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JAAA vs VMBS

Both US Aggregate Bond.

Janus Henderson AAA CLO ETF · Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of JAAA and VMBS would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

JAAA unmatched 100.3% Shared 0.0% VMBS unmatched 99.3%

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.

In JAAA only
598 positions
Shared
0 positions
In VMBS only
5,112 positions

Side by side

JAAA

Janus Henderson AAA CLO ETF

Janus Henderson · US Aggregate Bond

82 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.20%
Net assets
$31.49B
TTM yield
4.84%
Top-10 conc.
6.8%
VMBS

Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Aggregate Bond

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$17.10B
whole fund, 3 share classes
TTM yield
4.34%
Top-10 conc.
3.2%

Sub-score comparison

80
Cost
97
51
Tax efficiency
52
100
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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JAAA sub-score VMBS

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VMBS is 17 bps cheaper than JAAA. On a $100,000 position that's about $170/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 VMBS.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in JAAA

598 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 VMBS

5,112 total
  • Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 0.52%
  • Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.36%
  • Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.32%
  • Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.31%
  • Fannie Mae Pool 0.29%
  • Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.29%
  • Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.29%
  • Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.28%
  • Freddie Mac Pool 0.27%
  • Freddie Mac Pool 0.27%

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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/.

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.