ETF comparison
CWI vs IXUS
Both International Total.
State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF
Holdings overlap
1,073 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CWI and IXUS would leave roughly 67.7% 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
IXUS is 23 bps cheaper than CWI. On a $100,000 position that's about $230/yr more in fees for CWI.
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Top shared holdings
1,073 shared in total| # | Holding | In CWI | In IXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding NV | 2.12% | 1.51% | 1.51% |
| 2 | SK hynix Inc | 2.56% | 1.48% | 1.48% |
| 3 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 0.89% | 0.88% | 0.88% |
| 4 | HSBC Holdings PLC | 0.95% | 0.86% | 0.86% |
| 5 | Roche Holding AG | 0.82% | 0.72% | 0.72% |
| 6 | Royal Bank of Canada | 0.90% | 0.69% | 0.69% |
| 7 | Novartis AG | 0.79% | 0.68% | 0.68% |
| 8 | AstraZeneca PLC | 0.76% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 9 | Nestle SA | 0.72% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 10 | Shell PLC | 0.60% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 11 | Siemens AG | 0.69% | 0.57% | 0.57% |
| 12 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc | 0.61% | 0.56% | 0.56% |
Only in CWI
59 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 5.38%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 2.90%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.30%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.25%
- United Microelectronics Corp 0.24%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.19%
- Itau Unibanco Holding SA 0.16%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras 0.16%
- Vale SA 0.14%
- Delta Electronics Thailand PCL 0.11%
Only in IXUS
3,416 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 4.29%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 1.92%
- HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. 0.22%
- RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.20%
- ICICI BANK LIMITED 0.18%
- Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. 0.11%
- United Microelectronics Corporation 0.10%
- Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) 0.09%
- INFOSYS LIMITED 0.09%
- Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) 0.08%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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/methodology/.
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