ETF comparison
JAAA vs PYLD
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Janus Henderson AAA CLO ETF · PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund
Holdings overlap
10 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of JAAA and PYLD would leave roughly 0.8% 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.
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Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
JAAA is 44 bps cheaper than PYLD. On a $100,000 position that's about $440/yr more in fees for PYLD.
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 JAAA vs PYLD.
Top shared holdings
10 shared in total| # | Holding | In JAAA | In PYLD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elmwood CLO IV Ltd. | 0.42% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 2 | Magnetite XXXII Ltd. | 0.60% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 3 | Madison Park Funding LXXI Ltd. | 0.43% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 4 | Elmwood CLO 28 Ltd. | 0.51% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 5 | AB BSL CLO 7 Ltd. | 0.43% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 6 | CFIP CLO Ltd. | 0.06% | 0.09% | 0.06% |
| 7 | Neuberger Berman CLO XXI Ltd. | 0.06% | 0.07% | 0.06% |
| 8 | New Mountain CLO 5 Ltd. | 0.33% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 9 | Madison Park Funding LVIII Ltd. | 0.43% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 10 | Greywolf CLO IV Ltd. | 0.03% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
Only in JAAA
588 total- KKR CLO 35 Ltd. 0.85%
- AB BSL CLO 1 Ltd. 0.78%
- Anchorage Capital CLO 16 Ltd. 0.73%
- Palmer Square CLO Ltd. 0.68%
- Ares LXI CLO Ltd. 0.68%
- Carlyle US CLO Ltd. 0.62%
- WISE CLO Ltd. 0.62%
- Carlyle US CLO Ltd. 0.60%
- Regatta XIX Funding Ltd. 0.60%
- Oaktree CLO Ltd. 0.60%
Only in PYLD
1,747 total- UMBS, TBA 7.01%
- UMBS, TBA 6.55%
- UMBS, TBA 4.83%
- Fannie Mae 2.97%
- UMBS, TBA 1.78%
- UMBS, TBA 1.42%
- United States Treasury 1.20%
- Freddie Mac 1.06%
- REPUBLIC OF PERU 0.89%
- RD MICHIGAN PROP OWNER I 0.84%
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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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