| COWZ | |
|---|---|
| Total return | +226.0% |
| Annualised (CAGR) | +12.8% |
| Volatility (annualised) | +18.7% |
| Sharpe (rf = 0) | 0.69 |
| Deepest drawdown | -38.6% |
| Drawdown peak → trough | 2020-01-17 → 2020-03-23 |
| Dividend yield (12m distributions) | 2.03% (as of 2026-09-29) |
| Rebalancing (from its prospectus) | Quarterly |
Rebalancing: per the fund's prospectus summary, its index is rebalanced quarterly. That schedule is set by the index provider, not by a view on where the market is going — and it says nothing about how often you should rebalance a portfolio; that side is covered in how often index funds rebalance.
Over the 9.8 years to 2026-09-29 the fund returned +226.0% in total (+12.8% a year), with a deepest drawdown of -38.6% from 2020-01-17 to 2020-03-23. Its worst calendar year was 2018 (-10.0%), its best 2021 (+42.6%).
| Year | COWZ |
|---|---|
| 2026 | +12.4% |
| 2025 | +9.0% |
| 2024 | +10.6% |
| 2023 | +14.7% |
| 2022 | +0.2% |
| 2021 | +42.6% |
| 2020 | +11.7% |
| 2019 | +23.4% |
| 2018 | -10.0% |
| 2017 | +20.2% |
| 2016 | -1.6% |
+226.0% in total, which works out to +12.8% a year over the 10 years to 2026-09-29. Both figures assume dividends were reinvested and the fund's own fees were already deducted, so they are what an investor would have kept — before tax.
2018 — its calendar-year return was -10.0% (net of fees, dividends reinvested). Its best year was 2021 (+42.6%).
-38.6%, from a peak on 2020-01-17 to a trough on 2020-03-23. From that trough it took 232 days (about 7.6 months) to climb back to the earlier peak.
Over the last 12 months it distributed 2.03% of its share price (as of 2026-09-29). That is a past distribution, not a promise of future income, and it is already counted in every return figure on this page.
It does not say COWZ is a good or bad fund, and it is not a forecast. Returns above are history: they already include dividends and already exclude the fund's own fees. A drawdown of -38.6% means an investor who bought at the peak would have watched that much value disappear before it recovered — how long that takes is the part most tables leave out.