ETF comparison
CWIvsIXUS
Both International Total.
State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF
Holdings overlap
1,064 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CWI and IXUS would leave roughly66.2%of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
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.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open thecost calculator pre-filled with CWI vs IXUS.
Top shared holdings
1,064 shared in total| # | Holding | In CWI | In IXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding NV | 2.12% | 1.32% | 1.32% |
| 2 | SK hynix Inc | 2.56% | 1.15% | 1.15% |
| 3 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 0.89% | 0.91% | 0.89% |
| 4 | HSBC Holdings PLC | 0.95% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
| 5 | AstraZeneca PLC | 0.76% | 0.69% | 0.69% |
| 6 | Roche Holding AG | 0.82% | 0.68% | 0.68% |
| 7 | Novartis AG | 0.79% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 8 | Nestle SA | 0.72% | 0.61% | 0.61% |
| 9 | Shell PLC | 0.60% | 0.61% | 0.60% |
| 10 | Royal Bank of Canada | 0.90% | 0.59% | 0.59% |
| 11 | Siemens AG | 0.69% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| 12 | Alibaba Group Holding Ltd | 0.52% | 0.67% | 0.52% |
Only in CWI
69 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd5.38%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd2.90%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd0.30%
- Reliance Industries Ltd0.25%
- United Microelectronics Corp0.24%
- ICICI Bank Ltd0.19%
- Itau Unibanco Holding SA0.16%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras0.16%
- Vale SA0.14%
- Delta Electronics Thailand PCL0.11%
Only in IXUS
3,090 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited4.02%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.1.68%
- RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED0.22%
- HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.0.21%
- ICICI BANK LIMITED0.17%
- Itau Unibanco Holding S.A.0.11%
- Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras)0.11%
- Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras)0.10%
- INFOSYS LIMITED0.10%
- Delta Electronics (Thailand) Public Company Limited0.07%
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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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