ETF comparison
JAAA vs VCRB
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Holdings overlap
2 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of JAAA and VCRB 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
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Cost difference
VCRB is 10 bps cheaper than JAAA. On a $100,000 position that's about $100/yr more in fees for JAAA.
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 VCRB.
Top shared holdings
2 shared in total| # | Holding | In JAAA | In VCRB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GoldenTree Loan Management US CLO 9 Ltd. | 0.43% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 2 | Benefit Street Partners CLO IV Ltd. | 0.09% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
Only in JAAA
596 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%
- Magnetite XXXII Ltd. 0.60%
- Carlyle US CLO Ltd. 0.60%
- Regatta XIX Funding Ltd. 0.60%
Only in VCRB
3,412 total- Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 2.33%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.02%
- NVIDIA Corp 0.97%
- NVIDIA Corp 0.75%
- Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 0.68%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.65%
- Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau 0.60%
- Fannie Mae REMICS 0.59%
- OBX 2026-INV2 Trust 0.57%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.56%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
Open JAAA or VCRB at a brokerage
Both funds trade commission-free at major US brokerages.
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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.