ETF comparison
EWA vs IPAC
Both International Developed.
Holdings overlap
46 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWA and IPAC would leave roughly 15.8% 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
IPAC is 41 bps cheaper than EWA. On a $100,000 position that's about $410/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 IPAC.
Top shared holdings
46 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWA | In IPAC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BHP GROUP LIMITED | 15.69% | 2.32% | 2.32% |
| 2 | COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA | 13.76% | 2.27% | 2.27% |
| 3 | WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION | 6.14% | 0.98% | 0.98% |
| 4 | NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED | 5.71% | 0.96% | 0.96% |
| 5 | ANZ GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED | 5.30% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
| 6 | WESFARMERS LIMITED | 4.51% | 0.77% | 0.77% |
| 7 | MACQUARIE GROUP LIMITED | 4.31% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 8 | WOODSIDE ENERGY GROUP LTD | 2.89% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 9 | RIO TINTO LIMITED | 3.45% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 10 | CSL LIMITED | 2.34% | 0.45% | 0.45% |
| 11 | GOODMAN GROUP | 3.22% | 0.45% | 0.45% |
| 12 | WOOLWORTHS GROUP LIMITED | 2.14% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
Only in EWA
0 totalEvery EWA position is also held by IPAC.
Only in IPAC
1,324 total- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. 2.58%
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 1.94%
- Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. 1.69%
- Tokyo Electron Limited 1.62%
- Hitachi, Ltd. 1.57%
- ADVANTEST CORPORATION 1.57%
- Sony Group Corporation 1.48%
- Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. 1.33%
- DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD 1.29%
- SoftBank Group Corp. 1.25%
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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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