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EMLC vs GOVT

International Bond vs US Treasury (Intermediate).

VanEck J.P. Morgan EM Local Currency Bond ETF · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EMLC and GOVT would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

EMLC unmatched 97.9% Shared 0.0% GOVT unmatched 98.8%

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.

In EMLC only
497 positions
Shared
0 positions
In GOVT only
214 positions

Side by side

EMLC

VanEck J.P. Morgan EM Local Currency Bond ETF

VanEck · International Bond

74 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.30%
Net assets
$4.95B
TTM yield
6.44%
Top-10 conc.
7.2%
GOVT

iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF

iShares · US Treasury (Intermediate)

88 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.050%
Net assets
$41.37B
TTM yield
3.75%
Top-10 conc.
21.7%

Sub-score comparison

70
Cost
95
48
Tax efficiency
58
87
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
N/A
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Tracking quality
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EMLC sub-score GOVT

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

GOVT is 25 bps cheaper than EMLC. On a $100,000 position that's about $250/yr more in fees for EMLC.

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 EMLC vs GOVT.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in EMLC

497 total
  • NOTA DO TESOURO NACIONAL 0.90%
  • REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA 0.84%
  • MEX BONOS DESARR FIX RT 0.76%
  • NOTA DO TESOURO NACIONAL 0.72%
  • LETRA TESOURO NACIONAL 0.70%
  • MEX BONOS DESARR FIX RT 0.68%
  • REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA 0.68%
  • MEX BONOS DESARR FIX RT 0.67%
  • MEX BONOS DESARR FIX RT 0.63%
  • REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA 0.61%

Only in GOVT

214 total
  • United States of America 5.28%
  • United States of America 2.95%
  • United States of America 2.63%
  • United States of America 2.08%
  • United States of America 1.62%
  • United States of America 1.48%
  • United States of America 1.46%
  • United States of America 1.46%
  • United States of America 1.38%
  • United States of America 1.37%

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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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