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 2.5% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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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.
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 VPL.
Top shared holdings
13 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWS | In VPL | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DBS Group Holdings Ltd | 22.55% | 0.79% | 0.79% |
| 2 | Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp Ltd | 5.14% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 3 | United Overseas Bank Ltd | 4.86% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 4 | Singapore Telecommunications Ltd | 4.79% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 5 | Singapore Exchange Ltd | 4.59% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 6 | Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd | 5.39% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 7 | Keppel Ltd | 5.76% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 8 | CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust | 3.18% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 9 | CapitaLand Ascendas REIT | 4.27% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 10 | Singapore Airlines Ltd | 4.82% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 11 | Wilmar International Ltd | 4.72% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 12 | CapitaLand Investment Ltd/Singapore | 1.62% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
Only in EWS
4 total- Sea Ltd 13.95%
- Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Holdings Ltd 5.71%
- BlackRock Funds III 3.55%
- Grab Holdings Ltd 3.18%
Only in VPL
2,319 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 6.00%
- SK hynix Inc 4.08%
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia 1.78%
- Toyota Motor Corp 1.73%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 1.67%
- BHP Group Ltd 1.64%
- Hitachi Ltd 1.16%
- Advantest Corp 1.14%
- SoftBank Group Corp 1.13%
- Tokyo Electron Ltd 1.10%
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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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