ETF comparison
NEAR vs PAAA
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Holdings overlap
14 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of NEAR and PAAA would leave roughly 0.7% 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
PAAA is 6 bps cheaper than NEAR. On a $100,000 position that's about $60/yr more in fees for NEAR.
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 NEAR vs PAAA.
Top shared holdings
14 shared in total| # | Holding | In NEAR | In PAAA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Park Blue CLO Ltd | 0.13% | 0.26% | 0.13% |
| 2 | Birch Grove CLO Ltd. | 0.10% | 0.59% | 0.10% |
| 3 | CIFC Funding Ltd | 0.07% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 4 | Battalion CLO LTD | 0.05% | 0.23% | 0.05% |
| 5 | KKR Financial CLO Ltd | 0.15% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 6 | Signal Peak CLO, LLC | 0.05% | 0.29% | 0.05% |
| 7 | Sixth Street CLO LTD. | 0.04% | 0.44% | 0.04% |
| 8 | New Mountain CLO Ltd | 0.04% | 0.56% | 0.04% |
| 9 | Empower CLO Ltd. | 0.04% | 0.49% | 0.04% |
| 10 | Bryant Park Funding Ltd | 0.03% | 0.26% | 0.03% |
| 11 | Madison Park Funding Ltd | 0.03% | 0.37% | 0.03% |
| 12 | CIFC Funding Ltd | 0.03% | 0.14% | 0.03% |
Only in NEAR
1,810 total- United States Treasury 12.04%
- United States Treasury 3.76%
- United States Treasury 3.32%
- United States Treasury 2.83%
- United States Treasury 1.83%
- United States Treasury 1.42%
- United States Treasury 1.30%
- United States Treasury 1.08%
- United States Treasury 0.70%
- United States Treasury 0.47%
Only in PAAA
297 total- CBAM 2017-2 LTD 1.58%
- Regatta XXVII Funding Ltd / Regatta XXVII Funding LLC 1.29%
- BENEFIT STREET PARTNERS CLO XII-B LTD 1.21%
- GOLDENTREE LOAN MANAGEMENT US CLO 31 LTD 1.21%
- MAGNETITE XL LTD 1.13%
- OCP CLO LTD 1.12%
- BATTALION CLO XXIV LTD 1.09%
- AGL CORE CLO 1.06%
- REGATTA XXVI FUNDING LTD 1.01%
- BALBOA BAY LOAN FUNDING 2024-1 LTD 1.01%
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- PAAA vs VUSB · Vanguard Ultra-Short Bond ETF 0.1%
- PAAA vs MINT · PIMCO Enhanced Short Maturity Active Exchange-Traded Fund 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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