ETF comparison
IPAC vs VWO
International Developed vs International Emerging.
iShares Core MSCI Pacific ETF · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
6 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IPAC and VWO would leave roughly 0.1% 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
VWO is 3 bps cheaper than IPAC. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/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 VWO.
Top shared holdings
6 shared in total| # | Holding | In IPAC | In VWO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | YANGZIJIANG SHIPBUILDING (HOLDINGS) LTD. | 0.08% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 2 | MOBVISTA INC. | 0.01% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 3 | HEALTH AND HAPPINESS (H&H) INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LIMITED | 0.01% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| 4 | Yangzijiang Financial Holding Ltd | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| 5 | YANLORD LAND GROUP LIMITED | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| 6 | JS GLOBAL LIFESTYLE COMPANY LIMITED | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
Only in IPAC
1,364 total- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. 2.58%
- BHP GROUP LIMITED 2.32%
- COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA 2.27%
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 1.94%
- Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. 1.69%
- Tokyo Electron Limited 1.62%
- Hitachi, Ltd. 1.57%
- ADVANTEST CORPORATION 1.57%
- Sony Group Corporation 1.48%
- Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. 1.33%
Only in VWO
4,974 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 15.56%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 3.31%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 2.41%
- MediaTek Inc 1.36%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.90%
- Delta Electronics Inc 0.82%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.81%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
- HDFC Bank Ltd 0.78%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.69%
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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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