ETF comparison
EWS vs SCZ
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI Singapore ETF · iShares MSCI EAFE Small-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWS and SCZ 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
SCZ is 10 bps cheaper than EWS. On a $100,000 position that's about $100/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 SCZ.
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 SCZ
2,054 total- DIPLOMA PLC 0.37%
- BLUESCOPE STEEL LIMITED 0.28%
- BEAZLEY PLC 0.28%
- KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATION 0.28%
- IMI PLC 0.27%
- WEIR GROUP PLC(THE) 0.26%
- Niterra Co., Ltd. 0.24%
- Accelleron Industries AG 0.24%
- STOREBRAND ASA 0.24%
- Games Workshop Group PLC 0.24%
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- EWS vs BBAX · JPMorgan BetaBuilders Developed Asia Pacific ex-Japan ETF 14.6%
- EWS vs IPAC · iShares Core MSCI Pacific ETF 4.3%
- EWS vs VPL · Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares 2.8%
More comparisons with SCZ
- SCZ vs FEZ · State Street SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF 0.0%
- SCZ vs HEFA · iShares Currency Hedged MSCI EAFE ETF 0.0%
- SCZ vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 0.0%
- SCZ vs JIRE · JPMorgan International Research Enhanced Equity ETF 0.0%
- SCZ vs SCHC · Schwab International Small-Cap Equity ETF 48.5%
- SCZ vs VSS · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares 47.8%
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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.