ETF comparison
DFCF vs ICSH
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF · iShares Ultra Short Duration Bond Active ETF
Holdings overlap
9 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFCF and ICSH would leave roughly 0.3% 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
ICSH is 9 bps cheaper than DFCF. On a $100,000 position that's about $90/yr more in fees for DFCF.
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 DFCF vs ICSH.
Top shared holdings
9 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFCF | In ICSH | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 0.27% | 0.31% | 0.27% |
| 2 | COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA | 0.02% | 0.17% | 0.02% |
| 3 | NBN CO LIMITED | 0.01% | 0.34% | 0.01% |
| 4 | Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB | 0.01% | 0.37% | 0.01% |
| 5 | Nordea Bank Abp | 0.01% | 0.15% | 0.01% |
| 6 | MACQUARIE BANK LIMITED | 0.00% | 0.32% | 0.00% |
| 7 | BMW US CAPITAL, LLC | 0.00% | 0.17% | 0.00% |
| 8 | CATERPILLAR FINANCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION | 0.00% | 0.13% | 0.00% |
| 9 | AMERICAN HONDA FINANCE CORPORATION | 0.00% | 0.12% | 0.00% |
Only in DFCF
1,761 total- Federal National Mortgage Association 6.19%
- Federal National Mortgage Association 5.34%
- United States of America 4.70%
- Federal National Mortgage Association 4.10%
- United States of America 3.07%
- Government National Mortgage Association 2 3.00%
- United States of America 2.94%
- United States of America 2.93%
- Federal National Mortgage Association 2.85%
- United States of America 2.25%
Only in ICSH
359 total- Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria/New York NY 0.91%
- BPCE SA 0.91%
- Marubeni Finance America LLC 0.77%
- Cooperatieve Rabobank UA/NY 0.74%
- Svenska Handelsbanken AB 0.72%
- NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL GLBL 0.70%
- MIZUHO BK LTD NEW YORK BRH INS 0.70%
- TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT CORP 0.68%
- CDP Financial Inc 0.68%
- Sumitomo Mitsui Trust NY 0.67%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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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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