ETF comparison
CWI vs VWO
International Total vs International Emerging.
State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
474 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CWI and VWO would leave roughly 15.4% 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.
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Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VWO is 24 bps cheaper than CWI. On a $100,000 position that's about $240/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 VWO.
Top shared holdings
474 shared in total| # | Holding | In CWI | In VWO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 0.89% | 3.31% | 0.89% |
| 2 | Alibaba Group Holding Ltd | 0.52% | 2.41% | 0.52% |
| 3 | MediaTek Inc | 0.49% | 1.36% | 0.49% |
| 4 | Delta Electronics Inc | 0.45% | 0.82% | 0.45% |
| 5 | China Construction Bank Corp | 0.23% | 0.90% | 0.23% |
| 6 | HDFC Bank Ltd | 0.23% | 0.78% | 0.23% |
| 7 | ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd | 0.19% | 0.49% | 0.19% |
| 8 | Yageo Corp | 0.18% | 0.20% | 0.18% |
| 9 | Accton Technology Corp | 0.15% | 0.28% | 0.15% |
| 10 | OTP Bank Nyrt | 0.14% | 0.29% | 0.14% |
| 11 | PDD Holdings Inc | 0.14% | 0.59% | 0.14% |
| 12 | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd | 0.14% | 0.66% | 0.14% |
Only in CWI
658 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 2.90%
- SK hynix Inc 2.56%
- ASML Holding NV 2.12%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.95%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.90%
- Roche Holding AG 0.82%
- Novartis AG 0.79%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.76%
- Nestle SA 0.72%
- Siemens AG 0.69%
Only in VWO
4,506 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 15.56%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.81%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.69%
- Infosys Ltd 0.35%
- Itau Unibanco Holding SA 0.35%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA 0.33%
- United Microelectronics Corp 0.31%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA 0.31%
- Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 0.29%
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- CWI vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 63.8%
- CWI vs IEFA · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF 57.0%
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- VWO vs EPI · WisdomTree India Earnings Fund 14.3%
- VWO vs INDA · iShares MSCI India ETF 13.1%
- VWO vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 9.8%
- VWO vs KWEB · KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF 8.9%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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