ETF comparison
EPP vs VPL
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI Pacific ex Japan ETF · Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
88 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EPP and VPL would leave roughly 18.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VPL is 40 bps cheaper than EPP. On a $100,000 position that's about $400/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 VPL.
Top shared holdings
88 shared in total| # | Holding | In EPP | In VPL | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Commonwealth Bank of Australia | 8.87% | 1.78% | 1.78% |
| 2 | BHP Group Ltd | 8.80% | 1.64% | 1.64% |
| 3 | AIA Group Ltd | 4.98% | 0.98% | 0.98% |
| 4 | Westpac Banking Corp | 4.43% | 0.81% | 0.81% |
| 5 | DBS Group Holdings Ltd | 3.87% | 0.79% | 0.79% |
| 6 | National Australia Bank Ltd | 4.56% | 0.75% | 0.75% |
| 7 | ANZ Group Holdings Ltd | 3.64% | 0.68% | 0.68% |
| 8 | Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd | 2.49% | 0.54% | 0.54% |
| 9 | Wesfarmers Ltd | 2.75% | 0.51% | 0.51% |
| 10 | Macquarie Group Ltd | 2.36% | 0.50% | 0.50% |
| 11 | Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp Ltd | 2.44% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 12 | Woodside Energy Group Ltd | 1.65% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
Only in EPP
6 total- Sea Ltd 1.78%
- Grab Holdings Ltd 0.44%
- Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Holdings Ltd 0.38%
- Futu Holdings Ltd 0.36%
- BlackRock Funds III 0.32%
- HKT Trust & HKT Ltd 0.26%
Only in VPL
2,244 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 6.00%
- SK hynix Inc 4.08%
- Toyota Motor Corp 1.73%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 1.67%
- Hitachi Ltd 1.16%
- Advantest Corp 1.14%
- SoftBank Group Corp 1.13%
- Tokyo Electron Ltd 1.10%
- Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc 1.09%
- Sony Group Corp 1.02%
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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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