ETF comparison
EWC vs IDEV
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI Canada ETF · iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
84 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWC and IDEV would leave roughly 10.5% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
IDEV is 46 bps cheaper than EWC. On a $100,000 position that's about $460/yr more in fees for EWC.
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 EWC vs IDEV.
Top shared holdings
84 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWC | In IDEV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Royal Bank of Canada | 7.78% | 0.87% | 0.87% |
| 2 | Toronto-Dominion Bank/The | 5.61% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
| 3 | Shopify Inc | 4.83% | 0.51% | 0.51% |
| 4 | Enbridge Inc | 3.81% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 5 | Bank of Montreal | 3.43% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 6 | Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce | 3.12% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 7 | Canadian Natural Resources Ltd | 3.02% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 8 | Bank of Nova Scotia/The | 3.11% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 9 | Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd | 4.16% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 10 | Brookfield Corp | 2.86% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 11 | Suncor Energy Inc | 2.30% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 12 | Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd | 2.68% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
Only in EWC
1 total- BlackRock Funds III 1.00%
Only in IDEV
2,171 total- ASML Holding N.V. 1.94%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 1.09%
- ASTRAZENECA PLC 1.01%
- Roche Holding AG 0.99%
- Novartis AG 0.97%
- SHELL PLC 0.90%
- Nestle S.A. 0.90%
- Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 0.78%
- COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA 0.73%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. 0.70%
Open EWC or IDEV at a brokerage
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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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