ETF comparison
EWA vs IEFA
Both International Developed.
Holdings overlap
46 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWA and IEFA would leave roughly 5.7% 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.
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Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
IEFA is 43 bps cheaper than EWA. On a $100,000 position that's about $430/yr more in fees for EWA.
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 EWA vs IEFA.
Top shared holdings
46 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWA | In IEFA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BHP GROUP LIMITED | 15.69% | 0.83% | 0.83% |
| 2 | COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA | 13.76% | 0.82% | 0.82% |
| 3 | WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION | 6.14% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 4 | NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED | 5.71% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 5 | ANZ GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED | 5.30% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 6 | WESFARMERS LIMITED | 4.51% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 7 | MACQUARIE GROUP LIMITED | 4.31% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 8 | RIO TINTO LIMITED | 3.45% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 9 | WOODSIDE ENERGY GROUP LTD | 2.89% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 10 | CSL LIMITED | 2.34% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 11 | GOODMAN GROUP | 3.22% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 12 | WOOLWORTHS GROUP LIMITED | 2.14% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
Only in EWA
0 totalEvery EWA position is also held by IEFA.
Only in IEFA
2,567 total- ASML Holding N.V. 2.50%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 1.42%
- Roche Holding AG 1.20%
- Novartis AG 1.12%
- Nestle S.A. 1.00%
- ASTRAZENECA PLC 1.00%
- SHELL PLC 1.00%
- Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 0.95%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. 0.93%
- Banco Santander, S.A. 0.79%
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- IEFA vs DISV · Dimensional International Small Cap Value ETF 5.4%
- IEFA vs AVDV · Avantis International Small Cap Value ETF 5.1%
- IEFA vs DLS · WisdomTree International SmallCap Dividend Fund 3.6%
- IEFA vs EWP · iShares MSCI Spain ETF 3.5%
- IEFA vs AAXJ · iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF 3.2%
- IEFA vs EWH · iShares MSCI Hong Kong ETF 1.6%
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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