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ACWX holdings

ACWX reports 1,902 holdings and behaves like 181.2 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-07-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 27 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-07-31

Read this figure with the following in mind

1.4% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 174.8

The figure below is what the filing says, published unchanged. What it may not do is sit beside a plain long-only fund and be read as the same quantity. How comparability is decided.

1,902 Positions reported
181.2 Effective holdings
10.5× Concentration multiple
15.66% Top ten weight

Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing; what the measure does not tell you · every fund in one table · hold it with other funds? X-ray the mix. Pricing: 14.02% at a quoted market price (level 1), 51 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

ACWX's largest investment is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd at 4.67% of net assets. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and ASML Holding NV follow; the three together are 8.15%. Ten companies are 15.66% of the fund; the other 1,892 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, ACWX behaves like 181.2 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 4.3 times the median. Across 27 quarterly filings ACWX has become more concentrated: it behaved like 331.7 at 2019-10-31 and 202.1 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 65 positions were added and 51 dropped; 8.5% of the weight moved. Japan is the largest country at 13.52% of the portfolio, across 51 countries in the filing.

Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable equity funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.

Every filing since 2019

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Between 2019-10-31 and 2026-04-30, ACWX went from behaving like 331.7 equally weighted positions to 202.1 — 39% fewer, while its top ten went from 11.54% to 14.58% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 1,763 202.1 14.58% 4.68%
2026-01-31 1,751 239.1 13.67% 3.85%
2025-10-31 1,731 255.2 12.59% 3.65%
2025-07-31 1,720 292.4 11.31% 3.19%
2025-04-30 1,718 317.7 11.04% 2.5%
2025-01-31 1,772 291.7 11.54% 3.07%
2024-10-31 1,787 302.1 11.66% 2.91%
2024-07-31 1,814 295.3 12.46% 2.69%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 1,854 313.2 12.23% 2.31%
2024-01-31 1,895 332.2 11.57% 1.98%
2023-10-31 1,896 343.2 11.38% 1.81%
2023-07-31 1,883 353.7 11.13% 1.77%
2023-04-30 1,873 349 11.32% 1.67%
2023-01-31 1,877 347.3 11.12% 1.79%
2022-10-31 1,851 370.1 10.6% 1.5%
2022-07-31 1,857 358.5 10.94% 1.85%
2022-04-30 1,883 353.4 11.06% 1.88%
2022-01-31 1,896 344.2 11.45% 2.15%
2021-10-31 1,898 357.8 11.26% 1.92%
2021-07-31 1,900 355.8 11.59% 1.9%
2021-04-30 1,904 341.1 11.86% 1.97%
2021-01-31 1,838 268.2 14.36% 2.46%
2020-10-31 1,846 250.9 14.9% 2.73%
2020-07-31 1,853 266.4 14.43% 2.35%
2020-04-30 1,889 291.7 13.55% 2.14%
2020-01-31 1,891 316.2 12.38% 2.42%
2019-10-31 1,356 331.7 11.54% 2.32%

One row per filed reporting period, newest first, read from EDGAR. Quarterly because that is the public filing cadence. Rows marked * are published but held out of the comparison above; the methodology page says when and why.

As filed, collateral included

1.45% collateral

ACWX's filing lists 1,903 positions including 1.45% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 174.8 effective holdings with a top ten of 16.41%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 181.2 with a top ten of 15.66%. The collateral is matched by a liability and is not a holding the fund chose; since 2026-09-18 every figure on this site sets it aside (methodology). Both numbers are in the data.

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-04-30

The 15 largest of 1,902 positions in ACWX's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: listed with the point-in-time files, available on request.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited4.68%4.7%
2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.1.95%6.6%
3ASML Holding N.V.1.54%8.2%
4SK hynix Inc.1.33%9.5%
5Tencent Holdings Limited1.07%10.6%
6HSBC HOLDINGS PLC0.86%11.4%
7ASTRAZENECA PLC0.80%12.2%
8Alibaba Group Holding Limited0.79%13.0%
9Roche Holding AG0.79%13.8%
10Novartis AG0.77%14.6%
11Nestle S.A.0.72%15.3%
12SHELL PLC0.71%16.0%
13ROYAL BANK OF CANADA0.69%16.7%
14Siemens Aktiengesellschaft0.62%17.3%
15COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA0.58%17.9%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

Share of ACWX's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.

CountryShare
Japan 13.64%
United Kingdom 8.54%
Canada 8.39%
Taiwan 8.00%
South Korea 6.10%
Switzerland 5.60%
France 5.39%
Germany 5.35%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of ACWX's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

32.9%Last twelve months filed
90%Whole series, compounded
13.8%Best month
-14.5%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.18 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: ACWX.json · all funds.

Who borrows ACWX's shares

2026-07-31

The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-07-31, $164m was out to 15 borrowers. The largest, GOLDMAN SACHS & CO., held 55% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. $90m 55.0%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC $21m 13.1%
BofA Securities, Inc. $11m 6.5%
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC. $11m 6.5%
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES PLC $9m 5.8%

The filing reports no cash collateral position against this loan. Collateral taken in a form the fund does not hold as a position does not appear in N-PORT, so this is silence rather than absence. What the collateral figure can and cannot show. Every quarter ACWX has filed, with each borrower: ACWX.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

1,735 positions became 1,749: 65 added (1.6% of the fund at the later date), 51 dropped (1.6% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 8.5%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of ACWX compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited3.85%4.68% Tencent Holdings Limited1.40%1.07%
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.1.48%1.95% Alibaba Group Holding Limited1.04%0.79%
SK hynix Inc.0.96%1.33% NOVO NORDISK A/S0.54%0.37%
DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.0.21%0.37% SAP SE0.59%0.48%
MediaTek Inc.0.24%0.35% TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION0.61%0.51%
TOTALENERGIES SE0.41%0.50% LVMH MOET HENNESSY LOUIS VUITTON SE0.46%0.37%

New: Roche Holding AG (0.79%), RECKITT BENCKISER GROUP PLC (0.11%), SUNBELT RENTALS HOLDINGS, INC. (0.09%), TOWER SEMICONDUCTOR LTD (0.07%), IBIDEN CO.,LTD. (0.06%), Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Joint Stock Limited Company (0.04%). Gone: Roche Holding AG (0.90%), Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC (0.16%), Ashtead Group PLC (0.08%), CyberArk Software Ltd (0.06%), Toyota Industries Corp (0.06%), JDE Peet's NV (0.02%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC96.92%
short-term investment STIV1.52%
unknown unknown1.50%
preferred equity EP0.07%

14.0% of ACWX is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's, from Form N-PORT; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.

Derivative exposure and counterparties

as of 2026-04-30

A position count cannot describe a fund that uses derivatives, because a swap is filed at its unrealised gain, not its exposure. These are the notionals the fund itself reported, against net assets of $11.13B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

97.98%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0.35%Futures notional (2)
98.3%Sum, % of net assets

1 option positions filed, 0 of them written. The book as filed:

TypeSideStrikeExpiryUnderlying
CallPurchased02040-03-31as filed, not named

Full detail for every fund that files derivatives: leverage.json (CC BY 4.0).

Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds

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Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of ACWX (181.2). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
EFAX State Street(R) SPDR(R) MSCI EAFE Fossil Fuel Reserves Free ETF 645 170.8 15.38% 2026-06-30
HFXI NYLIM FTSE International Equity Currency Neutral ETF 828 174.1 16.21% 2026-07-31
JVAL JPMorgan U.S. Value Factor ETF 396 177.1 17.1% 2026-07-31
ESGD iShares ESG Aware MSCI EAFE ETF 376 179 13.98% 2026-05-31
AVIV Avantis International Large Cap Value ETF 653 179.3 14.65% 2026-05-31
QEFA State Street(R) SPDR(R) MSCI EAFE StrategicFactors(SM) ETF 646 181.8 15.54% 2026-06-30
ROUS Hartford Multifactor US Equity ETF 322 184.1 12.04% 2026-07-31
ACWV iShares MSCI Global Min Vol Factor ETF 416 185.1 12.57% 2026-05-31
QINT American Century Quality Diversified International ETF 362 185.9 12.13% 2026-05-31
GXUS Goldman Sachs MarketBeta Total International Equity ETF 2,465 187.6 15.57% 2026-05-29

Essays that examine ACWX

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