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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 2026-05-31

Read 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.

20 Positions reported
8.2 Effective holdings
2.4× Concentration multiple
80.68% 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: 10.9% at a quoted market price (level 1), 3 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

EWS'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

27

Between 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.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
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)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
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% collateral

EWS'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 2026-05-31

The 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.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD24.04%24.0%
2OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED20.38%44.4%
3SINGAPORE EXCHANGE LIMITED5.26%49.7%
4SINGAPORE TECHNOLOGIES ENGINEERING LTD4.92%54.6%
5YANGZIJIANG SHIPBUILDING (HOLDINGS) LTD.4.56%59.2%
6WILMAR INTERNATIONAL LIMITED4.41%63.6%
7SEMBCORP INDUSTRIES LTD4.41%68.0%
8UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED4.26%72.3%
9CapitaLand Ascendas REIT4.22%76.5%
10SINGAPORE AIRLINES LIMITED4.21%80.7%
11SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED3.90%84.6%
12SEA LIMITED3.66%88.2%
13KEPPEL LTD.3.64%91.9%
14GRAB HOLDINGS LIMITED3.64%95.5%
15CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust2.77%98.3%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-05-31

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

CountryShare
Singapore 92.65%
Cayman Islands° 7.30%
United States 0.05%

Returns the fund reported

2019-09 – 2026-05

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

20.0%Last twelve months filed
73%Whole series, compounded
18.1%Best month
-19.9%Worst month

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

2026-05-31

The 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.

BorrowerOn loanShare 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 → 2026-05-31

17 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 increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED5.14%20.38% SEA LIMITED13.94%3.66%
DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD23.23%24.04% KEPPEL LTD.5.76%3.64%
BNP Paribas4.73%5.29% YANGZIJIANG SHIPBUILDING (HOLDINGS) LTD.5.71%4.56%
GRAB HOLDINGS LIMITED3.18%3.64% SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED4.79%3.90%
SEMBCORP INDUSTRIES LTD4.23%4.41% SINGAPORE AIRLINES LIMITED4.82%4.21%
UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED4.85%4.26%

New: SINGAPORE DOLLARS (0.48%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-05-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC85.38%
unknown unknown10.70%
short-term investment STIV3.88%
derivative DE0.04%

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 2026-05-31

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 $783M. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

88.71%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (2)
0.6%Futures notional (1)
89.3%Sum, % of net assets
Swap counterpartyNotional% of net assets
Merrill Lynch International$0M0%
BNP PARIBAS$0M0%

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

Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds

10

Every 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.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs 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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