ETF comparison
ACWX vs IEFA
International Total vs International Developed.
Holdings overlap
674 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ACWX and IEFA would leave roughly 59.5% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
IEFA is 25 bps cheaper than ACWX. On a $100,000 position that's about $250/yr more in fees for ACWX.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with ACWX vs IEFA.
Top shared holdings
674 shared in total| # | Holding | In ACWX | In IEFA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding N.V. | 1.73% | 2.50% | 1.73% |
| 2 | HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 0.98% | 1.42% | 0.98% |
| 3 | Roche Holding AG | 0.83% | 1.20% | 0.83% |
| 4 | Novartis AG | 0.77% | 1.12% | 0.77% |
| 5 | ASTRAZENECA PLC | 0.70% | 1.00% | 0.70% |
| 6 | Nestle S.A. | 0.70% | 1.00% | 0.70% |
| 7 | SHELL PLC | 0.69% | 1.00% | 0.69% |
| 8 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | 0.66% | 0.95% | 0.66% |
| 9 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 0.65% | 0.93% | 0.65% |
| 10 | BHP GROUP LIMITED | 0.58% | 0.83% | 0.58% |
| 11 | COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA | 0.57% | 0.82% | 0.57% |
| 12 | Banco Santander, S.A. | 0.56% | 0.79% | 0.56% |
Only in ACWX
1,195 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 4.93%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 2.20%
- SK hynix Inc. 1.70%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 1.02%
- ROYAL BANK OF CANADA 0.79%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 0.69%
- THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK 0.54%
- MediaTek Inc. 0.42%
- SHOPIFY INC. 0.39%
- BANK OF MONTREAL 0.33%
Only in IEFA
1,939 total- DIPLOMA PLC 0.05%
- BEAZLEY PLC 0.04%
- IMI PLC 0.04%
- KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATION 0.04%
- BLUESCOPE STEEL LIMITED 0.04%
- WEIR GROUP PLC(THE) 0.04%
- STOREBRAND ASA 0.03%
- Niterra Co., Ltd. 0.03%
- Mebuki Financial Group, Inc. 0.03%
- PSP Swiss Property AG 0.03%
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- ACWX vs DFIV · Dimensional International Value ETF 24.7%
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- ACWX vs VEU · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Index Fund ETF Shares 88.9%
More comparisons with IEFA
- IEFA vs VGK · Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF 59.4%
- IEFA vs VEU · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Index Fund ETF Shares 57.8%
- IEFA vs CWI · State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF 57.0%
- IEFA vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 56.3%
- IEFA vs DFIC · Dimensional International Core Equity 2 ETF 55.5%
- IEFA vs JIRE · JPMorgan International Research Enhanced Equity ETF 54.6%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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