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BNDX vs DFCF

International Bond vs US Aggregate Bond.

Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.1 %

19 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BNDX and DFCF would leave roughly 0.1% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

BNDX unmatched 97.8% Shared 0.1% DFCF unmatched 121.6%

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.

In BNDX only
6,799 positions
Shared
19 positions
In DFCF only
1,751 positions

Side by side

BNDX

Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · International Bond

87 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.070%
Net assets
$121.63B
whole fund, 5 share classes
TTM yield
4.65%
Top-10 conc.
3.5%
DFCF

Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF

Dimensional · US Aggregate Bond

78 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.17%
Net assets
$11.41B
TTM yield
4.52%
Top-10 conc.
37.4%

Sub-score comparison

93
Cost
83
51
Tax efficiency
51
100
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
61
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Tracking quality
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BNDX sub-score DFCF

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

BNDX is 10 bps cheaper than DFCF. On a $100,000 position that's about $100/yr more in fees for DFCF.

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 BNDX vs DFCF.

Top shared holdings

19 shared in total
# Holding In BNDX In DFCF Overlap
1 New Zealand Government Bond 0.03% 0.93% 0.03%
2 Japan Government Five Year Bond 0.02% 0.17% 0.02%
3 Japan Government Ten Year Bond 0.01% 0.17% 0.01%
4 Belfius Bank SA 0.01% 0.03% 0.01%
5 Banque Federative du Credit Mutuel SA 0.01% 0.02% 0.01%
6 Japan Government Five Year Bond 0.01% 0.14% 0.01%
7 APA Infrastructure Ltd 0.01% 0.05% 0.01%
8 Digital Dutch Finco BV 0.01% 0.01% 0.01%
9 Svenska Handelsbanken AB 0.00% 0.05% 0.00%
10 Bayer AG 0.00% 0.02% 0.00%
11 Praemia Healthcare SACA 0.00% 0.02% 0.00%
12 Housing New Zealand Ltd 0.00% 0.03% 0.00%

Only in BNDX

6,799 total
  • United Kingdom Gilt 0.41%
  • French Republic Government Bond OAT 0.37%
  • French Republic Government Bond OAT 0.36%
  • United Kingdom Gilt 0.36%
  • United Kingdom Gilt 0.35%
  • United Kingdom Gilt 0.34%
  • French Republic Government Bond OAT 0.33%
  • French Republic Government Bond OAT 0.33%
  • Bundesrepublik Deutschland Bundesanleihe 0.30%
  • United Kingdom Gilt 0.30%

Only in DFCF

1,751 total
  • Federal National Mortgage Association 6.19%
  • Federal National Mortgage Association 5.34%
  • United States of America 4.70%
  • Federal National Mortgage Association 4.10%
  • United States of America 3.07%
  • Government National Mortgage Association 2 3.00%
  • United States of America 2.94%
  • United States of America 2.93%
  • Federal National Mortgage Association 2.85%
  • United States of America 2.25%

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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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