ETF comparison
HEFA vs SCHF
Both International Developed.
iShares Currency Hedged MSCI EAFE ETF · Schwab International Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of HEFA and SCHF 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
SCHF is 32 bps cheaper than HEFA. On a $100,000 position that's about $320/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 SCHF.
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 SCHF
1,475 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 3.32%
- SK hynix Inc 2.81%
- ASML Holding NV 2.10%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 1.08%
- Roche Holding AG 0.99%
- Novartis AG 0.97%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.93%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.90%
- Nestle SA 0.88%
- Shell PLC 0.80%
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- HEFA vs VEA · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- HEFA vs VGK · Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF 0.0%
- HEFA vs VPL · Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- HEFA vs VSS · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
More comparisons with SCHF
- SCHF vs SCHC · Schwab International Small-Cap Equity ETF 0.0%
- SCHF vs VSS · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- SCHF vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- SCHF vs VEA · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 85.9%
- SCHF vs SPDW · State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF 84.8%
- SCHF vs IDEV · iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF 84.3%
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.