ETF comparison
EWS vs PXF
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI Singapore ETF · Invesco RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF
Holdings overlap
11 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWS and PXF 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
PXF is 7 bps cheaper than EWS. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/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 PXF.
Top shared holdings
11 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWS | In PXF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD | 24.02% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 2 | OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED | 20.37% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 3 | UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED | 4.26% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 4 | SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED | 3.90% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 5 | SINGAPORE AIRLINES LIMITED | 4.21% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 6 | WILMAR INTERNATIONAL LIMITED | 4.41% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 7 | KEPPEL LTD. | 3.64% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 8 | SEA LIMITED | 3.66% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 9 | CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust | 2.77% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 10 | CapitaLand Ascendas REIT | 4.21% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 11 | GRAB HOLDINGS LIMITED | 3.63% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
Only in EWS
6 total- SINGAPORE EXCHANGE LIMITED 5.25%
- SINGAPORE TECHNOLOGIES ENGINEERING LTD 4.92%
- YANGZIJIANG SHIPBUILDING (HOLDINGS) LTD. 4.56%
- SEMBCORP INDUSTRIES LTD 4.41%
- CAPITALAND INVESTMENT LIMITED 1.13%
- BNP Paribas 0.01%
Only in PXF
1,008 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 4.14%
- Shell PLC 2.10%
- TotalEnergies SE 1.47%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 1.37%
- Roche Holding AG 1.08%
- BHP Group Ltd. 0.98%
- Toyota Motor Corp. 0.94%
- BP PLC 0.92%
- Glencore PLC 0.83%
- Novartis AG 0.74%
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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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