ETF comparison
BND vs IEF
US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Intermediate).
Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
13 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and IEF would leave roughly 4.6% 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
BND is 12 bps cheaper than IEF. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for IEF.
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 BND vs IEF.
Top shared holdings
13 shared in total| # | Holding | In BND | In IEF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.41% | 8.31% | 0.41% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.41% | 8.63% | 0.41% |
| 3 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.41% | 8.74% | 0.41% |
| 4 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.41% | 9.31% | 0.41% |
| 5 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.41% | 6.73% | 0.41% |
| 6 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.40% | 8.12% | 0.40% |
| 7 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.39% | 8.25% | 0.39% |
| 8 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.39% | 7.87% | 0.39% |
| 9 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.36% | 3.75% | 0.36% |
| 10 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.36% | 8.21% | 0.36% |
| 11 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.32% | 1.06% | 0.32% |
| 12 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.29% | 8.52% | 0.29% |
Only in BND
17,383 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.47%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.35%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.35%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.34%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.34%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.34%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.33%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.32%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.32%
Only in IEF
2 total- United States of America 2.47%
- United States of America 0.25%
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- BND vs VWOB · Vanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 1.0%
More comparisons with IEF
- IEF vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 4.6%
- IEF vs IEI · iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF 2.0%
- IEF vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- IEF vs SCHP · Schwab U.S. TIPS ETF 0.0%
- IEF vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- IEF vs TIP · iShares TIPS Bond ETF 0.0%
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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