ETF comparison
EWS vs SPDW
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI Singapore ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF
Holdings overlap
15 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWS and SPDW would leave roughly 1.1% 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
SPDW is 47 bps cheaper than EWS. On a $100,000 position that's about $470/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 SPDW.
Top shared holdings
15 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWS | In SPDW | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD | 24.02% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 2 | OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED | 20.37% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 3 | UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED | 4.26% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 4 | SEA LIMITED | 3.66% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 5 | SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED | 3.90% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 6 | SINGAPORE EXCHANGE LIMITED | 5.25% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 7 | SINGAPORE TECHNOLOGIES ENGINEERING LTD | 4.92% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 8 | KEPPEL LTD. | 3.64% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 9 | CAPITALAND INVESTMENT LIMITED | 1.13% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 10 | CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust | 2.77% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 11 | GRAB HOLDINGS LIMITED | 3.63% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 12 | WILMAR INTERNATIONAL LIMITED | 4.41% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
Only in EWS
2 total- YANGZIJIANG SHIPBUILDING (HOLDINGS) LTD. 4.56%
- BNP Paribas 0.01%
Only in SPDW
2,413 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 2.96%
- SK hynix Inc 2.79%
- ASML Holding NV 2.28%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.97%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.87%
- Roche Holding AG 0.86%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.86%
- Novartis AG 0.86%
- Nestle SA 0.80%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 0.72%
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- SPDW vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
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- SPDW vs VEA · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 85.0%
- SPDW vs SCHF · Schwab International Equity ETF 84.8%
- SPDW vs IDEV · iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF 83.1%
- SPDW vs IEFA · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF 74.7%
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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