ETF comparison
EWS vs FNDC
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI Singapore ETF · Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
8 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWS and FNDC would leave roughly 0.8% 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
FNDC is 11 bps cheaper than EWS. On a $100,000 position that's about $110/yr more in fees for EWS.
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 EWS vs FNDC.
Top shared holdings
8 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWS | In FNDC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SINGAPORE EXCHANGE LIMITED | 3.30% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 2 | SEA LIMITED | 4.92% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 3 | SINGAPORE TECHNOLOGIES ENGINEERING LTD | 3.73% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 4 | CapitaLand Ascendas REIT | 3.75% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 5 | CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust | 2.72% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 6 | SEMBCORP INDUSTRIES LTD | 3.29% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 7 | CAPITALAND INVESTMENT LIMITED | 1.17% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 8 | GRAB HOLDINGS LIMITED | 3.82% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
Only in EWS
9 total- DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD 23.81%
- OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED 22.28%
- YANGZIJIANG SHIPBUILDING (HOLDINGS) LTD. 4.68%
- KEPPEL LTD. 4.32%
- UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED 4.12%
- SINGAPORE AIRLINES LIMITED 3.86%
- WILMAR INTERNATIONAL LIMITED 3.71%
- SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED 3.47%
- BNP Paribas 0.52%
Only in FNDC
1,560 total- Ibiden Co Ltd 0.45%
- Daewoo Engineering & Construction Co Ltd 0.29%
- Samsung Life Insurance Co Ltd 0.26%
- Samsung E&A Co Ltd 0.24%
- GS Engineering & Construction Corp 0.23%
- easyJet PLC 0.23%
- Tower Semiconductor Ltd 0.22%
- Baytex Energy Corp 0.22%
- Helvetia Baloise Holding AG 0.22%
- DL E&C Co Ltd 0.21%
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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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