ETF comparison
EMLC vs SHY
International Bond vs US Treasury (Short).
VanEck J.P. Morgan EM Local Currency Bond ETF · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EMLC and SHY would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
SHY is 15 bps cheaper than EMLC. On a $100,000 position that's about $150/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 SHY.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo 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 SHY
89 total- United States of America 1.96%
- United States of America 1.84%
- United States of America 1.71%
- United States of America 1.60%
- United States of America 1.60%
- United States of America 1.52%
- United States of America 1.48%
- United States of America 1.45%
- United States of America 1.43%
- United States of America 1.40%
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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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