ETF comparison
CGCP vs IUSB
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF · iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
736 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGCP and IUSB would leave roughly 6.8% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
IUSB is 28 bps cheaper than CGCP. On a $100,000 position that's about $280/yr more in fees for CGCP.
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 CGCP vs IUSB.
Top shared holdings
736 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGCP | In IUSB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury | 0.31% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 2 | United States Treasury | 2.15% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 3 | United States Treasury | 4.06% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 4 | United States Treasury | 1.12% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 5 | United States Treasury | 0.92% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 6 | United States Treasury | 0.42% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 7 | UMBS, TBA | 0.71% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 8 | United States Treasury | 0.39% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 9 | United States Treasury | 2.08% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 10 | United States Treasury | 0.64% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 11 | United States Treasury | 0.41% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 12 | United States Treasury | 0.66% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
Only in CGCP
691 total- Capital Group Central Cash Fund 3.83%
- Freddie Mac 1.22%
- UMBS, TBA 0.82%
- UMBS, TBA 0.72%
- United States Treasury 0.63%
- Freddie Mac 0.61%
- Freddie Mac 0.60%
- Freddie Mac 0.56%
- Freddie Mac 0.54%
- Fannie Mae 0.52%
Only in IUSB
17,043 total- Blackrock Liquidity Tempcash 2.88%
- United States of America 0.37%
- United States of America 0.37%
- United States of America 0.37%
- United States of America 0.37%
- United States of America 0.36%
- United States of America 0.36%
- United States of America 0.36%
- United States of America 0.35%
- United States of America 0.34%
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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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