ETF comparison
EPP vs IPAC
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI Pacific ex Japan ETF · iShares Core MSCI Pacific ETF
Holdings overlap
93 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EPP and IPAC would leave roughly 24.6% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
IPAC is 38 bps cheaper than EPP. On a $100,000 position that's about $380/yr more in fees for EPP.
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 EPP vs IPAC.
Top shared holdings
93 shared in total| # | Holding | In EPP | In IPAC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Commonwealth Bank of Australia | 8.87% | 2.30% | 2.30% |
| 2 | BHP Group Ltd | 8.80% | 2.19% | 2.19% |
| 3 | AIA Group Ltd | 4.98% | 1.25% | 1.25% |
| 4 | DBS Group Holdings Ltd | 3.87% | 1.05% | 1.05% |
| 5 | Westpac Banking Corp | 4.43% | 1.04% | 1.04% |
| 6 | National Australia Bank Ltd | 4.56% | 0.97% | 0.97% |
| 7 | ANZ Group Holdings Ltd | 3.64% | 0.87% | 0.87% |
| 8 | Macquarie Group Ltd | 2.36% | 0.68% | 0.68% |
| 9 | Wesfarmers Ltd | 2.75% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 10 | Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp Ltd | 2.44% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
| 11 | Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd | 2.49% | 0.59% | 0.59% |
| 12 | Woodside Energy Group Ltd | 1.65% | 0.50% | 0.50% |
Only in EPP
1 total- BlackRock Funds III 0.32%
Only in IPAC
1,274 total- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. 2.21%
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 1.98%
- Hitachi, Ltd. 1.59%
- ADVANTEST CORPORATION 1.56%
- Tokyo Electron Limited 1.44%
- Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. 1.41%
- SoftBank Group Corp. 1.38%
- Sony Group Corporation 1.34%
- Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. 1.17%
- Mitsubishi Corporation 1.12%
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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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