ETF comparison
HEFA vs SPDW
Both International Developed.
iShares Currency Hedged MSCI EAFE ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of HEFA and SPDW 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
SPDW 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 SPDW.
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 SPDW
2,428 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 2.96%
- SK hynix Inc 2.79%
- ASML Holding NV 2.28%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.97%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.87%
- Roche Holding AG 0.86%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.86%
- Novartis AG 0.86%
- Nestle SA 0.80%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 0.72%
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- HEFA vs VSS · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- HEFA vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- HEFA vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
More comparisons with SPDW
- SPDW vs VEA · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 85.0%
- SPDW vs SCHF · Schwab International Equity ETF 84.8%
- SPDW vs IDEV · iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF 83.1%
- SPDW vs IEFA · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF 74.7%
- SPDW vs DFAI · Dimensional International Core Equity Market ETF 68.7%
- SPDW vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock 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/.
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.