ETF comparison
EWS vs VPL
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI Singapore ETF · Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
13 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWS and VPL would leave roughly 2.8% 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.
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Cost difference
VPL is 43 bps cheaper than EWS. On a $100,000 position that's about $430/yr more in fees for EWS.
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Top shared holdings
13 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWS | In VPL | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD | 24.02% | 0.96% | 0.96% |
| 2 | OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED | 20.37% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 3 | UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED | 4.26% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 4 | SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED | 3.90% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 5 | SINGAPORE EXCHANGE LIMITED | 5.25% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 6 | KEPPEL LTD. | 3.64% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 7 | CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust | 2.77% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 8 | SINGAPORE TECHNOLOGIES ENGINEERING LTD | 4.92% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 9 | SINGAPORE AIRLINES LIMITED | 4.21% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 10 | CapitaLand Ascendas REIT | 4.21% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 11 | WILMAR INTERNATIONAL LIMITED | 4.41% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 12 | CAPITALAND INVESTMENT LIMITED | 1.13% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
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 VPL
2,324 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 6.61%
- SK hynix Inc 5.18%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 2.00%
- BHP Group Ltd 1.77%
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia 1.72%
- Toyota Motor Corp 1.66%
- Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc 1.28%
- Tokyo Electron Ltd 1.21%
- Hitachi Ltd 1.19%
- Advantest Corp 1.18%
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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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