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BNDX vs NYF

International Bond vs US Municipal Bond.

Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · iShares New York Muni Bond ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BNDX and NYF would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

BNDX unmatched 98.0% Shared 0.0% NYF unmatched 99.8%

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
6,818 positions
Shared
0 positions
In NYF only
884 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%
NYF

iShares New York Muni Bond ETF

iShares · US Municipal Bond

86 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.090%
Net assets
$1.52B
TTM yield
3.24%
Top-10 conc.
6.0%

Sub-score comparison

93
Cost
91
51
Tax efficiency
93
100
Liquidity
64
100
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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BNDX sub-score NYF

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

Cost difference

BNDX is 2 bps cheaper than NYF. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for NYF.

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 NYF.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in BNDX

6,818 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 NYF

884 total
  • Battery Park City Authority 0.80%
  • New York City Transitional Finance Authority Future Tax Secured 0.73%
  • New York State Dormitory Authority 0.71%
  • Metropolitan Transportation Authority 0.65%
  • New York State Thruway Authority 0.59%
  • Long Island Power Authority 0.58%
  • New York State Dormitory Authority 0.51%
  • New York State Dormitory Authority 0.47%
  • New York State Dormitory Authority 0.47%
  • Utility Debt Securitization Authority 0.45%

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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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