Fund · iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF · measured from SEC filings
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 2026-07-31Read 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.
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 2026-07-31ACWX'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
27Between 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.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% collateralACWX'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 2026-04-30The 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.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 4.68% | 4.7% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 1.95% | 6.6% |
| 3 | ASML Holding N.V. | 1.54% | 8.2% |
| 4 | SK hynix Inc. | 1.33% | 9.5% |
| 5 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 1.07% | 10.6% |
| 6 | HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 0.86% | 11.4% |
| 7 | ASTRAZENECA PLC | 0.80% | 12.2% |
| 8 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 0.79% | 13.0% |
| 9 | Roche Holding AG | 0.79% | 13.8% |
| 10 | Novartis AG | 0.77% | 14.6% |
| 11 | Nestle S.A. | 0.72% | 15.3% |
| 12 | SHELL PLC | 0.71% | 16.0% |
| 13 | ROYAL BANK OF CANADA | 0.69% | 16.7% |
| 14 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | 0.62% | 17.3% |
| 15 | COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA | 0.58% | 17.9% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-04-30Share of ACWX's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| 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 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of ACWX's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.
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
2026-07-31The 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.
| Borrower | On loan | Share 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 → 2026-04-301,735 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 increases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 | Largest decreases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 3.85% | 4.68% | Tencent Holdings Limited | 1.40% | 1.07% |
| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 1.48% | 1.95% | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 1.04% | 0.79% |
| SK hynix Inc. | 0.96% | 1.33% | NOVO NORDISK A/S | 0.54% | 0.37% |
| DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 0.21% | 0.37% | SAP SE | 0.59% | 0.48% |
| MediaTek Inc. | 0.24% | 0.35% | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 0.61% | 0.51% |
| TOTALENERGIES SE | 0.41% | 0.50% | LVMH MOET HENNESSY LOUIS VUITTON SE | 0.46% | 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 EC | 96.92% |
| short-term investment STIV | 1.52% |
| unknown unknown | 1.50% |
| preferred equity EP | 0.07% |
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 2026-04-30A 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.
1 option positions filed, 0 of them written. The book as filed:
| Type | Side | Strike | Expiry | Underlying |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Call | Purchased | 0 | 2040-03-31 | as filed, not named |
Full detail for every fund that files derivatives: leverage.json (CC BY 4.0).
Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds
10Every 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.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As 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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