ETF comparison
EPP vs IXUS
International Developed vs International Total.
iShares MSCI Pacific ex Japan ETF · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF
Holdings overlap
92 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EPP and IXUS would leave roughly 5.4% 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.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
IXUS is 40 bps cheaper than EPP. On a $100,000 position that's about $400/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 IXUS.
Top shared holdings
92 shared in total| # | Holding | In EPP | In IXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BHP GROUP LIMITED | 9.96% | 0.50% | 0.50% |
| 2 | COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA | 8.73% | 0.49% | 0.49% |
| 3 | DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD | 4.63% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 4 | AIA Group Limited | 4.85% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 5 | WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION | 3.89% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 6 | NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED | 3.62% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 7 | ANZ GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED | 3.35% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 8 | OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED | 2.75% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 9 | WESFARMERS LIMITED | 2.88% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 10 | MACQUARIE GROUP LIMITED | 2.81% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 11 | Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited | 2.53% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 12 | WOODSIDE ENERGY GROUP LTD | 1.83% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
Only in EPP
1 total- The Wharf (Holdings) Limited 0.11%
Only in IXUS
4,397 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 4.29%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 1.92%
- ASML Holding N.V. 1.51%
- SK hynix Inc. 1.48%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 0.88%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 0.86%
- Roche Holding AG 0.72%
- ROYAL BANK OF CANADA 0.69%
- Novartis AG 0.68%
- ASTRAZENECA PLC 0.60%
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- EPP vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 4.8%
- EPP vs FNDC · Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity ETF 2.6%
- EPP vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 2.0%
- EPP vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 0.1%
- EPP vs DISV · Dimensional International Small Cap Value ETF 0.1%
More comparisons with IXUS
- IXUS vs EWY · iShares MSCI South Korea ETF 5.3%
- IXUS vs BBAX · JPMorgan BetaBuilders Developed Asia Pacific ex-Japan ETF 5.2%
- IXUS vs EWL · iShares MSCI Switzerland ETF 4.9%
- IXUS vs EWG · iShares MSCI Germany ETF 4.6%
- IXUS vs DISV · Dimensional International Small Cap Value ETF 4.0%
- IXUS vs AVDV · Avantis International Small Cap Value ETF 3.8%
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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