ETF comparison
IPAC vs VPL
Both International Developed.
iShares Core MSCI Pacific ETF · Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1,317 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IPAC and VPL would leave roughly 76.2% 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
VPL is 2 bps cheaper than IPAC. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for IPAC.
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 IPAC vs VPL.
Top shared holdings
1,317 shared in total| # | Holding | In IPAC | In VPL | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 2.58% | 2.00% | 2.00% |
| 2 | BHP GROUP LIMITED | 2.32% | 1.77% | 1.77% |
| 3 | COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA | 2.27% | 1.72% | 1.72% |
| 4 | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 1.94% | 1.66% | 1.66% |
| 5 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. | 1.69% | 1.28% | 1.28% |
| 6 | Tokyo Electron Limited | 1.62% | 1.21% | 1.21% |
| 7 | Hitachi, Ltd. | 1.57% | 1.19% | 1.19% |
| 8 | ADVANTEST CORPORATION | 1.57% | 1.18% | 1.18% |
| 9 | Sony Group Corporation | 1.48% | 1.14% | 1.14% |
| 10 | Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. | 1.33% | 1.01% | 1.01% |
| 11 | SoftBank Group Corp. | 1.25% | 0.96% | 0.96% |
| 12 | DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD | 1.29% | 0.96% | 0.96% |
Only in IPAC
53 total- SEA LIMITED 0.43%
- GRAB HOLDINGS LIMITED 0.09%
- YANGZIJIANG SHIPBUILDING (HOLDINGS) LTD. 0.08%
- HKT Trust and HKT Limited 0.07%
- Futu Holdings Limited 0.06%
- HAFNIA LIMITED 0.02%
- WEST AFRICAN RESOURCES LTD 0.02%
- Bitdeer Technologies Group 0.01%
- GNI Group Ltd. 0.01%
- MOBVISTA INC. 0.01%
Only in VPL
1,020 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 6.61%
- SK hynix Inc 5.18%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 0.83%
- SK Square Co Ltd 0.51%
- Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co Ltd 0.35%
- KB Financial Group Inc 0.33%
- Hyundai Motor Co 0.29%
- Shinhan Financial Group Co Ltd 0.24%
- Lenovo Group Ltd 0.19%
- Hana Financial Group Inc 0.19%
Related comparisons
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- IPAC vs FLJP · Franklin FTSE Japan ETF 64.8%
- IPAC vs EWJ · iShares MSCI Japan ETF 55.1%
- IPAC vs BBJP · JPMorgan BetaBuilders Japan ETF 55.1%
- IPAC vs DXJ · WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund 43.1%
- IPAC vs IEFA · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF 35.9%
- IPAC vs BBIN · JPMorgan BetaBuilders International Equity ETF 34.8%
More comparisons with VPL
- VPL vs FLJP · Franklin FTSE Japan ETF 50.5%
- VPL vs BBJP · JPMorgan BetaBuilders Japan ETF 42.8%
- VPL vs EWJ · iShares MSCI Japan ETF 42.8%
- VPL vs SCHF · Schwab International Equity ETF 39.3%
- VPL vs FNDF · Schwab Fundamental International Equity ETF 37.5%
- VPL vs PXF · Invesco RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF 36.6%
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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