ETF comparison
EWS vs HEFA
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI Singapore ETF · iShares Currency Hedged MSCI EAFE ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWS 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 15 bps cheaper than EWS. On a $100,000 position that's about $150/yr more in fees for EWS.
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 EWS vs HEFA.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in EWS
17 total- DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD 24.02%
- OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED 20.37%
- SINGAPORE EXCHANGE LIMITED 5.25%
- SINGAPORE TECHNOLOGIES ENGINEERING LTD 4.92%
- YANGZIJIANG SHIPBUILDING (HOLDINGS) LTD. 4.56%
- WILMAR INTERNATIONAL LIMITED 4.41%
- SEMBCORP INDUSTRIES LTD 4.41%
- UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED 4.26%
- CapitaLand Ascendas REIT 4.21%
- SINGAPORE AIRLINES LIMITED 4.21%
Only in HEFA
1 total- iShares MSCI EAFE ETF 101.20%
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- EWS vs VGK · Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF 0.0%
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- HEFA vs EWU · iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF 0.0%
- HEFA vs EZU · iShares MSCI Eurozone ETF 0.0%
- HEFA vs FEZ · State Street SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF 0.0%
- HEFA vs FLJP · Franklin FTSE Japan ETF 0.0%
- HEFA vs FNDC · Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity ETF 0.0%
- HEFA vs FNDF · Schwab Fundamental International Equity ETF 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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