Fund · iShares MSCI Singapore ETF · measured from SEC filings
EWS holdings
EWS reports 20 holdings and behaves like 8.2 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 2026-05-31Read this figure with the following in mind
10.7% of net assets carries no asset category in the filing
4.0% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 8.1
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: 10.9% at a quoted market price (level 1), 3 issuer countries.
What stands out
as of 2026-05-31EWS's largest investment is DBS Group Holdings Ltd at 24.02% of net assets. Oversea Chinese Banking Corp Ltd and Singapore Exchange Ltd follow; the three together are 49.64%. Ten companies are 80.68% of the fund; the other 10 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, EWS behaves like 8.2 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 5.3 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings EWS has become more concentrated: it behaved like 12.1 at 2019-11-30 and 8.2 at 2026-05-31. Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 1 positions were added and 0 dropped; 17.7% of the weight moved. SG is the largest country at 89.1% of the portfolio, across 3 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 2019-11-30 and 2026-05-31, EWS went from behaving like 12.1 equally weighted positions to 8.2 — 32% fewer, while its top ten went from 70.67% to 80.68% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 20 | 8.2 | 80.68% | 24.04% |
| 2026-02-28 | 21 | 10 | 77.63% | 22.53% |
| 2025-11-30 | 19 | 9 | 77.82% | 22.62% |
| 2025-08-31 | 20 | 10.3 | 76.98% | 19.94% |
| 2025-05-31 | 21 | 10.9 | 77.92% | 18.72% |
| 2025-02-28 | 20 | 10.3 | 76.83% | 21.07% |
| 2024-11-30 | 20 | 10.5 | 76.56% | 20.75% |
| 2024-08-31 | 17 | 8.9 | 79.56% | 22.58% |
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-31 | 23 | 10.3 | 76.15% | 21.41% |
| 2024-02-29 | 24 | 11.1 | 74.6% | 19.86% |
| 2023-11-30 | 25 | 11 | 73.94% | 19.84% |
| 2023-08-31 | 25 | 13.2 | 69.57% | 17.72% |
| 2023-05-31 | 25 | 12 | 71.54% | 18.42% |
| 2023-02-28 | 24 | 11.4 | 71.46% | 20% |
| 2022-11-30 | 25 | 12.3 | 72.62% | 18.75% |
| 2022-08-31 | 21 | 13.1 | 71.02% | 17.46% |
| 2022-05-31 | 22 | 13 | 71.13% | 17.14% |
| 2022-02-28 | 20 | 11.8 | 73% | 19.91% |
| 2021-11-30 | 21 | 10.7 | 74.54% | 20.55% |
| 2021-08-31 | 20 | 11 | 73.98% | 20.14% |
| 2021-05-31 | 22 | 10.8 | 74.3% | 20.05% |
| 2021-02-28 | 21 | 10.6 | 75.64% | 19.96% |
| 2020-11-30 | 23 | 12.3 | 70.74% | 18.23% |
| 2020-08-31 | 23 | 13.6 | 70.25% | 16.26% |
| 2020-05-31 | 26 | 12.4 | 72.13% | 17.08% |
| 2020-02-29 | 26 | 11.8 | 71.84% | 18.01% |
| 2019-11-30 | 26 | 12.1 | 70.67% | 17.79% |
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
3.98% collateralEWS's filing lists 21 positions including 3.98% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 8.1 effective holdings with a top ten of 80.62%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 8.2 with a top ten of 80.68%. 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 2026-05-31The 15 largest of 20 positions in EWS's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: EWS.csv.gz.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD | 24.04% | 24.0% |
| 2 | OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED | 20.38% | 44.4% |
| 3 | SINGAPORE EXCHANGE LIMITED | 5.26% | 49.7% |
| 4 | SINGAPORE TECHNOLOGIES ENGINEERING LTD | 4.92% | 54.6% |
| 5 | YANGZIJIANG SHIPBUILDING (HOLDINGS) LTD. | 4.56% | 59.2% |
| 6 | WILMAR INTERNATIONAL LIMITED | 4.41% | 63.6% |
| 7 | SEMBCORP INDUSTRIES LTD | 4.41% | 68.0% |
| 8 | UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED | 4.26% | 72.3% |
| 9 | CapitaLand Ascendas REIT | 4.22% | 76.5% |
| 10 | SINGAPORE AIRLINES LIMITED | 4.21% | 80.7% |
| 11 | SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED | 3.90% | 84.6% |
| 12 | SEA LIMITED | 3.66% | 88.2% |
| 13 | KEPPEL LTD. | 3.64% | 91.9% |
| 14 | GRAB HOLDINGS LIMITED | 3.64% | 95.5% |
| 15 | CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust | 2.77% | 98.3% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-05-31Share of EWS's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| Singapore | 92.65% |
| Cayman Islands° | 7.30% |
| United States | 0.05% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-09 – 2026-05Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of EWS'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 — percentage points over 0 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: EWS.json · all funds.
Who borrows EWS's shares
2026-05-31The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-05-31, $28m was out to 6 borrowers, 3.59% of net assets. The largest, JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC, held 78.6% of it.
| Borrower | On loan | Share of the loan |
|---|---|---|
| JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC | $22m | 78.6% |
| STATE STREET BANK & TRUST COMPANY | $3m | 10.2% |
| MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC | $1m | 4.7% |
| GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. | $1m | 3.6% |
| BARCLAYS BANK PLC | $714,372 | 2.5% |
Cash collateral reported against the loan: 3.98% of net assets, 110.7% 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 EWS has filed, with each borrower: EWS.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-02-28 → 2026-05-3117 positions became 18: 1 added (0.5% of the fund at the later date), 0 dropped (0.0% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 17.7%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of EWS compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.
| Largest increases | 2026-02-28 | 2026-05-31 | Largest decreases | 2026-02-28 | 2026-05-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED | 5.14% | 20.38% | SEA LIMITED | 13.94% | 3.66% |
| DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD | 23.23% | 24.04% | KEPPEL LTD. | 5.76% | 3.64% |
| BNP Paribas | 4.73% | 5.29% | YANGZIJIANG SHIPBUILDING (HOLDINGS) LTD. | 5.71% | 4.56% |
| GRAB HOLDINGS LIMITED | 3.18% | 3.64% | SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED | 4.79% | 3.90% |
| SEMBCORP INDUSTRIES LTD | 4.23% | 4.41% | SINGAPORE AIRLINES LIMITED | 4.82% | 4.21% |
| UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED | 4.85% | 4.26% |
New: SINGAPORE DOLLARS (0.48%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-05-31| Asset category (as filed) | Share of investments |
|---|---|
| equity EC | 85.38% |
| unknown unknown | 10.70% |
| short-term investment STIV | 3.88% |
| derivative DE | 0.04% |
10.9% of EWS 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 2026-05-31A 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 $783M. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.
| Swap counterparty | Notional | % of net assets |
|---|---|---|
| Merrill Lynch International | $0M | 0% |
| BNP PARIBAS | $0M | 0% |
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 EWS (8.2). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MSOS AdvisorShares Pure US Cannabis ETF | 40 | 6.2 * | 86.6% | 2026-06-30 |
| EWY iShares MSCI South Korea ETF | 84 | 6.3 | 69.83% | 2026-05-31 |
| ELM Elm Market Navigator ETF | 18 | 6.7 | 90.37% | 2026-06-30 |
| XLSR State Street(R) US Sector Rotation ETF | 29 | 7.2 | 88.52% | 2026-06-30 |
| EPU iShares MSCI Peru and Global Exposure ETF | 34 | 8 | 73.44% | 2026-05-31 |
| IHE iShares U.S. Pharmaceuticals ETF | 58 | 8.7 | 76.11% | 2026-06-30 |
| AMLP Alerian MLP ETF | 14 | 9.6 | 93.72% | 2026-05-31 |
| FLKR Franklin FTSE South Korea ETF | 159 | 9.7 | 67.9% | 2026-06-30 |
| PSFF Pacer Swan SOS Fund of Funds ETF | 13 | 9.7 | 92.19% | 2026-07-31 |
| XLY State Street(R) Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR(R) ETF | 50 | 9.8 | 69.18% | 2026-06-30 |
Essays that examine EWS
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