ETF comparison
HEFA vs VT
International Developed vs Global Stock (incl. US).
iShares Currency Hedged MSCI EAFE ETF · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of HEFA and VT 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
VT is 29 bps cheaper than HEFA. On a $100,000 position that's about $290/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 VT.
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 VT
10,050 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%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with HEFA
- HEFA vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- HEFA vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- HEFA vs AVDE · Avantis International Equity ETF 0.0%
- HEFA vs AVDV · Avantis International Small Cap Value ETF 0.0%
- HEFA vs AVIV · Avantis International Large Cap Value ETF 0.0%
- HEFA vs BBAX · JPMorgan BetaBuilders Developed Asia Pacific ex-Japan ETF 0.0%
More comparisons with VT
- VT vs VTI · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF 60.4%
- VT vs VOO · Vanguard S&P 500 ETF 54.7%
- VT vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 37.0%
- VT vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 35.8%
- VT vs VEU · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Index Fund ETF Shares 34.4%
- VT vs ACWX · iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF 31.9%
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.