ETF comparison
AVDE vs EWS
Both International Developed.
Avantis International Equity ETF · iShares MSCI Singapore ETF
Holdings overlap
14 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVDE and EWS would leave roughly 1.1% 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
AVDE is 27 bps cheaper than EWS. On a $100,000 position that's about $270/yr more in fees for EWS.
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 AVDE vs EWS.
Top shared holdings
14 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVDE | In EWS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DBS Group Holdings Ltd | 0.25% | 24.02% | 0.25% |
| 2 | Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp Ltd | 0.21% | 20.37% | 0.21% |
| 3 | United Overseas Bank Ltd | 0.16% | 4.26% | 0.16% |
| 4 | Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Holdings Ltd | 0.10% | 4.56% | 0.10% |
| 5 | Keppel Ltd | 0.09% | 3.64% | 0.09% |
| 6 | Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd | 0.08% | 4.92% | 0.08% |
| 7 | Singapore Telecommunications Ltd | 0.06% | 3.90% | 0.06% |
| 8 | Singapore Airlines Ltd | 0.04% | 4.21% | 0.04% |
| 9 | Wilmar International Ltd | 0.02% | 4.41% | 0.02% |
| 10 | Sea Ltd | 0.02% | 3.66% | 0.02% |
| 11 | CapitaLand Investment Ltd/Singapore | 0.02% | 1.13% | 0.02% |
| 12 | Grab Holdings Ltd | 0.01% | 3.63% | 0.01% |
Only in AVDE
3,282 total- ASML Holding NV 1.31%
- Roche Holding AG 0.94%
- Shell PLC 0.83%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.81%
- BHP Group Ltd 0.59%
- Novartis AG 0.54%
- Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA 0.52%
- Safran SA 0.52%
- UBS Group AG 0.50%
- Allianz SE 0.50%
Only in EWS
3 total- SINGAPORE EXCHANGE LIMITED 5.25%
- CapitaLand Ascendas REIT 4.21%
- CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust 2.77%
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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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