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EWS vs VT

International Developed vs Global Stock (incl. US).

iShares MSCI Singapore ETF · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.3 %

15 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWS and VT would leave roughly 0.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

EWS unmatched 99.1% Shared 0.3% VT unmatched 98.8%

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.

In EWS only
2 positions
Shared
15 positions
In VT only
10,035 positions

Side by side

EWS

iShares MSCI Singapore ETF

iShares · International Developed

51 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.50%
Net assets
$1.43B
TTM yield
3.81%
Top-10 conc.
80.6%
VT

Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · Global Stock (incl. US)

92 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.060%
Net assets
$101.18B
whole fund, 3 share classes
TTM yield
1.55%
Top-10 conc.
21.5%

Sub-score comparison

50
Cost
94
75
Tax efficiency
85
63
Liquidity
100
0
Concentration
84
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Tracking quality
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EWS sub-score VT

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VT is 44 bps cheaper than EWS. On a $100,000 position that's about $440/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 VT.

Top shared holdings

15 shared in total
# Holding In EWS In VT Overlap
1 DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD 24.02% 0.10% 0.10%
2 OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED 20.37% 0.06% 0.06%
3 UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED 4.26% 0.03% 0.03%
4 SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED 3.90% 0.02% 0.02%
5 SINGAPORE EXCHANGE LIMITED 5.25% 0.01% 0.01%
6 KEPPEL LTD. 3.64% 0.01% 0.01%
7 SINGAPORE TECHNOLOGIES ENGINEERING LTD 4.92% 0.01% 0.01%
8 CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust 2.77% 0.01% 0.01%
9 GRAB HOLDINGS LIMITED 3.63% 0.01% 0.01%
10 SINGAPORE AIRLINES LIMITED 4.21% 0.01% 0.01%
11 CapitaLand Ascendas REIT 4.21% 0.01% 0.01%
12 YANGZIJIANG SHIPBUILDING (HOLDINGS) LTD. 4.56% 0.01% 0.01%

Only in EWS

2 total
  • SEA LIMITED 3.66%
  • BNP Paribas 0.01%

Only in VT

10,035 total
  • NVIDIA Corp 4.06%
  • Apple Inc 3.87%
  • Microsoft Corp 2.99%
  • Amazon.com Inc 2.28%
  • Alphabet Inc 1.83%
  • Broadcom Inc 1.57%
  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 1.56%
  • Alphabet Inc 1.44%
  • Meta Platforms Inc 1.06%
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.81%

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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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