ETF comparison
EWS vs VWO
International Developed vs International Emerging.
iShares MSCI Singapore ETF · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWS and VWO would leave roughly 0.1% 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
VWO 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 VWO.
Top shared holdings
1 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWS | In VWO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | YANGZIJIANG SHIPBUILDING (HOLDINGS) LTD. | 4.56% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
Only in EWS
16 total- DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD 24.02%
- OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED 20.37%
- SINGAPORE EXCHANGE LIMITED 5.25%
- SINGAPORE TECHNOLOGIES ENGINEERING LTD 4.92%
- WILMAR INTERNATIONAL LIMITED 4.41%
- SEMBCORP INDUSTRIES LTD 4.41%
- UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED 4.26%
- CapitaLand Ascendas REIT 4.21%
- SINGAPORE AIRLINES LIMITED 4.21%
- SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED 3.90%
Only in VWO
4,979 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 15.56%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 3.31%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 2.41%
- MediaTek Inc 1.36%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.90%
- Delta Electronics Inc 0.82%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.81%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
- HDFC Bank Ltd 0.78%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.69%
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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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.