ETF comparison
CWI vs DFIV
Both International Total.
State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF · Dimensional International Value ETF
Holdings overlap
269 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CWI and DFIV would leave roughly 24.1% 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
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Cost difference
DFIV is 3 bps cheaper than CWI. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for CWI.
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Top shared holdings
269 shared in total| # | Holding | In CWI | In DFIV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HSBC Holdings PLC | 0.95% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
| 2 | Shell PLC | 0.60% | 0.79% | 0.60% |
| 3 | Banco Santander SA | 0.60% | 1.93% | 0.60% |
| 4 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc | 0.61% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| 5 | Toyota Motor Corp | 0.45% | 1.78% | 0.45% |
| 6 | Bank of Montreal | 0.44% | 0.50% | 0.44% |
| 7 | TotalEnergies SE | 0.43% | 2.05% | 0.43% |
| 8 | UniCredit SpA | 0.41% | 0.60% | 0.41% |
| 9 | Zurich Insurance Group AG | 0.38% | 0.95% | 0.38% |
| 10 | Toronto-Dominion Bank/The | 0.66% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 11 | Cie Financiere Richemont SA | 0.36% | 0.82% | 0.36% |
| 12 | British American Tobacco PLC | 0.36% | 0.67% | 0.36% |
Only in CWI
863 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 5.38%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 2.90%
- SK hynix Inc 2.56%
- ASML Holding NV 2.12%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.90%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 0.89%
- Roche Holding AG 0.82%
- Novartis AG 0.79%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.76%
- Nestle SA 0.72%
Only in DFIV
335 total- SHELL PLC 3.17%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 1.27%
- BP P.L.C. 1.01%
- Novartis AG 0.65%
- NN Group N.V. 0.54%
- ABN AMRO Bank N.V. 0.49%
- UBS Group AG 0.48%
- Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft 0.47%
- BPER BANCA S.P.A. 0.45%
- Banco Santander, S.A. 0.41%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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