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EWL holdings

EWL reports 45 holdings and behaves like 14.1 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-05-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 27 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-05-31
45 Positions reported
14.1 Effective holdings
3.2× Concentration multiple
68.01% 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: 1.61% at a quoted market price (level 1), 4 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

EWL's largest investment is Roche Holding AG at 14.03% of net assets. Novartis AG and Nestle SA follow; the three together are 39.93%. Ten companies are 68.01% of the fund; the other 35 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, EWL behaves like 14.1 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 3.0 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings EWL has held roughly steady since 2019-11-30 (11.9 then, 14.1 now). Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 3 positions were added and 2 dropped; 18.1% of the weight moved.

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 2019-11-30 and 2026-05-31, EWL went from behaving like 11.9 equally weighted positions to 14.1 — 19% more, while its top ten went from 67.68% to 68.01% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-05-31 45 14.1 68.01% 14.24%
2026-02-28 44 13.5 68.35% 14.98%
2025-11-30 45 14.8 67.21% 13.62%
2025-08-31 45 15.1 67.03% 13.06%
2025-05-31 44 14.5 67.42% 15.04%
2025-02-28 47 14.5 68.71% 14.15%
2024-11-30 46 15 67.32% 13.74%
2024-08-31 47 13.1 68.68% 16.11%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-05-31 47 13.7 68.57% 17.1%
2024-02-29 47 13.6 68.21% 17.18%
2023-11-30 46 12.8 68.71% 18.96%
2023-08-31 45 12.3 69.79% 19.73%
2023-05-31 44 11.3 71.53% 20.36%
2023-02-28 44 13.1 68.53% 19.02%
2022-11-30 44 11.9 70.31% 20.32%
2022-08-31 41 11 71.31% 21.52%
2022-05-31 42 11 71.83% 21.13%
2022-02-28 42 11 71.51% 21.12%
2021-11-30 42 11.8 70.55% 20.26%
2021-08-31 42 12.1 69.23% 19.41%
2021-05-31 42 12.1 68.65% 20.14%
2021-02-28 41 13 67.28% 18.4%
2020-11-30 42 13.1 66.05% 19.34%
2020-08-31 41 12.9 65.36% 20.06%
2020-05-31 41 10.7 69.57% 21.61%
2020-02-29 40 11.6 67.59% 20.55%
2019-11-30 41 11.9 67.68% 20.25%

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.

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-05-31

The 15 largest of 45 positions in EWL's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: EWL.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Roche Holding AG14.24%14.2%
2Novartis AG13.76%28.0%
3Nestle S.A.12.53%40.5%
4ABB Ltd5.49%46.0%
5UBS Group AG5.21%51.2%
6COMPAGNIE FINANCIERE RICHEMONT SA4.85%56.1%
7Zurich Insurance Group AG4.51%60.6%
8Holcim AG2.68%63.3%
9Lonza Group AG2.39%65.7%
10Swiss Re AG2.36%68.0%
11Galderma Group AG2.28%70.3%
12Sandoz Group AG1.96%72.3%
13Givaudan SA1.85%74.1%
14Alcon AG1.80%75.9%
15Swiss Life Holding AG1.72%77.6%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-05-31

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

CountryShare
Switzerland 99.85%
Germany 0.08%
Not stated in filing 0.04%
United States 0.04%

Returns the fund reported

2019-09 – 2026-05

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

16.6%Last twelve months filed
90%Whole series, compounded
10.2%Best month
-9.7%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.17 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: EWL.json · all funds.

Who borrows EWL's shares

2026-05-31

The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-05-31, $160,256 was out to 1 borrower, 0.01% of net assets.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC $160,256 100.0%

Cash collateral reported against the loan: 0.01% of net assets, 106.4% of the amount lent. That is a floor on the collateral, not the whole of it — collateral the fund does not hold as a position is not in this filing, so a figure under 100% is not evidence of under-collateralisation. How that figure behaves across all funds. Every quarter EWL has filed, with each borrower: EWL.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31

44 positions became 45: 3 added (14.3% of the fund at the later date), 2 dropped (15.1% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 18.1%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of EWL compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
COMPAGNIE FINANCIERE RICHEMONT SA3.96%4.85% Novartis AG14.31%13.76%
Galderma Group AG1.62%2.28% Alcon AG2.23%1.80%
Zurich Insurance Group AG4.17%4.51% UBS Group AG5.62%5.21%
ABB Ltd5.18%5.49% Swiss Re AG2.64%2.36%
Logitech international S.A.0.80%1.11% Geberit AG1.53%1.25%
Holcim AG2.38%2.68% Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Spruengli AG0.92%0.69%

New: Roche Holding AG (14.24%), SWISS MKT IX FUTR JUN26 (0.05%), EURO STOXX 50 JUN26 (0.02%). Gone: Roche Holding AG (14.98%), SWISS MKT IX FUTR MAR26 (0.13%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-05-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC99.55%
unknown unknown0.33%
derivative DE0.08%
short-term investment STIV0.05%

1.6% of EWL 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 2026-05-31

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 $1.70B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

98.07%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
1.83%Futures notional (2)
99.9%Sum, % of net assets

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 EWL (14.1). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
FTEC Fidelity MSCI Information Technology Index ETF 282 13.4 62.26% 2026-07-31
TOPT iShares Top 20 U.S. Stocks ETF 23 13.8 69.28% 2026-06-30
SMH VanEck Semiconductor ETF 25 13.9 70.27% 2026-06-30
IEO iShares U.S. Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF 47 13.9 71.25% 2026-06-30
IAT iShares U.S. Regional Banks ETF 33 14.1 69.48% 2026-06-30
EPOL iShares MSCI Poland ETF 37 14.2 67.97% 2026-05-31
EWM iShares MSCI Malaysia ETF 30 14.2 68.97% 2026-05-31
UPRO ProShares UltraPro S&P500 523 14.3 * 51.33% 2026-05-31
RING iShares MSCI Global Gold Miners ETF 53 14.5 68.13% 2026-05-31
EMCS Xtrackers MSCI Emerging Markets Climate Selection ETF 57 14.7 56.84% 2026-05-29

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