ETF comparison
CWI vs VEU
Both International Total.
State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1,093 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CWI and VEU would leave roughly 69.6% 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
VEU is 26 bps cheaper than CWI. On a $100,000 position that's about $260/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 VEU.
Top shared holdings
1,093 shared in total| # | Holding | In CWI | In VEU | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASML Holding NV | 2.12% | 1.58% | 1.58% |
| 2 | SK hynix Inc | 2.56% | 1.56% | 1.56% |
| 3 | HSBC Holdings PLC | 0.95% | 0.91% | 0.91% |
| 4 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 0.89% | 0.95% | 0.89% |
| 5 | Roche Holding AG | 0.82% | 0.76% | 0.76% |
| 6 | Royal Bank of Canada | 0.90% | 0.73% | 0.73% |
| 7 | Novartis AG | 0.79% | 0.72% | 0.72% |
| 8 | Nestle SA | 0.72% | 0.64% | 0.64% |
| 9 | AstraZeneca PLC | 0.76% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
| 10 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc | 0.61% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 11 | Shell PLC | 0.60% | 0.64% | 0.60% |
| 12 | Siemens AG | 0.69% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
Only in CWI
39 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 2.90%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.30%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.25%
- Spotify Technology SA 0.19%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.19%
- Vale SA 0.14%
- Nebius Group NV 0.12%
- Credicorp Ltd 0.12%
- NU Holdings Ltd/Cayman Islands 0.11%
- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd 0.10%
Only in VEU
2,753 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 4.43%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.99%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.23%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.23%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.20%
- Air Liquide SA 0.18%
- L'Oreal SA 0.16%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.10%
- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd 0.10%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA 0.09%
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- VEU vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 30.5%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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