ETF comparison
EWS vs SCHF
Both International Developed.
iShares MSCI Singapore ETF · Schwab International Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
13 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EWS and SCHF would leave roughly 1.2% 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
SCHF is 47 bps cheaper than EWS. On a $100,000 position that's about $470/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 SCHF.
Top shared holdings
13 shared in total| # | Holding | In EWS | In SCHF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD | 23.81% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 2 | OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED | 22.28% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 3 | UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED | 4.12% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 4 | SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED | 3.47% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 5 | SINGAPORE EXCHANGE LIMITED | 3.30% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 6 | KEPPEL LTD. | 4.32% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 7 | SINGAPORE TECHNOLOGIES ENGINEERING LTD | 3.73% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 8 | CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust | 2.72% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 9 | SINGAPORE AIRLINES LIMITED | 3.86% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 10 | CapitaLand Ascendas REIT | 3.75% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 11 | WILMAR INTERNATIONAL LIMITED | 3.71% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 12 | SEMBCORP INDUSTRIES LTD | 3.29% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
Only in EWS
4 total- SEA LIMITED 4.92%
- YANGZIJIANG SHIPBUILDING (HOLDINGS) LTD. 4.68%
- GRAB HOLDINGS LIMITED 3.82%
- BNP Paribas 0.52%
Only in SCHF
1,461 total- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 2.88%
- SK hynix Inc 2.23%
- ASML Holding NV 2.14%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 1.17%
- Roche Holding AG 1.01%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.94%
- Novartis AG 0.94%
- Shell PLC 0.84%
- Nestle SA 0.83%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 0.82%
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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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