ETF comparison
CWI vs VEA
International Total vs International Developed.
State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
618 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CWI and VEA would leave roughly 64.7% 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
VEA is 27 bps cheaper than CWI. On a $100,000 position that's about $270/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 the cost calculator pre-filled with CWI vs VEA.
Top shared holdings
618 shared in total| # | Holding | In CWI | In VEA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding NV | 2.12% | 2.36% | 2.12% |
| 2 | SK hynix Inc | 2.56% | 1.39% | 1.39% |
| 3 | HSBC Holdings PLC | 0.95% | 1.00% | 0.95% |
| 4 | Royal Bank of Canada | 0.90% | 0.90% | 0.90% |
| 5 | Roche Holding AG | 0.82% | 0.89% | 0.82% |
| 6 | Novartis AG | 0.79% | 0.90% | 0.79% |
| 7 | AstraZeneca PLC | 0.76% | 0.87% | 0.76% |
| 8 | Nestle SA | 0.72% | 0.82% | 0.72% |
| 9 | Siemens AG | 0.69% | 0.73% | 0.69% |
| 10 | Toronto-Dominion Bank/The | 0.66% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
| 11 | Tokyo Electron Ltd | 0.61% | 0.66% | 0.61% |
| 12 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc | 0.61% | 0.67% | 0.61% |
Only in CWI
514 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 5.38%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 2.90%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 0.89%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.52%
- MediaTek Inc 0.49%
- Delta Electronics Inc 0.45%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.30%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.25%
- United Microelectronics Corp 0.24%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.23%
Only in VEA
3,244 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.61%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.55%
- Air Liquide SA 0.22%
- L'Oreal SA 0.18%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.13%
- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd 0.12%
- Ibiden Co Ltd 0.12%
- Engie SA 0.09%
- Amrize Ltd 0.08%
- ABN AMRO Bank NV 0.08%
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- CWI vs IEFA · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF 57.0%
- CWI vs VSGX · Vanguard ESG International Stock ETF 55.9%
- CWI vs DFAX · Dimensional World ex U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF 38.9%
- CWI vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 26.2%
- CWI vs DFIV · Dimensional International Value ETF 24.1%
More comparisons with VEA
- VEA vs BBIN · JPMorgan BetaBuilders International Equity ETF 64.0%
- VEA vs PXF · Invesco RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF 63.3%
- VEA vs FNDF · Schwab Fundamental International Equity ETF 58.4%
- VEA vs DFIC · Dimensional International Core Equity 2 ETF 52.5%
- VEA vs ESGD · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EAFE ETF 50.7%
- VEA vs AVDE · Avantis International Equity ETF 49.6%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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