ETF comparison
BIV vs PAAA
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · PGIM AAA CLO ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BIV and PAAA would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
BIV is 16 bps cheaper than PAAA. On a $100,000 position that's about $160/yr more in fees for PAAA.
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 BIV vs PAAA.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in BIV
2,355 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.14%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.14%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.13%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.10%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.10%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.08%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.08%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.04%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.04%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.02%
Only in PAAA
329 total- CBAMR LTD 1.92%
- Regatta XXVII Funding Ltd / Regatta XXVII Funding LLC 1.58%
- ELEVATION CLO 2021-12 LTD 1.13%
- OCTAGON INVESTMENT PARTNERS 31 LTD 1.04%
- Cbam 2020-13 Ltd. 0.99%
- ELMWOOD CLO 25 LTD 0.99%
- NEUBERGER BERMAN LOAN ADVISERS CLO 33 LTD 0.96%
- RR 27 LTD 0.93%
- AGL CLO I LTD 0.87%
- RAD CLO 25 LTD 0.80%
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- BIV vs SPMB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Mortgage Backed Bond ETF 0.0%
- BIV vs TIP · iShares TIPS Bond ETF 0.0%
- BIV vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
More comparisons with PAAA
- PAAA vs BLV · Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- PAAA vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- PAAA vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- PAAA vs BSV · Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- PAAA vs CGCP · Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF 0.0%
- PAAA vs DFCF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF 0.0%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
Open BIV or PAAA at a brokerage
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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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.