ETF comparison
NEAR vs PAAA
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Holdings overlap
14 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of NEAR and PAAA would leave roughly 0.6% 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
PAAA is 6 bps cheaper than NEAR. On a $100,000 position that's about $60/yr more in fees for NEAR.
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 NEAR vs PAAA.
Top shared holdings
14 shared in total| # | Holding | In NEAR | In PAAA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Birch Grove CLO Ltd. | 0.11% | 0.68% | 0.11% |
| 2 | CIFC Funding Ltd | 0.08% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 3 | Battalion CLO LTD | 0.06% | 0.29% | 0.06% |
| 4 | New Mountain CLO Ltd | 0.05% | 0.44% | 0.05% |
| 5 | Regatta XXVII Funding Ltd. | 0.04% | 0.26% | 0.04% |
| 6 | Empower CLO Ltd. | 0.04% | 0.60% | 0.04% |
| 7 | Bryant Park Funding Ltd | 0.04% | 0.28% | 0.04% |
| 8 | Madison Park Funding Ltd | 0.04% | 0.45% | 0.04% |
| 9 | CIFC Funding Ltd | 0.03% | 0.17% | 0.03% |
| 10 | Ballyrock Ltd | 0.03% | 0.08% | 0.03% |
| 11 | Pikes Peak CLO | 0.03% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 12 | Oaktree CLO Ltd | 0.05% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
Only in NEAR
1,566 total- United States Treasury 14.14%
- United States Treasury 4.25%
- United States Treasury 3.73%
- United States Treasury 3.20%
- United States Treasury 1.60%
- United States Treasury 1.47%
- United States Treasury 1.04%
- United States Treasury 0.78%
- CITIGROUP INC 0.48%
- APPLOVIN CORP 0.47%
Only in PAAA
315 total- CBAMR LTD 1.92%
- Regatta XXVII Funding Ltd / Regatta XXVII Funding LLC 1.58%
- ELEVATION CLO 2021-12 LTD 1.13%
- OCTAGON INVESTMENT PARTNERS 31 LTD 1.04%
- Cbam 2020-13 Ltd. 0.99%
- ELMWOOD CLO 25 LTD 0.99%
- NEUBERGER BERMAN LOAN ADVISERS CLO 33 LTD 0.96%
- RR 27 LTD 0.93%
- AGL CLO I LTD 0.87%
- RAD CLO 25 LTD 0.80%
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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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