ETF comparison
EWS vs VEA
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI Singapore ETF · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
13 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWS and VEA would leave roughly 1.0% 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
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Cost difference
VEA 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 VEA.
Top shared holdings
13 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWS | In VEA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD | 24.02% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 2 | OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED | 20.37% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 3 | UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED | 4.26% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 4 | SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED | 3.90% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 5 | SINGAPORE EXCHANGE LIMITED | 5.25% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 6 | SINGAPORE TECHNOLOGIES ENGINEERING LTD | 4.92% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 7 | KEPPEL LTD. | 3.64% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 8 | CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust | 2.77% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 9 | SINGAPORE AIRLINES LIMITED | 4.21% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 10 | CapitaLand Ascendas REIT | 4.21% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 11 | WILMAR INTERNATIONAL LIMITED | 4.41% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 12 | CAPITALAND INVESTMENT LIMITED | 1.13% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
Only in EWS
4 total- YANGZIJIANG SHIPBUILDING (HOLDINGS) LTD. 4.56%
- SEA LIMITED 3.66%
- GRAB HOLDINGS LIMITED 3.63%
- BNP Paribas 0.01%
Only in VEA
3,849 total- ASML Holding NV 2.36%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.61%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 1.55%
- SK hynix Inc 1.39%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 1.00%
- Novartis AG 0.90%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.90%
- Roche Holding AG 0.89%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.87%
- Nestle SA 0.82%
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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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