasury bonds with moderate interest rate risk.

3 weeks ago - Both funds aim to cover the entire U.S. stock market, spanning large-, mid-, and small-cap stocks across all sectors. This match-up compares two of the lowest-cost, broadest index ETFs—ITOT from iShares and VTI from Vanguard—helping investors weigh subtle differences in scale, liquidity, and structure.