ETF comparison
EPP vs HEFA
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI Pacific ex Japan ETF · iShares Currency Hedged MSCI EAFE ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EPP and HEFA 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
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Cost difference
HEFA is 12 bps cheaper than EPP. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for EPP.
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 EPP vs HEFA.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in EPP
93 total- BHP GROUP LIMITED 9.96%
- COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA 8.73%
- AIA Group Limited 4.85%
- DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD 4.63%
- WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION 3.89%
- NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED 3.62%
- ANZ GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED 3.35%
- WESFARMERS LIMITED 2.88%
- MACQUARIE GROUP LIMITED 2.81%
- OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED 2.75%
Only in HEFA
1 total- iShares MSCI EAFE ETF 101.20%
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- EPP vs SCHC · Schwab International Small-Cap Equity ETF 0.0%
- EPP vs SCZ · iShares MSCI EAFE Small-Cap ETF 0.0%
- EPP vs VGK · Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF 0.0%
- EPP vs VSS · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
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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