ETF comparison
HEFA vs IXUS
International Developed vs International Total.
iShares Currency Hedged MSCI EAFE ETF · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of HEFA and IXUS would leave roughly 0.0% 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
IXUS is 28 bps cheaper than HEFA. On a $100,000 position that's about $280/yr more in fees for HEFA.
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 HEFA vs IXUS.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in HEFA
1 total- iShares MSCI EAFE ETF 101.20%
Only in IXUS
4,489 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 4.29%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 1.92%
- ASML Holding N.V. 1.51%
- SK hynix Inc. 1.48%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 0.88%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 0.86%
- Roche Holding AG 0.72%
- ROYAL BANK OF CANADA 0.69%
- Novartis AG 0.68%
- ASTRAZENECA PLC 0.60%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with HEFA
- HEFA vs JIRE · JPMorgan International Research Enhanced Equity ETF 0.0%
- HEFA vs PXF · Invesco RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF 0.0%
- HEFA vs SCHC · Schwab International Small-Cap Equity ETF 0.0%
- HEFA vs SCHF · Schwab International Equity ETF 0.0%
- HEFA vs SCZ · iShares MSCI EAFE Small-Cap ETF 0.0%
- HEFA vs SPDW · State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF 0.0%
More comparisons with IXUS
- IXUS vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 90.4%
- IXUS vs VEU · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Index Fund ETF Shares 88.7%
- IXUS vs ACWX · iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF 86.4%
- IXUS vs VEA · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 71.7%
- IXUS vs VSGX · Vanguard ESG International Stock ETF 70.9%
- IXUS vs SPDW · State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF 68.6%
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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