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Fidelity Funds - Sustainable Water & Waste Fund vs VanEck Sustainable World Equal Weight

Fidelity Funds - Sustainable Water & Waste Fund tracks MSCI ACWI NR USD and VanEck Sustainable World Equal Weight tracks MarketGrader Sustainable World Equal Weight. They are realistic alternatives for the same slot in a portfolio, but because the indices are different nobody can tell you in advance which will return more. What can be compared objectively is the cost, the replication method, the domicile and how each one is structured — and that is what this page does.

What each one tracks

This is the underlying difference: they do not follow the same index, so their returns will diverge.

Fidelity Funds - Sustainable Water & Waste Fund

MSCI ACWI NR USD

VanEck Sustainable World Equal Weight

MarketGrader Sustainable World Equal Weight

Comparison

Fidelity Funds - Sustainable Water & Waste FundVanEck Sustainable World Equal Weight
IndexMSCI ACWI NR USDMarketGrader Sustainable World Equal Weight
TER1.90%0.30%
Hist. return*~7%~8%
ReplicationPhysicalPhysical
DistributionAccumulatingAccumulating
DomicileLuxemburgoIrlanda
CurrencyEURUSD
Risk4/74/7
ISINLU1892829828NL0010408704

What the fee gap actually costs

Applying the SAME 7% gross return to both and contributing €300/month, the only thing moving the result is the TER. This is not a return forecast: it is how much the fee weighs.

HorizonFidelity Funds - Sustainable Water & Waste FundVanEck Sustainable World Equal WeightDifference
10 years€47,034€51,362€4,328
20 years€125,274€151,549€26,275
30 years€255,427€346,974€91,547

VanEck Sustainable World Equal Weight is the cheaper of the two. Remember they track different indices: cost is one factor, not the verdict.

Nobody can know which will perform better: they track different indices and past performance is not a prediction. What is objective today is the cost, the replication, the domicile and the distribution policy.

Fidelity

Fidelity Funds - Sustainable Water & Waste Fund

VanEck

VanEck Sustainable World Equal Weight

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Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between Fidelity Funds - Sustainable Water & Waste Fund and VanEck Sustainable World Equal Weight?+

They track different indices: Fidelity Funds - Sustainable Water & Waste Fund follows MSCI ACWI NR USD and VanEck Sustainable World Equal Weight follows MarketGrader Sustainable World Equal Weight. They also differ in cost (1.90% vs 0.30% TER), replication (physical vs physical) and domicile (Luxemburgo vs Irlanda).

Which one will perform better?+

Nobody can know that: they track different indices, so their returns will diverge, and past index performance is not a prediction. What you can control today is the cost, the tax structure and whether the index actually covers what you want exposure to.

Which one is cheaper?+

VanEck Sustainable World Equal Weight has the lower annual fee. Applying the same 7% gross return to both with €300/month, that fee gap alone is worth about €26,275 after 20 years — that part is arithmetic, not a forecast.

Accumulating or distributing?+

Both are accumulating, so on this point there is no difference between them.

Can I hold both?+

Yes. Unlike two funds tracking the identical index, these give you genuinely different exposure, so holding both is not automatically redundant — just be aware you may end up overlapping on the largest companies and doubling your rebalancing work.

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