ETF comparison
EWS vs IPAC
Both International Developed.
Holdings overlap
16 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWS and IPAC would leave roughly 3.8% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
IPAC is 41 bps cheaper than EWS. On a $100,000 position that's about $410/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 IPAC.
Top shared holdings
16 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWS | In IPAC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DBS Group Holdings Ltd | 22.55% | 1.05% | 1.05% |
| 2 | Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp Ltd | 5.14% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
| 3 | United Overseas Bank Ltd | 4.86% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 4 | Sea Ltd | 13.95% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 5 | Singapore Telecommunications Ltd | 4.79% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 6 | Singapore Exchange Ltd | 4.59% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 7 | Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd | 5.39% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 8 | Keppel Ltd | 5.76% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 9 | CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust | 3.18% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 10 | Grab Holdings Ltd | 3.18% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 11 | Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Holdings Ltd | 5.71% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 12 | CapitaLand Ascendas REIT | 4.27% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
Only in EWS
1 total- BlackRock Funds III 3.55%
Only in IPAC
1,351 total- COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA 2.30%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. 2.21%
- BHP GROUP LIMITED 2.19%
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 1.98%
- Hitachi, Ltd. 1.59%
- ADVANTEST CORPORATION 1.56%
- Tokyo Electron Limited 1.44%
- Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. 1.41%
- SoftBank Group Corp. 1.38%
- Sony Group Corporation 1.34%
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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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