How often does VWRL pay dividends?
Every quarter. The amount depends on the dividends paid by the index companies during that period.
VWRL: Vanguard FTSE All-World UCITS ETF (Distributing)
VWRL tracks the same index as VWCE, the FTSE All-World, with large and mid-sized companies in developed and emerging markets. The difference is the dividend policy: VWRL pays dividends to investors every quarter. It is the fund's oldest share class, listed since 2012.
Fund data
- ISIN
- IE00B3RBWM25
- Issuer
- Vanguard
- Index
- FTSE All-World
- Dividends
- Distributing (pays out)
- Ongoing charges (TER)
- 0.14%
- Replication
- Physical, sampling
- Number of holdings
- 3,759
- Domicile
- Ireland
- Launch date
- 22 May 2012
- Fund base currency
- USD
- Listing used on this page
- VWRL.AS (EUR)
Market data
1-year return18.4%
2-year return31.4%
Annualised volatility14.0%
Maximum drawdown (2 years)-21.0%
Daily closes from Yahoo Finance in euros (VWRL.AS), data as of 23 October 2026. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
Two-year performance (base 100, in euros)
Drawdown from highs (2 years, in euros)
How far the ETF was below its previous high at each point: the depth and length of the falls a holder would have lived through.
Portfolio, index and costs are the same as VWCE. What changes is what happens to dividends: VWRL pays them into your account and VWCE reinvests them. That is why VWRL's price chart looks weaker: part of its return is paid out as dividends. Dividends are usually taxed in the year they are received.
Comparisons
Frequently asked questions
VWRL or VWCE?
They hold the same portfolio. The choice depends on whether you want to receive dividends or reinvest them automatically, and on how each is taxed where you live.
Why does VWRL's price rise less than VWCE's?
Because it pays dividends out of the fund. Adding back the dividends received, the total return of both is practically the same.