ETF comparison
CMF vs VTIP
US Municipal Bond vs TIPS.
iShares California Muni Bond ETF · Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CMF and VTIP 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
VTIP is 5 bps cheaper than CMF. On a $100,000 position that's about $50/yr more in fees for CMF.
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 CMF vs VTIP.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in CMF
1,622 total- Los Angeles Unified School District 0.50%
- University of California 0.49%
- Bay Area Toll Authority 0.46%
- California Educational Facilities Authority 0.44%
- Los Angeles Unified School District 0.44%
- Eastern Municipal Water District 0.44%
- California State University 0.42%
- University of California 0.42%
- State of California 0.38%
- Bay Area Toll Authority 0.37%
Only in VTIP
25 total- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.39%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.33%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.30%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.14%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.97%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.83%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.83%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.74%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.70%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.59%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with CMF
- CMF vs MUB · iShares National Muni Bond ETF 9.0%
- CMF vs VTEB · Vanguard Tax-Exempt Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 7.1%
- CMF vs SCMB · Schwab Municipal Bond ETF 6.9%
- CMF vs PZA · Invesco National AMT-Free Municipal Bond ETF 5.7%
- CMF vs SUB · iShares Short-Term National Muni Bond ETF 3.9%
- CMF vs ITM · VanEck Intermediate Muni ETF 3.0%
More comparisons with VTIP
- VTIP vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund 0.0%
- VTIP vs CWB · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Convertible Securities ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs DFCF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs EAGG · iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs EBND · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Emerging Markets Local Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs EDV · Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
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/.
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.