ETF comparison
EWS vs IXUS
International Developed vs International Total.
iShares MSCI Singapore ETF · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF
Holdings overlap
16 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWS and IXUS would leave roughly 0.9% 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
IXUS is 43 bps cheaper than EWS. On a $100,000 position that's about $430/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 IXUS.
Top shared holdings
16 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWS | In IXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD | 24.02% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 2 | OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED | 20.37% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 3 | SEA LIMITED | 3.66% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 4 | UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED | 4.26% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 5 | SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED | 3.90% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 6 | SINGAPORE EXCHANGE LIMITED | 5.25% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 7 | SINGAPORE TECHNOLOGIES ENGINEERING LTD | 4.92% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 8 | KEPPEL LTD. | 3.64% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 9 | CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust | 2.77% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 10 | GRAB HOLDINGS LIMITED | 3.63% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 11 | SINGAPORE AIRLINES LIMITED | 4.21% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 12 | YANGZIJIANG SHIPBUILDING (HOLDINGS) LTD. | 4.56% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
Only in EWS
1 total- BNP Paribas 0.01%
Only in IXUS
4,473 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 4.29%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 1.92%
- ASML Holding N.V. 1.51%
- SK hynix Inc. 1.48%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 0.88%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 0.86%
- Roche Holding AG 0.72%
- ROYAL BANK OF CANADA 0.69%
- Novartis AG 0.68%
- ASTRAZENECA PLC 0.60%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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